Download or read book Away With a Stranger written by Melanie Greene and published by Melanie Greene. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cole Dunway’s got everything under control. Well, not everything. But the things he can control? Those are locked down. Until he’s wheeling through the airport, heading back to the Gulf Coast for Christmas with his family, and smacks into distressed friend-of-a-friend Andi Ennis. Andi’s at a loss. Bag packed, they/them badge pinned to their chest, flight on time … but abruptly uninvited to their family home. Which is fine. They’ll figure something out. Especially if know-it-all Cole gets his way and drags Andi home with him. Sharing a cozy beach cottage, and the warmth of family, Andi and Cole find unexpected connections and plenty of heat to draw them together. But is it only holiday magic, or can the romance endure once they’ve left the sand and Santa behind?

Download or read book Common Ground written by Melanie Greene and published by Melanie Greene. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two determined souls. One small town. Driven by grief and impulse, Livia DeLacroix quits her job and buys a small-town bed & breakfast inn. It’s a bold move, but she needs the peace of a fresh start. Looking to shine his tarnished reputation, Gregory Forst returns to Honey Wine, Texas, sure he knows how to revitalize his hometown’s tourist industry. Greg's dreams depend on his taking over Livia's property, but she isn’t renovating just for some overconfident stranger to undermine her plans. No matter how they intrigue each other, they’re constantly at odds over their common border. Filled with sparkling rivalry and sizzling moments, Common Ground is an irresistible story of new beginnings, second chances, and the power of finding your place.

Download or read book Twelve Scorching Days written by Melanie Greene and published by Melanie Greene. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignatius “Scorch” Madigan is all alone. At last. After a bitter, public split from his band, he retreats to the seclusion of a friend’s Gulf Coast beach cottage. Now he has just two weeks to pull together his first solo album and show the world—and himself—that he has what it takes to be a star in his own right. Sarita Dunway craves a refuge. Her family still treats her like their problematic wild child. They push her into Christmas prep with her godmother’s son, hoping his influence will bring her into the fold. But cheerful Christmas activities with her former nemesis leave Sarita feeling anything but festive. When her careless mistake lands Scorch in the ER, Sarita jumps at the excuse to retreat to the cottage to tend to the gorgeous, gifted, grumpy musician. He doesn’t want to need anyone’s help. She only wants to use him. Scorch begins to yearn for days with Sarita more than silent nights working alone. Sarita finds proving herself to her family pales in comparison to the joys of being in Scorch’s world. And somewhere between the sand dunes and the mistletoe, what Scorch and Sarita unwrap in each other will be their biggest holiday surprise of all.

Download or read book Mocha for Mateo written by Melanie Greene and published by Melanie Greene. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alicia Wells never asked for a knight in flour-dusted apron to show up full of ideas for saving her surf-side cafe. She’s quite brilliant at plans, which is how she kept Pier 3 Coffee afloat through plenty of tough times already. She’ll just have to do it again. Mateo James doesn’t want to live for his family bakery, but even more, he doesn’t want his father to die for it. So he’ll do what’s required of him, including throwing himself into community organizing. If it helps his parents, and Alicia, to thrive, he’ll sacrifice anything. Even his own chance at happiness. As Alicia charges forward with his plans to save Pier 3, Mateo would love to slow her down long enough to show her the value of their connection. But if she won’t let him in, he’ll have no choice but to let her go.

Download or read book Rocket Man written by Melanie Greene and published by Melanie Greene. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Latte for Leyla written by Melanie Greene and published by Melanie Greene. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austin Wells: everyone’s comic relief, the unmotivated baby brother with the occasional bright idea. In other words, nowhere good enough for brilliant, driven, gorgeous Leyla Robinson. He tries to content himself with admiring her from across the barista counter while she works on taking the world by storm. Austin is, Leyla’s sure, just as sweet and funny and attentive and flirty with her as he is with everyone else he serves at Pier Three Coffee. She’s nothing special. To be blunt, she’s boring. All she ever does is follow the rigorous schedule she sets herself to get through grad school and fight for the career she craves. They’ve been watching each other for so long, each so sure of their own opinions about themselves and each other. But when Leyla finds she can help with Austin’s secret ambitions, so long as she gives up a few layers of her own self-protections, they must both decide how much to risk on the other’s behalf. And what happens if, in the process, they begin to see themselves the way they see each other?

