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41) Winner takes all
Author
Series
Millionaires club (Sandra Kitt) volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Jean Travis has the job of announcing the latest lottery winner on TV and is stunned to find that Patrick Bennett, her one-time crush, is the top mega winner. Patrick invites Jean to the after-party celebration, reigniting the attraction that began between them as teenagers. As Patrick and Jean's relationship develops, Patrick is faced with the surprising and complicated issues that arise from suddenly becoming very wealthy. He finds himself constantly...
42) Gimme some sugar
Author
Series
Southern eclectic volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A young widow returns to Lake Sackett, Georgia to face the ghosts of her past--and decide if she's ready to take another chance on love--in the third sparkling Southern Eclectic novel that "goes down as easy as honey on a deep-fried Twinkie" (Library Journal, on Sweet Tea and Sympathy).
Lake Sackett, Georgia. Duffy McCready of McCready's Bait Shop & Funeral Home has been in love with Lucy Bowman since they were kids. Unable to confess his feelings,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In love for the first time, a son's decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times Book Reviews) Baxter Family books. In the shadow of very great loss, the only way to live with passion is truly, madly, deeply. When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Southern Fiction
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Clapp's (Under the Lights) modern-day Hosea and Gomer retelling replaces the Biblical couple with rural, white North Carolina teenagers. Brady finds his first love in Sarah, a beautiful and troubled young woman in an abusive relationship. Brady's friends tell him to leave her alone, but he follows his religious convictions and tries to help Sarah by folding her into his church youth group. As the high schoolers are pulled in different directions,...
Author
Series
Lone Star Ridge volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Their past never faded -- and neither did their passion. Between running his family ranch and dealing with far too many needy relatives, Shaw Jameson doesn't have time for more trouble. But when his first love, former-child-star-turned-businesswoman Sunny Dalton, returns to Lone Star Ridge, Shaw senses things are about to get a whole lot more interesting. Shaw isn't prepared for the memories that come flooding back now...or the reignited spark between...
Author
Series
Seashell Harbor volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Hadley Wells swapped her dreams of saving the planet for the glamour of Hollywood. But when a very public breakup reveals cracks in her not-so-perfect life, she returns to her hometown to reassess what it is she truly wants. Unfortunately, Seashell Harbor has some trouble of its own--including the first man to ever break her heart. A serious injury forced footballer Tony Cammareri into early retirement--now he's determined to reboot his life with...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise that it's February 29th - the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago. Ten years earlier, and our young narrator and a boy named Thomas James fall into bed with one another over the summer of their...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Samantha Casey loves everything about her job as an elementary school librarian on the sunny, historic island of Galveston, Texas--the goofy kids, the stately Victorian building, the butterfly garden. But when the school suddenly loses its beloved principal, it turns out his replacement will be none other than Duncan Carpenter--a former, unrequited crush of Sam's from many years before. When Duncan shows up as her new boss, though, he's nothing like...
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books/Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Albert Entwistle was a postman. It was one of the few things everyone knew about him. And it was one of the few things he was comfortable with people knowing. 64-year-old Albert Entwistle has been a postie in a quiet town in Northern England for all his life, living alone since the death of his mam 18 years ago. He keeps himself to himself. He always has. But he's just learned he'll be forced to retire at his next birthday. With no friends and nothing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Just when Charity's wild imagination failed her, a flesh-and-blood hero walked into her life. Best-selling author Charity Anderson returns to her hometown of Kings Meadow to defeat a bad case of writer's block. She imagines she'll spend a lonely summer writing and then return to her home in Boise. She soon finds herself caring for Buck Malone, a wilderness guide -- and the object of her unrequited teenage crush. But what else can she do? Her dog...
Author
Series
Stay (Jennifer Probst) volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ophelia Bishop was a lovestruck teenage girl when she and Kyle Kimpton chased their dreams to Hollywood. Kyle's dreams came true. Ophelia's did not. When Kyle chose his career over their relationship, Ophelia returned home to rural New York to run the family's B & B--wiser, and more guarded against foolish fantasies. Now Kyle has come crashing back into her life, and all her defenses are down. Kyle can't think of a better place to write his latest...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ever since she can remember, Aly has been fixing everything around her: her parents' marriage, her colleagues' work problems, and her friends' love lives. After a chance meeting with an ex who has gone from a living in his parents' basement to a married project manager in three years, she realizes she's been fixing her boyfriends, too... So, Aly decides to put her talents to good use and, alongside two work friends, sets up The Fixer Upper, an exclusive,...
Author
Series
Fern Falls volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"With her career as a Los Angeles event planner imploding after a tabloid blowup, Morgan Ross isn't headed home for the holidays so much as in strategic retreat. Breathtaking mountain vistas, quirky townsfolk, and charming small businesses aside, her hometown of Fern Falls is built of one heartbreak on top of another... Take her one-time best friend turned crush, Rachel Reed. The memory of their perfect, doomed first kiss is still fresh as new-fallen...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in those few months I spent within touching distance of the sea. Everything I am is because Alistair loved me." Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she's now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. Rachel and Alistair's summer love affair on a remote,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As a teenager, Kate found a safe harbor from her parents' constant fighting in the company of the four Gonne sisters, who lived with their strict grandparents next to Small Angels, a church right on the edge of dense green woods. The first outsider to ever get close to the sisters, Kate eventually learned the family's secret: The woods are home to a capricious, menacing ghost whom generations of Gonnes had been charged with stopping from venturing...
56) Surfside sisters
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A woman from Nantucket returns home to find that reunions aren't always so simple. Growing up, Lara always dreamed of leaving Nantucket to become a writer. Now that she's a bestselling novelist living in New York City, she realizes that success isn't what she thought it would be. Confused, and with a harrowing case of writer's block, Lara misses the island way of life more than ever. But going back to Nantucket out of the blue isn't so easy, as a...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a...
Author
Series
Sunrise Cove volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Alone in the world, Tae Holmes and her mother April pretty much raised each other, but as Tae starts asking questions about the father she's never met, April, for the first time in her life, goes silent. To make matters worse, Tae is dangerously close to broke and just manages to avoid financial meltdown when she lands a shiny new contract with an adventure company for athletes with disabilities and wounded warriors. Her first big fundraiser event...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Alexis Gold knows how to put the work in working mom. It's the mom part that she's been struggling with lately. Since opening her own advertising agency three years ago, Alexis has all but given up on finding a good work/life balance. Instead, she's handed over the household reins to her supportive, loving partner, Tommy. While he's quick to say they divide and conquer, Alexis knows that Tommy does most of the heavy lifting--especially when it comes...
60) The other Emily
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup's victims whose remains were never found. Writer David Thorne still hasn't recovered from losing the love of his life. Since then, he's sought closure any way he can. He even visits regularly with Jessup in prison, desperate for answers. Then David meets Maddison Sutton, beguiling, playful, and keenly...
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