Claire Bradford has got problems. Little does she know, they are about to get even bigger. First, her store has been burglarized along with some other establishments in town. Her inventory has been thrown all over the floor, money gone, computer stolen, and a designer wedding dress slashed and co...
I enjoyed the writing style and setting even if it did leave me with a eh feeling a lot of the time. I'll read the next in the series to see if it rounds out the story a little better. For a harlequin book it has very little steam and no heat. 376 pages and no sex between the characters. The wil...
Liebesromane schaffen es eigentlich nur selten in mein Regal, doch ich bin froh, dass ich diesem Buch eine Chance gegeben habe. Mich haben die Geschichten, die hinter den Protagonisten stecken sehr berührt, doch vor allem das Leben von Claire und ihren Kindern hat mich gefesselt und nicht mehr lo...
We met Evie Blanchard in the first book of the series Blackberry Summer. She works for Claire in the bead shop but before she came to Hope's Crossing she lived in Los Angeles and was a very successful physical therapist. After a very emotional year there she sought refuge in the relaxed pace of ...
Genevieve has been reeled back to her hometown against her will. Her parents want her to make something of herself and tasked her with fixing up and selling her Grandmother's house to earn some money on her own. She's pissed and gets even more so at the local bar. When Dylan comes to her rescue s...
The reader continues to learn about Hope's Crossing and it's inhabitants. We are introduced to a single mother raising her daughter. She is divorced but the ex is not the father of her child. The biological father does not know he has a daughter as he left town many years before vowing never to r...
I think this one is my favorite of the series so far. I really liked the way that Maura's grief was dealt with in this book--both how the author wrote about Maura and the other characters' reactions. It was really well done. Jackson and Maura's courtship was perfect for both where they were in li...
Hope's Crossing and the McKnights are inseparable. They are a strong, brave, wise family, and Thayne does an excellent job of molding them into your heart. Again the main characters were lovable, understandable, infuriating, and had been through a lifetime of pain and disappointment. But still ...
Willowleaf Lane by Raeanne ThayneLike this series because it's so real, the problems, the solutions and the community working together.This one is about Charlotte Caine and she now runs the Sugar Rush, where she makes gourmet sweets. She also has other sweets from other distributors on hand.Spenc...
What a nice and sweet story of love in unexpected places and times. Eliza and Maddie are new in town. Suddenly on a collision course with Aidan, their lives are turned upsidedown. The two despite differences in circumstances let down their barriers and find love. It is a sweet awakening for the t...
I received this book as a free gift from Harlequin, but I liked the cover, so it did not take me long to get around to reading it. Normally, I find Harlequin romances formulaic in format and rather predictable. This book was a bit better than most, maybe because this is the second book that I hav...
Dr. Jake Dalton is part of the ranching family of the Cold Creek Daltons. He and his two brothers, Wade and Seth, survived their childhood with their tough and dishonest father, Hank. They have all built lives they can be proud of and none more than Jake, who is now the dedicated and hardworking ...
Jesse James Harte had grown up as wild and untamed as his Old West namesake, but now he was the law in this stretch of the Wyoming high country. That meant trouble was his business--and if he'd ever seen somebody in trouble, it was the town's new schoolteacher, Sarah McKenzie....She was as beauti...
“I wish to hell I had better news to report.” Ruben Morales looked apologetic and frustrated at the same time. “The state crime lab has gone over and over the thing and they can’t find so much as a stray hair strand. Everything was wiped down, even the mirror buttons and the turn signals. We coul...
His words seemed to settle inside her, warming and calming her. I’ve seen you with my kids. You love them and they adore you. I’ve let you stay with them and I would completely trust you to do it again. That’s about as ringing an endorsement as a guy like me can make. Rela...
Though he had a perfectly serviceable gas grill and it was fine in a pinch, he preferred the rich flavor from the traditional method so Cade spent a moment lighting the charcoal on his old-fashioned Weber. Yeah, he was a two-grill guy. Sue him. Once the coals were smolderi...
Knowing she would see him again that evening didn’t help. The whole busy December day seemed filled with sparkly anticipation, even though she tried over and over again to tell herself she was being ridiculous. It didn’t help matters that her sisters both attempted to back...
The colors gleaming on the water, the enthusiastic crowd, the festive mood—all of it seemed enhanced this time. The colors seemed richer, the smells more intense, the music playing in perfect synchronicity to the boats on the water. Part of it had to do with the children’s...
He couldn’t see an empty chair anywhere. Claire must be thrilled at the turnout. At this rate, maybe they could raise enough green for two or three scholarships. With nowhere to sit, Riley leaned a shoulder against the back wall to watch. He scanned the crowd, only half listening to the bidding g...
Connor McFarlane surveyed the kitchen where Matt was currently installing the knobs and handles on the custom cabinetry. “That’s the plan,” Matt answered, carefully setting another hole. “Everything is on schedule. The carpet layers will be here tomorrow and we’ll do the floor trim and hang the c...
He looked perfectly rational, his eyes dark and intense as he stood there in the cold night air with the soft snow sifting down around him like powdered sugar. But looks could be deceiving, she thought.“Didn’t you hear what I said? She’s probably in Florida! The last address I had was Dade County...
She grabbed her kayak and paddle from the shed next to the lake then launched it from the dock. The rim of the sun started to appear above the high peaks of the Redemptions as she paddled south along the shoreline through clear, quiet water. Only a ...
Living through thirty-two Montana winters had given Annie plenty of experience in bitter temperatures—early mornings when she had to chop through six inches of ice in the water troughs so the stock could drink, when her gloves would stick to any surface they touched, when the air was so clear and...
Eliza lay in the comfortable bed listening to Maddie’s soft breathing and gazing out through the slats of the blinds to the pearly glow of the moonlight on the snow. She really hated these nights, when her mind raced in a hundred directions and she just couldn’t get comfor...
She opened her eyes slowly and tried to make sense of where she was, why the room didn’t look familiar. A lamp glowed beside the bed, illuminating a comfortably feminine room. A plump armchair stood in one corner and just next to it, she could see an open doorway that looked like it contained the...
After a full day with Taryn, all Evie wanted to do was head up to her apartment and soak in the big claw-foot tub, the one she had always suspected was original to the building when it had been a brothel. Downtown Hope’s Crossing was hopping, for a Thursday night. As she d...
Her eyes turned wintry, her mouth went as tight as a shriveled-up prune, and her spine stiffened, vertebrae by vertebrae. Even so, she looked so beautiful he had to shove his hands into his pockets to keep from reaching for her. She must have only just climbed out of the bath. Her still-damp hair...