Tear Jerkers

One grumpy billionaire out-of-towner + One sassy small town nurse = a sweet and fun enemies to lovers clean short romance! Simon got roped into his brothers newfound love story back in the small town of Wysteria Way. Their random beach trip turned into love story for his twin brother Sheldon. Now that Sheldon had decided to move away and develop a new shopping center in the tiny town, Simon was now roped into this business endeavor as well. He wasn't looking forward to going back. His hometown of Houston was more their style. He respected his brother though, so he just needed to get this ...

In the pretty, privileged college town of Milford, New Hampshire, everyone is friendly, and everything is safe. And on this cold autumn day, as red and yellow leaves begin to fall from the trees, and everyone wraps up for the first time, it would be easy to believe nothing bad could ever happen here. Until a screech of tires is heard, a thud, a child’s scream. The crash that sees Jenna’s six-year-old daughter, Amy Rose, being hit by a car driven by 17-year-old Maddie.

One left out billionaire looking for love + one feisty small town policewoman = a satisfying enemies to lovers clean short romance! After years apart, Cody and Renee return to their small hometown, both carrying memories and wounds from the past. Cody, a sheriff grieving the loss of his wife, moves back to help his family, hoping for a fresh start. Renee, a recently divorced real estate agent, has come home to rebuild her life after raising her kids. Their paths cross again when Cody enlists Renee’s help to find a house, and sparks from their high school days begin to reignite. As they ...

Caleb and Jed return from their mission that took them to the other side of the globe, but not everything is the same as it was before they left. Anderson and Danny’s new project brings another unexpected visitor to the Mae’s hidden valley. And Barrett is once again following Joshua up the same hill the two of them climbed during their many long hikes in search of the castle, but this time it’s not quite the same and for a completely different reason. Julie Engstrom didn’t think twice when she bought the small ghost town of Mae’s Second Chance. Something deep inside her knew the ...

The Death of a 10-Year-Old Boy is a heartbreaking, once-in-a-generation novel about a man who takes his dying son on a hunt for a bear that's killed two people. The man wants the boy to see something in life beyond school and sports, beyond everything he's ever known. Ultimately the book is about what's left when we're facing the end: what are we and what does it mean to be alive?

The 2:00 a.m. call is the first time Lexie Vidler has heard her sister's voice in years. Annie is a drug addict, a thief, a liar - and in trouble, again. Lexie has always bailed Annie out, given her money, a place to sleep, sent her to every kind of rehab. But this time, she's not just strung out - she's pregnant and in premature labor. If she goes to the hospital, she'll lose custody of her baby - maybe even go to prison. But the alternative is unthinkable.

“I’m gay, and I love it!” Dennis, an acutely sensitive pre-teen with a social-emotional learning disability, explores his sexual orientation during the ’60s when gays were deemed mentally ill. Nestled in the cozy suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts, timid young Dennis bears the weight of society’s pressure to fit into his parents’ American dream. He longs to satisfy his desire to kiss the boy of his dreams, but will violent bullying and sexual experimentation in his teens with his juvenile delinquent best friend take him down the wrong path? Will his unexpected popularity in high ...

Evie Blanchard was at the top of her field. But when burnout forces her to walk away from her job as a pediatric occupational therapist, she moves from Los Angeles to Hope's Crossing seeking a quieter life. So the last thing she needs is to get involved with the handsome, arrogant Brodie Thorne and his injured daughter, Taryn.

On the surface, Denny Voss’s life in rural Minnesota is a quiet one. At thirty years old, he lives at home with his elderly mother and his beloved blind and deaf Saint Bernard, George. He cleans up roadkill to help pay the bills. Though his prospects are limited by a developmental delay—the result of an accident at birth—Denny has always felt that he has “a good life.” So how did he wind up being charged with the murder of a mayoral candidate—after crashing a sled full of guns into a tree?

Life was never going to be the same again…friends had become family and strangers became friends…all in the midst of a storm like no other and the aftermath that no one could have ever predicted. Jess and Max find their relationship takes an unexpected and life-changing turn…Brian decides on a risky mission that no one can talk him out of…and Sara struggles with the knowledge that among those responsible for the terror of the last year are a few who have ties to the tragedy in her past that is never far from her thoughts.After the Storm is the final book in the ongoing story of ...

