Download or read book Love in Sweetwater County written by Ciara Knight and published by Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Single mother, Ruth Barnes, has devoted most of her adult life to caring for her son who struggles with addiction. She is empty inside from the sorrows she’s faced and the realization that there is nothing left she can do for him now that he is twenty-one. When a charming, good-looking, honest, and most of all clean and sober man, enters her life, will she be able to let go of her parental responsibilities to make room in her heart for a good man? Craig Reid has failed at everything in life including marriage and children due to alcoholism. Now, ten years sober, he awakens to a drama-free, simplistic existence where he avoids anything that could thwart his sobriety, including a romantic relationship. When a beautiful woman-a muse-inspires him to paint for the first time in years, he finds himself questioning all his self-imposed rules. Will their budding affection blossom into true love, or will the truth of addiction fester causing them both to lose hope?

Download or read book Valentines in Sweetwater County written by Ciara Knight and published by Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rusty Miller struggles to care for his ailing grandfather while balancing dead end jobs and big dreams. His only wish is to save enough money to buy an engagement ring for his beloved, Rebecca. But when his grandfather’s condition worsens, he’s trapped between the loyalty of a promise and the future with the love of his life. Abandoned by her mother, Rebecca West has spent the last few years avoiding commitment. Now she’s faced with the possibility of everything she’s wanted; a home, family and an amazing man. But then she makes a horrific mistake that costs the one she loves everything, and she is once again faced with a life of loneliness.

Download or read book Summer in Sweetwater County written by Ciara Knight and published by Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Burton yearns to cut a strangling parental leash. After being diagnosed with diabetes, she hashes out a plan to graduate early so she can attend the University of Tennessee with the love of her life, Marcus Vega. Marcus is a young man from the wrong side of the creek. After beating his addiction, he devotes himself to becoming a physician and earning the right to love Rose Burton. But devotion can't erase the past. When he's accused of being involved in a gang shooting, he risks everything to prove his innocence and protect the ones he loves.

Download or read book Spring in Sweetwater County written by Ciara Knight and published by Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years after the death of her true love, Judy Gaylord discovers he’s alive. With the guilt of her falling into the arms of his cousin to console her grief, she now must face the man she betrayed. Dr. James Benjamin has dedicated his life to helping people deal with their post-traumatic stress disorder in hopes of forgetting about his own trauma. Not wanting to risk the safety of others, he’s spent decades alone, but when he sees the woman he never forgot from before the war, his heart awakens. When circumstances force Judy and James to work together, they soon discover old feelings never faded. Judy must forgive herself and James will have to face his fear or they will miss their second chance.

Download or read book Falling in Love on Sweetwater Lane written by Belle Calhoune and published by Forever. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweet romance, will a big-city veterinarian give this small town—and the single dad who’s caught her heart—a chance? Veterinarian Harlow Jones knew returning to small-town life, even temporarily, would be a disaster. She just never guessed it would start that way—with her car skidding off the road outside Mistletoe, Maine. And while her rescuer is both charming and handsome, Harlow isn’t about to get involved with a local. She’s in town for one reason only—to pay off her vet school bills—and then she’s back to her real life in Seattle. Nick Keegan knows all about unexpected, life-altering detours. He lost his wife in the blink of an eye, and he’s spent the years since being the best single dad he can be. He’s also learned not to take anything for granted, so when sparks start to fly with Harlow, Nick is all in. He senses Harlow feels it too, but she insists romance isn’t on her agenda. He’ll have to pull out all the stops to show her that love is worth changing the best-laid plans.

Download or read book Fall in Sweetwater County written by Ciara Knight and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheriff Jimmy Mason, a confirmed bachelor who has spent his life enforcing rules, arrests Trianna Shaw, a free spirited young woman, for breaking and entering. After a night watching over Trianna in the precinct, he quickly discovers she is more than just a criminal, but a woman of passion and intrigue. Trianna will do anything to clear her murdered brother's name. She travels to Creekside to investigate a company involved in her brother's death. But when a hit man threatens the lives of the people in a town she's grown to love, she must choose between her promise to her brother and the safety of not only the entire town, but the Sheriff she's grown to love.

Download or read book Winter in Sweetwater County written by Ciara Knight and published by Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-09-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Mortan’s ideal life crumbles when her rich and powerful fiancé demands she ends an unwanted pregnancy. With no job or social support, she flees to a small town in hopes of finding a good family for her unborn baby, but instead finds a man who is as broken as she is. Eric Gaylord returns to his home town for a respite after a tragic loss, but when his spitfire mother takes on an unknown woman as a business partner, he is forced to face the nightmare he’d left behind or risk losing the one woman who could heal his heart.

