For most of her young life, recent college graduate Veronica Peach has had a strong, secret hunger to buy and own her aunt's gift shop. As she prepares to satisfy this craving, she encounters unexpected obstacles, including a tempting entrAA(c)e of overwhelming new emotions. Although Veronica believes that the source of these feelings, handsome city inspector Jason Stanley, is also the cause of the store's recent troubles, she cannot resist tasting this forbidden fruit. Veronica, utilizing the knowledge she's gained from earning her degree in business, creates a recipe for action that she hopes will save her aunt's gift boutique and the five neighboring stores. She even manages to survive an attempt on her life and other mysterious events. In an effort to restrain her hunger for Jason, though, she finds her education and expertise of no help at all.
Joan, captive in a cabin on her husbandas boat, fears she will soon be murdered and wonders how she allowed herself to wind up in this precarious situation. What was intended to be a relaxing vacation in San Diego with Eva, her dearest friend, Madeline, a lady who had recently moved into the neighborhood, and Joanas daughter, Susan, was ending up in disaster. Would Joan live long enough to finally obtain an answer to her decade-long question: What really happened to her husband who mysteriously disappeared and why? Madeline battles her own dilemma; is the man she meets during the vacation for real or a con artist whoas after her money? Answers to these questions provide additional subplots that create novel circumstances, both romantic as well as suspenseful. The women discover that life isnat a constant but always shifting, and not to dwell on the past, but anticipate the future.
When Megan Wakefield returns home from college, she discovers that her father's ranch has been transformed into an elaborate movie set, complete with a stuntman, Gil. Megan and Gil must struggle through jealousy and deceit to discover their true feelings for each other.
Jim Peterson, a former chef for twenty years, is now working as a cab driver. He creates the Can't Cook Anonymous group in an effort to reunite fast food addicts with their kitchens. The six people who become part of this first group are not all there by choice, but by some other force in their lives. Peterson uses his sports knowledge and terminology to coach his team and help them take that first step over the kitchen's threshold. Along with cooking skills, strong personal love interest also grows between several members of the group. Peterson also realizes that he finally wants to meet the daughter he has never known. As team members describe the success or failure of assigned recipes, their personal lives reveal how hungers, other than food, are satisfied as well. Actual recipes and factual, though humorous, kitchen tips are included.
Add a pinch of mischief, a dash of compassion, and a zest for love, life, and laughter, and what do you get? The most unlikely angel, who is as sassy as a mortal, savvy as a spirit, but has yet to ascend to the wherever. In three separate novellas, the spirit, Kat, becomes involved in and resolves the predicaments of several characters, providing romance, drama, and humor with a successful ending for each. Kats first adventure begins with her lifelong friend, Wanda, who has decided that since her retirement she has nothing left to live for. Kat convinces her otherwise, bringing her a new career writing a Dear Wanda column and romance as well. Her second venture takes her to Kansas and the plight of a young widower and his son. The final story returns Kat to an aged Wanda whos now ready to enter the next level of life.
Real estate agent and divorcee Paula Hanson is currently trying to cope with two issues: a slump in real estate sales, as well as entering into her fortieth year of life. At her friend Gretaas insistence, they attend a series of motivational classes geared toward teaching them how to deal with and move on in life effectively. Then Troy Brooks appears, wanting to sell his large, beautiful, expensive house. Paula gets the listing, but soon discovers she is strongly attracted to the man, too. Brooks, a widower for the past year, is also drawn to Paula, and together they attempt to determine the truth about his late wifeas death, but soon find themselves in treacherous territory when clues lead them to the county commissioner.
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