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The Cottage at Hope Cove: A wonderfully uplifting holiday romance (affiliate link)
The summer that changes everything…
Lizzie Beaumont has the perfect life—on paper. A successful career, a wealthy fiancé, and a dream wedding just months away. But when her fiancé cancels their plans yet again to prioritize work, Lizzie makes a spontaneous decision: a solo escape to the charming seaside town of Hope Cove.
She’s looking for space to clear her head. She doesn’t expect Max.
When the handsome, easygoing guy next door asks for her help redecorating, Lizzie is all too eager to oblige. Suddenly, the quiet week she envisioned is filled with laughter, late-night talks, and a connection she never saw coming.
But reality isn’t far behind. As her return date looms, so do the questions she can’t ignore. Is her fiancé truly the man she wants to spend forever with—or just the man she agreed to marry?
One summer. One choice. And one question she never thought she’d have to ask: What if “having it all” means letting go of everything she knows?
Conch Republic Island Stepping with Hemingway (affiliate link)
Mystery & Adventure novelist, Jonathan Tyler Springer, pen name – J.T. Springs takes a break in the Florida Keys to recapture some of his passion for writing. The influence of Key West and thoughts of Ernest Hemingway lures him to stay, much to the protests of his California Literary Agent – C. Moselly. Trying to settle into island living, Jon never gets any writing done as he gets involved with the quirks and idiosyncrasies of the colorful characters that make up Key West’s environment and lifestyle. From the hang-out drinking establishment “Conch Republic Tavern” owned and operated by an attractive local woman to a seaplane pilot whose wild inspirations take him flying across the Caribbean and a Cuban businessman who believes he should be the successor to Fidel Castro, Jon never has a dull moment and finds he’s living the live of adventure instead of writing about it.
Forbidden Flame: A Secret Wedding Romance (Campfire Council Book 1) (affiliate link)
A secret marriage wasn’t in my plans.
Neither was marrying my brother’s best friend.
One night in Vegas later, and there’s a diamond on my left hand.
Ivan Nimitz is the town golden boy. Ridiculously handsome, charming, a shameless flirt. And my new husband.
I’ve spent years under my critical father’s thumb, but I’m finally free and ready to build the life I want: my pizzeria, a baby to love. A husband… not so much. Telling my small town I married their beloved high school football coach on a whim? Hard pass.
Ivan’s sinfully cocky grin and sweet promises are complications I don’t need. The plan was simple – stay married long enough to make my dream of motherhood come true. But late nights turn into lazy mornings, and I can’t keep my hands (or my heart) from getting involved.
As if falling for my fake husband isn’t messy enough, someone’s sabotaging town events, and I’m the one taking the blame. Now, I need to uncover the culprit, figure out if Ivan’s feelings are real, and decide if I’m brave enough to risk it all – before my father makes sure I pay for my mistakes.
Nights of Obedience (Vines & Venom Book 1) (affiliate link)
Emilie
I never asked to marry King Cyrus, the ruler of the neighboring realm. But after his wife passed away, my parents saw an opportunity to gain his favor. They didn’t hesitate to offer my hand in marriage. Despite the circumstances, I’m determined to make the best of the situation. After all, becoming royalty comes with plenty of advantages. But first I’ll have to get past an unexpected obstacle—the king’s brother, Ladon.
Ladon
I’ll do anything to protect my family, even if it means sabotaging my brother’s upcoming marriage. I know the truth—that Emilie is a money-hungry opportunist who is unfit to be the queen. I’ll do whatever it takes to see their engagement come to an end. She thought she was entering paradise, but I’m going to give her hell.
Until disaster strikes…
The Maine Attraction (affiliate link)
Falling for my fake fiancée wasn’t part of the plan.
Then again, neither was the busted knee that ended my hockey career. One minute, I had it all: adoring fans, millions in sponsorship deals, and a popstar girlfriend who craved the spotlight even more than me. The next minute, it was all gone.
Wanting nothing more than to be left alone to lick my wounds, I purchased a defunct lighthouse in my hometown of Fog Harbor, Maine. Not only does the lighthouse offer the seclusion and solitude I desire but restoring it to its former glory will give me something to do. I hire a local contracting business, Corbin and Sons, to help with the job. But when the contractor shows up, I’m shocked to discover that it’s neither Corbin nor one of his sons; it’s one of his daughters.
Charley Corbin and I have history. In high school, she was my sister’s best friend—and my mortal enemy. Now, she’s all grown up, skilled with a power saw, quick-witted, and drop-dead gorgeous.
Amish Truth Be Told (Peace Valley Amish Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Shame. Deception. Truth.
