(Home to Loveless County Series #3)
Callie Lambert flees New York with her three young siblings for the small Texas town where she was born, waiting for the day their abusive stepfather is put in jail and it's safe to return to the city. The four of them quickly become attached to Homestead and its people, especially Sheriff Wade Montgomery, a man who knows what it's like to lose everything. But what will happen when he finds out Callie's secret?
Will he turn her in, or help her at the risk of losing his badge? No matter what the future brings, she's made a promise to bring the kids back home...but what if they're already there?
(Home to Loveless County Series # 2)
Nobody said it would be easy. But Kayla Price hadn't expected it would be this hard to begin a new life with her daughter in the Texas Hill Country town of Homestead. She's excited to join the innovative Home Free program, take ownership of a parcel of land and start a vineyard -- doing everything she can to revitalize the dying town.
And "everything she can" includes helping her neighbor, cowboy Ethan Ritter, set up a riding program for challenged kids.
Turns out hard labor isn't enough to make Kayla's venture a success, and she and Ethan must find out who wants her gone and why they're desperate enough to resort to sabotage.
(Home to Loveless County Series #1)
Desperate times call for desperate measures
That's why the dying town of
Homestead, Texas, established the Home Free program, offering land
grants in exchange for the much-needed professional services modern
homesteaders bring with them.
Kristin Cantrell had leaped at
the chance to return to her childhood home, accepting subsidized land
for herself and her son in exchange for the service she could offer as a
physician's assistant. She didn't expect her reputation to be tarnished
by a crime her deceased father had supposedly committed. She also
didn't expect to see Ryan Gallagher again, even though his father, the
senator, practically owned the Hill Country. Now she has to prove not only her father's innocence but also her own.
Jen Delazzeri never expected to see Max Rickman again. Their brief but intense affair was a mistake: they were young and he was grief stricken at losing his fiancee in a fire. Besides, he'd told Jen he didn't love her. All good reasons she'd kept their daughter a secret for thirteen years.
Now they're together again on fire duty--he as a smoke jumper, she as a reporter. Max wants to get to know his daughter and wants Jen to help investigate what went wrong at that long-ago tragedy.
Will rekindling their attraction be enough to create the family their daughter needs?
Reenie decides that the first
step in recovering from her ordeal is to find work; after all, she has
three young children to support. She's thrilled when she lands a job at
Dundee High teaching history--until Isaac Russell, the man who triggered
the unraveling of her marriage, accepts a temporary position teaching
science. Then she's tempted to quit.
Reenie doesn't care if the whole
town admires Isaac...and she won't admit that, secretly, she admires
him, too. She doesn't want to see him or his sister in "her" town.
But a friendship with the most unlikely woman leads to a relationship with the most unlikely man....
I
promise you, my little one, I'll do everything I can to see that your
life is safe and happy. Even if that means giving you up….
Markie McBride has kept a secret
locked in her heart—and in her long-lost diary—for eighteen years. And
when she finds herself back in Five Points, Texas, face-to-face with
Justin Kilgore, she finally tells him what she couldn't all those years
ago. They have a son.
Brandon is coming to Five Points
to work as an intern on a political campaign against Justin's
congressman father. When the inquisitive teenager stumbles upon evidence
of his grandfather's corruption, the boy unwittingly puts himself in
danger. Markie swore to always keep her son safe—but keeping this vow
may mean once again losing the man she loves.
A lot can happen, a lot can change, in 25 years.
Best Friends by Tara Taylor Quinn--Jolene and Tina have been best
friends for twenty-five years. Too bad Jolene's marriage isn't as solid
as her friendship. But who better to talk to about your most intimate
problems than your very best friend?
Wade in the Water by Margot Early--Lily Moran is observing a tragic
anniversary--her brother's death. She blames herself, just as her
parents blame her then-boyfriend, Colin Gardner. For the first time,
she's returning home to scatter the ashes of the past and--maybe--find
love and peace in the present. With her family...and with Colin.
A Visit from Eileen by Janice Macdonald--Eileen Doyle left Ireland
twenty-five years ago to start a new life in California. But nothing
turned out as she expected, so she reinvented herself in letters home.
Now Eileen has to return to face the truth--and the man who broke her
heart.
Grandpa Garnier used to say, Love is like a bucking bronco. It takes guts and determination to hang on, but it's worth the ride.
If only Grandpa was around now to
help Tyson Garnier out of this mess. The famous pro football player is
suddenly saddled with a very public scandal--and an illegitimate child.
Tyson needs a good nanny now if he's going to salvage his career. And
plain, no-nonsense Dakota Brown is the ideal candidate.
Dakota doesn't care for
football--or for a man who doesn't seem to want his own son. But she
needs this job, and that precious little baby needs her.
