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The Souvenir


Emma Nichols - 2016
    Snark and heart make The Souvenir a novel that will leave readers desperate for more. Wren Jacobs—a twenty-something corporate trainer— would like to announce the birth of her baby, Taylor, named after the artist singing "Bad Blood" during the conception. Mother and child are adjusting nicely and ready to welcome visitors, especially the father, Brady Conner. Despite a few too many misunderstandings, Wren never stopped loving Brady…and would love the opportunity to thank him for her souvenir from their relationship who weighed in at a whopping 8lbs 5oz, effectively ruining her after an unintentional natural delivery. Taylor's birth will forever remind Wren of the first day of summer, the last time she was ever able to wear a bikini, and that she'll probably never go to a bar again. Follow Wren and Brady as they navigate through the tricky dating scene in this touching romantic comedy, and fall in love with the souvenir of their relationship.

Then There Was You


Claire Contreras - 2018
    Love is about walking to the edge of the cliff and taking the leap together.Timing was never on our side.My first mistake was hooking up with my best friend.My second came years later, when we met again, and I fell for her. My third was letting her go, because I had to. Because a love like this wasn't built to withstand the winds coming in our direction.Love and timing.I didn't believe in either. Then there was you . . .

Getting Even


Danesha Little - 2020
    To her, forgiveness can only happen after she gets even. Unfortunately, one night with male stripper, Philip "Ian" Nichols, turns her entire life upside down.Rashad Richards knows that he messed up when he cheated on his wife and is trying to do everything in his power to piece his family back together. He quickly learns that some mistakes you can't come back from when he finds out that he's not the only one fighting for his wife's affection.Can a marriage that experiences infidelity on both sides survive the aftermath?

Binding Arbitration


Elizabeth Marx - 2011
    The undefeated defense attorney is prepared to take her fight all the way to the majors.Circumstances force Libby to plead her case at the cleats of celebrity baseball player Banford Aidan Palowski, the man who discarded her at their college graduation. Libby has worked her backside bare for everything she’s attained, while Aidan has been indulged since he slid through the birth canal and landed in a pile of Gold Coast money. But helping Libby and living up to his biological duty could jeopardize the only thing the jock worships: his baseball career.If baseball imitates life, Aidan admits his appears to be silver-plated peanuts, until an unexpected confrontation with the most spectacular prize that’s ever poured from a caramel corn box blindsides him. When he learns about his son’s desperate need, it pricks open the wound he’s carried since he abandoned Libby and the child.All Libby wants is a little anonymous DNA, but Aidan has a magical umpire in his head who knows Libby’s a fateball right to the heart. When a six-year-old sage and a hippy priestess step onto the field, there’s more to settle between Libby and Aidan than heartache, redemption, and forgiveness.

Adrian's Vengeance


Isabella Starling - 2021
    Now it's time to teach her a lesson.Marzia thinks she's going to celebrate her arranged marriage at a masked ball.But this party is the perfect opportunity for me to kidnap her.It’s time for me to show her that my love... means pain.MARZIASince I was a little girl, I've been in love with him - dark, twisted, menacingly handsome Adrian Bernardi.But my father, the mafia don, decided I'd marry someone else.Except I don’t want to marry the other man. I only want Adrian.I pray for help, asking Adrian to save me.But saving me means taking everything from me.Adrian’s Vengeance is the first book of the Mafia Heirs series. Adrian and Marzia's story begins in Broken Promises. This is a dark mafia romance.

Trailer Park Heart


Rachel Higginson - 2018
    It’s my legacy. That’s how my mama lived. And that’s how her mama lived. It’s the life I was born into and it’s the life I swore I would leave the second I was old enough to make it out. Only legacies have a funny way of sneaking up on you. An innocent decision the night of high school graduation led to a series of complications in my plans to escape. Seven years later, I’ve resigned myself to this small town and the roots I’m tied to. Nothing could make me leave. And nothing could make me spill the secrets that keep me here. Until he walks back into town with a chip on his shoulder and a stupid hunch nobody else in town has been smart enough to follow. Levi Cole is my opposite. Born on the right side of the tracks with family money to spare, he’s the kind of black sheep that can afford to be rebellious—because his family will always pay for his mistakes. He’s also the only living heir to Cole Family Farms, after his brother Logan was killed in duty seven years ago. He sees something in my life that he thinks he has a right to. But he’s wrong. And obnoxious. And he needs to take his stubborn good looks and that intense way he looks at me and go back to wherever it was he came from. I know better than to trust men like him. I was born and raised in a trailer park, I know nothing good happens to girls like me—girls with trailer park lives and trailer park hearts. Especially from gorgeous, kind, pigheaded men like him.

