Island Women

From castaways to lovers, their island paradise sparks a forbidden passion. Kara is with her fiancé’s family to celebrate opening their newest charitable clinic in Kuching when pirates board their chartered yacht, leaving the vessel destroyed, and them castaways. Taj, her fiancé’s adopted brother, is the only one with her, and he keeps her alive. As the days pass, and she finds her own strength, she realizes it wasn’t loyalty to his brother making him help her. Taj is in love with her, and she has to suspect the reason she’s always shied away from him is her own unacknowledged ...

Deputy Tessa Black spots a man disturbing a grave in the local cemetery and gives chase. But when Tessa catches him, she learns that the ghoulish trespasser wasn’t robbing graves; he was burying a box of bones. With the help of her fiancé, park ranger Logan Wilde, Tessa discovers that the remains belong to a missing teenager from a nearby island. After the girl disappeared nine months ago, police labeled her a runaway. Now, though, it’s clear the teenager was murdered.

AJ has a real boyfriend now, and he's really coming to the cove to meet her friends and family. She's turned into a domestic goddess as she preps to host Christmas at a rental that will hold everyone for the holidays. But beneath the bulky sweaters, AJ has a secret she won't be able to keep hidden forever.

Sometimes going home is the only way to heal… Saving two innocent people from a deadly threat has scarred Jess Keller, heart and soul. So she’s leaving paradise for an assignment back home that she hopes will restore her inner peace. But going home means coordinating with an unfamiliar security team while also facing her biggest regret: Nash Billings. Nash is passionate about the island town where he was born and raised. Unlike Jess, he never longed to call anywhere else home. Unfortunately, she walked away from both him and their town and the heartache never faded. Nash sees Jess’s ...

Spring 1946: Best friends Vera Frankel and Edith Ban arrive in Naples. Refugees from Hungary, they managed to escape from a train headed for Auschwitz and spent the rest of the war hiding on an Austrian farm. Now, the two young women are starting new lives abroad. Armed with a letter of recommendation from an American officer, Vera finds work at the United States embassy where she falls in love with Captain Anton Wight. But as Vera and Edith grapple with the aftermath of the war, so too does Anton, and when he suddenly disappears, Vera is forced to change course.

The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables explores L. M. Montgomery's deep connection to the landscapes of Prince Edward Island that inspired her to write the beloved Anne of Green Gables series. From the Lake of Shining Waters and the Haunted Wood to Lover's Lane, you'll be immersed in the real places immortalized in the novels. Using Montgomery's journals, archives, and scrapbooks, Catherine Reid also explores the many similarities between Montgomery and her unforgettable heroine, Anne Shirley.

Flower Thief Stabbed to Death When garden wars stir up trouble in Pelican Cove, no one expects it to lead to Murder! The victim’s grieving wife begs cafe owner turned amateur sleuth Jenny King to uncover the truth, impelling her to navigate small-town secrets, nosy neighbors, and a puzzling trail of clues to figure out whodunnit. With suspects at every turn and no solid proof, Jenny must race against time to catch the killer—before they strike again. Meanwhile, her plans to renovate the Boardwalk Café spark unexpected tensions among her group of quirky friends, the Magnolias. Can Jenny...

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Bookshop on the Corner and The Cafe by the Sea comes another enchanting, unforgettable novel of a woman who makes a fresh start on the beautiful Scottish Island of Mure - only to discover life has more surprises in store for her.

Charmaine moves to Coral Island and lands a job working at a local florist shop. It seems as though the entire island has caught wedding fever, with weddings planned every weekend. It's a good opportunity for her to get to know the locals, but what she doesn't expect is to be thrown into the middle of a family drama. Penny and Rowan's wedding is coming up fast, and Penny's working too hard to give it her full attention. Rowan's still figuring out what to do with his life when a suggestion from a friend gives them both an idea.

Peace, safety, a place to grieve and heal. After her husband is murdered by the Russian mob, Boston detective Callie Jean Morgan comes home to her family's cottage in South Carolina. There, she can keep their teenage son, Jeb, away from further threats. But the day they arrive in Edisto Beach, Callie finds her childhood mentor and elderly neighbor murdered.

