Rivers Sullivan bears both visible and invisible scars—those on her shoulder from a bullet wound and those on her heart from the loss of her fiancé during the same brutal attack. Not even her background as an art therapist can help her regain her faith in humanity. Still, she scrapes together the courage to travel to St. Simons Island to see the beach cottage and art gallery she's inherited from her fiancé. When she stumbles upon recovering addicts running her gallery, she's forced to reckon with her own healing.After the tragic drowning of his cousin, James Cooper Knight spends his days trying to make up for his past mistakes. He not only dedicates his life to addiction counseling, but guilt drives him to the water, searching for others who've been caught unaware of the quickly rising tides of St. Simons. When he rescues a peculiar blond woman and her sketch pad from a sandbar, then delivers this same woman to his deceased grandmother's... Views: 47
The Astonishing Color of After meets Eleanor & Park in this breathtaking and beautifully surreal story about a friendship between two teens that just might shake the earth around them or at the very least make them face some painful truths about the nature of what drives us apart...and what brings us together.Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon don't have much in common, unless you count growing up on the same (wrong) side of the tracks, the lack of a mother, and a persistent loneliness that has inspired creative coping mechanisms. When the lives of these two loners are thrust together, Lydia's cynicism is met with Billy's sincere optimism, and both begin to question their own outlook on life. On top of that, weird happenings including an impossible tornado and an all-consuming fog are cropping up around them—maybe even because of them. And as the two grow closer and confront bigger truths about their pasts, they must also deal with such... Views: 47
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Adrian Bear is just right. The sun is setting. There isn't a town in sight, much less a hotel.But there is a cabin...Goldie is out for answers, not romance. But when the cabin's billionaire owner discovers her sleeping there, and he offers to help her find her long-lost aunt, she's not about to tell him no.She knows it's a risk. But the man who let her eat his oatmeal, sit in his chair, and crash at his cabin is too irresistible to let go. Views: 47
A few days rest is just what Dottie needs. It's not long before she makes the acquaintance of Penny Parfitt, and her attractive brother-in-law Gervase and accepts their invitation to spend a few days in the country. Quickly Dottie realises that secrets and intrigues lurk beneath the pleasant surface of their lives. A suicide years earlier casts a shadow. Was it really suicide? Dottie begins to think something sinister has taken place.But after all this time, can she find out what really happened?If you love a traditional, cosy mystery series set in the 1930s then why not read The Last Perfect Summer of Richard Dawlish: Dottie Manderson mysteries book 4, from Caron Allan, writer of the Dottie Manderson murder mysteries as well as the contemporary diary-based the Friendship Can Be Murder trilogy. Views: 47
OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLDThe cult classic that defined a generationFirst UK publication in 47 years'An extraordinary novel ... women will like it and men should read it for the good of their immortal souls' The New York TimesSasha Davis has everything a girl in 1950s suburbia could want: beauty, intelligence and an all-star sports captain boyfriend. All she needs to succeed is to keep her skin clear and her intelligence hidden under herProm Queen tiara. But when she drops out of college to marry, Sasha soon realises her life has become a fearful countdown to her thirtieth birthday - the year when her beauty will have faded, and life as she knowsit will end. As Sasha rebels against her fate, she finds herself experiencing an intellectual and sexual awakening that might be her only chance of outrunning the aging process.First published in 1972, Alix Kates Shulman's landmark novel follows Sasha's coming of... Views: 47
