Want to warm your soul for the holidays? Unwrap the true meaning of gift giving with a treasure trove of festive tales. Christmas with Hot Apple Cider: Stories from the Season of Giving and Receiving is an eclectic collection of true stories, short fiction, and poetry. With 55 featured authors and p ...
Four women, linked by blood ties, friendship, betrayal, loss and hope, struggle with the choices they’ve made and the hand that life’s dealt them. All Pippa’s ever wanted is marriage and kids, but at thirty-four and about to embark on IVF, her dream of having a family is far from certain. Her younge ...
Always the youngest and tired of being called the baby, nine-year-old Casey is thrilled when her little sister, Anna, arrives in the winter of 1986. Once Anna is born everything changes for the better: a new sister, a new house and a perfect life. It’s as if nothing can go wrong—until Anna gets canc ...
Grace Starr plans. She likes order, organization, and the smell of bleach. When her ex-husband evicts her from her predictable life, she’s faced with the hit-you-between-the-eyes realization she’s been a bystander in her own life. Then a letter arrives. An anonymous donor gifts her a worn-out house ...
An inspirational, Christian story of loss, redemption and love from former state senator Barbara A. Robinson, author of the bestselling "And Still I Cry."
Rebekah saw her mother as an ugly disfigured woman, until she learned the circumstances of her mother’s disfigurement. ...
A sharp, emotionally charged prequel to the forthcoming Lost and Found series from women's fiction author, Rachel Del Grosso.
When Harriet, her husband Alex, their teenage twins, and his complicated family gather for a “perfect” lake weekend, simmering tensions boil over ...
From award-winning author, Linda Watkins, comes a story of two women, from different walks of life, and the one dog who loved them both.... A feature writer for the Boston Globe, Sarah Palmer had it all – a beautiful apartment, a great job, and a family she adored. A thousand miles away, Mindy Sue W ...
“Ellie Cahill is definitely one to watch!” raves bestselling author Cora Carmack, and this steamy, upbeat modern romance about connecting in all the best ways proves it once again. Clementine Daly knows she’s the black sheep. Her wealthy, powerful family has watched her very closely since she almost ...
Elyse Gibbons is out of her depth when, as an undergrad at Columbia, she's befriended by campus superstars Aubrey Adam-Drake and Marina Hunt. While Aubrey's grandfather is a former U.S. president and Marina's dad is a notorious mob lawyer, Elyse was raised in Pennsylvania by a single mother/language ...
When an accident forces us to change our livelihood, my husband, Bill, suggests our family of seven embark on a commercial fishing venture in Southeast Alaska. Though life on an ocean vessel sounds challenging, it may answer our prayers for financial stability. Alaskan waters are captivating, be ...
Ruby Fae McKeever is realizing that she made a terrible decision when she dropped out of college two years ago to marry that sweet-faced JW Jasper and join his family's traveling revival ministry--or, as her Daddy had put it, when she "run off with the dang-fool Jesus Circus." She'd thought at the t ...
A husband lost at Dunkirk, the vocation to make glorious music and a second chance at love. It’s 1944. Widowed and grieving for her dead husband, Madeline Hanson has abandoned her career as a concert pianist. But while touring RAF bases with a troupe of entertainers, she discovers a beautiful gra ...
It took decades, but Elizabeth Donovan had finally had enough and struck back. She left a difficult marriage behind to face a secret from her youth. Of course, the old life doesn’t want to let go, but she stumbles into a mystery that involves her deeper than she could have imagined. Old Baggag ...
The spirit of Saint Nicholas transpires when family and friends gather in the family cabin for a mystical Christmas experience. The smell of fresh pine and cinnamon wafted through the air, and the fire crackled and popped, casting a warm glow over the room. Children squealed with delight, playing ...
He is the proud son of a wealthy industrialist. She is the devout daughter of a respected minister. When their paths cross and sparks fly, will they be able to find common ground?
William Hanson is not a happy man. Forced to spend the summer at a religious retreat, he is anything but plea ...
A delightful, up-lifting story about a resilient woman whose life is transformed by the magical allure of Venice and the romance it offers.
Now that her daughter has found true love in Rome, Joy Milton ventures to Venice, a city known for its timeless beauty and romant ...
She’s the modern-day Equalizer with Robin Hood as a partner… Long ago, she’d accepted being dealt an unfair hand, especially after a recent beating from her pimp, Eddie. Now all she can do is focus on staying alive; which means keeping out of trouble until she’s saved enough money to start a new lif ...
