Download or read book Second Time Sweeter written by Beverly Jenkins and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her beloved Blessings series with a new heartwarming novel set in Henry Adams, Kansas. Malachi “Mal” July has run into trouble in the past. With a reputation as a player, he’s now a recovering alcoholic and has made progress in redeeming himself in the eyes of his family and the citizens of Henry Adams, Kansas. He’s not only turned his diner into a profitable business, but also mentors the town’s foster kids. And he’s even staying true to one woman—Bernadine Brown. But all it takes is a moment of pride to blind Mal to his blessings—a moment that makes him betray his friends and family, and lose Bernadine’s trust and love. Will he ever be able to win her forgiveness? Meanwhile Homecoming Weekend is fast approaching, and store owner Gary Clark is reunited with his high school sweetheart. All it takes is a few minutes for them to realize the spark is still there, but is it too late for second chances? A little help from the good people of Henry Adams may give both Mal and Gary the best second chance at the happiness they missed the first time around…

Download or read book Second Time Sweeter written by Ros Baxter and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rising star Ros Baxter comes a love story about duty, desire, and dairy products. Ten years ago, Genevieve Jenkins let the Love of her Life ride out of town while she settled for The Safe Bet. Turns out Mr Safe Bet wasn't so safe after all, and life in her small home town of Sweet Pocket got kind of sour. The last thing she needs on top of two kids, a sick mother, a deadbeat ex and a heap of bad debt is for Mr Love of her Life to ride back into town, successful, smart, devastatingly sexy, and all the things that she can no longer be. And it doesn't help that she's dressed as cheese. One–time–bad–boy–now–Crop–King Brodie Brown is back in town on a mission of mercy, but he's keeping his guard up. He can't let this town – or the girl who broke his heart ten years before – get under his skin. He's seen what working the land can do to people, and he built his business, and a whole new life, in the big smoke far away from the pain and despair of a farmer's life. But he loved this town and he loves the people, so when Sweet Pocket calls, he answers. That's just the way it is. But it's only temporary and it's only business. Brodie learned long ago that there is nothing left for him in Sweet Pocket but a broken heart and lost dreams. When the town's future is secure, he'll ride away again – back to his life and his future, and away from the girl who could make both worthwhile.

Download or read book The Second Time is Sweeter written by Natalie Tay and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is a luxury that Sydney Collins, single mom extraordinaire, simply cannot afford. Between raising Max, finishing school, and trying to eke out a living at the local ice cream shop, she barely has time to clean the apartment, much less date. Carefully controlling her reality is the only way she can get by, but when her high school sweetheart Sam moves in upstairs, her world is sent for a spin. Sam's advances are more than tempting, but Sydney's walls are there for a reason. The scars of her husband's abuse run deeper than she wants to admit, but Sam's patient friendship is exactly what she needs. It doesn't take long for him to fill the space in her life she didn't know was missing. But her traumas are persistent, and she can't help wondering if she can ever move past her baggage. Would a romance with Sam be doomed to fail? Or could the second time be even sweeter than before?

Download or read book Love Is All The Sweeter written by Barbara McMahon and published by Barbara McMahon. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The path to true love doesn’t always run smoothly. Yet doesn’t love deserve a second chance? Join former sweethearts who went their separate ways years ago and now reunite and take a chance to rekindle that special love despite all obstacles past and present. If you enjoy second chance romance, you’ll love this sweet reunion box set. Delve into this box set today.

Download or read book A Wish and a Prayer written by Beverly Jenkins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Returning to Henry Adams, Kansas, is akin to attending a family reunion. The characters are rich, and the kids all have a story to be told.” —Romantic Times “This series is a winner.” —Minneapolis Examiner Bestselling author Beverly Jenkins takes readers back to Henry Adams—a small town originally founded by freed slaves—for a delightful fourth visit with A Wish and a Prayer. Time spent in this close-knit community of lovable eccentrics is always quality time, and this trip promises to be especially memorable, with a pig on trial and new love blossoming. Loaded with heart and wit, Jenkins’s A Wish and a Prayer is like coming home—a welcome return that readers of Kimberla Lawson Roby and Angela Benson and African American romance fans will certainly want to experience.

