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Eden's ready for a new start, putting the past behind her. But others have their own ideas of what's best for her . . . The all-absorbing, life-affirming new novel from the bestselling author of THREE WEDDINGS AND A PROPOSAL and THE MISSING WIFE. 'Do I rejoice when a new Sheila O'Flanagan book...

Als Helena unvermittelt bei ihrer Familie vor der Tür steht, hat sie die Schnauze voll von Männern. Einst ist sie nach New York gezogen, um den ruhigen Weiten Vermonts zu entfliehen. Dass sie dabei nicht nur ihre Familie, sondern auch ihren besten Freund zurückgelassen hat, war unvermeidbar. Dass sie früher oder später Noah über den Weg läuft, ist unvermeidlich.

When the Reverend Elaine Metcalfe is inducted as the vicar of Pontvale, she hopes the job will have more to it than lending out spare sets of keys. She soon discovers there's plenty of challenges in her new home - not least the daily needs of her parishioners, which range from community theatre productions, arranging a wedding and a funeral for the same day, and local scandal over the vicar's culottes.

Raised by guardians in Philadelphia, the Brinkman sisters have suddenly been bequeathed more than the truth about their late, estranged father - they've also inherited the Five Sisters Ranch, the dynasty he'd built for them in Eden, Colorado. It's theirs on one condition: to claim it, they must live on it for six months - a wilderness worlds away from the comforts of the city. For Belle Brinkman, her father's last wish could fulfill a dream she never knew she had.

When Eden turns the key in the red door of Four Winds Cottage, the clifftop house where she used to holiday as a child, she is overwhelmed with bittersweet memories. She lost her mother recently, and she’s hoping Seaglass Bay will heal her broken heart. The villagers welcome Eden with open arms, but she can’t help but notice that life is tough for them when the holidaymakers go home. Her mother always gave so much to those around her, and Eden is determined to follow in her footsteps.

Every other weekend, Hope and Eden - backpacks, Walkmans, and homework in hand - wait for their father to pick them up, as he always does, at a strip-mall bus stop. It's the divorce shuffle; they're used to it. Only this weekend, he's screwed up, forgotten, and their world will irrevocably change when a stranger lures them into his truck with a false story and smile.

If an EMP instantly changed the world as you knew it, would you be able to survive? Lauren and her family had been grieving the unimaginable loss of her husband, just trying to make it from one day to the next. Things were just starting to return to a semblance of normal. Her daughter, Elsie, was in college, and the family's businesses were thriving. They were even planning their annual end-of-season trip to Yellowstone with her in-laws. Then, in the blink of an eye, an EMP changed everything for them.

In a world undone, a mother’s grief becomes humanity’s last hope. The skies split. A Being descended. And in the silence that followed, everything changed. Cities collapsed. Oceans receded. Millions vanished. In the aftermath, one woman remains—Mara, a trauma nurse and mother, shattered by loss. But she is chosen, not to escape… but to witness. Across memories of fallen civilizations, she learns Earth is not the first to face judgment. Others came before. Most failed. Now, a small band of survivors must journey across a scarred world. Each bears a wound—grief, doubt, guilt, silence.

In this Romantic Times Top Pick, Christy Award finalist Linda Nichols follows the wanderings of Miranda DeSpain, a young woman still haunted by a painful adolescent experience. When Miranda finds a clue to this mystery from her past, she travels to an idyllic Virginia town. There, an 11-year-old girl helps her find lodging and a job. Suspicious of strangers, the police chief discovers there's absolutely no record of Miranda. And then he notices his niece's picture among Miranda's belongings.

Welcome to the middle of the turbulent 1960s. Kennedy's been dead for two years, while the Summer of Love lies three years in the future. Five young women come to Washington to share a townhouse while they chase their dreams in the offices across the Potomac. Some want to find a husband, just as their mothers did. Others pray that there's something more to life besides being a housewife. What they find, on the eve of the sexual revolution and at the death of the staid '50s, will shatter their lives and destroy the last of their innocence.

Die Finger ihrer Mutter tippten auf die Zeichnung auf dem Buch. "Dort liegt die Wahrheit", glaubte Emily zu verstehen. "Welche Wahrheit?" "Mein Herz..." Die helle Stimme brach ab und ging in flaches Atmen über. Als ihre Mutter sich während ihrer letzten Atemzüge an einen Sommer erinnert, den sie vor vielen Jahren in Haworth verbracht hat, steht Emily vor einem Rätsel. Um herauszufinden, was dahintersteckt, reist sie in das düstere und dramatisch schöne Hochmoor von West Yorkshire. Hier begegnet sie Jack, der, getrieben von den Gespenstern seiner Vergangenheit, ein eigenbrötlerisches Leben führt.

It has always been said a princess has to kiss a lot of frogs before they find their prince, so it makes sense that sometimes they might feel like giving up on love.

Dr. Freudine Is In: The Drama Deepens is the middle book of a trilogy about Dr. Ziggy Freudine, a psychiatrist just starting out. In this book she continues to try to understand how to be a helpful and creative psychiatrist and not go crazy in doing so! There's a group of psychiatrists she's been hoping to join so they may guide and support her efforts, but the psychiatrists she's met so far are anything but helpful.

Evelyn Addams had settled into a comfortable but unexciting life as a single mother in small-town Eden Valley. She was 43, fabulous, and didn’t need a man to complete her. But between Evie’s sudden-onset accidental supernatural shoplifting and catching her daughter trying to summon a demon to grant three wishes, Evie knows that not only has she neglected some aspects of Lily’s mythological education, but that her façades of strength and normalcy aren’t as firm as she’d thought. Why else would Lily ask a demon to make her mother happy and bring back the father she never knew?

Der Auftakt zur neuen humorvollen Liebesroman-Reihe von Bestsellerautorin Saskia Louis! Mayas Leben ist wie Vanilleeis: Ein bisschen langweilig, kein bisschen spontan, aber verlässlich geschmackvoll ... und wenn das noch eine Sekunde länger so bleibt, dreht sie durch! Um ein wenig mehr Aufregung in ihr Leben zu bringen, flieht sie in die Hafenstadt Eden Bay. Als sie dort wortwörtlich in Nathan rennt, steht für Maya fest: Was wäre abenteuerlicher als eine heiße Affäre mit einem quasi Fremden? Nathans Leben ist wie Schokoladeneis mit Knoblauchstückchen: Eine absolute Katastrophe.