It's Christmas Eve, and as Sara waits for her husband and son to arrive home to Blue Hydrangeas, their Cape Cod bed and breakfast, a blizzard threatens to close the bridges, stranding all travelers to and from the Cape. As she prepares for the holiday, unexpected visitors arrive, all sharing the ...
From the perspective of a small group of physicians on the front line, watch what happens as the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic breaks and thunders over their lives, leaving indelible marks, wounds, and scars. Who will fall? Who will survive? How will they land on their feet?
He exudes cavalier charm, stunning looks, and embodies the epitome of masculinity. Yet, he’s my new boss and the older brother of my ex-flame. Escaping a toxic relationship, and leaving my home behind, I head to Hawaii to pursue my career. Or so I thought. Finding a job is my number one pri ...
Miller's Secret Obsession. Ambition. Betrayal. Left in an orphanage as a young child, Miller Dreeser vowed to someday live a life of wealth and prestige. He obtained that life, with no thought of the consequence to those he used as puppets on a string to get there. His acceptance into the world of t ...
When “typical Kerryman” Mickey Enright realizes he is dead, he is convinced there has been a mistake and demands another chance at mortality. But St. Peter, with an agenda of his own, sends him back to Tralee … as a stranger.
When a woman loses her only love, will a change of scenery and a canine connection reclaim her heart? Lily Reed is numb with grief. After her husband died in the line of duty, she struggles daily with the emotional reminders of their shared world. So when she inherits a quiet beachside cottage prope ...
In search of something she can’t quite put a name to Mary Lane returns to the place her family has called home for almost two hundred years. Some would say she was looking for a new beginning, and others who thought they knew her better than she knew herself would insist she was starting over. All t ...
An inspirational romance novella set in 1800s Wyoming: Clay is determined to watch over Emma—and prevent her from giving in to an offer from a neighboring cattle rancher. Will God lead them toward a chance at love? In an effort to escape the pain of her past, Emma Jones answered an advertisement ...
Heidi Murphy has been raised by a religious family and spent the last three years of high school at a private Christian boarding school. At 19 she is living in Pennsylvania, married, bored, directionless, and apathetic. After a devastating personal tragedy, her best friend's invitation to visit San ...
I didn't always want to hide. The Council made sure we hid the water from the start, but I would rather have gone out into the world. Hope Springs was a good place to grow up. Once I reached high school, I dreamed of going places. Did you know that? You came to town later, so I never shared that wit ...
Winner of the ACFW Carol Award for Debut Novel
Winner of the Grace Award for Women's Fiction
Selah Awards Nominee
In 1928, Chicago rocks to the rhythm of the Jazz Age, and Prohibition is in full swing. Small-town girl Ma ...
Be like the eagle in flight that soars above the troubles of the world. Emma’s life changes the day Ruben Templeton walks in and asks her out on a date. Over dinner, Ruben’s undivided attention flatters her and she’s a little disappointed when his best friend, Jesse Kimball, joins them. Accus ...
Renee Lockhart has her eye on a lofty goal…to fill the open position of morning radio show host at the station where she works. When her co-workers sign her up for a local TV version of The Bachelor, Renee goes along with it in order to raise her profile. Upon seeing her bumbling audition, Ben McCon ...
Sometimes you have to let your sisters take care of you, even when you’re the one who’s always taken care of them “…small town romance with wonderful characters. lots of drama and tons of love. It is women's fiction at its finest.” Amazon review Meet the Skatt sisters - five redheads with absolutely ...
When Candy's ability to birth a legacy is ripped away, can she rise above her suffering and forge a new path?
At the end of the story, readers find a character of remarkable strength and empathy. -- Kirkus Reviews
New York City, 1966. Ninetee ...
As children Mother twisted our magic as part of her games.
My talent for reading other people’s feelings, my sister who could charm men, and my brother who knows with a touch the history of any object
But Troubles and Magic comes in Threes.
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IN 1930s MISSISSIPPI, Mary Johnson hates the oppressive heat, working on her family farm, and having to attend her minister father’s church several times a week. But she loves Mason Carter, her musician boyfriend. Both fantasize about living the high life up north in the big city.
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Love conquers all? Maybe for some people. Samantha flees Dodge--or rather Beaufort, NC--to free herself from a relationship that should never have happened. But does she leave in time to stave off trouble for others as well as herself? Teo isn't looking for romance or anything other than the next pl ...
METTLE IS A FREE DOWNLOAD JUNE 2-4 On New Year's Eve, Beri Mathieu's best friend figures out a lie about a buried secret and ends their long friendship. The next day, raw and reeling, she lets a man share her booth in a crowded cafe. Her gesture is as uncharacteristic as he is unexpected. Stranded b ...