Scorned


S.L. Scott - 2014
    It was all encompassing. I thought our love could withstand time and anything thrown our way. I was wrong. So wrong.I used to be happy. I used to be Juliette Weston when Dylan Somers filled my life with promises of love and a happy ever after. But when he took my heart and broke it into a million pieces, I became someone else entirely. In one afternoon, I lost my soul mate. I lost everything I knew myself to be. Three years later, the man who destroyed me is back. To assuage his guilt? To finish the job? It doesn’t matter… I won’t let him this time. I’m stronger. I’ve moved on. He won’t affect me. This is a story of love and betrayal. Pain and loss. Happiness and fate. It’s about finding your true destiny.This is our story.And it’s not for the faint of heart.

Gina and Mike


Buffy Andrews - 2013
    She's looking forward to the prom, then graduation and senior week at the shore. The only thing she isn't looking forward to is the start of college, because it means she won't be near Mike. They are attending schools on opposite sides of the state. But Gina's normal teen life ends the night she is brutally raped by her math teacher and Mike's baseball coach. Coach Smith threatens to destroy Mike's promising baseball career if Gina tells anyone what happened. To protect Mike, Gina keeps quiet and eventually, unable to deal with the effects of the rape, breaks up with Mike. They reconnect at their 20th high school reunion where the past catches up with them and Mike learns the truth about what happened 20 years ago.

Secret Maneuvers


Jessie Lane - 2013
    One ‘Dear John’ letter haunted Bobby Baker’s every living moment. It was the letter he’d stupidly written to his high school sweetheart, Belle, right after he had left to join the Army. The letter in which he’d told her that he wasn’t so sure they were ready for forever yet. Before he could let her know that the letter, and his second thoughts, were nothing more than a mistake, she disappeared from the small Georgia town they had both been raised in. Fifteen years after the letter, Belle unknowingly walked back into Bobby’s life when her job as an ATF Agent forced her to work with a group of men secretly headed by the CIA to help her track down whoever was involved in funneling black market weapons to a drug cartel in Mexico. Bobby planned to use this mission to try to soothe Belle’s hurt feelings while proving to her that their love was meant to be forever. He would use every dirty trick he’d learned since he had joined the Army to maneuver her back into his life for the long haul. Belle was not making it easy, though, as she continued to keep him at arm’s length in the hopes that mistakes of her own would never come to light. Warning: Mature themes and a secret baby! <- You've been warned.

Finding Abel


Stephanie Hoffman McManus - 2018
    I knew the moment I claimed her first kiss that I wanted to own all of them right up until her last. I was going to make all our dreams come true. Instead, I broke a lot of promises and both our hearts along the road to fame. Now, a woman I don’t love wears my ring on her finger, and I don’t know if Abbi will ever forgive me for what I’ve done. Little by little, I gave my heart to Abel McCabe, and piece by broken piece he gave it back to me. Now, he wears the face of a man I hardly recognize, but his eyes still look at me like the boy I’ve known and loved all my life. I know I’m not supposed to. I know we can’t ever be what we were, and I know what we’ve become is killing us both. But I don’t know how to stop. Until the night I sit waiting for him, only to turn on my phone and see his engagement announcement plastered all over the internet, and a text message with two words. I’m sorry. He asks me to trust him. He begs me to forgive him, but I don’t know what to believe anymore. The Rebel Hearts series is a spin off of the Ever After series, but can be read alone

My Cowboy's Second Chance Surprise


Hanna Hart - 2020
    He can deal with the actual tornado in Texas, but his ex-girlfriend’s secret? Not so much.Nash has had a terrible year after his wife’s tragic passing. He heard reports of an impending storm and thought it was a good idea to bring his new next door neighbour a care package only to discover a pleasant surprise. The woman living next-door is none other than his former love – the one that got away…Single mother, Sophia, has just moved to Texas. She had no idea that her ex-boyfriend owned the billion-dollar ranch next door. Seeing Nash Haven at her doorstep has brought back painful memories of their rocky breakup.It’s also reminded her of what was always inevitable. Her secret was going to come out one day. The secret about her two-year-old daughter. How can Nash forgive her when he finds out that that his own flesh and blood was kept from him? Will the truth destroy their second chance at love? Or will this family live happily ever after?

Save Her


Flora Burgos - 2017
     Katherine thought they had forever, but Sean was looking for a way out. The day of his high school graduation Sean left the girl he loved and the ranch he resented in his rearview mirror. Katherine was left to put the pieces of her shattered heart back together and figure out a new future. After making his mark on the world Sean has come back to the girl he left behind over a decade ago, and is looking for a way to make her his again. When tragedy rocks the very foundation of Katherine’s life, leaving her with a target on her back, Sean will do anything to keep her safe. But rebuilding the trust he once shared with Katherine isn’t easy, and he doesn’t realize he may have waited too long to come home to the only girl he’s ever loved. If he’s not careful, it may be too late to Save Her.

