Family Drama

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.

Sports fans see Joe Buck everywhere: broadcasting one of the biggest games in the NFL every week, calling the World Series every year, announcing the Super Bowl every three years. They know his father, Jack Buck, is a broadcasting legend and that he was beloved in his adopted hometown of St. Louis. Yet they have no idea who Joe really is. Or how he got here. In Lucky Bastard, Joe takes the listener into the broadcast booth and into his childhood home. Hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking, this is a book that any sports fan will love.

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.

Fighting for his country was nothing in comparison to fighting for her heart. Piper: I found herself isolated on a tranquil tropical paradise, relishing in the solitude that surrounded me. However, my sense of tranquility was abruptly shattered when the man who had once granted me a fleeting night of passion and subsequently shattered my heart made an unexpected entrance. Doubt and skepticism clouded my thoughts as I grappled with the idea of trusting him again. The question lingers, is he worth risking vulnerability once more? Tyler: Once, I held Piper in my arms, the memory of that moment...

Good luck comes in threes, so they say. Only in the case of Jenny Allerton and her family - it was bad luck. Heartbreak, threats and financial disasters all struck at once. When an easy solution to the family’s financial problems turns up from a mysterious and unexpected source, Jenny’s parents are faced with a difficult moral dilemma – should they go to the police or accept and enjoy what fate has put in their path? Funny Goings On in Sandlebury Bay is written in our usual light-hearted, not to be taken too seriously, tongue in cheek, heart-warming, feel good, style. We hope you ...

Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. All that’s missing is a child. When Janie, an abandoned six-year-old, turns up at their hospital, Christopher forms an instant connection with her, and he convinces Hannah they should take her home as their own.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bachelor’s life… Because of a not-so-happy childhood, Logan McCall never wanted kids. His sister’s dying wish was that he raise her twin girls. Paralyzed by grief, Logan turns the girls over to their deadbeat dad. He’s regretted that decision ever since, but what can he do? They’re gone. A nanny with dreams… Nanny Thea Gayle is just trying to make ends meet while she works on her PhD. When her employer goes missing and the only family member she can find is the twins’ Uncle Logan, she takes the girls from Seattle to Silver Bend, Idaho. But once there, she’s not sure Logan ...

“…a twisted, fast-paced story of deception and intrigue, which proves both creative and unique.” — BookLife Prize They're Gone, But I'm Still Here Mandy’s life has become a complex labyrinth following the tragic death of her husband and twin daughters. Despondent and depressed, she withers away in a drunken haze on a glorious Maui beach, longing to turn back time, plagued by strange dreams of her family. Even with her in this state, handsome surfer, Chase, cannot stop thinking about the mystery woman he sees lying on the beach every morning, and he befriends her. A relationship is...

Love is the ultimate achievement to unlock. Maya Williams-Choi thought she had mastered every algorithm life could present. As QuantumQueen, she revolutionized professional gaming with her mathematical precision. As the beloved wife of corporate heir Jun-ho Choi (better known to gamers as DragonEmperor), she found a love that spoke her unique pattern-based language. But pregnancy introduces variables that defy even her most elegant calculations. With their baby on the way, Maya and Jun-ho must navigate: Traditional Korean family expectations colliding with modern parenthood A gaming ...

When the granddaughter of one of Florida’s most powerful judges disappears, it triggers a personal trauma for Detective Alice Garner: the kidnapping and murder of her own child. As a flood of painful memories comes rushing back, Alice sees herself in the guilt-ridden and emotionally fragile mother Charlotte Burke, who has become the target of a rush to judgment.

Young lovers think they are escaping life’s pressures when they run away to south Florida, but there they uncover shocking family secrets. Will their discoveries in tropical paradise bring them closer together, or drive them apart? Can grudges give way to reconnection, before it’s too late? The third intertwined story in the Lake to Coast Series, Under the Palms gives readers new insight to familiar characters, introduces new ones…and entertains with multiple perspectives of The Sunshine State.

A researcher, therapist, and mediator, Robert Emery, PhD, details a new approach to sharing custody with children in two homes. Huge numbers of children are affected by separation, divorce, cohabitation breakups, and childbearing outside of marriage. These children have two homes. But their parents have only one chance to protect their childhood.

After leaving home at 18, Noelle, built a successful life as a prominent attorney in Atlanta after cutting ties with her family. Life was going great, and Noelle had no intentions of returning. Until her mother’s annual plea to come home for Christmas came with unusual urgency. Reluctantly, she agrees only to find nothing as she left it. Her family home is remodeled, her parents are divorced, all courtesy of her eldest brother, Corleone. Her brother seems to be involved in trouble and with a questionable wealth that screams “drug money”, Noelle carefully tries to disassociate herself....