Twenty-five years ago, a fender bender tore high school sweethearts Doris June Hargrove and Curt Nelson from each other's arms on the night they were planning to elope. And they hadn't spoken since. Now their widowed parents want to rematch the pair-- but how? Doris June agreed to return home and...
My three friends and I met as teens living with cancer and started The Sisterhood of the Dropped Stitches knitting group. Five cancer-free years later, we were still meeting weekly. To celebrate, we each set a goal for the year. Lizabett dreamed of being a dancer, Becca needed an internship, Carl...
Her rich, spoiled, about-to-be-married cousin always loved making Julie White feel inferior. So to impress Cousin Elaine, Julie lets her think she's landed her dream job--as a wedding planner. But when Elaine's "real" wedding planner runs off with all her money, she begs Julie to save her big day...
—Chinese proverb Rose brought this quote to us. She was determined that we all learn to enjoy reading. I think she had this vision of us reading through our chemo treatments. It didn’t work like that, but we appreciated the thought anyway. Rose was always trying to think of things that would take...
At least then, when the horse shook her, the petals would fall to the ground and leave a trail in the snow for someone to follow when they searched for her in the morning. Maybe if she were lucky, some of the sequins on her long evening dress would fall to the ground and leave a trail of reddish ...
It was almost too dark to see. She could make out a couple of men standing at the bar though, and she could tell it was Shorty serving them drinks.“What’s happened here?” she asked. “There’s no light.”“Virginia!” Shorty said as he set down the bottle he held and walked around the bar, heading tow...
The bedroom was dark and she looked over at the illuminated hands on the clock to be sure it was indeed that time. She was hoping for a reprieve, but there was none to be found. “Tessie.” She reached over to wake her daughter. The girl was practical...
It was a rainy day in March and he didn’t look forward to the long drive north to Dry Creek, Montana—especially because once he got there his older brother would start pressing him even harder to move back to the ranch, settle down and get married. Jake refused to marry some poor woman just to st...
Hearing that news had surprised Judd enough. But what he was looking at now made that surprise go clear out of his head. He figured pigs were going to start flying down the street of Dry Creek pretty soon. He couldn’t believe his eyes. Right there, in the middle of Lizette’s practice room, was Pe...
He hadn’t slept at all last night and hadn’t shaved this morning. But he wasn’t going to explain that to his aunt, not when he was usually up and ready to go at six. He didn’t really need to walk past the church on the way to his aunt’s house, but just to prove how fine he was, he decided to chec...
Matthew was making pancakes for breakfast. He had been up early worrying and had decided to stir up some batter. Glory was in trouble and he needed to find a way to keep her safe. “They must know more at the precinct than they’ve told you. And they have the photos. They might offer a clue.” “It’s...
He’d paused at one point and scooped up a handful of the dirt that lay near him. He let the coarse gray soil run through his fingers. Scarlett would have a hard time growing the kind of lawn she wanted in all this alkali. It was more suited to cactus than any kind of grass, even the sturdy buffal...
This day was so mixed-up, she was beginning to think she needed to start it over. After hearing Elmer and Jacob talk about reading Woman’s World, nothing should have surprised her.Nicki only had to open the door to the café to know the day had one more surprise for her. Everything was turned upsi...