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Marie Vachon experiences firsthand the devastation of the German invasion when she takes in a Jewish refugee named Josiane. A loving, if temporary, home for the displaced child. A second chance at motherhood for Marie. After three years, an inseparable bond is created. It’s one that leads Marie and Josiane to an inevitable but surprising reckoning that calls into question what motherhood means—and where it ends.

Die dunkle Seite der amerikanischen Seele. Eine betörende Frau lässt sich auf den Hundemann ein - kurz zuvor hatte sie ihm ihre Kätzchen anvertraut, doch was er mit denen vorhat, kann sie nicht ahnen. Eine Zwölfjährige soll vor Gericht gegen ihren alkoholkranken Vater aussagen; und plötzlich gibt es viele Wahrheiten: gute und schlechte, notwendige und schmerzliche. Ein Witwer legt sich eine Schlange zu, aber die Ratten, mit denen er sie füttern will, wachsen ihm so sehr ans Herz, dass er am Ende Dreizehnhundert von ihnen beherbergt.

Good Dog offers memorable, beautifully written stories of dog ownership, companionship, friendship, and kinship. From the troublemakers who can't be fenced in to the lifelong companions who won't leave our sides, this poignant anthology showcases man's best friend through all of his most endearing--and sometimes maddening--attributes.

When those she loved betrayed her and now someone is trying to kill her, can she trust her cowboy protector? After being deceived for most of her life, Zoey Crawford discovers she built her life on quicksand. Her mother betrayed her, and her affluent father is a stranger to her. Back in her coastal hometown due to his health scare, she’s building a new life and learning to trust again. Love is the last thing on her list. But someone has it in for the new heiress in town, and a modern knight in cowboy boots with shiny spurs saves her life twice. Can she open her heart for love and ...

A nurse, a cowboy, and a secret that could get them both killed by Christmas! Diana Medina isn’t looking for love but for her missing friend who disappeared weeks before Christmas. The search leads her several states away to a small coastal town and a beautiful ranch. When one of the ranch owners, Laredo Lawrence, gets injured, she moves to the ranch to help him. After all, she was the one who caused his injury—by accident. But because a dangerous secret lurks between them, she stifles her growing attraction to the charming cowboy who literally serenades her. Then more accidents start ...

Return to Summit Falls is the ongoing story of four men who learned from childhood that not all family ties are those we are born to…and how life can change in a single day…a single moment. When they return to the small town of Summit Falls, they find life is also filled with second chances…in life and love.This includes: Going Home Home Again Coming Home Going Home Years ago four young men left their hometown of Summit Falls. Each of them ready to take on whatever the world had to throw at them. Now, years later, two of them are coming home. Jonah Sutherland has made public service ...

He’s a man of honor and commitment. She’s never met a man she could trust. Will her secrets ruin their only chance at love? As the oldest of the Hart brothers, Jacob is the serious one, the reliable and steady hand everyone depends on at the family’s thriving Wyoming horse ranch. He’s never questioned his life’s purpose or his choices, even though it's meant living without love or romance. Elizabeth Grayson hasn’t had a family for a long time, unless you count a controlling ex-husband she’s eager to put behind her. Hopping on a bus from Chicago to a rural mountain town in ...

What happens when a sunshine assistant falls for her grumpy cowboy boss, plus a kidnapping or two?When the boss she adores falls for someone else, Saylor Helms hides her pain at another lost love behind a cheerful smile, looks for a new job, and vows to never lose her heart again. When she becomes an assistant to the grumpy cowboy Darius Lawrence, she also has to fight her attraction to her new boss. It’s more difficult to keep her sense of humor when she and Darius are taken hostage in a jewelry store robbery. Can they escape before they become dinner for rats—or get so starved they ...

Parker Colthorpe has arrived unexpectedly in Summit Falls to attend one of Jonah Sutherland’s week long symposiums. Or at least that’s what he’s telling everyone…including himself.Adam isn’t the only resident of Summit Falls who is surprised by the unexpected arrival of his former boss when he shows up. But he knows better than most that Parker has always been more at home in the middle of a newsroom than anywhere else and Summit Falls wasn’t the nation’s capital where there was never any shortage of what to cover next. But there was at least one person in Summit Falls who ...

The right woman…was right under his nose! As far back as she can remember, Betsy McGregor has crushed on Ryan Harcourt. Unfortunately, Ryan views her only as a friend. When she gets a job working for the handsome attorney, Betsy sees this as her opportunity to turn friendship into love. The stakes are high, but she’s used to overcoming obstacles. She's not sure how she ends up agreeing to play matchmaker for him. Or him for her! As Ryan attempts to find Betsy the perfect man for her, the friendship between them builds into a powerful chemistry. Will Ryan discover his perfect match has ...

