Maggie is no stranger to adversity. Her marriage is history, the company where she worked for fourteen years folded, and now she is suddenly unable to afford the house on the outskirts of Akron, Ohio. Solutions seem hard to come by. Life with two teenagers isn't easy, especially as a single mother. And her situation requires a lot of prayer. Just when Maggie is about to give up, she receives an unexpected offer from an unlikely source.Jacob Sutter, Maggie's dad, is as tough and craggy as the mountain he owns, and their father-daughter relationship has always been extremely rocky. It hasn't even been a year since their fifteen-year estrangement ended.Now, Jacob is offering Maggie a lifeline in the form of her Gran's Spring House, rent-free if she is willing to do some minor repairs. Given their history and Maggie's pride, the decision is anything but easy, yet in the end, Maggie and her kids make the move to Sutter's Mountain.The transition from small town Ohio to the mountains and hollows of West Virginia requires a great deal of effort, and 13-year-old Matthew is in all-out rebellion. Abby is ten, and immersed in country life with her granddad as an indulgent guide... and exactly what is going on with Maggie's dad? Has he changed so much? Or did she ever take the time to know him at all? Maggie's life is about to get interesting.The Country Roads Series is all about life in the heart of America, the complexity of family, and embracing the simple life.
Jenna's Cove is not just any quaint New England village, and love in Jenna's Cove is a bit more unique than the simple, normal recipe of boy meets girl. It is a special, often magical place where the unusual is commonplace, and the romance is just slightly left of center.Devlin Muir is having the worst day of his life. He lost his job, his girlfriend dumped him on Facebook, and his apartment exploded. In the midst of devastating chaos, a lawyer appears and informs him that he's the long lost heir to the Foxley Mansion: a sprawling estate near Bar Harbor with a breathtaking view of the ocean. It certainly seems like the perfect place for an artist to hang out to lick his wounds and create, and since there's nothing left for Devlin in Boston, he decides to relocate, and he heads for the quaint seaside village of Jenna's Cove.But his new situation holds more than one surprise, and Devlin very soon finds himself caught between a budding romance with Jilly, the caretaker's lovely Wiccan granddaughter, and Serena, the ghost of his great-great grandfather's mistress.Devlin, a lifelong skeptic, is torn between the woman he wants, and the one who won't leave him alone. Serena doesn't just use men, sexually. She uses them up, and Devlin is desperate for a solution. But can thirteen modern day witches and a spell to reunite Serena with Captain Jacob Foxley really bring Devlin the happiness he's seeking with Jilly?
It wasn't easy growing up the daughter of a traitor and Quintana Wade has struggled just to keep a roof over her head... so when the father who abandoned her to join the cause of American liberty sends an emissary to "fetch her home" Quintana launches her own full scale rebellion. Draper Boone is unlike any man Quintana has ever encountered. Devastatingly handsome, exotic, and wild, the militia captain is more than a match for her in every way. Sexual tension crackles between them, and Draper's seductive ways are hard to resist. As hardheaded as her father, Quintana is not about to surrender without a fight. What she doesn't realize is that there is more at stake for Draper than meets the eye. His life, his good name, his honor, hang in the balance, and the same father she hates with such vehemence will ruin him if he does not succeed in delivering his daughter to America and into the hands of a fianc e who awaits her arrival.
When her life is shattered by the War Between the States, Olivia Harrington scrambles to rebuild a lost family fortune by running the Federal blockade out of Wilmington, North Carolina. Her daring and bravery has allowed her to keep Bliss, the home she hasn't seen in months... the place where she is now headed. Yet waiting at home for Livie is a houseful of trouble... her dying brother, and the man who risked everything to honor a friend's final wish... the very man who broke Livie's heart long ago, and whom she thought never to see again.... The Long Road Home is a novella that is also included in Bliss: An Anthology of novellas. Warning: This novella contains sexual situations, and strong language.
