romance

In this uplifting story about friendship, love, and growth, one woman must untangle herself from a past that’s holding her back in order to move forward into the life that will set her free. Penelope Auberge is at her breaking point. With an overbearing mother, a married boyfriend, and a boss who gives Pen’s high-profile finance clients to male colleagues, it feels like nothing she’s accomplished in her thirty-two years belongs to her.

The promise of the Gilded Age evokes a worldwide exhilarating time of technological advancement and economic expansion. American society is transforming from focusing on small rural farms to an urban one dominated by large corporations resulting in even more inequality between the wealthy and middle-class. Discriminatory segregation and immigration laws enacted by misguided and corrupt political leaders threaten to tarnish the American dream.

Fake it till you fall in love… Shy and reserved Lord Henry Foxbrooke is the reluctant heir to his eccentric father’s estate. His outrageous family want him back in Somerset and settling down, but he wants a stress-free life in London. Facing a weekend of celebrations for his thirtieth birthday, he needs a fake girlfriend to get them all off his back.

Tyler misses his brother. He lost Joshi two years back now to suicide, and Tyler - emotionally at least - has not recovered. The panic attacks. Depression. Regret. All of it. All bottled up for him and him only. Until the apocalypse, that is. Now the dead have risen one more time, and with them Tyler's brother. Joshi just wants to see Tyler one more time ... to give him a hug ... to tell him he loves Tyler ... and that he wants to be with him, forever.

Wrap your beautiful imagination around these 22 delightful stories filled with lovable, incorrigible, funny, impulsive characters who insist on taking life by the horns their way. Just try to stop them! - A four-time divorcee struggles with love addiction - A mournful songwriter is soulfully linked to a charming Irish taxi driver - Paybacks are hell when a woman is scorned - A zany gut-spilling massage therapist tells all - Spend a magical day with a zombie, two teens, and a couple of ghosts - Roll down the aisle to an outlandish grocery store scene

El tiempo cura todas las heridas, en cambio, los recuerdos perduran como una nana cantada en voz baja, que sale por una ventana abierta hacia el cielo nocturno. Arrullos nocturnos es un cuento sobre el amor que llega a nuestra vida, se cierne sobre nosotros, se va y, a veces, vuelve para una segunda oportunidad.

Flowers For Broken Women is an encouraging collection of poetry created for broken women (and girls) who love, courageously, in spite of their scars.

Está dentro de nuestra naturaleza humana, el buscar sin cesar. Y en nuestra búsqueda a menudo nos alejamos de la comodidad y la estabilidad que nos proporciona la gracia de Dios. Y cuando nos alejamos demasiado, empieza a surgir en nosotros un anhelo. Es el amor el que acaba por colmar esta nostalgia, invitándonos a volver a ese lugar perfecto en el que encontramos nuestro descanso en primer lugar.

L'amour, lorsqu'il s'épanouit et fleurit, est un champ de fleurs qui attend d'être admiré. L'amour tel qu'il se fane et se termine est une tempête d'hiver qui ne peut être oubliée.

Time heals all wounds but memories linger like a lullaby sung in hushed tones, drifting out of an open window and into the night sky. Nighttime Lullabies is a tale of love as it comes into our life, hovers over us, leaves and, sometimes, comes back for a second chance.

It is within our human nature to find ourselves searching endlessly. And in our searching, we often wander away from the comfort and stability that has been supplied to us by grace. When we have wandered far enough, a longing begins to arise within us. It is love that ultimately fills this longing, beckoning us back to that perfect place where we first found our rest.

Chase Jordan is a social media personality and reality tv star living her best life... until she receives a staggering phone call about her cousin that upends her life. Chase drops everything to head into a mystery she isn’t prepared for. The more Chase investigates the stranger the story becomes. She is soon over her head and targeted by a deadly threat. Chase wants to leave town and save herself but didn't expect to be drawn to Victor. Victor Morris is everything Chase wants but nothing she needs.

The Bloodline Trilogy concludes with book three, BLOOD & SOUL. Emma Beckett has an idyllic childhood in the small Northern California town of Mendocino, only child of Cabral and Darcy Beckett. Tall and palely blonde, unlike her small, dark-haired parents, Emma occasionally wonders if she was adopted. However, the unconditional love of her parents was the one aspect of her upbringing she never lost faith in, not even when the darkness of her true past threatened to overtake her.

The Bloodline Trilogy continues with book two, BLOODLUST. Kate Grady comes from a happy home, never knowing fear or insecurity. Thanks to her extraordinary parents, Pim Grady and Noel Gatsby, her childhood is full of wonder and unconditional love. However, she soon realizes she possesses special powers which allow her to bend others to her will. At first, she uses her newfound abilities wisely. She prevents a gang of bullies from raping and beating a young girl, and then makes them pay the ultimate price for their brutal acts.

