Divorce Family

Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books, "...easy, frothy fun!" From New York Times, USA TODAY, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Addison Moore comes a story of a billion-dollar wine empire and a woman who loses the love of her life only to marry his adversary—with a TWIST so big it will stop your beating heart. Second Chance Small Town Romance I loved Mitch with all my heart and then he was gone. It was his enemy, Max Shepherd, who helped me walk through that fire. And when the time came to move on, I married him as well. That's usually where the story ends, where life continues at ...

All psychotherapists who work with children and families will come across cases with the parents divorcing or previously divorced experiencing high levels of conflict. These cases can be extremely complex and there can be potential hazards mental health professionals need to be aware of and prepared for. This book is a practical guide providing actionable measures mental health professionals can take to properly screen potential cases, establish and observe essential policies and protocols and observe important boundaries in order to preserve the integrity of the child's therapy and ...

The second novel in the Eliza Gray Series, The Colors of Denver Andrews is a story filled with heartache and the possibility of second chances. When tragedy befalls Eliza and Denver Andrews, it not only threatens their marriage, it threatens their love. Both realize this, yet both are so overwhelmed with their own grief, returning to the time before their shared tragedy seems impossible. Still married, they each go their own way in an attempt to discover a hint of normalcy within their lives—Eliza to her old home in Ohio, Denver to a tentative relationship. When those hints lead to ...

It's basketball season. And for once, triple threat Alex Myers is not the one in the spotlight. There's anew new guy in town, and Max Bellotti promises to turn the Lions' losing streak around and lead the team to a conference title. Alex is psyched, but some of the older guys on the team resent being benched in favor of an upstart freshman. Team morale is rocky at best. And when Max comes out as gay, not everyone takes the news in stride.

When Addy Miles flees the chaos of New York City for the quiet shores of her childhood home in Lighthouse Cove, she hopes to heal her bruised heart. But her return is anything but peaceful. The town’s beloved lighthouse, a beacon of her youth, faces demolition to make way for a luxury hotel—a plan spearheaded by the mayor, who once harbored a crush on her. Determined to save the lighthouse, Addy rallies the "Alpha Girls," a group of childhood friends, to preserve the town's history. As they launch a passionate community campaign, Addy finds an unexpected ally in Carter Hanes, a charming...

Cookie Walker has lost the love of her life, but she knows life must go on. She just doesn't know where to get started. After getting booted from the PTA, she decides there’s no better time than the present to make some big changes. Her family is dealing with change, too. Her three children must adjust to life without their father, her sister is struggling to get pregnant, and her parents' business is failing. Even with all that going on around her, Cookie starts spending a lot of time with Dylan Cooper, a friend of the family who is in the middle of a nasty divorce. While Cookie is glad ...

How can teenagers be married successfully when they have been raised in madness and dysfunction? Unfortunately Melissa and Jack tried to have a normal family without a clue how to achieve it. Both coming from addiction and abuse, they carried on the family tradition. They brought three children into the union, without the skills to parent or to have a healthy marriage. Melissa, out of desperation, turned to support through counseling and 12-step programs, disrupting the fragile mobile of their family. When one person changes, the other one will change too, or leave the relationship. Melissa...

She's sworn off love. He wants to give his daughter a loving home. Neither of them want to risk their heart. It should be a perfect marriage. After her fiancé dumped her just weeks before the wedding, elementary school teacher Rebecca “Rusty” Matthews vowed never to fall in love again. She’s completely happy with her life in small-town Sweetapple Falls, Oregon. If marriage and a family isn’t part of God’s plan for her life, she’s fine with that. She has her work, her faith, her friends, and chocolate. Who needs romance? Reluctantly divorced mechanic Tom Davis suddenly becomes a...

Reader's Choice 5-Star Review: I found it fascinating to learn more about Norah during her therapy sessions. Norah was a powerful woman who overcame all the obstacles in her life. The story was beautifully written, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Book Summary: Norah, a divorced, fatherless daughter, is living her best life despite her complicated family history. She has everything figured out, except how to find lasting love. She doesn’t trust easily because, in her experience, men leave. Then she meets Allen, and she lets her guard down. When he goes out of town indefinitely, she ...

