Download or read book Valentine Texas previously published as Addicted to Love written by Lori Wilde and published by Forever. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde's heartwarming story of a bride who's lost her faith in love and the cowboy who makes her believe in second chances . . . Addicted to Love Growing up in Valentine, Texas, can make anyone believe in happily ever after. But recovering romantic Rachael Henderson has decided that love stinks. And after having two grooms ditch her at the altar, she commits an uncharacteristic act of rebellion that leaves her feeling liberated-until she's arrested by Sheriff Brody Carlton. Once upon a time, being hauled against the strong body of her first cowboy crush would have had Rachael planning the wedding of the year. Now it spurs her to create Romanceaholics Anonymous, and soon all of Valentine is divided as diehard romantics clash with anti-love cynics. With the town up in arms, the biggest cynic of them all-the sinfully sexy sheriff-can't stop fantasizing about this beautiful woman who's nothing but delicious trouble. Can he convince Rachael that it just may be possible to have her wedding cake and eat it too? Formerly published as Addicted to Love.

Download or read book Meet Cute Chihuahua written by Erin L. Jungdahl and published by Erin L. Jungdahl. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cupid has a wet nose. Tiffany climbed out of a church window in Texas to avoid getting married. She wasn’t looking for love when she came to California. Her life was complete with an adorable rescue dog, a job helping animals, and amazing friends. Then a renegade Chihuahua led her to the sweetest man she’d ever met. Victor stopped a rampaging Chihuahua at his cousin's wedding but he didn't mind getting muddy paw prints all over his tux. He liked the dog and the woman chasing her. When Tiffany asked him to help with a fundraiser for a dog rescue, he agrees, even if it means posing in a “hot guys with dogs” calendar. Meet Cute Chihuahua is a low-conflict romantic comedy novel perfect for people who love to laugh and fawn over cute dogs. Happily ever after is guaranteed for these characters and the Chihuahua who gets a forever homes.

Download or read book Isn t Texas Cute written by Teddy Journal and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Funny Alaska Lover Notebook that can be used as a journal, travel notebook, diary, business office notebook, gift, etc. 6" x 9" journal with 120 blank lined pages.120 Pages High Quality Paper. 6" x 9" Paperback notebook.Soft Matte Cover.Great size to carry in your back, for work, school or in meetings.Useful as a journal, notebook or composition book. Cool birthday, Christmas and anniversary gift.Click on the publisher name to see more of our awesome & creative journals, lined notebooks and notepads. Check back often because we load new designs frequently. You can use this awesome notebook for: Everyday Diary.To Do Lists.Journal Writing.Gratitude Journal.New Recipes.Travel Notes.Passwords.Shopping Lists.Contact information.This journal makes a perfect gift for a friend, relative or co-workers.

Download or read book Homer Bait and Switch written by Cherime MacFarlane and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clean, sweet romance He’s not a bad guy, but he did something that has his mother and sister upset. The local girls nicknamed him the Russian Raider. He didn’t care before but there’s a new girl in Homer, Lynn. Rurik feels the pull the moment he spots her. His reputation is against him and he knows it. Born in Homer, Lynn left when an infant. Her mother’s dead and her father dies before she meets him. She’s inherited a sporting good’s store, Homer Bait and Switch. Can she make a life in a place her mother hated? There is one item of interest. The big, blond fisherman she locates in the viewfinder of her camera on the deck of a vessel leaving the harbor. When she discovers his nickname, Lynn isn’t sure she wants to know him better. “I didn’t plan to take off with our earnings. Ally, my sister was driving our fishing boat to the boatyard to schedule a ton of refits. The old tub needed to continue making us money. She handed the check from the last offload of salmon to me. to deposit in the bank. I stood looking at the check for a while. In all my twenty-six years, I’d never been out of Alaska. I stared at the thing, eighty thousand plus a few hundred and couldn’t give it up. Too much temptation, I hopped in the truck for the four-hour trip to the Anchorage Airport and the first plane out.” Home again, Rurik must fix things which won’t be easy.

