“Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.” When Irene America discovers that her husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about [CONTINUE READING]
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Mailbox Monday is where other bloggers write about the books they received the previous week. The Mailbox Monday is now going on a blog tour with the host this month being Rose City Reader. Visit her blog to see what books made it her way and check out the others who are participating like me [CONTINUE READING]
Although the widowed Lady Rebecca has sworn off marriage, men are another matter. London’s cold winter nights have her dreaming of warmer pursuits-like finding a lover to satisfy her hungry heart. Someone handsome, discreet, and most importantly as uninterested in marriage as she is. Someone like Jack Fulton A known adventurer and playboy, Jack seems [CONTINUE READING]
DOWNTRODDEN SERVANT OR GRACIOUS LADY? When Max, Earl Blakehurst, meets Verity he sees a downtrodden servant. He doesn’t recognize her as the daughter of a colonel under whom he used to serve, the girl he’d once helped years before. The life Verity’s now living is untenable. So he proposes a shocking solution–he will set her [CONTINUE READING]
Inspired by the beloved classic The Little Mermaid, THE MERMAID’S PENDANT is amodern fairy tale about growing up and discovering who you are – and what you believe in. At times lyrical, this is a fantastic journey filled with magic, myth, romance, and adventure. Four years after John Wilkerson claimed the mermaid Tamarind for his [CONTINUE READING]
One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami, twenty-six-year-old Frances Ellerby finds herself in a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. It’s the first time the Atlanta native has been out on the open water, and she’s captivated. On [CONTINUE READING]
Is the life you’re living all you imagined? Have you ever asked yourself, “What if??” Here, four women face the decisions of their lifetimes in this stirring and unforgettable novel of love, loss, friendship, and family. Anna Geneva, a Chicago attorney coping with the death of a cherished friend, returns to her “speck on the [CONTINUE READING]
It all takes knowing yourself and what you can live with and what you can not. It really comes down to what you love about someone that you will accept their successes as well as their failures to make life better for all. Blended families have great challenges especially with the acceptance of a new father or [CONTINUE READING]
After Katie Charmaine’s husband is killed in Iraq, all she has left is a closet full of his clothes, a few pictures, and fond memories. She not only lost her love, but her last chance to have the children she’s always wanted. Until Zack Ferguson shows up in town . . . with the daughter [CONTINUE READING]
TITLE: The Highlander’s Sword AUTHOR: Amanda Forester PUBLISHER: Sourcebooks Casablanca PUBLICATION DATE: March2, 2010 PAGES: 352 pages GENRE: Fiction, Historical Romance Against the backdrop of 14th-century Scotland, the talented Forester has constructed a highly entertaining debut romantic comedy of miscommunications and misunderstandings. Highlander Sir Padyn MacLaren stopped trusting women after his French fiancée betrayed him [CONTINUE READING]
TITLE: Love & War: Finding the Marriage You’ve Dreamed Of AUTHORS: John & Stasi Eldridge PUBLISHER: DoubleDay Religion PUBLICATION DATE: December 15, 2009 HARDBACK PAGES: 222 GENRE: Non-Fiction, Christian Living, Marriage Resource What the Eldredge bestsellers WILD AT HEART did for men, and CAPTIVATING did for women, LOVE & WAR will do for married couples [CONTINUE READING]
Title: The Lady in Question Author: Victoria Alexander Publisher: Avon Publication Date: November 25,2003 Paperback: 384 pages Genre: Fiction: Historical Romance No one ever imagined Delia Effington to be the Effington twin to tumble into scandal. But now that she had the name she saw no reason why she shouldn’t play the game, especially with [CONTINUE READING]
The Wallflowers are four young ladies in London who banded together in their wild and wickedly wonderful searches for true love. Now happily married, they join together once again to help one of the world’s most notorious rogues realize that happiness might be right under the mistletoe.… It’s Christmastime in London and Rafe Bowman has [CONTINUE READING]
Aging with Grace by Greg Liberman explores how far one middle-aged, middle class American woman will go to fulfill her desire to be rich and famous before it’s too late. Grace, once beautiful and popular, is now a housewife that’s dissatisfied and growing older. When she reconnects on a social networking Web site with April, [CONTINUE READING]