On the eve of her wedding to Adam, Lily’s best friend Josh unexpectedly walked out of her life, and she hasn’t seen him since. Lily and Adam are blissfully happy, until he falls ill. As she cares for him in his final hours, Adam asks her to make a mysterious promise: to find Josh—and forgive them both.

When Rachel Croft wakes up on her family’s boat in Bermuda, it’s to sunshine and yet another perfect day…until she goes to wake her seven-year-old son, Oscar. Because the worst thing imaginable has happened. He isn’t there. In the dark and desperate days that follow, Rachel struggles to navigate her grief. And while her husband, James, wants them to face the tragedy together, Rachel feels that the life they once shared is over.

'FOR THE TAKING' is the remarkable story of rising sci-fi author Donnalee Vodka's life (Don Vodka), and takes the reader on an adventure that stretches across the entire country. Sometimes heart-wrenching and sad, and at other times light and uplifting. Defying the odds, Donnalee survived and managed to fill her seventeen years with Forrest Gump-like twists and turns along the way. From the desert of Nevada, to a circus life in Toledo, to Hollywood and Beverly Hills, across the ocean to Hawaii, and finally back to the mainland—was she running from a nightmare, or chasing a dream? To know ...

Ginny's early life was a tragic tale of constant rejection. The aftermath of the Civil War had plunged the South into chaos, leaving scarce money and resources in its wake. Born in 1869, Ginny's mother's commitment to a sanatorium shortly after led her father to decide to sell her so that he could care for his other three young children. Taken in by an elderly couple, Ginny was raised as their own until their passing. Their son reluctantly inherited Ginny along with the family farm. He and his wife saw her as a burden, cruelly branding her as mentally challenged and mocking her as "Dumb ol'...

Sometimes a name from the past can spark our most intense desires, but is the seductive pull of lost love worth jeopardizing your present? Rylie Johnson is living her dream as a best-selling author in the vibrant heart of New York City, surrounded by the love of her devoted husband, Spencer, and their imaginative little boy, Alex. As she eagerly anticipates the release of her latest novel and an exciting book tour, her idyllic world is shattered by a heart-wrenching phone call from home. Rylie is summoned back to Idaho—the place she left behind twenty years ago—to care for the woman who...

Brittany My good for nothing boyfriend of ten years, yes I'm embarrassed to still call him my boyfriend since I thought I'd be married with a family by now, has run off with my EX best friend and now I'm up a creek! The house is in his name, and I couldn't think of staying here if I tried. There's no way I'd want to chance facing either one of them around here, out gallivanting like some new love birds. There's only one thing left to do--go home. I haven't been there since my parents passed. I have some long-lost buried issues back home too though. Ones I won't be able to run from in that ...

Are there those among us who possess the power to heal? Are they hiding in plain sight? In Ken Levine’s fourth novel The Healers, readers are taken on a multi-generational journey that follows Frances Anderson and her granddaughter Glynnis as they come to terms with their extraordinary abilities and the impact they have on those around them. This rich and poignant saga tracks the Anderson clan from homesteads in Wyoming to the magical coast of Oregon as they navigate through some seventy years of familial strife, loss, heartache, and love. From Publishers Weekly's Booklife: Levine (The ...

Hill House Manor is a haunted house in Texas. These stories are inspired by legends and other reported events associated with the old manor house. Many a Ghost Hunting team has captured evidence of those who have lived in this spot since the mid 1800’s. And, yes, there is usually a ghost in the story. This is a great book for thirteen to ninety-nine year olds.

I’m Emmy Brittle and I’m one of Rainy’s best friends. Brielle’s our other bestie. I’m the new member of the group since they’ve been besties since they were born and I joined them in the fourth grade. I was placed in their group with a guy named Hank Martin. They apparently hate Hank because he terrorized Rainy the year before. He always seemed like a really sweet guy to me, but they were adamant that I needed to stay far away from him. They made it their mission to protect me from him. I never did understand why, but I went along with it. Hank disappeared from town right after ...

Jenna Camden knew nothing would be the same again. She felt like a guest in her own home...empty rooms echoed with precious memories, quiet nights filled with shadows of so many cherished yesterdays. Nothing was the same. Not even Christmas.A Christmas love story of hope, courage, and the enduring strength of love… Jenna didn’t have to look around her home with its colorful and shining Christmas decorations, the tall Christmas tree in her front room with the many Christmas ornaments that told in a special way the story of her family, to know that no matter what she did it would never ...