Kindergarten teacher Ava O´Connor has never had a relationship last long enough to sustain a houseplant, let alone the life she dreams of.She thought she had found lasting love, but then she caught her fiancé cheating on her. With another man. On the satin sheets he had given her for their anniversary.When Cole Stanton—a summer love from years ago and the only man who has ever made her blood burn—returns to town, he´s suddenly interested in rekindling old flames. But with her confidence shaken, she knows she can´t let him into her heart.Fate seems to bring them together, but is their love strong enough to intervene when life threatens to tear them apart? Views: 50
In this sequel to Doon, Kenna Reid realizes she made a horrible mistake ---choosing to follow her dreams of Broadway instead of staying in the enchanted land of Doon. To make everything worse, she's received her Calling ---proof she and Duncan are each other's one true love ---and it's pure torment, especially when visions of the very alluring Doonish prince appear right before she goes on stage. So when Duncan tells Kenna that Doon needs her, she doesn't have to think twice. But even if Kenna can defeat the evil threatening to eliminate Doon, her happily ever after may still be in peril. Views: 50
A corrupt P.I. will do anything to make a buck and save his own skinJoe Puma didn't kill Albert Target, but he is happy the pimp is dead. A small-time creep whose niche was recruiting wannabe actresses, Target perjured himself for Puma's sake, and the detective was afraid he might decide to talk. The cops know that Puma's crooked, but they can't prove a thing. He's a slick operator with an itchy trigger finger and a flimsy moral code—two things he'll need if his next case is to end as happily as his last.Fallen starlet Jean Roland comes to Puma with a plan to blackmail her lesbian lover's father—a dangerous scheme that would put Puma off if Roland weren't the most stunning woman in Los Angeles. Joe Puma likes money and he likes being alive, but he likes women even more. He'd die for a girl like Jean Roland—but he'd prefer it if someone else died first. Views: 50
When her father dies, Emma Shay and her mother move cross country to a small, boring town. Now the only constant in her new life is him. Beautiful, silent him: the mysterious guy at the library she secretly calls Superman because of his dark good looks. But Emma is puzzled and intrigued by his behavior. He speaks at her but never to her. He comes up to touch her hair then suddenly leaves. Until one day an impulsive meeting between them uncovers a strange truth about William Bennett.Set in Southern Indiana during the summer of 1979, The Soul Seekers is about one girl and the future she tries to deny. Can Emma Shay save William from his purgatory, or is she doomed to share his fate?Review"The Soul Seekers is a very interesting novel! It is full of boys, trouble, a secret society, mystery, and love. It honestly has you questioning how it is going to end the entire time, because as soon as you think one thing will happen another thing happens to change that thought. I was really happy that it wasn't predictable at all." --Book Bite Reviews"The Soul Seekers is one of the most intriguing books I've read. . . . captivated me and kept me turning the pages until the very end." --Whitney Boyd, author of Tanned, Toned and Totally Faking ItAbout the AuthorAmy Saia lives in Kansas where she keeps busy as a writer, artist and musician. She has two very imaginative children, a cat named Grape, and a long-haired dachshund named Henry. Views: 50
Reece knew how ridiculous it was to think that he was going to end up with the girl he dated in high school. It’s not exactly the 50’s or even the 80’s anymore. But he had foolishly thought that he and Cleo had a chance. They’d spent a whole lot of junior year talking about their future. They’d clicked in a way that went far deeper than he ever thought possible. They’d grown close over things that were far more intense than issues people their age usually had to face. So, ridiculous or not, he had thought he and Cleo would be forever.But then without warning, the minute school got out for the summer, she’d ripped his heart out and tossed it back to him.So obviously, he had been wrong. And now that summer vacation is over and senior year is starting, he’s not sure how he’s going to be able to deal with seeing her every day. Now that she’s so over him.Or…maybe she’s not?Because what Reece doesn’t know is that Cleo has a secret. If it had been up to her? She would never have let him go.84,000 wordsApproximately 270 pages Views: 50
AFTER THE STORM OF THE CENTURY rips apart New Orleans, Adele Le Moyne and her father are among the first to return to the city following the mandatory evacuation. Adele wants nothing more than for life to return to normal, but with the silent city resembling a mold-infested war zone, a parish-wide curfew, and mysterious new faces lurking in the abandoned French Quarter, normal will have to be redefined. Events too unnatural – even for New Orleans – lead Adele to an attic that has been sealed for three hundred years, and the chaos she unleashes threatens not only her life but everyone she knows. Mother Nature couldn’t drain the joie de vivre from the Big Easy, but someone or something is draining life from its residents. Caught suddenly in a hurricane of eighteenth-century myths and monsters, Adele must quickly untangle a web of magic that links the climbing murder rate back to her own ancestors. But who can you trust in a city where everyone has a secret, and where keeping them can be a matter of life and death – unless, that is, you’re immortal. Views: 50
Is she getting a second take at her Hollywood ending? Despite her leading lady looks, Tamara Pierce has always been happiest out of the spotlight, especially since a painful breakup drove her away from her society friends. Now she's happily managing a magnificent, historic old movie house that's in danger of being torn down. It's good news when a billionaire buyer shows interest. If only the billionaire in question weren't Gregory Blanchard, who once fueled her fantasies of happily after ever. Known for his reckless endeavors in romance and business, Gregory's determined to prove his worth with this new project. And he knows how to do it: making Tamara the public face of the Ellen Theater. She's poised, passionate—the perfect partner on his arm at fundraising events. Once he lures her into the limelight, the shy beauty gets under his skin in a way no woman has before. But will a heartbreaker like him be the one to lead her back... Views: 50
In Room for Love by Andrea Meyer, Jacquie Stuart has just turned thirty-two and she wants to do a major rewrite on her life. Her salary at a snarky film magazine barely covers her mortgage, her bratty sister has staked permanent claim to her couch, her best friend is in an obscenely happy marriage, and the only guy who really gets her is gay. Worst of all, she keeps falling for broke, self-involved commitment-phobes. Needing moonlighting money, Jacquie gets the idea of investigating a new dating trend—looking for Mr. Right in the “Roommate Wanted” ads. After a bunch of colorful near-misses that bring her into the slums of the East Village, the brownstones of Brooklyn, and the dingier digs of the Upper East Side, Jacquie thinks she's finally found the man she's been looking for and stuns her friends by moving out of her beloved apartment—and into his. Complications ensue when her live-in love reveals some alarming imperfections, the irresistible artist who dumped her wants her back… and what is up with the mystery man living in the charming one-bedroom she left behind? Jacquie has been looking for love in other people’s homes all over town, but could the key to her happiness lie right under her very own roof? Views: 50
