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A collection of five addicting standalone small town romances by USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charity Ferrell.

Ty Greene promised me forever and like a fool—I believed him. But he skipped town with a bag of broken promises and a piece of my heart. It’s taken time, but I've put myself back together and moved on. Now Ty’s a big country music star in Nashville and I curse his name every time his song plays on the radio. I don’t have time to dwell on the past. I’m too busy living my best life. I have the job of my dreams, a dating app that never disappoints, and the best friends in the world. Hashtag thriving. Life is good.

Roman Amato is perfect on paper; sexy and broody and arrogant. He’s a divorced single father, so he’s completely off-limits. I’m not looking for anything other than a hot date to take to my sister’s wedding. I have something he needs, and he has something I need. The fake dating gods have shined down on both of us. We write up a contract so everything is aboveboard. Signed, sealed and soon-to-be delivered. Rule number three is written in all caps: NO CATCHING FEELINGS.

When Jamie Paddock learns of his father's suicide, memories of his childhood in West Virginia come roaring back. One of the few people in his town to ever make it out, Jamie is living in New York City now, developing marketing videos for YouTube, struggling to write and partying a lot, all while suppressing the accent that gives him away. Spurred by an artistic curiosity surrounding his silent and private father, Jamie goes home, staying with his disabled mother and sister in their trailer.

Holt Callahan used to love the holidays, but getting dumped on Christmas Eve would turn anyone into a Grinch. Now he hates Christmas and all the holly jolly shenanigans that go with it. When he moves back to his cousin's ranch in Creedence, Colorado, the last thing he expects is to come face to face with the one who got away and all of her holiday cheer.

Mit Männern hat man nichts als Ärger, findet Kat. Hunde sind da eine viel bessere Wahl. Kein Wunder floriert ihr Hundesalon in Seattle. Als ihre zwei besten Freunde nacheinander nach Independence, Colorado ziehen, beschließt sie jedoch, es den beiden gleich zu tun. Sie freut sich darauf, ihr Leben in der Kleinstadt einzurichten und mit ihrer Bordeaux-Dogge Rocky die Umgebung zu erkunden. Der einzige Störfaktor in ihren Plänen ist der arrogante Hockeyspieler Sam, der sie permanent zur Weißglut treibt. Da hilft auch nicht, dass er aussieht wie ein nordischer Gott.

Jack Rossi is Dare Island's new police chief. The laid-back North Carolina community is just what he needs to recover from a rocky marriage and a big-city police department. He's learned his lesson: no more high-profile women or high-pressure jobs. The last thing he wants is an unconventional alt girl rocking his world. Grad student Lauren Patterson made headlines when she kept a bank robbery from going bad. She's fled to Dare Island to clear her head and focus on writing her story.

Marine Luke Fletcher is determined to do his duty—first to his country and now to his ten-year-old daughter, the unexpected legacy of a high school girlfriend. But his homecoming to Dare Island in North Carolina's Outer Banks challenges his plans for the future and forces him to face everything that's missing in his life. He wasn't prepared to lose his heart to this child he never knew. Or to fall hard for coolly reserved small town lawyer Kate Dolan.

Ein Unfall hat die Karriere von Starballerina Tyler abrupt beendet. Um ihre körperlichen und seelischen Wunden zu lecken und herauszufinden, wie sie ohne ihr geliebtes Tanzen weitermachen soll, kehrt sie zu ihrer Familie nach Independence, einer Kleinstadt in Colorado, zurück. Dass ausgerechnet Pat, ihr einziger One-Night-Stand, inzwischen in die Stadt gezogen ist, macht ihr das Leben nicht leichter. Pat hingegen freut sich über das Wiedersehen, ist Tyler ihm doch nie aus dem Kopf gegangen.

Mit all ihren Schwestern zu ihrem Bruder in eine Kleinstadt zu ziehen, wo Klatsch und Tratsch denselben Stellenwert wie atmen hatte, war eine dumme Idee gewesen, stellt Melody fest. Um den Leuten wenigstens einen triftigen Grund zu geben, über sie herzuziehen, stürzt sie sich von einem Abenteuer ins nächste.

" sensual, sassy and emotionally riveting!" —Thoughts of a Blonde She thought she had life all figured out. But perfect doesn’t always mean it’s right… Cate Penland once believed she could have it all—but that was before her fiancé left her at the altar in front of twelve hundred...

Adrift in the wake of her father's death, a failed marriage, and multiple miscarriages, Libby McKenzie feels truly alone. Though her new life as a wedding photographer provides a semblance of purpose, it's also a distraction from her profound pain. When asked to photograph a wedding at the historic Woodmont estate, Libby meets the owner, Elaine Grant. Hoping to open Woodmont to the public, Elaine has employed young widower Colton Reese to help restore the grounds and asks Libby to photograph the process.

"I can't wait for another visit to Blossom Branch!" —RaeAnne Thayne, New York Times bestselling author Two lives spent searching. One summer to never forget. Life in Blossom Branch hasn’t always been sweet for Leah Marks. Growing up in the shadow of her overachieving siblings, the shy...

Darrick MacBrehon, a government auditor, wakes among the dead. Bloodied and disoriented from a gaping head wound, the man who staggers out of the mine crack in Redbird, West Virginia, is much more powerful — and dangerous — than the one thrown in. An orphan with an unknown past, he must now figure out how to have a future.

Estranged friends reunite only to realize they're something more, in this next installment in the Blossom Glen series from bestselling author Miranda Liasson.

Juliet Montgomery absolutely loves her small town of Blossom Glen, Indiana, and everyone loves her. Except for the fact that she's a couples counselor who suffered a very public breakup that no one can forget. And now her boss asks her to take a step back . . . which is exactly when the town's good-lookin' and unusually gruff mayor offers her an unexpected job. Jack Monroe absolutely loves being the mayor of his small town. Except when he actually has to talk to people. Can't he just fix the community problems in peace?

No matter how swoony the cute cowboy is, romance is the last thing on Carley Chapman's mind. But it's hard to ignore Knox Garrison and the spark of attraction she feels every time he's near. When a water line break floods her building, she's forced to move her salon out to the Heaven Can Wait Horse Rescue ranch, and Knox shows up to help. But things get even more complicated when Carley's no-good ex comes sniffing around and Knox fixes the problem by telling him they're engaged…

In un romanzo corale e luminoso, Harada Maha accompagna i suoi lettori lungo le stagioni della natura e della vita, in una favola giapponese moderna sul valore della dolcezza. Tra Osaka e Kobe c’è la piccola pasticceria Sweet Home, nascosta tra le colline verdi e accoglienti. È gestita dal signor Kōda, sua moglie Akiko e le loro figlie Hina e Haruhi. Sono molti i clienti che vi si affacciano, attratti dalla dolcezza delle pietanze ma anche dal calore del contatto umano.

Pastry chef Tessa Montgomery knows what everyone in Blossom Glen says about her. Spinster. Ice Queen. Such a shame. It’s enough to make a woman bake her troubles away, dreaming of Parisian delicacies while she makes bread at her mother’s struggling boulangerie. That is, it is until Tessa’s mortal enemy — deliciously handsome (if arrogant) chef Leo Castorini, who owns the restaurant next door — proposes a business plan…to get married.

Un giovane prete, diviso tra la vocazione e l'amore terreno per una ragazza, e sua madre, che cerca di ricondurlo nel tracciato dal quale ha deviato. Ecco i protagonisti del romanzo di Grazia Deledda La Madre, proposto in audiolibro da il Narratore per la lettura di Virginia Alba.