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81) Stormchild
Author
Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
2005, c1991
Language
English
Description
A famous yachtsman travels halfway around the world on his boat, Stormchild, in an attempt to rescue his daughter from a cult.
Author
Series
Redemption's light volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Toronto, 1939. Released after being incarcerated in a woman's reformatory for being pregnant and unmarried, Olivia Rosetti's family is unwilling to forgive her. She ends up homeless. Well-to-do widow Ruth Bennington hires Olivia to help with a maternity home for troubled women, and for years Olivia focuses herself on the home. Greek widower Darius Reed is determined to protect his daughter from the prejudice that killed his wife. When his employer...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As summer gives way to fall in Rustlers Gulch, widow Maddie McLendon begins to have second thoughts about uprooting her life to move there with her son and grandson. Contractors have yet to break ground on their new house, leaving them-- along with four horses, three dogs, and six cats-- to live in a makeshift camp of trailers, tents, and sheds, while a brutal Montana winter looms on the horizon. Millionaire rancher Sam Conacher doesn't take kindly...
Author
Series
Promise Lodge volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
86) 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...
87) Coming home
Author
Series
Chesapeake diaries volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
After years of seclusion, widower and former FBI agent Grady Shields returns to his hometown for his sister's wedding and gets a second chance at love when he meets Vanessa Keaton, a boutique owner who is on the run from her past.
Author
Series
Thomas Grey novels (J. H. Gelernter) volume 1
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The year is 1803, and the British Secret Service is contending with a belligerent France under Napoleon. The service suffers a blow in the loss of a prime agent, Thomas Grey, who--despondent at his wife's untimely death--resigns from British Intelligence and departs England for Boston, where he intends to become a lumber merchant. His plan to start a new life is thrown abruptly off course when a French intelligence network attempts to recruit him...
Author
Series
Bliss Creek Amish volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Carl returns to their small Amish community, Emma must choose between her childhood love and Thomas, the strong, quiet widower who always seems to be underfoot.
91) Shattered duty
Author
Series
Deadly Ops volume 3
Language
English
Description
When his wife was murdered two years ago, Special Agent Levi Lazaro turned his back on everything he cared about. Ever since, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. Now he's finally uncovered the identities of those who killed his wife{u2014}and he's ready to destroy them at any cost. He won{u2019}t let anything stand in his way{u2014}not even a beautiful NSA agent on a mission of her own. Special Agent Selene Wolfe prides herself on being the best....
Author
Series
Little child shall lead them novels volume 1
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
93) North to Alaska
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Two women travel to Alaska and build new lives with bush pilots: Cathy Thompson with single dad Grady James and Carly Grieves with widower Brand St. Clair.
94) Pegasus: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Nicolas von Bingen and Alex von Hemmerle, titled members of the German aristocracy, have been best friends since childhood. Both widowers, they are raising their children - Nick's two lively boys and Alex's adored teenage daughter - in peace and luxury on the vast Bavarian estates that have belonged to their families for generations. While Nick indulges in more glamorous pursuits, Alex devotes himself to breeding the renowned white Lipizzaner horses...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Since her best friend's death, Laura Reihl has vowed to make each day count. And that means she should probably break off her relationship with Rudy; they've been together for so many years, but she's not feeling the fireworks that mean true love. So when Savilla's widower, Allen, asks her to help him take care of baby Mollie, Laura hopes the change of scenery will help her gain perspective on her relationship with Rudy. Allen blames himself for Savilla's...
97) An untamed heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"After the loss of her first love, is Ingeborg Strand willing to marry a stranger--however kind--for the promise of a new life in America? The prequel to the RED RIVER OF THE NORTH series"--
98) Say her name
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In a novel based on the author's real-life tragedy, Goldman, consumed with grief and guilt over the accidental death of his wife just before their second anniversary, obsessively collects every memory of her, especially her writings, with the hope of keeping her alive in his mind.
Author
Series
Harmony novels (Jodi Thomas) volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A vulnerable little boy brings together Tinch Turner, a wild rancher who gave up on living after his wife died, and the beautiful new doctor in town, Addison Spencer, while Reagan Truman finds comfort in the makeshift family she's made in Harmony after the death of her beloved uncle.
100) Stranger in the lake
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Charlotte married the wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her humble past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman's body floating in the exact same spot where Paul's first wife tragically drowned. At first, it seems like a horrific coincidence, but the stranger in the lake is no stranger....
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