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Nothing Shady Ever Happens in Shady Valley Series
Liberty Garcia, Recipe Creator for Smart Living, accidentally finds Harry Greer at The Raceway Restaurant. She is running from a murderer and trying to save her father’s gold doubloons.
Matt Sluder becomes her protector.
Liberty runs from the killer and escapes death several times. If a cat has nine lives, how many lives does she have?
Can Liberty escape the killer and keep the doubloons?
Books that have lived in my heart for the last few years
In 1798, Callie Trent travels with her parents to the frontier of Tennessee in a wagon train. Before they reach the settlement, her father tells her he has arranged a marriage with her and Jacob McGinnis, a man she has never met. Callie objects to the marriage, but when she meets Jacob, he.s not that bad. She has come to the mountains to teach the children in the settlement, not to get married. Before they reach the settlement, three of the meanest men from the ridge attacked them, three Mulengeons. Callie learns about the Melungeons and becomes interested in their history. No one knew when they came to the ridge. They are strange in physical appearance and their ways. There is much prejudice against them. She befriends one family and teaches them how to read and write.
Jacob loves Callie, but she doesn’t want to encourage him. She wants to teach school before she marries, but the three Melungeon men have other plans.
Four novellas draw you into four beach romances.
All Yours Art and Soul
by Diane Turpin
Beth Kindall’s desire to discover the anonymous buyer of her watercolor painting is complicated by the arrival of architect, Trevor Garrett. Their instant spark upsets Trevor’s realtor who already had her eyes on the newcomer. Can Beth unravel the mysterious buyer, sort out her own commitment issues, and thwart the realtor’s advances on Trevor?
For the Love of Dolphins
by Kathy Cretsinger
Sadie Miller inherited one of the dolphin tour boats when her father passed away suddenly. She was determined to make the tour as successful as her father had, even with the problems with her dad’s brother Uncle Joe. When her old middle school flame. Ian Glover returns from England, and her life takes her places she’d never dreamed.
Pawleys Aisle
by Regina Rudd Merrick
Leaving a lucrative position in the banking world for the creative world of weddings, Chelsea Prince finds the perfect venue, Pawleys Island Chapel, next door to the perfect walled garden. Her elderly neighbor and partner-in-planning have an agreement, but when the unexpected happens, she has to deal with the cranky grandson who wants to be left alone to write the next great American novel. Since Chelsea has sworn off men, it shouldn’t be a problem to ignore him and go on her way hosting weddings in the chapel. But when Marc McCallum offers up a compromise, she wonders if maybe there is one man out there that can be trusted.
Surf Song
by Pam Harris
Dreams don’t always work out as imagined, a fact country music singer Rachelle has learned all too well. Burned out by the demands of her singing career, she flees from Nashville to a quaint inn in the Outer Banks of North Carolina where she hopes to find peace and clarity. Registering under her real name of Holly Bellamy and sporting a new hair color and style to disguise her true identity, she revels in being just a “regular person.” When she and the inn’s owner begin to develop feelings for each other, however, her life takes a turn she never expected.