Family Drama

Therapist turned stay-at-home mom Jules Hart’s idyllic suburban life shatters when she crashes her car into an icy lake. Her son and another teenage boy plunge into the water with her, but Jules can only manage to save one—the wrong one. Reeling from the death of her son, Jules spirals into a violent and unstable mental state. Ten months after the accident, she’s still trying to reckon with the fact that she rescued Isaac Greer, another woman’s child, when Isaac suddenly vanishes.

Love Never Disappears Traceless. In the Book about Family Struggles, It Finds Its Way to Be the Guide on the Way to the Light. The kind, loving husband Swaminathan is a victim of his wife’s domineering abuse. When their daughter is born, Swaminathan extends his patience to fatherhood and becomes an exemplary parent. The wife, Shanthi, however, abuses the daughter and hurts her every time she is upset with Swaminathan. So Swaminathan leaves his family, the daughter, and the wife. When he reaches Kanchipuram, a town in India famous for its abundance of sacred places and temples, he meets a ...

Tragedy strikes the Lime Peak Ranch. Lime Peak Ranch is home to the Dumont and Ruggles families who raise cattle, train horses, and compete in PRCA rodeos. Life down the dirt road isn’t as perfect as it seems and secrets have roots deeper than the maple trees. Bonnie Ruggles has to leave the Lime Peak Ranch but her marriage is in pieces scattered from the house to the barn. Dallas isn’t speaking to her, his hurt bigger than any words. When tragedy strikes, Bonnie is called home to be with her husband. Their relationship is changing and only by revealing the truth can they start ...

Katherine is a powerful family drama set against the haunting backdrop of 1944—the final Christmas of World War II. It is the story of a woman’s unyielding strength in the face of fear, grief, and uncertainty. In a world darkened by war, Katherine is a luminous portrait of love, resilience, and the quiet heroism of motherhood. Thirty-four-year-old Katherine Wilburn is the heart of her family, a woman battling to keep her household intact while the world outside threatens to tear it apart. With her eldest son, Donald, fighting on the war-torn fields of France, Katherine clings ...

Growing up on the 'other' side of the fence, what could 10 year old Kenzie really do? She can do anything the other kids in the neighborhood can do! No fence was going to stop her. At least that's what she thought. Through grit and determination and the help of some of the other kids, Kenzie does one of the biggest triumphs the neighborhood had seen in years. But will it backfire? Will she lose everything her mom and grandma worked so hard for?

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the lynchpin of all their lives. Bill is overwhelmed without his beloved wife, and Annemarie wrestles with the bad habits her best friend had helped her overcome. And Ali, the eldest of Annie’s children, has to grow up overnight, to care for her younger brothers and even her father and to puzzle out for herself many of the mysteries of adult life. Over the course of the next year what saves them all is Annie.

Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father’s arrest.

Journals. Once discovered, they have the power to destroy and encourage. Nora Cavanaugh was a force to be reckoned with and her life is revealed when the journals she kept from her wedding day until her death are passed around between the generations of women who come after her. The comfortable lives that each of these women had been enjoying is flipped upside down as secrets are revealed and mistakes are made. Nora’s Heart is opened and laid bare for those who come after her. Her journals become something of a therapy session for her great-granddaughter, Ami, who is struggling in a ...

Mel Rosco and his brother Jimmy shared the same last name, but that's where the similarities ended. After years of barely getting by, Mel teetered on the brink of financial collapse. Plagued with bad luck, about all he could count on was the moral support of his wife, his kids and a handful of friends. On the contrary, life couldn't be sweeter for his older brother Jimmy, who had risen to the top of Woodland Beach's social ladder through planning, strategy and hard work. His swanky Shoreline Inn was a landmark, a place where customers waited in long lines for a table. The upcoming July 4th ...

One woman’s quest to discover her past could unravel the Diamante Dynasty in this billionaire family saga from USA Today Bestselling Author Lucy McConnell. When Evelyn finds an old charm and a letter from a man who could be her biological father, she runs to her best friend, Bryce. He’s the one she can always count on; but, he has a secret of his own—he’s in love with her. Evelyn fears losing Bryce’s friendship if they try and fail at a romantic relationship; but she can’t deny that there’s always been an attraction between them. She’s vulnerable while finding her place in ...

If the past spoke to you would you listen? This novel by the bestselling author of The Irish Cowboy and The San Juan Islands Mystery series mixes thrills and romance in the beautiful and isolated surroundings of eastern Montana where a young woman seeks to discover her past so that she might then save her future. ______ Morning McGreevy didn't know much about her great-grandfather Cy until she discovers his journal hidden away in an attic. She starts to read, hears his voice, and sees the world through his eyes. Cy's joy and pain become hers until a terrible family secret is a secret no ...

