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  • Kayla's Trick by Jean Grainger

    Kayla's Trick by Jean Grainger

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  drama  fiction
  • What Grows Dies Here by Anne Malcom

    What Grows Dies Here by Anne Malcom

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “You will be loved many times by many men. But you will only ever love one man. And that man will be your destruction.”Wren Whitney lives a beautiful life. She is a child of Beverly Hills, growing up in boarding schools, on private jets—a life of extreme wealth and privilege.Wren Whitney lives for adventure. She is afraid of nothing. She says no to nothing...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • The Reunion At Sugar Sand Inn by Leigh Duncan

    The Reunion At Sugar Sand Inn by Leigh Duncan

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Escape to Sugar Sand Beach with Erin Bradshaw and her best friends for a second chance at all life has to offer.Forty-five year old Erin has grown restless with her life. Which is odd because she’s spent the past thirty years roaming the globe...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • Sweet Tea & Wedding Rings by Rachel Hanna

    Sweet Tea & Wedding Rings by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In book 4 of this USA Today bestselling series. Mia and Kate are still working on building their new honey business while Travis and Cooper are keeping a big secret that could wreak havoc in both of their relationships.Meanwhile, a former guest of the B&B shows up in the dead of night, and she needs a place to hide...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • He Restores My Soul by LaShonda Bowman

    He Restores My Soul by LaShonda Bowman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When the Langston sisters return home for their mother's funeral, it's not in grief, but in relief. Though Mahalia Langston was known as a gospel music pioneer among the church community, her daughters knew her as someone else altogether. The three women hope that, along with their mother, they can finally bury the secrets that plagued their childhood...
  • Suloisimmat hetket by Virginie Grimaldi

    Suloisimmat hetket by Virginie Grimaldi

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Hurmaava tarina äidinrakkaudesta ja naisista elämän taitekohdissa.Kun kuopus muuttaa pois kotoa, Élise tuntee itsensä merkityksettömäksi. Lapset vastaavat viesteihin viiveellä, ja seurana on vain masentunut koira. Uutta sisältöä elämään löytyy tanssikurssilta ja vapaaehtoistyöstä vauvaperheiden parissa...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - Review Summary by J.T. Rothing

    Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - Review Summary by J.T. Rothing

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you’d like to enhance your experience while reading Me before you , then this book review and study guide is perfect for you! Me Before You by Jojo Moyes is an improbable love story between 2 people who couldn’t have less in common. Lou is 26 years old. She is sweet and adorable, but unskilled...
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    family  contemporary  fiction
  • Nashville - Part Ten - Not Without You by Inglath Cooper

    Nashville - Part Ten - Not Without You by Inglath Cooper

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes, it's hard to know what we have until we realize we might lose it. CeCe and Holden Ashford have seen many of their dreams come true. Among them, a successful career in Nashville and finding the love of a lifetime in each other...
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    family  book  contemporary  fiction  young-adult
  • Champagne and Daisies by S.J. McCoy

    Champagne and Daisies by S.J. McCoy

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One night out. One balmy evening in Napa Valley. One man, letting loose before embarking on a new business venture. One woman, letting her hair down after another fight with her father over how she runs her winery—and her life. One too many glasses of wine. What does it all add up to? A one night stand.Chelsea Hamilton has led a charmed life. She’s a golden girl who has it all...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • To Trust by Carolyn Brown

    To Trust by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dee Hooper and Jack Brewer grew up next door to each other in sleepy Buckhorn Corner, Oklahoma. From the time they were less than a year old they'd been best friends, but then Dee eloped with a man from Pennsylvania...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Tollak til Ingeborg by Tore Renberg

    Tollak til Ingeborg by Tore Renberg

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dei kallar han Tollak til Ingeborg. Den gamle stabukken som bur oppe ved sagplassen. Alle veit at han har gjort ting på sin eigen måte. Alle veit kva han gjorde med dei gutane. Alle veit at ungane hans ikke kjem heim så ofte. Alle veit han tok til seg han dei kalla Oddotosken. Og alle hugsar den gode kona hans, Ingeborg. Men det er noko folk ikkje veit.Det er på tide å fortelje...
  • The Gin Sisters' Promise by Faith Hogan

    The Gin Sisters' Promise by Faith Hogan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Three estranged sisters. Six months to come back together.When Georgie, Iris and Nola's mother died and their father disappeared into his grief, the sisters made a pact: they would always be there for one another, no matter what.Now, decades later, they haven't spoken for years and can barely stand to be in the same room...
  • Beauford Bend: The Complete Series by Alice Hunter Pace

    Beauford Bend: The Complete Series by Alice Hunter Pace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Meet the four sexy brothers of Beauford Bend in this enchanting new Southern series by USA Today best-selling author Alicia Hunter Pace! Nearly thirty miles from Nashville sits the boutique town of Beauford, known for its artisan craft shops and colorful personalities - especially the renowned Beauford brothers...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Because of You by Olivia Miles

