Thanksgiving in Sweetwater County
Thanksgiving in Sweetwater County

Author: Ciara Knight

Publisher: Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1939081408

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Jenna Mitchell Grayson returns to her hometown to run a center for children with autism. Divorced and raising a child diagnosed with special needs, she tries to put her life back together in the one place she’d sworn never to return. Confirmed bachelor, Deputy Walker, has a reputation for being a playboy, but he’s never found the right girl to capture his heart. Not since the girl-next-store, Jenna Grayson, moved away. Now the woman who stole his heart has returned, and he is determined to discover why she left without an explanation or even a goodbye.

4th of July in Sweetwater county
4th of July in Sweetwater county

Author: Ciara Knight

Publisher: Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC

Published: 2015-09-21

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1939081327

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Julia Cramer dedicates her life to protecting and caring for her child after friendly fire killed her husband overseas. She returns to nursing school in hopes to make a better life, but when childcare falls through and her survivor benefits are cut, she trusts the care of her son to a stranger. Doug ‘Maverick’ Wilson, is discharged from the military after he made a bad call that cost him the lives of most of his comrades and both of his legs. Unable to face family, he abandons his business and hides in Sweetwater County. He finds some peace when he helps a beautiful young widow and her son, but the secret of his past looms with the threat to separate them forever.

Love in Sweetwater County
Love in Sweetwater County

Author: Ciara Knight

Publisher: Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC

Published: 2023-11-21

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1939081920

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Single mother, Ruth Barnes, has devoted most of her adult life to caring for her son who struggles with addiction. She is empty inside from the sorrows she’s faced and the realization that there is nothing left she can do for him now that he is twenty-one. When a charming, good-looking, honest, and most of all clean and sober man, enters her life, will she be able to let go of her parental responsibilities to make room in her heart for a good man? Craig Reid has failed at everything in life including marriage and children due to alcoholism. Now, ten years sober, he awakens to a drama-free, simplistic existence where he avoids anything that could thwart his sobriety, including a romantic relationship. When a beautiful woman-a muse-inspires him to paint for the first time in years, he finds himself questioning all his self-imposed rules. Will their budding affection blossom into true love, or will the truth of addiction fester causing them both to lose hope?

Hope in Sweetwater County
Hope in Sweetwater County

Author: Ciara Knight

Publisher: Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1939081866

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Single mother, Ruth Barnes, has devoted most of her adult life to caring for her son who struggles with addiction. She is empty inside from the sorrows she’s faced and the realization that there is nothing left she can do for him now that he is twenty-one. When a charming, good-looking, honest, and most of all clean and sober man, enters her life, will she be able to let go of her parental responsibilities to make room in her heart for a good man? Craig Reid has failed at everything in life including marriage and children due to alcoholism. Now, ten years sober, he awakens to a drama-free, simplistic existence where he avoids anything that could thwart his sobriety, including a romantic relationship. When a beautiful woman-a muse-inspires him to paint for the first time in years, he finds himself questioning all his self-imposed rules. ​​​​​​​Will their budding affection blossom into true love, or will the truth of addiction fester causing them both to lose hope?

Summer's Heart
Summer's Heart

Author: Ciara Knight

Publisher: Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC

Published: 2023-08-30

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1953396437

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Hearts. One broken. One Sick. One chance. Summer Morgan left home with the goal of turning her family farm into an empire. Driven to succeed, nothing could stop her until a virus damaged her heart. Despite that, she vows to continue to grow the business by evicting tenants paying mediocre fees to lease family land. Zane Whittaker hoped that by sacrificing his family’s property, he could save his mother, but no amount of money could save her life. To honor his late mother, Zane wants to create an organic preserves company to restore their family’s legacy. A hostile takeover of Monroe Enterprises threatens to gobble up both Zane’s dream and Summer’s business plans, so they join forces. While fighting to hold on to their visions, romance blooms. But when she collapses in the heat of the day, Zane can’t face losing someone else he loves. Summer must convince Zane that she won't leave him, and fast, because they only have one chance to regain everything: their legacy, their land, and most importantly, their love.