Download or read book Isn t Texas Cute written by Alaska Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journal is a perfect gift for friends and family, male or female. Other features of this notebook are: - 120 pages - 6x9 inches - matte cover This book is convenient for writing. It has the perfect size to carry anywhere for journaling and note taking.

Download or read book How to Meet Cute Boys written by Deanna Kizis and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridget Jones's Diary meets the L.A. singles scene in this wonderfully funny debut novel about a young woman's dating escapades. Benjamina Franklin is a star journalist who chronicles her dating disasters for Filly, a women's magazine. When Benjamina meets Max, she thinks she's finally met the man of her dreams. And just in time-her little sister's wedding is only a few months away. The only problem is that Max turns out to be younger. A lot younger. Soon he's exhibiting classic signs of Benjamina's worst nightmare: male commitment phobia. Will Max leave her to be single and broken-hearted? Or will Benjamina realize that her life is full without a pseudoboyfriend? Women everywhere will laugh and cry along with Benjamina as she navigates the highs and lows of the modern dating world.

Download or read book The Underneath written by Kathi Appelt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use them as alligator bait should he find them. But they are safe in the Underneath...as long as they stay in the Underneath. Kittens, however, are notoriously curious creatures. And one kitten’s one moment of curiosity sets off a chain of events that is astonishing, remarkable, and enormous in its meaning. For everyone who loves Sounder, Shiloh, and The Yearling, for everyone who loves the haunting beauty of writers such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Flannery O’Connor, and Carson McCullers, Kathi Appelt spins a harrowing yet keenly sweet tale about the power of love—and its opposite, hate—the fragility of happiness and the importance of making good on your promises.

Download or read book Made to Stick written by Chip Heath and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to make your ideas stick. “Anyone interested in influencing others—to buy, to vote, to learn, to diet, to give to charity or to start a revolution—can learn from this book.”—The Washington Post Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus news stories circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas—entrepreneurs, teachers, politicians, and journalists—struggle to make them “stick.” In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps. Along the way, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds—from the infamous “kidney theft ring” hoax to a coach’s lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony—draw their power from the same six traits. Made to Stick will transform the way you communicate. It’s a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures): the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of the Mother Teresa Effect; the elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually prevented racial prejudice. Provocative, eye-opening, and often surprisingly funny, Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas—and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick.

