Download or read book A Stranger in Wynnedower written by Grace Greene and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and suspense with a dash of Southern Gothic... From the award-winning author of Beach Rental and Kincaid's Hope Rachel Sevier, a lonely thirty-two year old inventory specialist, travels to Wynnedower Mansion in Virginia to find her brother who has stopped returning her calls. Instead, she finds Jack Wynne, the mansion's bad-tempered owner. He isn't happy to meet her. When her brother took off without notice, he left Jack in a lurch. Jack has his own plans. He's tired of being responsible for everyone and everything and wants nothing more than to shake his obligations, including the old mansion. The last thing he needs is someone who'll complicate his life further, but he agrees to allow Rachel to stay while she waits for her brother to return. At Wynnedower, Rachel becomes curious about the house and its owner. If rumors are true, the means to save Wynnedower Mansion from demolition are hidden within its walls, but the other inhabitants of Wynnedower have agendas, too. Not only may Wynnedower's treasure be stolen, but also the life of its arrogant master unless Rachel can save them all.

Download or read book The Gift written by Kenny Rogers and published by Nelsonword Publishing Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The gift was an old Brownie Hawkeye camera and a message from a dying man: "Where there's future ... there's hope." Now those words and the mysterious photos from the camera were haunting Russell Thompson. What hope could there be? His wife died less than a year ago, Christmas would be here soon, and he had nothing but despair. But Christmas is a time of miracles, wonder, and hope ... something that Russell Thompson discovers one frame at a time."--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book The Memory of Butterflies written by Grace Greene and published by Center Point. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To keep a devastating family secret from being revealed, a young mother's desperate lies could end up destroying everything, and everyone, she loves in Cooper's Hollow along Virginia's beautiful and rustic Cub Creek"--

Download or read book Beach Rental written by Grace Greene and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Crystal Coast of North Carolina, in the small town of Emerald Isle... Juli Cooke, hard-working and getting nowhere fast, marries a dying man, Ben Bradshaw, for a financial settlement, not expecting he will set her on a journey of hope and love. The journey brings her to Luke Winters, a local art dealer, but Luke resents the woman who married his sick friend and warns her not to hurt Ben-and he's watching to make sure she doesn't. Until Ben dies and the stakes change. Framed by the timelessness of the Atlantic Ocean and the brilliant blue of the beach sky, Juli struggles against her past, the opposition of Ben's and Luke's families, and even the living reminder of her marriage-to build a future with hope and perhaps to find the love of her life-if she can survive the danger from her past.

Download or read book The Happiness in Between written by Grace Greene and published by Center Point. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandra Hurst has left her husband. Again. After dropping out of college to marry Trent, divorcing him, then remarrying him, she's shown up on her parents' doorstep nursing her wounds. But her parents refuse to help this time — emotionally or financially.

Download or read book Wildflower Christmas written by Grace Greene and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kara Hart is looking forward to a quiet holiday--just like the ones she's always known--but this year, she's at Wildflower House and alone. But fate--with an extra dose of Christmas spirit-intervenes as the people now in Kara's life show up. If Kara is ready to up her holiday game, she may find new traditions to build on for the future.

Download or read book Beach Winds written by Grace Greene and published by Kersey Creek Books. This book was released on 2017-11-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Off-season at Emerald Isle In-season for secrets of the heart... Frannie Denman has been waiting for her life to begin. After several false starts, and a couple of broken hearts, she ends up back with her mother, with whom she doesn't get along, until her elderly uncle gets sick and Frannie goes to Emerald Isle to help manage his affairs while he's recovering. Her uncle's oceanfront home, CAPTAIN'S WALK, isn't fancy, and she isn't a 'beach person, ' but she decides CAPTAIN'S WALK in winter is a great place to hide from her troubles. But Frannie doesn't realize that winter is short in Emerald Isle and the beauty of the ocean and seashore can help heal anyone's heart, especially when her uncle's handyman is the handsome Brian Donovan. Brian has troubles of his own. He sees himself and Frannie as two damaged people who aren't likely to equal a happy 'whole' but he's intrigued by this woman of contradictions. Frannie's mother wants her back home and Brian wants to meet the real woman he senses is hiding behind the good manners and expensive clothing, but Frannie wants to move forward with her life. To do that she needs questions answered. With the right information there's a good chance she'll will be able to affect not only a change in her life, but also a change of heart.

