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Patrick Sadler spent most of his life quietly loving his childhood best friend, Johanna. Six years later, the one night they spent together before she walked away with his heart is a memory he revisits often. Or as often as he can between raising his daughter and running the family restaurant. That was until she moved back to their small town in coastal New England. Not only do they have to work together in the hopes of saving the restaurant, but he's now left wondering why her once bright smile has been dimmed. And will he ever know the reason she left? Johanna Thomas always knew she would return home when she was ready, because that's where she left her heart. Walking away from Patrick wasn't easy, but she knew it was for the best. Now back in town, she wants to prove to herself and Patrick that she deserves to be here. He isn't the same man he was before, but it's hard not to fall for this version when she sees the love he has for his little girl. They try to put the past behind them and work together as friends. But how can they, when old feelings have never disappeared, and they still look at each other like that? Is this their second chance, or has too much time and heartbreak happened for them to make it work? Those Two Words is book #1 in the Sutton Bay series. A series of interconnected standalone stories set in coastal New England, with lots of feelings, swoon, and spice!

From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros comes a brand-new small town, older-brother’s best friend standalone romance.“I’ll take them!”That’s what I tell the social worker when my pre-k student and his baby brother need an emergency foster placement. I’ll do anything to keep the brothers from being split up. But my apartment’s flooded and there’s only one house I can take them to on such short notice…his.Knox Daniels, my older brother’s best friend, offers his new place without hesitation. He’s not moving back to our tiny town until next month—that’s when all our hotshot firefighters are returning for their one and only chance to rebuild our fathers’ fallen, iconic crew.It doesn’t matter that I’ve been silently in love with Knox since we were kids.It can’t matter that we pretend that reckless prom night kiss never happened.It won’t matter that my feelings for him could destroy his lifelong friendship with my brother and threaten the certification of their hotshot crew.Because I’ll be out of his house long before he gets back.Except Knox just walked in…a month early.And the icing on this awkward cake?He’s gorgeous as always and I’m covered in baby puke.He takes one look at the boys and tells me we can make this work—We can temporarily fake a relationship to keep them from being separated by the system.Suddenly, everything matters.

Billionaire Jared James has everything a man could ever want except for the one thing money can't buy...CHANCE FOR LOVE, A Gansett Island NovellaAfter forty days holed up in his house on Gansett Island nursing a broken heart, Jared James decides enough is enough. Determined to snap out of the funk he slipped into after his girlfriend refused his marriage proposal, Jared organizes a party for the friends who've seen him through the worst of his heartache. Now if only he could stop thinking about the love of his life and how he will survive the rest of his days without her...She was Elisabeth all her life until Jared made her his Lizzie...Elisabeth "Lizzie" Sutter knows she has no business chasing Jared after she turned down his lovely, heartfelt marriage proposal in a moment of sheer panic. It didn't take long for her to realize how foolish she'd been. Now all she can do is hope it's not too late to set things right with the one man she can't live without...Author's NoteWe got to know Jared in Time for Love, when David and Daisy befriended David's elusive landlord who'd come to the island seeking refuge after a bad breakup. We saw him again inMeant for Love, when he reconnected with Wharton classmate Jenny Wilks. Readers were eager to know more about the woman who'd broken Jared's heart, and they wanted to know what I had in store for him. The more I thought about his story, the more I realized what I needed to do. I hope you'll enjoy this brief visit with some Gansett Island friends as well as the introduction of a new couple.The Gansett Island SeriesBook 1: Maid for Love (Mac & Maddie)Book 2: Fool for Love (Joe & Janey)Book 3: Ready for Love (Luke & Sydney)Book 4: Falling for Love (Grant & Stephanie)Book 5: Hoping for Love (Evan & Grace)Book 6: Season for Love (Owen & Laura)Book 7: Longing for Love (Blaine & Tiffany)Book 8: Waiting for Love (Adam & Abby)Book 9: Time for Love (Daisy & David)Book 10: Meant for Love (Jenny & Alex)Book 10.5: Chance for Love, A Gansett Island Novella (Jared & Lizzie)Book 11: Gansett After Dark (Owen & Laura)Book 12: Kisses After Dark (Shane & Katie)Book 13: Love After Dark (Paul & Hope)Book 14: Celebration After Dark (Big Mac & Linda)Book 15: Desire After Dark (Slim & Erin)Book 16: Light After Dark (Mallory & Quinn)Book 17: Episode 1: Victoria & ShannonBook 18: Episode 2: Kevin & ChelseaBook 19: Mine After Dark (Riley & Nikki) Book 20: Yours After Dark (Finn & Chloe)Book 21: Trouble After Dark (Deacon & Julia)Book 22: Rescue After Dark (Mason & Jordan)Book 23: Blackout After Dark (Full Cast)Book 24: Temptation After Dark (Cooper & Gigi)Book 25: Resilience After Dark (Jace & Cindy)Book 26: Hurricane After Dark (Piper & Jack)

