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Sanibel Mornings by Hope Holloway
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith the ownership of the property settled, Eliza knows that she’s found the place where she belongs. But she can’t take a chance on something completely new until she finally lets go of the grief that has gripped her heart, and saying that last goodbye is one of the hardest things she’s ever had to do.Her sister, Claire, is tackling her own emotional challenges... -
Sanibel Dreams by Hope Holloway
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen 53-year-old Eliza Whitney loses both her beloved husband and her high-powered job in the same month, she’s uncertain what the next chapter of her life will look like. Then her estranged father’s widow contacts her and asks her to come to Sanibel Island to help settle his affairs... -
The Escape by Maggie Miller
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSecond chances do exist.Five former sorority sisters, all in their 50's, undertake the adventure of a lifetime when a mysterious invite reunites them at an exclusive resort set on a private island.Olivia was the quiet one. Her divorce from her alcoholic husband freed her in many ways but caused a rift with her daughter that seems impossible to heal.Amanda was the perfect one... -
The Gift At Sugar Sand Inn by Leigh Duncan
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEscape to Sugar Sand Beach with Michelle Robinson and her best friends for a second chance at all life has to offer.At forty-five, Michelle has a great life. A husband who loves her. Two children on the fast track to success. A beautiful home in the rolling hills of Virginia. And three of the best friends a girl could ever want... -
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Not Until This Day by Valerie M. Bodden
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree kids. Two broken hearts. One chance to become a family.Isabel has three simple rules: Keep moving. No friends. No men. It's the only way to keep herself and her daughter safe. But when she arrives in the small town of Hope Springs, she finds that she suddenly wants to break all the rules. Especially when it comes to a certain sweet single dad... -
Not Until Someday: A Christian Romance by Valerie M. Bodden
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe’s waiting for her someday. He thinks his has already come and gone.After spending the past five years caring for her ill grandfather, Grace Calvano is eager to honor his memory by turning his stately old house in Hope Springs into a bed-and-breakfast... -
Sweet Tea & Honey Bees by Rachel Hanna
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is the 3rd book of the popular Sweet Tea B&B series!In this installment.. -
Gulf Coast Moonlight by Maggie Miller
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEscape to the Gulf Coast of Florida with Georgia Carpenter as she gets a second chance at life, love, and happiness. With the storm behind her, Georgia Carpenter looks forward to reaching her goal of reopening the inn left to her by her great aunt. It seems very attainable, too, thanks to all the help she’s been getting from family and friends... -
Mutts & Magnolias by Rachel Hanna
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn book 9 of the USA Today bestselling South Carolina Sunsets series...A new resident moves to town to take over his late grandfather's veterinary business. Will he find the love of his life or a woman who drives him nuts?Meanwhile, Dawson and Julie find out some disturbing news about their son.Janine and William anxiously wait for a birthmother to choose them... -
Shifting Sands at the Beach House: Feel Good Beachy Women's Fiction by Maggie Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAll she wanted was one last summer at the beach house...Claire Thompson’s trip to the family beach house has gotten far more complicated than she’d ever expected. Grieving her late husband’s sudden death, Claire and her daughter, along with Claire’s sister and mom, are struggling to make sense of the mess he’s left them with... -
A Forever of Orange Blossoms by Ava Miles
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMillions of readers have fallen in love with Ava's bestselling books...come join the family.International Bestselling Author Ava Miles’ feel-good series, The Merriams, is back with a humorous and heartwarming story about a playboy without a cause and a woman whose dreams were diverted by family responsibility—and, of course, everyone’s favorite matchmakers to guide the way... -
The Blessing by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsReturn to the Troyer farm where, despite stressful changes occurring in their lives, Joel and Heidi once again open their Ohio home up to those seeking to learn about Amish cooking... -
Bark! The Herald Angels Sing by Roxanne St. Claire
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith Christmas and a family wedding fast approaching, there’s happy chaos in the air at Waterford Farm. However, not everyone in the Kilcannon clan is caught up in the magic of the moment... -
Saltwater Promises by Amelia Addler
