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Maggie Pickwick is a lifetime away from her days as head cheerleader and the mistakes she made in high school. Twelve years later, this single mom has traded pompoms for an auctioneer’s gavel, popularity for peace and quiet, and strives to be a good example for her daughter, Devyn. She’s keeping it together just fine, too—until an old flame moves back to her little North Carolina town.
Renowned artist Reece Thorpe wants nothing to do with Maggie—not after what she did in high school—but he might also be Devyn’s father. Driven by her own pride and fear for her daughter’s happiness, Maggie finds herself on a slippery slope of white lies as she attempts to convince Reece that she’s changed. But the truth has a way of making itself known, and now Maggie’s past and present mistakes could ruin her chance at love.
- Sales Rank: #79814 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-12-30
- Released on: 2015-12-30
- Format: Kindle eBook
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Praise for
Nowhere, Carolina
“Nowhere, Carolina is a delightful tale that explores the beauty of truth and the freedom found in God’s plans for all of us. I always enjoy Tamara Leigh’s plucky and down-to-earth heroines, and Maggie Pickwick is no exception. This book was a pleasure to read, and I enjoyed it from beginning to end!”
—Marlo Schalesky, author of If Tomorrow Never Comes and the Christy award–winning Beyond the Night
“Tamara Leigh draws you in with a tale of small-town charm, the pursuit of love, and the life-changing power of letting go. The heart-gripping themes and delightful characters of Nowhere, Carolina will have you turning the pages.”
—Jenny B. Jones, award-winning author of Just Between You and Me and So Not Happening
“Tamara Leigh’s Nowhere, Carolina is just plain fun, Southern style. The characters are quirky and unusual without going overboard, and topping it all off is a sweet, genuine romance. I'm looking forward to reading more.”
—DeAnna Julie Dodson, author of In Honor Bound, By Love Redeemed, and To Grace Surrendered
“Thanks to Nowhere, Carolina, I’m a Tamara Leigh fan for life! With the perfect blend of humor and heart, Nowhere, Carolina draws back the curtain on the mysterious mix of past mistakes, parental love, and the redemptive hand of God, showing that change is possible and hope is healing.”
—Amy Wallace, author of Enduring Justice
About the Author
Tamara Leigh is the bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including Leaving Carolina, Faking Grace, Perfecting Kate, and award-winning Splitting Harriet. A former speech and language pathologist in the public school system, Leigh published her first novel in 1994, and she made her inspirational chick-lit debut in 2006 with Stealing Adda. Leigh lives with her husband and two sons in Tennessee.
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Despite the occasional whisper, glower, and slight, I need no one to remind me of my high school days. I was the stereotypical cheerleader—self-centered, superior, and more concerned with hair and makeup than the state of the world. Let alone Nowhere, North Carolina.
Well, not really Nowhere, though that is what I called the town of Pickwick, certain my future lay in some exotic locale like Hollywood. Funny thing is, that’s where my introverted cousin Piper went when she up and left Pickwick after high school. But that’s another story.
Yes, I was the real deal—a pompom-pumping, short-skirtwearing, belly-button-baring guy magnet. Not a bad thing. After all, Queen Esther, who in my teenage opinion was the only interesting character in the Bible, made the most of her beauty. And look where it got her. Fortunately for the Israelites, not where it got me.
Once I started acting on the attraction that made guys shove their way to the head of my line, I was all in. Competition for my attention was exhilarating, and though I never planned to “go all the way,” things progressed until…
Well, they progressed. And not just the one time. Which is why, when I ascended the stage over twelve years ago to accept my high school diploma, I did so with a basketball-size bump that was further proof I was one girl whose vocabulary lacked a two-letter word my boyfriends said was overrated—“no.”
As for the bump, her name is Devyn, though it wasn’t until I delivered my baby that I thought of her as much more than an inconvenience and a threat to my figure. But she soon became everything tome, and I thank God I didn’t give her up as planned. Even
when she’s like this.
I glance at her where she practically melts—Hmm. Might my daily word fit here? Returning my gaze to the road, I mouth the four syllables: amalgamate, “to join together; to make as one.” This is the closest I’ve come to finding a fit for it today, and research
shows that the sooner a person uses a new word, the more likely it will become part of her vocabulary.
Rewind. Devyn practically amalgamates with the passenger door. Uh…no. Makes her attempt to put space between her nemesis (that would be me) and herself sound a bit Terminator 2-ish. Okay, so she practically melts into the door.
Lips pressed together, finger tapping the window, she glares at the passing scenery.
