Download or read book Fireweed Island written by Mary E. Dickson and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-year-old Maddy marries in haste, only to discover that her new husband is an abusive narcissist. He moves Maddy away from family and friends in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Victoria, Australia, where she must now cope in a foreign country, lacking personal support or finances to sustain her. Maddy reflects back on her childhood on Fireweed Island in the 1950s and 1960s, thinking of her older sister, Erin, her father, Gordon, and her troubled mother, Florence. Anger consumes Florence because Gordon becomes ill and is no longer able to provide her with a comfortable lifestyle. After his death, the whole family seems to fall apart. Erin runs off with her boyfriend, leaving Maddy to deal with her vindictive mother. The novel races to its chilling conclusion when Maddy is forced to fight for survival against a dangerous, vengeful ex-husband in a foreign land. Fireweed Island is a story of power and vulnerability, as well as how family history can mold a person's life.

Download or read book Imagining Love on Fireweed Island written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harmony Badel is tired of her past coming back to haunt her. She’s left her wild ways long behind and moved to Fireweed Island where her best friend, Chance, gives her a chance to start over. She only prays that she can get used to life on the island and maybe even make a friend or two. However, she never expects to run into Walker Malone…a man she can’t stay away from. And the very man who’d gotten her in trouble so many years ago. It isn’t until their friendship turns to more that Harmony realizes history might repeat itself, and she’s bound to get hurt again. But Walker knows he is a changed man and vows to prove it the only woman he’s ever loved

Download or read book Forever Love on Fireweed Island written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between a hot fireman and a sweet librarian, I never wanted the story to end. Each page sizzled with a slow burn, and it was a fantastic and heartwarming story." Jewels Jennings—zippy librarian by day and book blogger by night—came back to the one and only place beyond the pages of a book that has given her happiness, Fireweed Island. Years ago, she tore off the island in a speedboat with the man she was supposed to marry in tow and a vow never to return to small-town living . . . only to return with her tail between her legs, newly divorced, and completely skeptical of anything resembling love. She prefers to stick to the men between the pages of her latest read rather than waste time in the real world. Jake Harlen fled to Fireweed Island with the hopes of forgetting his past. He’s been busy carving out a life that anchors him far away from people and the complications they always manage to deliver. He likes his life, manages it with the care it deserves, and is content in his single ways . . . until he goes on a rescue call and meets the town librarian. When Jewels finds her life hanging in the balance more than once, Jake is the only one who can save her, but neither of them realizes the magic of love that Fireweed is determined to deliver, but only one of them is ready to accept what fate has in store.

Download or read book Christmas Crush on Fireweed Island written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sasha Jones’ favorite aunt leaves her a small candy store on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, she immediately decides to sell it. Her life is already in permanent upheaval, and she doesn’t have the time or patience to try keep the family business going. She has great holiday memories of Fireweed Island, but that’s what they need to remain—as memories. But Sasha promises herself one last Christmas on Fireweed before she puts the business on the market. Between two awful boyfriends that she ping-pongs between and a work schedule that calls for her to fall into her bed at midnight, she’s running on fumes. She needs the escape and time away from her life in Arizona. What Sasha doesn’t anticipate is the sexiest man in the universe stumbling into the candy shop. She just never expects it to be her Christmas crush from when she was twelve years old, Wyatt Elliott. There’s something about the way he looks at Sasha that makes her wonder if she’s making the right decision. But she’s never been one to put love first... And maybe that’s the problem.

Download or read book Beyond Control written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would Gabby Sullivan ever fall for a man like Jason Baines? Never! He’s cocky, too sexy for his own good, builds bikes for a living, and is the complete opposite of anything her father would approve of. Which is perfect because Jason doesn’t do relationships, complications, or daddy’s girls. Facing his own demons, Jason attempts to piece his life back together after a personal tragedy. Damaged by the ghosts that taunt him, Jason notices he begins to forgive himself whenever Gabby's around. She makes him feel--alive, something he hasn't felt for a long time. And she doesn’t understand why he’s like a magnet for her dreams. But it’s only as their love grows and secrets are revealed that they realize a devastating connection from their past might actually tear them apart.