Download or read book New Horizon Ranch Complete Collection 1 8 written by Debra Clopton and published by DCP Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 Bestselling, award winning author Debra Clopton: Five ranch-hands inherit a Texas ranch from their boss and vow to make the New Horizon Ranch the success their beloved boss envisioned it to be when he chose to leave his legacy in their care. Along the way they each find the love of a lifetime. You’ll fall in love with these fun, sweet, emotional love stories. HER TEXAS COWBOY: CLIFF, Book One She needed someone to love her and never let her go...but she's afraid. Professional bull rider Cliff Masterson has been chasing his dreams for years but after rescuing a beautiful cowgirl from being trampled by a bull now he's suddenly dreaming of love, home and hearth. Because Maddie Rose has had enough people in her life leave and she's not willing to risk her heart on anyone, especially a bull rider with wanderlust in his veins. Sparks fly as this determined cowboy tries to prove to this feisty cowgirl that the only thing he's chasing now is wedding bells with her... Thankfully he's got the help of three meddling matchmakers to help him get his happily ever after? RESCUED BY HER COWBOY: RAFE, Book Two Five ranch-hands inherit a Texas ranch from their boss and are determined to make New Horizon Ranch the success he envisioned when he chose to leave his legacy in their care. When runaway bride, Sadie Archer’s car breaks down on the outskirts of Mule Hollow, Texas, she’s not exactly dressed to fix the blown tire. Then again, she hadn’t planned on this road trip or her life falling apart a week before her wedding. But now that she’s hit the road, destination unknown, Sadie’s decided it’s time to disappear for a while and find out exactly what it is she wants out of life. But first she needs to change her flat tire and that is easier said than done when one is wearing… A bunny suit! Ex-cowboy star Rafe Masterson thinks he’s seeing things at first but yes—that is definitely a female head sticking out of the furry white bunny suit, tangling with a spare tire. A cowboy who guards his heart carefully, he’s still always willing to help someone in need…even one wearing white fur from top to bottom. Completely captivated by the unusual woman, Rafe senses she’s in trouble in more ways than the flat tire. He’s part owner of the New Horizon Ranch and offers her a job as cook—even though they don’t need a cook. Sadie accepts even though she can’t really cook but this is the perfect answer to her needs right now…and how hard can it be anyway? These two might be down-on-love but love hasn’t given up on them and the Matchmaking Posse of Mule Hollow has just gotten them in their sights... PROTECTED BY HER COWBOY: CHASE, Book Three Being a bridesmaid at her best friend’s wedding in the sleepy town of Mule Hollow Texas is the perfect place for Amber Rivers to lay low to avoid a stalker hot on her heels back in Houston. She loves her job and her city life and isn’t looking to stay long in the country-but she’s blindsided by her attraction to the self-assured rancher, Chase Hartley… Chase agrees to watch over socialite Amber while his partner heads off on his honeymoon but despite the high voltage sparks lighting up between them he has no intention of getting any closer to Amber than necessary to keep her safe. But he soon realizes there’s a whole lot more to Amber than he first assumed and keeping his distance is becoming harder with every passing moment they’re together. An outside threat plus a little friendly tampering from the meddling Matchmakin’ Posse of Mule Hollow puts this couple on high alert as they try not to fall in love. LOVING HER BEST FRIEND COWBOY: TY, Book Four Will Ty Calder, mild mannered partner in the New Horizon Ranch, get his secret Christmas wish and heal his lonesome heart this season? Four years ago he did the right thing and sent his best friend, Mia Shaw off with a hug and best wishes in her quest for her rodeo dreams to come true. But now she’s back for the Christmas holiday and he’s not sure he can send her off again without revealing his true feelings… Mia is trying to heal from an injury that could end her run for the championship. But, lately her heart’s not been completely committed to her rodeo dreams and Ty has her thinking he might just be the reason. Suddenly, tensions are running high between Mia and Ty…sparks are flying this Christmas at the New Horizon Ranch. Now these two are dodging mistletoe, matchmakers and the kiss they’re both fighting to avoid and longing for. This is going to be one Christmas these two will remember forever. FAMILY FOR A COWBOY: DALTON, Book Five Dalton Borne is a cowboy who keeps his past closed up inside. He’s watched his partners at the New Horizon Ranch find love and he’s happy for them and even envious. But his past prevents him from believing he deserves a future that includes a love of his own. But then one stormy night he rescues a very pregnant Rae Anne Tyson from floodwaters and nearly ends up delivering her baby on the side of the road. Suddenly Dalton’s life is turned upside down and no matter what he believes he does or doesn’t deserve—he can’t walk away from helping Rae Anne.. THE MISSION OF HER COWBOY: TREB, Book Six Former special ops soldier Treb Carson has returned to his ranching roots joining up with the New Horizon Ranch. Afghanistan and the loss of his brother have him ready to move forward into happier times-he's looking for love and to start a family. He’s not expecting to be captivated by Megan Tanner, the completely wrong woman for his plans. The workaholic, new veterinarian in town doesn't have marriage on her agenda and she’s made that clear, but he can’t get her or the kiss they share off his mind. Megan Tanner has her personal reasons for not believing in happily-ever-after, but now she’s moved to the hometown of the Matchmakin’ Posse of Mule Hollow. Avoiding their antics is easy for now, its calving season and that means no time for anything but work and building her vet practice. But then she’s blindsided by the smokin’-hot, ex-military cowboy and the immediate sparks she can’t deny or the kiss she can’t forget. And he’s got a certain three, nosy ladies on his side…can the “Posse” help this couple find their happily-ever-after? MADDIE’S SECRET BABY: NEW HORIZON RANCH SHORT STORY, Book Seven Keeping a secret has never been so hard—all Maddie wanted to do was let Cliff be the first to know they were expecting a baby! But getting caught in a hold up at the Sip-N-Go with the Matchmakin’ Posse (aka the grapevine of Mule Hollow) and two teenagers, has Maddie fighting to keep chaos from breaking out inside the convenience store. And now just getting everyone out alive is Maddie’s goal. But Maddie’s used to wrangling cattle and bulls into line and doing what it takes to get the job done…now, keeping three feisty, old ladies from driving the robbers to shoot them just to shut them up is proving to be a rodeo of a new kind. Keeping her baby secret, fighting robbers, the Posse and morning sickness has Maddie unsure if she’ll ever see Cliff again, much less share her secret baby news. Don’t miss story #7 in the New Horizon Ranch series. A short story involving Maddie and Cliff from book #1 in the series. If you’ve been hoping for baby news for them during this series you’ll enjoy this quick fun read. THIS COWGIRL LOVES THIS COWBOY: AUSTIN, Book Eight Cowgirls don’t cry—they just move on. Cowgirl Jolene Bartee has just taken a job at the New Horizon Ranch helping break wild horses and is looking for a fresh start. Almost immediately she’s pulled over by the law…a very hot and hunky sheriff who has her hackles up and her heart thumping. But if there is one thing she knows, it’s that Bartee’s and the law don’t mix. Sheriff Deputy Austin Drake is working overtime helping support his recently widowed sister and niece. Tired and lonesome he’s decided he’s losing his mind if a sassy mouthed, rumpled cowgirl with a chip on her shoulder can get his blood rushing and his heart pumping. But, chemistry can’t be denied and everyone around them is noticing, including the town matchmakers. Like fire and ice these two ignite as their hearts melt and love blooms in the midst of obstacles. 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Download or read book Cleat Cute written by Meryl Wilsner and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup. Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women’s National Team for ten years, even though she’s only 26. But when she’s sidelined with an injury, a bold new upstart, Phoebe Matthews, takes her spot. 22-year-old Phoebe is everything Grace isn’t—a gregarious jokester who plays with a joy that Grace lost somewhere along the way. The last thing Grace expects is to become teammates with benefits with this class clown she sees as her rival. Phoebe Matthews is too focused on her first season as a professional soccer player to think about seducing her longtime idol. But when Grace ends up making the first move, they can’t keep their hands off of each other. As the World Cup approaches and Grace works her way back from injury, a miscommunication leaves the women with hilariously different perspectives on their relationship. But they’re on the same page on the field, realizing they can play together instead of vying for the same position. With every tackle the tension between them grows, and both players soon have to decide what's more important—being together or making the roster. The perfect blend of funny and steamy, Meryl Wilsner’s Cleat Cute is about being brave enough to win on and off the field.