Download or read book Grace in Sweetwater County written by Ciara Knight and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes a town to save a marriage. Carter Davidson suffered humiliating torment as a child for his learning difficulties and has spent his entire life overcoming the stereotype of being stupid. As an adult he's achieved a corporate title, lives a perfect life, until tragedy strikes in threes; loss of a baby, his wife disappearing behind a cloud of depression, and his son facing the same bullying he did as a child. After the loss of her baby girl, Emily Davidson sinks into a world of despair. When she awakens from her life hiatus she must face her neglect of her only son. A third grader who's unable to read or write. Emily focuses all her energy on helping her son, but with her husband's inexplicable aversion to her son receiving help, Emily is forced to choose between the love of her husband, or the well-being of her only surviving child.

Download or read book Thanksgiving in Sweetwater County written by Ciara Knight and published by Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenna Mitchell Grayson returns to her hometown to run a center for children with autism. Divorced and raising a child diagnosed with special needs, she tries to put her life back together in the one place she’d sworn never to return. Confirmed bachelor, Deputy Walker, has a reputation for being a playboy, but he’s never found the right girl to capture his heart. Not since the girl-next-store, Jenna Grayson, moved away. Now the woman who stole his heart has returned, and he is determined to discover why she left without an explanation or even a goodbye.

Download or read book Love in the Rockies written by Ciara Knight and published by Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josephine McKinnie wants to escape. Escape the aftermath of General Sherman’s march through Atlanta where he burned her land, her home, and her honor. In the hope for a new life far away from her memories and shame, Josephine travels to Colorado to marry a man that will never know the truth of her past. Hope is restored in her life, until she reaches the small town where she faces the disapproving mother-in-law, a man who threatens to reveal her secret, and her marriage bed. Nathaniel Branson needs a wife if he’s to be mayor of Silver Ridge, Colorado, but his mother’s choice will never work. Not if he wants to keep his secret that he’s half a man. With the wounds of war leaving deeper scars than mere physical wounds, he hopes that the sweet woman-his soon to be -will appreciate the finery he can give her, even if he can’t give her the ultimate gift. Children.

Download or read book Kiss Me in Sweetwater Springs written by Annie Rains and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming novella in the Sweetwater Springs series from USA Today bestselling author Annie Rains, perfect for fans of RaeAnne Thayne and Debbie Mason. If Lacy Shaw could have one wish, it's that the past would stay in the past. And with her high school reunion coming up, she has no intention of reliving the worst four years of her life. Especially when all she has to show for the last decade is how the shy bookworm blossomed into...the shy town librarian. Ditching the event seems the best option until a blistering hot alternative roars into Lacy's life. Perhaps riding into the reunion on the back of Paris Montgomery's motorcycle will show her classmates how much she really has changed... While growing up as a foster kid, Paris Montgomery only felt at home in Sweetwater Springs, which is why he picked the small town to start over after his divorce. He can't afford to ruin this refuge with another doomed relationship - especially one with a woman who is his total opposite. But when the town's sweet librarian offers to help him reconnect with his foster dad, he finds they have more in common than he thought. Both are about to discover that home is where the heart is. (22,000 words)

Download or read book Love on the Coast written by Ciara Knight and published by Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fake marriage for these enemies turned lovers will be tested and only trust can save them. Irish immigrant Edward O’Neal landed in America as a little boy with the promise of a better life but found prejudice and poverty. Poverty that took his entire large family from him. He’s spent the last twenty years hiding his heritage and building his fortune so he’d never go hungry again. But when he discovers that his partner ran away with a prostitute to escape his gambling debts and his empire is crumbling, the last ace in his pocket is his mail-order bride -- a woman of pure breeding, with a political family name, high class, and huge dowry. Cora McKinnie managed to live through the Civil War long enough to see her parents, brothers, and fiancé die and to send her six sisters away to wed. Alone, she makes the arduous journey to San Francisco to marry and start her own loving family. Dreams sour when she discovers her betrothed is dead and his jilted, angry partner despises her for being Irish and the only woman available to marry. To recover his fortune, Edward must pull off the event of the year with little funds. A nearly impossible task without the help of the distracting, beautiful, thrifty Irish woman with a huge heart.

