Showing results for "Grow" in Contemporary

Penny Crenshaw’s divorce and her husband’s swift remarriage to a much younger woman have been hot topics around Atlanta’s social circles. After a year of enduring the cruel gossip, Penny leaps from the frying pan into the fire by heading back to Kentucky to settle her grandmother’s estate. Reluctantly, Penny travels to her hometown of Camden, knowing she will be stirring up all the ghosts from her turbulent childhood. But not all her problems stem from a dysfunctional family. One of Penny’s greatest sources of pain lives just down the street: Bradley Hitchens.

After a meet-cute that's way too cute, Kahlea and Sherrod can't stay away from each other. The only problem is neither wants anything serious right now. Oh, also, he comes from a huge family, and she doesn't do family. Will their casual relationship stay casual or turn into something neither of them could have imagined...love?

I've spent my entire life running. No more. The past is finally catching up to me, and my secrets won't stay buried as trouble looms on the horizon. I must face the monster who spent a decade torturing me. For myself. My daughter. The countless other victims that he silenced with his brutality. This town gave me everything. I have to protect it, or I'll lose the ones I love forever.

Shy Lizzie Martin lives a quiet life. She has a part-time job teaching music and helps her family run their bed and breakfast but longs to record the songs of her heart. Sometimes she allows herself to dream about meeting the handsome man who pays for her coffee in the donut-shop drive-thru, but she is too frightened to take a first step in talking to him. When a mischievous sister connects Lizzie with her drive-thru dreamboat over the airwaves, she learns he is not as she expected.

There are those who never grow old because they are taken too soon. There are those who grow old without worries, enjoying everything life has to offer. There are those who desperately try to slow down the ticking clock. And then there's Betty. Betty, who mysteriously stops growing old on her thirtieth birthday - the same age as her mother when she died. The years leave no trace on Betty's face, but as everyone around her is transformed by the relentless march of time, her once golden life begins to come apart.

There is a vast difference between having it all and being fulfilled. In the eyes of most onlookers, Carol Burgess couldn’t ask for a more gratifying life. She’d climbed the corporate ladder and taken her swipes at the glass ceiling, leaving a few cracks along the way. When she’s finally the one in charge, she discovers change is still taboo in the elite literary industry. Faced with the choice of keeping the status quo or starting a revolution of ideas, Carol seeks out a fresh and undiscovered voice in the writing world.

Für Lilac McCarthy (24) ist Cherry Hill, die Obstfarm ihrer Familie, der schönste Platz auf Erden. Sie liebt ihren kleinen Farmladen, in dem sie Selbstgemachtes verkauft, und natürlich das jährliche Peach Festival, das sie als Vorsitzende des Veranstaltungskomitees hingebungsvoll organisiert. Doch dieses Jahr droht alles anders zu werden: Bo Radisson, der Erbe der größten Obstfarm vor Ort, ist nach seinem Auslandsstudium zurück in der Stadt. Bo hat Lilacs Leben schon einmal auf den Kopf gestellt. Nun verfolgt er große Änderungspläne für ihr geliebtes Peach Festival.

Romantisch, authentisch und mitreißend! Vor drei Jahren verließ Fiona überstürzt ihre Heimat Shetland, nachdem eine unerwartete Nachricht ihr Leben von einem Moment auf den anderen auf den Kopf gestellt hatte. Jetzt kehrt sie zurück zu ihren Wurzeln, zurück zu ihren Schwestern Nessa und Effie, zurück zur rauen Schönheit der Shetlands - und zurück in die Nähe ihrer großen Liebe Connal. Obwohl die letzten drei Jahre für sie einsam und schmerzhaft waren, ist Fiona sicher, damals die richtige Entscheidung getroffen zu haben.

'With echoes of David Nicholls's One Day, this romance has just the right mix of heart-melting moments and heart-rending near misses' Good Housekeeping 'A wonderful, heart-tugging romance' Prima Perfect for fans of One Day and Me Before You, this is a poignant love story spanning three decades...

When Sophia first meets Hollywood actor and Ivy College teacher, Marc Blackwell, she never dreams they'll share a forbidden, obsessive relationship. Now, dawn is breaking and they've decided to tell the world of their affair. But as paparazzi hound Sophia's every move, Marc steps up his control - dominating Sophia in every way possible, and drawing her into his dark world of intensity and passion.