Download or read book Margo of the Bells written by Melanie Greene and published by Melanie Greene. This book was released on 2022-10-23 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margo Dunway has wanderlust. It’s like regular lust, but with travel thrown in. She’s spent years locked in place, and is ready to set off on unfettered adventures as she figures out, well, the whole rest of her life. Karl Moore isn’t lonely. Not exactly. He has his golden retriever, and the choirs he directs, and his thousand dreams of settling down, securely anchored to the Gulf Coast town he’s made home. Goaded into joining an Advent handbell choir, Margo is shocked to run across Karl, a painful reminder of the church where her faith was shattered. He’s as compelling as ever, but she resolves to resist his lures long enough to survive the Christmas season. Then she can sail away from all the temptations that would hold her back from finding her true passion. Margo may be everything Karl ever dreamed of, but her dreams can’t come true if she’s constrained within the world he holds dear. He can’t be her ballast, but can his heart afford for him to stand by and watch while she flies free?

Download or read book The Eternal Circle written by Michael S. Booker and published by 1984 Press. This book was released on with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Your sisters will die without you. It’s time to come home. It’s time to begin the Circle.” Kendra Scott awakens from a nightmare by an ominous message from her deceased grandmother. Since the devastating passing of her beloved grandmother, the legendary High Priestess of Magic, Claire Roux-Scott, as well as the death of her estranged mother, several years earlier, Kendra has struggled to make a new life and identity for herself, in her ancestral New Orleans, far away from her childhood home of Oakland, California. For the last two years, Kendra has cultivated her talents as a Magic Woman, searched for inner peace, while healing from the wounds of her past. Yet, when Mother Claire comes to Kendra, with the warning that Kendra’s sister, Shannon, as well as her lifelong friends, Angela Stone and Grace Lu, descendants of powerful Magic Women, known as the Eternal Circle, are in danger, Kendra knows that she must face her fears and return home. “Everything comes full circle…” Back in Oakland, Shannon Scott senses the looming peril as well. She too, has experienced the omens of a rising evil and the escalating fears that the Veil that separates the real world and the world of Darkness is diminishing forever. Shannon has struggled to distance herself from magic and all the trauma that it has caused in her family. She has made diligent efforts to keep her close friends from discovering their magical heritage, with the intentions of keeping them normal and safe. However, with Kendra’s sudden return home, as well as a series of abnormal, horrifying events that transforms the lives of all four women, Shannon and the others must accept that magic, in all its chaos and wonder, is perhaps their only salvation. As family tensions flare, secrets are revealed, and terrors are unfolded, the four women will have to face their own individual demons and embrace their gifts of magic. Soon, they will have to unite, against an ancient Order of Dark Magicians, demonic abominations, and ultimately, a timeless, malevolent, and preternatural force that has awakened and is coming, not just for their magic, but for their souls.

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Download or read book Luna written by Rain Carrington and published by Rain Carrington. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuck in a dead-end job, Mateo Luna does the best he can to care for his sick mother. With a stoner stepfather who can't hold a job, and expensive medical bills, he takes an opportunity to make money and ease the hardships. Now Mateo is a hustler, sleeping with men for money, and while it starts out easily enough, things take a turn for the worse. Things seemed to be finally looking up, until his mother passes, and his stepfather wants to take over being his pimp. All seems lost, then the people in the dark world in which he currently lives in step in to take care of his problems. When he finds out his entire life has been a lie, Mateo is thrown into an even darker place, where even moonlight can’t be found. Can he find his way in the dark?

Download or read book Love Thy Neighbor written by Jody Kaye and published by Jody Kaye. This book was released on 2022-01-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: —PEPPER— My boss’s son is less than thrilled with the workout I'm giving the smoke detector. But if Mateo Sanchez wasn’t willing to lease me the other side of his duplex, I'd be living in a cardboard box. The latest trouble to root me out of hiding in this small-town paradise? Finding a date to my sister’s destination wedding—to my ex. I knew lying that my hot landlord was my boyfriend would bite me in the you-know-where, but sometimes a girl gets tired of playing the underdog. —MATEO— Pepper Corbin is as coordinated as a foal on an icy lake. And while everyone at Kingsbrier has taken a shine to her, the burning smells coming from her kitchen grate on my last nerve. I certainly don’t appreciate Pepper telling her family we’re dating. Except, getting roped into spending a week on the high-seas? That’s my own fault. So I agree to fake our relationship. Maybe even too well, since now that I’ve kissed Pepper she’s driving me crazy in a different way.

