Emilie Richards
Author
Series
Happiness Key volume 2
Language
English
Description
Join five women connected only by their growing friendship and the road that runs like a lifeline between their cottages in a run-down Florida development called Happiness Key. Tracy Deloche finally gets a chance to swap business for a romantic evening, until she spots her ex-husband prowling around. Janya Kapur envies every pregnant woman she sees, but her husband is reluctant to talk about children. Waitress Wanda Gray loses her job, and neighbor...
Author
Series
Happiness Key volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When her husband was sent to prison, pampered Tracy Deloche was left with twenty-five acres of Florida Gulf Coast sand, five tumbledown beach houses and no idea how to start over. An exile in a strange country, Janya Kapur left her wealthy, close-knit Indian family for an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. Plainspoken Wanda Gray is tired of watching her marriage fail, so she takes a job guaranteed to destroy it--if her husband cares enough...
3) Wedding ring
Author
Series
Shenandoah Album novels volume 1
Publisher
MIRA Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Richards pieces together each woman's story as artfully as a quilter creates a quilt... Transcendent, endowed with warmth and compassion."—Booklist
Three generations of women discover the healing gift of family, memories and love
Needing time to contemplate her troubled marriage, Tessa MacRae agrees to spend the summer helping her mother and grandmother clean out the family home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. But...
Three generations of women discover the healing gift of family, memories and love
Needing time to contemplate her troubled marriage, Tessa MacRae agrees to spend the summer helping her mother and grandmother clean out the family home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. But...
Author
Series
Happiness Key volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five very different women--Tracy, a former socialite who has discovered that she's pregnant; Wanda, a waitress turned pie shop owner; Janya, a young Indian wife dealing with an arranged marriage; Alice, a widow raising her tween granddaughter; and Maggie, a former Miami cop--find love and friendship on the barrier island of Happiness Key.
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her step-daughter steals money belonging to Amber, a woman who has since been evicted along with her teenage son, Cassie invites them to move in with her and as they each form friendships, Cassie discovers that Amber is trying to outrun her dark past.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"All her life, Ryan Gracey watched her perfect older sister from afar. Knowing she could never top Wendy's achievements, she didn't even try. Instead Ryan forged her own path while her family barely seemed to notice. Now Wendy shares two little girls with her perfect husband, while Ryan mourns the man she lost after a nearly fatal mistake in judgment. The sisters' choices have taken them in different directions, which is why Ryan is stunned when Wendy...
Author
Series
Goddesses Anonymous volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Charlotte Hale faces her own mortality, she realizes that her ambition has almost destroyed her chance at happiness and vows to make amends.
8) Lover's knot
Author
Series
Shenandoah Album novels volume 3
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A lover's knot quilt becomes the catalyst for saving a troubled marriage when newspaper journalist Kendra Taylor and her husband Isaac come together to solve the mystery of the quilt and of the family he has never known.
Author
Series
Shenandoah Album novels volume 2
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
With the warmth and comfort of a handmade quilt, Endless Chain explores the intricate patterns of family and community, and the threads that bind them together
Sam Kinkade is finally feeling at home as a minister in rural Toms Brook, Virginia, content with his life and Shenandoah Valley congregation. But his plans to welcome the area's growing Hispanic community are being met with resistance. Fortunately, when the church-run community center is...
10) Sister's choice
Author
Series
Shenandoah Album novels volume 5
Publisher
Mira
Language
English
Description
"This special book is one of the best women's contemporary novels you might read this year, and one that you will recommend to all your friends."-Fresh Fiction
Told with remarkable depth and warmth, this heartfelt story of sisters in transition reminds us that the choices we make are the real legacy we leave behind.
Kendra and Jamie were never storybook sisters. But after a long estrangement, Jamie has offered Kendra and her husband their ultimate...