A three-day weekend visit home goes terribly wrong when Lillian James stabs her dad and has no memory of doing it.Now, faced with six-months of court-ordered therapy, she’s stuck in her small hometown with her high school crush, Uriah Pendleton, judgmental townsfolk, and painful childhood memories that are bubbling to the surface.Can the Savior—who she lovingly calls Papa—heal her wounds while teaching her that the past doesn’t define the future and that He has a purpose for all things, even the bad?⚠ Warning: this isn't like my usual fluffy light romance. It is darker and has a strong religious theme.Other books by Bree Livingston:The Clean Billionaire Romance Series:1. Her Pretend Billionaire Boyfriend2. Her Second Chance Billionaire Sweetheart3. Her Broken Billionaire Boss4. Her Fake Billionaire Fiancé5. Her Stranded Billionaire Mix-Up6. Her Secret Billionaire Roommate7. Her Beastly Billionaire Rock StarA Sweet Fake Marriage Romance Series:1. The Cowboy's Fake Marriage2. The Star's Fake Marriage3. The Bodyguard’s Fake Marriage4. The Matchmaker’s Fake Marriage5. The Beast’s Fake MarriageA Clean Army Ranger Romance Series:1. The Ranger’s Chance2. The Ranger’s Peace3. The Ranger’s Heart4. The Ranger’s Hope5. The Ranger’s Forgiveness6. The Ranger’s DestinyA Clean Scottish Romance Series:1. Mending the Billionaire Movie Star2. Mending the Billionaire Scotsman3.Mending the Billionaire BrotherA Caprock Canyon Romance:1. The Best Friend’s Billionaire Brother2. The Fake Fiancé’s Billionaire Adversary3. The Housekeeper’s Billionaire Boss4. The Fake Girlfriend’s Billionaire MatchA Clean First Responders Romance:1. Firefighter’s Rescue2. Firefighter’s RiskSage Valley Romance Series:Inspired by the Creative CowboyStand Alone Romances:Love and CharityThe Mistletoe Game: A Clean Christmas Novella

“America's favorite writer” (The New Yorker) begins a trilogy inspired by the inn she owns and the town she loves.The historic hotel in BoonsBoro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it's getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. As the architect of the family, Beckett has little time for a social life. But there’s another project he’s got his eye on: the girl he’s been waiting to kiss since he was sixteen.After losing her husband and returning to her hometown, Clare Brewster soon settles into her life as the mother of three young sons while running the town’s bookstore. Though busy, Clare is drawn across the street by Beckett’s transformation of the old inn, wanting to take a closer look…at both the building and the man behind it...Don't miss the other books in the Inn BoonsBoro TrilogyThe Last BoyfriendThe Perfect Hope

In a dangerous game of secrets and lies, Emily must decide between saving her heart or her life...Emily Wayborn has made a decision. She might not fully trust the handsome and deadly Reeve Sallis, but he is the one person that gives her what she needs. With Reeve, she can finally be herself. Submitting to him is the only thing keeping her grounded as the rest of her life falls apart. But the hotelier is a master at keeping secrets and as she continues her quest for answers, someone is making sure she doesn't find them.Time is running out and Emily is questioning everything she thought she knew about friendship and love. She must now make an impossible choice that will determine if she will survive with her heart...or her life.Last Kiss is a suspenseful, thrilling contemporary romance novel filled with dark desires and dangerous secrets. From bestselling author Laurelin Paige comes a gripping story of mystery, passion, and impossible choices that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.

