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Healed: Stone and Pepper by Tess Thompson
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's Cliffside Bay and beyond in this heartwarming enemies-to-lovers romantic adventure from USA Today bestselling author Tess Thompson. Stone Hickman is the last of a dying breed. The former Marine believes in integrity, service to his country, a hard day's work, and taking care of his loved ones... -
The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew by Milly Johnson
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTHE QUEEN OF FEEL-GOOD FICTION! 'Every time you discover a new Milly book, it’s like finding a pot of gold' Heat The brand new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Perfectly Imperfect Woman - a gorgeous read full of love, life and laughter. Behind every successful man is a woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman... -
John Green: The Complete Collection Box Set by John Green
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBrand new, this iconic box set includes all of John Green's bestselling novels--including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and Turtles All the Way Down!Perfect for both new fans and longtime collectors, this deluxe set includes paperback editions of five critically acclaimed, award-winning modern classics by #1 bestselling author John Green: - Looking for Alaska - An Abundance of... -
The Light in the Hallway by Amanda Prowse
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Girl in the Corner comes the moving story of a man whose life is changed in an instant. How do you start again when you lose the only love you’ve ever known? When Nick’s wife Kerry falls ill and dies, he realises for the first time how fragile his happiness has always been, and how much he’s been taking his good life and wonderful family for granted... -
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Retuned: The Price of Time by Tania Joyce
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA vacation. An unforgettable accident. Lives are changed forever.Gemma and Kyle wanted a quick getaway before they recorded their new album.But one fateful mistake changes their lives forever.Heartbreaking decisions must be made.Friendships will be tried and tested...Categorized as:
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Fireworks over the Loch by Hannah Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA sleepy Scottish village is about to be woken up … With her boyfriend moving to her hometown of Lannick, Leana Mackenzie is floating on cloud nine. All she needs now is for them to find a home of their own. Alasdair’s lack of interest in house-hunting soon has her worried.For Isla and Logan, moving in together is the logical next step in their relationship... -
Secrets at the Loch by Hannah Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor years Lexie has kept everyone at arm’s length. Her heart is so guarded it’s almost impenetrable.Until Nick.When the geeky teacher moves in next door, Lexie finds it increasingly difficult to ignore her attraction to him. To protect herself, she pushes him away, convincing herself that hurting him isn’t a big deal.She never imagined him leaving town. Or how much she’d miss him when he left... -
Finding Hope at the Loch by Hannah Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes all we can do is hope things will turn out exactly as they’re supposed to ... A fairy-tale wedding in a castle should be a dream come true for Isla. Unfortunately, she’s not as taken with the idea as everyone around her. While her family and Logan organise everything, she’s left feeling that her opinion doesn’t count. Meanwhile, Lexie is dealing with family problems of her own... -
Winter Wishes in Hope Cove by Hannah Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA warm and uplifting winter romanceAll Emily wants for her wedding is a low-key celebration with family and friends. But with a best friend like Josie, it’s no surprise that there’s a touch of drama to the day.Meanwhile, Tara is dealing with problems of her own. In a bid to face up to her past, she sets out to make amends with her estranged father and reunite with her half siblings... -
The House on Lavender Lane by Hannah Ellis
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne shocking incident forces six friends to re-evaluate everything Emily only meant to spend a week in Hope Cove. But when the quirky locals involve her in various events, she happily extends her stay. She just wishes Jack were with her and not stuck working back in Oxford.For Lizzie, Emily’s visit is well timed... -
My Silent Daughter by Emma Robinson
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYour daughter will not speak… But can she teach you how to live?Ever since Ruby was tiny, she has been unique. Her smiles are magically rare, her building blocks are always colour-coded, and she communicates only in gestures. Sometimes, being Ruby’s mother is hard, but the way she sees the world makes it new for Sara every day...Categorized as:
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To Love and Be Loved by Amanda Prowse
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this life-affirming tale from bestselling author Amanda Prowse, one woman built a new life to escape her humiliation. Now, can she put the shame behind her and finally find happiness?Young and desperately in love, Merrin had the whole world ahead of her. But just as her new life was about to start, the ground beneath her feet was cruelly swept away... -
