Love me like I love you ... it's all romantics could ever want. There's no better feeling than the stir of butterflies at the end of a love story. And this collection is full of just that!Top Shelf Romance is proud to present a collection of happily ever afters in collaboration with a cause dedicated to providing stories for those in need.100% of the profits from this anthology will be given to the Live A Thousand Lives charity.The romances included in this collection are: Knocking Boots by Willow WintersStrong & Steady by Vanessa ValeChasing Hannah by Melissa EllenOne Call Away by Emily Goodwin
Born in the South, during the 1940s, an African-American girl with white skin was destined to live with secrets, shame and intolerance from her family as well as the black and white community. She grew up feeling unworthy and desperate to belong. When her three-year-old son wondered why she was white and the rest of the family black, she struggled with an answer. At age 50, divorced and discouraged, she knew she had to make a change, a dramatic one, and she did what few have the courage to do. She joined the Peace Corps and traveled throughout Asia and the Middle East for seven years, an opportunity chockfull of rich experiences and personal growth. To her amazement, she discovered she fit in everywhere. Through deeply moving stories imbued with humor and grace, Pat Holland Conner will transport you to exotic parts of the world where acceptance of others transformed her life spiritually, emotionally and mentally from fear and alienation to self-acceptance and approval.
A preacher's daughter sets out to become a career girl, marries a farmer and struggles through winters in Minnesota to raise seven children. Her husband had entered the Navy at age 17 and, after getting temporarily deafened by an explosion, discovered the amusements of the ship's mess before his discharge to live the quiet life running a chicken farm.
Alpsten's colourful narrative does full justice to her extraordinary career' Sunday Times 'With its sprawling canvas and huge cast ... it's an entertaining romp through the endless intrigue, violence and debauchery of court life' Mail on Sunday 'A vivid page-turner of a debut' The Times 'The extraordinary life and career of Catherine I of Russia is brought to life in Alpsten's colourful novel' Sunday Times, Summer Reading Picks 2020 Lover. Murderer. Mother. Meet TSARINA, the most powerful woman history ever forgot. Spring 1699- Illegitimate, destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta has survived the brutal Russian winter in her remote Baltic village. Sold by her family into household labour at the age of fifteen, Marta survives by committing a crime that will force her to go on the run. A world away, Russia's young ruler, Tsar Peter I, passionate and iron-willed, has a vision for transforming the traditionalist Tsardom of Russia into a modern, Western empire. Countless lives will be lost in the process. Falling prey to the Great Northern War, Marta cheats death at every turn, finding work as a washerwoman at a battle camp. One night at a celebration, she encounters Peter the Great. Relying on her wits and her formidable courage, and fuelled by ambition, desire and the sheer will to live, Marta will become Catherine I of Russia. But her rise to the top is ridden with peril; how long will she survive the machinations of Peter's court, and more importantly, Peter himself?
Compulsively readable" (San Diego Union-Tribune) and "funny, slyly insightful" (New York Times Book Review) short stories from Ellen Gilchrist, the National Book Award-winning author who "deserves to be celebrated among the first rank of American writers" (Baltimore Sun). Suffused with wit, irony, and the bittersweet complications of love, the writings of Ellen Gilchrist occupy a unique place in American fiction. From early novels such as The Annunciation to recent story collections such as Flight of Angels, Gilchrist writes with a keen insight into the foibles of human nature, while narrative the off-kilter lives of her delightfully eccentric and unforgettable characters. The stories in this volume, selected by Gilchrist herself, constitute the best -- and best-loved -- the work of one of the finest storytellers in modern southern literature.
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