Emilie Richards

• Jul-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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SPRINGTIME IN NEW ORLEANS WAS A TIME TO CELEBRATE! Mardi Gras was magical, but Bethany Walker also loved its more practical aspect-as a mask maker, it was her most profitable time of year. After Justin Dumontier had deserted her and their unborn d...

• Jul-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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BRENDAN CARLISLE'S REPUTATION PRECEDED HIM Attractive composer, womanizer, musical genius...enough superlatives to impress even the most critical student at the Danzinger Conservatory of Music. Marigny Linden was determined to avoid him. A star of...

• Oct-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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FORBIDDEN FRUIT Hair the color of wildflower honey; skin like peaches and cream; lips like sweet watermelon. First runner-up for Miss Georgia, Stacey McDonald had a wholesome beauty that Ryan Cunningham couldn't resist. And neither could his four ...

• Dec-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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NO LAUGHING MATTER Lesley Belmont had always held back--from success, men, from love. But now she had a chance for her first solo interview, and she was determined to give it her all. She planned to have Travis Hagen, America's premier cartoonist,...

• Feb-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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MAGNOLIA BLOSSOM Hanging upside down from a giant magnolia tree, Alexandra Kathryn MacDonald struggled to salvage her dignity in front of the elegant stranger. It was hardly the way she might have fantasized meeting Tyler Hamilton, one of Georgia...

• Mar-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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SHE'D FORGOTTEN HOW TO REALLY LIVE She had all of Los Angeles at her feet, the record industry's highest awards on her mantel and her name was a household word. Even so, Joelle Lindsay wasn't happy. Somewhere on the road to fame, she'd lost hersel...

• Apr-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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A PERFECT MATCH... Opposites attract? Not in this case, they didn't. He was everything Angelle Reed disliked in a man. A hulking mountain of masculinity--probably thought he was God's gift to women. And as far as Kyle Sullivan was concerned, those...

• Jun-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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AFTER ALL THESE YEARS Theirs was a love born and bred amid the hearty fields of the MacDonalds' Georgia farm. Wendy always dreamed she'd marry Shane when she grew up. She even promised to wait for him when he had to leave town on her sixteenth bir...

• Jul-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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JANE DOE wasn't just another patient. And in all his years of training, no one had touched Joshua Martane like the fragile young woman who had been brought to the psychiatric ward five months earlier. Suspected prostitute. Brutalized victim of a ser...

• Aug-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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METAMORPHOSIS Alex Granger--the same devil-may-care hunk who had lived unchallenged in Jessica Cassidy's daydreams--was still the same outrageously attractive man. But now he couldn't seem to decide if Jessica was still a pesky kid or a woman whom...

• Nov-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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BELIEVE IN MAGIC? No way. Astute, logical Sarah MacDonald had based her life on facts that were tried and true. No starry-eyed dreamer was going to change her way of thinking. Then she discovered Galen Madigan, tired and wounded, hiding out in ...

• Dec-1986
• / Contemporary Romance
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Life offers few second chances. Schoolteacher Elise Ramsey had chosen duty over love and lost her only chance for happiness. Then, in the middle of her life, fate played a strange trick, she was offered yet another opportunity to find her heart's des...

• Feb-1987
• / Contemporary Romance
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THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME When Jennifer MacDonald came home, the last person she expected to meet there was the man of her dreams. But when Ruskin Blake's bank threatened to foreclose on the MacDonald farm, Jennifer realized their love wasn't mea...

• Apr-1987
• / Contemporary Romance
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LONE WOLF A fire, a murder, no clues and a string of suspects as long as the Mississippi were what homicide detective Sam Long had to contend with. His only hope to break open the case was locked away in a little girl's mind. But psychology wasn't...

• Aug-1987
• / Contemporary Romance
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ALMOST PARADISE Nicholas Chandler III, alias Cole Charming, had come to Hawaii to be alone, to avoid publicity from a scandalous trial. The last thing he'd expected to find was a lovely mermaid trespassing on his private beach. But he quickly d...

• Oct-1987
• / Contemporary Romance
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WELCOME TO OZ Russet Ames had escaped! As the plane flew over the Australian countryside, Rusty felt no regret at having left behind the glittering New York world of modeling. She was looking forward to a quieter pace, a tranquil life in the land ...

