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JB Bonds, is the pen name for Jane and Brenda, sisters, who have raised two beautiful families, and been blessed with a close, enduring relationship throughout their lives. They have collected rich, humorous stories over the years, and decided to incorporate them into their first book, “Rainbow’s End”. Neither have written before, but found the experience to be both rewarding and energizing.

Jane lives with her husband, Jim, in New Haven, CT. and Brenda lives with her husband, Chuck, at Smith Mountain Lake, VA.

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We recently went with a new publisher for Rainbow’s End and our new book Pelican Key. Unfortunately we lost all of our wonderful reviews our readers left on Amazon. If you left a review, we would really appreciate you leaving another one on Amazon for the 2nd volume of Rainbow’s End. Thank you so much.

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