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Author
Series
Eternity Springs novels volume 12
Publisher
St Martins Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After a devastating betrayal, Claire Branham packs up the pieces of her life, along with a twenty-million-dollar secret, and moves to Eternity Springs. She opens a specialty shop -- Forever Christmas -- and, with the help of a surprise romance with the town's sexy new handyman, Claire's heart begins to heal. Until her past comes knocking.
82) Make a wish
Author
Series
Spark House volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With her signature charm and sense of humor, bestselling author Helena Hunting creates a novel about love, family, and second chances in Make a Wish. Ever have a defining life moment you wish you could do over? Harley Spark has one. The time she almost kissed the widowed father of the toddler she nannied for. It was so bad they moved across the state and she never saw them again. Fast forward seven years and she's totally over it. At least she thinks...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From Tracey Garvis Graves, the bestselling author of The Girl He Used to Know comes a love song of a story about starting over and second chances in Heard It in a Love Song. Love doesn't always wait until you're ready. Layla Hilding is thirty-five and recently divorced. Struggling to break free from the past-her glory days as the lead singer in a band and a ten-year marriage to a man who never put her first-Layla's newly found independence feels...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As an accomplished architect, single dad of teenage twin girls, and co-owner of The Playground, Raleigh's hottest jazz and blues club, it's an understatement to say Malcolm Cobb has his hands full. Add to that an ex-wife who knows how to bring the drama, it's no surprise he has little time or inclination for a personal life. But when he spots stunning, voluptuous Cilla Jameson, he's suddenly considering rearranging his schedule and setting aside his...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder. Single father Todd is relaxing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of a man approaching from the water's edge. As the man draws closer, Todd recognizes him as Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly in their teenage years, but now seems overjoyed to have "run into" his old friend. Jack suggests a meal to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her big city career and relationship in sudden free fall, Olivia Gale isn't sure where she belongs. So when her help is needed at Goode N' Sweet, the family bakery in Sugar Lake, she jumps at the chance to indulge her pie-making hobby while getting her life back on track. Olivia's not looking for any distractions. Even if the boy who once left her without a word is now a grown man with intriguing secrets--and the same tempting hold on her heart....
87) Pipe dreams
Author
Series
Brooklyn Bruisers volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Mike Beacon is a champion at defending the net, but off the ice, he's not so lucky. A widower and a single father, he's never forgotten Lauren Williams, the ex who gave him the best year of his life. When Lauren reappears in the Bruisers' office during the play-offs, Beacon sees his chance to make things right. Lauren hates that she's forced to travel with the team she used to work for and the man who broke her heart. There's still undeniable sexual...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a jilted romance novelist escapes to a small beach town, the last thing she expected to find was the start of an even better love story. In the wake of a broken engagement and the death of her last surviving family member, sweet romance novelist Maya Reynolds moves to the haven of Coral Cove, North Carolina, to take over her great-aunt's toy store. Some of her grief is immediately eased by imaginative eight-year-old Ashlyn Tanner, who talks...
89) Right beside you
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Felicia Hawkins has a successful career, money in the bank, a solid future... and is hopelessly in love with her co-worker, widower Richard Grimes. Richard has his hands full juggling pre-Christmas work demands and raising two teen daughters. He is drawn to Felicia's calm spirit and determination, and everything they have in common. With messy, well-meaning matchmaking from family and friends, and a long-distance transfer Richard can't refuse, it...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Morgan Walsh will do just about anything to connect with the son who continues to keep him at arm's length. Even ask a favor of ex-fiancée Tabitha Rennie. And what young Nathan desperately wants is for Tabitha to train his late mother's horse. But Tabitha is also determined to keep her distance. As soon as she's paid off her father's debts, she'll leave town and the painful memories of the real reason she abruptly left Morgan all those years ago....
91) All in
Author
Series
Bridgeport Social Club volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meredith Hunt is content with her solo life. But when she's mugged and the handsome Ace Vance comes to her rescue, she doesn't know how to accept his help, or how to stop staring into his chocolate-brown eyes. Thrown together by a careless criminal, Meredith and Ace can't deny their attraction. But can they open their hearts, and their lives, to make room for love?
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After two back-to-back life-changing events, first grade teacher Katie McGrath leaves Albuquerque for a fresh start in Borden's Gap, Tennessee. She is finally back in the classroom where she belongs, but it will take a little while for her to heal and truly feel like herself. She'll need to dig deep to find the courage to try again--in life and in love--but with some help from her neighbor Sam Youngblood and his adorable twin daughters, her future...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A Heartfelt Christmas Promise is the next heartwarming and inspirational Christmas story by USA Today bestselling author, Nancy Naigle. Vanessa Larkin just agreed to an out-of-town job assignment over the holidays. With the promise of a hefty bonus if she can get things done by the new year she heads for tiny Fraser Hills. Determined to succeed, she's not worried about whipping the shutdown process into overdrive to meet the challenge. Only when...
94) Angels crest
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]. c2011
Language
English
Description
In the small working-class town of Angels Crest a young single father's good intentions are thwarted by a moment of thoughtlessness, resulting in tragedy. A local prosecutor, haunted by his past goes after Ethan, and the ensuing confusion and casting of blame begins to tear the town apart.
95) Situationship
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Moving into her late grandmother's house, along with her toddler twins and a dog named Garbage Disposal, single mother Teagan Bianchi comes face-to-face with her teenage crush, who still lives next door, and must decide whether or not she can overcome her fears to get a second chance at love.
Author
Series
Christmas Tree Ranch volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When he arrives in the small town of Branding Iron, Texas, journalist Cooper Chapman, hoping to start a new life with his young son, gets a second chance at love with the help of a little Christmas magic.
Journalist Cooper Chapman has moved next door to his newlywed sister in Branding Iron, Texas. The divorced single dad knows his troubled teenaged son needs the healing balm of big skies and family ties. But when Trevor falls in with wild friends...
Author
Series
Cold River Ranch volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Gray Everett has a heart of gold but that doesn't mean he believes in the magic of Christmas. He's got plenty else to worry about this holiday season, what with keeping his cattle ranch in the family and out of the hands of hungry real-estate investors looking to make a down-and-dirty deal. That, plus being a parent to his motherless daughter, equals a man who will not rest until he achieves his mission. Now, all Gray needs is the help of his lifelong...
100) Queen bee: a novel
Author
Series
Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 12
Language
English
Description
Beekeeper Holly McNee Kensen quietly lives in a world of her own on Sullivan's Island, tending her hives and working at the local island library. Holly calls her mother The Queen Bee because she's a demanding hulk of a woman. Her mother, a devoted hypochondriac, might be unaware that she's quite ill, but that doesn't stop her from tormenting Holly. To escape the drama, Holly's sister Leslie married and moved away, wanting little to do with island...
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