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81) Jagged
Author
Series
Colorado mountain volume 5
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Zara Cinders, who has lost her business and marriage, accepts help from Ham Reece, who was unwilling to settle down with her despite their love, but finds it hard to trust him, even as he tries to prove to her that he has changed.
82) Stay with me
Author
Series
Brenna Spector novels volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Unable to recall the night of her sister Clea's mysterious disappearance 28 years earlier despite having a perfect memory, Brenna Spector finds her obsession with finding the truth hitting too close to home when her own teenage daughter goes missing.
83) Peachy scream
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Peach Clobbered finds stage-struck proprietor Nina Fleet hosting a community Shakespearean troupe before clashing with the company's director about his claim to her home, only to discover the murdered body of the production's leading man.
Author
Publisher
Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Running the local diner, town misanthrope and divorcée Emma Potts finds her life upended by the arrival of a sexy Australian who asks her to pose as his girlfriend to keep the droves of single women at bay."--
Author
Series
Moving violations volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Sallie Hamblen, a woman he has never been able to forget, comes back into his life, former CIA agent turned cowboy Jacob Donovan refuses to let her go this time, especially when he discovers that her life is in danger.
86) Big Sky River
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sheriff Boone Taylor has his job, friends, a run-down but decent ranch, two faithful dogs and a good horse. He doesn't want romance--the widowed Montanan has loved and lost enough for a lifetime. But when a city woman buys the spread next door, Boone's peace and quiet are in serious jeopardy. With a marriage and a career painfully behind her, Tara Kendall is determined to start over in Parable. Reinventing herself and living a girlhood dream is worth...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When her best friend, Carol, is literally framed for the murder of an Air Force officer during New England's largest garage sale, Sarah Winston, mad as heck that someone committed a crime during her sale, must rummage through the clues to find a good deal and catch the real killer.
Author
Series
Noel collection volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maggie Walther feels like her world is imploding. Publicly humiliated after her husband, a local councilman, is arrested for bigamy and her subsequent divorce, she has isolated herself from the world. When her only friend insists that Maggie climb out of her hole and embrace the season to get her out of her funk, Maggie decides to put up a Christmas tree and heads off to buy one--albeit reluctantly. She is immediately taken by Andrew, the kind, handsome...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"For generations, the women of the Brown family on Peach Cove Island have been known for their Southern sass and sweet homemade desserts at their beloved Peach Diner. Since their mother's passing two years ago, Marygene has been stuck in Atlanta while her sister Jena Lynn has been running the family business. Now Marygene has left her husband and returned to her hometown, where she can almost feel Mama's presence. But all is not peachy back home....
90) A perilous pal
Author
Series
Friend for hire mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
While helping a lonely, divorced empty-nester fulfill her bucket list, Emma Westlake turns into an amateur sleuth when her client's ex is murdered.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
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Description
Yeongju is burned out. She did everything she was supposed to: go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. In a leap of faith, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighbourhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married coffee roaster, and the writer...
92) On Mystic Lake
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A poignant and tender story of love, loss, passion, and the fragile threads that bind families together from the author of The Nightingale.
“A beautifully simple, deeply compassionate story.”—Diana Gabaldon
Annie Colwater's only child has just left home for school abroad. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman. Alone...
“A beautifully simple, deeply compassionate story.”—Diana Gabaldon
Annie Colwater's only child has just left home for school abroad. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman. Alone...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ember Alzate tries to find love for her best friend, Ranger Lockhart, only to discover that she is in love with him, while he finds himself attracted to her, but fears destroying their friendship if she does not reciprocate.
94) Chasing shadows
Author
Series
First wives volume 3
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After ending her first marriage, Avery Grant is not interested in a relationship, but in the aftermath of a brutal attack, she may need to end her ties with Liam even though he is the one man who makes her feel safe.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a nasty divorce, Lacey Bradford heads for Wyoming where she's sure her old friend will take her in. But her high school pal Chase Caldwell is no longer the gangly boy who would follow her anywhere. For one thing, he's now incredibly buff and handsome, but that's not all that's changed.
96) Good at games
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
Suzy Curtis finds herself accidentally engaged to the local town hero, who wants a famous rock star to be his best man. However, the best man is Suzy's ex-husband. Suzy's half-sister is attracted to Suzy's ex and Suzy has inappropriate feelings for the town hero's engaged brother!
Author
Series
Bell Harbor novels volume 1
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
If Sadie Turner is good at anything, it's putting stuff in order. So when she finds her perfect life in disarray, she hopes a summer vacation at her aunt's lake house will help her piece it back together. She wants to relax, reboot, and heal the wounds left by her cheating ex-husband. And that requires time away from men. All men. Or so she thinks.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Trying to rebuild her life in Kansas without her fugitive ex-husband, Lily Brown is thrust into a killer's crosshairs when her tween son breaks into a storage unit and finds photos and news clippings about five long-missing girls.
100) All my puny sorrows
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever...
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