• Feb-1988
• / Contemporary Romance
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Traditional Olivia LeBlanc was totally unlike attorney Brett Terrill's usual choice in women. After all, ho N. many professional nannies did most single lawyers meet? But once he met her, he was determined not to lose her. She was, quite simply, ever...

• May-1988
• / Contemporary Romance
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Though Lizette St. Hilaire's slim shoulders trembled under the burden of her late husband's legacy, she refused to buckle. Somehow she would raise his son, maintain his beloved plantation and please his demanding parents. Jogging was her only indulge...

• Aug-1988
• / Contemporary Romance
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FROM THE PIECES OF THE PAST .. . Once, Julianna had been plain Julie Ann, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks who had dared to love beyond her station. Amazingly Gray Sheridan, scion of the local dynasty, had loved her, too--enough to marry...

• Nov-1988
• / Contemporary Romance
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SAVED BY THE DEVIL HIMSELF... when Paige Duvall found herself lost amid New Zealand's boiling mud pools, she felt as if she had strayed into some steaming netherworld where demons played and mere mortals lost their souls. But when Adam Tomoana emerg...

• Feb-1989
• / Contemporary Romance
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AT THE RAINBOW'S END. Far below the dusty Australian outback lay a buried treasure that burned with crystal fire and awakened lust in the hearts of men: opal. And it was there, in the dark tunnels of the Rainbow Fire mine, that Kelsey Donovan was ...

• May-1989
• / Contemporary Romance
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STARTING OVER .. . For Alexis Whitham, Australia's remote Kangaroo Island was the perfect place to begin a new life. With her young daughter, she could hide from her abusive ex-husband and write the books that provided her sole financial support. ...

• Sep-1989
• / Contemporary Romance
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Jared Farrell had specifically requested that a man be hired to manage Wehilani, his vast Hawaiian estate. Instead he got Glory Kalia, every inch a lady, the kind who sets men's pulses racing. She was also a more-than-capable manager, and so he l...

• May-1990
• / Contemporary Romance
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Johanna Hastings should have been feeling blessed -- married, with three sons, now she had a new baby on the way. But David was always working the farm and the boys still thought she should be their willing slave. There was only one solution. to her ...

• Jun-1990
• / Contemporary Romance
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MEAN STREETS... Librarian Krista Jensen was desperate to find her runaway sister, desperate enough to do anything-even pose as a teen prostitute and walk the New Orleans streets she'd heard Rosie was walking. It was a dangerous life. The men wh...

• Jul-1990
• / Contemporary Romance
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ALIAS ANNA FITZGERALD... There was danger in Anna Fitzgerald's past--and there would be danger in her future, too, if anyone ever discovered she was really Rosie Jensen. As a teenager, she'd fled from an impossible situation, only to discover t...

• Nov-1990
• / Contemporary Romance
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.. . "Stay where you are. I've got a gun." Tate Cantrell froze in the doorway of her isolated mountain cabin. The big, bearded stranger wielding a revolver was an escaped convict, an embezzler--and a murderer. But he was also ba...

• Jul-1991
• / Contemporary Romance
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Teenage Meredith Robbins had experienced despair at the tragic loss of a special friend, then borne the anguish of having to give up their child. Now, years later, she painstakingly avoided emotional entanglements--until Garrett Quinn's warmth and si...

• Oct-1991
• / Contemporary Romance
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A NUN WITH A GUN? Was rebellious Sister Felicia, the nun who sneaked cigarettes and went swimming in the nude, for real? Or was she a cool assassin, an imposter who had come to the Palm Springs convent in order to murder a world-famous humanitaria...

• Dec-1991
• / Contemporary Romance
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A GUNMAN"S GAME Private investigator Kelley Samuels thought her only official business at her friend's wedding was as maid of honor--until all hell broke loose. Sudden blasts of gunfire drowned out the "Wedding March," and Kelley was losing her wr...

• Jun-1992
• / Contemporary Romance
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The woman was impossible! Wealthy businessman Jase Millington knew a challenge when he saw one--and Becca Hanks was his biggest challenge yet. She'd had more than her share of bad luck, and all he wanted was to help her. But she was so proud that she...