Reardon Lewis is a small-town lawyer in Cherry Springs, the place where he and his cousins grew up. With the body of a Viking and the heart of a geek, Reardon is loyal to his family and indispensable to his community. The only thing missing in his life is love, and it just so happens that the one woman he has always wanted but could never have has just moved to Cherry Springs. Chloe Zahn is a successful businesswoman, a city girl, and a single mom. The last thing she ever planned to do was move to a small town, but that's the choice she's made to bring her son closer to his dad. The only problem? The Lewis family and the obvious disdain they have for her. The more time Reardon and Chloe spend together, the harder it is to fight their growing feelings for each other. Things between them have always been Too Complicated, but Reardon knows this may be his last chance to win over the woman he's always dreamed of, complications be damned. Too Complicated is the second in an all-new small-town romance series by Bethany Lopez. Follow the Lewis cousins as they learn about love and loss in Cherry Springs, the kind of place where there are festivals for every occasion and everyone knows your business.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel of redemption and suspense, as a woman haunted by the unsolved murder of her childhood friend returns to her small South Carolina hometown. . . . Tory Bodeen grew up in a run-down house where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt—and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. Her one escape was her neighbor Hope, who lived in the big house just a short skip away, and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn’t allowed to be at home: a child. Then Hope was brutally murdered, and everything fell apart.  Now, as she returns to Progress with plans to settle in and open a stylish home-design shop, Tory is determined to find a measure of peace and free herself from the haunting visions of the past. As she forges a new bond with Cade Lavelle—Hope’s older brother and the heir to the family fortune—she isn’t sure whether the tragic loss they share will unite them or drive them apart. But she is willing to open her heart, just a little, and try.  But living so close to those unhappy memories will be more difficult and frightening than Tory could ever have expected. Because Hope’s murderer is nearby as well. . . . “Roberts may have achieved her personal best in this tense Southern Gothic. As atmospheric and unsettling as a Tennessee Williams play. . . . This is romantic drama at its best.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Despite years on the run, Sophie Neumann is determined to care for two young children. She won't abandon them the way she thinks her older sisters abandoned her. But times are growing desperate, and when she falls in with the wrong crowd and witnesses a crime, she realizes fleeing 1850s New York is her only option.Disappearing with her two young charges into a group of orphans heading west by train, Sophie hopes to find safety and a happy life. When the train stops in Illinois for the first placement of orphans, Sophie faces the most difficult choice of her life.Reinhold Weiss has finally purchased his own small farm. With mounting debts, a harvest to bring in, and past scars that haunt him, he's in no position to give his heart away . . . but can he say no when his long-lost friend shows up on a nearby train pleading for his help?

Welcome to Honey Ridge, Tennessee, where Southern hospitality and sweet peach tea beckon, and where long-buried secrets lead to some startling realizations... Grayson Blake always has a purpose--and never a moment to lose. He's come home to Honey Ridge to convert a historic gristmill into a restaurant, but his plans crumble like Tennessee clay when the excavation of a skeleton unearths a Civil War mystery...and leads him back to a beautiful and familiar stranger. Once a ballet dancer, now co-owner of the Peach Orchard Inn, Valery Carter harbors pain as deep as the secrets buried beneath the mill. A bright facade can't erase her regrets any more than a glass of bourbon can restore what she's lost. But spending time with Grayson offers Valery a chance to let go of her past and imagine a happier future. And with the discovery of hidden messages in aged sheet music, both their hearts begin to open. Bound by attraction, and compelled to resolve an old crime that links the inn and the mill, Grayson and Valery encounter a song of hurt, truth...and hope.