Family Drama

It’s Memorial Day weekend, the annual kickoff to summer for the Lancaster sisters. But the festivities take a deep dive when a mysterious boating accident occurs off their seaside town, sparking questions about how well the sisters know their neighbors—and each other.

LYRICS EDITION: Features all-new original lyrics and music from the Wynter Wild series “Gripping. Heart-felt… intriguing and captivating” - Goodreads reviewer No secrets, no lies. Wynter finally has the home she always dreamed of when Caleb buys a ramshackle farmhouse on the mountain. With Jesse to guide her at every step (even when she’d rather he didn’t), she has her first boyfriend, her first job, and a new band at school. But one of her brothers is hiding a shameful secret. Just when her hopes of a united family seem possible… he’s gone. And one by one, her successes are ...

Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together—at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into a seventy-year marriage and a life on a farm on Bainbridge Island with their hens and beloved Labrador, Megs. Through the years, the Winters have fallen in and out of lockstep, and from their haunting losses and guarded secrets, a dependable partnership has been forged.

He's a man with a mission to get back his parents legacy. She's a physical therapist with a heart of gold. In a world of power plays and family secrets, their forbidden love could cost them everything... Ryan Blackwood has it all—wealth, power, and a family name that opens every door. But beneath the polished facade lies a man determined to reclaim his father's stolen legacy, even if it means going to war with his own grandfather. When a devastating injury forces him to seek help from small-town physical therapist Lilly Gaines, he never expects to find something worth more than his ...

When Nova Doubeck is asked to foster two children, she can’t say no. With her own childhood wounds healed by adoptive parents, Nova understands the rewards of a caring guardian—even an impermanent one. But nine-year-old Henry and his seven-year-old sister, Bella, are more than Nova bargained for.

Best friends Lily and Inga do everything together—they even meet their future loves at the same bar. After one serendipitous night, it seems like it’s going to be Lily and Alex and Inga and Matt forever. But life gets more complicated. A job offer moves Inga and Matt from Norwich to London. Lily, who craves stability after a traumatic childhood, is already struggling with the change when Inga confides in her a secret that could tear the group apart for good. At the same time, Lily’s friendship with Matt deepens, and she wonders if she was always meant to be with him instead of Alex.

“Soul Skin’ can best be described as bliss in literary form—it is a mind-bending, sweeping story of impossible journeys made so believable by Jan’s incredible literary talent.” - New York Book Pundit Reader's Favorite Book Award and Bookworks Book of the Week Award "Soul Skin Woman have you had enough?" is an exceptional, inspiring book with an important message and deep meaning." - NY Literary Magazine Woman have you had enough? An inspiring tale of hardship, wisdom and discovery, Soul Skin is a celebration of those of us who do not fit into ‘normal’. Deeply moving, Soul Skin...

Things get complicated when your teenage crush is now running your family ranch and suddenly you’re his boss. Paige fought to get her Montana ranch back. Now that she’s won the court case, she’s spending the summer at the ranch to fix it up and sell it. She and her sisters need the money. It’s heartbreaking, but it has to be done. Jake has been around since before her father died and he has dreams of owning a ranch just like Twisted Rivers. If he could only raise enough money to afford this one now that it would be for sale, his dream would become reality. When Paige shows up, he ...

In the heart of the untamed west, redemption rides in on the hooves of a once-lost cowboy...Blake Broderick, the renegade of the range, has always danced on the edge of trouble. But now, banished from the Double Horseshoe Ranch, he returns for a second chance, and a transformation that defies belief. Gone is the brash antihero, replaced by a man fueled by a mysterious newfound purpose. Who or what could have tamed this wild heart? Join us for the latest installment in the Unbridled Hearts saga, where the line between outlaw and hero blurs against the rugged backdrop of the Montana prairie. ...

Though Diane Randall’s jewelry business is a great success, her marriage is not, and she finds herself growing lonely as her children near adulthood. Meanwhile, her eighteen-year-old daughter Julia is falling dangerously in love, and Diane’s mother, Jean, is relishing her newfound freedom as a single woman in Europe. Distracted by their individual concerns, the three women are ill-prepared for the crisis that suddenly appears on Diane’s doorstep in the form of a handsome FBI agent asking about an explosive secret that’s laid buried for decades.

