Harlequin Next
10 total works
Like Mother, Like Daughter (But in a Good Way)
by Jennifer Greene, Peggy Webb, and Nancy Robards Thompson
Playing rockabilly music in church was one thing...
Blowing a hole in her roof to chase a phantom intruder was quite another. And when Delta Jordan hears about her best friend's meltdown, she starts packing. It's clear Emily Jones needs her to be a safety net until she's strong enough to fly solo.
Whisking Emily off to Tuscany, Delta witnesses the Italian countryside's healing effect on her friend. Which is a good thing, because now Delta is the one needing Emily's advice. A renowned Italian artist has decided she's The One. But twice divorced (Emily calls her ex-husbands cowardly knuckleheads), Delta isn't falling into that trap again.
Or is she? Because a wonderful thing happens when both women discover they can face the future and embrace its limitless possibilities....
Surprise even yourself!
When longtime best friends, Patsy Leslie and Louise Jernigan decide to jump-start their not-so-dead libidos, quilting and bridge suddenly take a backseat to, well, more amorous pursuits. Local tongues wag, and Patsy's son and Louise's daughter–who happen to be married to each other–demand answers to the burning questions Who is this man and where's the rest of Mama's skirt?
Then life throws Patsy and Louise another sharp curve, and they don't know whether to drown their shock in hot fudge or buy some strong binoculars and take up spying–on each other! Can forty-five years of friendship and family ties survive unexpected detours on the bumpy road to liberation? Maybe all Patsy and Louise need is to grow wings and learn to fly again….
They couldn't be any more different
Poppy Thompson: The self-proclaimed homeliest woman in town, she deals with animals for a living rather than people.
Bren Price: The ever-proper minister's wife, she does everything her husband tells her, but lately her best just isn't good enough.
They'd never even spoken to one another until a surprise inheritance brings them together. A fortune in sparkling jewelry could give them what each desires most-Poppy's surgical transformation, Bren's escape from her husband. Yet the real treasure just might be the friendship these two total opposites form once they discover all that glitters isn't gold.
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH...
Join the PTA? Yes, according to Maggie, Barbara and Elizabeth. Because despite their differences-one is a recent widow; one is a late-in-life mother; and one is a supermom whose surprise pregnancy, she fears, will result in complications-all three women have one thing in common: their daughters. They'd do anything for them....
But is anything enough?
Because one girl just can't adjust, one is terrified to be alone-and one is the mystery blogger who's wreaking havoc from one end of the student body to the other. Seems as if there are a lot of secrets in this small town. And despite the gossip, not a lot of talking going on....
Literally, he's had it for every hour of the day for as long as Teddi's known him.
So it's no coincidence that minutes after Teddi stumbles accidentally on a corpse in the deep freeze at King Kullen, Detective Dreamboat is back on the scene. Her supermarket snob (among other things) of a mother will never let her hear the end of it. Nor will Drew, who has told Teddi time and again she's got to stop messing with murder scenes.
Until Teddi goes from material witness to potential next victim… But the woman whose smarmy ex dubbed her "Long Island's Most Dangerous Decorator" isn't going down without a fight. Or going down alone. Not when she's got an oh-so-irritating, way-too-irresistible cop watching her every move…
"What is it with you and murder victims?"
When Drew Scoones asks the questions, Teddi Bayer listens. Her latest decorating job for a restaurant spoiled by a murder, Ms. Bayer might just have to submit to the detective's line of interrogation. After all, her life depends on it.
With a mafia don who's a little too interested in our crazed housewife, it seems as if everyone's got their eye on the Long Island spitfire. Observe the Botoxed mother who can still wound at thirty feet with just a look and a daughter whose bat mitzvah is a disaster in the making.
If Teddi can't save herself, then the dreamy detective slowly putting the screws to her is the next best thing. But she's got questions of her own. Like, where are the handcuffs, anyway?
Each summer the tourists flood the Sunshine Coast, and the chaos doesn't stop until Labor Day. But in between, at the back of the Way-Inn, best friends, Rose, Mercedes and Doris-aka the Gossip Queens-hold court. Everyone's business is discussed, and good sense reigns. However, lately it's the Gossip Queens whose doings are the talk of the town.
Rose has a husband who loves (and cooks) like an angel, but she's thinking adoption. Doris wants to give her granddaughter love and laughter, but can't take the first step. And independent Mercedes has been worrying about her daughter's love life for so long, she's forgotten to have one herself.
This summer will be remembered forever as the year the Gossip Queens became the hottest scoop. Love always gives people something to talk about, right?