A Place to Start Over - Second Edition by Susan Mackie
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSecond Edition with five new Bonus Chapters.Can one bad decision change your life?While recuperating from her biggest mistake, Harriet’s had time to plan a fresh start, away from the city.With a business plan on her laptop and determination in her heart, she leaves Sydney, heading north... -
Breathtaking by Courtney Turcotte Bond, adam boyd stevens
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo the outside world, Cara’s life seems perfect. The only one who knows the dark secrets inside her home is her best friend and next-door neighbor, Adam. Cara’s only escape is by writing and sharing her stories with him through their facing bedroom windows late at night...Categorized as:
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2142 Green Hollow Rd by Katie Winters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Sisters of Edgartown made a pledge. One they'll never break. One stronger than the winds off the Nantucket Sound and deeper than the great Atlantic Ocean.There had always been six of them. Until suddenly, the Nantucket Sound waters took one of their own. Michelle drowned at the age of seventeen.Everything changed after that... -
New Starts and Cherry Tarts at the Cosy Kettle by Liz Eeles
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFans of Cathy Bramley, Debbie Johnson and Jenny Colgan will fall in love with the Cosy Kettle café, where slices of lemon meringue pie are served in the sun-dappled garden – and where Callie’s new beginning collides with an old flame… After yet another failed romance, twenty-six-year-old Callie Fulbright is giving up on love... -
The Weekend Getaway by Hannah Ellis
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA weekend break changes everything…The chemistry between Keira and Noah is instant. It only takes one date for Keira to realise there’s something special between them.When Noah invites her to a family party in his hometown, she eagerly agrees, and by the end of their weekend away she’s absolutely head over heels. Not only for Noah, but for his close-knit family and the stunning Isles of Scilly... -
Summer at the Kindness Cafe by Victoria Walters
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSummer at the Kindness Cafe was previously published as a four-part serial titled Random Acts of Kindness. This is the complete story in one package.Welcome to Brew, a cafe where kindness is almost as important as coffee... almost!Meet the three women whose lives are about to change forever: Abbie has fled London and the humiliation of not being able to make rent after being made redundant...Categorized as:
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Whispers at the Bluebell Inn by Hannah Ellis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRumours travel fast in a village… Josie loves her new life in the country with Sam. But she has a secret that she doesn’t want anyone to know. Unfortunately, it’s hard to keep anything to yourself in a tiny village. Lizzie is adjusting to motherhood, and finding it more demanding than she ever expected...Categorized as:
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Escape to Oakbrook Farm by Hannah Ellis
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVillage life is supposed to be quiet… Josie Beaumont is a free spirit. She changes jobs about as often as she changes her relationship status. Frequently! The only constants in her life are the comfy old shoes that she refuses to part with.When unemployment looms again, she’s intrigued by a job opportunity at a dog kennels in rural Devon... -
Alaskan Dawn by Edie Claire
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA brand new novel of romantic women’s fiction from the author of the award-winning Long Time Coming and Meant to Be! Haley knew that carrying her twin sister’s baby would be a sacrifice.She just didn’t know how great. Overachieving attorney Haley Olson has always done the responsible thing. So when her twin sister Micah needs a surrogate mother, Haley willingly volunteers... -
Fix Her Up by Julia Wolf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt thirty, I’m starting over after a scandal that nearly ruined me. New job, new fixer-upper house, and all new outlook.How did I end up with a tall, devilishly handsome Israeli roommate? I can't actually tell you. Avi Cohen steamrolled into my life, and I kind of liked it.He's a flirt, but we have a contract and rule number one is no sex... -
How to Not Fall for Your Ex by Meg Easton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey dated twelve years ago. Because of an anonymous dating app, they’re about to unknowingly date each other again.Timini Jensen doesn’t think there’s a point to dating. Relationships drag people down. After all, nobody runs faster when they’re in a three-legged race, right? Plus, there’s the part where she seems to pick guys who are only pretty on the outside... -
Miracles in Wild Rose Bay: A completely uplifting Irish romance full of family secrets by Susanne O'Leary
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA truly unforgettable Irish romance set on the shores of the Wild Atlantic Way.Arriving in Sandy Cove to views of the shimmering ocean, Tara O’Rourke is excited to get to work. She’s been sent from New York City to take photos of Ireland for a travel magazine, and she knows the perfect area to visit: the mysterious, picturesque Wild Rose Bay... -