Download or read book On the Corner of Hope and Main written by Beverly Jenkins and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins celebrates her beloved Blessings series with a heartwarming novel set in Henry Adams, Kansas. “If you haven’t yet gotten your hands on [this] author’s work, you should do so immediately.”—Shondaland Citizens of Henry Adams, Kansas, know there’s never a dull moment in their small town... Trent July has been the mayor of this historic town for the past four years, but now he’s ready to let someone else take up the mantle. Barrett Payne, a former Marine, decides he wants the job. But when a surprise candidate also enters the ring, the town has opinions on who would be the best candidate. And of course that’s not the only drama, as Malachi “Mal” July continues to make reparations for the damage he’s caused and to the people he’s betrayed, especially his lady love Bernadine. Is she finally ready to forgive him and let the past go? As the residents of Henry Adams have learned, life will throw obstacles their way, but it’s how they come together and rise above these challenges that keep the bonds of their close-knit community strong.

Download or read book Bring on the Blessings written by Beverly Jenkins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Beverly Jenkins makes the move to trade paperback with this rich and moving story that introduces us to the beautiful Kansas town of Henry Adams, and the townspeople who make it unique Bernadine Brown is a woman with money to spend. Henry Adams is a town in desperate need of cash. But after Bernadine puts up the money, she has some ideas about how the town should be run. Will the townspeople be willing to shake up their comfortable lives to share the gift they’ve been given with others who really need it? One of the few all Black towns founded after Reconstruction, over a century later Henry Adams was falling apart. So Mayor Trenton July took a chance and put his town up for sale on the internet. With a new owner in town, and the ex mayor and his friends up in arms and doing everything they can to turn the deal on its head, will this be the death of Henry Adams...or its rebirth?

Download or read book Sweeter the Juice written by Shirlee Haizlip and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-01-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's memoir and history of her family spanning six generations, chronicling what it is like to be racially mixed.

Download or read book The Second Time Around written by Angie Daniels and published by Harlequin Kimani. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting her hometown, Brenna Gathers runs into Jabarie Beaumont, who jilted her at the altar. Convinced by his father that Brenna was a gold digger, Jabarie never got her out of his system. Now he's on a mission to win her heart for the second time around...

Download or read book Sweeter Than Honey written by Mary B. Morrison and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lace St. Thomas operates Immaculate Perception, a hot Vegas firm that pairs wealthy clients with sexy female escorts. But when one of her most requested girls turns up dead, Lace knows she's in real danger. Renaming herself Honey Thomas, she flees to Atlanta to start a new life. But her past is not so easily left behind, and it will take everything Honey has to flip this bad-news script and fight to save everything she's worked for.

Download or read book The Sweetness of Water Oprah s Book Club written by Nathan Harris and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2022 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, "a miraculous debut" (Washington Post)​ and "a towering achievement of imagination" (CBS This Morning)about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever--from "a storyteller with bountiful insight and assurance" (Kirkus) A Best Book of the Year: Oprah Daily, NPR, Washington Post, Time, Boston Globe, Smithsonian, Chicago Public Library, BookBrowse, and the Oregonian A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A July Indie Next Pick In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry--freed by the Emancipation Proclamation--seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys. Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers. The young men, recently returned from the war to the town of Old Ox, hold their trysts in the woods. But when their secret is discovered, the resulting chaos, including a murder, unleashes convulsive repercussions on the entire community. In the aftermath of so much turmoil, it is Isabelle who emerges as an unlikely leader, proffering a healing vision for the land and for the newly free citizens of Old Ox. With candor and sympathy, debut novelist Nathan Harris creates an unforgettable cast of characters, depicting Georgia in the violent crucible of Reconstruction. Equal parts beauty and terror, as gripping as it is moving, The Sweetness of Water is an epic whose grandeur locates humanity and love amid the most harrowing circumstances.