Download or read book Isn t Texas Cute written by Alaska Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journal is a perfect gift for friends and family, male or female. Other features of this notebook are: - 120 pages - 6x9 inches - matte cover This book is convenient for writing. It has the perfect size to carry anywhere for journaling and note taking.

Download or read book Russian Spring written by Norman Spinrad and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the near future, the debt-laden U.S. owns a technology that renders it "the world's best-defended Third World country." The only real outer-space planning is in Common Europe, so young American "space cadet" Jerry Reed goes to work in Paris. He falls in love with and marries Soviet career bureaucrat Sonya Gagarin and the story jumps ahead 20 years, blending world events with a focus on their family. Sonya's star has risen with the Euro-Russians' while Jerry has been stymied by pervasive anti-Americanism. Daughter Franja has her father's space fever and enrolls in a Russian space school; son Bob, fiercely curious about an earlier, admired America before it was run by xenophobic "Gringos," enters Berkeley. Ten years later the U.S. is a pariah, Euro-Russia the pet of the civilized world and the Reeds scattered - politics forced Jerry and Sonya's divorce, Franja speaks only to her mother and Bob is trapped in "Festung Amerika." A series of odd, occasionally tragic events brings the family (and the world) together. Despite some tech-talk this is not science fiction: the first two-thirds of this hefty book is chillingly logical, if sometimes very funny, and while the "happy" ending may seem forced, Spinrad ( Bug Jack Barron ) gives us a wild, exhilarating ride into the next century.