Download or read book Wildflower Heart written by Grace Greene and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Memory of Butterflies comes the first in a bittersweet series about love and loss. Kara Hart was scarred by loss--first the loss of her mother and now her husband. She feels broken, with no will to move forward, until her father does the unexpected: he moves to the Virginia countryside to restore an old Victorian mansion. Kara decides to go with him, telling herself that it will only be temporary. The huge house is neglected and derelict, but Kara discovers its breathtaking field of wildflowers and is stunned by their beauty. The house, the grounds, and the quirky neighbors--including a handsome one--are almost as fascinating as her father's sudden willingness to discuss her mother and his own secret past. Kara is finding her new normal when tragedy strikes again, forcing her to make difficult choices. Will she go back to her old life and risk losing all she has gained? Or will she face her fears and give herself the opportunity to grow?

Download or read book A Barefoot Tide written by Grace Greene and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lilliane Moore leaves the forests and rolling hills of her rural Virginia hometown, Cub Creek, to accept a temporary job at the beach as a companion to an elderly man.

Download or read book Responsibility in the Army written by A. Codrington and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book If the Creek Don t Rise written by Leah Weiss and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An immersive and deeply emotional reading experience—especially satisfying for readers who love richly drawn characters and a strong sense of place" —NPR He's gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and Loretta Lynn. Sadie Blue has been a wife for fifteen days. That's long enough to know she should have never hitched herself to Roy Tupkin, even with the baby. Sadie is desperate to make her own mark on the world, but in remote Appalachia, a ticket out of town is hard to come by and hope often gets stomped out. When a stranger sweeps into Baines Creek and knocks things off kilter, Sadie finds herself with an unexpected lifeline...if she can just figure out how to use it. Fans of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek will love this intimate insight into a fiercely proud, tenacious community and relish the voices of the forgotten folks of Baines Creek. With a colorful cast of characters and a flair for the Southern Gothic, If the Creek Don't Rise is a debut novel bursting with heart, honesty, and homegrown grit. "Like all great southern writers, Leah Weiss's magic turns the local into the universal." —Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author, on All The Little Hopes

Download or read book All the Little Hopes written by Leah Weiss and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Will break your heart, but Leah Weiss's beautiful writing will sew it back together again" —Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author A Southern story of friendship forged by books and bees, when the timeless troubles of growing up meet the murky shadows of World War II. Deep in the tobacco land of North Carolina, nothing's been the same since the boys shipped off to war and worry took their place. Thirteen-year-old Lucy Brown is precocious and itching for adventure. Then Allie Bert Tucker wanders into town, an outcast with a puzzling past, and Lucy figures the two of them can solve any curious crime they find—just like her hero, Nancy Drew. Their chance comes when a man goes missing, a woman stops speaking, and an eccentric gives the girls a mystery to solve that takes them beyond the ordinary. Their quiet town, seasoned with honeybees and sweet tea, becomes home to a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp. More men go missing. And together, the girls embark on a journey to discover if we ever really know who the enemy is. Lush with Southern atmosphere, All The Little Hopes is the story of two girls growing up as war creeps closer, blurring the difference between what's right, what's wrong, and what we know to be true.

Download or read book The Moonlight Child written by Karen McQuestion and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a cold January night, Sharon Lemke heads outside to see a lunar eclipse when she notices something odd at the house behind her backyard. Through her neighbor's window, she sees what appears to be a little girl washing dishes late at night. But the Fleming family doesn't have a child that age, and even if they did, why would she be doing housework at this late hour?It would be easy for Sharon to just let this go, but when eighteen-year-old Niki, a former foster child, comes to live with Sharon, she notices suspicious activity at the Flemings' house as well. When calling social services doesn't result in swift action, the two decide to investigate on their own.