Download or read book Lucky in Love on Hound Island written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiffany Bailey is in love. Truly, madly, deeply in love with a boy who has chestnut hair, glistening white teeth, and sparkling brown eyes. He’s adorable and makes her heart melt off of just one look. He has given her everything she’s ever wanted. There are just a couple of problems. First of all, he isn’t hers, and the second issue is that he has four legs and doesn’t talk much. In all seriousness, Tiffany has never found that one person who makes her stomach flutter with delight, her cheeks flush from a heated glance, or her pulse spike from just one touch, which is precisely why she thinks love isn’t what it’s cracked up to be…much more effort than it’s worth, really. Or at least she believes that until Billy comes crashing into her world or was it the other way around? One thing she knows is that Billy gives her every reason to blush and make her heart rate race with thoughts that had never popped into her head before. Thoughts she needs to squash immediately, especially since he has quite the reputation for collecting lots of phone numbers. The one thing Tiffany refuses to do is lose her heart to a man who is incapable of real emotion, but a little bit of harmless flirting can’t be that bad, right? Billy’s life is changing at lightning speed. His business is booming. He has franchises opening up across the Pacific Northwest, and he clearly doesn’t have time for love. Except he just can’t get Tiffany Bailey out of his mind. She’s beautiful, charming, and holds a zest for life that makes his world seem a little more exciting. But life isn’t that simple, especially his. He holds too many secrets and an inability to love. No big deal, right? All Billy knows is that in his world, Tiffany is off limits. Period. Although, maybe having a little fun wouldn’t hurt anything. All books in the Island County Series can be read as standalones.

Download or read book Beyond Reason written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily’s off and running the moment she graduates. She’s working at one of the most prestigious PR firms in Portland where her ambition propels her ahead at the firm and she loves it. Between decorating her new apartment and focusing solely on work, she has no time for dating, which is ideal since that’s never been her strong suit. At least not since she ran away from her high school sweetheart several years before. After more than a handful of somewhat sketchy relationships in college, she’s come up with a few dating guidelines: >Don’t date the boss. >Don’t date his son. >Stay away from Professors, even if not in school. >Never fall in love. As long as she sticks to the rules everything should be fine, but that’s always been her problem. She never sticks to the rules, and she has two best friends determined to find her perfect match, even if that means digging up her old high school boyfriend.

Download or read book Beyond Doubt written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book two in the Bestselling Series… Brandy Rhodes is about to enter law school and everything is going according to plan. Until she meets him—the one man in the universe who’s off limits—her best friend’s brother, Aaron. Brandy knows enough to stay away from him, but as the pull becomes impossible to ignore, secrets and lies become part of Brandy’s way of life. And she kind of likes it. Aaron Sullivan has never been one to believe in love. His motto is quantity over quality and that has suited him quite well. After all, love is an illusion and romance is another way to manipulate females into bed. Until he met her—the one woman in the universe who calls his bluff and shows what love can be. But as their love grows, Aaron’s past begins to haunt his future, and right when she needs him the most, he makes a decision that will shatter her world. And she just may not survive.

Download or read book Remembering You written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's another beautiful day at Cloudberry Inn for the Roberts sisters, unless you're Vera. Will she ever be able to let go of the mistakes from her past to embrace a new future? Maybe if Drew North has a hand in it... Vera Roberts knew she didn’t have it all. In fact, she was quite certain that she had the exact opposite of having it all and was left wondering if her turn would ever come. She’d spent her life living out everyone else’s dreams and was running on fumes while attempting to keep the Cloudberry Inn afloat. She felt life passing her by as her other sisters seemed so certain about their roles in the world. When Vera’s sister Samantha finally reappears at Cloudberry Inn with her own dreams seemingly fulfilled, it makes Vera begin to wonder what could have been if Vera was the one who’d left the Inn and Samantha stayed. It didn’t help that Vera’s childhood love suddenly reappeared in her life. Well, not him exactly—but his family. It was all she could do to forget that Drew North existed in the first place and now his family was busy renting out Cloudberry Inn for wedding engagements and festivities that reminded her she was alone, and he was nowhere to be found. When tragedy strikes, Vera realizes the only way to realize her own dreams is to be brave, but she knows her family needs her now more than ever, and she’s always done what’s right. Even if that means giving up on her own dreams, whatever they might have been. Drew North never understood his brothers’ fascination with happily-ever-after. He knew it wasn’t for him. He had plenty to keep him busy running the Silver Ridge Resort. Everything was fine. He was fine. Until he saw her. Vera Roberts. The girl he’d had a crush on. The girl who broke his heart and shaped the rest of his world when it came to love or the lack thereof. He was totally over her. So, why did he have second thoughts about ignoring her message?

