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While the rest of the world has been roaring through the 1920s, times are hardscrabble in rural South Georgia. Widow Maggie Parker is barely surviving while raising her young son alone. Then as banks begin to fail, her father-in-law threatens to take her son and sell off her livelihood - the grocery store her husband left her. Can five Southern women band together, using their wisdom and wiles to stop him, and survive the Great Depression?

Is it a midlife pregnancy or cancer? Claire will keep her secret until she's sure, but it's not easy. Neither is trying to buy a home pregnancy test without anyone finding out. Between her twins' double wedding, the caterer canceling, a looming nationwide art tour, and her health, Claire's life is upside down.

A best-selling author's latest book is a flop. While the reviewers are happily skewering her, her racecar-driver husband walks out on her and she's evicted, because he hasn't paid the lease on their condo for the last three months. Then she discovers he also he drained their bank accounts. Homeless and broke, she and her little boy have no choice but to retreat to the house she inherited from her nana in Chapel Springs. Then, a stranger knocks on her door. One that will change the course of her life.

A mail-order bride, a town overrun with tourists, and illegal art. How on Earth will Claire and Chapel Springs survive? With the success of her Operation Marriage Revival, life is good for Claire Bennett. That is, until the mayor's brother blabs a secret: Claire's 19-year-old son, Wes, has married a Brazilian mail order bride who is eight years older than him. When Claire tries to welcome her new daughter-in-law, she's ridiculed, rebuffed, and rejected. Loving this girl is like hugging a prickly cactus. Will Claire and her family survive her son's marriage?

With their marriages as much in need of restoration as the town, Claire and Patsy embark on a mission of mishaps and miscommunication, determined to restore warmth to Chapel Springs and their lives. That is if they can convince their husbands and the town council, led by two curmudgeons who would prefer to see Chapel Springs left in the 50s and closed to traffic.