Download or read book Wayward Girls written by Claire Matturro and published by Red Adept Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When late-night phone calls summon Jude Coleridge and Camille Prescott back to the Talbot Hall School for Girls, painful memories bombard them. Though estranged for years, both bear the physical and emotional scars from their youth. At the boarding school, they were branded “the crazy girls, the ones who lie” and became unlikely best friends. They soon formed a trio with a new student, Wanda Ann, who pulled them into her bewildering relationship with the school psychologist, Dr. Hedstrom. But Wanda Ann’s wild stories masked a truth that threatened to engulf them all. As teens, the girls could only rely on each other as they moved toward an unfathomable, fiery danger. Now, in the crumbling halls of Talbot, hours before the building’s demolition, they must grant forgiveness, to themselves and others, if they are to move forward.

Download or read book The Clone Popper written by R W McClure and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In author R.W. McClure's adroit hands, 'The Clone Popper' is a visionary tale into the very near future. An intelligent forth telling of where modern technology is taking humanity. "The Clone Popper' is a story that is so insightful and powerfully written that it fills me with suspense with each and every turn of the page." - Chester Z. Volpi, national award winning science fiction enthusiast GENRE: Steampunk-cyberpunk dystopian novel (What the novel is about) "It is the very near dystopian future. Using advancements in human cloning technology criminal organizations clone Hollywood and History's most celebrated personalities to work as high-class escorts to the world's super-rich. The government forms a special federal police unit called DNA Enforcement to hunt down and terminate the illegally created clones. However, a growing number of sympathetic protesters feel compassion for the celebrity clones seeing them as tragic victims of science and refer derogatorily and in insult to the DNA Officers as 'The Clone Poppers."

Download or read book Cottage by the Creek written by Elizabeth Bromke and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's autumn in Birch Harbor, and with a new season comes a new small-town scandal. Back in the classroom, Clara Hannigan is ready for a fresh set of high school students. Teaching mean girls is part of the gig, but when one of them is Clara's own flesh and blood, she questions her place in town and in her family. Complicating matters is the handsome father of one of those students, but he won't be bullied by teenagers.Meanwhile, Clara's oldest sister, Kate, is ready to take her romance to the next level. She could have everything she wants by Thanksgiving, until her boyfriend's daughter is implicated in Birch Harbor High School drama, and it has nothing to do with theatre club.Amelia is ready to open her new business to locals and tourists. But that means she must finally bury the search for her father. It would be easy, if one of her sisters didn't show new interest in the case.Megan is in the throes of fixing her life. With a new career and a new home, all she needs now is to ensure her teenage daughter will fit in at the local high school. But when Megan expects special treatment from the familiar staff at B.H.H.S., her fresh start is compromised and rumors begin to spread.Escape to Birch Harbor, Michigan and visit the Hannigan sisters, who live and love on the quaint shores of Lake Huron. Birch Harbor is a romantic women's fiction series and a family saga by the author of The Farmhouse. These books are best enjoyed in order.Book One: House on the HarborBook Two: Lighthouse on the LakeBook Three: Fireflies in the FieldBook Four: Cottage by the CreekBook Five: Bells on the Bay

Download or read book A Summer of Secrets written by Lorna Peel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stately home suspense crackling with sexual tension, family secrets and ancestral intrigue. Sophia Nelson returns to her hometown in Yorkshire, England to begin a new job as tour guide at Heaton Abbey House. There, she meets the reclusive Thomas, Baron Heaton, a lonely workaholic. Despite having a rule never to become involved with her boss, Sophia can't deny how she finds him incredibly attractive. When she overhears the secret surrounding his parentage, she is torn. But is it her attraction to him or the fear of opening a Pandora's box that makes her keep quiet about it? How long can Sophia stay at Heaton Abbey knowing what she does?