Thrown together before their parents’ wedding, Buck Foster and Hazel Winthrop’s white hot attraction ignites. Each has a string of failed relationships and neither wants to get serious, or do they? How could she not fall for the man who saved her life? Hazel Winthrop, the youngest of Helen’s four daughters and the only one unmarried and still looking for what her sisters have—loving partners and children—comes to Saguaro Valley for a change of scene and decides to stay awhile, working for Robbie Morgan’s adventure tours company, a job she did for many years back east. Buck Foster, a successful California artist – painting and stained glass – comes to the Valley often to stay with his dad, Spark. When they both sign up as guides on a hiking and canoeing tour, Hazel nearly drowns, saved, and brought back to life by Buck. Their attraction already simmering under the surface explodes in the aftermath of the near drowning, then Buck hightails it back to Laguna Beach and leaves Hazel hurt and confused. Suddenly they’re stuck together planning and working on their parents’ wedding. Will this time be love, or another disaster? Come back to the Valley for #16, Morgan’s Run and share this couple’s wild, tumultuous second chance at love.
This little book is for the future. It is a time capsule for our family, for Hazels descendants. It is her legacy in her words, some transcribed from recorded memories, some composed as stories told in third person. It is her message to the future about times past, as she glimpsed it, so that those who come after may share it. I once asked myself, among all the lessons I learned from the wisdom she dispensed, what was it that stood out. She was creative; she was loving; she was witty; she was resilient; she was honest; she was intelligent; she was curious; she was hard-working. Yet, the quality I want to point out is that in the course of her life, nothing was ever lost. She made the most of every moment, of every experience, of every acquaintance. While she did not live on a grand scale, over all those years, in all those places, among all the people she touched, she inherently knew that this was indeed the fabric of her life and that nothing was to be wasted, taken for granted, or ignored. Everyone she met remembered her because she was always fully present to those she encountered. Throughout Mothers journey, her devotion to family and friends defined her. She was intensely proud of Johns accomplishments, and she doted on her grandchildren, Matt, Julie, and Steve. In addition to Martha, in whom she found the daughter she always wanted, many younger women were especially drawn to her. To them she was mentor, ally, confidante, and friend. Doug Haydel Hazel was a widow about as long as she was married but she never loved anyone else and not a day went buy after Daddy died that she didnt miss him think about him fondly. They fit together like two pieces in a jigsaw puzzle with a lot of other pieces missing. Daddy was a dreamer and Hazel was an enabler. Mother gave us a love of learning through her example. She was a constant reader and often mispronounced new words because she didnt often have a chance to exercise her vocabulary with her friends with smaller vocabularies. She constantly reminded us of the plutocracy of the Haydels in early Louisiana and made us feel sort of special; at least our family was maybe once if not now. Hazel never learned to drive, was clumsy and never screwed lids on jars, causing lots of spilling. She often successfully depended on the kindness of strangers. She was a natural cook. She could walk into a kitchen bereft of pantry supplies and produce magical dishes. She was a beautiful woman. I once overheard his father talking to someone and he said my wife is a beautiful women I want you to meet her I felt sorry for my friends that didnt have a beautiful mother. They are both buried in the Catholic cemetery in Plaucheville, La. John Haydel
From the bestselling author of Isaac and the Egg... 'I devoured this... my very favourite reading topic: dysfunctional families and the many ways in which they can both fracture and heal' Jennie Godfrey 'One to turn to if you want to laugh and cry on alternating pages' Lottie Hazell --- There is a fox, roaming in the early hours, watching, waiting on the edge of things. He sees a family thrown together for the first time in years. A man with wild hair, growing older and confused; his son, lost and unconnected; a daughter denied her dreams; and a wife and mother about to leave them all. He sees the moments - big and small - that have divided them. The nighttime disappearances, the angry footsteps on the stairs, the silence at the dinner table. But why has the fox followed them here? And can they find their way back to each other, before it's too late? ***READER REVIEWS*** 'Such a beautiful, emotional read' 'I was swept away in the story and yes I may have shed a tear or two' 'Bobby Palmer takes every raw human emotion that we aren't always good at voicing, and manages to describe them 100% correctly... he voices the words in your heart' 'Like nothing I've experienced before and I can't get enough' 'I promise you, this is novel that will stay with you a long time' PRAISE FOR ISAAC AND THE EGG 'A tender story of love, grief and the transformative power of friendship' Guardian 'Truly one of the most beautiful stories you will ever read' Joanna Cannon 'Will linger longer after the final page' Independent 'Unique, tender and funny' Pandora Sykes 'A future classic' Clare Mackintosh 'Like nothing I've ever read before' Stylist 'An arresting debut novel about grief in the most wonderfully oblique way' Reverend Richard Coles 'Just magic' Kate Sawyer