11) Touching stars
Author
Series
Shenandoah Album novels volume 4
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Magically interpreting the emotional resonance of love and loss, betrayal and redemption through luminously drawn characters, Richards' latest installment in her irresistible, quilt-inspired Shenandoah Album series glows with transcendent warmth, wisdom, grace, and compassion."-Booklist
When is a family no longer a family?
Gayle Fortman has built a good life for herself and her three sons as an innkeeper in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. She...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"On the night her home is consumed by fire, Janine Stoddard finally resolves to leave her abusive husband. While she is reluctant to involve her estranged daughter, she can't resist a chance to see Harmony and baby Lottie in Asheville, North Carolina, before she disappears forever. Harmony's friend Taylor Martin realizes how much the reunited mother and daughter yearn to stay together, and she sees in Jan a chance to continue her own mother's legacy...
Author
Series
Goddesses Anonymous volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reverend Analiese Wagner's judgment is called into question when she steps in to help a homeless family. Then Isaiah Colburn, the Catholic priest who was her mentor, reappears in her life, torn between the priesthood and his desire for a future with her. Analiese now must answer the question of how to define her own happiness.
Author
Language
English
Description
As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters each had never had. Now superstar singer-songwriter Cecilia lives life on the edge, but when Robin is nearly killed in an accident, Cecilia drops everything to be with her. Robin set aside her career as a successful photojournalist to create the loving family she always yearned for. But gazing through a wide-angle lens at both past and future, she sees that her marriage...
Author
Series
Goddesses Anonymous volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Christy Haviland served eight months in prison, giving birth behind bars to the child of the man who put her there and might yet destroy her. Now she's free again, but what does that mean? As smart as she is, a learning disability has kept her from learning to read. And that's the least of her hurdles. Georgia Ferguson, talented educator, receives a mysterious charm bracelet that may help her find the mother who abandoned her at birth. Does she want...
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Lilia Swallow's husband, Graham, goes into remission after a challenging year of treatment for lymphoma, the home and lifestyle blogger throws a party. Their best friends and colleagues attend to celebrate his recovery, but just as the party is in full swing, a new guest arrives. She presents Lilia with a beautiful baby boy, and vanishes. Toby is Graham's darkest secret--his son, conceived in a moment of despair. Lilia is utterly unprepared for...
17) Iron lace
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
When Aurore Gerritsen watched her lover kill her father, it was just one act of violence in a long chain of dramatic events.
Years later, behind the iron lace gates of wealthy New Orleans, beneath the veneer of her society name, linger secrets that Aurore Gerritsen has hidden for a lifetime, and truths that threaten to change forever the lives of her unsuspecting family. Now, as Aurore faces her own mortality, she needs to reveal those secrets...
18) Whiskey Island
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Once a struggling community of Irish immigrants, Lake Erie's Whiskey Island has a past as colorful as the patrons who frequent the Whiskey Island Saloon. A local gathering place for generations, the saloon is now run by the Donaghue sisters, whose lives and hearts have been shaped by family tragedy and a haunting mystery.
When an act of violence sets the wheels of fate in motion, Megan Donaghue, a woman unwilling to trust in love, and Niccolo Andreani,...
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
USA TODAY bestselling author Emilie Richards continues the journey begun in her beloved novel Whiskey Island with this unforgettable tale of star-crossed lovers, murder and three sisters who discover a hidden legacy that will lead them home at last to Ireland.
Megan, who is feeling hopelessly unprepared in her new marriage, has no idea how to fix the problems already facing her relationship. Casey, who is happily married to her high school sweetheart,...
20) Rising tides
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Nine people have gathered for the reading of Aurore Gerritsen's will. Some are family, others are strangers. But all will have their futures changed forever when a lifetime of secrets is finally revealed.
Aurore Gerritsen left clear instructions: her will is to be read over a four-day period at her summer cottage on a small Louisiana island. Those who don't stay will forfeit their inheritance. With the vast fortune of Gulf Coast Shipping at stake,...