In Common

<p><em>In Common</em> a first novel from award-winning memoirist Norma Watkins (<em>The Last Resort That Woman from Mississippi</em>) is the story of how much women willingly sacrifice for love.</p><p>Lillian Creekmore grows up at her family's popular rural spa. She successfully runs an entire hotel yet longs for a husband. Then she meets Will Hughes.</p><p>Velma Vernon accepts life on a small struggling farm until a boy she barely tolerates proposes marriage. To accept means duplicating her parents' hard life. Alone she leaves for the city and triumphs not as a wife but by being the best at her job. Velma is content until the most beautiful man she has ever seen walks into her office.</p><p>This moving and darkly humorous novel follows the intertwined lives of women willing to surrender everything to a man.</p>