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One More Day by Emma Heatherington
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen everything is lost, can their love survive?Annie Madden and her husband Peter seemed to have the perfect life. They had two beautiful children, a wonderful home and each other. That was before everything changed. Now Annie must face a different life, after a devastating event casts a shadow over her family, and their future... -
The Paris Roommates: Dean by Ava Miles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmily in Paris meets Friends in International Bestseller Ava Miles’ hilarious new heartwarming story about the world's most likeable hero following his dreams and looking for love with the help of an unlikely group of friends.If only love was all bonbons and champagne... -
Meet Me At Sunrise by Michele Brouder
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRead the generational saga about three sisters and their grandmother and her friends in the beachside town of Hideaway Bay.After reuniting with her sisters at her grandmother’s funeral, Alice Monroe determines that Hideaway Bay may be the place for her. Nursing a broken heart, Alice throws herself into transforming her grandmother’s house into an inn...Categorized as:
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Oh Crumbs (Choc Lit) by Kathryn Freeman
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAnother fun, fabulous read from Kathryn Freeman. You'll want to lock yourself away with this one! Sometimes life just takes the biscuit … Abby Spencer knows she can come across as an airhead – she talks too much and is a bit of a klutz – but there’s more to her than that... -
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the New York Times best-selling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive bothAndy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped.Now he is. . -
Even Better Than the Real Thing by Melanie Summers
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA swoon-worthy, buttery, uber-fun romance about a fake marriage between two people who couldn't be more wrong for each other... You know what’s great about applying for an art history PhD program at one of the world’s most prestigious universities? I get to study what I love and land my dream job at the end of it... -
The Beach Babes by Judith Keim
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOld friends are the best…Catherine “Cate” Tibbs, Brooke Ridley, and Amber Anderson, friends since they were awkward thirteen-year-olds who named themselves “The Beach Babes,” are about to face their 40th birthdays. Because they haven’t been able to get together for some time, Cate arranges for them to rent a house along the Gulf Coast of Florida for a long weekend... -
Always You and Me by Dani Atkins
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Fractured comes a moving, heart-mending and uplifting novel of love, hope and second chances.Then…On the eve of her wedding to Adam, Lily’s best friend Josh unexpectedly walked out of her life, and she hasn’t seen him since.Lily and Adam are blissfully happy, until he falls ill...Categorized as:
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As Long As I Have You by Bella Andre
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAll Mari Everett’s life, she’s had two secret dreams: To own a bookstore, and to reunite with her long lost father. But when he passes away unexpectedly and she inherits his home and business, the only way she can learn about his life—especially why he abandoned her when she was three and never came back—is by leaving California to take over his bookstore in London... -
Summer at the Old Boathouse: A wonderfully heartwarming romantic comedy by Hannah Ellis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOf all the guys, she falls for the one who’s off limits… Emily Winters would do anything for her best friend Josie. Every week they meet for a catch up at the Old Boathouse - an idyllic little café by the Thames where Josie’s boyfriend Jack works. As the summer draws on, life seems perfect. Emily’s writing career is taking off and she’s throwing herself into the dating scene...Categorized as:
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For All She Knows by Jamie Beck
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo mothers face the consequences of their choices in a gripping novel about friendship, family, and forgiveness by Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Jamie Beck.Grace first met Mimi when she blew into their sons’ toddler playgroup like a warm bay breeze that loosened Grace’s tight spaces... -
City by Alessandro Baricco
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe author of the international bestseller Silk now delivers a ravishing and wildly inventive novel about friendship, genius and its discontents, and the redemptive power of narrative. Somewhere in America lives a brilliant boy named Gould, an intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel Prize. His only companions are an imaginary giant and an imaginary mute... -
Night Jasmine by Mary Lou Widmer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTWO MEN...ONE LOVE... Brutally exposed to the naked facts of life, Katie Raspanti fled the dingy hovels of the slums to become a kitchen maid in New Orleans's most elegant household. She was no more than a child, but all too soon she became the tantalizing beauty who commanded the hearts of two brothers, both willing to abandon family and fortune to be at her side... -