    Because of You by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling master of small-town sagas comes the third book in the Blue Harbor series. Maddie Conway has always dreamed of opening her own bakery, but following in the footsteps of her three successful sisters is turning out to be a lot of pressure...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • Always by Blue Saffire

    Always by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    **Warning: This title is a re-release of Blue's website exclusive Never. It's been totally rewritten with over 116 pages of new content.***Award winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presentsAlwaysKingShe’s been wanting in my bed for a long, long time. I should’ve shut that shit all the way down, but I’ve been flirting with Misty for years...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  poc-mc
  • Sweet Love by Rachel Hanna

    Sweet Love by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Things aren't always what they seem... sometimes, they're better. Laura Bennett is bored. Divorced and grieving after the death of her mother, she takes the advice of her adventurous best friend and does the craziest thing she's ever done in her life. Sawyer Griffin is a country music superstar who has burned out and gone home to January Cove for a break...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Family Secrets at the Inglenook Inn by Helen Rolfe

    Family Secrets at the Inglenook Inn by Helen Rolfe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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  • Deacon: The Carmichaels by Leigh Fenty

    Deacon: The Carmichaels by Leigh Fenty

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Clint Carmichael died, he left a shattered wife and four children. Someone had to take over the reins of the Starlight Ranch.That someone was twenty-three-year-old Deacon. Now, ten years later, the multi-million-dollar ranch is running smoothly under his command. His family, not so much.Deacon’s siblings don’t always appreciate his inherent need to take care of everything and everybody...
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    family  contemporary  fiction  western
  • 不便利的便利店 by Kim Ho-yeon, 김호연

    不便利的便利店 by Kim Ho-yeon, 김호연

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ...
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    family  fiction  contemporary  drama
  • Days of Wonder by Keith Stuart

    Days of Wonder by Keith Stuart

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A story about family, love and finding magic in everyday life, Days of Wonder is the most moving novel you'll read all year.Tom, single father to Hannah, is the manager of a tiny local theatre. On the same day each year, he and its colourful cast of part-time actors have staged a fantastical production just for his little girl, a moment of magic to make her childhood unforgettable...
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    family  audiobook  contemporary  fiction
  • অপেক্ষা by Humayun Ahmed

    অপেক্ষা by Humayun Ahmed

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    মানুষের জীবন কি চক্রের মত? চক্রের কোন শুরু নেই, শেষ নেই। মানব জীবনও কি তাই? রহস্যময় চক্রের ভেতর এই জীবন ঘুরপাক খেতে থাকে? শুরু নেই, শেষ নেই। চক্র ঘুরছে।এই চক্রের ভেতরে ঘুরপাক খেতে খেতে অপেক্ষা করে কেউ কেউ। কিংবা সকলেই কিসের...
  • Summer at the Country Practice by Sharon Booth

    Summer at the Country Practice by Sharon Booth

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The sun is shining on Bramblewick, the little village on the North York Moors. At Bramblewick Primary School the teachers are preparing for their much-needed break, and Izzy and Ash are busy making wedding plans. But for their friend and colleague, Jackson Wade, the long summer holiday isn't so welcome...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • In Little Stars by Linda Green

    In Little Stars by Linda Green

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a divided northern England, love and hate are about to collide . . .Sylvie and Donna travel on the same train to work each day but have never spoken. Their families are on different sides of the bitter Brexit divide, although the tensions and arguments at home give them much in common...
  • A Family Affair: The Wish, Truth in Lies, Book 9 by Mary Campisi

    A Family Affair: The Wish, Truth in Lies, Book 9 by Mary Campisi

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Heartache. Betrayal. Forgiveness. Redemption... It's time to head back to Magdalena, New York, and spend a little time with the people we love to love and even a few we love to hate. Bree Kinkaid is finally going to get her happily-ever-after with Adam Brandon (from Paradise Found, That Second Chance series), but it's not going to be quick or easy..
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • Beneath Winter Sand by Vickie McKeehan

    Beneath Winter Sand by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A woman looking for answers. A man dealing with his past. Hannah Summers lost her innocence the day she came home from school and found police cars in front of her house. Her parents are dead. Her loss is deep, But it's much more than that--her baby brother, Micah, is missing...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Finding Cassie: A touching story of family by Anna Jacobs

    Finding Cassie: A touching story of family by Anna Jacobs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the teenage girl who's been hanging around near the house knocks on the door and tells her she's her granddaughter, Cassie is shocked rigid. There's only one way this can be true: if Evie is the daughter of the baby Cassie gave away for adoption when she was herself a troubled teenager...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • A Family Affair: The Gift by Mary Campisi

