Ellie and her mother lost everything in the hurricane: their home, their family business, and, tragically, Ellie's dad. They get a chance at a new life when Ellie's mom gets a job apprenticing as a farrier and managing a horse farm in Virginia. Ellie has a scholarship to Twin Creeks Preparatory School, where her snobby classmates aren't friendly at all—until a rumor begins that Ellie is actually a princess! Suddenly Ellie is the school's most popular girl. But what will happen when the truth comes out?

Ellie pet sits for her neighbor's African grey parrot Alix, while her family argues over whether to get a cat or a dog, and her little brother accidentally lets Alix out of his cage, all of which is chronicled in Ellie's sketchbook.

"A playful story with heart and teasing goodwill." —Publishers Weekly for The Unplanned Life of Josie Hale Readers of Sally Thorne and Beth O'Leary will love Ellie Reed's wild adventure. Ellie Reed's self-esteem can't take it anymore... Ellie has just about had enough of her family's constant criticism and attempts to control her life. But when she rents an Airbnb getaway on a gorgeous farm in Montana, she encounters a whole new set of family drama. Now she's the reluctant and borderline competent caretaker of a barn full of unruly farm animals, the sudden best friend of a spunky elderly widow whose outrageous ideas just might change her destiny, and caught between two handsome men competing for control of the farm, and for her attention...

Wishing Springs, Texas—Summer 1870 An Ever After Summer is a historical of Matt McConnell’s ancestors on his father’s side. You can read this before Matt’s story comes out. Also, A Cowboy For Katie is his mother’s ancestors story…love from all those years ago will help Matt in his love story Heart Healing Cowboy. Mathew McConnell needs help with his baby so he’s sent for a mail order bride. All he needs is someone to love his baby, he’s fine. He’ll never lose love again, or trust that God has him in His thoughts. His baby has no mother and a father who has to work really hard to keep the ranch going. So, a mail order bride is his only resource and he made it clear in his ad that he needs a practical woman to keep house and be a mother to his two-year old baby girl—Bible believers need not apply—and he means it. Ellie has had a rough life, and her aunt has told her she has to be a mail order bride. Ellie looks at it as a gift, her opportunity to make her dream of finding love real. Until she meets Matthew she had no idea the handsome heart throb—didn’t want a “Bible thumper—what’s wrong with being a “Bible thumper” anyway? She’s lived a tough life and been accused of being a born killer, killing three before the age of one, so being a Bible thumper isn’t so bad. Now, she’s determined to show him she’s tougher than she looks—and just the girl he needs.

This work looks at the body of women's fiction written in postwar Britain, up to 1960. It examines the myth of the fairy tale ending and what changes the postwar period has wrought in subverting stereotypes.

A collection of three full-length contemporary romance novels Where There's Smoke Lauren Stokes put a lid on her attraction toward her best friend Seth Escamilla years ago. She'd never be his type of woman, so why torture herself? When sexual awareness strikes during a friendly football game, she's stunned. He's guilty for injuring her and looks after her, but Lauren resorts to wisecracking to distance herself from him. Seth's confused by the new emotions swamping him. This is Lauren, his best friend, someone he has fun with, not someone he has fun with! He doesn't plan to settle down, and he won't risk their friendship when they have no future. They resist the new attraction, and the efforts of their families to push them together. When a wedding loosens their inhibitions, keeping the new aspect of their relationship a secret is harder than they would have thought. Something to Talk About When you’re trying to stay below the radar in a small town that thrives on gossip, you probably don’t want to break up with your football coach boyfriend and fall in love with your best friend’s widower within the same month. And heaven help you if you befriend the psychic who’s just moved nearby and your AWOL mother returns after a fourteen-year absence. Ellie Morgan is tired of playing second string to the football team coached by her boyfriend of three years. She ends their relationship, much to the dismay of the town’s citizens, who worry a heartbroken coach will ruin their chance for a championship team. Rumors of a romance with Noah Weston, her best friend’s widower, buzz when an accident on the beach causes him to bring her to the local clinic in his arms. The rumors disturb her, but also make her think about Noah in a way she hasn’t before. Even comments that she’s trying to slide into the void left by her best friend’s death can’t kill her fantasies, now as rampant as the rumor mill. Noah Weston is emerging from his grief a year and a half after his wife’s death. Ellie Morgan draws him with her energy and positive attitude. As their friendship progresses, though, he wonders if he can risk loving and losing everything again, and she wonders if she can handle taking second place, this time to a ghost. What (Not) to Expect When You're Expecting Bailey Summers is very good at taking care of herself. So good, in fact, that she shuts others out with very little effort. But when her brother and his partner want a child, she pushes out of her comfort zone and offers to be their surrogate. It’s just nine months out of her life, right? Right. Because of course when she’s struggling with morning sickness, she encounters the hottest man she’s ever met. To make matters worse, he’s the new bartender at her popular bar. Rick Cassidy comes with his own complications. He’s a middle school teacher taking a summer job as a bartender to help out his brother’s family. His brother is in a rehab hospital after colliding with a drunk driver, and Rick is trying to help them make ends meet. He’s just out of a relationship himself, with a woman who couldn’t handle him spending so much time caring for his brother. So what’s he doing eyeballing his boss, the boss of a job he needs? But late nights, close quarters and second-trimester hormones overrule better judgement, and complications intertwine. This is definitely not what they were expecting. Keywords: pregnancy romance, friends to lovers, widower, firefighter, steamy romance

This book shows how ripping up the traditional presentation Dos and Don'ts will make you a better, more relaxed, and more effective presenter. It includes stories of people who not only were able to become great presenters by being "bad" but actually came to enjoy it.