Women's Fiction, Mature-Age Small Town Romance Book #1 of the complete Sunset Lake Club series. She's almost 50 years old. Everything goes well in the life of the gorgeous Ellen Evans - she has a businessman husband, grown children, a prestigious lakeside home, and a successful family business, part of which she owns. All is well until she learns her husband has another family and is claiming separation of property on terms, but she could lose almost everything. At such a moment, Ellen meets a childhood friend who has always admired her, Benjamin Collins, and a spark of attraction flares between them. But Ben is her husband's lawyer in a divorce case, and the newly-born hope for happiness seems impossible. Of course, Ellen's friends Betty and Lori do not stay away and help her regain her confidence and believe that happiness is possible again. Grab your favorite pillow, grab this book, get comfy on the couch, and join Ellen and Ben's adventures on the road to love. SUNSET LAKE CLUB SERIES (complete) **Women’s Secrets (The Sunset Lake Club #1)** introduces Ellen, Betty, and Lori, three women starting fresh in life. As they spend time together at Sunset Lake, their friendship grows, revealing hidden secrets and showing the power of supporting each other. This book sets the stage for their journeys of self-discovery and new beginnings. **Anything Can Happen (The Sunset Lake Club #2)** is about starting over and getting second chances. Ellen is surprised when she starts falling for an old friend, turning their friendship into something more. Meanwhile, Betty and Lori face significant life changes. Together, they show that changing your story is never too late. **Our Time to Love (The Sunset Lake Club #3)** is Betty’s story of coping with grief and finding love in the most unexpected place. As she struggles with her loss, she meets someone utterly different from her, and they connect in a way she never imagined. Meanwhile, Ellen and Lori continue their journeys toward healing and happiness. **Love is Everything (The Sunset Lake Club #4)** centers on Lori’s journey of starting over, second chances, and discovering her self-worth. Lori faces her toughest challenge when she clashes with a rival, leading to an unexpected enemies-to-lovers romance. The women of Sunset Lake prove that love is everything, no matter how old you are. Do not miss the Romance Short Story Collections: A Heartwarming, Feel-Good, Easy-Read Fiction! For fans of: Rachel Hanna, The Beach House, Eliza Ester, The Bakery on the Cove, Lucinda Race, A McKenna Family Romance series, Nina Lane, Starting Over series, Liz Isaacson, Last Chance Ranch Romance, J. Hansen, Sweet Summer Landings series, Nina Potter, A Sunburned Land Series by Juliette Duncan

Read this FREE prequel to the complete Sunset Lake Club series, set in a small town at the lake. Three gorgeous women in their prime: three secrets were told, and there was no old life anymore. The three women's destinies were tightly intertwined by their determination to find happiness and love for the rest of their lives. They told their secrets in a sauna in a pine grove on the lake's shore. These secrets about life and love will forever remain between the stories' heroines—Ellen, Betty, and Lori—but they will affect the rest of their lives. One thing was clear: no matter what trials life prepared for them, friends were determined to overcome all adversity and find happiness for the rest of their lives. While Women's Secrets may not feature a central romance or a traditional happily-ever-after, it sets the stage for the following series. Prepare to suffer and hope for the best, not to give up in the face of life's difficulties, to search for, rediscover, or gasp at unexpected love together with Ellen, Betty, and Lori - the heroines of the Sunset Lake Club series. Women's Secrets receives praise: 5-star review: "Inspiring - I loved this story of women breaking out of their bonds of monotony and discontent. They made themselves vulnerable to each other and were accepted and wrapped in encouragement. Ellen, Betty, and Lori have found their tribe and, in it, each has changed her future! Bravo!!" - Reviewer, US 2022 5-star review: "Nice storyline - Bought this for my lady and she was very contented with the book. It is about damel power, love and adventure. She cant wait to read the other books" - Reviewer, Germany, 2022 Sunset Lake Club - A Sweet Friends to Lovers, Later in Life Romance & Contemporary Women Friendship Fiction Stories of women who, at a mature age, are searching for their happiness. Will their journeys be smooth sailing, or will they encounter surprises, love, and amazing adventures that defy age? SUNSET LAKE CLUB SERIES (complete) **Women’s Secrets (The Sunset Lake Club #1)** introduces Ellen, Betty, and Lori, three women starting fresh in life. As they spend time together at Sunset Lake, their friendship grows, revealing hidden secrets and showing the power of supporting each other. This book sets the stage for their journeys of self-discovery and new beginnings. **Anything Can Happen (The Sunset Lake Club #2)** is about starting over and getting second chances. Ellen is surprised when she starts falling for an old friend, turning their friendship into something more. Meanwhile, Betty and Lori face significant life changes. Together, they show that changing your story is never too late. **Our Time to Love (The Sunset Lake Club #3)** is Betty’s story of coping with grief and finding love in the most unexpected place. As she struggles with her loss, she meets someone utterly different from her, and they connect in a way she never imagined. Meanwhile, Ellen and Lori continue their journeys toward healing and happiness. **Love is Everything (The Sunset Lake Club #4)** centers on Lori’s journey of starting over, second chances, and discovering her self-worth. Lori faces her toughest challenge when she clashes with a rival, leading to an unexpected enemies-to-lovers romance. The women of Sunset Lake prove that love is everything, no matter how old you are. Do not miss the Romance Short Story Collections: A Heartwarming, Feel-Good, Easy-Read Fiction! For fans of Rachel Hanna, The Beach House, Eliza Ester, The Bakery on the Cove, Lucinda Race, A McKenna Family Romance series, Nina Lane, Starting Over series, Liz Isaacson, Last Chance Ranch Romance, J. Hansen, Sweet Summer Landings series, Nina Potter, A Sunburned Land Series by Juliette Duncan

