Sam can't accept the trauma of what happened eight years ago: the disappearance and apparent death of his dad in the Arctic wilderness. Devoted to his father's memory, he despises his well-meaning, if awkward, stepdad and resents his mother for marrying this intruder. Sam's heart cry for companionship and understanding is finally answered by the appearance of a beautiful wild dog he names Kayla, after his dad's sled dog. Sam bonds with Kayla, whose...

"When Charlotte married the wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her humble past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman's body floating in the exact same spot where Paul's first wife tragically drowned. At first, it seems like a horrific coincidence, but the stranger in the lake is no stranger....

"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...

"Young artist Olivia Tithe struggles to keep her sanity as she unravels the mystery of her first love's death through his ghostly visits"--

Amy so looks forward to meeting her future stepsister, Chloe, that she is not prepared when Chloe first ignores her than is downright mean.

A woman's dream to forge a new life for herself on the great American plains becomes a test of her pioneering spirit, her inner strength, and her undying faith. It was Marty Claridge's dream to build her new life on the frontier with her husband. But when the courageous pioneer woman is suddenly widowed, she's offered a new opportunity-- to marry a widower in a marriage of convenience. What they did not expect was that the marriage would lead to love....

"To her family, Natalie Seebring is a woman who values appearance above all else as an exquisitely mannered, supportive wife and head of a successful wine-producing enterprise. So when she announces plans to marry a vineyard employee mere months after the death of her husband, her children are stunned. Faced with their disapproval, Natalie decides to write a memoir to fully explain.Olivia Jones is a dreamer, living vicariously through the old photographs...

Nine-year-old Amber is nervous and excited about her mother's wedding to Max, but Amber's father makes things complicated.

Drawing on personal experience and interviews with other divorced couples. the author describes the trauma of separation and divorce, and identifies ways that people have learned to cope with the emotional strain and accept a new way of life.

"Jane, a budding writer and Jane Austen fan, discovers the true secret to writing when a famous author and her cute, but annoying, son come to her small coastal town and play seemingly unwitting roles in affecting the custody battle between Jane's Hollywood mother and marine biologist father"--