A Very Suburbia Christmas (Suburbia #3 Novella)

A Very Suburbia Christmas (Suburbia #3 Novella)
Author: Melody Calder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781671634848

Samantha has been keeping a couple of secrets from her parents. Not only her unconventional relationship with her three men, but also a baby on the way.When her mom guilt-trips her into leaving the city to come home to their small town for Christmas, she knows she has to find a way to reveal her secrets. Will her three husbands be able to win over her bearish father? Especially when everything they try to do goes seriously wrong.Enjoy this comedic Reverse Harem Holiday Romance. *This book contains explicit sexual content and is intended for 18+ audiences

Christmas with the Sheriff

Christmas with the Sheriff
Author: Victoria James
Publisher: Entangled: Bliss
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2016-11-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 163375782X

Discover the true meaning of Christmas with this beautiful, poignant story about overcoming loss, the strength of family, and finding love again... It’s been five long years since Julia Bailey lost everything. Returning to Shadow Creek is every bit as hard and painful as she expected, but she’s determined to finally face her fear, which also means spending Christmas with her former in-laws. For the first time in forever, Julia begins to feel the twinges of holiday spirit, especially as she spends more time with an old friend, the irresistible town sheriff, and his adorable daughter. Single dad and county Sheriff Chase Donovan was secretly in love with his best friend's wife for years. But after her traumatic loss, he knew Julia needed to go, even though helping her leave was the last thing he wanted to do. Now she's home and he doesn't intend to lose her a second time. Chase is going to prove to Julia just how good they can be together this Christmas...and forever. Each book in the Shadow Creek, Montana series is STANDALONE: * Christmas with the Sheriff * The Baby Bombshell * The Doctor's Redemption * Baby on the Bad Boy’s Doorstep * The Firefighter's Pretend Fiance * A Christmas Miracle for the Doctor

Sweet Like a Psycho

Sweet Like a Psycho
Author: Ivy Smoak
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781092602327

I don't care what my neighbors think of me. All that matters is that my son and I are safe. I've created a life for him so different than the one I had growing up. So let people talk. I stopped listening years ago.But when the rumors lead to a detective showing up on my doorstep? Not okay. Well, maybe it's okay. Because it doesn't seem like he's here to hurt me. He looks at me in a way that no one has in years. He didn't grow up in this small town and he doesn't know what people say about me. And when we talk, I forget that it's his job to put people behind bars. I think he forgets it too. The only problem is that there's some truth to what everyone says about me. After all, rumors have to start somewhere.

The Kate Huntington Mysteries Collection I ~ Books 1- 3

The Kate Huntington Mysteries Collection I ~ Books 1- 3
Author: Kassandra Lamb
Publisher: misterio press LLC
Total Pages: 1303
Release: 2022-01-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A three-book bundle, plus a fun bonus novella set at Christmas time. A psychotherapist whose passion for helping others often lands her in trouble… MULTIPLE MOTIVES: Kate is normally the one who helps other people cope with trauma and tragedy, but she herself has led a charmed life—until a killer rips it apart. When the lead detective assumes she and her lawyer friend, Rob Franklin, are lovers trying to eliminate their spouses, they must investigate on their own. Who hates them enough to want them both dead…and doesn’t seem to mind if others get caught in the crossfire? ILL-TIMED ENTANGLEMENTS: No good deed goes unpunished! When Kate agrees to help her friend Rob’s elderly aunt with a problem, the “problem” ends up dead and Kate ends up in the middle of a police investigation. To clear Aunt Betty of suspicion, Kate and her cohorts must wade through a brimming pool of suspects—some of whom have secrets they would prefer stay buried. Meanwhile the residents of Aunt Betty’s retirement community are continuing to die off…and not from natural causes. FAMILY FALLACIES: Kate returns from maternity leave to the work she loves, only to face a series of disturbing events: anonymous and vaguely threatening notes, a malpractice suit for supposedly planting false memories in a client’s mind, and when a party involved in the lawsuit turns up dead, Kate becomes a murder suspect. There is one bright note, however. She’s falling in love. Now if she could just get the ghost of her dead husband out of her head. And a bonus novella ~ An Unsaintly Season in St. Augustine: Even on vacation, Kate Huntington can’t seem to avoid other people’s troubles. While in St. Augustine, Florida for the Christmas holidays, she and her PI husband get caught up in trying to find a friend of Kate’s parents who’s gone missing. They soon discover that this isn’t just a case of a senior citizen wandering off. Can they reunite the elderly man with his wife before Christmas, or will others who mean him harm find him first?