Ready to make her great escape, Bailey Russo’s plan to permanently leave Serenity by the Sea is thwarted by her quirky landlord, and she finds herself tied to the town in ways she couldn’t imagine. She never meant to stay as long as sh ...
Cat Mendoza needs a win. After a business failure and years of dating the wrong men, she’s ready to turn things around.
First she must convince the residents of Sweet Lake, Ohio, that she’s taking her responsibilities seriously. As the events director of the newly restored Way ...
After a year of making beautiful music together, Chloe Hatherly thinks she’s more than ready to make the age-old promise to her bandmate, Jon. In sickness and in health, for better or worse. When the sudden death of Jon’s father forces the couple to postpone their wedding in favor of a funeral, howe ...
He’s my billionaire ex that shattered my heart three years ago… And the last person I thought would save me. Despite our messy breakup, Jacob Adler is the sexiest man to ever cross my path. Those crisp blue eyes, irresistible smile and chiseled body still fuel my dreams. After putting my career on h ...
From Bestselling Author Virginia Gray comes a delightfully funny page-turner about love, friendship, and second chances... Nothing is more important to 29-year-old Susan Wade than her career--not family, not friends, and especially not love. When she's offered a short-cut assignment to a big promoti ...
Loving your sisters is easy. Getting them to accept your help can be impossible.
"...a heartwarming read that you'll find hard to put down."Until now, Kayleigh’s been content to live in the shadow of her sisters, always putting them first, and happy ...
A little white lie. A little white wedding. A pair of roommates in over their heads. Days before she's set to move across the country and start a prestigious graduate program, a con artist leaves Emmy with no where to live and less than zero dollars in her bank account. But her day doesn't seem quit ...
Champagne, France, 1860. Madame Pommery, an etiquette teacher and orphanage founder, loses her husband and is forced to support her family. With no experience, the forty-year-old widow decides to make champagne. Her unique vision is to change it from a sweet dessert beverage to a dry, crisp wine to ...
Wyatt Holt gave up searching for gold. Instead, he found work as a lumberjack to satisfy the demand for timber supports in the new Tuolumne County quartz mines and lumber for the nearby towns. He is tired of sharing barracks-style quarters with other men. With more ...
It's 2006, and Delia Mulcahy is living in a shabby apartment and facing crushing student debts. Suddenly, she's plucked from obscurity to work for Wall Street's top hedge fund. Determined to make her millions, Delia must master the cut-throat world of big-stakes trading and profit off the cataclysm ...
In the coastal town of Dufferin Beach, Katy Kiss wants more from life than flinging food in her family’s Hungarian restaurant. She’s searching for the hope she had as a child when her immigrant grandmother would pinch her cheek and say, “go finding your happily.”
But Katy isn’t feeling th ...
At the end of the pew was a man I hadn’t seen since he abandoned us nearly ten years ago…my father. Fifteen-year-old Rachel Glass lives a quiet but happy life in upstate New York. When her reality is shattered by a tragic act of school violence, she is forced to move her life across the country, to ...
The king says everyone is equal, but Nelia’s life shows the opposite. Once, she’d considered herself blessed; she has the ability to see the true character of others. Envy as green slime, evil as tar. Shame as rubies sparkling bright enough that men would fight over them.But then war took her hus ...
A hilarious and magical new series from the authors of Down & Dirty Supernatural Cleaning Services! Three very different women receive a similar desperate message from their husbands: I've been kidnapped and I need your help. They each must secure a mysterious and powerful magical object for his ...
1940, England: ‘I promise we will find each other again. I will leave you a message,’ she said, ‘here, in our secret garden.’ But outside the garden walls a war was raging, and it was only a matter of time before they would have to risk everything for love… Now, England: When Laura moves to Norfo ...
Meet the Stoddards, a mid century Air Force family of six. Father Joe Stoddard enlisted in the Army Air Corps in World War II, then chose to join the new Air Force as a test pilot and an almost-astronaut. Mother Francine "Fritzi" Fontaine is the quintessential Air Force wife, always eager to embr ...
Kat Becker is a starry-eyed optimist with a dream. She’s convinced a move to Nashville will turn her into a singing sensation, and nobody’s going to stand in her way. Not even the cute but grumpy ER doctor she meets after a fender-bender. Dr. Dan McDonald is a hard-headed realist with a past. He kno ...
When Meredith Thomas returns home to Shady Piers for the huge birthday party her parents put on for her each year, she is frustrated with a writing career going nowhere. For her estranged and lifelong friend Logan Nole, his life has taken a very different turn. Now the single parent of a bubbly 4-ye ...
A GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Can a psychologist, still grieving the loss of her husband, save a traumatized war veteran who is planning his own death? Stories Untold explores the devastation of loss, the struggle to find meaning in life, and the enduring power of love that transcends boundaries ...
Professional organizer Diamond Lange helps clients declutter their homes and let go of what no longer serves them. But when her mother, Eva, suddenly passes away, Diamond is left with a house overflowing with junk and a promise she regrets making.
Although Diamond considers everything ...
A young woman who learns to become strong in the face of impossible circumstances, and a man who finds light in the midst of overwhelming darkness. Prepare yourself for the first book in a haunting new series...Loveletting. Fleeing from her home after escaping the murder of her mother, inexperienced ...
A tragic accident. A mother in mourning. Can a second chance rise from the wreckage? Marlee Foster’s life was just getting started. She couldn’t wait for the return of her husband from deployment. After all, he’d be there just in time for the birth of their daughter. The welcome home party is full o ...
Jada Marlone’s life appears to be perfect on social media. She has a loving husband, a beautiful child, and a successful career. What she doesn’t post about is the disconnect she feels in her marriage, the difficulties of motherhood, and her strained relationship with her mother. Resigned to never b ...
Ready to take on whatever the world had to throw at them, four friends left their hometown of Summit Falls in search of something more...years later two of them are coming back for the same reason. Includes Going Home, Home Again, and Coming Home.
Kindergarten teacher Lily Gallo is a happily married mother of three who considers her life perfect… until the day she’s brutally assaulted while out on a run. When the town’s high school football hero is arrested for the attack, Lily’s family suffers retaliation from local sports fans. Recovering f ...
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"Be prepared to CRASH! What I love about this novel is the "REAL LIFE" aspect. We all plan out our futures and know EXACTLY how we want them to play out...well rarely does that happen." ~ HJ Bellus, USA TODAY bestselling author Prepare to make the BEST mistake of your life! You can predict the tides ...
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Small-town club singer Leah Branch welcomes her band's breakup. Tired of chasing the impossible dream, it's time to find a new life far away from music. She doesn't exactly pick tiny Chance, W ...
Solid Five Stars from readers!
She thought her past was behind her. In spite of her less-than-normal childhood, things are going well for Kenzie Reese. She has an exciting career as a photojournalist, an active social life, and no contact with her parents. Life is good. She even fa ...
The universe shifts. A boy meets a girl. And everything they thought they knew about life and love changes in a heartbeat... Once upon a time in the big city...
When Lani meets Jacob it is love at first sight just as she expected. She always knew this man was her soulmate, the only questi ...
Southlea Bay's favorite sweethearts, Flora and Dan, are getting married and the members of the Rejected Writers' Book Club are excited to help. Especially the group's head honcho, Doris Newberry, who, much to Flora’s frustration, wants to control every detail, attempting to strong-arm Flora into ...
A captivating debut novella for readers of Janet Fitch's White Oleander and Catherine Ryan Hyde's Don't Let Me Go, The Bad Girl unleashes an unforgettable cast of characters into a time and place known for its violence and peril where chances of survival are slim: 1971. New York Ci ...
A sleight of hand. A trick up the sleeve. A call for the dead. It’s all part of the game in this twisty tale by the bestselling author of After Alice Fell. Maud Price was once a celebrated child medium, a true believer in lifting the veil between the living and the dead. Now penniless, her guiding s ...
"Always With You is the bittersweet and poignant love story of a woman trapped between temptation and the ties that bind." ~Tracey Garvis Graves, New York Times bestselling author of On the Island and Covet. With Cathy’s health food café thriving, a loyal circle of friends, and a heartbreaking divor ...
A Woman’s World Book Club pick and GDRWA Booksellers' Best Award finalist. When Jackson St. James decided that six weeks in Vermont’s Green Mountains would help him get his life together, he didn’t anticipate replacing his craving for whiskey with a craving for his alluring new landlord, Gabby. Now, ...
"Like Grisham and Clancy... this title shines among the genre." -The US Review of Books Espionage. Assassins. Middle East. Homeland meets Syriana in the near future. When the CIA intercepts intelligence on a terrorist attack in Kuwait, Petra Shirazi, a former field agent, comes face to face with ...
The voices tell me to wake up, but with two children under three, I’m awake. Believe me. There’s just so much pressing on me. Crystal, the woman who runs Shade, the secret group who imprisoned me, is still out there and I cannot rest until I have ended her. I need supernatural allies to do that, ...
