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CHERYL HOLT continues to delight readers with the thrilling, dramatic second novel in her Jilted Brides trilogy… Winifred Watson grew up as the only daughter of a decorated war hero. When he died suddenly, she was shocked to learn that he was bankrupt and she lost everything to pay his final debts. She'd hoped to wed her fiancé-a steady, handsome man who would have guided her through the tumult of her father's death. But when her penury was revealed,...
2) On a Whim
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Ever since high school, Katie Weldon has wondered what it would be like to be Rick Doyle's girlfriend. As a college senior she's about to find out. In the swirl of Katie's upgraded dating life, she receives an unexplained bouquet, an unexpected call from her mother, an unprecedented girls' night out with Christy, and an unhappy moment when her beloved car, Baby Hummer, takes its last wheeze. Rick's new roommate, Eli, complicates things by inviting...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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Katie has every reason to smile at her future.
College graduation is almost here, and Katie is pretty sure she and Rick are ready to make plans for their future together.
Why does Eli keeps igniting thoughts of new adventures and spontaneity? His wild love for God challenges her and he seems to always be right there when she needs support. Katie reminds herself that Rick is one she's been waiting for. Rick can offer her stability and purpose.
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For emotionally-scarred Meghan George, life is all about memories-bad ones. A childhood loss, an unwise affair, an unplanned pregnancy and a career disaster force her to go full circle, back to her hometown. Is this next chapter in her troubles, or an unexpected chance at renewal and love?
Nothing meant more to Meghan than her dog Shadow, and when he dies tragically she swears she'll never have another. Now her seven year old daughter, Grace, wants...
5) Satisfaction
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Temptation (K.M. Golland) volume 2
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This book is for mature audiences 18+ It contains explicit language and sexual content. Life hands out challenges that we sometimes unwillingly accept. We have no choice in the acceptance really, because that it is essentially what life is; a series of unavoidable challenges thrown our way for us to overcome. Alexis Summers is no stranger to facing challenges as she has had her fair share of them since meeting and subsequently falling in love with...
6) Last Will
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Bernie Raleigh fails at everything he touches. The victim of a kidnapping for ransom as a child, Bernie has spent his adult life trying to avoid being noticed. That's impossible once he inherits his grandfather's enormous fortune. The inheritance comes complete with a lot of obligations, a mansion, and a problematic housekeeper named Meda Amos. Beauty queen, alien abductee, crypto-Jew, single mother - Meda is all those things, and she may be the only...
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When 39 year-old biologist Margie's certain plans to relocate to a remote village in the Karoo with her significant other fall to pieces, she has to endure a change of life and a change of heart as she is won over by the place and people of Waddedene. In a series of diary blog posts, Margie goes from the desperation of being alone, confused and heartbroken to the gradual realisation that she has been given the unusual gift of healing, in the strangest...
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Cookie Johnson begins his odyssey along paths few travel to arrive at a place in life never dreamed, expected, or predicted. J J. "Cookie" Johnson, a fry cook at Sugar Babe's, quits his job, pays a recruiter ten dollars to be a cook in the Army, and ends up as an infantry rifleman in Vietnam. He finds combat exhilarating and being responsible for others fulfilling. Injured by a grenade explosion and evacuated to a field hospital, J.J. meets and...
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Chenoa's Long Journey is a modern-day adventure beginning when Jade Eagle, a Native American, meets Ashley Tyler, a girl from New Orleans. Upon learning her soul is as troubled as his, he feels compelled to help her and thinks the answers she seeks await her high in the Big Horn Mountains where his great-grandmother, Nakoli, lives with a small band of Indians. There, Nakoli can help Ashley see her vision and free her of the nightmares that have haunted...
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Beautiful young widow, Charlotte Madison, is destitute after the death of her husband in a rail accident, and begins housekeeping once a week for five lovelorn bachelors in the small rural town of Monto In Queensland. They importune her and she keeps refusing until her son Robbie, 13, is caught thieving around the town with his mates. The local Police Sergeant urges her to get Robbie out of Monto and, desperate for money, Charlotte agrees to give...