• Oct-1992
• / Science Fiction Romance
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS He was ice and she was fire--mated in a cascade of wedded bliss. Yet their happily-ever-after turned into a sea of estrangement, and nothing could stem the salty tears that washed Stefan and Lindsey onto the barren shores of separ...

• May-1993
• / Science Fiction Romance
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THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH Like a scorching mirage, the stranger materialized from the sandswept Australian Dryas naked and nameless as a newborn babe. But even without his memory, he was every inch a man .... A man whose missing past-and eerily hy...

• Aug-1993
• / Contemporary Romance
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SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER US Thomas Slonehill: A minister who's lost his faith in God, in himself, in love. Garnet Anthony: A free-clinic nurse practitioner who has every reason to give up-but won't. Garnet had gotten herself on the wrong side o...

• Nov-1993
• / Contemporary Romance
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Chloe Palmer knew all about Christmas wishes -- especially those of orphaned little girls, just like she had once been. But this Christmas was different. Was there magic in the air? Or was handsome contractor Egan O'Brien responsible for rebuilding h...

• Mar-1994
• / Contemporary Romance
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Urchin Corey Haskins loved her teacher to pieces. Trouble was, she wasn't crazy about "Miss Sam's" grouchy ol' husband, Joe Giovanelli. And the feeling was mutual. Just 'cause she'd wrecked his car and bashed in his mandolin didn't mean the big guy s...

• Mar-1995
• / Contemporary Romance
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ANYTHING FOR HIS DAUGHTER Duncan Sinclair was a modern man - and the village of his birth was something he thought he had left behind long ago. But when he needed a safe haven for his daughter, it struck him as a godsend. He would stay as long as ...

• Jun-1995
• / Contemporary Romance
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IN THE ARMS OF DESTINY She was like no woman Iain Ross had ever known, this American visitor he'd hauled, half-drowned, out of a Highland loch and taken home to warm before his fire. Before he quite knew what was happening, the earthy, irrepressi...

• Aug-1995
• / Contemporary Romance
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TO LOVE AND PROTECT Fiona Sinclair had come home to face the demons of her past. And when Andrew MacDougall offered the shelter of his arms, she was ready to face her future. This compelling man made her long for more than protection. Now she want...

• Jun-1996
• / Historical Romance
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Aurore Gerritsen watched her lover kill her father. It was just one act of violence in a dramatic chain of events... Behind the iron gates of wealthy New Orleans, beneath the veneer of her society name, linger truths that Aurore Gerritsen has hidden...

• Aug-1996
• / Paranormal Romance
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LIFE IS FULL OF SURPRISES Elisabeth Whitfield is restless. Her son doesn't need her anymore. She and her husband don't seem to connect the way they used to. And she's secretly envious of gorgeous, tempestuous Gypsy Dugan -- the superstar host of a...

• Dec-1996
• / Contemporary Romance
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A worldly Frenchwoman with looks to kill...and a knack for disappearing...and English rose with less-than-innocent ways of escaping unwanted attention... Noah Colter had encountered both women...yet saw through the skillful deception to the one w...

• May-1997
• / Contemporary Romance
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Nine people have gathered for the reading of Aurore Gerritsen's will. Some are family, others are strangers. But all will have their futures changed forever when a lifetime of secrets is finally revealed. Aurore Gerritsen left clear instructions:...

• May-1997
• / Contemporary Romance
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He was talented, successful...and fatherhood was the last thing on his mind. But the stork-and a woman from his past-had other plans in Emilie Richard's A STRANGER'S SON....

• Jul-1997
• / Contemporary Romance
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WHAT I DID FOR LOVE Pushing thirty and never been...well, you know...pediatrics nurse Matty Stewart was forever nurturing other people's offspring. Until a tipsy birthday dare had her winging to the Bahamas -- to wed a single dad desperate for a ...

• Nov-1997
• / Paranormal Romance
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A BRAVE NEW WORLD? Mary Kate McKenzie loves her work with wayward teens, but her youthful idealism isn't very effective -- until a hard knock on the head turns the naive, rosy-viewed woman into a clear-eyed, no-nonsense dynamo whose new attitude m...

