Showing results for "Retreats" in Contemporary

I'll do anything not to marry the girl my parents want me to. Including marrying her brother in a drunken panic. I'm not gay, but I can fake it long enough to get our parents off my back, right? Cue hiding out for the next two years, but nothing is that simple, because I'm offered a spot on the US National team. Now we have to fake it for the entire world as the poster boys of gay fencers while Colin makes me doubt everything I think I am. I'm not prepared for all the ways I depend on Colin. Or the place he's filling in my life.

I was a woman on the edge, shaken and shattered after a breakup that felt like it tore my entire world apart. My best friend, sick of watching me drown in misery and melancholy, harassed me until I agreed to go with her on a weeklong wilderness retreat. Nowhere in the glossy brochure did it say anything about the fact I was going to have to battle the insufferable but deliciously rugged trail guide instead of the elements. The brochure also forgot to mention that when you left civilization behind, there was no place to pack your inhibitions and fears.

Willow Carruthers - British Oscar winner, style icon and mother of three - is facing a crisis: she’s broke, discovery of her partner’s infidelity has left her a single mother and, if the banks have their way, she’s about to be homeless.

Brought to you by Penguin. Ginny Spain usually loves Christmas. Not this year, though. After witnessing a traumatic accident and breaking up with her ex, she plans to spend it alone. But her formidable art historian mother, Evie, has other ideas. Determined to drag her daughter out of isolation...

Beach Read meets The Proposal in this gorgeously escapist and wonderfully bookish romcom with the perfect mix of enemies-to-lovers and spice. 'Really fun read. Scarlett and Theo have SO much chemistry' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A real page turner. Loved it' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Scarlett and Theo's electric...

Join USA TODAY bestselling author Sheila Roberts for a seaside escape to the beaches of Moonlight Harbor Celeste Jones has plans for a perfect summer with her boyfriend (and hopefully soon-to-be fiancé)—until he dumps her to be with the woman he’s had on the side for months. Heartbroken and...

Five authors have gathered at the idyllic Lakeside Cottage for a retreat, with the promise of peace and dedicated writing time. At least, that's the idea . . .As the collective word count grows, and their personal stories interweave, each woman finds herself drawn in unexpected and life-changing directions.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling author of Escape to the French Farmhouse comes a deliciously feel-good new story... Eliza has a full house! When her three children grew up and moved out, she downsized to a smaller property... but now they're all back. Every room in the house is...

Soundings and Choc Lit present the audiobook edition of Christmas at Black Cherry Retreat. When Fee Winter books a winter break at the remote Black Cherry Retreat in the small town of Pine Ridge, Tennessee, it’s with the idea that the peace and quiet will help her recuperate from her hectic life as a photographer. But what she didn’t bank on was meeting Tom Chambers and his huge, interfering yet lovable family. With them, could Fee finally experience the warmth and support that’s been missing from her own life - and maybe even find a place to call home in time for Christmas?

Divorcée Kate Delaney is determined to show she's perfectly fine without a man. To prove it, she throws herself into planning her son's picture-perfect proposal on the sunny Greek island of Corfu. But when her over-the-top plans start to go hilariously wrong, Kate finds herself stumbling into the arms of the charming and oh-so-dashing Pericles.

Knowing what she wants and how to get it is Kerrie's specialty. She is, after all, a lawyer. But the game plan changes when it comes to men. Losing control is never an option, so when her blind date disregards her long list of "wooing" requirements and does what he pleases, she discovers it's not only exactly what she's always desired, but also what she's always needed.

Stuck together on a writing retreat, a fake marriage goes awry when two people fall in love for real! From the author of When Grumpy Met Sunshine, Charlotte Stein's My Big Fat Fake Marriage is a sexy, laugh-out-loud romcom. Connie Evans has always distrusted nice guys. In her experience...

Fall in love with the brand new escapist Scottish romance from bestselling author, Julie Shackman! *** ‘The perfect Scottish romance’ My Weekly ‘A gorgeous, uplifting and wonderfully romantic tale of taking chances’ The People’s Friend Daisy’s career hasn’t exactly been going to...

Annie Williams is no fool. She knows her marriage to Roger Davies has been a well-rehearsed lie she’s told herself over and over for years… Anything to keep the old wounds in her heart from opening again. When Roger announces their beautiful lie is finally over, everything Annie has built and dared to dream of is about to shatter around her. Soon, Annie’s darkest secret comes tumbling out from its hiding place. A place she thought she had left behind, buried deep beneath the sands of Manatee Bay.