A Real Southern Lady: Bobbie Lamont #3 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781507890905)

She thought leaving New Orleans behind would let her finally breathe, but New York City had other plans. This is a story about what happens when running away only brings you closer to yourself - and the friends who catch you when you fall.

August 1990. Bobbie Lamont steps into the humid Manhattan streets, ready to reinvent herself as an associate editor at Black Springs Press. A thousand miles from the memories that haunt her, she's certain this city will let her become someone new - the kind of person who doesn't carry grief like a second skin. Her friends back home warned her you can't outrun yourself. She should have listened.

But the heart doesn't work that way. Even as she rises through the ranks of the publishing world, navigating the egos of bestselling authors and the quiet politics of the literary world, Bobbie can't outrun the loss of Miller, the young man who claimed her heart just months before she left. She bounces from one relationship to another, hoping each new face will finally let her love again. It never does. Her friends watch her cycle through the same patterns, year after year, wanting more for her than she wants for herself.

What holds her together are the friendships that refuse to let her unravel - the letters from her best friend Billie, arriving from Boston like a birthday gift she didn't know she needed; the fierce, complicated bond with her roommate Natalie, the kind of friend who sees the woman Bobbie is trying to become. And then there's Henry Young, a bestselling author whose attention pulls her deeper into a world where the line between professional and personal blurs. Their connection feels different - maybe this time she'll truly learn what it means to love again.

A sweeping novel of friendship, ambition, and the choices that shape who we become, this chapter captures five years in the life of a woman discovering that some stories are classic for a reason: you can leave home, but you can never leave yourself. For anyone who has leaned on friends through the hardest years, this is the friendship gift that keeps giving - a tale about the women who become your family when everything else falls apart.