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The Lodger
Joanne Ryan - 2022
What could be better, she reasons, than having a lodger who she already knows instead of a total stranger. As they rekindle their friendship, Gina recalls the long ago summer when they spent every day together. Gina believed then that they’d be best friends forever.But Lissa thought differently.With the benefit of hindsight, Gina now realises that Lissa unfriended her in the most brutal way possible. With a growing awareness that Lissa might not be the perfect person she always believed her to be, she’s beginning to wonder if she can even trust her. Because what Lissa wants, Lissa gets. Has she made a mistake by asking Lissa to move in? She thinks that maybe she has, but Lissa makes no secret of the fact that she has no intention of going anywhere....
Child Bride
Jennifer Smith Turner - 2021
She is fascinated with the prospect of being an independent person—but when she turns sixteen, she is married off and brought to the city of Boston as a bride. Nell is a shy girl who must quickly learn how to be a wife and mother. She quickly discovers that she must acquire new skills to navigate the unknown territory of the North, as well as her relationship with her husband, Henry, who is controlling and emotionally abusive. After giving birth to three children, her body begins to fail her and Henry, concerned for her health, pulls away from her physically. But this void of intimacy drives Nell into the arms of another man.It’s through her encounter with Charles in the church kitchen, at the point when she is most vulnerable, that Nell finds escape from her depressed life with Henry. The cost though, is another pregnancy. When Charles finds out the baby is his, at first it appears he plans to leave Nell; ultimately, however, his love for her brings him back.
What Kind of Fool
Rhonda McKnight - 2012
She's forgiven him for his affair, but she won't forget, even though her heart is telling her to. Shortly after she files divorce papers, she finds out her non-profit organization is being investigated by the IRS for money laundering. In the midst of the very public scandal, Angelina becomes ill. Through financial and physical trials, she learns that faith and forgiveness may really be the cure for all that ails her, but can she forgive the people who hurt her most?Sexy, successful Dr. Gregory Preston didn't appreciate his wife when he had her. His affair with a devious man-stealer has him put out of his home and put off with women who continue to throw themselves at him. Greg wants his wife back, but he'll have to do some fancy operating to get her. When the secrets and lies from his past continue to mess up his future, Greg finds himself looking to the God he abandoned long ago for a miracle only faith can provide.Samaria Jacobs finally has the one thing she's always wanted: a man with money. The fact that she's in love with him is a bonus, but even so, life is anything but blissful. She's paying for her past sins in ways she never imagined and living in fear that the secret she's keeping will separate them forever.
The Circle: Dayvid
Ty Marshall - 2014
After years of terrorizing the streets of Baltimore through murder, armed robbery and extortion and frustrating every law enforcement agency in and around the state of Maryland. Dayvid and his infamous band of siblings are on the verge of accomplishing what so many before them had failed to do…retire on their own terms, at the top of their game. But as with most things in the life, nothing goes as planned, when ATF raids their safe house following their final heist. After escaping the Solitary Housing Unit of a federal prison and a for certain death penalty. Dayvid is offered an unimpeded fresh start from an unlikely ally but spurns the opportunity when it is told to him that the woman he loves could not be included. Returning to Baltimore he discovers that his woman and his money have gone missing. In his search to recover them both David learns the old adage that No man can serve two masters, when he is forced to choose between love and money. Follow Dayvid’s journey to be reunited with his siblings in this fast paced, action packed, gangster love story.