These are stories of three women who start over from scratch at a mature age. They search for their happiness and offer encouragement and support to each other. Prepare to hope for the best and not give up in the face of life's difficulties. Witness the resilience of Ellen, Betty, and Lori—the heroines of the Sunset Lake Club series—as they search for, rediscover, or gasp at unexpected love. Will their journeys be smooth sailing, or will they encounter surprises, love, and amazing adventures that defy age? SUNSET LAKE CLUB SERIES (complete) **Women’s Secrets (The Sunset Lake Club #1)** introduces Ellen, Betty, and Lori, three women starting fresh in life. As they spend time together at Sunset Lake, their friendship grows, revealing hidden secrets and showing the power of supporting each other. This book sets the stage for their journeys of self-discovery and new beginnings. **Anything Can Happen (The Sunset Lake Club #2)** is about starting over and getting second chances. Ellen is surprised when she starts falling for an old friend, turning their friendship into something more. Meanwhile, Betty and Lori face significant life changes. Together, they show that changing your story is never too late. **Our Time to Love (The Sunset Lake Club #3)** is Betty’s story of coping with grief and finding love in the most unexpected place. As she struggles with her loss, she meets someone utterly different from her, and they connect in a way she never imagined. Meanwhile, Ellen and Lori continue their journeys toward healing and happiness. **Love is Everything (The Sunset Lake Club #4)** centers on Lori’s journey of starting over, second chances, and discovering her self-worth. Lori faces her toughest challenge when she clashes with a rival, leading to an unexpected enemies-to-lovers romance. The women of Sunset Lake prove that love is everything, no matter how old you are. Do not miss the Romance Short Story Collections: A Heartwarming, Feel-Good, Easy-Read Fiction!

