It was a fake engagement. Laura Lee never meant to fall in love... After losing her job and her grandmother, Laura Lee can barely drag herself out of bed. She's confused, lonely, and stuck in a rut. When Aiden is hired as the handyman next door, Laura Lee finds purpose again in more ways than one.The first day on the job, Aiden finds a clue about his birth mother. Needing a reason to stick around after hours, he turns to his new neighbor for information—a meeting that leads to a beneficial friendship which spins out of control as the words, “We’re engaged,” slip out of his mouth in an effort to stay close to his source.Laura Lee is too head-over-heels to correct him, and makes it her mission to convince him his slip of the tongue is really true love. Will their growing feelings be enough to keep them together, or is their friendship destined to end when his search does?
School's out for the summer, but 11-year-old Kendall plans on camping out on the playground until he finds a permanent place to hide from his crazy-mean adopted parents. He meets Lorelei, a girl his age, and together they find out not all treasure can be bought. When his adopted parents show up at the playground and Kendall disappears, Lorelei has to decide whether to break her promise and tell her mom that he's homeless or risk losing her best friend forever.
Dreading the wedding of her longtime crush, Sadie decides to bring along an online date. Casino heir Andy agrees to go to the wedding with Sadie in exchange for a pretend engagement to appease the chairman, his father. The scheme is simple enough—until he realizes his interest in her is growing, and she’s not over the groom. Will this fake relationship fall apart royally or will the casino heir hit the jackpot?
Emilie Carter never wants to return to Danvers, Massachusetts, but when her childhood home needs to be sorted for sale, she’s forced to tie up loose ends. Her hopes to abandon all ties to the place fails when she’s roped into being a bridesmaid for her ex-best friend and Emilie’s high school sweetheart. No big deal, right? Wrong. Dean Wright has worked hard to make a name for himself and continue his father’s fishing business. After years of feeling empty, enter long-time crush, Emilie. When she needs a date for a wedding to show her ex she’s moved on, he takes it a step further by proposing a fake engagement. Her presence stirs up old feelings, and Dean is determined not to let her go this time.
Sometimes the most important words are unspoken. This collection contains fourteen short-story romances featuring established and up-and-coming authors. There's something for everyone to enjoy from historical to young adult, movie stars to bodyguards, work place romance to friendships deepening into more. What happens when you find the courage to say what needs to be said?
After losing her husband to PTSD, Cambria Henshaw desperately needs to start over, so she packs up her paints and moves to Harker Heights, Texas. Inspired by welcoming surroundings and friendly people, Cambria begins to paint one portrait after another, with one small problem: haunted by survivor's guilt that keeps everyone at a distance—and her heart safely guarded—she can't bring herself to finish any of them. Brian Davidson thinks he's finally put his past behind him. As an anonymous CEO billionaire, he's sure this small Texas town will be his refuge from the spiteful ex who smeared his name through the mud in the national papers. But when someone starts stalking his baseball practices, threatening to expose his identity, he worries his ex is back for more revenge. When Cambria and Brian are thrown together during a service opportunity through their grief group, the attraction is undeniable, but so is their hesitation. As the two of them battle their inner demons and their real-life enemies, they must both decide what they're willing to risk for a 9th-inning chance at "home-run" love.
The authors are Arsy Vartanian, founder and chef of rubiesandradishes.com and author of the bestselling The paleo slow cooker, and Amy Kubal, registered dietitian and co-author of The paleo slow cooker.
The Most Comprehensive Paleo Cookbook in Print In this revised edition of The Ultimate Paleo Cookbook, ten popular Paleo bloggers have come together to bring you over 1,001 recipes in this ultimate, extensive collection to help you stay gluten- and grain-free. With over 100 additional recipes, this is the largest compilation of Paleo recipes in print, and it satisfies every craving in one convenient volume. Each of the authors selected 50 to 80 of their favorite recipes from their blogs and created 10 to 20 original recipes, all assembled in this one amazing Paleo resource. Inside, you’ll find recipes for everything Paleo with an emphasis on flavor as well as convenience. This book includes a wide selection of easy weeknight dishes, budget-conscious meals and slow cooker dishes. In Easy, Fast, Few-Ingredient, the entire chapter (with over 100 recipes) is designed to make going Paleo or staying Paleo as easy as possible. With an unprecedented variety of dishes to choose from, you’ll never be at a loss of what to cook!
For nation-states, the contexts for developing and implementing policy have become more complex and demanding. Yet policy studies have not fully responded to the challenges and opportunities represented by these developments. Governance literature has drawn attention to a globalising and network-based policy world, but politics and the role of the state have been de-emphasised. This book addresses this imbalance by reconsidering traditional policy-analytic concepts, and re-developing and extending new ones, in a melded approach defined as systemic institutionalism. This links policy with governance and the state and suggests how real-world issues might be substantively addressed.
Using interdisciplinary techniques and research, the author explores Old Norse literature from a feminist perspective, using gender analysis to study the society represented in that literature. Details include the etymology of key words such as "wife" and "husband
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