Following His Heart by Donna Fasano
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***USA Today Bestselling Author*** Sara Carson is a 30-something widow with a busy life. Two fun-loving best friends, a caring mom who needs her, and a thriving sweet shop. What more could a woman want? But when the ancient plumbing in her shop springs a leak and a gorgeous, dark-eyed stranger rushes to her rescue, hilarity unfolds—and Sara quickly sees exactly what she’s been missing... -
Dearest Mary Jane by Betty Neels
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"The moment I set eyes on a handsome, rich man I shall marry him." So said Felicity, and as she was the glamorous sister with a successful career as an international model, Mary Jane had no reason to doubt her. Mary Jane was the stay at home with no talents to speak of and a face that never merited a second glance... -
A Wandering Heart by Thomas Kinkade, Katherine Spencer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll the stars come out in Cape Light... New York Times bestselling authors Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer continue their Angel Island series with a sparkling new tale set in Cape Light. Celebrity has landed on Angel Island, but it's new love that steals the show. Welcome to Angel Island. . . -
Unstrung by Laura Spinella
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEven as a violin prodigy, Olivia Klein courted trouble. But when her marriage to high-stakes investor Rob Van Doren takes another wrong turn, Olivia acts out once too often. A night of bad behavior results in community service hours. Time is to be served with Theo McAdams, an inner-city teacher whose passion for music eclipses Olivia’s... -
The Beachside Flower Stall by Karen Clarke
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRoses for romance, daisies for hope, daffodils for unrequited love... Drop by The Beachside Flower Stall for friendship, family and a beautiful bouquet. Carrie Dashwood fled Dorset when her best friend Megan stole her first love, Tom Hudson . Now ten years later, Carrie is back to help run her aunt Ruby’s flower stall in the beautiful seaside town of Shipley... -
The Bakery at Seashell Cove: A feel good, laugh out loud romantic comedy by Karen Clarke
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn absolutely hilarious, uplifting summer read about living life to the full! Meg Larson thought she had everything she wanted: she works in the local bakery, she’s months away from marrying her high-school sweetheart, and home is beautiful, sunny Seashell Cove , where the sky is blue, the sea is turquoise and the sand is golden... -
Hattie's Home for Broken Hearts by Tilly Tennant
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEscape to the daisy-strewn windswept Dorset cliffs, to the donkey sanctuary at Sweet Briar Farm, where Hattie Rose is about to find, that in this world, the most unlikely opposites can sometimes attract … Hattie was once thrilled to call the beautiful city of Paris her home...Categorized as:
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The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of The Midnight Library... -
The Heart Asks Pleasure First by Karuna Ezara Parikh
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn extraordinary tale of love in a world being torn asunder.It is 2001 and Daya and Aaftab have just met in a park in Cardiff. She is studying ballet and he is practising in a law firm. She falls madly in love. He does, but he also cannot, because he is Muslim and there are certain rules...Categorized as:
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Liars Like Us by Mary Campisi
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUnlock the secrets in Reunion Gap What happens when destiny ignores the rules? Tate Alexander has the good luck to be born with looks and charm, and the bad luck to belong to a family where money and power mean more than honor and integrity. When he returns to Reunion Gap to take over his father’s company, he’s determined to uncover and right the wrongs his father committed... -
The Farmhouse: A Hickory Grove Novel by Elizabeth Bromke
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA desperate hairdresser. Her handsome friend. And a farmhouse full of secrets. When Maggie Devereux is served an unexpected eviction notice, everything falls apart. Out of options, the nearly divorced forty-something stumbles across an unopened letter regarding her late aunt's estate: a ramshackle farmhouse on the outskirts of town... -
Finding Love in Forgotten Cove by Karice Bolton
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTori Aickens understands more than most what it feels like to lose the ones you love, but she also understands how to survive that kind of pain by leaving it all behind and never looking back. Unfortunately, while she’s busy never looking back, she walks straight ahead to find her fiancé cheating on her with a grin on his face... -
Not You Again by Terri Osburn
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFour blind dates in five days. I can’t believe I agreed to this.Actually, I can. That’s what I do. I agree to things I don’t want to do to make other people happy. In this case, my four best friends. They’re worried about me and if going on a few dates will make them happy, then I’ll do it. How bad could they be?I probably shouldn’t have asked that...
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