Rediscovering Peace (Military Love Vol. 1)


Steffy Rogers - 2015
    Each time has forced her to say goodbye more times than she can count. When her dad finally retires from the U.S. Army and they settle down in Savannah GA, she finds herself in the strong arms of Oliver Nelson. Skye finally has it all - a loving fiancé, the career of her dreams and friends she can always count on. But one day everything changes.After all that she has been through, will Skye be able to pick up the pieces and open up her heart again?Braden Parker has spent eight long years getting over the one that got away. Even being engaged to another woman couldn't keep the thoughts of Skye at bay. Just when he thought he will never see her again, fate brings her back into his life, but she is broken.Now that he has found her again can he convince her that their love is worth fighting for and that they can face their demons together?

An Old Flame


Raquel Belle - 2019
    The sound was smoky and alluring, but also commanding—like a teacher’s voice. I turned my head to see who was on stage, and my gut bottomed out. I felt as if a rod had just been thrown through me. It was Stephanie.      ***Seven years ago, Stephanie Renner was on top of the world. She was in her last year of college, she’d been dating her boyfriend for years…they were the ultimate couple and the envy of EVERYONE!The future looked so bright…it was blinding.She was in love…she was engaged...there was a plan…and everything was working out. What made it even better was that her boyfriend, Mark Mason had just gone with his two best friends to pitch their idea to some venture capitalists...AND THEY NAILED IT! Stephanie and Mark were going to be millionaires and she even graduated yet!That’s a heck of a start in life. But you know what the say about the best laid plans don’t you? While Mark is out of the state, celebrating with the boys, Stephanie discovers she is pregnant, but she doesn’t tell Mark.Well, on the other side of the country Mark screws up so bad, it’s on a level pursuant to the upper echelons of dumbassery. But that’s not the end of it….Things are complicated even more when, days later, the unspeakable happens with Stephanie.They had the promise of the perfect life…and it all ends in tears for both of them. Stephanie ghosts Mark and that’s the end of it. Or so she thinks…because fate…well, fate has different plans. Very different. Now…It’s seven years later. Mark Mason is a Billionaire. Stephanie Renner is a very successful teacher. When Mark attends a school’s fundraiser in lieu of his business partner and sees Stephanie on the podium, he knows beyond a shadow of all doubt that this is his second chance. He knows with every fiber of his being that Stephanie is the only woman for him…and for seven long years he’s been pining for her, he’s just not going to lose her twice. He won’t let it happen. He’s going to do anything and everything to reunite them. But it’s just not that easy. Will Mark manage to win back and mend the heart he once broke? Will Stephanie’s secret prove to be their undoing? Find out if destiny is all it’s cracked up to be in this brand new, riveting - second chance novel from Raquel Belle.

Roses in Winter: An Extraordinary Journey of Love


Leslie D. Stuart - 2011
    Riley Rosemont loved Savannah Graystone from the moment she was born. Loving her was his destiny. He always said that "Forever isn't Long Enough" for their love. Life in the icy northern Montana mountains is hard, but her love kept him strong. Riley always swore that someday he'd marry that beautiful talented woman. They would have a family. He vowed to listen to her play the piano until he was old and gray. But Life had other plans for Savannah. Her destiny was far away from Riley. She is a musical prodigy blessed with a photographic memory for music. At eighteen, she leaves Montana to share her music with the world. Fame and fortune come. She never stopped loving Riley. Savannah discovers she is pregnant with their son. But she and Riley are over. The baby was an accident. But not a mistake. Ryan Patrick becomes her world. They keep a video diary. Everyday she records something, talking to Riley as if he were simply away on a trip, showing him every precious moment of their son's life. She teaches Ryan to love his father. She hopes when the time is right, they can go home to Montana and be a family. That hope keeps her strong. But two precious moments steal everything good. Savannah Graystone is coming home. The music inside her heart is gone. She wants to curl up in a dark corner and fade away. Her will to live is gone. Snow is falling fast, bitter and cold from the oncoming blizzard. Her hand is on the door to Graystone Heights, her childhood home. The giant ski lodge high in the mountains has been deserted for years. It's a perfect place to let go. But behind her a dog growls. She isn't alone anymore. Graystone Heights is Riley's home now. He raises beautiful Spanish Andalusian horses, training them to dance for movies and show. Training is his gift, the reason he stayed in Montana. It is where he belongs. But Riley has kept a secret too. He knew about their son and chose to let Ryan live in Savannah's musical world, giving their talented son opportunities he couldn't have in the cold northern mountains. But hearts are broken, the good seems lost forever. All they have left are the movies she made, moments captured of a little boy's life. The video diary is precious. It is all Savannah can give Riley. They both made choices, things they regret. This is their second chance. Dangerously fevered, Savannah wants to give up. She is shattered inside. Can Riley save her? They need a miracle. This Special Publishers Edition on July 27, 2015 is dedicated to Taz. Once, I thought I knew how to love someone, but you hugged me tight and taught me I was wrong. In that moment I had barely begun to touch the depths of real love. I know love now. Mine belongs to you. LOVE IS WORTH THE JOURNEY. This is for everyone who has ever Loved, who lost their Heart along the Way, but hoped for Second Chances and had the Courage to Love again.