Deportation Content is what happens when the line between citizen and outsider shifts overnight—and nobody wants to admit they saw it coming. Sam was born on the "right" side of the border. That used to mean something. But in the shadow of the Great Deportation Surge, even third-generation Americans are being reclassified. A grandparent’s paperwork error, a decades-old border crossing—suddenly, that’s enough to get you deported. His dad said talking might save him. His girlfriend said caring might save him. Neither worked out. So now, caught somewhere between the last protest chant ...

Filmmaker Tessa Shepherd helped free a man she believed was wrongly imprisoned for murder. When he kills again, Tessa’s life is upended. She’s reeling with guilt, her reputation destroyed. Worse, Tessa’s mother has unexpectedly passed away, and her sister, Margot, turns on her after tensions from their past escalate. Hounded by a bullying press, Tessa needs an escape. That’s when she learns of a strange inheritance bequeathed by her mother: a derelict and isolated estate known as Fallbrook. It seems like the perfect refuge.

Clara’s Courtship: Book Two of the Clara Engelman Series Having consented to a tentative courtship with her bishop, Vernon, Clara still thinks love will never be part of any other relationship she might have. Still, as a Beachy Amish Mennonite woman, she must consider her duty to her community and to her children, because they need a father to replace her beloved Abram. Still again, doubts in the form of rumors about Vernon’s wife worry her. As she attempts to overcome them, she spends time with Vernon to see if they are suited for each other.However, someone who cares for Clara is ...

A researcher, therapist, and mediator, Robert Emery, PhD, details a new approach to sharing custody with children in two homes. Huge numbers of children are affected by separation, divorce, cohabitation breakups, and childbearing outside of marriage. These children have two homes. But their parents have only one chance to protect their childhood.

The old trunk sat unclaimed on the depot platform for more than two decades. John Forrester 's decision to use it as an escape vehicle would result in it becoming either an untimely coffin or a way to freedom for his only nephew, Timothy. "Timothy's Home", Book V of The Nan's Heritage Series, brings the story of the trunk and the people connected to it full circle. New characters blend with beloved ones from the other books in the series giving a window into life of the 1800s in Colorado. In Elaine Littau's latest offering, "Timothy's Home", she endeavors to keep the story unpredictable as ...

Holder of the Horses: A Family's Legendary Odyssey through Life Jonny Sandgren has always been certain of his destiny: to carry on the cherished legacy of his grandfathers and father on his family's rugged Montana ranch. However, persuading his mother to let him forgo exploring life beyond the ranch and its myriad opportunities proves to be a formidable challenge - perhaps because she understands all too well the price of remaining. Amara Morris, lovingly known as "Grams," shares a deep bond with Jonny and a fervent passion for the Morris ranch. During a late-night conversation, Grams ...

Set in Blackpool, Lancashire. After emerging from a coma, Molly is thrust into a world of deceit, betrayal, and hidden truths. Haunted by amnesia, she struggles to piece together fragments of her past, clinging to the one person she trusts implicitly. Her previous marriage holds dark secrets of abuse and undisclosed conditions that remain shrouded in her lost memories. As a team of detectives races against time to unravel the mystery of her disappearance, Molly's husband becomes the prime suspect in her supposed murder. PC Carter harbours a gut feeling that Molly is still alive, sparking a ...

Montana, my favorite place. I didn't purposely find the building there, honest. But man, am I glad that I did. Billings is a great place to open an authentic Italian restaurant. My siblings will get used to the much smaller city, at least it's not a tiny town like a lot of the other places in Montana. We're opening a restaurant because it's been our dream since we were little kids. We all loved cooking with Nonna every afternoon. She taught us how to make all her authentic Italian recipes. We've been saving every penny since we were old enough to earn money and we're finally ready. I was ...

Her inheritance is her only lifeline. But her ex’s family wants to steal it from her. Tanya is praying for a miracle. Penniless and out of work, she’s tired of struggling just to feed herself and her son. But when she receives a surprise gift from her late ex-mother-in-law in the form of a beautiful beachside house and an ancient antique shop, it feels too good to be true. But there’s a catch—the tiny town of Magnolia Harbor is the home of her estranged ex’s family... and plenty of long-buried secrets that she’d prefer to leave in the dark. Faced with a jealous ex-brother and ...