• May-1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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When a man and woman marry, they create dreams of a lifetime together and share the hope that their house will be filled with the proof of their love--in the laughter of their children. But the path to motherhood isn't always an easy one... . It w...

• Jun-1998
• / Contemporary Romance
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In some small Southern towns the old ways still exist. Breeding counts and the old boys hold court. Everyone has a place and no one's supposed to cross the line. But rules are made to be broken... In Southern Gentlemen, authors Jennifer Blake and Emi...

• Apr-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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THE TREASURE It's a pearl so flawless it has no price. But those who possess it pay dearly. Since the day nearly a century before when it was plucked from Australian waters, the pearl has cursed the Robeson and Llewellyn families, unleashing a leg...

• Sep-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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EVERY SECOND COUNTS... Hannah Blackstone's little girl had been kidnapped, but no one was willing to help her. No one except Quinn McDermott. Hannah hardly knew more than his name, but all that mattered was that her mysterious new neighbor had tak...

• Jun-2000
• / Contemporary Romance
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A proud family, a turbulent legacy, a generations-old secret poised to shatter their lives: “Suspense, mystery, history, romance -- this book has it all.” -- The Best ReviewsOnce a struggling community of Irish immigrants, Lake Erie’s Whiskey ...

• Jun-2001
• / Contemporary Romance
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An artist's sudden blindness is diagnosed as psychological trauma - but what is it she doesn't want to see? An innocent man is released after nine years in jail for a murder he didn't commit. In a community of millionaires and the people who ...

• Jul-2002
• / Contemporary Romance
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A woman who has lived by everyone else's rules must discover what whe is made of when her life crumbles around her. When Faith Bronson's marriage ends abruptly, she finds her privileged life shattered. Only just beginning to face the lie she has l...

• Jul-2003
• / Contemporary Romance
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USA TODAY bestselling author Emilie Richards continues the journey begun in her beloved novel Whiskey Island with this unforgettable tale of star-crossed lovers, murder and three sisters who discover a hidden legacy that will lead them home at last t...

• Sep-2003
• / Contemporary Romance
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"To the one I love..." The letter appeared mysteriously on the doorstep, and the Colman sisters' fantasies went straight to work. But what mystery man had sent it -- and to which sister? That Old Familiar Feeling by Emilie Richards Emilie Rich...

• Jul-2004
• / Contemporary Romance
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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...

• Sep-2004
• / Contemporary Romance
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Somewhere, at this very moment, a woman's caring and commitment is changing a life in her community...and changing the world. Five of these compassionate, dedicated women have been chosen from nominees across North America to become Harlequin's More ...

• Jul-2005
• / Contemporary Romance
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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, w...

• Nov-2005
• / Suspense
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Charlotte Brontë’s contemporary George Eliot wrote of Villette, “There is something almost preternatural in its power.” The deceptive stillness and security of a girls’ school provide the setting for this 1853 novel, Brontë’s last. Mo...

• Dec-2005
• / Mystery
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Meet the unconventional Aggie Sloan-Wilcox, a minister's wife with her own calling: helping troubled souls in need of justice ... Aggie's free-spirited ways have been raising many an eyebrow at the Consolidated Community Church, tucked away in th...

• Jul-2006
• / Contemporary Romance
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After narrowly escaping death, newspaper journalist Kendra Taylor retreats to a cabin nestled in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to heal and sort out her feelings about her troubled marriage. The land was bequeathed to her husband by a maternal grandmot...

• Dec-2006
• / Mystery
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Now that a chalk outline no longer marks their front porch, Aggie Sloan-Wilcox and her minister husband can turn their attention back to the living... 'Tis the season in bucolic Emerald Springs, Ohio. As a gift to her daughters, Aggie's mom has in...

• Jul-2007
• / Romance
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When is a family no longer a family? Gayle Fortman has built a good life for herself and her three sons in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Divorced f Eric Fortman, Gayle has made a success rom charismatic broadcast journalist of Daughter of the...

• Nov-2007
• / Mystery
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There's no rest for the weary Aggie Sloan-Wilcox and her minister husband, who were praying for a relaxing weekend until a member of their flock went missing. Joe Wagner, president of Emerald Springs's food bank, disappears, and Aggie discovers h...