    A Family Affair: The Gift by Mary Campisi

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Heartache. Betrayal. Forgiveness. Redemption... It's time to head back to Magdalena, New York, and spend a little time with the people we love to love and even a few we love to hate.Only one thing is missing from Tess and Daniel "Cash" Casherdon's perfect life--a child. Oh, how they long for one to make their life complete. But what is it people say about being careful what you wish for..
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • All The Colours In Between by Eva Jordan

    All The Colours In Between by Eva Jordan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eva Jordan's much-anticipated follow up to the bestselling 183 Times a Year  It's not a life, it's an adventure! Lizzie is fast approaching 50. Her once angst ridden teenage daughters, now grown and in their twenties, have flown the nest, Cassie to London and Maisy to Australia...
  • Ten Broken Promises by Jeannette Winters

    Ten Broken Promises by Jeannette Winters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Connor Falciano resigned from the DEA, security seemed to be the perfect fit. But he has never been able to turn a blind eye to criminal activity, not even if it’s his employer. Connor senses the Henderson family is covering up something, but is it illegal? He’s prepared to do whatever it takes to find out...
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    family  contemporary  billionaire  fiction  book  adult
  • Under the Apple Blossoms: A Lake Harriet Novel by Deanna Lynn Sletten

    Under the Apple Blossoms: A Lake Harriet Novel by Deanna Lynn Sletten

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes the only one standing in the way of your happiness is you.Debbie Adams has never thought of herself as beautiful or witty. Her short, curvy stature has always made her feel self-conscious. As the owner of Deb’s Bridal Boutique near Lake Harriet in Minneapolis, Debbie runs the business she’d inherited after her mother’s death...
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    family  contemporary  fiction  epic  book  adult
  • Meet Me at Sunset  (Evening Island) by Olivia Miles

    Meet Me at Sunset (Evening Island) by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Morgan sisters spent many blissful summers at their family’s lake house growing up, but as they grew older, their lives took very different paths. Hope adores her twin girls, but she doesn’t love being a stay-at-home mom...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • Second Chance Summer by Olivia Miles

    Second Chance Summer by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling master of small-town sagas comes the second installment in the Blue Harbor series—a second-chance romance about finding love when you least expect it. Amelia Conway spent the past twelve years doting on her widowed father and playing mother hen to her younger sisters—and conveniently hiding her heart from love after her high school sweetheart moved away...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • All I Need by Rachel Hanna

    All I Need by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    * January Cove is a series about the Parker family living in a coastal Georgia town. This is book 5 of the series. If you love small town romance with a little comedy thrown in, you'll love this series! * Brad Parker is the funny one in his family, but there's nothing funny about his current situation...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Holding On by Jill Sanders

    Holding On by Jill Sanders

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Trey McGowan is no stranger to the inside of a jail cell, but this time it really wasn’t his fault. Well… maybe a little. What’s worse is the gorgeous hottie he was defending didn’t even notice. But make no mistake, the jerk she was with, really had it coming...
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    family  adult  anthologies  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Then Comes Love by Olivia Miles

    Then Comes Love by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling author of Feels Like Home comes a fun, flirty, sweet summer romance...It’s wedding season in Blue Harbor, and that means warm lake breezes, starry nights, and the promise of a happy ending…for some. Florist Gabby Conway is a hopeless romantic, but lately, she’s starting to feel exactly that: hopeless...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • Lost & Found by Bernadette Marie

    Lost & Found by Bernadette Marie

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Darcy McCary came to Nashville with some big expectations--to find her birth parents. She had no plans of making a life in Tennessee. But when her sources lead her to Eduardo Keller, her heart took over, and plans changed. Eduardo Keller is a man who goes after what he wants and he doesn't have time for playing games...
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    family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Amazing Grace by Lesley Crewe

    Amazing Grace by Lesley Crewe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The new novel from bestselling author Lesley Crewe! Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she’s lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d’Or Lakes in postcard-perfect Baddeck, Cape Breton, with Fletcher Parsons, a giant teddy bear who’s not even her husband...
  • When We Were Young by Michele Brouder

    When We Were Young by Michele Brouder

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The orderly, sterile life of Martha Hahn Cotter is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the teenage granddaughter she’s never met. Quick to send the girl back home, she reaches out to her estranged daughter. Days later, her daughter arrives, resulting in an inevitable showdown as old wounds and past secrets surface...
    Categorized as:
    family  fiction  small-town  contemporary  epic  female-mc
  • Viedään äiti pohjoiseen by Karin Smirnoff, Satu Paavola

    Viedään äiti pohjoiseen by Karin Smirnoff, Satu Paavola

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Kauheaa mutta niin kiehtovaaKarin Smirnoffin ilmiöksi nousseen, poikkeuksellisen hehkutetun trilogian toinen osa tempaa mukaansa omaperäisellä tyylillä, vetävällä kerronnalla ja mustan huumorin sävyttämällä pohjoisen elämän kuvauksella.Kipon sisarusten äiti on kuollut, ja hänet on vietävä hautaan pohjoiseen Kukkojärven kylään...
  • Lost In Wyoming  (Maitland Legacy, A Family Saga Book 1) by Vivian Sinclair