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAn FBI agent’s work is never really done…Mike isn’t about to let a little thing like being forced into retirement stop him from investigating the mob activity on San Juan Island. Sure, it’s dangerous, but he can handle it. He’s about to crack the case wide open, too…then he sees her again and everything gets way more complicated.Lynn Campbell loves retirement... -
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The Magic of Ramblings by Kate Field
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRunning away can be the answer if you run to the right place…When Cassie accepts a job as companion to an old lady in a remote Lancashire village, she hopes for a quiet life where she can forget herself, her past and most especially men... -
The Life We Wanted by Kelsey Kingsley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"You have too many rules.""And you don't have enough." Sebastian Moore thought he had it all. A drumming gig with one of the world’s biggest up-and-coming stars. The looks and charm to get him any woman he laid his eyes on. All the friends he could ever ask for. But something was always missing... -
Hired by the Single Dad by Whitley Cox
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe needs someone to work with his son, she needs a job. They need to keep their hands to themselves. Welcome to Seattle, the Emerald City and home to The Single Dads of Seattle. Ten sexy single fathers who play poker every Saturday night, have each other’s backs, love their children without quarter, and hope to one day find love again. This is Mark's story … Single Dad of Seattle Dr... -
Runaway to Romance by Cathryn Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Southern ladies didn’t make a scene. Her mother would tell her to march her hiney back into that church and marry the man.”Cassie’s in her wedding dress and ready to walk down the aisle. Minutes later, she’s a runaway bride on her way to nowhere. Two Hearts, Tennessee, fits that description perfectly.She’s also a wedding planner... -
Married by Monday by Cathryn Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNeither of them wants to get married, especially not to each other.Isabella visits her friend Cassie in Two Hearts, Tennessee. Bella’s ready to go back to the city almost as soon as she arrives. And she has a situation to take care of when she gets home.Micah may want to stay in his small town, but his family has other plans for him. He has two choices to solve his problem... -
His Steadfast Love by Julie Lessman
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s bent on fun. He’s bent on faith. Till true love bridges the gap. Cat O’Bryen is the prodigal daughter unhappy with God. First, the father with whom she reconciled dies of cancer and now her twin sister and best friend marries, leaving Cat at home with a newlywed mother, her new husband, and a little brother... -
Nights at Seaside by Addison Cole
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNights at Seaside - Release date December 13, 2017 Sweet with Heat: Seaside Summers features a group of fun, flirty, and emotional friends who gather each summer at their Cape Cod cottages... -
The Preacher's Son by Patricia Johns
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this poignant new series, Patricia Johns introduces an Amish family striving to reclaim the promise of love, marriage, and community . . . The Amish residents of Bountiful, Pennsylvania, are stunned when preacher Abe Yoder is imprisoned for fraud. For Abe’s son, Isaiah, the news cuts doubly deep. His daet’s misdeeds have cost Isaiah his family’s land and their good name... -
Gulf Coast Sunsets by Maggie Miller
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEscape to the Gulf Coast of Florida with Georgia Carpenter as she gets a second chance at life, love, and happiness. With a hurricane barreling toward Blackbird Beach, Georgia Carpenter is faced with new problems and the need to work faster than ever. The last thing she needs is more damage to the inn, but she can’t control nature... -
A Kingsbury Collection: Where Yesterday Lives / When Joy Came to Stay / On Every Side by Karen Kingsbury
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree Page-Turning Novels in One Volume! Where Yesterday Lives Ellen Barrett is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist with an uncertain marriage, a forgotten faith, and haunting memories of her picturesque hometown and the love she left behind. The eldest of five siblings, she longs for the time, long ago, when they were a happy family... -
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A Breath of Jasmine by Ava Miles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsInternational Bestselling Author Ava Miles’ family series, The Merriams, returns for its finale with two long-lost lovers fighting for a second chance despite the odds—with everyone’s favorite matchmakers along to pave their way.Quinn recognized Francesca Maroun as his soulmate the moment he met her in grad school.Of course he did. The Merriams always recognize their soulmates instantly... -