When a Zoom disaster upends Addison Irwin’s decade-long career at a posh Manhattan advertising agency, things look bleak for the thirty-something mid-western transplant. But an unexpected inheritance from an aunt she barely remembers—a property on Fire Island, complete with guest house and artist’s studio—changes everything. While debating whether to stay or sell, Addison learns that she’s also inherited her aunt’s list of eclectic guests, tying her to the island for seven summer weekends.

A singing chef. A widowed billionaire. A cottage by the sea. A father of two, widowed billionaire Diehl Brooks returns home to St. Simon’s Island and falls in love with his sister’s personal chef. Will complications from his unfulfilling first marriage threaten his chance for love a second time around? A selfless personal chef… Chef Skye Langston cooks for local residents and visitors to the Golden Isles. When her friend and client, Brinley Brooks, asks her to cook for her older brother, who will be in town for the summer, Skye is wary. Although they move in different social circles, ...

Tras seducir a lectores y críticos de todo el mundo con El abanico de seda y Dos chicas de Shanghai, Lisa See vuelve a cautivarnos con La isla de las mujeres del mar, una bella e introspectiva novela sobre los lazos de amistad de dos jóvenes hanenyeo -mujeres buceadoras de la isla surcoreana de Jeju, cuya forma de vida ha sido reconocida por la Unesco como patrimonio de la humanidad- y las poderosas fuerzas, tanto naturales como históricas, que las rodean.

Blasts, Betrayals, and a Burning Mystery—Can Holmes and Lucy Defuse Disaster? An earth-shaking explosion rocks the Rexford Gunpowder Works at dawn, leaving a custodian dead and chaos in its wake. Inspector Gregson smells sabotage, but when his investigation fizzles, he’s booted to patrolling the grimy streets of Whitechapel. Enter Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James—called in by the flustered gunpowder tycoon after he receives a chilling note: a second blast is coming, and it’ll blow his factory (and fortune) sky-high. The case quickly proves more combustible than expected. Flynn digs up...

The pressures of fame and an obsessive stalker have driven pop star Olivia Smith to take shelter at Halcyon Hall, an exclusive spa on a remote island off the coast of Maine. Yet from the moment she arrives, there are rumors about women disappearing and stories about the resort’s grisly past. Then a note arrives from her stalker, proving that nowhere is truly safe....

Dogleg Island Police Chief Aggie Malone has spent years searching for the identity of her birth father. Now, thanks to a home DNA test, she has a lead...but it’s taking her in a direction she never could have imagined, and desperately does not want to go. Because the evidence suggests that Aggie could be the daughter of the infamous Angelo, head of the deadly Ghost Syndicate crime empire. Matters become more complicated when Aggie’s canine partner, Flash, discovers an abandoned child on the beach.

Tras los enormes éxitos cosechados con sus «Saga Valeria», «Saga Silvia», «Mi elección» y «Horizonte Martina» , ElísabetBenavent, también conocida por sus fans como @BetaCoqueta, vuelve a la carga con una historia de amor diferente que reflexiona acerca de cómo lo vivido condiciona muchas veces el futuro. Una novela en formato audiolibro que ha ido gestando a lo largo de los años y que aúna todos los elementos que la caracterizan: frescura, inocencia, cercanía, ingenio, simpatía y mucho amor.

Morag MacIntyre is a Scottish lass from the remote islands that make up the northernmost reaches of the UK. She’s also a third-generation pilot, the heir apparent to an island plane service she runs with her grandfather. The islands—over 500 dots of windswept land that reach almost to Norway—rely on their one hardworking prop plane to deliver mail, packages, tourists, medicine, and the occasional sheep. As the keeper of this vital lifeline, Morag is used to landing on pale golden beaches and tiny grass airstrips, whether during great storms or on bright endless summer nights.

Since he won the Academy Award for best original screenplay a few years ago, Grant McCarthy's personal and professional lives have fallen apart. Abby, the woman he was supposed to marry, is engaged to someone else, and Grant is back at home on Gansett Island helping run the family marina business while his father recovers from a serious injury. While all of Grant's focus should be on winning back the love of his life, the pesky marina restaurant manager Stephanie is working her way under his skin—and into his bed.

In the Gulf of Mexico, near South Padre, sits a private island with a bit of a magic about it: the colors are brighter, the food tastes better, and turtles and cranes find sanctuary there. The billionaire heiress who built the thriving resort on Hobby Island exclusively for crafters, Eloisa Hobby, is as much a mystery as she is a mentor.