Family Drama

As little more than a child herself, Jessica Cole is forced to take on the responsibility of running the family home and being the main carer for her younger brother, Cal. Their mother, Jocelyn, is cold and emotionless - little more than a stranger to her children. Jessica’ s only real source of support, is long term family friend Uncle Jim, who works on their rural property. As the burden becomes increasingly too much to bear, Jessica dreams of moving away and, when older, she finally achieves her ambition, reluctantly leaving her beloved brother behind and moving to the city. Jessica ...

This sequel to James P. O’Mealia’s Fiasco combines financial intrigue with personal crisis to create a tense thriller about a friendship that runs bone deep. The relationship between Roger Maydock and Thomas Morris has been fraught with conflict since their prep school days, when they were caught smoking marijuana in their dorm room. Roger fell on his sword for Thomas and was subsequently expelled. Thomas has never gotten over his guilt about what happened. He feels driven to help Roger whenever his friend gets into trouble. In Fiasco, that meant trying to fix one of Roger’s troubled ...

It’s the worst possible time for Detective Kerri Devlin to be involved in an all-consuming double-homicide case. She’s locked in a bitter struggle with her ex-husband and teenage daughter, and her reckless new partner is anything but trustworthy. Still, she has a job to do: There’s a killer at large, and a pregnant woman has gone missing. Once Devlin and her partner get to work, they quickly unearth secrets involving Birmingham’s most esteemed citizens. Each new layer of the investigation brings Devlin closer to the killer and the missing woman.

Zombies. A Daring Rescue. Love? Suffering from PTSD after being shot while witnessing her mother’s murder as a child, Hope has spent her life hiding from memories and shadows as an inpatient in a clinic. When her doctor plans a day of exposure therapy with a young man, Elijah, it was only supposed to be pizza and milk shakes in the rec room. A test to see if she was ready to attend her brother’s tenth birthday. None of them expect the day to unravel into a zombie outbreak. Even more terrifying than her thoughts and the dead chasing her with equal vigor is the way Elijah makes her feel. ...

Family…however close or distantly connected…is still family. And no one knows that better than the many members of the McAdams family. Few understand the vast implications that come with a large extended family as Drew McAdams does…and especially now. His brothers and sisters are also beginning to understand just how complicated it can be now that the four of them are responsible for the equally vast and extensive McAdams Trust. The headaches have only just begun. Life as they knew it will never be the same. Drew McAdams strongly suspects that if another call or message comes into his...

Lights, camera… chaos. Reality TV has arrived on Christmas Key, and Holly Baxter is feeling the heat. Mayor Holly thought she’d seen it all—snowmen made of sand, glitter-covered golf cart parades, and enough retiree drama to last a lifetime. But when the hit reality show Wild Tropics rolls onto the island just in time for a Halloween heatwave, things go from festive to frenzied in a flash. Now she’s juggling: An election challenge that’s heating up faster than a Florida fall A town full of residents who aren’t thrilled about being on camera A surprise visit from River O’Leary...

Survivor is a true story about a girl growing up not knowing how to defend herself against the abuse in her life. Her parents never seem to care about her. After escaping death, she runs into the arms of her soon-to-be husband arms who also never seems to care about her. Getting unintentionally pregnant saved her life because now she had to learn to fight back to defend her children. As if history repeated itself, years later it was her child who didn't want to live anymore. Now it was her job to keep him alive. This intense novel is about a family drama in a small town behind closed doors...

A Mystery Book set in rural England during the late 19th century. "The Sin of Silence" weaves a captivating tale of village life centered around Parker Hall Farm in rural England. The narrative ignites with the leasing of Parker Hall Farm to the enigmatic Mr. Williams, leaving local farmer John Servideo's aspirations thwarted. The plot thickens with the arrival of Olivia Williams and her maid, Lucy, as they find themselves braving a cold reception and the village's dormant secrets. The Williams family’s arrival is marked by an overturned cab, a dilapidated farmhouse, and an unwelcome ...

Based on historical facts, our story begins in the Fall of 1723 in Dover, NH. That September dsy Tamsen’s world is shattered and turned upside down when her husband is killed and two of her children are abducted by an Abenaki raiding party. Now a widow, she is courted by two men. She refuses the rich and vain Thomas Waldron, who vows revenge. John, the other suitor, proposes as Waldron buys her farm and sets to drive Tamsen and her seven other children from the colony. Her resourceful daughter, Rachel, taken by the Abenaki, saves a warrior’s life, learns Abenaki, is taught Indian ...

When her nineteen-year marriage ends, stay-at-home mom Effie Baker takes the first step into her new life with an extreme makeover. She assumes she’ll wake up with a renewed sense of confidence, not a vision of country music icon Patsy Cline telling her she needs to “set things right.” But like everything else lately, the last thing Effie expected is exactly what she gets.