Download or read book Love Is Sweeter the Second Time Around written by Natalie Carroll and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been standing at two crossroads so unsure what to do? One is a direct route to happiness and the other route, to sorrow and let downs. The choice should be so easy to make, yet your heart is with one way and your head is with the other.

Download or read book Sweeter Than Honey written by Joy Avery and published by Montlake Romance. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A talented baker and a small-town sheriff forced into a fake relationship decide whether to take a chance on love in this delectable romance from Joy Avery. Baker extraordinaire Rylee Harris has a recipe for everything--except love. It's been five years since she lost her husband, but romance is still a struggle for Rylee. In her small hamlet of Honey Hill, North Carolina, Rylee knows she'll be the talk of the town when she finds someone new. To ease her mother's worries about her love life, Rylee impulsively invents a fake relationship with the only man who's caught her eye: the town sheriff, Canten Barnes. It's supposed to be a secret, but secrets don't last long in Honey Hill. One bit of gossip leads to another, and soon the whole town thinks Rylee and Canten are an item. As Rylee and Canten embark on a make-believe relationship to save face, they slowly realize that their feelings for each other aren't fake at all. Can Rylee and Canten keep the charade going--or will the town's prized baker and respected lawman take a real chance on love?

Download or read book Nothing Sweeter written by Laura Drake and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- USA Today "An emotionally packed story that will pull all the heartstrings." -Christie Craig, New York TimesThe Sweet Spot

Download or read book Sweeter Than Wine written by L. Neil Smith and published by Phoenix Pick. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With just one tiny exception, J Gifford is an ordinary, decent, small-town kind of guy. He pays his bills on time. He waters his lawn. He treats his neighbors and the folks with whom he does business with kindness and respect. He's good to children and small animals. The tiny exception? He's a vampire. Born in 1920, and "brought over" shortly after D-Day in a little French village, 90-year-old Gifford still looks and feels 24. He has friends, a place in the community, a thriving business, and a big orange tabby cat named Fiddlestring. He knows where all the good restaurants are. He's very tidy about that "tiny exception" and has never killed anybody. All he lacks in his life is the beautiful girl who made him what he is today -- and then mysteriously vanished."--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book Return Engagement written by Lynn Michaels and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Act one ... girl leaves boy.

Download or read book Never Sweeter written by Charlotte Stein and published by Loveswept. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second chances are sweeter than ever in Charlotte Stein’s steamy Dark Obsession series—perfect for fans of Katy Evans—as a self-reliant college girl falls for a reformed bully who’s desperate to make up for lost time. Letty Carmichael can’t believe her eyes when she catches a glimpse of her high school tormenter, wrestling champ Tate Sullivan, on campus. College was supposed to be her escape from Tate’s constant ridicule. Now he’s in her classes again, just waiting for his chance to make her life hell. But when Letty and Tate are partnered up for an assignment—on sex in cinema, of all things—she starts to see a kinder, gentler side of him. And when she realizes Tate knows more about sex than she could ever guess at, he soon starts making her blush in a whole new way. Tate Sullivan is haunted by regret over his cruelty toward Letty. So when she agrees to work with him, he seizes his chance to make amends. He can’t blame her for not believing he’s for real, but soon Tate starts to break down her wall. She wants to know about passion, desire, lust—topics he is well versed in. And in return she offers the one thing he always wanted: the chance to be more than just a jock. Letty is shocked by how sensitive Tate can be. Still, desiring him feels ludicrous. Loving him is impossible. Craving him is beyond all reason. So why can’t she stop? Praise for Never Sweeter “A gorgeous, lush story full of angst and heartbreak with dark, tormented characters and mind-blowing sex. I got blisters from turning the pages so fast.”—USA Today bestselling author Jamie K. Schmidt “A delightfully sweet romance with just the right amount of angst.”—The Good, The Bad, and The Unread “One of the sweetest romances I’ve read in a long time.”—The Romance Reviews “A beautiful story, with a beautiful message.”—The Jeep Diva Includes an excerpt from another Loveswept title.