I sigh, wishing she were all bouncy and beaming like when I picked her up from school yesterday. But today the forecast calls for mopey and morose. Now I know how my mother felt when I displayed teenage angst. Well, how she should have felt. Adele Pickwick was more focused on keeping up appearances that were fast slipping away than on how her children were handling the pangs of adolescence.
The good news is that despite the surge of hormones, Devyn isn’t destined to be the barely C-average, promiscuous teen I was. For one thing, I won’t allow it; for another, she’s not bent that way. Practically all twelve-and-a-half years of her are focused on academics. With me as her mother, I don’t know how that happened, but I’m grateful God is answering my prayers the way I want Him to, even though He hasn’t always been so accommodating.
Please, God, don’t let me be pregnant.
Request denied.
Please, God, don’t let my mother find out.
Request denied.
Please, God, don’t let anyone try to talk me out of going to the clinic.
Just whom do you think you’re praying to?!
Please, God, help me figure out who fathered this baby.
Request denied.
And forgive me for there being any question about it…times three…
Actually, He was very accommodating with forgiveness, approving
my request in the person of Skippy Baggett, who should
have hated the teenage girl who made her awkward daughter’s high
school years uncomfortable but who chose to love her instead. The
mother I didn’t quite have.
This goes to prove that God does know what He’s doing. I just wish I knew what I was doing. For more than a year now, Devyn has badgered me about the importance of a father in a girl’s life, citing articles and psychology journals, but I refuse to marry just to
give her a father. That’s not to say I discount the importance of one. It’s to say I believe it’s better to have no father than a bad one.
Slowly, Devyn’s chin comes around, and I feel her gaze.
Here it comes again. Three…two…one…
“Did you know that teenage girls deprived of a father are twice as likely to engage in sexual activity early?”
Know it by heart. Just as I know the research she’s citing didn’t use the word deprive.
“And research shows that these poor souls are seven times more likely to become pregnant compared to girls who have a father in their lives.”
I’m one of those statistics, as she knows, my daddy having skedaddled when I was fifteen. Of course, it was that or prison. Still, even when he was present, he wasn’t always there. Going for levity, I say, “Why, I think I have heard that.”
Her eyes grow big behind her glasses, and then—
Dear Lord! She rolled her eyes. Has she become a disrespectful, button-pushing, mother-hating teenager like the one I became?
I grip the steering wheel hard. Only when my vision wavers, causing the lines on the road to shift dangerously, do I remember to breathe. “Did you just roll—?”My voice breaks, giving me time to reconsider the idiotic question. I look at my daughter, who is definitely amalgamating with the door. “You rolled your eyes, Devyn. I won’t stand for that.”
Her expression wavers into remorse. “Sorry, Mom. It’s just that…” Though her voice is small, I sense a heavy presence behind it.
I brake at a light behind a soccer mom’s happily graffitied van, then lay a hand on my daughter’s knee. “What’s wrong, Dev?”
She exhales a breath larger than her small frame should be able to hold. “Do you even know who my father is?”
It’s all I can do to keep my head from snapping back. Not that being haunted by my past is anything new, but when it’s channeled through my daughter…
Times like this, I wonder why I didn’t leave Pickwick as Piper did. Of course, now she’s back, not only to aid our uncle with the liquidation of his estate, but also to lay claim to his godson and gardener, Axel Smith.
Ah, Axel, previously a top pick on Devyn’s list of potential fathers—a spreadsheet-styled sheet of paper I discovered tacked to the back of her closet last spring that identifies each candidate’s positive and negative attributes. If all I were looking for was a father for her, he would have been a good pick. But I’m selfish. I want someone for me too.
“Well, Mom?”
The light turns green, providing an excuse to avoid her gaze as I accelerate through the intersection. “I’m guessing somethin’ happened at school today.”
She sighs. “When a person answers a question with an observation, it’s often because she’s uncomfortable. She doesn’t want to answer the question, which answers it, doesn’t it?”
When we get home, I am canceling her subscription to that stupid psychology journal she had to have for Christmas. I glance at her, and she raises her eyebrows above her glasses.
Inwardly groaning, I pass the soccer mom’s van. “How about this? You spill on what happened at school, and I’ll answer your question.”
Devyn groans—nothing inward about that. “Parental prerogative?”
I probably invoke it too much, but some of the questions she asks…“That’s right.” I almost hope she won’t spill so I don’t have to answer her question, especially since I have no idea how to do it. Why didn’t I better prepare for this day?