Download or read book Leaving You written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lana Roberts always thought she grew up with the perfect parents who ran the perfect inn surrounded by the perfect family. Never in a million years did she expect that her family clung to secrets like a spider to its web. Lana’s version of reality obviously didn’t occur, and it has left her shook. For years, she’s waited for the perfect guy to swoop her off her feet, but it’s slowly dawning on her that there’s no such thing as perfection. In its place are lost dreams, but she’s determined to reclaim them. When Lana decides to go on a solo road trip to Montana, her world becomes as vivid as her wildest dreams, and she learns that it’s never too late to have a new beginning. Jacob Miller has had it all, done it all, and is desperately trying to escape it all. He’s spent the better part of his twenties and and most of his thirties playing stadiums and trying to make the road home, but he’s had enough and his vacation home in Montana promises to provide the peace he needs to end his career. It isn’t until Lana Roberts barrels into town talking about her own dreams that he realizes his aren’t quite over, and he hopes he can convince her that maybe the two of them could be something special, but she’s worried it’s too good to be true. Now it’s up to Jacob to convince her that life can be their own kind of perfect.

Download or read book Dash of Love written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 2024-06-19 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable summer at Buttercup Lake where healing and hope fill the days and a little book club mends broken hearts in unexpected ways. Grace Henry thought she knew her husband, but when her life falls down around her, she knows she must stay strong and find out what secrets he left behind. Grace never thought she’d be a single mom at thirty-five, left to raise a teenage daughter who resents her and a job that asks far too much of her. But as summer quickly approaches, the one place that always soothed her soul growing up is calling her home again. The moment she and her daughter arrive at Buttercup Lake, her frantic world stops shaking them apart and a glimmer of hope resurfaces that a new normal can exist. When Jackson Locke left Buttercup Lake at eighteen, he vowed he’d never return. After all, the one and only woman he’d loved broke his heart and ran off with his best friend and fellow camp counselor, Tim Henry. But when his uncle falls ill, he’s the only family member who can look after him. So, he does what any decent human would do and puts his disgust for the simple town of Buttercup Lake aside. Jackson just never expects to discover the one woman who shattered his idea of love also happens to be wandering the streets of Buttercup Lake. It takes everything he has to look Grace in the eyes and see the woman she's become, not the girl he'd left behind.

Download or read book Pinch of Love written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 2024-06-19 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya Bailey planned nothing more than a summer trip to Buttercup Lake to visit her sister, niece, and grandma. She needed to get the bad taste out of her mouth from being stood up at the altar, or in this case, the courthouse. It doesn’t help that the man who broke her heart also owns half of the company she runs and has no intention of departing amicably. But when Maya rolls into the small town of Buttercup Lake, she sees how incredibly happy her sister and niece are in the small resort town on the lake, and she wonders if she’s been chasing after the wrong things all these years. It doesn’t help that the house on the lake she’s renting happens to have a really attentive landlord, who is the sexiest man in existence. Too bad she no longer trusts men. Cash Knox is used to tourists coming into town and trashing his lake house with a dreaded promise to return, but when his next guest shows up, he can barely remember the code to open the front door and trips over his tongue offering to promise Maya a good time, which wasn’t exactly what he meant. As he gets to know Maya, he realizes that maybe she’s not the only one who’s been prioritizing things in life incorrectly, but as they grow closer, Cash knows there’s something that could tear them apart, and he doesn’t know how to tell her the secret he never intended on keeping.

Download or read book Imagining You written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Roberts sisters of Cloudberry Inn where family secrets are uncovered and a chance at love might mend their broken family. Samantha Roberts never expects to hear from her sisters asking her to return home to Cloudberry Inn, especially since her sisters stopped speaking to her several years ago. She has learned to make a life of her own by throwing herself into her solitary work as a bestselling author. Yet, she secretly hopes returning to Cloudberry Inn will give her the answers she needs. However, when Garrett Mason shows up at the inn, she wonders if maybe her fictional characters are springing to life. Between his rugged good looks and heart of gold, she can’t help but fall for him. But as family secrets unravel all around her, she realizes that if she can’t mend her relationship with her sisters, there is no point in attempting anything with the man who’s stolen her heart. After all, coming home doesn’t mean you’re staying home, and she can’t afford to let herself fall in love with a man she’ll never see again. Samantha has spent most of her life creating worlds she wished she lived in and maybe now it’s time to make her dreams a reality.

