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Tree Climbing for Beginners
Joyia Marie - 2014
She is a creative woman, raised by creative women so of course when her husband came to her with a cliché’d situation, she figured it was time for a rewrite.When her husband came to her with the news he was cheating and leaving her for his new love, she flipped the script and got out the door before he could get the first piece of clothing in his suitcase. Leaving her husband, Harold, wondering… what just happened?If you want to know what happens, you’ll have to read the book. Tree Climbing for Beginners is a tale of what happens when life doesn’t go according to plan.
Wrecking Ball
B.N. Toler - 2014
A guy who didn’t believe in love at first sight, suddenly believed. A girl who believed a bad boy would always be bad, changed her mind. With Sophia by Brandon’s side, he knew he could conquer the world, and Sophia had never felt more loved or wanted in her life. They were good together.But even the strongest of foundations can be crumbled. Sometimes all it takes is one moment, fleeting as it may be, to crush what was once strong and indestructible, like a wrecking ball. Now Sophia has left and as she rediscovers herself, Brandon is left holding the shattered pieces of their lives, trying to figure out how to put them back together. He loves her.She loves him.All he needs now is to make her remember that.
Without You
Lindsay Detwiler - 2015
Rational, beautiful, and smart, she’s a successful businesswoman married to the sexy construction worker, Camden Landsen. After five long years with the man who stole her heart over a cup of coffee, there’s one major problem: the spark in their marriage has fizzled, and it might be gone for good. After turmoil with Camden explodes, Jenna leaves for an extended business trip to New York and decides to explore who she really wants to be. However, a major surprise makes her rethink everything she thought she knew about what she wants.Dreams require sacrifice.After college, the fearless Violet Streiff chased her dream of opening a bakery. Her career goals required sacrifice, especially when it came to love. Heartbroken after losing Liam Coffman, the charming finance major with dreams of his own, Violet’s not sure she’ll ever find love. With only her eighteen-pound cat, Bob, to keep her warm at night, she’s desperate to find Mr. Right and avoid being forever alone.Rules aren’t always meant to be broken.When a gorgeous yet heartbroken hunk named Camden wanders into the bakery, Vi’s convinced fate has delivered her Mr. Right—until she discovers that Camden’s married. As their friendship threatens to turn into something more, will Violet and Camden be able to ignore the spark between them, or will temptation lead them down a road of regrets? Two raw, realistic perspectives on love remind us that married or single, matters of the heart are never simple. This standalone romance is light on heat and heavy on angst with an HEA for both protagonists.
Saving Saffron Sweeting
Pauline Wiles - 2013
But her design business is floundering and when she discovers her husband is cheating with her best client, she panics and flees home to England.The tranquil village of Saffron Sweeting appears to be a good place for Grace to lick her wounds, but the community is battling its own changes. Reluctantly, Grace finds herself helping her new neighbours as they struggle to adjust and save their businesses. However, not everyone has the same opinion on what’s good for the village. The charismatic new man in her life may have one speculative eye on Grace, but the other is firmly on profit. How will she navigate the tricky path between her home and her happiness?With gentle humour and generous helpings of British tea and cake, Saving Saffron Sweeting explores one woman’s need to define herself through her career and community, before she can figure out who should be by her side.
One More Chance (Romeo Family Romance #11)
Jennifer Youngblood - 2021
They’ve raised a good, productive family and are looking forward to the time when they will have more grandchildren.Despite past indiscretions that broke apart their marriage, they’re in a good place now—they’re best friends. Do they dare reach for anything more?Things are about to get tricky when Birdie’s former boyfriend moves back to town and tries to win her back.Enjoy all the books in the Romeo Family Romance Series:One Perfect DayOne Way HomeOne Little SwitchOne Tiny LieOne Big MistakeOne Southern CowboyOne Singing BacheloretteOne Fake FiancéOne Silent NightOne Kick WonderOne More Chance
Defining Moments
Andee Michelle - 2016
Determined to make a new life on her own, Ellie sets out on new adventures to find herself and rediscover her happiness.Cord is a man broken by unthinkable loss and heartache. After vowing to make a life for himself that does not include opening his heart again, he is thrown into a tailspin when the beautiful Ellie, and her protective sons, crash into his life.Both have healing to do.Both have demons to face.Can they fix themselves before they destroy each other?
