Buxton Books Presents Joy Callaway in conversation with Victoria Benton Frank
celebrating Sing Me Home to Carolina!

Buxton Books is excited to welcome author Joy Callaway to the bookstore to celebrate her new book, Sing Me Home to Carolina. Joy will be joined by Victoria Benton Frank for a conversation on creative process and and writing sweet, swoony, Southern reads. It's sure to be a bubbly conversation... which will pair perfectly with the night's themed signature cocktail, Vern's Peach Jubilee!

After the conversation, hang around to continue the conversation and grab signed titles from both authors. Doors open at 5:30 pm. Program begins at 6:00 pm. We hope you'll join us! 

Please note: Tickets to this event are non-refundable. If you can no longer make it and your ticket included a book, we will hold your book for pick-up at the bookstore or ship it to you (at an additional cost). Please email rsvp@buxtonbooks.com with any questions or concerns. 

About Sing Me Home to Carolina:

A small town girl turned big city businesswoman returns home to help her parents, only to find her heart being tugged between her old flame and the town’s mysterious new guy.

This witty and effervescent novel is perfect for readers of Viola Shipman and fans of Sweet Magnolias and Hart of Dixie.

Event planner Hattie Norwood only came back home to Mountain View, South Carolina to support her parents as they receive word that the family peanut farm is infertile. This news doesn’t come as a surprise to Hattie, and she plans to return to Charlotte at the weekend’s end. 

But then the town councilwoman begs Hattie to use her event-planning prowess to help Mountain View put on a musical benefit to stop the construction of the new Carolina Panthers stadium—a project Hattie is actually in favor of, much to the dismay of the locals—and she finds herself agreeing to stay until the town’s Founder’s Day celebration a week later, just as her old flame, former MLB standout Lee Lockhardt, materializes in town after a career-ending injury.

When the hunky and mysterious new owner of Fox’s Hardware, Fox Ryan, suggests the Founder’s Day celebration be moved to the Norwoods’ barn in an attempt to reinvent the failing farm as a music and event venue, Hattie agrees, unaware this move will thrust the town, her love life, and the brewing tension over the stadium into a very public spotlight. 

Fans of small-town romance and quirky casts of characters will be rooting for Team Lee or Team Fox as Hattie decides if love, like most music, is meant to fade or last forever.

About Joy Callaway:

Joy Callaway is the internationally bestselling author of What the Mountains Remember, All The Pretty Places, The Grand Design, Secret Sisters, and The Fifth Avenue Artists Society. She lives in Charlotte, NC, with her husband and two children.

About Victoria Benton Frank:

Victoria Benton Frank was born in New York City, raised in Montclair, New Jersey, but considers herself to have dual residency in the Lowcountry. She is a graduate of the College of Charleston and the French Culinary Institute. Victoria worked in restaurants in New York before returning to Charleston, South Carolina, which she considers home, with her husband, two kids, and sweet pup. When she isn’t writing, she is reading, cooking, playing Mahjong or chasing her children. The 2024 paperback of My Magnolia Summer is now available bookstores. Victoria’s upcoming novel of the series, The Violet Hour, will be released in July of 2025.