Beyond Dreams by Abby Brooks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou know that feeling when the famous musician you're totally crushing on shows up at your brother’s wedding dressed as Elvis? Really? Huh. Guess it’s just me, then... Collin West isn't just hot. And he's not just 'the next big thing,' either. He's the biggest thing to happen to music since...music. He's got heart. And soul. And the most adorable ginger hair that’s somehow always a little mussed... -
Secrets and Soulmates by Rachel Hanna
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe's engaged to a man she's never met... and may not even exist. Molly James has lived her life as a fish out of water. Feeling like the oddball of her family, her trusting nature leads her into an online relationship and eventual engagement to someone she hasn't met... -
Choices of the Heart by Rachel Hanna
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes life throws us a devastating curveball, but we still end up with a homerun ending anyway... Paige Emerson has had a rough life. No doubt about it. Abandoned at a church as a baby by a drug-addicted teen mom, she was bounced around from place to place her whole life... -
Finding Redemption by Christine Gael
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTodd Sullivan has been working his tail off to make his mother's veterinary clinic the best its ever been so she can enjoy her retirement, but he's burning the candle at both ends to do it. When he gets a request for a house call, he thinks it's all in a day's work...until he walks into a cottage of horrors... -
Finding Love: Addison & Clay by Rachel Hanna
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings** This is book 4 of the January Cove series! Please enjoy book 1 (The One For Me) for FREE and then pick up books 2 and 3 to learn more about the Parker family! ** In book 4, we meet the only sister in the Parker clan - Addison. When Addison Parker comes home for Christmas without her husband, she's carrying a huge secret... -
Catching the Cowboy by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe’s fresh out of jail...He’s fresh out of luck.Spoiled billionaire heiress Emery Brighton indulges in one mimosa too many, attempts to steal a horse, and winds up in jail. A sentence of community service leaves her at the mercy of strangers on a remote ranch near a small town in Oregon... -
Jingle-Bell Jam by Pamela M. Kelley
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBryan Baker is kind and good-natured, with a weakness for sweets. He's been indulging more often than he should lately, turning to comfort food and focusing on work to keep his mind off a recent breakup. When he injures his back, his doctor reads him the riot act and he agrees to see a personal trainer to get in shape... -
Wildflower Hope by Grace Greene
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the second novel in the Wildflower House series, the author of The Memory of Butterflies reminds us that to achieve our dreams, we must first open our hearts. Kara Hart suffered overwhelming heartache when she lost her mother and husband, and her father’s sudden death might be the blow that breaks her—unless she turns her grief into purpose... -
Wedding on the Beach by Kay Correll
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCindy Pearson is getting her wish — the perfect wedding on Belle Island. As she dodges a steady stream of obstacles that threaten to thwart her plans, she can’t quite avoid her nagging doubts about her fiancé. Jamie McFarlane has one wish — to make a success of the coastal inn he and his mother inherited... -
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Love Blooms at the Cotswolds Candy Store by Hannah M. Lynn
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhile Holly Berry may have finally purchased Just One More and landed a date with one of Bourton-on-the-Water’s most eligible bachelors, it is far from plain sailing.A face from the past threatens to torpedo Holly’s fledgling relationship before it even gets going... -
Saltwater Falls by Amelia Addler
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLights, camera…romance!Now that Connor is home on San Juan Island, he knows it’s time to give up his carefree lifestyle and put down some roots. But then he meets a Hollywood-bound beauty and starts to question everything…Teresa has only one goal. She will succeed as a location scout for her first big-time film. Falling for the distractingly handsome Connor was not on her agenda... -
A Love So Sweet by Addison Cole
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover the magic of the Bradens, and fall in love with Addison Cole's rich and romantic storytelling. A Love So Sweet is a Sweet with Heat novel and conveys all of the passion you'd expect to find between two people in love without any graphic scenes or harsh language... -
Landscaping Love by Liz Isaacson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe hired her to landscape the yard, but she's going to make him re-evaluate who he lets into his heart. Rhodes Quinn is only months away from taking over Quinn Valley Ranch, and he doesn't have time to deal with water leaking into the basement at the homestead. But since it's his future home, he hires a landscape architect to get things right with the yard... -