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Jacob Gusky wakes up hoping Santa has arrived. And he has... but not for Jacob, one of two Jewish boys living at the Boys’ Home of Manhattan. When a friend gifts him a tin whistle, Jacob learns the power of giving, the joy in receiving, and hear ...
She needs to feel in control. When it’s all stripped from her, can a fifty-something mother build a bridge to a better tomorrow? Helene Shaw’s life is falling apart. She doesn’t have her friends’ respect, her eldest daughter moved to get away from her, and now her youngest is refusing her perfectly ...
" . . .please let someone find me!" Seventeen year old Savannah Swift has been plagued with reoccurring nightmares about a woman being buried alive in her car. Savannah's father, a Baptist minister, says it's because she watches too many scary shows on TV. But deep down Savannah knows these dreams m ...
When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law. Johanna inherited Vincen ...
From the bestselling author of the Sweeney Sisters Series comes the much-awaited sequel to Magnolia Nights, a novel of fate, discovery, and determination. All is right in Ellie Pringle Hagood’s world. Recently married to the man of her dreams and in anticipation of the big family she’s always wanted ...
GOLD MEDAL WINNER for adult fiction, Florida Authors and Publishers Association, 2020! And GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR WOMEN'S FICTION in RPLA Awards Contest! Southern Literary Review calls BURIED SEEDS “Thoroughly engrossing, imminently readable, and ultimately uplifting . . . an important contribution t ...
Lillianna Ferguson has spent the last twenty years pretending her father is dead. She moved to Oregon—far away from her childhood home in Delaware—changed her name from Emma to Lillianna and vowed never to go back. When her brother, Greg, phones, begging her to come home to care for their father who ...
Thaniya Rasid grew up in the Middle East dreaming of becoming a surgeon. Now living an ordinary life as a mother, wife and a hospital lab tech in Vancouver, Canada, she garners unexpected fame as youTube’s Queen of Hummus when her video demonstrating the recipe goes viral. How could blending c ...
To protect her secrets, a woman refuses to acknowledge the child she left behind fifty years ago and a half a world away. Claire travels halfway across the globe from Southern California to Ireland to find the reasons Norah, her biological mother, gave her up. Norah is equally determined to avoid re ...
Immerse yourself in this collection of short stories filled with dark secrets, tormented pasts and forbidden desires. Where love still conquers all. Join six heroes (and the heroines they pine for) on fast-paced adventures of mystery and romance, longing and loyalty, vengeance and redemption. And ...
Dying isn’t just hard on the ones left behind, the regret of unfinished lives weighs heavily on the terminally ill. That’s where Dire’s Club steps in, a specialty travel agency that takes a small group of dying people on one final adventure—so they can be free of guilt, be more than a diagnosis, and ...
Far from the glittering lights of her palazzo, elite courtesan Belladonna is forced to hide among the shadows of the tenement buildings in the Venetian Ghetto. Two men bearing secrets threaten her elite status and her life. Can she reclaim her love without falling victim to her enemie ...
Not all Otto Viti stories are about dead bodies…
When Jill D'Angelo agrees to join her two sisters on an Italian vacation, she only hopes the three of them can go the whole week without driving each other crazy. Little does she know that the getaway will be full of traveling mishaps and u ...
Rhett Kingsley—ex–Special Forces, billionaire heir, and reluctant society golden boy—has returned from war with hidden scars. All he wants is purpose, and the chance to build affordable homes for his fellow vets.
But his dream is slipping away… the three-billion-dollar trust owed to him c ...
Sandra revisits the place of her birth, which seems like a story from another lifetime. She never has the details right, and it makes her uncomfortable. Fifty years later, she receives a phone call from someone who claims to be her half-sister and learns her birth mother has been searching for he ...
All practical Shelby Stewart wants is to build her PR career at the Boston zoo, and maybe find some nice guys to date. But long-buried memories of a childhood incident keep interrupting her plans, affecting her health one way after another. And when will she actually date someone her friends thin ...
The breathtaking promise of the English countryside can lift even the heaviest spirits . . .
Willow Armstrong, the once-famous Queen of Weight Loss and president of Pound Busters, succumbed to stress eating after her divorce. Now the scandal of getting caught on camera binging on pizza, a ...
Five stories, five women, five legends. Phaedra, a Minoan princess, marries out of duty and to safeguard her precious home. She falls in love with Hippolytos, her husband’s son and asks the Goddess Aphrodite for help. He spurns her affections. The Trojan War, one of history’s greatest stories ever t ...
