Marriage Friendship

From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather around her husband's latest development, the social opprobrium is shocking, the fallout swift, and Therese begins to look at her privileged and insular world with new eyes. In the flat below Therese, something else is brewing. Her neighbour Claire believes she's discovered the secret to living with freedom and authenticity, freeing herself from the mundanity of domesticity.

Being a single mom is hard. Friends help. Even when those friends need help more. Jen Morel is doing her best to guide her teenagers through life. Sometimes she feels complete and utter joy at how that’s working out. Two seconds later she feels crushed by defeat. Such is the life of a single mom. Other parts of her life are stressing her out more than she wants to think about. Her daughter is asking questions about her family she doesn’t have the answers to. And those answers are ones she’d like to keep buried – at least for now. Her friend Yvette needs help with a baking contest ...

What readers are saying... "An excellent story - one showing exactly what God can do, if we only listen and get out of our own way. I absolutely loved this book. Thank you for making me laugh and cry, for helping me see things from a different perspectives and showing Gods amazing grace so clearly!" Amazon reviewer Sage Hoffman wants what her sister has. A normal life. A husband. The works. But moving on from the trauma she survived during her late teens proves more than she can bear—especially when she’s haunted by the sound of a tiny heartbeat she never knew existed. Because of the ...

A tropical cyclone isn’t the only thing turning Sam’s life upside down… When Sam Pankhurst returns to Blue Penguin Bay after a five-year absence, his plan is to help his father run the family bakery until he can find someone else to take over. Then he’s going to return to his job as a pastry chef on a cruise liner, travelling around the world. Settling down in the bay and making the same old loaves and muffins until the day he dies isn’t his idea of a dream future. Then he meets Ginger Cartwright. Feisty, confident, and as beautiful as the sub-tropical Northland bay that most ...

Old friends, new lovers… When Elliot reminds Libby Carter of the promise they made to each other when they were kids—that they’d marry each other if they were still single when they turned thirty—Libby sees a future for herself for the first time since the plane crash. But a secret she’s hiding makes it impossible for her to move forward. There’s no chance she could be a bride by her birthday on Christmas Eve. Is there? * Fans of Catherine Bybee’s Weekday Brides series are sure to love these small-town romances with plenty of sizzle!

Marrying Sancho, the love of her life, is enough reason for Tatiana to forgo a desire to serve The Lord. So, the last day of their honeymoon in the exotic Windward and Leeward Caribbean islands of the Lesser Antilles is expected to be special. However, a terrorist attack calls into question this young couple's idyllic honeymoon. Suddenly Tatiana and Sancho find themselves in an atmosphere where love also entails killing for a set of beliefs. An escape from the reality of their world is all that Tatiana seeks. And she is determined to take Sancho with him. "The Sweetest Madness" comes before...

Bonnie has been running from her tragic past for far too long. Now, years after the events that changed her life for ever, the time has come to face it. Her search for answers takes her to the idyllic town of Hamblin. Alice’s perfect life is slipping through her fingers. Drowning in debt, she struggles on, working long days alongside her daughter Laura, ever more desperate to hold on to what little remains. Laura had her future as an artist snatched from her when she had to return home to care for her father. When their worlds collide, Laura and Bonnie form an instant bond.

The PS, I Love You Club. These are the six words written on a card handed to Holly Kennedy. They’re words that are engraved on her heart - because PS, I Love You is how her husband, Gerry, signed his last letters to her, letters that mark a year she will never forget. Now, the mysterious club wants something from her. And if Holly can find the courage meet them, she’ll learn what it really means to live life to the full. Because every love story has one last thing to say....

My scorching hot new neighbor offered me $300K to be his fake wife for six months. Plot twist: he’s the nameless hookup from my all-expenses-paid era. Dr. Parker Matthews needs a wife fast, or he loses a fortune and hands his future to his controlling father. I told myself six months would be easy. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Now it’s not only my spa on the line. Our reputations, and whatever this is between us, could go up in flames if his father gets his way. That’s when it hits me—this was never about the money for Parker. He’s not chasing a fortune—he’s breaking ...

Eleven-turning-12-year-old Cassie is an expert Peacock Detective. Her sharp eye for details is why the Hudsons from across the street call her every time their pet peacocks wander away. But there are some things even the greatest Peacock Detective can’t figure out, like why her best friend is so angry lately; why her older sister is cutting her hair off; or why her parents are acting like they don’t know each other anymore. Cassie is an expert at solving things. But what’s a master detective to do when her whole world is changing, and all the answers are out of reach?

