“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” Victor Hugo
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A Chance to Come True
by S M Spencer
This is clean Australian contemporary/rural romance set within the Golden Triangle outside Melbourne. Caity Jones wasted a lot of years waiting for the "two kids, a dog and a white picket fence" dream to come true, but she's ready to move on now. Letting go of society's idea of the perfect life, she's purchased a five-acre property in the small rural town of Willows. She's determined to live a solitary life and become a writer. And that means staying away from men altogether. Tom Murray owns and runs the local feed store in Willows. His marriage was a failure but…View this book -
Losing It All
by Marsha Cornelius
Frank Barnes is content living on the streets of Atlanta. A soup kitchen and a makeshift shanty sure beat his days as a POW in Vietnam. But Chloe Roberts can't handle the eviction that sends her into the hell of homelessness. With no family or friends to turn to, Chloe and her children are sucked into the traumatic world of night shelters, and dangerous predators. When they bump into each other at the soup kitchen, Frank offers Chloe a glimmer of hope that she can pull her life back together. She rekindles his lost sense of self-worth by taking his…View this book -
Reconstructing Jackson
by Holly Bush
1867 . . . Southerner, Reed Jackson, returns to his family's plantation after the Civil War in a wheelchair. Schooled as a lawyer, he moves west to start again after his father deeds the Jackson holdings to a younger brother. Circumstances bring Reed and Belle Richards together, a dirt poor farm girl aching to learn how to read. Bleak times will challenge Reed and Belle's courage and dreams as they forge a new beginning from the ashes of war and ignorance.View this book -
In Too Deep
by Elly Redding
One little lie. A guilty secret. And the man she mustn't love. Set in the rolling countryside of Devon, 'In Too Deep' is an emotional love story of one woman's determination to win the trust of the man she's adored since they were thrown together as children, by forcing him to confront the darkness of his long-lost past. It’s been six years since Isy Forrester left home. In that time, she’s strived to forge a new life for herself in London, away from Jack Mancini, her father’s adopted son, and his devastating betrayal of everything she thought they had. Only…View this book -
Brake Failure
by Alison Brodie
“Is it too late to tell him you love him when you are looking down the barrel of his gun?” An English debutante transforms from Miss-Perfectly-Correct to criminally insane as she breaks the bonds of her rigid upbringing. Sheriff Hank Gephart tries to reel her in - but she’s out of control and she’s not hitting the brakes. What happened to the genteel lady in twin-set and pearls? And why did she shoot Mr Right? Brake Failure is set in 1999 in the months leading up to Y2K “meltdown” when the US government was spending $150 billion preparing for Armageddon…View this book -
Midnight Marriage
by Lucinda Brant
Stand-alone book 1 in the acclaimed Roxton Family Saga, Julian and Deb's story 1760s England and France. Julian and Deb are hurriedly, and secretly, married off as teenagers. Julian is then banished to the continent. Deb is returned to the nursery, told her midnight marriage was just a bad dream from the effects of laudanum. Nine years later, Julian returns incognito to claim his bride before a debonair rival can seduce her into bigamous wedlock. Can Julian and Deb’s marriage survive such a calculated deception? Set in the opulent world of the aristocracy and inspired by real events, Lucinda Brant…View this book -
Sometimes It Happens
by Pauline Barclay
Winning the lottery was just the beginning for Doreen Wilkinson, nothing prepared Doreen for her holiday at Villas Bonitas and nothing prepared Villas Bonitas for Doreen Wilkinson. Sometimes It Happens...is about secrets, deception, lies, love and laughter. Tears will flow because this is one holiday that will never be forgotten by many!View this book -
Cross My Heart
by Abigail Strom
When opposites attract…The last thing Jenna Landry wants is to fall in love. The former rock musician is getting ready to start a new job and a new life in L.A., and she’s only back in her hometown for the summer. Nothing could tempt her to stay any longer than that…not even the sexy doctor next door. Michael Stone has a reputation for being as cold as ice. So what is it about his free-spirited neighbor that sets him on fire? The strait-laced M.D. has his hands full with his career and his teenage daughter, and even if he were…View this book -
Comes The Winter
by Samantha St.Claire
Alena's been warned to leave the mountain before winter wraps its icy fingers around the land, closing the passes until spring, but something beyond reason holds her there, something more than the warmth of the fire at her hearth. In the fall of 1886, Alena Sommer leaves behind a life fraught with disappointments and loss only to arrive in Sawtooth City and find the man she’d pledged to marry has been killed. To return east is unthinkable; to stay is ill-advised, but she resolves to remain and manage the man’s lodging house despite the warnings. More than her stubborn nature…View this book -
Kilingiri
by Janna Gray
Srinagar, Kashmir 1968 and Nina is devastated by the death of her new-born baby girl. Sister Angela and Father Michael at the mission hospital step in to nurse Nina back to health but when the friendship between Nina and Father Michael turns to love, Michael makes a decision which will resonate through the years. It is 1981 and in Kinsale, Ireland, Nina, devoted to her son Joshua, lives a loveless existence, but a chance encounter changes everything. Michael is back in her life, he leaves the priesthood and happiness is within their grasp. But when past and present collide their…View this book -
PASSION for VENGEANCE
by Patty G. Henderson
It's been a long time since Jane Havens, Mistress of Havenswood, felt the joy and promise of by-gone days when her family home, Havenswood, was a thriving and powerful farming estate. Together with her elder brother Cole, who drowns his sorrow in alcohol, Jane does what she can to lead the fading estate through the hard times that fell upon the family after their father, a Union Army Colonel, died shortly after the Civil War. Jane and Cole try to raise their little brother, Henry, a wild young boy with no direction, no manners and no one to marshal his…View this book -
Hawaiian Affair
by Debbie Flint
Feisty single mum and would-be businesswoman Sadie Turner, PhD, needs an investor - and fast. Nothing can stand in her way - she's even on a man-ban till she proves her critics wrong and stands on her own feet financially. Now, with this life-changing deal on the table, success is finally within reach. But she only has thirty days to sign the contract, so the race is on. Mac is a playboy billionaire with an appetite for extreme sports and supermodels. So where does curvy Sadie fit in? After all, he has a rule never to mix business with pleasure.…View this book
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