11) Shark in Daga
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What do you do when your safe place is no longer safe?
Cindy Mauro Reisenauer's new novel, SHARK in DAGA, is loaded with suspense and tender romance. After surviving a near-fatal attack, Neonatal Nurse practitioner, Kat Granger, has returned home to the tranquility of the Adirondack Mountains to rebuild her life along...
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Love Means Everything. Sister Maggie finds her faith renewed in the arms of Stella, a beautiful tennis player. Meanwhile, Stella, a successful and ruthless attorney, discovers a love she never imagined with Maggie. However, will they have the courage to let a chance meeting change their lives?
Game, a novel of love, faith, and fearlessness, is the first book of The Match Trilogy.
13) Dirty Pictures
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It was to be Bobby Farrell's summer of liberation, a young man's foray into the sexual bliss he was sure awaited him. Instead, his dream of a carnal awakening carried an immoral dose of reality with it, and those wanton thoughts of naughty nights and bodacious bragging rights of a salacious nature were riddled with disgrace. Where he thought he would find gratification he found shame. Where he thought he would enjoy splendor he experienced pain. Nicole...
14) Cassandra
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Suddenly, Cassandra's body stiffened. Her fists clenched. Her eyes were opened wide, unblinking. After about ten seconds, her body relaxed and her fists unclenched. "Daddy!" she screamed, panic in her voice. Running out of the den, she headed for the back door, out into the yard, and over to where Nikos was standing. "Daddy!" she said, breathless. "What's the matter?" "Don't go!" "What are you talking about?" "The train!" "What about the train?" Nikos...
15) Cyber Nothing
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"Cyber Nothing" is a romantic novel about a marriage and family therapist who falls in love with an online Scrabble player. Complicating everything, he is married and lives 1700 miles away. Balancing work and a house full of adult children, the therapist finds herself exhausted by life's struggle and desperate for a diversion. Of all things, playing Scrabble online is her outlet, and an innocent chat line becomes her lifeline.
Love stories are not...
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Roger Waite found his dream woman while attending college at Washington State University. After a whirlwind romance he and Mary Johnson wed and begin life together, only to have her emotional sanity unravel because of a history of abuse and attempted suicide. When children are born and pressures assail her, she descends into a manic depressive anxiety-riddled existence confounding Roger's plans for the ideal family he seeks. Realizing Mary's sister,...
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Nathan is a young, aspiring writer. About two years before our story begins, he finds a kind of mentorship with a much older, much wiser woman named Julia. She's an accomplished author, while Nathan has only one very poor novel under his belt. Things are going well as she coaches him through his next book, until his former love comes strolling back into his life. From there on there's some "naked poetry", punching, projection, and lies Nathan must...
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This is the story of what happens when a young businessman, condemned to death for a crime he was not aware of, and contemplating suicide, meets a young woman who travels via skateboard and whose life has all the normalcy of an AA meeting. With a death sentence of AIDS hovering in the background, Eric and Aston follow a map, created by a former DEA agent into a mystery of theft, deception and a not-so-dead Viet Nam war-time pilot who reportedly crashed...
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After a decade apart, Slater Heart and Alexandra Lorraine are finally together. The world's biggest rock star and America's sweetheart hid their bond for years. Not only has the world learned about their secret love, but they've become aware of a private moment that was suddenly made very public.
Alexandra and Slater have gone into hiding, but in doing so they realize that the more they hide, the more the public speculates about them. How will...
20) Boyfriendz
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Julian's dream is to fall in love for the very first time and when he meets a handsome stranger, his non-existent love life suddenly becomes more than he bargained for. Darnell wants nothing more than to be the most successful real estate broker in the tri-state area however, the biggest obstacles he may face are his own personal demons. Z and Stony have always been the stable couple of their group but when that stability is shaken, their love will...
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