Download or read book Conversations with the Fat Girl written by Liza Palmer and published by Forever. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liza Palmer will have readers cheering as she explores friendship, true love, and self-acceptance in this "engaging and poignant" (Jennifer Weiner) novel. Everyone seems to be getting on with their lives except Maggie. At twenty-seven, she's still serving coffee at Joe's while her friends are getting married, having babies, and thriving in their careers. And now Olivia, Maggie's best friend since grade school, is getting married too. The man in Maggie's life? Well there isn't one, except the guy she has a crush on, Domenic, who works with her at the coffee shop. Oh, and her dog, Solo (the name says it all). When Olivia comes to town and asks Maggie to be her maid of honor, Maggie is thrilled... but she can't help comparing herself to the new and "improved" Olivia. Way back then, they befriended each other because they both struggled with their weight. Now grown up, Maggie is still shopping in the "women's section" while Olivia went and had gastric-bypass surgery in search of the elusive size 2. But as the wedding nears, Olivia's seemingly perfect life starts to unravel, and Maggie realizes that happiness might not be tied to a number on the scale. In this wonderful novel, Liza Palmer is both witty and wise, giving a voice to women everywhere who have ever wished they could stop obsessing... and start living. "Kudos to Liza Palmer." -- People "Palmer's likable characters and snappy dialogue make this novel stand out from the crowd." -- Booklist "In a word: genuine." -- Herald Sun

Download or read book Buster S Book written by Donald Junkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11-17 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing insight in a familys history against the backdrop of major world wars, Busters Book offers a collection of more than a thousand letters exchanged during the twentieth century as young men provided service to their country. In this memoir, author Donald Junkins has compiled letters, diaries, interviews, recollections, and photographs of the familys participants in both world wars and the Korean and Vietnam wars. This fascinating historical record includes the stories of a variety of escapades: from single-handedly opening an eight-year-old Nazi prison camp; to B-24 air forays from New Guinea in which an aerial gunner shot down two Japanese Zero planes; and to the rescue in Korea of wounded men stalled in a jeep in the middle of a freezing river that culminated in the awarding of the Silver Star. Busters Book reflects both the lives of a middle-class American family during these years and the daily activities of two generations of young American men at war.

Download or read book Make Mine a Bad Boy written by Katie Lane and published by Forever. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THERE'S A NEW BRIDE IN TOWN! Hope Scroggs is finally ready to get hitched. After years of sowing her wild oats, the former head cheerleader and homecoming queen has returned to Bramble, Texas, to marry her high school flame. But her perfect wedding plans are stomped to smithereens when her adoring cowboy two-steps down the aisle with someone else. Now Hope is stuck with the one man from her past she can't shake: Colt Lomax, an irresistible bad boy whose sultry kisses are hotter than the Panhandle in August . . . Colt lives for freedom and the open road; he never gets attached, never looks back. Still, he can't forget the night of passion he once shared with Bramble's sweetheart--a night he wouldn't mind repeating. So, he piles on the Texas charm to tease the feisty beauty back into his bed, while she tries her darnedest to resist. But something unexpected is about to tie their fates together . . . and oh, baby, will it ever!

