Island Women

I wanted a new start, but what I got was a grumpy ex-boyfriend as my next-door neighbor. Inheriting this Bed and Breakfast was never in my life's grand plan, but destiny has a sense of humor. My nursing school dream is on pause as I dive head-first into renovation mode. Enter Caleb, my hot hunky neighbor, and my old flame. Sparks are flying, and I don't mean just from his power tools. Forced to work together, I see a different, charming side of Caleb and my heart is undergoing a renovation too. My heart melts watching Caleb with his daughter, Mia, and Mr. Grumpy turns into a sweet daddy ...

In 1921, Inupait seamstress Ada Blackjack joined a a group of four white men who wanted to establish a trading post on Wrangel Island in the freezing Arctic Ocean. The explorers were stranded on the island when their return ship was forced to turn back due to ice. Facing harsh conditions and dwindling food supplies, the men died one by one, but Ada remained. Find out how she alone managed to survive the disastrous expedition.

EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS Peggy Lynch devoted her life to maintaining the facade of the perfect suburban family and sacrificed everything to hide her unforgivable sins. Years have passed since Peggy ruled the Lynch house and Veronica is no longer her mother’s obedient little girl. Moving into her childhood home with her husband and infant twins, Verionica’s starting a new life and should finally be happy. Right? Wrong. While cleaning out her old bedroom, Veronica finds a letter from her deceased mother. If Veronica were smart she’d burn it and leave her family secrets buried with ...

A sudden disappearance, an island escape, the boy from her past, a raging blizzard of secrets and fear, another woman’s betrayal & the quiet suffering of a broken heart. She’d known the boy he was and it had never been a secret that she loved him with all her heart...then walked away...her dreams and hopes lost. Years later her life depends on the man he’s become. Dark secrets and twisted truths...hidden clues and unexpected danger...a lost island of dreams and mystery... There was only time to grab her purse and the small keepsake box she couldn’t leave behind. She had no choice ...

Even in the chill of February, no place touches Harper McClain's heart like Savannah. She should be walking beneath the historic city's towering oaks, surrounded by graceful mansions. Instead, she's hiding miles away on Tybee Island after a mysterious voice on the phone warned her that someone wanted her dead. The call was too specific to ignore. The caller knew everything about her. But that was months ago, and she's getting tired of being scared.

A man is found dead on a beach on a small island off the coast of Germany. The gruesome discovery rocks the close-knit community of Amrum: in a town where nothing stays secret for long, who among them has a motive for murder? DI Lena Lorenzen is brought in to investigate. For her, it is an unwelcome homecoming to the isolated island she turned her back on fourteen years ago. But now her past - and the island’s - is catching up with her.

Camilla Thurlow came second on Love Island in 2017. More recently, she has impressed viewers in the latest series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. But that's not the most interesting part.... Camilla can do something that none of her fellow contestants, and not even the ex-Special Forces directing staff on Celebrity SAS can do: find, neutralise and destroy the landmines that threaten the lives and livelihoods of so many people in the world's former war zones and make their land unworkable.

In this second book of the Sand Dune Bay series, long-time friends Ali Vine and Ginger Thorne find themselves, once again, in an exciting adventure after Ginger learns of an intriguing inheritance from a long-lost uncle. So long-lost, in fact, that she never even knew he existed! As the new heir to a presumably amazingly luxurious hotel and resort on remote Sea Blue Island, Ginger would have had no idea what was in store for her and her friends when they first stepped off the private sea-plane onto the sandy beaches of this extraordinary vacation getaway. As they discover that her dear old ...

On the quayside next to the Endless Beach sits the Summer Seaside Kitchen. It's a haven for tourists and locals alike, who all come to eat the freshest local produce on the island and catch up with the gossip. Flora, who runs the café, feels safe and content - unless she thinks too hard about her relationship with Joel, her gorgeous but emotionally (and physically) distant boyfriend. While Flora is in turmoil about her relationship, her best friend, Lorna, is pining after the local doctor.

A legendary island steeped in the mystery and wisdom of centuries...A runaway heiress learning to trust life, and love...A mother and daughter, separated for years, searching for a way to face the future together...Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time.

Opal gets a dirty, old suitcase for her birthday. She's not impressed. Her grandfather tells her she'll need it, because she's going to live with her great aunt in a far-away place where magic is real. The evening Opal arrives, a body is discovered in the woods, not far from where she passed through. A terrifying creature has emerged from the ground, and it hungers for the innocent, whether people believe in it or not.

