![]() ![]() He looks at me silently for a moment, the amber flecks in his eyes catching the light. “How did it happen?” I ask, brushing my hair over my ear. Liam pushes himself off the bed, standing, teeth gritted in a forced smile. The question is, will you be okay for your final?” I take his hand and run my thumb over his palm lightly, cannot help the flicker of sensation that starts up between my legs. “But he’ll be right for the final, won’t he?” “The painkillers he’s been taking… He won’t be up until midday.” Shouldn’t you be training with Daniel?” he asks, changing the subject. He puts his hand up, but I can see the pain written on his face as his features draw together. “Five minutes to make you come? I can do that.” “You don’t want to know the kind of bribery and ninja tactics I pulled out to get in here, even for five minutes.” ![]() His leg, particularly the area around his knee, is black, blue, and swollen. “Okay, if this is a hallucination I want more of those drugs.” It took every trick in the book to get into this place with the increased security, but as soon as I heard, I knew I had to come. I close the door of the treatment room quietly behind myself. ![]()
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In September 2007, the film rights to Almost Home were initially optioned by Jon Bon Jovi and his producing partners Jack Rovner and Ken Levitan, but now the new producer is Axl Rose from the band Guns N' Roses. ![]() ![]() ![]() This poignant, intimate, and hilarious memoir explores Shonda's life before her Year of Yes-from her nerdy, book-loving childhood to her devotion to creating television characters who reflected the world she saw around her. Shonda knew she had to embrace the challenge: for one year, she would say YES to everything that scared her. And then, over Thanksgiving dinner, her sister muttered something that was both a wake up and a call to arms: You never say yes to anything. So who would suspect that Shonda Rhimes is an introvert? That she hired a publicist so she could avoid public appearances? That she suffered panic attacks before media interviews? With three children at home and three hit television shows, it was easy for Shonda to say she was simply too busy. Her iconic characters live boldly and speak their minds. ![]() She's the creator and producer of some of the most groundbreaking and audacious shows on television today. "As fun to read as Rhimes's TV series are to watch" ( Los Angeles Times). The instant New York Times bestseller from the creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder shares how saying YES changed her life. ![]() ![]() When Peter's supervising elder brings Brigit a gift of fabric to make her wedding dress, Brigit is lost. Wild prairie-born Brigit Streeter lacks the domestic and social skills she needs to marry the cultured new minister, Peter Collins, who has come to the Dakota Territory from St. T.'s words of truth and a newfound friend help her realize she has been seeking the needs of her heart in the wrong places? She reluctantly endures the weekly sewing circle. How is true love to be defined, and where will Samantha place her priorities?ĭiana Montclair covers her loneliness with an arrogant exterior and a drive for perfection that keeps friends at bay. One man holds the riches while another holds her heart. Samantha Thomasohn dreams of riches and of escaping the mundane life clerking for her father's store. Blacksmith Tyson Walker is used to bending iron, but can love and patience bend the will of a woman who is sure she is destined to be an old maid? ![]() Could God expect her to endure an arranged marriage with a man who antagonizes her and disregards Him?īetsy Larkin thinks she must choose between the siblings she is rearing and a man who loves her. ![]() ![]() But when unexpected obstacles abound, will love unravel before their eyes?Įlsa Fritch's dreams tumble from their heights when Shane Gerhard comes to town to collect on the contract between their parents. Faced with finding the right fit in life and love, nine young women seek the courage to stitch together romance. Treasure this collection of nine historical romances. ![]() ![]() ![]() She can’t turn down the offer and she soon can’t ignore her attraction to Connor. ![]() ![]() He also can offer a job to Jillian running his grandmother’s quilt shop. Her new boss, Connor Larady, has deep roots in the town. She’s hoping to find a job and a place to live but isn’t looking for a relationship. In her search for information about her father and mother Jillian arrives in Laurel Springs. After college she’d work in a town and move on when she wanted to another. Growing up this way made her a wanderer of sorts. She traveled with her father, an oil worker who went from job to job. My take: Jillian has lived all over the world, it seems. But as she grows closer to Connor and Eugenia, she must consider giving up her nomadic life for a future with those who need her. Can he trust the newcomer to do right by his grandmother’s legacy? When Connor meets down-on-her-luck Jillian, he’s out of options. ![]() And now he has to close Eugenia’s quilt shop. Description: When Jillian James lands in the small town Texas community of Laurel Springs, she’s definitely not planning to stay-except to find a few clues about the father who abandoned her and destroyed her faith in family.Ĭonnor Larady is a single dad, and the only one caring for his grandmother, Eugenia, who has Alzheimer’s. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is my first book by Kylie Scott, though I know Elyse has enjoyed her Stage Dive series in the past. Lydia is also a plus-sized heroine, which I loved. So if friends-to-lovers is your catnip, this might be your bag. Helping Lydia through her problems gives Vaughn a chance to ignore his own and, as Lydia is a relative newcomer and stranger to the town, she’s really in need of a friend. 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