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A decade after leaving Louisiana amid a swirl of successes and sorrows, Joy Faye Savoy returns to the South. By her side is her scandalous best friend, never far from her mind is her unforgettable mother, and off in the Blue Ridge Mountains somewhere is the heartthrob from her past. While Joy's life in California is filled to overflowing with hearth and home, she has come to Asheville, North Carolina, seeking private atonement during springtime in...

1941 sees Mollie McAllister, her friends, and America emerge from a simpler time to face a World War, that involved everyone in some way, nurses, and the military especially. Though many things are rationed, and everyone must conserve and work, these young women find ways to have fun and romance. Each day Mollie wonders if she will ever be reunited with her brother who is a prisoner of war, or her beloved fiancé, Ron, a Navy pilot on a carrier in...

Take an interesting trip through 1944, a year that changed history and will be remembered for a long time. This book is a rich tapestry of stories, facts, and thoughts from a very important time in history: the middle of World War II. Explore the turning points, technological advances, and important people who had a big impact on this time of change, from the front lines to the home front. This story brings to life the essence of a time when a lot...

He was the man she was born to love... If only he wasn't dead. As Europe is about to explode into world war, a bullet goes astray and a British secret agent is hit. But he was not supposed to die. Back at home, waiting for a man she's never met -- the man she is destined to love -- is the girl he would have married... if he had come home the way fate intended, not as a ghost.As their destiny labors to put things right, the two fall in love during...

As wedding bells ring out, joy will be found amidst the tensions of war… At RAF Fenthorpe, instrument repairer Thea is helping her sister, Pearl, plan her wedding alongside fellow WAAF and maid of honour Jenny. A misfit amongst the women on the base, though, Thea is struggling to get others onboard. When Flight Sergeant Fitz makes a point of befriending and standing by her, sparks fly between the two. And when Fitz's crew member, Jack, faces...

When her brother is killed at Pearl Harbor, nurse Lydia Davis puts her wedding to pilot and mechanic, Jeremy Cross on hold to join the Women's Army Corp of nurses, leaving to do her part for the war. Battling death and disease on the battlefields of Africa and Italy, Lydia faces many regrets, chief among them, leaving Jeremy. When Lydia finally returns to civilization for a short holiday in England, she discovers her former fiance, Jeremy is also...

A devil's bargain. That's what Vincent Push, owner of the Lucky Strike Oil Company made. Coerced into a marriage (in name only) to a woman he loathes. Done to save the son he loves. And hell on earth is where he'll reside for the rest of his miserable life until he stumbles into a dive bar on the outskirts of untapped Burton, Oklahoma. Where he finds an earthbound angel tending bar. The sparks of desire arcing between them hot enough to scorch the...

From the fictitious diary of the equally fictitious Kennedy nanny comes an inside look into the early years of the dynasty-with all the juicy bits intact. Newly arrived from Ireland, Nora Brennan finds a position as nursery maid to the Kennedys of Brookline, Massachusetts-and lands at the heart of American history. In charge of nine children practically from the minute they're born-including Joe Jr., Jack, Bobby, Teddy, vivacious "Kick," and tragic...

No man was destined for a bad life more than Stela. An orphaned child, taught to work as a child, Stela never knew how to say no. She helps everyone.When the woman who fed her dies, Stela is forced to take life into her own hands and find a place for herself. She is 17 years old and all her past pulls her back.Her path intertwines with that of the new landlord of the village, a young man who, like her, has a soul full of ideals and desires.But although...

An aristocrat hiding from her past, a doctor hiding from her grief, a journey that will be a danger to themselves… and their hearts! War doctor Luciana Stanmore was not healed by the signing of the armistice last year. Unable to face returning to England without the lover the war took from her, she goes instead to seek comfort with her grandmother in Amsterdam, where the beautiful widow next door catches her eye.If anyone discovers Therese de Seletsky's...