Download or read book The Great Reimagination written by David Loy Frishkorn and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world approaches the middle of the twenty-first century, octogenarians Donald Lasserman and Richard Adamo maintain unbridled hope and vision for a more promising future. They unite several retired world leaders, including a former nemesis, to brainstorm ideas for a better world. While this happens, Donald’s self-made billionaire nephew, Nate, goes up against a terrorist kidnapping in the Panamanian rainforest and a coup in Cuba. Packed with intellectual stimulation and thrilling action, hopefully the content highlighted in this book will prompt readers to consider solutions and improvements for our everyday lives. This is the author’s second fiction work, following The Great Divorce (2018). While a sequel, it is also an entry point if you pay attention to the prologue. This book builds on the chaos of the first, fostering ideas and dreams for a more united and civilized world.

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Download or read book Rule of Three written by Suzanne Rock and published by Electric Ink Press. This book was released on with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the NYT and USA Today bestselling author of the Ecstasy Spa series comes a tale about how one summer break can transform the rest of your life. When Shana's boyfriend dumps her for a busty blonde, she's left feeling adrift. Luckily, her two sexy kayaking instructors, Jag and Nolan, are willing to help her forget the past. As the men introduce her to new kinky pleasures, Shana regains her self-confidence and begins to feel whole once more. Unfortunately, the more of herself she gives, the more the men pull away. While their physical intimacy is great, she longs for something more. Can she put aside her insecurities and convince them she's ready for more than a casual fling? Jag and Nolan share a deep, emotional commitment and wouldn't dream of letting anyone come between them--that is, until they meet Shana. The more time they spend with her, the more they bend their 'keep things physical' policy. As their kayaking trip comes to a close, the men must put aside their jealousy and reevaluate their rules on women, or risk losing Shana forever. Note: This book is a stand-alone story.

Download or read book Molly s Milestone written by Marlys Beider and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-year-old Molly Miraldo is trapped in a shroud of amnesia caused by a traumatic accident at the age of four. Raised by her narcissistic grandfather and philandering father, she relies on their words as they insist her mother and twin perished under mysterious circumstances soon after they abandoned her. Everything changes when an enigmatic phone call disrupts Molly's fragile existence; a voice from the past reveals her mother and twin are alive. But as she embarks on a journey of truth, the illusions—carefully constructed around her—shatter and fragments of a forgotten childhood begin to surface. When she realizes her grandfather and father orchestrated a web of deceit to hide their own crimes, a tapestry of horrors and secrets emerges. Molly's quest to reclaim her stolen memories not only unearths the sinister motives behind her family's lies but, as each layer peels away, the truth is more devastating than the memories she longs to recover. Will she find redemption, or will darkness consume her as she navigates the painful path to self-discovery? Molly's Milestone is a gripping psychological mystery, exploring family and the treasures awaiting those who dare to pursue its challenging truths.

Download or read book Insiders Guide to Albuquerque written by Tania Casselle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insiders' Guide to Albuquerque is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to one of New Mexico's most colorful cities. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Albuquerque and its surrounding environs.

Download or read book Wounded Bride written by Hyacinth Grey and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Chicago is relentless. Murders and other violent crimes pile up: a woman lies in the hospital in a coma, a man is brutally attacked in his sleep, and a child suffers. Detective Maria Mateo is new to the Chicago Police Department, but she’s not soft. In spite of her strength, every case that arises brings troubling memories of her past and fear that her deepest secret will be revealed and threaten everything she’s worked for. When her captain discovers she’s having difficulty with her health, she faces the possibility of losing her badge for good. Mateo struggles to keep her personal baggage out of her work, but when a woman is almost smothered, the investigation leads Mateo to help someone she never thought she’d see again.