Download or read book Mr Flirt written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One matchmaking event gone sideways. A dare gone wrong. And a very angry woman ready to throttle Seattle’s Most Eligible Bachelor. Lucy couldn’t fathom how she let herself get talked into a matchmaking event in Seattle. But when the sweet, confident, and cocky match landed in front of her, her heart beat a little quicker, and dirty thoughts snuck into her normally subdued mind. The moment he smiled, she was done for. Until he opened his mouth and confessed to something unthinkable. Within seconds, Lucy was reaching across the table to throttle him. The night went down in history as the worst matchmaking event…EVER. The moment Shep met Lucy, he knew his life would never be the same. Except he’d done something absolutely ridiculous and lost the one and only shot he’d had with her. It wasn’t until fate threw them together again when he thought he might actually have a chance. Except that his reputation as Seattle’s Most Eligible Bachelor only reignited Lucy’s distrust as her walls went up instantly. But she came up with a plan, and it’s one Shep can’t say no to because at least he gets to spend one night with her before she says goodbye.

Download or read book Finding Love in Forgotten Cove written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Fireweed Island, a place where friendships flourish, love whispers from the island breeze, and the road to healing is paved with unexpected surprises...like a super sizzling contractor with a heart of gold. When Tori walks in on her fiancé in bed with another woman, she decides she’s had enough. Fueled by a burning desire to get out of town before she does something that will make headlines, she flies across the country to Fireweed Island with hopes of teaching summer school while fixing up her old childhood home. What she doesn’t expect is to be welcomed with such open arms and a deep connection to the town she grew up in that makes her wonder if she should stay long after summer is over. But family secrets linger just under the crashing waves, and they promise to reveal themselves in unexpected ways. Mason is suddenly thrust into the role of Tori’s contractor, a shoulder to cry on, and a man who pretends he isn’t falling for his client. But the truth is that he’s vowed to stay away from any emotional entanglements, and that is especially true when it involves complicated women. The problem is that he can’t get Tori out of his mind, and her fiery spirit only makes the need for her more intense, so he decides he’ll just lend a helping hand while keeping a distance. But as Tori confronts her deepest fears, Mason can’t help but fall in love with the woman he knows he should stay away from. He’s just not sure she feels the same. All books in the Island County Series can be read as standalone stories.

Download or read book Chance at Love on Mystic Bay written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maddie has never been boy crazy. She’s never cared about relationships. She’s never dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to her rescue. She’d much rather build her own empire and spend nights in with a cup of tea and a good book, and she’s found the perfect place to do both, Fireweed Island. Granted, she has very good reasons why she avoids the opposite sex, but those secrets will never escape her lips. But when she promises the wonderful woman who owns a lavender farm on Hound Island that she’d meet her son and tour the farm, she had no idea her world would turn upside down. If she were to pick a dream guy, he’d be it. Chance doesn’t have time to date or worry about relationships. He’s living his father’s dreams and making sure his mom will be set if he decides to leave the farm and pursue his real passion. The problem is that Chance’s mother hasn’t stopped rattling off reasons why he needs to meet the “girl who owns the tea shop”, and when he finally makes the trek to Fireweed Island, he realizes his mom was right. Maddie is incredible.

Download or read book Discovering Love on Cranberry Lane written by Karice Bolton and published by Karice Bolton. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Claire Swanson’s life crumbles around her, she knows she needs a change and prays that Fireweed island will give her exactly what she needs. A refuge and a place to start over with her son. What she doesn’t expect is to run into Dwayne Wilson, a sexy sheriff who makes her blush and remember what falling in love feels like. After a bitter marriage and an even worse divorce, Claire is exhausted and wants nothing more than to dive into her waitressing job and come home to her tiny apartment she shares with her son. Claire doesn’t have the energy to even think about a relationship, let alone be in one. But as Claire’s secrets from her past begin to reveal themselves in her new town, Claire’s only hope is that she can stop running from a past she’s tried so hard to forget. And Dwayne Wilson might be the only person who can help her. All books in the Island County Series can be read as standalones.