Island Women

Welcome to Darling Island - a complete series of heartwarming feel-good, small town stories with romance, community and friendship set in a to-die for British seaside town perched just off the English south coast. ~~~ The funny, heart-breaking and uplifting new trilogy of novels in Polly Babbington’s Darling Island series. It's time for us to get back to Darling Island where the local time is so very far from care. Life for Jane Le Romancer is all sorts of small. She goes to work, sits in her office, talks to her laptop, swirls around in a sea of numbers, goes home, talks to her laptop ...

WWII secrets, forbidden love, and one terrible mistake... When Mia discovers an old letter, she sets out on a mission to uncover the truth about her grandmother's past. With the help of brooding local guide Leo, they sneak into the closed-off Isola di Parissi, where Mia falls in love with both the country and her guide. But as they uncover hidden and handwritten notes, Mia learns of a heartbreaking mistake her grandmother made during WWII that tore apart the island community. Will Mia be forced to leave Italy and her newfound love forever?

Family, friendship, sisterhood, the magic of new beginnings and angst of struggling family relationships...mothers, daughters, brothers and sisters, sons and cousins...all finding their inner strength, facing life’s unexpected challenges, and sometimes starting over after tragedy and heartbreak, and every once in a while...finding the one true love of a lifetime. Everyone has a story... Amanda’s legacy was simple and unbelievably complicated...her sons were determined to make it happen exactly as she wanted. Hannah was distraught and in a downward spiral after her father’s death...her...

Planning a reunion is going to get someone killed...Edisto Beach Police Chief Callie Morgan has no desire to relive her senior year and the nightmare of a murder and a suicide that shook her high school to its core. But when the reunion committee convenes on Edisto Beach for a planning retreat, she has no choice. Every person on the committee could be a suspect in the unsolved murder, and one classmate, now a best-selling author, threatens to weave them into a tell-all true crime novel. Until she disappears the first night of the committee retreat.

Be fearless like the Old Maids. Someone is abducting homeless people off the streets of Seattle. When a woman is found dead in Rudy’s kitchen, Julia Applegate assembles an entire team to go undercover to exonerate her friend. Once again, this whacky—but fearless—group of older women will be joined by their team of helpful ghosts to blaze across the pages in search of a diabolical killer. When said diabolical killer holds a scalpel to Julia’s throat, one has to ask, “Is this the end of the Old Maids?”

1983 should have been a dream come true for Nancy Benson. Enlisting her island crafting friends as convention workers, Nancy thinks she can finally realize her dream of arranging a Nancy Drew fan convention at the elegant Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. Hiding her financial secrets, Nancy rationalizes the need for a few white lies on her angel investor application to acquire the needed financing. Securing the loan through what she thinks are anonymous investors, she puts all her efforts into the convention—much to her husband’s dismay. Ruffled by the unexpected arrival of the mysterious...

A heart-tugging, sun-drenched novella about finding something real in the most unexpected place—and choosing to keep it, even after the vacation ends. Laney Morgan doesn’t do detours. A tightly booked vacation to a tropical island is supposed to be her reward for years of carefully planned living—not a whirlwind of misplaced luggage, stormy weather, and an infuriatingly laid-back local guide named Luca. He’s barefoot, charming, and impossible to schedule. She’s Type A, tightly wound, and just trying to salvage what’s left of her itinerary. But when a sudden storm strands them ...

Mystery and intrigue return to SeaBreeze Island in this thrilling finale of the beloved Murder Club series! When Maud Baxter stumbles upon a cache of mysterious letters, she unwittingly unleashes a chain of events that will shake the island to its core. The wealthy Vermillion family's darkest secrets are thrust into the spotlight, and suddenly, no one is above suspicion. As Maud and her loyal friend Krysteen dig deeper, they find themselves ensnared in a web of blackmail, betrayal, and murder that spans decades. With the sharp-witted Assistant DA Margot Kintz and the charming Dr. Sam Russo ...

Riley Randall has spent eight years smiling at new brides, being excited for her friends as they find Mr. Right, and dating by a strict set of rules that she never breaks. But she might have to consider bending those rules ever so slightly if she wants an escape from the island...When 35-year-old Riley finds a watch on an airplane, she manages to track down the owner — an Evan Garfield, lead singer for Georgia Panic, the number one rock band in the country. Maybe even the world.

It's not about temptation — it's about survival. The last thing Julie Steffens needs after a season of research in the jungles of Central America is a gang of armed mercenaries after her for a crime she didn’t commit. And the last rescuer she wants is Seth Cooper, the sizzling vacation fling who disappeared from her bedside two months before. But right now, she needs a way out — and Seth’s sailboat is it. So what if the man kisses like a pirate just back in to port? It’s not about temptation; it’s about survival. Seth Cooper has traded the rat race for life in the slow lane — ...

