And when they do, chaos ensues. But the mothers of Clear Creek are growing desperate. Many have unmarried daughters and sons and niether seem interested in the other! What's the matter with the young folks in town? Aren't they interested in marriage? Come to find out they're interested all right, just not in anyone from Clear Creek. But as there's no such thing as mail-order husbands, the young women, some of which are already considered spinsters, are going to have to take a second look at what's available in their hometown. The question is, how to get them to look. Can Leona and Betsy make them see reason, let alone the men? Find out in this hilarious new series of sweet, clean, western romances.Adele Cooke has a list. A really long list of what she wants in a man. Unfortunately for her, none of the men in Clear Creek meet all the criteria. So, she decides to wait and see if one comes along that does. She's been waiting for years.Liam White has a college education and plans to use it. But there's not much use for an Engineering degree in his tiny hometown. Besides, he'd like to start a family and there are no prospects in Clear Creek. All the available young ladies he knows too well. After all, he grew up with them. He wants to meet someone new, see new places and meet new people. If he stays in Clear Creek, he'll never get the chance. But when two matrons from Nowhere in the Washington Territory come to town, they have other ideas ...

    You'll laugh and cry, but not be able to put it down as Julie's trademark humour shines through from beginning to end' Cassam Book Blog'This is one of those novels that makes you want to read "just one more chapter" before you turn out the light, and that chapter turns into several more ' Big Bertha, Amazon Top 500 Reviewer'I became so engrossed in this story I couldn't stop - kept going for just another chapter, and another, until I'd read straight through to the end. I loved it - the magic five for me, a wonderful read and one to keep for rereading' Jeannie Zelos Book Reviews'An absolutely briliant read. This will definitely be a book to look out for in 2016 and I, for one, will be recommending it at every opportunity' I Love Smart BooksClementine needs to find Lucy before it's all too late. She also knows bringing up a child on your own down on Emerald Street where the street walkers ply their trade isn't easy, even when your daughter's as adorable as four-year-old Allegra. So when Peter Broadbent, wealthy, kind and possessed of the most beautiful house Clementine has ever seen, proposes, it seems almost too good to be true. It is...

    You do not have to read it to enjoy this story & if you enjoy this can go back and see how it all began.It’s how it ends that’s undecided!

    Always a spirited and curious young woman, when she is warned to stay away from the mysterious neighbor Ruby is too intrigued to listen. People turned their backs on Aaron after they discovered his secret. Years of isolation have made him cold and bitter. When the beautiful and lively Ruby barges her way into his life Aaron is stunned and a little angry. But, Ruby can see the lonely man Aaron has become. With a good heart, she wants to understand and to help, maybe becoming his friend is a start. As Ruby gets to know Aaron the more positive she is that the town has shunned a good man. She wants to help him, but the unthinkable happens, his secret is revealed. Can Ruby accept the man she had started to love or will the town tear them apart?

    Their seafront business is failing with the loss of Genie’s grandmother and her legendary ice cream flavours. Genie is determined to be the one to save her family’s heritage, but suddenly her mother wants to sell to developers and leave their shared history behind.Buying the business and taking on a sixty-eight year old business partner, Ada, with a mysterious past and a gorgeous but distracting grandson, Genie sets out to prove her parents wrong.Ada’s grandson, Cal, wants to protect his gran from ‘pensioner persuader’, Genie, but soon realises that living in a little seaside town and away from the paparazzi in Hollywood can actually give him time to heal. Hiding in a seafront business with its fiery owner and working as kitchen staff, is the only way he can think of to keep his ex-Hollywood glamour-puss, gran from harm. But his meddling might also ruin Ada's second chance at love. Hiring a private detective and learning about Genie’s parent’s past makes Cal regret his own impulsiveness. The information he has unearthed could destroy their blossoming romance and turn Genie’s world upside down.Genie soon discovers that friends can become enemies and your closest family can have lied to you for your whole life.

    After all, who wouldn’t love to spend a few days in a sun-filled tropical paradise surrounded by golden sands, swaying palm trees, and the gentle waft of jasmine and coconut oil floating on the breeze?With handsome wedding columnist-cum-TV scriptwriter Theo Barker at her side, and quirky florist Jasper Curtis along for the ride, she’s even more determined than ever to deliver the glamorous celebration the bride and groom have been hoping for; no mechanical mice running around the pretty wedding gazebo, no whoopee cushions hidden under the ribbon-bedecked chairs, and no rampant hosepipes providing the unsuspecting guests with an impromptu shower.But this is The Cornish Confetti Agency, and the words ‘plain-sailing’ and ‘hassle-free’ do not feature in the promotional brochure. So, when Lexie discovers the bride’s mother – celebrity chef and owner of the prestigious Mango Tree Cookery School, Brigette Blake – is being targeted by a series of practical jokes, she must once again don her metaphorical deerstalker and unravel the mystery before the wedding dissolves into Caribbean-themed chaos and calamity.A perfect beachside wedding?Is there such a thing for The Cornish Confetti Agency?

