SNEAK PEEKS at new & recent books
COMING IN AUGUST
Dream Lake, from the Friday Harbor Series
Beautiful and shy Zoe Hoffman has hired Alex Nolan to remodel a lake house for
her, in spite of his rude behavior and his reputation as a bitter and hard-living man.
What Zoe doesn't know is that Alex is being haunted by ghost who accompanies him
everywhere. In this scene, Alex, the ghost, and Zoe are visiting the lake house, which
has been closed up for years. Zoe has just been startled by a huge spider that dropped
out of a dusty kitchen cabinet . . .
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Recent Books
Rainshadow Road, from the Friday Harbor series.
Lucy Marinn, a glass artist who lives on San Juan Island, has just been dumped by her boyfriend Kevin. Needing some privacy and time to think, she goes to a nearby beach and meets a dark-haired stranger . . .
In the periphery of her vision, Lucy saw a dog making his way along the edge of the water. He was followed by a dark-haired stranger, whose alert gaze was fastened on her.
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Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor, the first in the Friday Harbor contemporary series
Entrusted with the guardianship of his orphaned niece Holly, Mark Nolan plans to marry his longtime girlfriend Shelby. But an unwelcome and tantalizing distraction appears in the form of Maggie Conroy, a young widow who has recently opened a toy shop at Friday Harbor. Mark is a cynic and a realist, but Maggie is a dreamer who hopes to make him believe in magic . . .
Read an excerpt of Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
Love In The
Afternoon, a New York Times Bestseller and the fifth and final book in the Hathaways series
Captain Christopher Phelan has been
corresponding with the beautiful golden-haired Prudence Mercer while he was
away fighting in the Crimean War. What he doesn't know is that the
woman who wrote to him is actually Prudence's best friend, Beatrix Hathaway.
Upon his return, it becomes clear that Christopher's experiences in war have changed
him. In this scene, Beatrix and Christopher argue over the dog he brought back
with him, a regimental mascot named Albert . . .
Read an excerpt from Love In The Afternoon
