I indulged myself for one night, but the cost was too big… Pursuing her dream of becoming a designer, Sophie dedicates her life to work. One snowy day, she bumps into dreamy Italian gentleman Marco, who offers her a high-end cashmere coat. For just one night, she lets herself indulge… When she is presented with the opportunity to see the textiles and craftsmanship Venice has to offer, she can’t help but say yes, but a little secret threatens to interrupt this vacation…
The Italian millionaire's secret heir! Waitress Sophie Bradshaw is used to being ignored at glamorous parties and, bruised by a disastrous relationship, that's fine by her. Until Marco Santoro offers her his jacket, leading to a magical Christmas evening together… Exasperated by his family's matchmaking, millionaire Marco never gets close to anyone. But one heart-stopping night with Sophie isn't enough, and he invites her to his Venetian palazzo. Little does he know that Sophie is bringing one tiny, life-changing surprise with her!
A new baby of her own? Nurse Emma Hayes was happy being a surrogate to give her best friend, Abbie, her baby. She has her own daughter, Rosie, and everything she needs. Until handsome ER doc Nixon Wright gets under her skin! Having lost his family young, Nixon is wary of falling in love. But there’s something about Emma… Soon he’s fallen under her spell, with very unexpected consequences! Nevertheless, Emma faces the New Year full of hope for the future. But will the new baby they’ve created together be enough to melt Nixon’s frozen heart?
Swept off her feet by the boss! When hotel tour guide Callie McKenzie is trapped in an elevator with a gorgeous stranger, they share a spark of connection so intense that it rocks normally guarded Callie to the core. So she's horrified to discover afterward that the stranger is Blake Owen, ruthless tycoon and her new boss! Since his divorce, Blake has steered well clear of relationships, yet Callie's shy warmth intrigues him. The heartache of her past makes her a woman who deserves a fairy tale, if only Blake will risk his heart and give her everything…
It started with an island romance… …and led to one very surprising consequence! More at home with a book than on the beach, Dr. Anna Gray has stepped out of her comfort zone to help her mother prepare her Wedding Island resort for its first event. But when delicious Leo di Marquez sails onto La Isla Marina, Anna is tempted into dropping her guard, one kiss at a time—and with unexpected consequences!
From the author of Feels Like Family, a Netflix Book Club Pick! New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods brings together two unlikely lovers on a cold New Year's Eve in this beloved Adams Dynasty story. When single, independent-minded mother-to-be Trish Delacourt went into labor on the side of a snowy road, she swallowed her pride and flagged down the nearest passing motorist. What she hoped for was a Good Samaritan. What she got was rancher Hardy Jones, handsome as sin and sworn to be single. He knew nothing about birthing babies, but he was going to have to take a crash course—pronto! Inveterate ladies' man Hardy never could turn down a beautiful woman, so when the pregnant damsel in distress needed him, he helped deliver her beautiful baby girl. But what was to become of Hardy's no-strings-attached policy? One look at Trish—and her adorable daughter—and he felt a most unfamiliar pull…
Ruled by duty… United by consequence! Amber Sinclair’s perfectly ordered world is rocked when she meets Prince Tristano Ragrazzi for the first time since running away from their arranged betrothal and her royal title. Tris may not recognize Amber, yet neither can contain the fire of their attraction. And when Amber discovers she’s carrying the prince’s baby, she must decide if she’s ready to step back into the spotlight—as Tris’s queen.
In the beginning, I started off writing my diary, which leads me into writing poetry, then lyrics. My older brother believed in me and also influenced my talent back in 1985. He later died, but left a large impact, when it came to me. Throughout my younger life, I had to decide between love or family, which I explain in this book. In chapter three, I describe in graphic detail, of how I was abused throughout my relationships. The next chapter, I go into one of the worse times of a writer's life, when trusting the wrong person with your work..., then basically watching someone soliciting your artist name, and then profit off of it. When this happened to me, it threw me into a 5 year depress-ion. Then because my sister became my true fan, I found enough hope inside, to fight back on-line and not give up.
Echoing among the Blue Ridge Mountains were the cries of newborn babies that disappeared into the night. The screams of children nearly drowned out by the sound of crickets. A girl, hidden and waiting to be found, terrified, and confused. The fireflies sparkling in the woods, bringing light to darkled places. The bulk of Jesse’s memories were of growing up in the farm country of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. The farm folks stayed pretty much outside of town, except for visits to the feed store causing random tractors to travel down Main Street. There were beatings and abuses, manipulation and terror carried out in spaces breathtaking in their beauty. There were twenty-seven Baptist churches, three non-denominational churches, and one Catholic Church. There were annual Ku Klux Klan rallies on the street where they would walk right by all the black families who came out to watch and the white folks who came out for moral support—whether of the black families or the white, no one knew for sure. Black people did not marry white people in a "civilized society", and so were rarely seen socializing. There was a young woman who was pregnant with a black man’s baby, so her parents disowned her. Jesse’s family was accused of killing the child and burying it on their property. There was the Berkley House Bed and Breakfast toward the end of town, with gold plated silverware and hardwood floors, rumored to be the local sex worker house. There was a mansion up on a hill that overlooked the other humble houses in the town. In the local cemetery, there was “Will B. Jolly” carved into the graves used by bootleggers back in the twenties. Everyone had some form of thick southern drawl, though the length of the “aw” would extend the further south you went. There was a tiny baseball field and a tinier fire department. There was an old lady in the foothills that let the family raid her garden during the summer. And in exchange, Jesse’s family helped her husband bring in the hay for their animals every year. There was a black snake in the attic—the door opened inside the closet next to Jesse’s bed. She would find his shed skins left behind in the summer months measuring close to seven feet in length. There was a creek with crawdads and a moss-covered bridge. There were mulberry and pecan trees that filled her and her siblings’ aching bellies as the weather turned. There were hot summer days and freezing cold winters. There were dogs that were best friends, cats that kept her warm at night, and a cow that committed suicide. There was red clay instead of dirt, hayfields instead of grass, and a favorite swimming hole: Lenny’s Mill, the local grain mill on a glacier-fed creek where you could take a dip if you were brave enough to challenge the frigid waters. Girl Hidden is the story of an unwanted child, born nonetheless and forced into servitude, desperate to protect her siblings and find her way out from under the vicious, manipulative abuses heaped on her by the one person who was supposed to love her unconditionally: her mother.
SEDUCED… No woman on earth was immune to the devastating charms of billionaire bachelor Jack Tarkenton. Not even elegant beauty Meg Masterson. But after their passionate weekend tryst, Jack left her with something even more significant than a broken but wiser heart…. INTO MARRIAGE? Widowed Meg Masterson Betz had married for convenience once—to give her baby a name. She never thought she'd have to accept a second convenient proposal—this time from her daughter's real father. But Jack Tarkenton was determined to protect his child, on his terms. Although Meg consented to be his bride in name only, Jack would have his child's mother as his wife—in every sense of the word.
