A delightful story of love, relationships, and heartbreak. The sad life of Nelly is the result of what she calls her curse: whenever she touches anyone, the heart breaking ending of their relationship is seen in a vision. The story relates her struggles until she meets Oliver.
Two damaged souls find friendship and love amid a small Kentucky town filled with caring people. Pixie lives with her toddler son and when she meets Brogan and his baby daughter, their futures begin to fuse together.
A very engaging story of friendship, forgiveness, and love.
A sweeping novel centers on three related women, two of whom are alcoholics. Sisters Winnie and Miranda were raised on a vineyard in Napa. They have very different relationships with their mother. Miranda is the golden child. Winnie is the trouble one. While Miranda stays on the winery ranch, Winnie leaves for San Francisco during the free love and drugs era. Dawn is Miranda’s daughter and also an alcoholic who is struggling with sobriety. When she reads a fantasy novel, she is convinced it was written by someone who knew their winery intimately. Contained on the pages are the rough roads to recovery and relationship restoration.
Love Swirls around Madelyn and Cash but neither one is certain of accepting it.Both abandoned as children, love is an illusion. Unexpected baby Bronte is literally thrust upon Cash. Madelyn is AERB intern and tasked with providing the media information on Cash’s new life as a baby daddy. Change becomes the new norm for both Cash and Madelyn as their lives begin to weave around Bronte and each other.
A sweet growing into love story.
This is a not to miss novel. It is lyrical in prose, steeped in a history of music and change, and a beautiful relating of the ways people set in the rules of the ‘60s could change. For readers of a certain age, it is a book of nostalgia. For others, a tale of generations gripping hold of a new and different reality. An excellent novel all around.
This is a fabulous novel-crime thriller combined with family drama and a horrendous rain storm. The big baddie in town is ruthlessly dead set on buying up land for a lucrative government pipeline project. A hired thug along with his wife and brother in law are way over their heads. A struggling farm is caught in the middle with family members caught in the thugs' grips. Thrilling and chilling.
The story of an orphan sent to live with her drug addicted, former movie star aunt at a legendary hotel filled with depravity. It is a story recounting the Hollywood milieu circa late 1950s, a time of wanna be starlets, producers with huge egos and demands of sexual favors, teen girls and women seeking fame and fortune at any cost.
Aria Jones is thrust into the hotel turpitude when her parents tragically die. Her aunt is barely cognizant due to her drug and alcohol use and she is dismissive of Aria. Aria becomes friends with two older girls both seeking fame. Along the way, Aria grows to be a silent witness to the excess at the hotel.
Told in two times, 1950s Aria is a teen and 1960s Aria is turning 21 and prepared to leave the hotel. The effects of her experiences channel her sadness and fears as she ages.
A tale of Hollywood at its worst and of a young girl who sees it all.
Surgeon’s Surprise Baby 4
Eve Gaddy
Trust, once broken, is very hard if not impossible to rebuild. So it is for Aria when Ryan re-enters the picture. He suddenly left her with no explanation before she found out she was pregnant. She uproots her life in Denver and she with her two month old daughter move to Marietta to find Ryan and inform him of his daughter. He is shocked and all she wants is for him to know her.
In this endearing story, Ryan must work hard to regain Aria’s trust if a happily ever after will happen.
Three women connected by a Zoom book club are all at crossroads. Faye, who runs the book club, is seeking respite from the scandal her twin sister caused. Margot is finally fed up with her controlling husband and takes initiative. Bonnie is grieving her husband, a book club member. Meeting each other is the exact thing each of them needs.
A touching second chance at love happens over thirty-six years later when it all fell apart. The story relates several joys and events during a vacation two best friends take to recapture their teenage vacation to Greece. One twirled about with wild abandon, the other fell in love. When one encounters her lost love, it is time for the heartbreaking truth that drove them apart. It is a vacation of revelations and of setting new paths.
The lives of three sisters is explored over a forty year period. Once a year in May the sisters reunite in Coronado at their grandmother’s house. The joyous times and critical, complex times unfold, bringing them together or tearing them apart. Chapters rotate between the past and current. A complex family drama.
A sweet romance. Whitney and Derrick seem so mismatched and with very different ideas about Edwin Hazard, the town of Hazard’s hero. Throw in bids for affordable housing (ne bid belongs to Derrick), the town’s illustrious underground tunnels, and slow changes of the heart and you have a very engaging and magical story.
I adore books by Paige Harribison. They are filled with complex characters and plots. In this book, four former friends are called together for the funeral of a mother who wants them to reconcile and reignite their lost friendships. The story is fraught with serious misunderstandings, deep underlying anger, and a need to release the bitterness at long last.
Engrossing story that will capture you until the very end.
Life has a way of catching up with you as friends in this engaging story of discover. At forty-seven Laura is discovering her passion and it is no longer being a wife and mother. Beginning a new step by enrolling in university in women’s studies opens her eyes to the home life that has dominated her life. Becca, also forty-seven, has found love again but is wary of moving in with her love, Conal. When a serious event strikes her mother, she is shaken to the core. Both Laura and Becca are aided by their friends in the decisions they have to make.
Captivating romance full with a yes/no relationship. Dylan grew up with contentious parents and swore off long term relationships. His
“Yes, I want to be with you” “No, I cannot hack it” attitudes wear on June who has her own insecurities. No telling if the relationship will ever work out.
The only problem I had with the story is that it felt too repetitious and overkill on Dylan’s bouncing around attitude.
Such a sweet and family driven novel. The dynamics of the Thaysden family are captivating and involved. There is a sad story playing against the story of an abandoned baby whose parents are young and naive. The baby is found in a dumpster and her beginnings are cared for by Julie, a NICU nurse who falls in love with her. The rescuer of the baby is baseball coach Mason Thaysden, handsome and plagued by his wild past. Julie and Mason hit it off, bonded by the baby and their desire to protect her. Add in Aunt Tiley who drifts in and out of reality struggling to stay grounded in the here and now.
A thoroughly delightful story.
Lovely cowboy romance between a closed heart man and a woman that has loved him forever. Uncertainties, a belligerent ex, a cute daughter, and a recovering grandmother round out the characters.
A very engaging cowboy romance. I loved the slow burn of love developing along with the fears and problems simmering under the surface.
This is a very creative second chance romance. The idea of an event causing a five year gap in two lives and of the particulars of where they are in the future is so engaging. After you read this, check out Every Other New Year’s Eve by Ms. Dayton. Both books are great.
An amazing and magically scary story. It made my bones chill at the very descriptive and dark horror that grips New Orleans magical community. All the strange and scary events begin to unfold at a rapid pace when Seraphine becomes the new witch Prime. Hated by some and feared by others, she is unsure of her being named as Prime. In her is a strength not known by others. She fights for the welfare of the entire magical community.
A feel good and sweet romance blooming over the summer at a family lodge on the lake.