Download or read book Love on the Plains written by Ciara Knight and published by Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dinah McKinnie, the once rich beauty of Marietta, Georgia, was abandoned by all her suitors who left for war. With the South burned, and her future bleak, she desires to find a husband who adores her above all else. She only hopes he is everything the mail-order bride service promises: a man who is docile, dependable, devoted, and dutiful. ​​​​​​​Colt Hardin, leader, commander, warrior who won every battle he ever fought returned home more beast than man. Too broken and ill-tempered to raise his sister's orphaned children,, he sends for a new wife-a woman who will care for his kids so that he can escape to the only thing he knows, fighting. But when a different kind of war knocks at his door, he must choose between protecting his family or his sanity.

Download or read book Love on the Prairie written by Ciara Knight and published by Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took the burning of Atlanta to break up seven sisters. Abigail McKinnie refuses to allow her sisters to be dispersed across the nation as mail-order brides. Even though the Union soldiers took everything from them during their march through Atlanta-their lands scorched, house burned, food stolen-she won’t give up. With a plan in place, she sets out for Kansas to her second cousin under the guise of marriage. But instead, she plans to convince him that the seven of them can help run the homestead for him. Her plan is foolproof until she makes the arduous journey to discover he’s dead. Owen Baker vows to never have a woman in his life again after the death of so many loved ones, but when Abigail McKinnie struts onto his land claiming ownership on behalf of her dead cousin, he’s dumbfounded by her drive and beauty. Despite her abilities and their attraction, he vows to throw her over his horse to deliver her to the first train home the minute she recuperates from her trip.

Download or read book Hope in Sweetwater County written by Ciara Knight and published by Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Single mother, Ruth Barnes, has devoted most of her adult life to caring for her son who struggles with addiction. She is empty inside from the sorrows she’s faced and the realization that there is nothing left she can do for him now that he is twenty-one. When a charming, good-looking, honest, and most of all clean and sober man, enters her life, will she be able to let go of her parental responsibilities to make room in her heart for a good man? Craig Reid has failed at everything in life including marriage and children due to alcoholism. Now, ten years sober, he awakens to a drama-free, simplistic existence where he avoids anything that could thwart his sobriety, including a romantic relationship. When a beautiful woman-a muse-inspires him to paint for the first time in years, he finds himself questioning all his self-imposed rules. ​​​​​​​Will their budding affection blossom into true love, or will the truth of addiction fester causing them both to lose hope?

Download or read book Love on the Ranch written by Ciara Knight and published by Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth McKinnie will no longer accept men ruling her life. After the Civil War devastated her family home, and having no way to survive, Elizabeth accepts one of the mail-order bride proposals presented to her and her sisters. She chooses a man who promises to treat her as an equal. Her sister convinces her to switch suitors, proclaiming the weather in Texas would be more suitable for Elizabeth’s weak lungs. Agreeing, she heads west to meet the mysterious cattle baron she knows little about. Jeb Clayton grew up as a poor son of a drunkard. He has worked his entire life to ensure he never starves again. He is a man who understands cows better than women, especially after watching the fairer sex manipulate his father into an early grave. Still, he begrudgingly agrees to marry a sturdy bride to produce sons who can help build his ranch into an empire. Yet, what he sees getting off the stagecoach is a whisper-of-a-woman with undesirable birthing hips. When Elizabeth’s and Jeb’s futures are threatened will they join forces, or will their bitterness be their end?

Download or read book Love on the Sound written by Ciara Knight and published by Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Belle, Francine McKinnie, faces a difficult life as a logging man’s wife after sacrificing her mail-order proposal to a cattle baron for her sister's sake. A decision she’s comfortable with as long as her husband is kindhearted and soft-spoken. But when she arrives to discover intended striking another man, she seeks shelter with his brothers. Walter Hunt followed his brothers across the country only to discover his own kin stole his woman and his land, now he plans to fight for what’s his. When his mail-order bride is manipulated by his siblings. Walter realizes he wants nothing more than to break the chains of family and strike out on his own. The only issue is that he’ll have to overcome his hermit lifestyle and learn to schmooze investors in order to start his own sawmill. Walter proposes a business arrangement to Ms. McKinnie, his protection for her help in acquiring investors. Their marriage would be a ruse, but a beneficial one for them both. But when brother faces brother and truths unfold, does Francine trust the man who offers her safety and security, or the one who offers her a happily ever after?