• Apr-2008
• / Romance
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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 agre...

• Feb-2009
• / Mystery
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Aggie Sloan-Wilcox likes to practice what her minister husband preaches to a point. But babysitting a narcissistic "star" demands the patience of a saint, and Aggie isn't bucking for a halo. Actor and singer Grady Barber has returned to his hometown...

• Jul-2009
• / Romance
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Meet four women who think they have nothing in common except the oyster-shell road that runs between their ramshackle beach cottages on a spit of land called Happiness Key. When her husband is sent to prison, pampered Tracy Deloche is left with tw...

• Jun-2010
• / Romance
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To The One I Love...

The letter appeared mysteriously on the doorstep, and the Colman sisters' fantasies went straight to work. But what mystery man had sent it--and to which sister?

USA TODAY bestselling author Emilie Richards introdu...

• Jul-2010
• / Contemporary Romance
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Join five women connected only by their growing friendship and the road that runs like a lifeline between their cottages in a run-down Florida development called Happiness Key. Tracy Deloche finally gets a chance to swap business for a romantic even...

• Aug-2010
• / Contemporary Romance
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“Nobody’s Child” by Emilie RichardsHe had come to a child’s rescue, and now Officer Farrell Riley was suddenly sharing parenthood with beautiful Gemma Hancock. Somehow this woman and child had laid a claim on his loner’s heart. But would th...

• Oct-2010
• / Mystery
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Minister's wife Aggie Sloan-Wilcox is no stranger to murder -- or to the victim in a recent Emerald Springs killing. And fames harder to take is that the man who died may have brought the murder on himself... After Godwin "Win" Dorchester, a former ...

• Jul-2011
• / Contemporary Romance
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Five very different women find friendship -- and unexpected love -- on the barrier island known as Happiness Key Former socialite Tracy Deloche has nothing to her name but five ramshackle beach cottages and the unlikely friendships she's formed with...

• Jul-2012
• / Contemporary Romance
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Life on Happiness Key is lonely for eleven-year-old Olivia Symington, so when she finds a message in a bottle on Treasure Beach, her interest is piqued. Someone needs help, and she knows what that's like. Maybe by helping she can even find a friend. ...

• Aug-2012
• / Contemporary Romance
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With nothing but brains, ambition and sheer nerve, Charlotte Hale built a career as a tough, do-anything-to-succeed real-estate developer. She's at the top of that mountain…but her life is empty. Her friends are as grasping and insincere as she has...

• Jun-2013
• / Contemporary Romance
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Where Luck Meets Trust, Miracles Can Happen 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 ...

• Nov-2013
• / Contemporary Romance
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A FAMILY'S GIFT When they were young, cousins Ella, Rachel and Jo were always together at their family's lake house. As they grew up, though, they grew apart...until now, as the three must band together to grant a beloved aunt's dying wish: to fi...

• Jun-2014
• / Contemporary Romance
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Some betrayals are like rivers, so deep, so wide, they can't be crossed. But -- for those with enough courage -- forgiveness, redemption and love may be found on the other side. On the night her home is consumed by fire, Janine Stoddard finally r...

• Aug-2015
• / Contemporary Romance
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The deeper the darkness, the brighter the light For more than a decade minister Analiese Wagner has felt privileged to lead her parishioners along a well-lit path. Her commitment has never been seriously tested until the frigid night she encounte...

• Jun-2016
• / General Fiction
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From USA TODAY bestselling author Emilie Richards comes an emotional story about love, loyalty and the deep bonds of sisterhood. Love and loyalty made them sisters. Secrets could still destroy them. As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robi...

• Feb-2017
• / Contemporary Romance
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Recipient of the Romance Writers of America RITA award as well as a rare 5 star review from Romantic Times magazine, Hold Back the Night (previously titled Dragonslayer) is the story of a minister who has lost his faith in God and a woman who, despit...

• Jun-2017
• / General Fiction
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Three women fight for the chance to raise the child they've all come to love 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 f...

• Aug-2018
• / Romantic Suspense
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• Jun-2019
• / Thriller
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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...

• Jul-2021
• / Women's Fiction
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Two women. Two families. Two lifetimes' worth of secrets. 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, Savanna...