Henry Carter Hull

Author Alexa Wainwright vows to do whatever it takes to attain the heady ego-stroking success of her debut. But is she really? Witnessing an out-of-the-blue lightning bolt whose giant tendrils spread over the blue sky and city streets below her loft window, Alexa doesn’t realize just how this vow will be tested as she’s magically transported to an alternate reality. In this universe, the characters from her books are given the breath of life and...

After the tragic loss of her fiancé in a plane crash, Eden Sommers goes to Mercer Island, Washington State to recover. Instead of finding peace and putting it all behind her, she is plagued by questions and a determination to unearth the truth. Romance is the last thing on her mind with the mystery man next door who reminds her of her fiancé. She’s attracted to the sexy stranger, but the walls are up. How can she trust a man who keeps secrets...

Susannah Moodie (born Strickland; 1803– 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in mid-19th century Canada, a sparsely-populated British colony at the time. Moodie also wrote children's books, poetry, and memoirs in addition to novels. Her writing inspired well-known, fellow Canadian writers Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields. 'Flora Lyndsay' tells the story of a young wife and mother who emigrates,...

Leonora centers on the newly married Leonora and her decision to bring back to England a woman who had been exiled to France. The woman, Olivia, is known as a "coquette," and her controversial behavior with regard to her marriage had driven her to France, where she cultivated an aristocratic, "French" sensibility that exists apart from conventional morality.

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A curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be in this rich, heartwarming story from the acclaimed author of Ellie and the Harpmaker. Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to leave her fortune to. When she sees a documentary about penguins being studied in Antarctica, she tells the...

Mattie Ross is probably the last person who should be doling out good counsel to anyone about anything. Still smarting after being left at the altar two years earlier, she is strapped with debt, has sworn off men, routinely buries herself in her work, and despite her well-proportioned figure remains haunted by childhood taunts of "Fatty Mattie." But to her publisher at the Chicago Gazette, and listeners, she is their latest advice columnist, The Plate...

An explosive yearning that can’t be denied. Disturbing visions from an ancient past. A mysterious stranger that somehow feels familiar. On the night of her fiftieth birthday, the comfortable ride of Toscana’s life takes an alarming plunge. Haunted by seductive visions, she tries to push aside the desire and focus on the husband who adores her. Then she falls for Flynn, a younger man with an eye for adventure and a heart full of romance, who leaves...

Beaumont Hill, the only African American skier on the US Olympic team, is heavily favored to win gold— until he takes a devastating fall and loses it all. His back broken, Beau has lost the will to live. But former gymnast Shayna DaCosta is determined to help do more than see him plod through life. She's been there, taken the bull by the proverbial horns and made a productive life for herself. As attracted as she is to Beau, he's still the patient,...

After last summer's failed attempt at romance, Gina is absolutely done with men. And especially with millionaires. She has a good job as a fashion editor and amazing friends, and she's decided she needs nothing else. All she really misses is the sex. But that rush just isn't worth the risk of being ensnared in another relationship. When the hot bartender at her best friend's Sonoma wedding suggests some harmless stress relief, she takes him up on...

A pro hockey player with a rough reputation and a dark past.An American looking for a taste of adventure.Will they turn their sensual nights into something more?Photographer Caroline Mendoza finally sheds her safe life in Michigan for adventure and a fresh start, and her first stop is Sweden. But Stockholm suddenly becomes more than just a casual stopover when Caroline discovers her reclusive next-door neighbor is ex-Red Wings player Niklas Almquist,...