Boomerang Bride tells the story of Matilda who has left her home in Australia to be with a man named 'Barry'. Matilda arrives in Hobin, Wisconsin to surprise 'Barry', but soon discovers the romance was a sham and that he has cleaned out her savings.Matilda was such a fun, and feisty character. I ...
Tom knew this route from the hospital to his apartment as intimately as he knew the inside of a brain. In the past he’d walked it, cycled it and driven it, but he’d never been chauffeured. Now that happened all the time.Being a passenger in a car had never been easy for him, even before he’d lost...
“She’ll get there in the end.” “Of course she will.” Nancy van Lanen smiled reassuringly. “Lily’s not the first child with Down syndrome to attend our preschool, Scott, and she won’t be the last. How’s her health?” The dark days of worry and the lon...
She stared down at the highly polished linoleum floor and then up at the display cases filled with photos of smiling faces. Students holding trophies aloft for wins in sports, music, science fair and other academic achievements. A sharp pain pierced her heart. It wasn’t because Hunter’s picture w...
Mia Latham sighed and twirled her hair up, welcoming the light breeze against her very hot and sweaty neck. Jamming her straw hat down hard, she scanned the outback-blue skies for the elusive light plane. Nothing. Not a faint dot in the distance, not even a bird. Just heat haze shimmering upwards...
Hell, it gave the bird to houses in general, and when the west wind blew over the drought-ravaged district, clouds of it moved in and took over every surface with easy familiarity. Kelly Wilkins knew it was pointless getting upset by the layer of vivid orange outback dirt that now graced the floo...
He was grumpy and out of sorts after a night spent fighting the sheets more than sleeping in them. His sleep had been a tangled mess of the usual demon dreams but added in was Abbie’s mouth, so hot and delicious against his own one minute and gone the next. ‘This morning I need espresso.’ His sis...
Luke had made coffee in the office and he handed his father a mug. They were taking a break after having spent an hour with the vet doing a herd check. The results were pleasing with many cows ready to be impregnated. “Did you remember my sugar?” Lu...
Pulling a hankie out of his pocket, he mopped his brow as the hot, midday December sun beat through the untinted windows. Sophie Norman slung her rucksack over her shoulder and took a step down, peering out at a red sign that clearly and officially said: bus stop. But apart from the black-top roa...