Showing results for "Lisa" in Small Town & Rural

In Liberty, Illinois — a small coal-mining town fallen on hard times - one obsession swallows everyday life: the Queen of Hearts contest. Built around a weekly drawing, the game can be over in a moment - or stretch on for months, sometimes even a full year. As the jackpot climbs past one million dollars, residents invest more than money. They invest hope, pride, desperation, and the belief that one turn of luck could finally mean relief.

From the author of A Month of Summer, an inspiring new novel in the Blue Sky Hill series about one woman's effect on a struggling Dallas neighborhood. With her adopted son missing and the rest of her family increasingly estranged, Sandra Kaye Darden is drawn to the little pink house where her...

Once a gifted ballet dancer, Julia Costell buckled under the demands of a professional dance career, and has landed with a thud in an unglamorous job as a guidance counselor at a performing arts high school. Living back home with her parents and feeling lost, she is afraid she’ll never soar...

Adopted at thirteen, Dell Jordan was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. Now, at twenty, after a year abroad with a traveling symphony, a scholarship to Julliard is within reach. But underneath Dell's smoothly polished surface lurk mysteries from the past. Why did...

Ein hübsches Cottage an der Küste und Joberfolg als Liebes-Profilerin: Für Lovelyn könnte es gerade nicht besser laufen … Doch dann geht einer ihrer Aufträge schief: Die Hochzeit platzt – und der wütende Bräutigam steht plötzlich vor Lovelyns Tür. Ian will, dass sie ihm hilft, seine Ex-Zukünftige zurückzugewinnen. Als ob das so einfach wäre! Und warum schlägt Lovelyns Herz plötzlich Purzelbäume, sobald Ian in der Nähe ist? Als Violet nach dem Tod ihres Großvaters nach Crail zurückkehrt, spürt sie sofort wieder eine besondere Verbundenheit mit dem kleinen Küstenort.

When champion figure skater Michaela Glover returns to her hometown of Woodbridge for a special performance, Detective Amanda Steele is part of the cheering crowds. But when Michaela is discovered dead in her dressing room after the show, Amanda is the first to investigate the shocking scene. There is no sign of foul play, and the room is overflowing with flowers from Michaela’s adoring fans. But Amanda’s heart stops at the sight of a few roses tied with black ribbon and a note that reads “You’ll be sorry”.

If the fields could talk, they would have a story to tell - a story that nobody saw coming, no, not in a million years! After an ice storm wreaks havoc on the Indiana Heartlands, a couple finds themselves fighting for survival. One with a disease and the other a punishment from the elements so harsh not even love could fix.