Meet Laura
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Identity, attitudes, and culture collide as a mother and daughter's values and backgrounds are challenged by everyone around them in this newly updated version of a Laura Castoro classic.
“Entertaining, touching, and insightful.” — New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips on Crossing the Line
'Laura Castoro writes passionate stories that tug at the heart and resonate with you long after the last page has been read.” -— New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Francis Ray
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Arkansas Writers’ Hall of Fame Inductee
Contemporary Romance, Historical and Young Adult Author
Including the Romantic Suspense
K-9 Rescue Series
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Laura Castoro, a USA Today, Amazon top 100, and Apple Books bestseller, has published 47 novels with major publishing houses such as Dell Books, Berkley, Avon, Warner, MIRA, Harlequin, Kensington, Pocketbooks, St, Harper Collins, Martins Press, and William Morrow. She has also contributed to several fiction anthologies and has published non-fiction YA and short fiction in Good Housekeeping. Under the name Laura Parker, she writes historical and contemporary romance, westerns, and sagas. As Laura Castoro, she writes contemporary African American and contemporary women’s fiction. Writing as D. D. Ayres, she publishes a romantic suspense series called the K-9 Rescue Series. Her current release as Laura Castoro is Love On The Line (2021) through William Morrow.
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HOnors and Acclaim
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