Phoebe Fox

An unlikely friendship between a septuagenarian and a younger woman becomes a story of broken trust, lost love, and the unexpected blooming of hope against the longest odds. "You trying to kill yourself, or are you just stupid?" Marcie Malone didn't think she was either, but when she drives from Georgia to the southwestern shore of Florida without a plan and wakes up in a stranger's home, she doesn't seem to know anymore. Despondent and heartbroken over an unexpected loss and the man she thought she could count on, Marcie leaves him behind, along with her job and her whole life, and finds she has nowhere to go. Herman Flint has seen just about everything in his seventy years living in a fading, blue-collar Florida town, but the body collapsed on the beach outside his window is something new. The woman is clearly in some kind of trouble and Flint wants no part of it--he's learned to live on his own just fine, without the hassle of worrying about others. But against his better judgment he takes Marcie in and lets her stay until she's on her feet on the condition she keeps out of his way. As the unlikely pair slowly copes with the damages life has wrought, Marcie and Flint have to decide whether to face up to the past they're each running from, and find a way to move forward with the people they care about most.

The Way We Weren't

A heartfelt story about family, forgiveness, and starting over when the happy ending ends--and handling it all with a little bit of grace. Family is everything--Grace Adams McHale's mom must have said it to her a thousand times before she died. Before Grace's dad ran off with an aspiring actress half his age. Before only-child Grace found out she was unable to have children of her own. Before Brian--her childhood best friend, business partner, and finally her husband--dropped a "bombshell" on her in the form of her stunning new replacement. Which means Grace now has...nothing. Until she receives a letter from a woman claiming to be a relative Grace never knew she had, sending her on a journey from the childhood home she had to move back into, to a Florida island to meet a total stranger who embraces her as family. There, Grace starts to uncover answers about the eccentric woman her family never mentioned: a larger-than-life octogenarian who is the keeper of a secret held for more than fifty years, and the ultimate inspiration to always be true to yourself. As Grace gets to know this woman and picks up the pieces of her own shattered life, she is forced to question whether she can find forgiveness for the unforgivable.

A Little Bit of Grace

Breakup Doctor Brook Ogden has spent the last year sifting through the fallout from the disastrous decision that led to her unconscious uncoupling with boyfriend Ben Garrett. Despite advising her clients you can't be friends with an ex, she and Ben have somehow begun to stitch together a friendship—one Brook hopes is slowly turning into more. That is, until Ben introduces his new girlfriend, Perfect Pamela, a paragon of womanly virtues who is everything Brook is not. While Brook navigates her newly volatile emotional life, an unwelcome surprise shows up on her doorstep: the ex-fiancé who broke her heart two years ago—one month before their wedding. Between her ex's desire to rekindle their attachment, her best friend Sasha's unexpected crisis, and her own unsquelchable feelings for Ben, Brook finds herself questioning the personal progress she's made in the last two years—and threatened with the highest-stakes Breakup Doctor failures she's ever faced.

Heart Conditions

Sometimes you can't pull yourself together until you let yourself fall apart. When Brook Ogden's therapy practice collapses she reinvents herself as the Breakup Doctor: on call to help you shape up after a breakup. But when her boyfriend dumps her, by-the-book Brook helplessly engages in some spectacularly bad breakup behavior of her own.

The Breakup Doctor Series #1

The Breakup Doctor

"Call Brook Ogden a matchmaker-in-reverse. Let others bring people together; Brook, licensed mental health counselor, picks up the pieces after things come apart. When her own therapy practice collapses, she maintains perfect control: landing on her feet with a weekly advice-to-the-lovelorn column and a successful consulting service as the Breakup Doctor: on call to help you shape up after you breakup. But when her own relationship suddenly crumbles, Brook finds herself engaging in almost every bad-breakup behavior she preaches against. As her increasingly out-of-control behavior lands her at rock-bottom, Brook realizes you can't always handle a messy breakup neatly--and that sometimes you can't pull yourself together until you let yourself fall apart."--Page 4 of cover.

Gabriella Engelmann

Alice Pantermüller

Laura Jane Williams

Fay Keenan

Lily Oliver

Stefania Bertola

Anna Thaler

Kerstin Rubel

Heike Fröhling

Liebst du große Gefühle? Entspannst du gerne bei romantischen Geschichten mit Happy End? Faszinieren dich bewegende, dramatische Lebensgeschichten? - Dann ist diese Leseproben-Sammlung genau das Richtige für dich! Lass dich von Gabriella Engelmanns Wohlfühlroman »Die Liebe tanzt barfuß am Strand« in die zauberhafte Kleinstadt Lütteby an der Nordsee entführen: Hier wohnt die 35-jährige Lina Hansen in einem Giebelhäuschen am Marktplatz. Während ihre beste Freundin und Lüttebys Pastorin Sinje sie gern in schräge Abenteuer verwickelt, sieht Lina sich mit einer historischen Fehde zwischen den Kleinstädten Lütteby und Grotersum und der Legende konfrontiert, dass Liebende aus den beiden Orten niemals zueinander finden werden. Doch was bedeutet das für Lina, deren attraktiver neuer Chef ausgerechnet aus Grotersum kommt? Träum dich weg mit dem humorvollen Liebesroman »Der schönste Zufall meines Lebens« von Laura Jane Williams: Nichts wünscht sich die 30-jährige Londonerin Penny Bridge mehr, als Mutter zu werden. Doch als plötzlich gleich drei tolle Männer in Pennys Leben treten, ist das Gefühlschaos perfekt. Wie viele Herzen kann eine Frau verschenken? Und was, wenn keiner der drei der Richtige ist, um Pennys größten Wunsch zu erfüllen? Dramatisch und anrührend wird es in Lily Olivers Liebesroman »Du und ich und das Leuchten des Sommers«. Für Ava Wild, den Star des Midsummer Ballet New York, wird ein Traum wahr: Ihr Idol, der geheimnisumwitterte Choreograf Ivan Baranow, will ein Stück nur für sie schreiben. Alles wäre perfekt, wären da nicht die starken Schmerzen, wegen denen Ava eigentlich mit dem Tanzen aufhören sollte, – und der Journalist Tom, der dafür berüchtigt ist, jedes Geheimnis in die Öffentlichkeit zu zerren ... Diese und weitere gefühlvolle Geschichten von Autorinnen wie Anna Thaler, Alice Pantermüller, Stefania Bertola und vielen mehr findest du in den Vorab-Leseproben zu den Sehnsuchts-Titeln von Droemer Knaur, die im Frühjahr und Sommer 2022 erscheinen. Das kostenlose eBook enthält Leseproben zu: Gabriella Engelmann, »Die Liebe tanzt barfuß am Strand« Anna Thaler, »Der Duft von Erde nach dem Regen« Laura Jane Williams, »Der schönste Zufall meines Lebens« Kerstin Rubel, »Die Liebe braucht ein ganzes Dorf« Alice Pantermüller, »Segelsommer oder Die beste Katastrophe meines Lebens« Stefania Bertola, »Tante Giulietta tanzt« Lily Oliver, »Du und ich und das Leuchten des Sommers« Phoebe Fox, »Von Mut und Meer« Heike Fröhling, »Claras Traum« Fay Keenan, »Sommerglück im Apfelgarten«

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