Gabriel McQueen arrives home to Maine to visit his young son and parents just in time for a major ice storm to blow into town. His dad, who's the town sheriff, asks him to go up the Helton place to check on Lolly Helton who is in town to ready the family's house for sale.

Gabriel and Lolly had a love hate relationship when they were in high school based on the fact that each had the hots for each other but didn't know how to express it. You know, typical high school stuff.


When Lolly is threatened by meth addicts that invade her home Gabriel helps her escape and gives her more than just an extra hand against the hoped up addicts. He gives her a piece of his heart. Check out this holiday romantic suspense novel for a good happily ever after.

Harper Connelly has a special gift. Ever since she was struck by lightning as a teenager she's been able to find dead people. On this trip back to Texas to see their sisters, Harper and Tolliver are pushed back into the past when they learn that Tolliver's father has been released from prison and he's seeking forgiveness now that he's clean and sober.

Harper and Tolliver, who are not related by blood but grew up together, are finding it a challenge to be seen as a couple now and the only people happy for them are their little sisters who just want to be be able to wear long dresses to a wedding.
But in the process of getting reaquainted with their family some disturbing realizations come to light about the long ago abduction, and probable murder, of Harper's older sister Cameron. During Tolliver's recuperation from a gun shot wound they drive back to the scene of Cameron's abduction, see the scene with eyes of adults and learn that their current case and the lives of their family are most assuredly interwined.

Kelly Rochard goes on vacation to Paris to learn more about the father she never knew but the first day she's there she's mugged and looses everything - including the letters her father wrote her mother before she was born. Will Maguire witnesses the mugging and recognizes the flustered high school French and unwittingly gets himself wrapped up in the questioning, but when he takes a good look at Kelly the chemistry between them is unmistakable.

Will has father issues, too, and he started hiding out in Paris several years ago to stay out of the family business and now he's practically running a small cheese company so stepping in to help a young women in distress is nothing new. He takes care of getting her immediate needs met by letting her use his phone and by the end of the day these two have become much closer. Much.

Kelly and Will both work on their father issues and a few other things along the way. Be sure to catch "Blame it on Paris" so that you can find out how Kelly and Will finally get together. It's worth it. Also the rich language and descriptions of Paris are wonderful. You'll swear you were actually there

In the past year of Dash Bateman's life her mother died suddenly and her daughter left for college. Now she and her husband are on their own to recraft new lives for themselves and while Dash might take this to an extreme there's nothing out of the ordinary that she goes through in this story. With some women's fiction the ending comes likes a thud, and as Susan Elizabeth Phillips mentioned on the back cover blurb of my copy, and 'you race to take an antidepressant'. There are no worries about that with this book. While there might have been moments when the characters had hard choices to make, in the end those choices pay off for Dash, her husband, and the readers

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Izzy Spellman grew up and joined the family business and her little sister is following in her footsteps. This has her family concerned since Izzy was quite the hellion as a child and because the Spellmans are Private Investigators. Anecdotes will keep you laughing as Izzy explains how she met each of her ex-boyfriends, how she and her best friend terrorized the neighborhood growing up and how she plans to find her little sister when it becomes clear that Rae has been kidnapped.

Bauby was the editor of French Elle Magazine until he suffered a stroke and was hospitalized with Locked-In Syndrome. This memoir was written one letter at a time blinking his left eye to spell out each and every word. The book is short but full of candor and a very different perspective from a man who knows that he isn't alive yet he isn't dead yet either.

Grace Emerson is tired of being pitied since her ex-fiance dumped her 20 days before the wedding because he'd fallen in love with her younger sister, so she made up the boyfriend so that her sister wouldn't feel guilty and Grace wouldn't feel pitied about being at her cousin's wedding without a date. Then Callahan O'Shea moves in next door and Grace can't stop spying on him even though her dog attacks him at every opportunity. Turns out he's just gotten out of jail for something he didn't do but took the rap for and Grace is falling in love. Her family is much more leery and even the ex-fiance is warning her off even this causes problems. In the end Callahan and Grace give each other everything they are looking for and on the way this is a pretty fun read