From the very beginning, Orson was a misfit. Like all border collies, he needed to work. But since there weren't any sheep available for herding in the New Jersey suburbs, Orson instead tried to corral school buses, garbages trucks, and skateboarding kids. So Katz pulled up stakes and moved to a farm in upstate New York. There, Orson improved dramatically - until the day he started nipping people. The nips soon turned to bites, forcing Katz to face an incredibly painful decision.

Christmas and romance...newlywed gift buying angst...and single Dad worries rule in this heartwarming small town Christmas story. Christmas more than any other time of the year, is a time for family reunions and joyous gatherings, Home Again for Christmas continues the story of Jonah, Adam, and Nicolas...and their return to Summit Falls and their celebration of the holidays. Four young men left Summit Falls years ago in search of something different…three have returned for the same reason.As the Christmas holiday approaches, theirs lives are filled with weighty decisions, and for a few of...

Stay Thirsty Publishing presents A Christmas Hometown Reunion - Book 1 in The Holiday Series. A feel-good, holiday story for the holiday season. Anderson and Molly Wallace are humble apple farmers from a small town in Iowa. They decide to flip tradition on its head and have a Christmas hometown reunion by bringing their whole family to Chicago to be with their youngest child, Ben, whose work made it impossible for him to be home for the holidays. This heartwarming story where country meets city, where new girlfriend meets old, and where Ben relearns the importance of family and small-town ...

Stories filled with everything Christmas brings...family, friends, Christmas trees, huge meals, childhood Christmas memories, mothers baking turkey, sibling bickering that goes on into adulthood...and knowing no matter where you are...home isn’t always a place…it’s the people who live there. This includes: Home Again for Christmas (part of the Return to Summit Falls series) Years ago four young men left their hometown of Summit Falls. Each of them ready to take on whatever the world had to throw at them. Now, years later, three of them, Jonah Sutherland, Adam Dane, and Nicolas ...

A sweet & clean small-town friends-to-love second chances romance! Heartwarming and uplifting! Meeting the high school sweetheart small-town girl Heidi Fernandez left nearly a decade ago opens old wounds—and rekindles old feelings. After what happened in the past, can she believe that love exists even for geeks like her? While her insecurities war with hope for a second chance, she gets a great job offer—in Germany. Jason Andrews never knew why Heidi dumped him two weeks before their wedding. When she returns to Rios Azules, he realizes he hasn't gotten over his heartbreak, or his love ...

He's the wildest of the Hart brothers, risking life and limb to chase the next adventure in the bull riding arena. She's a reserved professional, a cool beauty born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but who gave it all up to pursue her passion for horse training. Can the cowboy rebel and a former rich girl find common ground, or will their separate worlds ultimately pull them apart? Beau Hart has always loved adventure from the time he was a boy. The youngest of the Hart brothers, Beau has made a name for himself as a bull riding champion in rodeos all over the country. But when a bad fall ...

Mateo was just a boy when his mother passed and the Hart family took him in as one of their own. Claire Hawkins is the One Who Got Away, the town beauty who stole his heart in high school only to break it when another man swept her away. Now, Claire’s back on her own, but can the soft-spoken cowboy finally win over his true love for a second chance, or will Mateo’s faithful heart break all over again?Mateo Hart has worked the family ranch since he was old enough to saddle a horse. Adopted into the boisterous Hart clan after tragedy struck his own family, Mateo has always been the quiet ...

He’s confident and charming, the life of every party. She’s an introverted loner who’s never been able to count on anyone. Will trusting an irresistible cowboy jeopardize everything she’s worked for all her life?Handsome, easy-going Liam is the golden boy of the Hart family. Always quick with a joke or his heart-melting smile, Liam is also the first to lend a hand to anyone in need. He’s never met a stranger he couldn’t charm—that is, until he crosses paths with beautiful barrel racer, Lily Bates. Lily has come to Wyoming to fight for her place as the top competitor in her ...

This heartwarming collection includes more than 30 true, contemporary stories told by a variety of writers, including Melody Carlson, Lauraine Snelling, and Kristin Billerbeck. Each feel-good story involves cat rescue, some in a typical way and others in surprising - even miraculous - ways. Sometimes the question becomes: Really, who rescued whom?

Matt Handen has been offered a second chance by his son who wants him to be part of the effort to restore the historic home he just bought...but can Matt set aside his pride and made amends with the son he betrayed...Regrets is the sixth novella in the ongoing Andersen Family Saga. Livia Andersen was a woman who held her family together with a quiet smile and an iron will. It’s been less than a month since her death and the four children she leaves behind grapple with the shifting changes in their lives now that she’s gone. But they are not alone in their grief. Nate Handen loves his ...