Summer Island Book Club
Summer Island Book Club

Author: Ciara Knight

Publisher: Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1953396062

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From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Ciara Knight Escape to Summer Island, where new beginnings and happy endings are guaranteed. Widow, Julie Boone has lived her life and is content, so she thought until her daughter gives her the perfect nightmare of a fiftieth birthday gift-her three childhood besties. The arrival of her wildly successful, buttinski friends, overwhelms Julie when her life goes from peaceful to melodrama, makeovers, and matchmaking. Especially when they make her believe there is still life to be lived with one handsome sailor who’s just moved to town. Trevor Ashford retreats from big city life to sunny Florida after a failed marriage and damaged reputation. His only wish is to open a small boat charter company in peace, but when Houdini—a mischievous pet ferret—steals an engine part and leads him on a merry chase into the arms of Julie Boone, he has to choose between being a recluse or embracing a new love.

Riverbend Romance Collection
Riverbend Romance Collection

Author: Ciara Knight

Publisher: Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC

Published: 2022-08-20

Total Pages: 729

ISBN-13: 1953396283

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Cuddle up to enjoy these great, heartwarming, inspirational stories of overcoming odds in this sister series to the beloved Sweetwater County series. This collection includes all five stories, including the prequel novella! Prequel Novella: Riverbend A second chance for a widow, except it's a forbidden office romance. Book 1: In All My Wishes In coming home, two lost loves reunite but when the truth of Anna's childhood departure is revealed, it could corrupt their memories, risk their present, and destroy their future. Book 2: In All My Years In this second chance romance, a long-lost love has a second chance to save a woman from her evil husband. Book 3: In All My Dreams D.C. Agent collides with true crime reporter forcing him to choose between his job, his men, or the dream woman who shattered the shield protecting his heart. Book 4: In All My Live In this award-winning book, shamed and dismissed Sheriff battles to save a woman and her baby from her drug cartel husband.

In All My Years
In All My Years

Author: Ciara Knight

Publisher: Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC

Published: 2022-08-22

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1939081483

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Kathleen Baker fled Riverbend, TN in the middle of the night to escape her mafia, drug-running husband. She also left behind the man she loved. Now, ten years later, Kathleen returns to Riverbend, the one place she’d ever felt at home. After a letter arrives, Kathleen realizes her husband is still alive. With her past now in the present, Kathleen’s future is in jeopardy. Colum Harrow kicked his nephew out of his home so that he’d move on with his life and stop moping around the house over a lost love. Unfortunately, he was unable to follow his own advice and has lived in isolation for years with the guilt he had failed to protect the woman he loved from an abusive husband. Now, she returns to his hometown to see the birth of her granddaughter, and he must face his failures and the woman who owns his heart.

Love on the Coast
Love on the Coast

Author: Ciara Knight

Publisher: Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC

Published: 2022-03-07

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1953396070

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A fake marriage for these enemies turned lovers will be tested and only trust can save them. Irish immigrant Edward O’Neal landed in America as a little boy with the promise of a better life but found prejudice and poverty. Poverty that took his entire large family from him. He’s spent the last twenty years hiding his heritage and building his fortune so he’d never go hungry again. But when he discovers that his partner ran away with a prostitute to escape his gambling debts and his empire is crumbling, the last ace in his pocket is his mail-order bride -- a woman of pure breeding, with a political family name, high class, and huge dowry. Cora McKinnie managed to live through the Civil War long enough to see her parents, brothers, and fiancé die and to send her six sisters away to wed. Alone, she makes the arduous journey to San Francisco to marry and start her own loving family. Dreams sour when she discovers her betrothed is dead and his jilted, angry partner despises her for being Irish and the only woman available to marry. To recover his fortune, Edward must pull off the event of the year with little funds. A nearly impossible task without the help of the distracting, beautiful, thrifty Irish woman with a huge heart.

Summer Island Sisters
Summer Island Sisters

Author: Ciara Knight

Publisher: Defy the Dark Publishing, LLC

Published: 2021-07-28

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1953396097

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Ocean activist, Trace Latimer has fought for over twenty-five years for the sea otters, penguins, and all sea life, but she’s exhausted and angry at the big shots who always win. But when a cold-hearted businessman orders the demolition of her childhood home, she has to face the biggest fight of her life. After a bureaucratic nightmare overshadowed his most recent project, entrepreneur Dustin Hawk is fed up. He liquidates his Seattle demolition business and warms to his best friend’s sunny Florida hotel project. Despite his fear of the ocean, he finds himself swimming in shark-infested small-town politics and fears he might drown. Trace and Dustin face off for a fight which they are both determined to win. But they find themselves in unexpected waters when they have to choose between their convictions or their hearts’ desires.