Claire gazed into the well. She could see blue sky dotted with clouds, reflecting in the dark water below. Then, the sensation of falling. She found herself near the bottom of the well, clinging to a slimy rope, hanging just inches above the dank, black water
Sometimes life forces us into the place we're meant to be. After thirty years in the same job, Kate Reynolds becomes a statistic. She's been downsized, and not in a good way. When the shock clears, Kate considers options. Maybe it's now time to do what she most wanted to in the first place.
Unconditional is an important story about love, redemption, family and the amazing power of forgiveness. The heart and love can expand endlessly and these characters are setting the pace." Kris Radish, Bestselling Author of A Grand Day to Get Lost Meg Flores has it all-a loving family, a fulfilling career, and marriage to her best friend, Thomas. She is devastated when her husband announces he wants a divorce so he can pursue a relationship with his secretary-his male secretary. For Meg, the betrayal goes beyond that of a cheating husband. She is losing her best friend and the hopes for adding a child to her life. But when Thomas is diagnosed with terminal cancer and his lover walks away, Meg must decide if she can move beyond Thomas's betrayal and love him 'til-death-do-us-part.
Janet DeMarco is having one of those days. She feels underappreciated, underestimated, and misunderstood. She accidentally resigns from her job and, when her husband finds it amusing, she hands in her resignation to her family, as well. Janet becomes a blonde, changes her name to Hope, and meets two people who help her realize the blessings in her life: Ricki, a young single mother, and Joy, a homeless woman close to Janet's age.
Five very different women, each carrying her own secret, meet on the Jersey shore for a retreat: Embracing the New You: Reinventing Yourself After Fifty. A story about change, self-acceptance, and sisterhood. The flyer reads: Embracing the New You: Reinventing Yourself After Fifty. Liv, Andi, Julia, Markie, and Cee Cee each arrive at the women's retreat with her own agenda and her own secret. Retreat director, Bree, is called away for a family emergency and the five women are left on their own to deal with their differences, reveal their secrets and find what each is seeking. Will differences divide or will sisterhood prevail?
Abby Mulgrew is counting on two things to breathe life back into her marriage: the Alaskan cruise she and her husband, Wil, have planned, and the see-through negligee she has purchased for the trip. Within the first twenty-fours hours of the cruise to celebrate her twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, however, Abby receives the one gift she least expects.
Trudi Sheppard returns to her home in a small West Virginia town to see what arrangements must be made for her mother who is experiencing symptoms of Alzheimer's. Wynn Colton, who was the boy next door and is now Chief of Surgery at a metropolitan Pittsburgh medical center, has come home to help prepare his father's house-his boyhood home-for sale.Trudi and Wynn were childhood playmates, then high school sweethearts who became lovers. It all ended when each went their own way-Wynn to medical school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Trudi to nursing school in Atlanta, Georgia.Now, thirty years later, Trudi is the divorced mother of two adult daughters; Wynn is widowed and the father of a grown son. Circumstances bring Trudi and Wynn back home at the same time where they meet once again in their sacred childhood spot-under The Promise Tree. (Second Edition, first published in 2012.)
Suddenly widowed, Maura learned it was time to sink or swim. She decided to swim and took lessons for survival as a self-possessed woman. She's vice-president of the HOA and spearheading a new project, Lend-a-Hand, to benefit her neighbors in Forest Glen. Major Ben Ableman retires from a career in the Marine Corps and buys a home in the Forest Glen Senior Retirement Community. He's enjoying the freedom of his own home-until he's reminded of the rules imposed by the Homeowners Association. It doesn't take long for Ben to see the need for some changes at Forest Glen. Just one problem-the HOA, and one distraction-the woman across the street.
A heart that opens itself to love, opens itself to the risk of getting broken or, at the very least, being torn by loss. Those scars left behind are badges of courage, witness to the risks taken, the love given and received. The love still held within. Frank Angelini's heart is broken. He cannot imagine life without his wife, Sophia. Beth Remington is just beginning to heal from the tragic death of her firefighter husband. The Angelini and Remington daughters are each on their own journeys through grief. Two families with hearts frayed and tattered by loss. The amazing thing about the heart is its capacity to expand, to hold the love we've known and to make room for the love that finds us again.
Sarah Slater has a made a career of turning herself into someone else. And she's very good at it. A horrific accident puts her acting career on hold for two years and leaves Sarah a stranger to herself. She's desperate to find solid footing again and heal the unseen scars that remain. She packs her bags and heads for home on Edisto Island, South Carolina. She needs to remember who she was before and to sink her feet into the sands she walked as a child. She isn't looking for a man to restore her but learns that finding true love gives her a glimpse of the part of herself she has never quite owned.
Shifting tides lead Christine Landers and Kevin Rembert to Tybee Island on the Georgia coast. A beached dolphin provides them each with a metaphor for their current life situation. Can they shake off their pasts, sink their feet into the sand, and open a new chapter? And can they do it together?"--Back cover.
Actor Spence Parker's career teeters on the brink of ruin thanks to a fling with the slightly crazed and drug-addicted daughter of a powerful and well-loved Hollywood film producer. Taking the advice of his agent, Spence takes a little vacation away from Hollywood while the dust settles. Not sure of where he can go to fly under the radar, Spence returns to his small hometown south of Pittsburgh. Valerie Marks, Spence's high-school girlfriend, is now running her grandfather's newspaper and raising a nine-year-old daughter. She's still single, but not because she's been waiting for Spence to return. After all, he left without saying goodbye. When he appears in front of her on a street corner, however, old feelings are brought to the forefront.
You can go home again but, as M.J. Rich learns, you can't expect things to remain as you left them. M.J. promises Brady Cameron an experience of a family Christmas he'll never forget. Unfortunately, she's right. It's one she'll never forget, either. But both M.J. and Brady learn to look beyond the tinsel and lights to find the true meaning of Christmas-even if they have to reinvent Christmas for themselves.
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