Download or read book Monday s Meal written by Les Edgerton and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this collection represent a range in topics and styles and feature a wide assortment of individuals who, although diverse, all have in common a singular element—trouble in their lives. That’s what fiction is about—trouble—and short stories have a particular mandate to be about the frailty of the human condition as well as its strength. The author has an affinity for the disenfranchised among us and it is those often heroic people that interest him the most. In these stories he treats them with the sensitivity and dignity they deserve. Praise for MONDAY’S MEAL: “The sad wives, passive or violent husbands, parolees, alcoholics and other failures in Les Edgerton's short-story collection are pretty miserable people. And yet misery does have its uses. Raymond Carver elevated the mournful complaints of the disenfranchised in his work, and Edgerton makes an admirable attempt to do the same.” —The New York Times Book Review “Reading Les Edgerton’s stories is like listening to those old World War II broadcasts from the London blitz, with the reporter crouching under a restaurant table, microphone in hand, while the bombs drop on the city and the ceiling caves in. Edgerton reports on the world and the news is not good. There’s a kind of wacky wisdom in these bulletins from the underside of life; the stories are full of people you hope never move in next door, for whom ordinary life is an impossible dream. This is good fiction; Edgerton writes lean and nasty prose.” —Dr. Francois Camoin, Director, Graduate School of English, University of Utah “Edgerton’s best stories are uncompromising in their casual amorality. They stare you down over the barrel of a gun, rip you up whether or not the trigger gets squeezed.” —Diane Lefer, Creative Writing Instructor in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts “When it comes to short stories, Americans rule the roost. Flannery O’ Connor, Raymond Carver, Stephen King, Dorothy Parker, Charles Bukowski, Richard Ford, Kyle Minor. And you can add Les Edgerton to that list. Monday’s Meal contains twenty-one tales of dirt realism, sharp slices of American life. Edgerton has a strong and sure grasp of the lives of people who are standing on the edge of a precipice.” —Paul Brazill, author of Too Many Crooks and The Last Laugh “Filled to bursting with writing you can taste. Whether dining on bisque and blackened redfish at an upscale cafe, or eating rank mule meat in a pine board cabin, the characters in Edgerton’s world bite down hard and grind up one another with their back teeth. Monday’s Meal is a most satisfyingly vivid and visceral feast.” —Melody Henion Stevenson, author of The Life Stone of Singing Bird “This collection of 21 unsettling stories will appeal to readers looking for nontraditional contemporary plots with characters living on the fringes of society. Several selections will haunt readers for some time as events often take a morbid twist; others will leave them wondering about the endings.”—School Library Journal

Download or read book The Travis Family Series Books 1 3 written by Lisa Kleypas and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here together for the first time in a convenient ebook bundle, the first three books in New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas' beloved series featuring the Travis family: Blue-Eyed Devil Hardy Cates is a self-made millionaire who comes from the wrong side of the tracks. He's made enemies in the rough-and-tumble ride to the top of Houston's oil industry. He's got hot blood in his veins. And vengeance on his mind. Haven Travis refuses to set out on the path her wealthy family has chosen for her. But when Haven marries a man her family disapproves of, her life is set on a new and dangerous course. Two years later, Haven comes home, determined to guard her heart. And Hardy Cates, a family enemy, is the last person she needs darkening her door or setting her soul on fire. Smooth Talking Stranger Jack Travis leads the uncomplicated life of a millionaire Texas playboy. But no one has ever truly touched his heart or soul. Until one day, a woman appears on his doorstep with fury on her face and a baby in her arms. It seems Jack is the father and this woman is the baby's aunt. The real mother has abandoned the child to her more responsible sister. And now, Jack is being called upon to take responsibility for the first time in his life. Sugar Daddy Liberty Jones has dreams and determination that will take her far away from Welcome, Texas. Hardy Cates' ambitions are bigger than Welcome, and Liberty Jones is a complication he doesn't need. But something magical and potent draws them to each other, in a dangerous attraction that is stronger than both of them. Hardy leaves town to pursue his plans and soon Liberty finds herself under the spell of a billionaire tycoon. But the relationship goes deeper than people think, and Liberty begins to discover secrets about her own family's past. Two men. One woman. A choice that can make her or break her. A woman you'll root for every step of the way. A love story you'll never forget.