Tracy Broemmer

You've reached that comfortable spot in life-the one where your kids are happy, and your marriage has endured the test of time. Grocery shopping has become a Friday night date. You're financially stable. You have a successful career. Your sons are good, compassionate people who make you proud. And you count good friends as one of your many blessings.When you close your eyes at night-no matter where you are-you always feel safe. And then it happens. One morning-ten minutes-in a hotel room in Aspen, your safe, happy life is shattered. Your marriage is tested. Your relationship with your sons is strained; your good, compassionate boys struggle to understand the horrible thing that you won't tell them. You keep secrets to stay true to yourself, but you can't be yourself when you're living a lie. Slowly, you rediscover pieces of yourself, only to lose them again.Life happens-bad things happen-even when you lock yourself away in a tower of fear. And the dragons aren't going to slay themselves. **This book contains a rape scene and the main character's struggle to overcome the trauma.**

Ellie Jordan lost something far more important than her innocence, and she blames no one but herself. Determined never to forgive herself for mistakes she made in the past, she lives alone and starves herself of love and attention. She can't right her wrongs, but she refuses to let herself be happy.No one understands bad decisions and bittersweet memories like Jay Bryant. Divorced from a woman he had no business marrying, he fathers his son from across the country and wishes for something more: more time with his child and a woman to love.Ellie Jordan just might be that woman, but can Jay prove to her that mistakes can be left in the past and everyone deserves a chance at love?

As the oldest of the Williams siblings, it was Olivia Girard's job to hold her family together after the loss of their mother. But she didn't, and things went from bad to worse when their mother died. Now, with their father gone, Liv's own family life is falling apart around her, and she doesn't have the heart or the energy to dedicate to her siblings.Liv has no desire to finish redecorating their parents' old house, because once it's done, her childhood home will be sold to someone else. Her daughter is graduating from high school and looking forward to college, while Liv can only wonder where time has gone and worry for Gracie's happiness and safety. And most troubling to Liv, her marriage is on the rocks, and she has only herself to blame.Desperate to make waves, to make her husband Wade see her again, Liv did a bad thing, and now she's paying for it. Wade isn't sure he can forgive her mistakes, and Liv isn't sure she wants him to, because she's not sure of anything in her life at the moment. Except that she's miserably unhappy from the inside out, and no one, not even Wade, not her children, not her siblings, can change that. Can Liv accept that she's the only person who can change her heart before she's free to offer it again to those she loves? Will they wait for her to figure it out, or will her loved ones move on without her?

Karrie Mallory needs a break from her stressful job as an ER nurse in Phoenix, Arizona. A few years into the job, she tells herself she's become immune to the trauma, the blood, and the life or death drama she often sees on a daily basis. But the drug-overdose of a young teen-a face Karrie has seen before-is enough to shake her up and make her rethink her life choices. She needs a break from her personal life, too, and a family situation back home in Illinois is just the remedy. Karrie takes some time away from her job and her clich affair with the ER attending physician to go home and lend her sister and her kids a hand after a serious accident hospitalizes her brother-in-law. The trouble is, Karrie's sister doesn't want her there. With her own life up in the air, her sister's cold shoulder drives Karrie to her old school gym where she finds sanctuary on the basketball court. Nothing like good, old-fashioned exercise to drive those emotional demons out. Daxton Law quit his IT job in Chicago to come back home and coach his former school's boys' basketball team. Some might say he failed in the big city, and some might say he's living in the past, but Dax doesn't deal in gossip or drama. His ex-wife didn't want kids, and the coaching position is the perfect fit for a former basketball star who loves the game and the kids.Sparks fly when Dax finds Karrie on the basketball court one evening. His mouth gets him in trouble, and though he and Karrie sweat it out on the court, she's tough as nails and refuses to believe he's not the same hotshot guy he was back in the day. The more time they spend together, the more Dax realizes he's not just after Karrie's delicious curves and long, tan legs. He wants more, starting with her trust. Can Dax convince Karrie that there's a little something like love between them?

December 30, 2015 Dear Jaclyn Perris: I can't help it....Just...Lena. Really? Why? Why did you do that to Lena? I can't even...I mean...there's a formula, Jaclyn. Remember? The formula? Yeah, yeah, technically, you followed it, but...just. Poor Lena. I threw that book. Just so you know. When I finished it, I threw it across the room. Okay, so, that made me feel really guilty, because books are BOOKS, ya know? But you frigging ripped my heart out when you did that. Okay. Over it. I'm over it. Promise. I'll read more-who am I kidding? My plan is to work my way through your backlist, one delicious read at a time and devour your new releases as soon as they're available Yours, Remi But. I mean. I dreamt about her. Lena. Ripped. My. Heart. Out. It was kind of messy. The whole ugly cry thing...

Wes Ingram loves his wife. He thinks.So then why has he slept walked through ten years of marriage, stealing every opportunity to daydream about the girl he had before?It's been an easy, friendly marriage, and he and Maura have two great kids. Both of them are committed to their children's happiness, even if it means ignoring the lack of passion between them and pretending they're happy just to maintain the status quo...until they share a stolen moment of passion during daylight hours, and Wes decides it's time to push for more. Unfortunately what he wants to say gets tangled up with what and who he's been thinking about, and before he knows what happened, the damage is done, and his wife is devastated.How do you save a love you don't realize is the most important thing in your life until you're faced with losing everything?Can Wes make it up to Maura, even when he knows saying I'm sorry isn't enough?

Bestselling thriller author, I.G. Arenson, i.e. Ingrid Williams, finds it funny how a family home, where childhood happens and siblings play and fight, and their lives spill over into extra bedrooms and nooks and crannies, can suddenly be too small in adulthood. It has nothing to do with spouses or children added to the family. It's simply too hard to mold four matured personalities, complete with their own lives, back into the same people they were as children. A phone call from her older sister brings Ingrid back to their now empty childhood home and their father's funeral. Ingrid, reeling from personal issues she doesn't intend to share with her siblings, simply wants to get the house packed up and sold, so they can all move on with their lives. She and her siblings don't get along well, but in the weeks when she's back at home working on the house, she finds herself entangled in their lives, in their heartaches. She's surprised at her younger sister's resentment towards her, and the guilt she feels makes her slow down and remember the way things used to be. As the days go by, and she and her siblings continue to draw closer and then push each other away, she realizes she doesn't have to go back to her big-city life. She's not sure there's much left to go home to, anyway. Not after what happened just before she returned for her father's funeral. And then there's Luke Ashley, the handy man her sister hired to fix up Dad's house. Is it all in her head, or is there a little something between them? While her family urges her to stay, and her friends urge her to come home to the suburbs, Ingrid must face her own truths. She's missed out on a lot of family stuff, and being gone so long has changed her. Used to being independent, Ingrid cherishes her alone time. But after spending time with her siblings and nieces and nephews, and spending time with Luke Ashley, Ingrid decides maybe home is relative. Maybe it's time she comes back home.