From the author of "A Marriage Knot" Reviews from readers : "I was instantly hooked" "Beautiful College Romance" "Loved the camaraderie between the two protagonists, which is rare to find. Must read for sure." "Humour, deceit & a lot of love. A great combination for a great read." "…College-Crushes, Budding-Romance, Scheming & Plotting, Jealousy, Heartaches, Revenge BUT at the End "A Beautiful Forever between Two Lovers". Must Read it...!!!" "I am glad I could pick it up and have it read." ****************************************************************************************************...

SPECIAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - featuring all new material from the author. Erin O’Grady is the perfect mark. Or she would be, if former confidence man Jesse Baker hadn’t reformed. When they end up stuck together on a long train journey at Christmas, Jesse discovers that starting over isn’t as easy as he’d hoped. Can he complete his quest for redemption? And win Erin’s heart? Con artist hero Naive heroine A Christmas homecoming Love on the road Different worlds Different social classes Books in this series: Marrying Miss Marshal Counterfeit Cowboy Cowboy Pride The ...

A historical sci-fi novel set in the 5th century Britain where a father struggles against opposing forces while trying to hold his family together. His son is accused of murder, his daughter is forced to marry a brutal king, and only a prophetic vision saves him from despair. Conflicting alien races must decide if the planet is ripe for plunder or if humanity is worth saving. One extended family traverses the course of history through Aram, Ishtar, and Neb in a world of wild beasts, craven spirits, and noble souls. Generations later, in the first century AD, Aram’s descendant, Georgios ...

Audrey has a secret. She likes killing bad people. She’s on the hunt for her next victim, what she doesn’t know is that someone is also hunting her. Is there such a thing as a ‘good serial killer’? Meet Audrey King. She’s young, privileged, beautiful, desirable, respected and admired. But none of these matters to Audrey. As the youngest daughter of billionaire Victor King, she’s not interested in fast cars, fast men, private jets and super yachts. She’d rather put her allowance and her unique talents to more ‘humane’ pursuits—like killing bad people. But then it all goes...

Seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the Minnesota woods with his father on a cold afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter mile apart, they wait for white-tailed deer. The muffled crack of a gunshot rings out. Jesse races through the trees to find his dad dead of a rifle wound, apparently self-inflicted. Haunted by the ghost of his father, Jesse confronts family secrets, questions of justice and retribution, and the nature of his own responsibility.

Joni Ackerman’s decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came with a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending career at a premier television network provided a safety net. Now they’ve recently transplanted to Brooklyn so that Paul can launch a major East Coast production studio, when a scandal rocks the film industry and forces Joni to revisit a secret from long ago involving her friend Val.

Sometimes forgiveness of the past is the only way forward. At age 46 and after raising three boys, Julia Harper has just learned her husband no longer loves her and he's just been waiting for the children to become adults so he could leave. Hopeful, Julia applies for the job of caretaker at The Lighthouse Inn on the island of Nantucket. What she doesn't know is that her half-sister lives just across the sand from the inn. Janey Forsythe recently found out her biological father is Ryan Harper—who is also Julia's father. When she sees the brunette unpacking and introduces herself, Janey ...

He's all mine for one night... It’s my thirtieth birthday. It’s also Valentine’s Day. I’m not sure which one sucks most. My best friend, Sarah, begged me to go out with her and her husband for dinner, but I’m not in the mood for celebration. I’ve worked hard all day, run for an hour, and now I plan to spend the evening alone playing video games and eating a whole tub of cookie dough ice cream. But when I get home, I discover a man sitting on the carpet in the corridor outside my penthouse apartment. He’s tall, gorgeous, wearing an expensive suit, and carrying the biggest ...

Three men go fishing, leaving their wives and children behind. When the men don't return, two of their wives are understandably distraught. One wife, well, not so much. Kathy McNamara, a successful attorney, never thought she'd ever get married. Not after her heart was shattered by her high school boyfriend, Conor Clancy. But when Kathy meets Jack McNamara at her twentieth high school reunion and they marry after a whirlwind courtship, Kathy finally has the happily ever after she'd always dreamed of. Her heart, finally healed. So things are good. Not good, they're great, which is why Kathy ...

"It’s honest, real, and truly 'goes there' without holding back. I loved it." WHEN THE WORLD OUTSIDE IS FALLING APART, WHO OR WHAT IS SAFE? Ellie Barrett and Joanna Fox are neighbors who used to be friends. Now they are neighbors who pretend to be friends. And that's okay with Ellie. With three children, a sick mother and a difficult husband who admires the slim athletic Joanna a little too much, Ellie doesn't have time for neurotic Joanna Fox. A wave and a nod across the cul-de-sac and the occasional car pool is enough for Ellie. She prefers to keep her distance. Joanna left her ...