Some may read this book and find it straightforward and easy to comprehend, others may read this book with much incredulity and disbelief. This book, "My Little Garden of Eden" was written to enlighten my brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, you're my family and friends; we are all sons and daughters of the Most High; this book is for you. It is better to believe and have faith in something, rather than not believe and have faith in nothing. In writing this book, My Little Garden of Eden, Junior Mendez ingeniously distinguishes between his human nature and the nature of his spirit. This book is a twofold autobiography of the spirit man and the fleshly man, one walked by faith and the other walked by sight. The internal spirit nature seeks after love, peace, and service to others, while human nature lust after beauty, pleasure, and material wealth. Through faith and his intellectual awareness of a higher power, Junior Mendez became convinced that the spiritual mind is far superior to the carnal mind. The mind is spiritual, divine and freewill, the mind is susceptible to the influence of spiritual forces. The brain regulates the biological functions of the body, it process complicated emotions, feelings, images and a multiplicity of information simultaneously. The mind conscieve thoughts and immaginations to vision and reason within our faith after hearing or reading the Word of the Sacred Scriptures. Faith brings hopes and dreams of a brighter future. Eeach of us shall experience the end of life in the flesh, but through faith my spirit shall be a child in the kingdom of God. Unlike the brain, the mind is unseen, it cannot be touch or seen by human. Spiritual forces of the natural and supernatural world discreetly influence the conscious and subsconcious mind.
"You ruined my life. You ruined my baby’s life!" Laurie Show was as compassionate as she was hard-working. The outgoing high-school junior worked part-time to pay for the home she and her divorced mother shared. Yet she always had time to tutor friends struggling in school. And she befriended a dejected classmate after his traumatic breakup with his pregnant long-time girlfriend Michelle Lambert. But soon things spiraled into jealous obsession, stalking, and a brutal attack that left Laurie murdered in her own bedroom. And once Michelle started telling one lie too many, the ensuing investigation shattered a peaceful community. Noted crime writer Lyn Riddle also brings you the latest updates on Michelle Lambert, her accomplices, and those involved in this unforgettable case. Includes 16 pages of dramatic photos.
LYNNEHURST IS A PORTRAIT of a Canadian family reaching back to the early years of our nationhood and stretching forward into the twenty-first century. Lynnehurst puts the spotlight on a part of English Canada, the Muskoka Lakes District of Ontario, a setting which the author knows well.
‘You want to know what it will be like if the demon takes a host? It will be as though the sun has gone out...’ Beyond the boundaries of our own Mortal World lies the Unseen Realm; a supernatural domain inhabited by entities that prey on humans. Mankind knows them as demons, and when the barrier between the two worlds is weakened, only chaos and destruction can ensue. Continuing from Kim’s previous book The Demon’s Call, Aidan and Gwyn have formed an uneasy alliance with modern-day wizard Eldritch. The stakes are raised when it becomes apparent that someone else is working to bring about the demon’s manifestation, and that they are prepared to kill in order to succeed. When one of the trio is critically injured, the other two must face a terrible choice if they are to defeat the demon. Child of the Covenant is the second installment of the ‘Dark Places’ sequence, a series that taps into the deep core of folklore and legends that exist at the heart of the British and Celtic psyche. Inspired by authors such as Barbara Hambly and Nora Roberts, due to their strong female protagonists, this book will appeal to those who enjoy stories about fantasy worlds and paranormal activity, as well as to fans of The Demon’s Call (Matador, 2014).
From the celebrated author of Juliet the Maniac comes a collection of previously unpublished stories concerned with girlhood, family, and urge, reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and Laura van den Berg In You Are the Snake, we peer into the life of a community college student, the life of an abusive grandmother is imagined, and a young woman takes up gardening. Escoria’s characters are trying their best, or they aren't, as they bump against the boundaries of society's expectations. Exploiting the form of the short story in a voice entirely her own, You Are the Snake resists easy moralizing by subverting our expectations of how narrative functions. While Escoria plumbs the depth of girlhood and new womanhood, she leaves room for oddness, impulse, and yearning. Each story contains its own world, be it the suburbs of California or the mountains of West Virginia, but taken as a whole, this collection is expanding and challenging, corrupting expectations about what women can be and what they can write. Juliet Escoria’s writing has been called “vivid,” “fantastic,” “sharp,” and “singularly honest,” and this collection delivers the “charged eloquence” of her previous work, in addition to the maturity and style of a new format—the short story—which is a dream fit for her “electricity that pulsates from within the prose.”