Women's Fiction, Mature-Age Small Town Romance Book #2 of the complete Sunset Lake Club series. Betty Smith is a beautiful, full-figured woman, an optimistic housewife. She has lived with her beloved husband, but without children, for over 30 years. Suddenly, grief interrupts her prosperous life, and Betty is on the threshold of poverty and misery. But she is determined to overcome everything and gets a profession as a bus driver. And then, at the door of her bus, Bjorn Andersson appears, a famous architect, accompanied by his faithful dog, Brock. It is impossible to find more different people than Betty and Bjorn. Something binds them, but only the dog knows their relationship is possible. Of course, just like in Anything Can Happen, Betty's friends Ellen and Lori do not stay away and help her believe that happiness is possible. Grab your favorite pillow, grab this book, get comfy on the couch, and join Betty and Bjorn's adventures on the road to love. SUNSET LAKE CLUB SERIES (complete) **Women’s Secrets (The Sunset Lake Club #1)** introduces Ellen, Betty, and Lori, three women starting fresh in life. As they spend time together at Sunset Lake, their friendship grows, revealing hidden secrets and showing the power of supporting each other. This book sets the stage for their journeys of self-discovery and new beginnings. **Anything Can Happen (The Sunset Lake Club #2)** is about starting over and getting second chances. Ellen is surprised when she starts falling for an old friend, turning their friendship into something more. Meanwhile, Betty and Lori face significant life changes. Together, they show that changing your story is never too late. **Our Time to Love (The Sunset Lake Club #3)** is Betty’s story of coping with grief and finding love in the most unexpected place. As she struggles with her loss, she meets someone utterly different from her, and they connect in a way she never imagined. Meanwhile, Ellen and Lori continue their journeys toward healing and happiness. **Love is Everything (The Sunset Lake Club #4)** centers on Lori’s journey of starting over, second chances, and discovering her self-worth. Lori faces her toughest challenge when she clashes with a rival, leading to an unexpected enemies-to-lovers romance. The women of Sunset Lake prove that love is everything, no matter how old you are. Do not miss the Romance Short Story Collections: A Heartwarming, Feel-Good, Easy-Read Fiction! For fans of: Rachel Hanna, The Beach House, Eliza Ester, The Bakery on the Cove, Lucinda Race, A McKenna Family Romance series, Nina Lane, Starting Over series, Liz Isaacson, Last Chance Ranch Romance, J. Hansen, Sweet Summer Landings series, Nina Potter, A Sunburned Land Series by Juliette Duncan

Our best friends, Twitter followers, gal-pals, bromances, Facebook friends, and long distance buddies define us in ways we rarely openly acknowledge. But as a society, we are simultaneously terrified of being alone and already desperately lonely. We move through life in packs and friendship circles and yet, in the most interconnected age, we are stuck in the greatest loneliness epidemic of our time. It's killing us, making us miserable and causing a public health crisis. Increasingly, we don’t just die alone; we die because we are alone. What if meaningful friendships are the solution?Journalist Kate Leaver believes that friendship is the essential cure for the modern malaise of solitude, ill health, and anxiety and that, if we only treated camaraderie as a social priority, it could affect everything from our physical health and emotional well being. Her much-anticipated manifesto, The Friendship Cure, looks at what friendship means, how it can survive, why we need it, and what we can do to get the most from it. Why do some friendships last a lifetime, while others are only temporary? How do you “break up†? with a toxic friend? How do you make friends as an adult? Can men and women really be platonic? What are the curative qualities of friendship, and how we can deploy friendship to actually live longer, better lives?From behavioral scientists to besties, Kate draws upon the extraordinary research from academics, scientists, and psychotherapists, and stories from friends of friends, strangers from the Internet, and her “squad†? to get to the bottom of these and other facets of friendship. For readers of Susan Cain’s Quiet and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic, The Friendship Cure is a fascinating blend of accessible “smart thinking,†? investigative journalism, pop culture, and memoir for anyone trying to navigate this lonely world, written with the wit, charm, and bite of a fresh voice.

A "heartbreaking, heartwarming" (Heidi McLaughlin, New York Times bestselling author) love story that asks the question: what do you do when your soul mate marries your best friend? If you're Kate Evans, you keep your friend Rachel, bond with her kids, and bury your feelings for her husband. The fact that Shane's in the military and away for long periods helps-but when tragedy strikes, everything changes. After Rachel, pregnant with her fourth child, dies in a car accident and the baby miraculously survives, Kate upends her entire life to share parenting duties. Then on the first anniversary of Rachel's death, Kate and Shane take comfort in each other in a night that they both soon regret. Shane's been angry for a year, and now he feels guilty too - for sleeping with his wife's best friend and liking it . . . liking her. Kate's ability to read him like a book may have once sent Shane running, but their lives are forever entwined and they are growing closer. Now with Shane deployed for seven months, Kate is on her own and struggling with being a single parent. Shane is loving and supportive from thousands of miles away, but his homecoming brings a betrayal Kate never saw coming. So Kate's only choice is to fight for the future she deserves - with or without Shane. . .

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M