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The Dream Jumper's Promise

Kim Hornsby · 316 pages

Without a recovered body, Tina Greene can't accept the surfing death of her husband, Hank. She pulls herself from the emotional wreckage months after signing the death certificate and trades mourning for saving her Maui dive shop from bankruptcy. When Jamey Dunn walks back into her life things take a strange turn. Dreams of Hank have the dive instructor questioning her sanity and leaning heavily o

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The Beach House

Jane Green · 341 pages

Jane Green is one of the preeminent authors of women's fiction today, and with each new novel, her audience grows. Green's avid and loyal fans follow her because she writes about the true-to-life dilemmas of women—and The Beach House will not disappoint. Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesn't care what people think. At sixty-five-years old

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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin · 279 pages

A.J. Fikry's life is not what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is failing, and his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. He is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island and from Amelia, the Knightley Press sales rep who refuses to be deterred by A.J.'s bad attitude. And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore that gives A.J

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Death in Paradise

Carolyn G. Hart · 304 pages

Six years ago, Henrie O's beloved newspaperman husband Richard lost his life on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Now, on a brisk March morning, a chilling message has arrived by Priority Mail claiming Richard's fatal fall from a towering island cliff was no accident--it was murder. Following cryptic clues and her infallible instincts to a lush and verdant tropical Eden--andto the lavish mountaintop e

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Canary Island Song

Robin Jones Gunn · 284 pages

When Carolyn's grown daughter tells her she needs to "get a life," Carolyn decides it's time to step out of her familiar routine as a widow in San Francisco and escape to her mother's home in the Canary Islands. She runs into Bryan, her high school summer love. Has he turned into something more than the wild beach boy who stole her kisses so many years ago on a balmy Canary night?

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Winter in Paradise

Elin Hilderbrand · 328 pages

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Brokedown Cowboy

Maisey Yates · 361 pages

Copper Ridge - Maisey Yates Garrett's, Wests, Donnellys 0.5) ♡Shoulda been a Cowboy (Jake Caldwell & Cassie Ventimiglia) 1) ☆Part-time Cowboy (Eli Garrett & Sadie Miller) 2) ♡Brokedown Cowboy (Connor Garrett & Felicity Foster) 3) ☆Bad News Cowboy (Jack West Monaghan & Kate Garrett) 3.4) ☆Copper Ridge Christmas (Ryan Masters & Holly Fulton) 3.5) ♤Hometown Heartbreaker (Aiden Crawford & Casey

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The Language of Sand

Ellen Block · 276 pages

"After she seeks refuge from the death of her husband and son by taking a position as the caretaker of a lighthouse on a secluded North Carolina island, Abigail Harker soon discovers that the lighthouse may be as haunted as she is with memories of her family."--NoveList.

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I Wish I Had a Red Dress

Pearl Cleage · 338 pages

E-book extra: Reading group guide.From Oprah favorite Pearl Cleage comes a delightful new e-book edition of a beloved novel. Joyce Mitchell has put her life on hold to help others. Now, the arrival of a tall, dark stranger named Nate Anderson proves that others can offer something to her: a renewed passion for life, and a story that will have readers laughing, crying, and cheering.Since Joyce Mitc

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A Soft Place to Fall

Barbara Bretton · 396 pages

Once upon a time, Annie Galloway was a woman with boundless hopes - and big, glorious dreams. There were so many good days, when everything she wanted seemed just a heartbeat away - a career in art, a peaceful marriage, a house full of children. But there were dark times, too. And when her husband died young, her precious cherished dreams died with him. Now, setting into a beachfront cottage in S

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The Hellion

LaVyrle Spencer · 373 pages

RACHEL. The image of elegance, social standing, and beauty, she had barely recovered from her husband's death when the wildest, most passionate flame of her youth stepped into her life, once again... TOMMY LEE. The all-time hellraiser of Russellville, Alabama, he had three marriages behind him and a string of fast cars and women. The townsfolk said he'd never change. But Rachel knew differently

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Virgin River Books 1-4

Robyn Carr

The tightly knit community of Virgin River has been a safe haven for more than a few lost souls over the years--and there's always room for more...A recently widowed nurse thinks she's made a mistake coming to Virgin River--until an abandoned baby and former marine make her feel right at home. A marine who has seen his share of pain helps a woman in need, and discovers emotions he has never allowe

