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Better Light at Bridger Ranch
K. J. Curtis
My student’s grumpy single dad doesn’t want my Ag program on his ranch. But he needs the lease payments. Sam signs the contract, and suddenly I’m spending my days with a stubborn rancher who’d rather I stay out of his way. That works for me. Until our arguments turn into teasing, and I discover the man behind the scowl is dangerously hard to resist. Then he kisses me. I should stop him. I don’t. Somewhere between his daughter, my Ag kids, and long days together, the ranch I couldn’t wait to leave starts feeling like somewhere I belong. Then he said the worst thing he could say to me. I don’t know that I can survive this.
Contemporary
Running From Herself
April Tompkins
Leah Branch is one humiliating assignment away from burning down her music career. After her singing dream dies, Leah hits the road to start over. Then a surprise record deal lands in her lap. But the label wants to mold her into a manufactured product, changing her look, her songs, and even her name. Finally, they force her to swallow one demoralizing demand too many. Caught between fame and her own soul, Leah makes a drastic move. From a peaceful small-town existence to the heady, confusing world of corporate music, Running From Herself proves there are second and even third chances. All Leah has to do is find the courage to grab them.
Women's Fiction
Forever, Maybe
Emma Baird
What if your greatest love story is also your biggest question mark? Two decades after a chance encounter outside a Glasgow sandwich van sparks an unforgettable romance, Nell and Daniel appear to have it all. But beneath the surface, their marriage is quietly crumbling. This moving marriage fiction explores what happens when love, ambition, and regret collide in midlife.
Women's Fiction
The Castaway
Stephanie Taylor
Ruby Hudson used to be America’s First Lady. Now she just wants to be left alone with her books and her regrets. After her husband—the President of the United States—dies under mysterious circumstances, Ruby is left with a lifetime of questions, a public still obsessed with her every move, and two grown daughters who think she's lost her mind. So, she runs. Not to a fancy villa or a European spa, but to a pirate-themed island called Shipwreck Key, where she opens a tiny bookshop and tries to disappear. No press. No politics. Just quiet. Until he shows up. Dexter North is too young, too intense, and way too determined to dig up every secret of her late husband's presidency—including the kind that could ruin his legacy... and Ruby’s life. He’s charming in that annoyingly earnest journalist way, and unfortunately, he’s not going anywhere. Then, as if things weren’t complicated enough, the President’s secret mistress arrives. With their twelve-year-old son. And a letter. From her husband. Written before he died. Now Ruby has to decide: does she open the letter and face the truth about the man she thought she knew? Or does she let the past stay buried and try—finally—to start over? On a quirky island full of castaways and second chances, one former First Lady is about to rewrite her own story.
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