Elise Grayson has it all. Money, looks, a comfortable home in an upscale Boston neighborhood, and the social status her family has long enjoyed. She has everything she's ever wanted. Almost. Elise's private life is her one failure. So focused on building her professional life, Elise has left little time for anything else . . . including her girlfriend whose infidelity comes as a bolt out of the blue.Jan Chase needs a new job and new surroundings—a place where no one will ask questi...

When the heart wants what it should not have…Settling into a new job at a hospital on the wild southern coast of Washington, Sara Patterson has carefully realized her cautious hopes for a steady, practical life. Education, check. Secure employment, check. Tumultuous attraction to an attractive drifter? Not on the list.Jessie Singer loves the way billiard balls roll over the green baize of a pool table and her dream of playing pool professionally keeps her wandering...

Joanna Lucas is single again, but a trip to Venice to consult on a mosaic restoration will help mend her broken heart. Most of her two weeks will be free to explore the beautiful Italian city with her friend Deena, but if shed known who recommended her for the trip, she might have stayed home. An award-winning painter, Chandler Cardin also gives private art lessons. Shes the last person Joanna expects to run into so far from Boston. Equally unexpected is the attraction that resurfa...

In the wake of the pandemic, Val Nardi’s dreams hang by a thread. Putting her own aspirations aside, she decides to help her brother and goes to work in his restaurant. But the sacrifice she’s made means her dreams might be forever out of reach.Then everything changes when she crosses paths with the enigmatic and successful software engineer, Dr. Susan Castle.As Val fights to save her family’s business and rebuild her life, Susan’s intriguing presence is something she can’t...

Jordan Griffin is an attractive and dedicated assistant editor for Northwest Living Magazine. She is given an assignment to track down and interview one-time nationally renowned broadcast journalist, Reece McAllister who has been living a secretive and reclusive life.To get the story, Jordan follows Reece deep into the backwoods of Washington State. To her surprise, Jordan comes away with far more than just a story.Should she betray a trust or deny her journalistic conscien...

A successful business woman and single mother, Liz Elliott is fast approaching the age of forty. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Becca is a freshman at Chilton College in Ashton, Vermont. Becca also happens to be a rising star for the Lady Stingers basketball team—just as her mother had been twenty years ago. But back in those early days a dirty little secret had collapsed Liz’s world—a secret she has kept hidden from everyone—especially her daughter. Now Liz finds herself accepting her dau...

A mile wide and with winds rising over 200 miles per hour, the EF-5 tornado that laid waste to Joplin, Missouri, took everything from Dale Kinsel. Already struggling to get through the months after the death of her partner Sydney, Dale doesn’t believe she can find the strength to dig through the rubble.The last thing she needs is Sydney’s sister, Taren, crossing her path again. There is nothing but bad blood between them and Taren’s help doesn’t change that. Surrounded by a broken ...

Elise Grayson has it all. Money, looks, a comfortable home in an upscale Boston neighborhood and the social status her family has long enjoyed. She has everything she’s ever wanted. Almost. Elise’s private life is her one failure. So focused on building her professional life, Elise has left little time for anything else…including her girlfriend whose infidelity comes as a bolt out of the blue.Jan Chase needs a new job and new surroundings—a place where no one will ask questions or ...

Dana Robbins needs a vacation from her girlfriend—and her life.Used to working out her problems in her work, the successful syndicated cartoonist plans a solo summer vacation on a houseboat, hopeful that the separation will resolve her doubts about her future with Shannon. But Shannon’s frequent calls demanding some resolution only heighten her turmoil.Marine biologist Dr. Jamie Hughes sees Puget Sound in ways few other people do. The hours she spends diving its...

When Dr. Paris DeMont lost her beloved Gabriella to the mindless tragedy of Nine Eleven, she lost more than her partner of eight years. She lost her will to love. A successful cardiologist to New York City's elite, Paris now lives a sterile emotionless existence on Manhattan's Upper East Side.But Paris finds out that even when one tries to give up on life, life has a way of interfering and forcing you to live it. When Paris returns to Banyon, Missouri, to oversee the repairs to the...

Taylor Fleming is a thirty-six year old Texas rancher who covets her independence enough to keep her life simple, no strings attached. As partner to her father's vast cattle ranch, she has enough to keep her busy without taking on a serious relationship with any of the women who clamor for her attention.When a neighboring aging rancher fills the Fleming's life with aggravation and vandalism, Taylor is forced to confront the old man's estranged daughter, Jen Holland. But convincing ...

Cricket Banter is all the rage among the cricketing cognoscenti and the chat, the sledging and the humour behind the game is all covered here, by those boys at The Middle Stump, in conjunction with Factor 50. Here we cover most aspects of cricket, as we speak with some of the finest, funniest, larger than life characters from the sport over the last thirty years, along with a selection of hilarious stories about the game. It's a highly amusing book; read it and yo...