What happens when Mr. Slow and Steady finds himself on a collision course with Ms. Full-Speed-Ahead? The forecast is smooth sailing for Oliver Chancellor, one of Galveston’s premier financier. Destined to take his place in his family’s bank, Chance is content with the future that’s been mapped out for him, right down to his upcoming engagement to a prim debutante. But when beautiful Aurora St. Claire crosses his path, Chance recklessly plunges into uncharted territory with nothing but his heart to guide him-and a beautiful woman to tempt him. Propelled by a lifelong dream to buy the island home reportedly haunted by her colorful ancestors, Aurora desperately needs Chance’s help in securing a business loan and she won’t take no for an answer. In the midst of convincing the hesitant blue blood to take a chance on her dream, Aurora awakes his hidden streak of red-hot passion. Before they know it, the mismatched pair are all tangled up in a reckless desire and headed for trouble-trouble in the name of love.

Old college friends Rob, Oliver, and Mick reunite on an American bird watching tour. It is the first time in twenty years the three have been together—since their fateful trip to America when they met the enigmatic Laurie . . . The tour party is hoping for spectacular sights at High Island on the Upper Texas coast but, as the rain pours down and swarms of migrating birds fall from the sky seeking shelter, the birders are distracted by a far more shocking sight: Mick’s dead body.

The Taylor sisters spent every summer at their family’s lake house, but as they grew up, they also grew apart. Now, in honor of their late mother’s wishes, they reunite on Evening Island, each hoping to find the best part of themselves they’d left behind.

She's single, out of a job, and has a week to decide what to do with her life. He lost his fiancé to a fatal accident while serving in the coast guard. Will a chance encounter lead Clara and Mike to find love? Clara’s boss, Joan Russell, was a wealthy owner of a beachfront mansion, who recently passed away. Joan’s estranged family members have stepped in, eager to collect their inheritance and dismiss Clara of her duties. With the clock winding down, will Clara find a job and make a new life for herself on Solomons Island?

She’s waited years for this moment…for him. You can always go home…but what will you find when you do. Jonathan Hansen is about to find out. For years they’ve hidden a huge secret…an island that was home to their small town, the families and friends who live there, and the secrets they’ve kept for generations. But danger might be right beyond the water’s edge. Jonathan Hansen felt broken…but he would never break. He believed he had nowhere to go…no home, no family, no friendships or relationships to return to. But he was wrong. As he stood just beyond the island’s small ...

She’d waited years for this moment…for him. You can always go home…but what will you find when you do. Jonathan Hansen is about to find out. For years they’ve hidden a huge secret…an island that was home to their small town, the families and friends who live there, and the secrets they've kept for generations. But danger might be right beyond the water’s edge. Together, two guarded hearts are willing to face the impending threat and the danger it poses to the tranquility of their small island home. Ainslin O’Cleary wasn’t the type to over-react but she was beginning to feel ...

Bella, a young lawyer, has been hired by a firm in Wilmington, NC. Not her first choice, she is nevertheless consoled by the fact that her grandmother has left her a rather dilapidated beach house on Beryl Island. Moving onto the island, she is met by an old boyfriend from her childhood, Robert Malone, who had broken her heart at sixteen. Thinking he might have changed, she gives him a second chanceShe is amazed and captivated by a marine biologist, Chess Steadman, that’s assigned to Beryl Island to work with loggerhead turtle nests. Also, there is Florence Hatley, a woman that runs a ...

She’d known the boy he was and it had never been a secret that she loved him with all her heart...then walked away...her dreams and hopes lost. Years later her life depends on the man he’s become. Dark secrets and twisted truths...hidden clues and unexpected danger...a lost island of dreams and mystery... There was only time to grab her purse and the small keepsake box she couldn’t leave behind. She had no choice but to trust a family friend with his own share of secrets to keep them safe from a mysterious and threatening danger. But was her heart safe from him...was it ever? Addie ...

Magic got them into this mess. Now it’s their only way out... Layney’s life looks picture-perfect—respectable husband, sweet teenage daughter, and a five-bedroom home in Cheshire. But when her daughter acts possessed and long-buried memories resurface, Layney realises something is very wrong. Years ago, Gran cast a spell to keep them safe. Now it’s wearing off. When Layney remembers her long-lost Highland heartthrob, one blazing row with her husband is all it takes to set her escape plan in motion. She’s heading to the wilds of Scotland—specifically, the remote Isle of Whye, ...