MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD Gruff, brooding Gideon Kane had no patience for little girls—let alone their beautiful mothers. But Brynn Delmarco's silent daughter evoked emotions the hardened cynic had sworn were gone forever—and the sight of her lovable mother brought forth feelings he definitely knew how to appease! READY-MADE FAMILY? Brynn wanted to protect her daughter—and her own vulnerable heart. Still, when the cynical cloud lifted from Gideon's gray eyes and a moment of tenderness shone through, Brynn was in danger of losing herself to her handsome neighbor wholeheartedly. Now she just had to convince Gideon that he deserved a family….
A fan-favorite contemporary romance from New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer "Retired" soldier of fortune Ebenezer Scott was a bad boy to the core. Schoolteacher Sally Johnson was the fresh scrubbed beauty from across the street. When Sally's life was put in danger, Ebenezer fought to protect her. But this sweet-natured beauty yearned for so much more. She dreamed of a lifetime of love in Ebenezer Scott's big, strong arms. Could she slip through his ironclad defenses and become this beloved mercenary's bride? Previously published.
Re-released in a second edition with new content. Aidan O’Malley walked away from his fiancée, Lexi, and their best friend, Lucas, after a night of passion left him shaken to his core. When Aidan returns home from Iraq, he’s haunted by all he has lost. The enemy broke his body, destroying his dreams of a career in music. Worse still, he lost Lexi and Lucas. That damage he’d done all by himself. While he can’t restore what combat took from him, he’s determined to reclaim the two loves of his life. Lucas Cameron is a changed man. After connecting with his brother, he found the discipline to get his life on track. His legal career is flourishing, but his love life is a train wreck. The woman he loves is spiraling out of control. After Aidan abandoned them, Lucas and Lexi clung together but no matter how hard he tries, Lucas can’t find a way to heal the wounds that Lexi carries. Lexi Moore feels like a jigsaw puzzle with too many missing pieces. Losing Aidan was hard, but the true reason for her shattered spirit is a secret she only shares with her beloved Lucas. She knows she is drowning and the time has come to heal, but the holes in her heart hold her back from moving on. Shedding the burden she carries is her only hope for a happy future, but she fears she will never have the strength to reveal her secret. When Aidan walks back into their lives, Lucas and Lexi know everything is about to change. But as they fight to reconcile their past and reclaim what they lost, a vicious predator stalks Lexi. In order to stop the killer, all three must confront the secrets they’ve carried…before they’re buried by them.
Eve Easton had had enough "neighbor" trauma to last a lifetime, seeing as how her now ex-husband had run off with the woman next door. So off Eve went, to a new state, a new city, a new everything—only to find out her new next-door neighbor was her fellow dumpee, Derek Roland. The tall, dark and handsome former spouse of the woman Eve's ex left her for. Got it? Well, she got it. And when it came to her neighborly policy, she was strictly "hands-off." Only she had a hard time resisting Derek, as did he, her. Seems as though both of them had traveled miles and miles just to find what they were looking for…right in their own backyard….
HER PAST WAS STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER… She’d heard Mead Regan was back in town. But nothing prepared single mother Devan Anderson for her first heart-stopping glimpse of the man who’d changed her world forever one passion—filled night…only to vanish from her life. Mead didn’t want a hero’s welcome. He’d left home prepared to die for his country. Now a woman who seemed hauntingly familiar was tempting him to risk much more than his life. But he wasn’t the man he once was—the man Devan seemed to remember. The question was…was this a good thing?
Can a matchmaking pup bring a city slicker and a small-town doctor together? Find out in Helen Myers's latest Sweet Springs, Texas story! When city girl Brooke Bellamy rushes to Sweet Springs, Texas, to be by her ailing aunt's side, little does she know that she's headed straight into a whirlwind of her own! Managing Marsha's floral shop and keeping an eye on her aunt's mischievous basset hound, Humphrey, is hard enough. Luckily, Marsha's neighbor, veterinarian Gage Sullivan, is more than willing to give a helping hand with the stubborn pup…among other things! For years, Gage has heard about his neighbor's wonderful niece, and he's curious to see if the stories hold up. When Brooke proves to be everything Gage had imagined—and more—he's faced with his biggest challenge yet: to convince her that she belongs in Sweet Springs with him.
Collin Masters was used to being in control—of his company, his love life and especially his emotions. But the unexpected arrival of his three-year-old twin nieces threatened to make the fast-moving ad exec come unglued. Sabrina Sinclair was the only person who could bail him out of this mess. Unfortunately, she'd quit working for him just weeks earlier, and he was pretty sure she hated him. Luckily, Collin was masterful at getting his way. Before you could say "daddy," his former assistant was his nanny, living under his roof. Sabrina's room was just steps from Collin's bedroom—suddenly a little too close for comfort. Playing house with Sabrina was about to get very out of hand….
Anchorwoman Hunter Harding was used to reporting the story, not being part of it. But when she learned her new boss was CEO and renowned playboy Cord Rivers, she saw no reason to tell everyone they'd had a history, and not a pretty one. After all, maybe this time history wouldn't repeat itself. Cord Rivers could have had any woman he wanted, and he wanted Hunter. But he knew she blamed him for dashing her dreams, both personal and professional, in the past. He had to convince her that she could have new, even better dreams—and that he could help her make them come true. If only he were in them….
The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne—for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness—was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century society. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, balked feminism and homosexual seduction, adultery, patricide, and incest.
This volume of The Beloved and I is a revised and enlarged edition of the New Jubilees Version of Sacred Scripture in Verse with Verse Commentary, containing poetic contemplations of the Biblical books from Ruth to Second Chronicles.