Dakota isn't Tyson's kind of
woman. But the more he sees of her--and the more he sees of his son--the
harder he wants to hang on.
It took guts for Annie Raye to come home to Vegas. With a cardsharp for a father and a convicted embezzler for an ex, she's already got two strikes against her. The last thing the struggling single mother needs is some private investigator deep-sixing her chance to go straight!
Annie, a former gambling protege, isn't going to pull the wool over this ex-soldier's eyes--even if Sam Knight is finding the woman and her daughter impossible to resist. She certainly has an uncanny knack for counting cards, but Sam can read people.
And everything about Annie tells him she wants the same things he only wishes he could have; a family and a love you can rely on.
Legend has it that the lost bowl of Inca ruler Manco Capac has the power to heal. And the one who finds it will gain the answers he seeks—
Lucas Rydall is looking for
redemption. His search leads him to his ex-wife, Sydney Mitchell—and the
son he didn't know he had. Even as he confronts Sydney, however, Lucas
believes in his heart that his family is still better off without him.
But Lucas isn't the only one searching for the legendary bowl—and his reappearance in Sydney's life puts them all in danger.
To save those he cares about, Lucas must put aside his fears and become the man they need.
The Dad Next Door by C.J. Carmichael
His daughter needs her mother.
And Gavin Gray will do anything for Tory--even reunite with the woman
who abandoned them. That's the only reason they've moved to Squam Lake,
his ex-wife's last known address. Now it's a waiting game.
That game has suddenly gotten
more complicated. Because of Allison Bennett, the next-door neighbor he
never expected to fall in love with. Just as their future looks
promising, his ex-wife returns with a past that haunts them all.
Emalea LeBlanc is a different kind of woman. Nicknamed “ Doc” by the locals,
she’ s a psychologist, a member of the volunteer search and rescue team
and an avid motorcycle enthusiast. But she’ s haunted by memories of an
abusive father and relationships with men who haven’ t been much better.
What she needs is a different kind of man. Someone she can trust. Someone
who won’ t hurt her. Jackson Cooper is the new investigator in Cypress
Landing, and Emalea believes she knows his type—big, strong,
overbearing. Dangerous. But Jackson has a tragic past of his own. And he’ s not exactly the kind of man he appears to be….
Katie Salinger has spent most of her adult life looking for the next big adrenaline rush. But the extreme-sports journalist faces her greatest challenge when she returns to Lone Oak, Kansas...and meets the attractive, secretive doctor who's intent on buying her beloved family home.
Ever since he returned from Africa, Dr. Noah Fletcher has been haunted by a tragic loss. His hometown thinks he's a hero, including Katie, the risk taker, who's determined to uncover all his secrets. Noah can't deny their mutual attraction.
But he also can't let her close. Because the last time he fell in love, it almost killed him.
What not to expect when you're expecting…--Becca Thomas is thrilled to be
pregnant, even though it means bringing up her baby alone. At
thirty-eight, this may be her last chance to have a child. And she
doesn't expect to see Aiden Rodas again—doesn't think that a
freewheeling younger man like him would even want to be a father.
Wrong--Aiden may live the life of a
devil-may-care wildland firefighter, but he's not going to walk away
from his responsibilities, no matter how unexpected they are. His
challenge now is making Becca see that their child needs both of them.
An even bigger challenge will be to make her realize that this expectant
father has fallen in love with a certain mother-to-be!
Dana Wilson is a single mom and
the new school nurse. Lissa's dad, Patrick Connor, is chair of the board
of education. They're a perfect match, right? Well, there may be a few
wrinkles to iron out first. Wrinkles such as Dana's desire for a calm
and predictable life, and Patrick's reluctance to start over.
Now, how to make it happen...?
Ten years ago, to be exact. Then,
Julia Sommerville was just an awestruck student in love with a dashing
young professor. Now, after she has saved his life, Cameron Birch sees
her for the attractive, alluring woman she’ s become. A woman who proves
she has the courage to make extreme decisions by taking in her sister’ s
eight-year-old daughter.
However, when Julia finds out
Cameron is the unwitting father of little Katie, she faces the hardest
choice she’ s ever had to make: tell him and lose the child she has come
to love, or lie and lose the man of her dreams for the second time….
A LITTLE SECRET...But a big surprise
Out of the mouths of babes…...
After a decade away, Greer Bell
is returning to Loveless County, hoping for a reconciliation with her
family—one that includes their acceptance of her nine-year-old daughter,
Shelby. Thanks to the local land-grant program, Greer’ s also the new
owner of a dilapidated property she’ s turning into a guest ranch. She’ s
risking her financial future on it.
But she’ s risking far more than
that on Noah Kelley, the man who wants to marry her despite the town’ s
disapproval and all her efforts to discourage him. Shelby, however, is
definitely in favor of having Noah as her dad—and sometimes kids know
best.