    The Mafia is after her.When her old car breaks down and explodes at the foot of Fate's Peak, Daphne's at the end of her rope. With the last of her strength and money, she applies for a job as a nanny.Erik Sorensen hates Christmas. As the dragon chief of the Fate's Peak Fire Crew, he takes pride in his job. That didn't prepare him for the squirming surprise on the doorstep of his firehouse. With one whiff, Erik knows the baby is his. Now he'll do anything to protect him.When Daphne shows up at Erik's door for the nanny job, he begins to believe that fate has something new in store for him this Christmas.Daphne is surprised when Erik tells her she's his mate. She loves taking care of baby Hagen. Erik's son is the sweetest. Eric is sweet with both of them.Erik makes Daphne believe they could have a safe and loving life together. Too bad the truth of her past could ruin everything.Finding love at Christmas is an easy choice. If the past doesn't come back to haunt them.

    

    She's a broken-hearted city slicker seeking refuge. Can rancher Rhett Montgomery overcome his bitterness and loss for a second chance at love?When Danielle Roberts discovers her husband of three years is cheating on her, her life falls apart. On a whim, she retreats to the small town of Cedar Falls, freshly divorced, and hoping to lick her wounds at Montana Wilds Ranch Resort.Rhett Montgomery works himself to the bone, burying the sorrow of his past in his business and avoiding his sister's attempts at pushing him back into the dating pool. So when one of his ranch hands is injured and a long term visitor with clear blue eyes and long dark hair offers to take his place, he refuses her help. But his sister intervenes, and before he knows it, he's stuck with a female ranch hand.Why does he have a feeling this is just another one of her set-ups?Too bad he'll have to squash any hopes of a blooming romance between him and the newcomer.Yet somehow, the more he pushes Danny away, the more she softens his heart of stone.

    The mother she's resented for over twenty years. A return to Martha's Vineyard, where healing can finally begin.Janine Potter grew up on the other side of the tracks. Her mother, Nancy, struggled with just about everything: alcohol, men, money -- and Janine made a pledge to herself that she would never be like her.At age nineteen, Janine met Jack Potter, the son of an oil tycoon, and never looked back. Her life became a series of cocktail parties and multi-million-dollar apartments all across the world and rubbing elbows with celebrities. Slowly, memory of her mother faded -- although the trauma never really did.Fast-forward to the present. Janine is forty-three, with two beautiful daughters, a perfect apartment, a handsome husband who betrays her beyond her wildest dreams.Soon, Janine is cast out from her picture-perfect life. She has nothing.Her mother, Nancy, who's gone through trials and triumphs of her own over the previous twenty years, sees Janine's very public devastation as an opportunity to reach out to the daughter she's missed so desperately over the years."Come to Martha's Vineyard. Return to me. Let's heal together, after the shared trauma of our past."Janine has nowhere else to turn. For the first time in twenty-five years, her mother is her only answer.But the world that awaits her on Martha's Vineyard is beyond her wildest dreams. There are new friends, two step-sisters, beautiful ocean waters, and even a potential love interest -- a summer she'll never forget.Can Janine and her mother find a way to heal the wounds of their past? Can Janine overcome the ultimate betrayal?Dive into book one of The Katama Bay Series -- a heartwarming journey of motherly and sisterly love, healing, and promise for better days, all on the island of Martha's Vineyard, with its gorgeous ocean views, its endless summer days, and its bubbly cast of islanders.For fans of Susan Mallery, Jill Shalvis, and Debbie Macomber.

    That is until Penny showed up in Pine Springs. His best friend’s sister captivates him more than he’d thought possible and she’s definitely off limits.And to make her even more intriguing, Penny is hiding something…Penny’s painful past has followed her to Pine Springs. Her ex-husband has moved back into town. He wants her back, but there’s a problem, she only has eyes for Blake. Penny is now stuck between her hurtful past and her forbidden future.Blake wants the only thing she cant give him. More children. And Penny wants something that could be even harder to get - Her brother’s acceptance. Their love is forbidden and ridden with secrets, but could destiny assist them in their happily ever after?

    

    

    

    When his assistant shows up unannounced and tells him to get his head back in the game, she has no idea how her presence, and his mounting attraction to her, affects him—in the most terrifying and scintillating way.