The Bloodline Trilogy begins with BLOODFROST. Old before her time and afflicted with a myriad of medical problems, Noel Gatsby retreats into her "wishful-thinking" dreams every night. Desperate to escape the circumstances of her life, she imagines a world where all of her pain and suffering stops, to be replaced by the vigorous health of her youth. Yet each morning she awakens to the misery of her real existence, consumed by pain and depression.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book eight, MEGAN'S LEGACY. A serial killer is on the loose in Larkin City, targeting women with long, blonde hair . . . Liam Larkin develops a new hotel and winery to attract tourists. He hires Sommelier Petra Fortescue-Pemberton to organize sophisticated wine-tasting parties, finding love where he least expects it.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book seven, THE TWILIGHT. Shannon Larkin and Scott Page are happy in their long marriage, but a tragic loss forces her to delve into the past in order to face ugly truths about her husband. Devastated, Shannon retreats into her own solitary world. A stranger brings her out of self-imposed exile and shows her the beauty of unconditional love exists after all. Although hurt and disillusioned by Scott's secret life, Angie Page finds surprising happiness as a result of her father's duplicity.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book six, HEARTS DESIRES. Brose Larkin finds himself falling in love with a local "tomboy" who bests him at every turn. Despite having known her since high school, she is the antithesis of his ideal woman in her simple attire and direct manner. Brose knows he has met his ultimate match in Bridget Gallagher.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book five, THE KEEPER'S JOURNAL. Shannon Larkin is forced to confront demons from her past. Her yearly visit to Mike Sullivan's gravesite strains her marriage to Scott Page, but she finds herself unable and unwilling to forget Mike's memory. Shannon's daughter Angela Page finds love with her new boss Tom Cimarelli, a New York City newspaper editor.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book four, ENTHRALLMENT. Wary after a miserable marriage to the beautiful but empty Marianne Chamberlain, Sean Larkin finds new love with Shannon's best friend, Dana Maitland. Their marriage yields another set of twins, Derek and Diana, and provides Sean and Marianne's son Brose with a happy home.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book three, THE TWAIN SHALL MEET. Shannon Larkin and Mike Sullivan are presumably unaware of the long connection between their two families. Yet their love affair seems destined to follow the same tragic path as the one forged by their mutual ancestors, Colm Sullivan and Molly Larkin.

The Collective Obsessions Saga continues with book two, QUIXOTIC CROSSINGS. After the death of family patriarch John Larkin in 1926, the strains of madness filter their way into second and third generations of the irrevocably entangled Larkin and Sullivan families. Colm and Molly's grandson Jean-Claude Sullivan finds his life driven by greed and perversely tainted pleasures, while Molly's coldly-calculating nephew Patrick Larkin propels the family business to impressive heights as he fosters a new generation with his wife Colleen McGarren.

The Collective Obsessions Saga begins in 1865 when John Larkin emigrates from Ireland to America and settles his self-named township in Maine. John builds a wealthy empire and grand estate, becoming one of the richest merchants on the Eastern Seaboard. Hiding behind the wealth and social position are quirky English servants, the effervescent family chef Claude Mondoux, John's paranoid-alcoholic wife Anne, their steadfast son Roderick and their mercurial daughter Mary Margaret, also affectionately known as Molly.

Struggling artist Luca Wolfe lives in a dilapidated warehouse loft in SoHo, New York, barely eking out a living from sales of his work. One night he begins to paint a reproduction of art from the past, but becomes too inebriated to continue. When he awakens, he finds the painting complete, but unlike the creation he began the night before.

A young girl is shaped by horrific events which change her life forever. After Ava's brother and parents are killed by British soldiers, she vows to avenge their deaths as she picks up the pieces of her shattered world. Before she can move on, Ava falls in love with handsome nobleman David Lancaster, eldest son of a belted Earl. Their relationship ends dramatically when his family refuses to accept her. Afterward, Ava sets her life on a course of violent revenge in the name of political justice with her childhood friend, Tim O'Casey.

Jack Carp was the most sought after hand model in Los Angeles. Heartbroken by a recent break up, he sets out to commit emotional suicide by drowning his sorrows in fast food. Instead of death by burger, he is discovered as the new face of Burger Barn, catapulting him to corporate icon status. Advertising is a brutal industry dictated by corporate profit, oversized egos, and fickle consumers. Jack learns this first hand as he is thrust into the limelight with his fate depending on what everyone else wants.

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished… In the small town of Clarkesville, in the heart of the Oregon Cascade Mountains, a humble forester stumbles into the complex world of crooked cops and power-hungry politicians…all because he rescues a stray, injured dog on the highway.

As part of a prostitution sting operation, rookie cop Val Dawes uncovers a national sex trafficking ring operating out of Clayton, one with ties to a violent shadowy right-wing splinter group. Her investigation reveals the group may be planning a violent attack in a matter of days.

While jogging off duty along the riverfront, Val discovers the dead body of a teenage girl—and ignites a manhunt for a serial killer. Based on her follow-up research, the Clayton, CT police department links the girl’s murder to at least four others in the past year—all drowned. All barefoot. All bearing the same strange, fresh tattoo. Val wrangles a coveted spot on a high-profile task force dedicated to finding the killer, nicknamed by a muckraking blogger as the “Shoeless Schoolgirl Slayer.”