Hope Trilogy
Bink Cummings - 2019
You just make the best of it no matter what happens. That's pretty much been my go-to since infancy. Then the charming, bald headed, blue eyed, Brent came along and I thought all the suck in life had been flushed down the drain. Ha! That's when my true journey began--motherhood.This is my story, on how I took life by the go-nads when I decided I needed closure from my past--my father's sudden death in particular. But what happens next wasn't anything I expected... It's hopeless... shattering....exciting ... scary...joyful...priceless... and I owe it all to one man... Bear, a chapter president of the Sacred Sinners Motorcycle Club.-HOPEFUL WHISPERS-Pregnant- ✔Single mother of two - ✔Biker best friend - ✔Ex that's still a D-Bag - ✔ ✔New Years is the time for new beginnings. I thought I'd gotten that when I visited Texas over Thanksgiving. Then again, very little has changed. I'm still a librarian living in the same house. My daughters are growing up fast. Sure, I've acquired a new best friend, who's convinced me it's time to give dating fair shot. Which isn't exactly easy when I'm pregnant with an As*hole's baby. Does that complicate matters? Sorta. But there's nothing left for me to do except move on. The jagged edges of my shattered heart have been polished, questions answered, and blank holes from my past plugged. Now I'm ready to take the plunge into uncharted waters to build a happier life... until a bomb comes along and tests my strength like never before. Nobody fu*ks with my family and gets away with it. Not even you.-HOPELESSLY DEVOTED-Pregnant- ✔Deaths - ✔A Baby - ✔Stress that could make even the strongest woman crack - ✔ ✔A year ago if you told me I'd wind up where I am today, I'd have you committed for insanity. Now that I've opened Pandora's Box and survived more than most have in their lifetime, Death has knocked on our doorstep and welcomed himself inside. Learning that life isn't always fair comes at a price. The question is, how much do I have to pay before I get a real chance at happiness, or am I destined to be alone forever?Warning: Contains adult sexual content, the excessive use of the F-word, cheating, and whatever else that makes it unsuitable for anyone under the age of 18.COMPLETE TRILOGY
For Life
L.E. Chamberlin - 2015
Steadfast, sexy, and bold, Grady Mahoney walked into her world one night and claimed her for life. But after an unplanned college pregnancy and six years of struggling, their marriage fell apart. Now, despite sharing custody of their two children, they’ve barely spoken face-to-face in nearly eleven years.She’s managed to keep both Grady and her emotions at bay for over a decade, but when a family tragedy throws the two together, Cassie must face both the man she fell in love with and the demons that drove them apart. Grady makes it clear that he wants their family back together, but can Cassie’s heart afford to take a second chance on first love?
Queen Of My Heart
Jordan Silver - 2014
After subduing his enemies and conquering their lands, to make peace with the one remaining neighboring kingdom he has taken the only daughter of the king of that land. But lies and intrigue work to tear them apart. After long nights spent getting to know his beautiful young queen her secrets are discovered and in his anger he banishes her from his lands. But now new evidence has come to light that may prove her innocence, can the young king who's spent his life on the matters of war woo her heart back? Or will she deny them both the love that had only begun to blossom before it was threatened?
Tiny Threads
Jami Denise - 2016
That was until the heels on her glass slippers snapped and left her tumbling down to reality.But knights in shining armor tend to tarnish after twenty years, and she’s far from the wide-eyed princess she’d once been. Four kids, money problems and a crumbling marriage tend to wipe away all the shiny and bright and bring on the reality of broken dreams. Royal Grainger knows he’s a lucky man—in theory. His wife is caring and beautiful, he has four amazing kids and his own business, and yet, he’s miserable. He’s detached, tired, and dissatisfied. No matter what he does, it’s not enough—for anyone. The Grainger’s know they’re treading in the deep end, and they have to work together to push through the pain, the hurt, and the monotony of a long stale marriage to reconnect again. A marriage once full of passion and consideration, becomes one full of bitterness and resentment. The past comes back to haunt them in a way they never imagined and their happily ever after becomes a battle. Whatever it takes. The stakes are too high to let go, and for each other, they’ll walk through fire.