Devyn pulls away—de-amalgamates?—from the door and crosses her arms over her chest. “All right, I’ll go first. Amanda Pigg and I got into it at the lockers today.”
Amanda Pigg. Again. That little—Be Skippy. Be. Skippy. Oh, but the temptation, especially with a last name like that and a penchant—Ha! Used one of my daily words!—for bullying my little girl. “What did the two of you get into?”
“She thinks just because her locker is above mine—And how did that happen? Pickwick comes before Pigg
And popular girls come before unpopular girls. That’s the way it is in middle school. “Go on.”
“She thinks that gives her the right to step on me and my books.”
“So you…?”
She hooks a hank of straight brown hair behind an ear. “I told her it gave her no such right.”
That’s my girl. “And?”
“She put a foot on my books and told me to— I’ll spare you the R-rated version. She told me to take my big nose and sorry rear and stick them where somebody cares.”
Catching sight of my white knuckles on the steering wheel, I splay my fingers and look at her. I don’t expect to see tears, and there aren’t. She’s that confident, even in the face of bullying. As for her nose, it is n...
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
fine inspirational contemporary drama
By A Customer
In Pickwick, North Carolina, when Maggie was a teen she was wild and out of control who never said no to her boyfriends until she got pregnant. Having a child changed Maggie who turned to Christianity for help as a single mom raising a kid alone out of wedlock in "Nowhere", Carolina as she calls her hometown.
Maggie never bothered to learn who sired Devyn although there were three candidates; two still living in town. Her attitude changes when the third, her high school sweetheart Reece Thorpe, returns to their hometown. Fearing one or more of the male candidates might pursue a paternity custody suit and now obsessed with a need to know, she prays Reece is the one because she still loves him. Maggie serendipitously obtains DNA samples of the trio to find out who is Devyn's dad.
The second Southern Discomfort inspirational contemporary drama (see Leaving Carolina for Maggie's cousin Piper's saga) is an enjoyable tale starring a wonderful small town cast. Character driven by the overly obstinate Maggie and her relationships with the possible biological fathers, fans of Three Men and a Baby with a religious spin will want to visit Nowhere, Carolina.
Harriet Klausner
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Good story but overall frustrating
By Courtney
I just finished book one in the series and immediately started on book two, Nowhere Carolina. Nowhere Carolina is about Piper's cousin Maggie and her daughter Devyn. Maggie became a mom right after her high school graduation and is struggling to raise her pre-teen daughter especially sense Devyn is starting to ask who her daddy is. Maggie is worried the past is going to come bite her in the tooshy when her old flame Reece shows up in town to help Uncle Obe build the sculpture.
Nowhere Carolina was my least favorite book of this series and might even be my least favorite book of Leigh all time! The most frustrating part of this book is relating to Maggie, the main character. I was so frustrated with the way she was handling the issues with her daughter Devyn, her past and ex-boyfriend from high school Reece. It took way too long for her to learn from her mistakes and to act like a grown-up instead of a selfish-teenager. It bothers me how Maggie tries to do solve her problems as indirectly as possible.
I am also pretty disappointed in the romance. I didn't feel like the romance was all that great, there wasn't much of a connection formed and I really found myself thinking "who cares" by the end of the book! I almost put the book down about half way through but I was planning on starting the next book in the series for the purpose of a blog tour and really wanted to finish it!
I did finish it but I didn't enjoy most of it! The most enjoyable thing of this story is the side-stories that go on! I liked hearing how Uncle Obe was doing, and Trinity and all the other characters as well.
This is a great story about redemption and turning our sins into blessings. I just wish Maggie would have come to this conclusion way sooner!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
this book goes SOMEWHERE!!
By Lydia (The Overweight Bookshelf)
This is an outlandish Southern comedic-drama that is penned in Tamara Leigh's signature first-person narrative that will have you chortling in a most unladylike way. Uncle Obe (who is my favourite character in this Souther Discomfort series) is up to his usual not-so-subtle matchmaking that places Maggie in a precarious position with her daughter and her former high school sweetheart.
The message of this story is that your past does not define your future when Christ is at the helm of your life. Maggie has to come to terms with the fact that the truth, no matter how shameful, must be confronted head-on. The dysfunctional and quirky Pickwick family members not only entertain, but teach us about life through their misadventures, foot-in-mouth decelerations, and reformations.
At the end of this book I was left wanting more. The conclusion is not typical of inspirational romances so I am hoping that their story line is brought full circle in the next installment which follows Bridget's storyline.
Review: 8/10
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