title: Lilac Lane (A Chesapeake Shores Novel)
author:  Sherryl Woods 
description: With her roots firmly planted in the South, Sherryl Woods has written many of her more than 100 books in that distinctive setting, whether in her home state of Virginia, her adopted state, Florida, or her much-adored South Carolina. Sherryl is best known for her ability to creating endearing small town communities and families. She is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 75 romances for Silhouette Desire and Special Edition.
zlib_text: Chesapeake Shores has always represented home and family for the O’Briens, but
  in Lilac Lane, the community extends its healing powers to a woman recovering
  from overwhelming grief
  
  Single mom Kiera Malone struggled for years to raise her three children in a
  small town on the coast of Ireland. Just when she’s let down her guard and
  allowed herself to love again, her fiancé suffers a fatal heart attack and
  leaves her alone yet again. Overwhelmed by her loss, she’s persuaded to visit
  her father, Dillon O’Malley, and her daughter, Moira O’Brien, in Chesapeake
  Shores. With the promise of family ties and a job at O’Brien’s, her son-in-
  law’s Irish pub, she takes what seems like the biggest risk of her life.
  
  As it turns out, though, crossing the ocean is nothing compared to moving into
  a charming cottage on Lilac Lane, right next door to Bryan Laramie, the moody
  chef at O’Brien’s, who doesn’t do anything the way Kiera believes it should be
  done. Their kitchen wars quickly become the stuff o