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Beach Girls

Luanne Rice · 428 pages

Luanne Rice is a rarity among novelists today; she's a true storyteller. Her unique ability to weave together the bonds of love and family with the challenges and rewards of everyday life has garnered her eight consecutive top-ten New York Times bestselling paperbacks. With Beach Girls, Luanne Rice returns to the place that she was born to write about--the Connecticut shore--to tell a story abou

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The Earl Takes All

Lorraine Heath · 381 pages

To honor the vow he made to his dying brother, Edward Alcott pretends to be his now-dead twin, the Earl of Greyling, until the countess, whom he has loved for years, gives birth, despite his desire to claim her for himself.

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Silver Linings

Debbie Macomber · 400 pages

Since opening the Rose Harbor Inn, Jo Marie Rose has grown close to her handyman, Mark Taylor. Jo Marie and Mark are good friends--and are becoming something more--yet he still won't reveal anything about his past. When Mark tells her that he's moving out of town, Jo Marie is baffled. Just when she is starting to open herself up again to love, she feels once more that she is losing the man she car

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Mrs. Pargeter's Package

Simon Brett · 246 pages

Mrs Pargeter and a widowed friend Joyce Dover take a vacation on the island of Corfu. The dark side of Mrs Dover is revealed to Mrs Pargeter when she is asked to take a mysterious package through customs.

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Holy Terror In The Hebrides

Jeanne M. Dams · 272 pages

From the inside cover: Dorothy Martin has a weakness for fine food, and when her friends Tom and Lynn invite her to spend some time with them at a cottage on the island of Iona in the Hebrides, promising fresh crab and exquisite salmon, and since her, well, dear friend Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt is away in Brussells, she gives in and agrees to join them. The first thing that goes wrong are Tom

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Broken Open

Lauren Dane · 384 pages

Beyond passion. And beyond their control...Five years ago, Tuesday Eastwood's life collapsed and left her devastated. After an empty, nomadic existence, she's finally pieced her life back together in the small Oregon town of Hood River. Now Tuesday has everything sorted out. Just so long as men are kept for sex, and only sex...Then she met him. Musician and rancher Ezra Hurley isn't the man of Tue

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Coming Home

Mariah Stewart · 376 pages

After years of seclusion, widower and former FBI agent Grady Shields returns to his hometown for his sister's wedding and gets a second chance at love when he meets Vanessa Keaton, a boutique owner who is on the run from her past.

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Hallowed Ground

Rebecca Yarros · 416 pages

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Hearts Awakening

Delia Parr · 352 pages

With no means to support herself, Ellie Kilmer agrees to work as a housekeeper for the young widower who lives on Dillon Island, hopeful she can obtain a proper reference. But Jackson Smith quickly realizes that Ellie's presence may solve his own problems.

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Undressed by the Earl

Michelle Willingham · 342 pages

David Hartford, Earl of Castledon, is unwilling to break out of his prison of sorrow after the death of his wife, though everyone expects him to remarry and beget an heir. Impulsive Amelia Andrews befriends Lord Castledon and decides that he would make the perfect match for her prim older sister. Amelia cannot help but see the lonely man behind David's grim exterior-- and caught beneath his pierci

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Sinful

Joan Johnston · 312 pages

After a tragic accident leaves Delta sergeant Connor Flynn a widower, he faces the toughest fight of his life: battling his in-laws for custody of his two young children. To win he'll need a make-believe bride to take care of the kids while he runs his Wyoming ranch. Who better than a woman he already knows and likes--his late wife's best friend? Ruthlessly forced from her home by her powerful fat

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Autumn Duchess

Lucinda Brant · 362 pages

1770s England: Treat, the ancestral home of the dukes of Roxton. Antonia, Dowager Duchess of Roxton, has mourned the loss of her duke for three long years. Her grief is all-consuming. Then into her life steps a most unconventional man. Jonathon Strang, East India merchant and widower, lets nothing stand in the way of success, in business or in pleasure. On spying Antonia, Jonathon is imme

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