The Lost Queen of Crocker County: A Novel [Paperback]

<p><strong>For fans of books like THE READERS OF BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND, a feel-good story of going home again to get things right.</strong></p><p>Crocker County crowns a new Corn Queen every year, but Jane Willow's the one you would remember. She can't forget Iowa, either. Even though she fled to LA to become a film critic years ago, home was always there behind her.</p><p>But when a family tragedy happens, she's forced to drive back to Crocker County. The rolling farmlands can't much hide the things she left behind: the best friend she abandoned who now runs a meatloaf hotline, the childhood front porch that sits hauntingly empty, and that fiasco of a Corn Fest that spun her life in a different direction. </p><p>Before Jane can escape her past a second time, disaster strikes, and she will have to find a way to right her mistakes and save herself from her regrets. An unflinchingly love letter to the Midwest that unfolds through a celebration of movies, this ferociously endearing novel brings home the saving grace of second chances. </p>"This heartwarming redemptive novel proves that you can indeed "go home again." ... What a charmer this book is! Highly recommended for female reading groups." - <strong><em>Nancy Simpson-Brice, Book Vault (Oskaloosa, IA)</em></strong>"Elizabeth Leiknes writes her heroine with a wistful authority. The <i>Lost Queen of Crocker County</i>is a tale of the tenacity it takes to search one's soul and find forgiveness there ? and of the kind of grace that can only be found in your hometown." - <strong><em>Caroline Angell, author of All the Time in the World</em></strong>"An unexpected modern fairy tale that will leave your head spinning." - <strong><em>Kaela Coble, author of Friends and Other Liars</em></strong>"Leiknes' latest (after 2017's Black-Eyed Susan) takes the reader on an el³.