Every detail is picture-perfect for a dream wedding: the snow-dusted streets, twinkling lights in the windows, a gorgeous red and white satin dress. Except a lavish ceremony is not Felicia’s dream at all; it’s what her mother, Jilly, wants. Jilly’s also worried that her daughter’s life with daredevil Archie will be all hiking and skydiving. Wondering if their handsome neighbor Steven Hardy might be a more suitable son-in-law, Jilly embarks on a secret matchmaking campaign for Felicia and the dashing stockbroker.

Following the death of her uncle Cornelius Vanderbilt in September 1899, a somber Emma is in no mood for one of Newport's extravagant parties. But to keep Vanderbilt's reckless son, Neily, out of trouble, she agrees to accompany him to an Elizabethan fete on the lavish grounds of Wakehurst. Held in Wakehurst's English-style gardens, the festivities will include a swordplay demonstration, an archery competition, scenes from Shakespeare's plays, and even a joust. As Emma wanders the grounds distracted by grief, she overhears an argument between a man and a woman behind a tall hedge.

Writer Isa Korn is casting caution to the wind. She is taking a deep dive into the dangerous, intoxicating, and glamorous underworld of Spain’s most romantic city and its most controversial spectacle, the bullfight. It’s the summer of 2001. Isa is a feature writer for Sports Illustrated. She has come to Barcelona to write a piece about the pageantry, tradition, and passion of the bullring. But she finds herself falling under the spell of Santi, the gorgeous, genuine Cuban surgeon, Ernest Hemingway’s onetime-lover, and a wounded bullfighter. Sparks are about to fly as the four of them ...

An epic new novel in Matt Tomerlin's bloody DEVIL'S FIRE pirate saga! As agents of the Crown hunt the last pirates of the Caribbean toward extinction, Captain Kate Warlowe and the treacherous crew of the Scarlet Devil search for an uncharted island where a fabled lost city supposedly yields limitless fortune. What they find is far more terrifying than a walk to the gallows. The haunted people of an ancient civilization linger in the shadows, led by a mysterious man with a forgotten destiny. Separated from her crew and fighting for her sanity in a place where nothing makes sense, the ...

He forecasts the weather on TV to the delight of his many fans. But the residents of Ocean Vista Condominiums are less fond of Uncle Weatherwise—the newest arrival at the condo—especially when a hurricane that he predicted would bypass Palmetto Beach instead heads straight for their town. The morning after a frantic evacuation, Kate Kennedy is blown away when she stumbles upon the corpse of Uncle Weatherwise, with a sharpened weather vane pointed in the direction of his heart. Suddenly Kate’s neighbors are her suspects, from a retired Rockette to a former federal prosecutor to a man ...

A compelling tale of two women separated by a century who discover long-buried secrets in an Australian manor house. In 1891, Tilly Kirkland is reeling with shock and guilt after her tempestuous marriage ends in horrific circumstances. Fleeing to the farthest place she knows, Tilly takes a job on Ember Island in Moreton Bay, Australia, where she becomes the governess to the prison superintendent's precocious young daughter, Nell.

Gen is more than ready to step up to her new role as Maddie's mother. The way that Maddie became Gen's daughter doesn't matter; all that matters is that she is. But as Gen wraps her mind around her new role and embraces all things girly and pink, she gets a delicious surprise. As wonderful as this surprise is, can their brand new family handle any more change?

Delia Dickens has come home to Dickens Island, a small island in the Long Island Sound, after a twelve year stint in Manhattan. She’s looking forward to helping her father revitalize the general store that the family owns as well as curating a small book nook. Most importantly, she wants to reunite with her 15 year old son. But Dickens Island isn’t the peaceful town Delia remembers–and she might be in more danger here than she ever was in the big city. When a young woman, new to the town council, is found murdered, everything escalates and reaches a new boiling point.

Marisal. A villa on a sleepy Spanish island. A place that time had forgotten. A place of long ago summers, sun-kissed memories, and one terrible betrayal....When Charlotte's husband James tragically dies, he leaves her an unexpected gift - her grandmother's beautiful villa, Marisal, on the Spanish island of Formentera. As she begins to explore her new home, and heal her broken heart in the warm golden sunshine, Charlotte discovers that her grandmother Alba has been keeping secrets about her life on the island.

Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she’s now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. Rachel and Alistair’s summer love affair on a remote, sun-trapped Greek island has consumed her since she was seventeen, obliterating everything in its wake. But as Rachel becomes increasingly obsessed with reliving the events of so long ago, she reconnects with the other girls who were similarly drawn to life on the island.