“I’m so proud of you, Hannah,” Andrea complimented her. “I knew you could do it, but I had no idea that diet and exercise would work this well. Your dress really is too big.”

Michelle nodded. “She’s right. You must have lost almost twenty pounds!”

“I think it was the sauna,” Hannah said, making light of her harrowing experience. “I was in there so long, I must have sweated off ten pounds.”

“Are you girls ready?” Claire came back with a digital camera. “Your mother asked me to take a picture. She’s going to put it up on her Web site.”

“The Web site for Granny’s Attic?” Michelle asked, and Hannah could tell she was wondering how a picture of the three of them in Regency dresses would go with photos of collectibles for sale at the mothers’ antique shop.

“Mother has a new site,” Hannah told her. “Norman’s creating it for her. It’s just for her books.”

“Books, as in more than one book?” Andrea asked.

“That’s right. She says she likes writing so much she’s already working on the next one. And even more people from Lake Eden are in it!”

Andrea gave a little groan. “I just hope that Mother was complimentary when she wrote about her friends and neighbors.”

“Somehow I doubt that,” Hannah said, shaking her head. “Remember the night that Mother told us about the book?” When both sisters nodded, she continued, “I write the people the way they truly are, Mother said, the way someone who didn’t know and like them the way I do would describe their flaws and their strengths.”

“Uh-oh,” Andrea breathed.

“Uh-oh is right!” Michelle gave a little groan. “But maybe we’ll get lucky and people won’t recognize themselves.”

Hannah looked doubtful. “Maybe, but I still wish Mother had set her romance in medieval England.”

“Why’s that?” Andrea asked.

“Because then she could have worn a suit of armor, just in case.”

“You look great, Hannah!” Mike said, snagging a chocolate mini cream puff from her platter, popping it into his mouth, and swallowing it practically whole. “I just love these things. Do you have a minute? I need to tell you something.”

Hannah put her tray down on top of a low bookcase and let him lead her to the back of the library, as far away from the crowd as they could get.