Showing results for "Five" in Women's Fiction

Forensic scientist Reese Wilder never imagined herself as the entertainment at a bachelor party, but she’d do anything to keep food on the table for her teenage sister. With their mess of a mother in rehab—third time’s a charm, right?—Reese is stuck paying off their mother’s debt to a dealer and trying to make ends meet. Reese has had it rough, and she knows better than to rely on anyone for help, much less a pushy biker with piercing blue eyes who probably has dozens of women at his beck and call.

A vengeful duke finds his world upended by an enemy's daughter, whose spirit and passion light up his darkened life. A lord's quest to find his brother leads to a faux engagement with a woman whose courage and dignity defy her humble status. A marriage of convenience between a daring lady and a rakish duke becomes a genuine quest for love amid danger.

Calhoun sister-in-law Megan O'Riley and her young son have traveled far to become the Towers' newest residents and begin a fresh chapter in their lives. Cool as an Atlantic breeze, Megan buried her passions deep and vowed never to let her heart lead her astray again. But when boat captain Nate Fury set his course for her, not even Megan's toughest resistance could divert him. The practical lady seemed destined to be swept away by the rugged seaman's formidable charm....

Mira Montgomery is the only one left. Her brother's unexpected death leaves her tragically alone. No kids. No husband. No family. Fifty-one years of unrealized dreams crash down on her when a real estate development company threatens the only stability she has left: her store. To make matters worse, her friends in the Health and Happiness Society have more good news than ever before. Mira is faced with the decision to walk away and start fresh, or stay and fall apart. Can she survive life without the comfort of her friends? Or will she fall farther into her depression than ever?

Milli is in love with being a family man but can't help thinking about why Kelsie doesn't want to give him a baby. Kelsie is still dealing with emotions from the last time she was pregnant with Milli's baby. Will they drift apart? Or will Milli be there for his woman? It's no secret that Kelsie and her mother have a strained relationship. When Shanny reveals something from her past, will this bring the mother and daughter closer or push them further apart? Marina isn't giving up her granddaughter without a fight, even if that means dragging Kelsie to court.

Ein Neuanfang – das ist alles, was ich will, als ich in das entzückende französische Dorf Val d'Issey ziehe. Bis ich am ersten Abend auf meinen neuen Mitbewohner treffe. Der Mann, dem ich in der Highschool das Herz gebrochen habe. Dabei habe ich mir geschworen, die Finger von Männern zu lassen. Zu tief sitzt der Schmerz, dass ich vor dem Altar stehen gelassen wurde. Doch Luca ist nicht nur attraktiv, charmant und lustig, er lässt auch nicht locker und versucht die Schutzmauer, die ich um mein Herz gebaut habe, Stein für Stein einzureißen.

When struggling actress Heidi has a life-changing accident aged 32, her world falls apart. Stuck in hospital and unable to walk, her only companion is Maud, the elderly lady in the bed next to hers. Heidi misses her flatmate, her life, her freedom - surely 32 is too young to be an amputee? But when Maud's aloof but attractive grandson Jack pays a visit to the ward, Heidi realises that her life isn't over just because it's different.

New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns to the beloved Scottish Highland town of Kirrinfief, which readers first met in The Bookshop on the Shore, and adds a dash of London’s bustling urban landscape. Lissie, is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly...

In this heartwarming, feel-good holiday novel, one woman needs to find a little inspiration in the 25 days leading up to Christmas to help her remember the magic of the season and the magic of falling in love—perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan and Josie Silver. Kate Potter used to love Christmas...

USA Today Bestselling Author Following the book called “an alluring blend of love and playfulness” (PW) The Heiress Hunt, beloved author Joanna Shupe continues her new Fifth Avenue Rebels series with a scandalous romance about a good girl desperate to rebel and the rebel desperate to corrupt...

Five full-cast dramas by the celebrated Scottish writer Liz Lochhead, plus a short story Liz Lochhead is a widely recognised poet, playwright and performer. She was the Makar, Scotland’s national poet, between 2011 and 2016, and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2015. The six...

Ever since Beth Bailey was a girl, she’s been in love with her best friend’s older brother, Mark. She’s continued to hold out hope that maybe, someday, he’ll love her back. But now Beth is thirty-five years old, and on the day of Mark’s wedding to another woman, she finally accepts the wake-up call she needs to move on.

In 1956, a small group of evangelical Christian missionaries and their families journeyed to the rainforest in Ecuador intending to convert the Waorani, a people who had never had contact with the outside world. The plan was known as Operation Auca. After spending days dropping gifts from an aircraft, the five men in the party rashly entered the “intangible zone.” They were all killed, leaving their wives and children to fend for themselves.

In the finale, everyone is battling their own demons. Messiah may have done something that could end her relationship with her daughter and husband. Has she gone too far, or like usual Messiah, did she know what she was doing? Staten is stuck on trying to handle loving Liberty, even after she ended things, be a father to he and Chanel’s daughter, and be there for a pregnant Maliah as well. Can he juggle it all, while trying to be there for his big brother too?

InterZona presenta la reedición de esta novela olvidada de Norah Lange, de tono intimista y autobiográfico, imprescindible para conocer la prosa y el pensamiento de esta narradora y poetisa de vanguardia. Miembro del grupo Martín Fierro, tuvo una estrecha relación de amistad con escritores...

For Alex Davidson, being a celebrity publicist at a Los Angeles PR firm isn't the glamour job she thought it would be. Her love life is zilch, her newest client is an actor fresh out of rehab, and her firm has just been bought out by a rival agency. Suddenly, Alex finds her once-secure job at stake.

When 73-year-old Jen announces that she is going to marry Eddie, a man she met just a few months previously on a beach on Boxing Day, her four best friends from aqua aerobics are flabbergasted. The wedding is booked and, when the groom decides to have a stag trip to Las Vegas, the ladies arrange a hen party to beat all others - a week in the city of love, Paris.

The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighbourhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s. Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.

Ce tome nous amène Pollyanna en tant qu'épouse et mère de trois enfants. Elle se retrouvera dans d'autres circonstances dans d'autres milieux, mais l'âme de Pollyanna restera à jamais dans l'esprit de l'enfance. Même si l'âge n'est plus celui du jeu, elle n'arrêtera toujours pas de pratiquer le jeu du contentement.

Sarojben Parekh (Padmarani) is a kind hearted, compassionate lady. She has a simple motto in her life: her child should not go to sleep hungry. She believes while cooking for her own children, if every mother cooks for those children who are homeless and motherless, no one will starve. When others get to know about Sarojben’s noble deeds, they get impressed and follow her footsteps. Soon this becomes a massive movement with thousands of mothers and volunteers joining in, and tens of thousands of children getting home-cooked food daily.