Inside the Amish community of Peace Valley lurks a shameful double standard. When two women, Lizzie Lapp and Annie Miller, are told by their husbands to abandon their dreams of work outside the home, will they have the strength to protect themselves and their families? Can the light of God’s truth transform their community, and their husbands’ hearts? Or are some secrets too painful to reveal?
Find out in Truth Be Told, Book 1 of the Peace Valley Amish series. Truth Be Told is a Christian Amish romance that spans three generations.
The Paris Wedding: A Novel (affiliate link)
Imagine you are invited to Paris, the City of Love, to witness the wedding of your first love to a woman you’ve never met. Would you go?
It’s been ages since Rachael West has seen the man she once believed she couldn’t live without. Receiving his wedding invitation was bittersweet—she was oddly touched he’s asked her, but knows that facing him on this day would be the hardest thing she’s ever done.
But her friends and family convince her to attend. After all, it’s an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris! Surely she can get through that one day, and discover all the delights of that magical city the remainder of the time.
So Rachael leaves her small town, setting off for the City of Lights with her best friend, two feuding neighbors, and a suitcase full of home-sewn couture in tow. She’s determined to let Paris work its magic—and it does by way of a handsome photojournalist. And before her adventure is over, Rachael will be faced with yet another choice. But this time, hers isn’t the only happiness at risk . . . .
The Novel of Ferrara (affiliate link)
Giorgio Bassani’s six classic books, collected for the first time in English as the epic masterwork they were intended to be.
Among the masters of twentieth-century literature, Giorgio Bassani and his northern Italian hometown of Ferrara “are as inseparable as James Joyce and Dublin or Italo Svevo and Trieste” (from the Introduction). The Novel of Ferrara brings together Bassani’s six classics, fully revised by the author at the end of his life.
Set before, during, and after the Second World War, these interlocking stories present nuanced and unforgettable characters: the respected doctor whose homosexuality is exposed by an exploitative youth; the survivor of the Nazi death camps; the Jewish landowner, returned from exile, to find himself utterly displaced; the schoolteacher whose Communist idealism challenges a postwar generation.
Master of Poisons (affiliate link)
The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find.
Djola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile.
Awa, a young woman training to be a powerful griot, tests the limits of her knowledge and comes into her own in a world of sorcery, floating cities, kindly beasts, and uncertain men.
Awash in the rhythms of folklore and storytelling and rich with Hairston’s characteristic lush prose, Master of Poisons is epic fantasy that will bleed your mind with its turns of phrase and leave you aching for the world it burns into being.
Fever: A Novel (affiliate link)
Nico Storm and his father, Willem, drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in the world, as far as they know, to have survived a devastating virus that has swept over the planet. In this new reality, Nico realizes that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father’s protector, even though he is still only a boy.
Willem Storm, though not a fighter, is a wise and compassionate man with a vision for a new community that survivors will rebuild from the ruins. And so Amanzi is founded, drawing Storm’s “homeless and tempest-tost”—starting with Melinda Swanevelder, whom they rescue from brutal thugs; Hennie Fly, with his vital Cessna plane; Beryl Fortuin and her ragtag group of orphans; and Domingo, the man with the tattooed hand. Then Sofia Bergman arrives, the most beautiful girl Nico has ever seen, who changes everything.
The Dower House Mystery (affiliate link)
They meet again in the dusk of a ruined garden. Amabel Grey hasn’t laid eyes on Julian Forsham in twenty years, not since she gave him up—the man she’d fallen passionately in love with—for the fiancé who needed her. Now an unexpected circumstance brings the British widow and the world-famous scientist together again.
Amabel’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Daphne, has been invited to join her friends—and the boy she adores—on a trip to Egypt. But she needs two hundred pounds from her mother. George Forsham is offering that exact sum to anyone willing to stay six months at Dower House, the centuries-old estate in the English countryside where Amabel and Julian first met. The fact that the overgrown, sadly neglected house is rumored to be haunted doesn’t deter Amabel. Until strange things start happening . . .
Love and Other Scandals (affiliate link)
Joan Bennett is a breath away from being a spinster. She’s had four seasons without a suitor. After reading a shockingly sensuous book, Fifty Ways to Sin, Joan decides perhaps it’s time to stop being proper and start being sinful, while she’s still young enough to enjoy it. And what better partner than her brother’s drinking mate, Viscount Burke? He seems the type to know how to give a lady a lascivious adventure.
It seems that the viscount has qualms about trifling with a friend’s sister. That’s the way to end up betrothed. And he doesn’t want that—or does he?
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