If you love the humor and romance of Rachel Gibson and Susan Elizabeth Phillips, don't miss the fabulous debut of Gwen Jones! Landed, financially secure 40-yr-old male * Handsome, but with old-school communication skills and a secret past * Seeks healthy, athletic female * Preferably a pretty reporter with a messy love life who has never spent a day in the woods * For marriage and family * What could possibly go wrong? *
KEEP YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM, MISTER! Tall, dark, rich and powerful, Lucas Lowrimore was one of the most eligible bachelors in town. Usually, women just fell at his feet! So when he couldn't even sweet-talk his way out of a speeding ticket from police officer Jenny Prescott, he was mighty intrigued. At first he thought she was just playing hard to get, but then he realized love-shy Jenny just didn't want to be gotten. Not to worry. Because for a woman who didn't want to get too close, lip-to-lip was pretty darn close—and a very nice beginning….
Dear Miss Evans, My aunt's attorney has assured me that the best solution to the problems facing us would be to marry… Nick Silverman needed a mother for his orphaned niece, and Caroline needed money to pay her grandma's hospital bills. It certainly wasn't a marriage made in heaven, but Caroline was determined to make it work—for baby Amanda's sake. But whilst Caroline—a Texas girl, born and bred—knew plenty about cattle ranching, she knew very little about lean and Sexy Outback ranchers…but she was going to find out!
Bachelor Gulch The Bachelor: Wyatt McCully, dedicated—and extremely eligible—town sheriff. Though husband-hungry women were flocking to Jasper Gulch, there was only one single gal Wyatt wanted. The Bride: Lisa Markman, a woman with a yearning for marriage, and with a secret. She couldn't dare consider lawman Wyatt as a potential groom. The sexy sheriff could tell when a woman was interested, and Lisa had all the signs of succumbing to his charming ways. So why did she refuse to take his heartfelt proposals seriously? Wyatt decided he had to uncover everything about the mysterious woman he intended to claim as his wife, and set out to make the pursuit his pleasure…and hers! Bachelor Gulch. This little town wanted women—but are these bachelors ready for marriage?
An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children’s author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her in the viral New York Times Modern Love column, “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times’ “Modern Love” column —”You May Want to Marry My Husband.” It appeared ten days before her death from ovarian cancer. A heartbreaking, wry, brutally honest, and creative play on a personal ad—in which a dying wife encouraged her husband to go on and find happiness after her demise—the column quickly went viral, reaching more than five million people worldwide. In My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me, Jason describes what came next: his commitment to respecting Amy’s wish, even as he struggled with her loss. Surveying his life before, with, and after Amy, Jason ruminates on love, the pain of watching a loved one suffer, and what it means to heal—how he and their three children, despite their profound sorrow, went on. Jason’s emotional journey offers insights on dying and death and the excruciating pain of losing a soulmate, and illuminates the lessons he learned. As he reflects on Amy’s gift to him—a fresh start to fill his empty space with a new story—Jason describes how he continues to honor Amy’s life and her last wish, and how he seeks to appreciate every day and live in the moment while trying to help others coping with loss. My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me is the poignant, unreserved, and inspiring story of a great love, the aftermath of a marriage ended too soon, and how a surviving partner eventually found a new perspective on life’s joys in the wake of tremendous loss.
In Li Jingjing's entire life, he had summed it up in a single sentence: Si Luoming, and Si Luoming was the loser. When he was young, he had chased after him, painstakingly becoming someone who could stand shoulder to shoulder with him. But in the end, it never occurred to her that he actually loathed her. Especially when she "indirectly killed" the person he had hidden in his heart, his hatred for her was no longer concealed. Only then did she know that she had suffered a crushing defeat after so many years.
Curvy Girl Romance Series - USA Today Bestselling contemporary romance author Was love really enough? Ramsey Walking out was the hardest thing I’d ever done. I promised her I’d never do it, but I also promised I’d keep her safe. That was the promise I couldn’t keep if I stayed. I wouldn’t risk her life or her health, so I risked my own heart and walked away. But she was ready to move on. To meet someone else. To find a new man who’d be willing to put what she wanted above keeping her safe. A new man who’d put his hands on my wife. Love her. Touch her. Hell. No. She was still mine. Melody I’ve only ever loved one man. One gorgeous, maddening, wonderful man. I even managed to marry him. I thought we’d be together forever, but everything changed when I lost our baby. Instead of being his wife and lover, I was his new project. Something to fix. I didn’t need to be fixed, though. I couldn’t be. I needed my husband, but he wasn’t there. Some other man was there. A man who stopped seeing me and only saw a fragile, wounded woman he had to shelter. But it was all over. My husband left me. He couldn’t fix me, so he stopped trying. He told me he wanted a divorce, and I had no reason to make him stay. We weren’t the people we used to be. I still loved him, but, as much as I wanted it to be, sometimes love wasn’t enough. And sometimes life threw you a curve. Like being paired with my husband on an online dating site. Could it be as easy as starting over? KEYWORDS: curvy girl romance, BBW romance, plus size romance, happily ever after, love stories, romantic novels, small town romance, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, marriage in trouble, online dating romance
He needed a wife! Sebastian Hughes stared at the lovely Deni Stenson. “Marry me. Help me save my daughter and I’ll pay off your father’s debts!” Deni stared up at the coldest, most intimidating man she’d ever met…and agreed to marry him. But on her terms! Although, after moving into the zombie-like monstrosity of a house, Deni realized that the cold, angry man truly loved his daughter and…well, he wasn’t as horrible as she’d thought. In fact, he was…well, pretty amazing. Sebastian didn’t want to want Deni. But watching her lively features and seeing her with his daughter…Sebastian couldn’t help but notice other things about the woman he’d married. Like the fact that she was a breath of fresh air. Or the way she smiled at…everything. She was the complete opposite of him and…Sebastian was no fool. Very quickly, he came to realize that marrying Deni had been the best decision of his life!
A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE GUARDIAN, GARDEN & GUN "Hauser builds their life's inventory out of deconstructed personal narratives, resulting in a reading experience that's rich like a complicated dessert—not for wolfing down but for savoring in small bites." —The New York Times “Clever, heartfelt, and wrenching.” —Time “Brilliant.” —Oprah Daily Ten days after calling off their wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, they realized they'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. What if you released yourself from traditional narratives of happiness? What if you looked for ways to leave room for the unexpected? In Hauser’s case, this meant dissecting pop culture touchstone, from The Philadelphia Story to The X Files, to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. They attended a robot convention, contemplated grief at John Belushi’s gravesite, and officiated a wedding. Most importantly, they mapped the difference between the stories we’re asked to hold versus those we choose to carry. Told with the late-night barstool directness of your wisest, most bighearted friend, The Crane Wife is a book for everyone whose path doesn't look the way they thought it would; for everyone learning to find joy in the not-knowing and to build a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a new sort of home to live in.
The man who stole her heart Dana Bailey was a woman on the run, and romance was the last thing on her mind. But when her great escape led her to Detective Kurt Noble's arms, she was torn. Whitehorn's sexiest lawman could cost Dana her freedom if he ever found out her secret--and yet he'd already locked up her heart. Could she risk her future for the passion she felt only in his embrace?