Most men barely survive one mother, but Terrance Ellis has three: his aunts. His grandmother Essie's sisters - Eva, Dorothy Mae, and Mamie - lovingly raised him after Essie died in a tragic accident. They made sure that troubled young Terrance got on the right path and made something of his life. And now that he's all grown up and the rising pastor of Houston's Lily Grove church, the endlessly argumentative sisters agree on one thing: Terrance needs to find a wife.

One weekend. One fake relationship. One very real problem... Willow Von Bates has a plan: show up to her family’s Cotswolds getaway with a hot, doting boyfriend and finally get her snobby parents off her back. Enter Francesco Santoro—Italian billionaire, serial heartbreaker, and her oldest (and mostly harmless) friend. It’s all supposed to be fake. Emphasis on supposed to be. They’ve been strictly platonic for years—except for that one drunken night they definitely don’t talk about. But now they’re playing couple in close quarters, sharing a cozy fire-lit room, fake kisses, ...

Kit has finally returned to Willow Bough. Liam can’t wait to leave. Again.When Kit Mansfield returns to her hometown to settle the estate of her great-aunt Gertrude, she's faced with more than just the grief of losing her beloved relative. Through a series of letters her great-aunt left behind, Kit finds herself drawn into the charming Willow Bough community and the intriguing world of the Prodigal Brothers, a local biker ministry. It's there that she meets the handsome Englishman Liam Fletcher, who captures her heart from their very first encounter. As Kit unravels the mysteries of her ...

Memoir. Originally published in 2011 by Grand Central Publishing "An indie movie in print." In this bestselling memoir, NYT bestselling author Anne Frasier (The Body Reader, Play Dead) shares the deeply moving and personal story of her years on an apple farm. The Orchard is the story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the golden boy of a prominent local family whose lives and orchards seem to be cursed. Married after only three months, young Anne finds life with Adrian on the farm far more difficult and ...

A loss. A heartbreak. A family reunited. Leanne, burdened by the heartbreak of her child's abduction four years ago, finds solace in fostering children, extending her love and support to other struggling mothers. She yearns to make a difference while shielding her fragile heart from further pain. But when she receives astonishing news – the discovery of her long-lost child – her world is turned upside down in an instant. Filled with a mix of emotions, Leanne's initial joy soon gives way to bewilderment and apprehension. Where has her child been all this time? Why is the truth being ...

To escape their griping grown children, husbands, and lovers, and an abundance of grandchildren underfoot, three self-proclaimed "old bags", Dania, Ruth, and Bess, head for a quiet island on the Aegean Sea. They'll spend a year by the water - watching the sunset, eating grilled fish and fresh olives, sipping ouzo. They deserve it, they say. After all those years, the three women will finally have some peace. Except they can't.

From the bestselling author of The Lakewood Series comes a haunting and moving story of different kinds of love. Already a bestseller in German, Because You're the Love of My Life is now being published in English. How do you recognize the love of your life? Do you have butterflies in your stomach? Do you see showers of sparks and fireworks as soon as he steps into the room? Or, is your big love composed of something quieter? Annie longs for nothing more in her life than someone to love her with his whole heart. With Holden, this wish seems fulfilled, and the two build their own world. ...

For one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal." To all appearances, he and his family lived an almost idyllic life. The father was a respected professor, the mother a witty and elegant lady, someone everyone loved. They were parents to three bright, smiling children: two boys and a girl. They lived on a sunny street in a small college town nestled neatly in a leafy valley. They gave parties, hosted picnics, went to church - just like their neighbors. To all appearances, their life seemed ideal. But it was, in fact, all appearances.

Book 1 of 4 Parenthood. A momentous occasion which garners joy, unconditional love, and sleepless nights. There is nothing in the world to fully prepare new parents for the responsibility of a new, little life. But, not every birth is joyous or easy. There is a fine line between beautiful life and untimely death during the delicate process. For Simon Gabot, his joy was taken as his wife, Emily, took her last breath giving birth to their son. What should’ve been tears of happiness were replaced with mourning. Down the hall, giving birth to her daughter, was Cherish Montgomery. She watched ...

The Coastguard's House Darling Island BOXED SET. (BOOKS 1 - 3) BOOK ONE - The Coastguard's House Darling Island Lucie Peachtree is living her (nearly) best life as she prepares to pack up her house to move to the country with her ever-so-handsome, teenage heartthrob boyfriend turned partner, Rob. Rob, unfortunately, forgets to mention that while Lucie was selling their house, trying to get pregnant and was doing all the things, had secured himself another life, thank-you-very-much. A life complete with a twenty-four-year-old very much pregnant work colleague and not including Lucie in any ...