Emilie Richards
Author
Series
Happiness Key volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Five very different women--Tracy, a former socialite who has discovered that she's pregnant; Wanda, a waitress turned pie shop owner; Janya, a young Indian wife dealing with an arranged marriage; Alice, a widow raising her tween granddaughter; and Maggie, a former Miami cop--find love and friendship on the barrier island of Happiness Key.
Author
Series
Shenandoah album volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A war correspondent's return to his ex-wife and their children tests what it means to be family in this emotional saga by a USA Today–bestselling author.
Gayle Fortman has built a good life for herself and her three sons as an innkeeper in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. She has even maintained a cordial relationship with her ex, charismatic broadcast journalist Eric Fortman, covering with the boys for his absences and broken promises....
Gayle Fortman has built a good life for herself and her three sons as an innkeeper in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. She has even maintained a cordial relationship with her ex, charismatic broadcast journalist Eric Fortman, covering with the boys for his absences and broken promises....
3) Wedding Ring
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Richards pieces together each woman's story as artfully as a quilter creates a quilt... Transcendent, endowed with warmth and compassion."—Booklist
Three generations of women discover the healing gift of family, memories and love
Needing time to contemplate her troubled marriage, Tessa MacRae agrees to spend the summer helping her mother and grandmother clean out the family home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. But...
Three generations of women discover the healing gift of family, memories and love
Needing time to contemplate her troubled marriage, Tessa MacRae agrees to spend the summer helping her mother and grandmother clean out the family home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. But...
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
With the warmth and comfort of a handmade quilt, Endless Chain explores the intricate patterns of family and community, and the threads that bind them together
Sam Kinkade is finally feeling at home as a minister in rural Toms Brook, Virginia, content with his life and Shenandoah Valley congregation. But his plans to welcome the area's growing Hispanic community are being met with resistance. Fortunately, when the church-run...
Sam Kinkade is finally feeling at home as a minister in rural Toms Brook, Virginia, content with his life and Shenandoah Valley congregation. But his plans to welcome the area's growing Hispanic community are being met with resistance. Fortunately, when the church-run...
5) Lover's Knot
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In the rich, evocative prose that earned high praise for WEDDING RING and ENDLESS CHAIN, Emilie Richards crafts the third tale in the Shenandoah Album series, resonant with the power of love and family ties
Confused about her troubled marriage, Kendra Taylor needs time to sort out her feelings. Retreating to an abandoned cabin left to her husband, Isaac, by the maternal grandmother he never knew, she is quickly welcomed into...
Confused about her troubled marriage, Kendra Taylor needs time to sort out her feelings. Retreating to an abandoned cabin left to her husband, Isaac, by the maternal grandmother he never knew, she is quickly welcomed into...
Author
Series
Shenandoah album volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kendra and Jamie were never storybook sisters. But after a long estrangement, Jamie has offered Kendra and her husband their ultimate dream--a child of their own. Despite some lingering misgivings about her once-wayward younger sister, Kendra agrees, and Jamie, a promising architect and single mother, becomes a gestational surrogate for Kendra and Isaac. In addition to this amazing gift of life, Jamie designs a house for the couple on Isaac's ancestral...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Could a lifetime of memories...be a lifetime of lies? All her life, Ryan Gracey watched her perfect older sister from afar. Knowing she could never top Wendy's achievements, she didn't even try. Instead Ryan forged her own path while her family barely seemed to notice. Now Wendy shares two little girls with her perfect husband, while Ryan mourns the man she lost after a nearly fatal mistake in judgment. The sisters' choices have taken them in different...
Author
Series
Goddesses anonymous volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"On the night her home is consumed by fire, Janine Stoddard finally resolves to leave her abusive husband. While she is reluctant to involve her estranged daughter, she can't resist a chance to see Harmony and baby Lottie in Asheville, North Carolina, before she disappears forever. Harmony's friend Taylor Martin realizes how much the reunited mother and daughter yearn to stay together, and she sees in Jan a chance to continue her own mother's legacy...
11) Fortune harbor
Author
Series
Happiness Key volume 2
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Tracy Deloche, Rishi Kapur, Wanda Gray, Alice Brook, Olivia Symington, and newcomers Dana Turner and her daugher Lizzie live in the seaside cottages of Happiness Key, a rundown Florida development. Their friendship is put to the test when CJ, Tracy's ex-husband, unexpectedly shows up, wanting to reconnect after he's released from prison pending a new trial. Tracy ponders giving him a second chance. But then there's Marsh Egan, her off/on environmentalist...
Author
Series
Goddesses anonymous volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Christy Haviland served eight months in prison, giving birth behind bars to the child of the man who put her there and might yet destroy her. Now she's free again, but what does that mean? As smart as she is, a learning disability has kept her from learning to read. And that's the least of her hurdles. Georgia Ferguson, talented educator, receives a mysterious charm bracelet that may help her find the mother who abandoned her at birth. Does she want...
Author
Series
Goddesses anonymous volume 4
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Reverend Analiese Wagner's judgment is called into question when she steps in to help a homeless family. Then Isaiah Colburn, the Catholic priest who was her mentor, reappears in her life, torn between the priesthood and his desire for a future with her. Analiese now must answer the question of how to define her own happiness.
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Lilia Swallow's husband, Graham, goes into remission after a challenging year of treatment for lymphoma, the home and lifestyle blogger throws a party. Their best friends and colleagues attend to celebrate his recovery, but just as the party is in full swing, a new guest arrives. She presents Lilia with a beautiful baby boy, and vanishes. Toby is Graham's darkest secret--his son, conceived in a moment of despair. Lilia is utterly unprepared for...
15) The house guests
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her husband's sudden death, Cassie Costas finds her relationship with her teenage stepdaughter unraveling. After their move to historic Tarpon Springs, Florida, Savannah hates her new town, her school, and most of all her stepmom, whom she blames for her father's death. Cassie has enough to contend with as she searches for answers about the man she shared a life with, including why all their savings have disappeared. When Savannah's...
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters each other never had. Now famous singer-songwriter Cecilia lives life on the edge, but when Robin is nearly killed in an accident, Cecilia drops everything to be with her. Reunited, the sister's begin to work on a project that could uncover memories for them both. Yet soon dark secrets of the past emerge that could test their bond to its very limit.
17) A lie for a lie
Author
Series
Ministry is murder volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Actor and singer Grady Barber has returned to his hometown to judge the Emerald Springs Idyll, a talent show to help raise funds for the local hospital. As the newest volunteer on the fund-raising committee, minister's wife Aggie Sloan-Wilcox is assigned the unenviable task of ensuring that Grady's needs are met. Unfortunately, Grady's needs are legion, as are the enemies he makes. So when Aggie stumbles upon his dead body, she isn't surprised.