In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she’s attending Yale Law School, and she’s on the forefront of student activism and the women’s rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome, charismatic southerner and fellow law student, Bill is already planning his political career. In each other, the two find a profound intellectual, emotional, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced.

Craig Finnigan is determined to finish his book this summer, but being an aspiring writer while wrangling his seven-year-old daughter is not easy. So when Alice makes fast friends with a neighborhood boy, Levi, Craig is happy she has a distraction from her constant visits to his home office. But that happiness soon turns to misgivings as Levi’s behavior evolves from that of a shy, odd boy into something far more disturbing.

Filmmaker Tessa Shepherd helped free a man she believed was wrongly imprisoned for murder. When he kills again, Tessa’s life is upended. She’s reeling with guilt, her reputation destroyed. Worse, Tessa’s mother has unexpectedly passed away, and her sister, Margot, turns on her after tensions from their past escalate. Hounded by a bullying press, Tessa needs an escape. That’s when she learns of a strange inheritance bequeathed by her mother: a derelict and isolated estate known as Fallbrook. It seems like the perfect refuge.

Billings, Montana. That's my new home, and it's not nearly as bad as I assumed it would be when Angelo insisted that we move here. I actually rather love it. My family has been incredibly blessed for coming here. The restaurant is doing incredibly well, better than we could have ever imagined. Almost all of my siblings and my aunt all found their special someone here. They're all making me lots of nipoti, and I love it so much. Well, Zia Emilia obviously isn't. She still isn't married to Tanner yet. I don't know what they're waiting for. It's been almost a year that they've been dating. But...

"The characters were fully-fleshed out, and each of the relationships felt authentic and unique and flawed, and that to me was the strongest part of the story. Highly recommend!" (5 stars) Eliza Brown--Goodreads; Indie Book Reviewers Independent, thirty-something Kallie Molloy enjoys a nice life in sunny San Diego, California, but when her world begins to unravel quickly and very unexpectedly, she's left flailing. Out of the blue, an old contact reaches out with an unlikely job offer from a professional soccer club in Minnesota. It stirs up some old emotions, and moving halfway across ...

As I claim my dream as a chef, my old flame returns to claim me. How can he possibly be my missing ingredient? STELLA: I’ve worked my entire life to become the executive chef of my family’s fabled restaurant. But my world crumbles when Aiden Mitchell, no longer an awkward boy but now a gorgeous small-town doctor, returns. Our paths collide during a mortifying encounter in his clinic. My first love, the man who left without a backward glance, tries to assure me he’s changed. As our cautious trust becomes pulsing heat, mysteries start unraveling, tossing family strife into my carefully ...

Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. Three Junes "almost threatens to burst with all the life it contains...extraordinary," says Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.

RECIPIENT OF MAXY AWARD FOR BEST LITERARY FICTION AND READERS' FAVORITE AWARD FOR WOMEN'S FICTION When Callie MacCallum sews her first quilt after the death of her lover Jack Sebring, she doesn’t realize she’ll be drawn into a Sebring family battle between wife and daughter-in-law. She simply wants to fulfill her promise to Jack to visit their cabin in the West Virginia mountains, where their long love affair was safely hidden. Instead, her emotionally reminiscent trip becomes crowded with the two Sebring women, a grief counselor, and the massive role Callie assumes. She must speak for ...

Mail order bride books about women venturing out West to make new lives for themselves. What happens when they decide to take a chance on love along the way? Mail Order Mix-Up Books 1-3 Mail Order Misfit Mail Order Misstep Mail Order Miscast *This book was previously published by my Jenna Brandt pen name under the Border Brides series and has since been republished under my Jennifer Branson pen name under the Second Chance Brides of the Old West.

Elise Thornton's life revolves around the quiet sanctuary of her dressage farm, built on integrity and the trust of her horses. But when escalating costs threaten her life's work, a lavish offer from a powerful, ambitious family seems like a lifeline. Their price? Train their daughter, Brianna, on Breathless Wonder—a horse as stunning as he is dangerously unpredictable. Caught between desperately needed funds and compromising her core principles of safety, Elise accepts, determined to find a way to make it work. But the arrival of the wealthy Perkins family and their volatile equine ...