This book was a sweet, simple story that had a great message: your life may be made up of moments, but it isn't defined by any one of those moments. It also deals with moving on after suffering loss, but I wasn't as excited about that part. I liked the journey Lexie and Sam took together. I ap...
Steamed (Maid in LA, #1) by Holly JacobsQuincy Mac is a maid and as she cleans a customers house she finds a dead body. Next thing she knows she is a suspect. By Quincy wont stand for that, she decided to find out who the murderer is and to clear her name.A fast paced, murder mystery, with a bit ...
Everything But A Groom is a cute story about what happens when a Hungarian grandma unintentionally curses her own family. Granddaughter, Vancy, is left at the alter, causing yet another ruined wedding ceremony for the family. When the media starts hounding the former bride and her family, Vanc...
The road demanded his attention. What the hell was he doing? The entire situation was absurd. Rescuing damsels in distress was something his partner, Con, might do. Not Dan. And yet here he was, driving his sleeping princess, unable to keep his eyes...
I said. It was one thing to flirt with Big G, who I knew was only flirting to annoy Cal. It was entirely another thing to have Jonas flirt with me. I wasn’t quite sure what to do about it. Part of me was flattered, but the main part of me wasn’t interested and didn’t en...
Or at least they weren’t at the Arthur Wadsworth Gallery. Miriam was there. I knew the gallery probably had more employees, but I had hoped she’d be there. If not, I’d have had to go to her house. I felt that gave her an advantage. “You,” she said b...
You can fall in love after a minute or a week or a month or years. But once you’re in love, there’s no taking it back, at least not if it’s a true love. —Jenny Jangle and the Frisco Kid, by Pip On Thursday, I convinced Logan—aka my jailor—that I was indeed well enough to...
Reviews: “I fell in love with Quincy Mac when I learned she was once almost the spokeswoman for Dazzling Smile toothpaste. I have a fondness for great stories, for toothpaste…and for teeth.” ~Hermey, Dentist to the North Pole“I’m jolly and happy to see you’re setting this holiday novella in...
Anne asked, her voice still painfully weak. Seeing her like this caused an almost physical ache in the pit of Ian’s stomach. “Not a stranger, a neighbor.” He stroked her hand and tried to look past her bruised and battered face. “Allie is a maternity nurse. She works with ...
Leila rushed up to Grace and swept her into an embrace that sent shudders of revulsion up Grace’s spine. She wished she hadn’t sent Max to park the car. He would have provided a small buffer between her and her stepsister. Leila was beautiful. Her hair was gypsy black, her...
Carrie burst through Encore’s door, dying to tell someone what she’d done. For once she was thankful the shop was devoid of customers, as she ran to the back office and found her boss, Eloise Summit, hard at work. “Eloise, I did it.” Carrie flopped ...
Fern began, but one look from Joy silenced her. And it must have been ferocious enough to silence the two fairies next to her on the counter as well. “Joy, it’s not like that with you,” Gabriel protested. “It was like that with Helen, and she was ju...
He waited for a wave of nostalgic happiness to sweep over him as he turned off I-90 and headed toward his hometown—toward Valley Ridge, New York. The wave never came. No warm glow telling him that all was right in the world again because he was here...
The world comes back to life. More specifically, my backyard comes back to life with its dizzying array of blossoms and buds. I added pawpaw trees to a blankish space along Ned’s side of the yard. I’d never had a pawpaw and knew it would be a few years before they produced...
Well, there was no lake effect snow, or any other kind of snow the following Saturday as Angela pulled up to the Erie shelter where Nana Vancy was having her Everything But a Dog event. Before she was even out of the car, two dogs ran up to her…and then jumped up on her, greeting h...
She tried to forget that Finn was suing her as she attempted to engage the kids in conversation. But her attempt fell flat. No one was talking. And try as she might, she couldn’t forget that the man spending the day with them was taking her to court. &nbs...
“Time to get up,” she called. “You don’t want to be late meeting Maeve on your first day of work, especially when she took time off from her own job to help get you settled.” Tori surprised her by opening the door, fully dressed. “I was on my way down.” &...
I turned and saw Peggy in the doorway. “Gray, your mother’s here,” I said before I rushed to her and hugged her for all I was worth. “You’re here. I hadn’t heard from you and I’d started to get worried. I was going to try to contact you on the ship today.” &nbs...
JT was not impressed that she was doing her detention with Laura instead of in the usual auditorium. While she was cooperating, she made her displeasure clear with every movement, every monosyllabic response. Gone was the girl who’d called on her for help. Laura ignored JT’s mood. “When you’re do...
He’d put it in the brine solution yesterday. He remembered helping his mother with holiday turkeys. She used to squeal like a girl when he pulled the neck out of the cavity for her. It’s so gross, she’d cry. There had been no one around yesterday when he’d prepped the bird...