Forgotten Sweethearts
Melissa Bender - 2014
on the outside everything looks perfect.. What happens behind closed doors?They fight. They yell and scream. There's insults, and accusations of cheating thrown around. Separate rooms and ignoring each other. It's constant bickering. They've grown apart and realised that true love doesn't always keep people together. He's cold and arrogant, and she's a hot blooded Italian.Fed up.. no longer willing to fight, they assume there's only way one to end it all.. Divorce is the only option, and for someone to move out.That was the plan until a surprise holiday is sprung on them and they have to keep their act up for a little while longer.. Until they realise that they're not faking it at all.. they're doing everything they never used to, from talking and making the effort...Finally, they realise that.. they've started to fall in love all over again.
All We Have Lost
Aimee Alexander - 2003
In private, Kim dreams of writing 'the great novel' and spending more time with her young family. Then, one day, she does it. She folds her business to follow her dream. Only to discover that the 'great novel' is, in fact, a great struggle. Life as a domestic goddess has (many) hidden challenges. And her relationship with her husband, Ian, is losing equilibrium. As the perfect life Kim has built for herself starts to crumble comes the revelation that will make her doubt everything she had taken for granted...
An Absent Wife
Camille Oster - 2013
The death of the wife he'd ignored for close to a decade was a downright nuisance, making him further fodder for the gossips, and now a target for every designing matron in London. In line with her consistent talent for being disagreeable, Lady Adele Warburton had run off with a lowly lieutenant, leaving safety and respectability behind, then died in a cholera epidemic in a far flung country. In a last show of husbandly duty, Lysander decides to recover her effects, and grudgingly those of her lover, retracing the steps of the wife he'd barely known across half the world. But arriving in the mayhem of India, he finds that all is not as it should be.
Lady Gallant
Suzanne Robinson - 1991
A daring spy in Queen Mary's court, she risked her life to rescue the innocent from a terrible fate. Yet it was Nora who needed rescuing when cutthroats attacked her--and when Christian de Rivers, a lusty, sword-wielding rogue, swept her out of harm's way ... and into his arms.A BOLD ADVENTURERAs magnificent and mesmerizing as a hawk, Christian both frightened and excited Nora, even as he pursued her with a single-minded passion that left her longing to be caught. Yet soon she would discover that she had reason to be frightened. For the dashing nobleman had his own secrets to keep, his own enemies to rout--and his own brand of vengeance for a wide-eyed beauty whom he loved only too well....
Raven's Climb
Tiffany Casper - 2021
No, I could hold a mean grudge, and that was what I had been doing for going on seven years. And I didn’t see that stopping any time soon.Why oh why in all of the hospitals in all of the United States, had this job been the only one available for me to take?Seven years ago something vile and despicable had ruined me. I was never the same woman after that night. And now, here I was, seven years later back in the town that I hated. I hated the people that lived here. Well, that wasn’t the truth, no I just hated one person that lived here and if I could continue to never see his face again, that would be perfect for me.However, things we want don’t always happen.No, sometimes things go to hell and a handbasket within the span of thirty seconds.Only that wasn’t the case. No, it was far from it.Seven years ago, Cam had made a decision to trust a lying cheating whore. That was his mistake. Not mine. My only mistake in life was running away and not paying attention to my surroundings.However, I can’t say that I had made a mistake because what I was left within that aftermath was my greatest treasure. My divine gift.Would Cam try his hardest to get me to forgive him? Or would he simply give up and walk away again?Guaranteed HEA. No Cheating. Mild Sex Scenes. No Cliffhanger.