Wildflower Christmas

Wildflower Christmas
Author: Grace Greene
Publisher:
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2019
Genre: Friendship
ISBN: 9780999618097

Kara Hart is looking forward to a quiet holiday--just like the ones she's always known--but this year, she's at Wildflower House and alone. But fate--with an extra dose of Christmas spirit-intervenes as the people now in Kara's life show up. If Kara is ready to up her holiday game, she may find new traditions to build on for the future.

Different Seasons

Different Seasons
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501141171

Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A “hypnotic” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Next is “Apt Pupil,” the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. In “The Body,” four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the movie Stand By Me. Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in “The Breathing Method.” “The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,” hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.

Crazy In Love

Crazy In Love
Author: Ivy Smoak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2020-12-04
Genre:
ISBN:

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Mistletoe and holly and lights all aglow. It's my favorite time of year. Until my husband had to go and ruin it. Christmas is officially canceled at my house now that I've kidnapped my husband and locked him in the basement. And not even Santa can get me out of this mess. I know what you're thinking. That I'm crazy. But I swear I'm not. I'm going to let him free eventually. Or maybe with a little Christmas magic he'll fall in love with me again. *This is a standalone thriller with an unforgettable twist.*

A Summer In Europe

A Summer In Europe
Author: Marilyn Brant
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2011-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0758274211

On her thirtieth birthday, Gwendolyn Reese receives an unexpected present from her widowed Aunt Bea: a grand tour of Europe in the company of Bea's Sudoku and Mahjongg Club. The prospect isn't entirely appealing. But when the gift she is expecting--an engagement ring from her boyfriend--doesn't materialize, Gwen decides to go. At first, Gwen approaches the trip as if it's the math homework she assigns her students, diligently checking monuments off her must-see list. But amid the bougainvillea and stunning vistas of southern Italy, something changes. Gwen begins to live in the moment--skipping down stone staircases in Capri, running her fingers over a glacier in view of the Matterhorn, racing through the Louvre, and taste-testing pastries at a Marseilles cafe. Reveling in every new experience--especially her attraction to a charismatic British physics professor--Gwen discovers that the ancient wonders around her are nothing compared to the renaissance unfolding within. . . "A thinking woman's love story, it swept me away to breathtaking places with a cast of endearing characters I won't soon forget. Bravissima!" –Susan McBride, author of Little Black Dress Praise for Marilyn Brant's According to Jane "A warm, witty and charmingly original story." --Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author "Brant infuses her sweetly romantic and delightfully clever tale with just the right dash of Austen-esque wit." –Chicago Tribune "An engaging read for all who have been through the long, dark, dating wars, and still believe there's sunshine, and a Mr. Darcy, at the end of the tunnel." --Cathy Lamb, author of Such a Pretty Face

A Field Guide to the North American Family

A Field Guide to the North American Family
Author: Garth Risk Hallberg
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2017-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101874961

The very first work of fiction by the best-selling, acclaimed author of City on Fire--his piercingly beautiful treasure box of a novella about two families in the suburbs, now in a newly designed full-color edition For years, the Hungates and the Harrisons have coexisted peacefully in the same Long Island neighborhood, enjoying the pleasures and weathering the pitfalls of their suburban habitat. But when the patriarch of one family dies unexpectedly, the survivors face a stark imperative: adapt or face extinction. In sixty-three interlinked vignettes and striking accompanying photographs, the novella cuts multiple paths--which can be reconstructed in any order--through the lives of its richly imagined characters. Part art object, part Choose Your Own Adventure, A Field Guide to the North American Family is an innovative and deeply personal look at the ties that bind, as well as a poignant meditation on connection in a fragmented world.