Atlanta philanthropist Anne Wentworth appears to have it all - a happy marriage, a successful husband, a mansion in the ritzy Buckhead neighborhood, intelligence, community achievement, devoted friends, and classic beauty. Then Anne invites a distressed young woman into her home. Anne takes Lynn under her wing, investing time and money in helping the mentally abused niece of an overbearing uncle get the new start she so desperately needs. Anne's husband, Jason, takes little interest in his wife's generosity, until her plan to transform Lynn into a charming, cultured young lady succeeds. Old...

"Making Healthy Families" explains the elements required to make and sustain healthy, functional families. This timely book describes the family life stages, from "Becoming a Couple," to "Becoming Parents," and "Raising Adolescents." It educates parents about the predictable stresses of each transition, and offers guidelines and hands-on exercises for achieving a healthy adjustment in each stage of family life. A chapter on "Trouble-shooting" offers couples an opportunity to plot their own predictable stress points on the family journey, thereby allowing them to better master their ...

Can a stray dog change the life of a teenage boy? It looks as if Strider can. He's a dog that loves to run; because of Strider, Leigh Botts finds himself running -- well enough to join the school track team. Strider changes Leigh on the inside, too, as he finally begins to accept his parents' divorce and gets to know a redheaded girl he's been admiring. With Strider's help, Leigh finds that the future he once hated to be asked about now holds something he never expected: hope.

MARRIAGE can be compared to a journey, an odyssey that brings many surprises—some exquisite, others painful. How can you make that journey more successful and enjoyable? Many couples feel the need for a ‘marital road map’ to direct them along the way. How your marriage will turn out will depend on how much effort both of you is willing to put forth. How to build a successful marriage provides you the four pillars to a successful marriage. They are: communication, commitment, trust and love.

The simple yet life-changing 10-step process this audiobook outlines will help you to make the best choices for your children to ensure their long-term health, take actions that will protect your children during this time, communicate productively with your co-parent, and release the past so you can create a love-filled future with your children.

Discover the power of second chances in this heartwarming series of love, loss, and a fresh start from bestselling author Sylvia Price. Beth Campbell is struggling with her growing feelings for Sean Pennington, who is spending more and more time at the bed and breakfast she runs. She finds herself caught in a web of emotions as her friendship with Sean blossoms into something more, but she fears what their developing relationship might bring. When Sean's estranged ex-wife shows up at the bed and breakfast and tries to win him back, Beth is forced to confront her feelings and decide what's ...

The New Year means a second chance at happiness for Kate and Paul. It’s the last wedding for the Charles Town brides. Will everything go as planned, or is a terrible heartbreak about to change everything? Ever since the death of her husband, Kate Woods has been in survival mode, just trying to hold things together for their daughter, Holly. She never even considered looking for another chance at love, until Paul Bryant walked into her life. Paul lost his wife tragically when illness struck while he was out of the state at work, and he never even got to say goodbye. He wanted to keep his ...

We all know one thing; Relationships are built on trust and jealousy, mistrust, and insecurity can tear apart even the most promising relationships! And by virtue that you are reading this, it is clear you are scared that your relationship may be on the path to ruin and want to turn things around, put on breaks and turn the sails to ensure everything takes a different turn and save it!

In January 2010, founder of ArtLeadHer Mashonda Tifrere and music producer Swizz Beatz finalized their divorce. When Swizz married award-winning singer/songwriter Alicia Keys, a new dynamic was born - three adults who loved and were deeply committed to raising Mashonda and Swizz's four-year old son Kasseem. In Blend, Tifrere draws on the insights they gained from their journey as well as advice from family therapists, parenting experts, and other blending families, to provide an invaluable resource for blended families.

Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions, and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account - wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. "Because we want them to thrive," Marla always says. But for the Hemmings cousins, "thriving" feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born.

Relentless is the fifteenth novella in the ongoing story of the Andersen family. Livia Andersen was a woman who held her family together with a quiet smile and an iron will. It’s been months since her death and her children and grandchildren she leaves behind continue to grapple with the shifting changes in their lives now that she’s gone. Some look back at what else has been lost to them. Chris Andersen is looking forward with anticipation to the future spread that's out in front of him…one that he didn’t expect. But he is also looking behind him at what was lost and never ...