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As part of Levy Books Need-to-Read program, Before the Storm is now available at Kmart, Meijer’s, Shopko and Stop and Shop. Enjoy!

The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes has been published in Australia under the title A Beautiful Lie.

The sequel to Before the Storm, which will be released in June 2009, now has a new title. Originally After the Storm, it will now be called Secrets She Left Behind.

On July 24th, Diane was interviewed on Blog Talk Radio, speaking about Before the Storm and the making of the book trailer. Listen to a podcast of the interview here.

Levy Home Entertainment, one of the major book distributors for Target, Walmart, KMart, Stop and Shop and other outlets, has selected Before the Storm as a “Need to Read” book for September.

Diane was the guest of honor at a pre-release dinner party for Before the Storm at a private Topsail Island home. Read about it here

Publisher’s Weekly gives Before the Storm a great review: Chamberlain lays out her latest piece of romantic suspense in a shattered chronology that’s as graceful as it is perfectly paced. Most of the adults in the tightly knit coastal community of Topsail Island, N.C., accept the widowed Laurel Lockwood’s 15-year-old mentally disabled son, Andy. But when Andy saves many of the town’s youth during a tragic fire, he becomes a local hero who garners national attention. Laurel, caught up with making sure Andy is okay, thinks daughter Maggie, a high school senior, can handle herself. What Maggie hides from everyone are her slipping grades, a taboo affair and a terrible secret, and when the fire’s origins are investigated and Andy is a person of interest, events turn progressively darker for the family. Long, juicy flashbacks cover the mysteries of Laurel’s husband’s death, of Andy’s condition and of Laurel’s preoccupation with him. Chamberlain offers no easy solutions, but her engrossing prose leads the way to redemption.

Target selects The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes as its Bookmarked Book Club pick for June, 2008. The special Target printing will include a letter from Diane, an interview and Book Club discussion questions.

Levy Book Distributors selects The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes for its February 2008 Need-to-Read Program.