    Lost In Wyoming (Maitland Legacy, A Family Saga Book 1) by Vivian Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A contemporary western romance, family saga, book 1 of the Maitland Legacy series. Romance writer Annabelle Lacroix from New York City decides to travel to Wyoming to research the history of the American West for her next book, to meet people and see places, to experience the spirit of the west. She is also motivated by an image of a cowboy from a box with old pictures...
    Categorized as:
    family  contemporary  epic  fiction  western
  • Legally Bound 5.0: Sam Illegal Matters by Blue Saffire

    Legally Bound 5.0: Sam Illegal Matters by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Legally Bound 5.0 Sam Illegal Matters Book 5.0 in the Series Legally Bound 5.0 I'm the second oldest of four. Two brothers, and a sister. My name is Sam, Sam Mairettie, but you are about to learn that I go by another name. To know where I am going you will have to know where I have been. So here is the beginning of my story. You need to know the beginning to understand the end...
    Categorized as:
    family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Sunshine And Showers by Rosie Harris

    Sunshine And Showers by Rosie Harris

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love and happiness - hatred and despair... Life seems to alternate between periods of stunning happiness for pretty seventeen-year-old Sheryl Williams after she marries dashing soldier Alun Powell, and times when bad luck and despair almost drown her happiness forever...
    Categorized as:
    family  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • Her Picture-Perfect Family by Linda Barrett

    Her Picture-Perfect Family by Linda Barrett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some say it's magic, some say it's love. Others credit the sea, sun and sand as the healing power behind Sea View House. Does the truth really matter for the temporary residents of this special place? In the coastal town of Pilgrim Cove, strangers are welcomed, and everyone else takes a front row seat as a love story unfolds...
    Categorized as:
    family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  womens-fiction
  • Thirteen Wishes by Jeannette Winters

    Thirteen Wishes by Jeannette Winters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    family  contemporary
  • His Brother's Wife by Val Wood

    His Brother's Wife by Val Wood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    1860 Harriet Miles is trying to take care of her seriously ill mother, and just when she thinks things couldn't get any worse she is fired from her job at the hostelry. The last thing she expects after her mother dies is a marriage proposal from a man she barely knows, but her only alternative is the workhouse. And so begins her new life with Noah Tuke...
    Categorized as:
    family  romance  contemporary  fiction  book  adult
  • Given to Fly by K.L. Montgomery

    Given to Fly by K.L. Montgomery

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can you break your vow if it's the only way to save yourself? Annelise thought her purpose in life was to get married and have babies. That's what her family and church have been telling her since she was a little girl. But when her marriage turns rocky, and she struggles with her weight and infertility, she fears the childhood dream thrust upon her will never come true...
    Categorized as:
    family  fiction  contemporary  romance  book  adult
  • 3 stepbrothers by Animallover55

    3 stepbrothers by Animallover55

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tori lived with her dad and little sister. She never expected to have a stepmother, much less a stepbrother. But whats worse is not only one stepbrother, not two either. No three stepbrothers. But it gets worse, the three boys just happen to be the three triplet sport stars of the school. The same three boys that have gone out with nearly all those girls that wear short short skirts...
  • The Pitch Queen by Karin Gillespie

    The Pitch Queen by Karin Gillespie

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A hilarious send-up of the publishing business and a delight for readers who love books about books. If "Yellowface" and "Book Lovers" had a baby, it would be named "The Pitch Queen.". Claire Wyld, a literary agent, is the queen of the flashy pitch and is fighting to be the number one dealmaker in debut novels...
    Categorized as:
    family  fiction  contemporary  humor  female-mc  satire
  • Discord by Drethi Anis

    Discord by Drethi Anis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Brandon: The unthinkable happened; a possibility I had been avoiding my entire life. I should give her up but leaving her behind was no longer an option. Mia: Brandon Cooper was bad news; plain and simple. I should have been scared straight and sworn off my previous obsession. Instead, I turned to him during a vulnerable moment, only to spark his sinful ways all over again...
    Categorized as:
    family  contemporary  dark  fiction  gothic  mystery
  • Holiday for a Hero by Maryann Jordan

    Holiday for a Hero by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Finally Miss Ethel's story comes to life in a heartfelt Christmas novella that proves love is timeless...Ethel loved the holidays as she dreamed of love, marriage, and children, but discovered that some things in life come easier than others.Follow along the years as she learns that love is what we give to others. And she does it abundantly...
    Categorized as:
    family  contemporary  fiction  romance  anthologies  adult
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