Nick loves science and lives for Christmas. Every December he hightails it to an American city guaranteed to have a picture-postcard, white Christmas and celebrates the holiday all alone. This year— for reasons both secret and of deep significance to him— Nick is planning to spend Christmas in Seville, Spain. He’ s been planning and banking on it for the past twelve years, but a series of unexpected occurrences threatens to scuttle it all.
John Allen returns to his home town after the death of his alcoholic, abusive father. He has been gone nearly 20 years and has become a successful writer, but with major addiction problems of his own. Now he struggles to make amends with his careworn sister and alcoholic younger brother - and, perhaps, to pick up the pieces of his teenage love affair with Jesse. But Jessie tired of waiting for letters that ceased to come, and has been married for six years. At what cost might their love be rekin...
Whenever You Come Around (King's Meadow Romance, #2)
by Robin Lee Hatcher
Will writing a romance help this author find a real-life hero? Charity Anderson turned her back on Kings Meadow years ago, with good reason, and has avoided visits to her hometown whenever possible. But with her house in Boise damaged by floodwaters and a book deadline bearing down, staying in her parents’ empty home seems her only option. However, being back in Kings Meadow dredges up a painful secret, and old fears threaten to overwhelm her. Charity’s former high school classmate Buck Malone...
Folks are dying as fast as the ash trees in the southern Indiana town ravaged by heroin where Jaycee Givens lives. With her mother in prison, Jaycee is carrying grief and an unplanned pregnancy she conceals because she trusts no one. Dividing her time between the diner where she works and her quirky neighbor Sudie's place, Jaycee nurses a broken heart among a collection of unlikely friends. But eventually, she realizes she can't hide her pregnancy any longer not even from the baby's abusive fa...
He made himself an island until something unexpected washed ashore.When Holton lost his wife, Adele, in a freak accident, he shut himself off from the world, living a life of seclusion, making drifwood sculptures and drowning his pain in gin. Until twenty-three-year-old Libby knocks on his door, asking for a job and claiming to be a friend of his late wife. When he discovers Libby is actually his late wife's illegitimate daughter, given up for adoption without his knowledge, his life is turned u...
Who Do I Talk To? (Yada Yada House of Hope, #2) (Center Point Christian Fiction (Large Print), #2)
by Neta Jackson
In the last place she ever imagined she'd be, Gabby will discover what she's made of--and for. Gabrielle Fairbanks knew her husband was upset with her. But she never expected him to change the locks on their Chicago penthouse, cancel her credit cards, and disappear with their two boys. Now she's literally on the streets with her elderly mother, her mom's dog...and $220 to her name. Thank goodness she has somewhere to go--Manna House, the women's shelter where she works. But even in the bustlin...
Child of Grace (Love Inspired Large Print) (Love Inspired)
by Irene Hannon
"After giving up a high-powered corporate job, mom-to-be Kelsey Anderson decides to follow her dream. She moves to her late grandmother's lake house and decides to open a quilting shop in town. Then former army doctor Luke Turner moves in next door. The war-weary man stirs feelings in Kelsey that soon make her rethink all her plans. But she has some hard decisions to make, and worries if Luke will ever accept her and her baby. Kelsey must come to terms with the past, and trust there's a fut...
From This Day Forward (Love Inspired) (Heartland Homecoming, #1)
by Irene Hannon
It Was A Shocking Proposal... But Cara Martin had to say yes. After a frightening ordeal, she needed a safe haven, and her estranged husband, Dr. Sam Martin, offered to share his home. Live with Sam? The man she'd married had become a stranger long before their separation had broken her heart. Yet when she arrived in his small Missouri town, Cara discovered the workaholic surgeon had become a general doc who cared about people...cared about her. Could...
Jason Stevens, the 24-year-old great-nephew of my longtime friend, Red Stevens, glared at me with a look of rage, defiance and disrespect that only someone who has made a lifelong practice of selfish anger can muster. He slammed his hand on the table. "I knew that mean old man wouldn't leave anything for me. He always hated me." He stood up to stomp out of the room. "Not so fast," I called to him. "You are, indeed, mentioned here in the will." "Okay, what did the old goat give me? I bet it's not...