The Hope We Share by Juliette Duncan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan the Master Potter work in Rachel and Andrew’s hearts and give them a second chance at love? Rachel Jennings’ unwillingness to forgive God for her twin sister’s death when they were twelve has made her bitter and rebellious. Now, approaching thirty, Rachel flees an unhealthy relationship and heads north with her son, Joshua... -
For No Reason by Christina Coryell
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The waiter walked towards me, but I waved him away. I was too busy contemplating my rapid descent through the ranks of celebrity to the dustbin of shaving my head and marrying my cousin..." Camdyn Taylor is growing into her newfound fame, adjusting to unfamiliar roles in her family, and harboring a little secret. Once she makes it known, there is no doubt her life will change... -
Becoming Brooke by Kay P. Dawson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBrooke Quinn isn't fully convinced she wants to look for love again. As a doctor in Quinn Valley, she just doesn't have the time to get out and meet people. Not to mention her trust issues after having her heart broken by a man she'd believed she would spend her life with... -
A Time to Care by Juliette Duncan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey’ve tied the knot, but will their love last the distance? Wendy didn’t expect to find love again after losing her beloved husband of over 30 years to a heart attack, but after being swept off her feet by a silver-haired Texan cowboy she met in a Dublin hotel, their relationship bloomed, and she agreed to marry him... -
Heart's Ransom by Dora Hiers
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA leaky sink. An orphaned puppy. A naval officer who wants a second chance. Will love and faith win Arden's heart? Or has that ship already sailed…Arden Mayhall doesn’t know what to do with her life anymore. Approaching sixty, it’s not as if she can go out and find a job to fill the time she used to spend caring for her beloved husband... -
Saltwater Cove by Amelia Addler
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSecond chances...and the secrets that sabotage them. At 48 years old, Margie Clifton never expected to be starting her life all over again. But when her brother gifts her a property on San Juan Island, that’s exactly what she decides to do. After all, it’s the perfect place to start a new business venture, provide a second home for her adult children, and recover from her nasty divorce... -
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Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove Vol 2: 50 Harbor Street\6 Rainier Drive\74 Seaside Avenue\8 Sandpiper Way by Debbie Macomber
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Debbie Macomber welcomes you to Cedar Cove! This is where you'll find small-town life at its best�and its most interesting… Meet some of the people living here: 50 Harbor Street is where private detective Roy McAfee and his wife, Corrie, live... -
Courting Emily by Amy Lillard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReturn to Wells Landing, the close-knit Amish community in Oklahoma, where a hopeful young woman struggles to find true love while staying true to her faith. . . Emily Ebersol is the bishop's daughter, and everyone--including Emily--assumes she'll marry a faithful Amish man and live out her days within the community... -
Rugged Rockclimber by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDiscover River's End Ranch, a gorgeous "destination ranch and resort" in Riston, Idaho, that is run by the six Weston siblings and their well-meaning, semi-retired parents. Five bestselling Western romance authors have created a world like no other--full of fun outside activities, a huge family in need of love, and side characters you will never forget... -
Bernie's Birthday by Pamela M. Kelley, River's End Ranch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBernie's Birthday stars Wade Weston's assistant Bernie, who is turning twenty-seven when the story begins. All is going well in her life, she loves her job at the ranch and recently had a promotion. She has a full life between work, friends, and family. She's super close to her older brother, Jack, who is a bit of a ladies man, but a sweetheart too. He just hasn't found 'the one'... -
Bachelor Games in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBring on the Bachelor Games His latest girlfriend may not have broken his heart, but she sure as heck wounded his pride. Clay Chapin has looks, money and a knack for picking the wrong women. When the matchmaking matriarch of Good Hope insists she can find him the perfect woman, Clay figures he has nothing to lose by playing along... -
A tablespoon of Temptation by Kelly Collins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe’s a woman who values honesty. He’s a man telling a lie. Will the truth bring them together or tear them apart?Danielle Morgan doesn’t need a recipe for love, she needs one for life. Hounded by her best friend to find a man or a hobby, she chooses the latter. After all, a hobby won’t break her heart...
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