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Dette er første del af fire i Holly Hepburns hyggelige fortælling ”Tilbage til Half Moon Farm”.Da Daisys mor bliver syg, flytter Daisy med sine tvillingesønner hjem til Half Moon Farm, deres gamle slægtsgård.Men et nyt liv på landet i Kent er ikke nødvendigvis så idyllisk, som det måske ser ud. Daisys forhold til sin mor er kompliceret, og den faldefærdige gård er ikke det eneste, der skal genopbygges. Heldigvis finder Daisy lidt adspredelse i iværksætteren Drew og den adelige arving til det nærliggende slot, Kit.

Dette er tredje del af fire i Holly Hepburns hyggelige fortælling ”Tilbage til Half Moon Farm”.Da Daisys mor bliver syg, flytter Daisy med sine tvillingesønner hjem til Half Moon Farm, deres gamle slægtsgård.Men et nyt liv på landet i Kent er ikke nødvendigvis så idyllisk, som det måske ser ud. Daisys forhold til sin mor er kompliceret, og den faldefærdige gård er ikke det eneste, der skal genopbygges. Heldigvis finder Daisy lidt adspredelse i iværksætteren Drew og den adelige arving til det nærliggende slot, Kit.

Farrah Macon is blindsided after being served divorce papers from a man she never intended to live without. Completely baffled, she leaves her art gallery manager position behind to take refuge with her parents. At the ripe age of twenty-nine, she’s living back home again, working as a nursing assistant, and helping her family at the local farmer’s market. When everything seems to be falling down around her, Farrah runs into James Abbott—all six feet of the charming, curly-haired rancher—and can’t help but remember what they used to have.

Jessica Fischer wants nothing more than to build her law practice in small-town Ashton, Georgia. She's well on her way when the local town hero, football coach Frank "Tripp" Wishingham III, hires her to represent him in a paternity suit. Coach is everything Jessica despises—arrogant, sexist, entitled—but it's her job to make him look good in public. This is made doubly difficult when her burgeoning relationship with a local reporter gets in the way of telling the truth.

At midnight on New Year’s Eve, Trowbridge Vermont EMT Brighid Doran delivers the region’s ambulance to a three-alarm house fire. Afterward, she sits in a warm truck with her girlfriend Sam, a US Army officer fresh from the battlefields of Iraq, as they watch a local volunteer firefighter battle the blast in subzero weather. T

I moved home to take care of my grandmother. Instead, I got caught up with the worst kind of people in town, and now, I'm the personal punching bag for a member of the mafia who has no intention of ever letting me go. He doesn't care about me. He cares about what he owns. I used to care about things like staying alive or trying to be a good man, but the longer this goes on, the harder it is to see a future different from this. I don't even have friends in this town.

Erin Davenport always imagined she'd end up with a quiet man. Someone like her. Then she met Jay Malone. He's the loudest, pushiest, most sales-oriented man she's ever met. A top Hollywood agent, Jay's bought a waterfront house in Carmel, and everywhere Erin turns, he seems to be there, big, gorgeous, and pulsing with life. He seems to go through women like candy, but Erin has no intention of being his latest treat.

Harmony Creek, Georgia, in the 1950s, was a town steeped in tradition, where the rhythms of life were dictated by the seasons and the relentless sound of the cotton gin. It was a world of stark contrasts, where wealth and poverty existed side-by-side, their lines often blurred but always present. This is the setting for the story of Sam Dalton and Sarah McCloud, two souls from vastly different worlds drawn together by an undeniable force – a love that defies social conventions and economic disparities.

On Our Selection is a collection of humorous short stories by Australian author Steele Rudd. It follows the trials and tribulations of the Rudd family, pioneers carving out a living in the Australian bush. The book humorously depicts the struggles of farming life, the resilience of the settlers, and the quirks of rural Australian society.

I have a reputation around my small town for being a... difficult boss. But it's not my fault HR continues to hire incompetent assistants with thin skin. I'm one of the top criminal defense attorneys in the state and the best in the county. I can't afford mistakes. If that means I have to be cruel at times, so be it. I don't have time for friends or relationships, I'm married to my work. That is, until HR hires a petite beauty with long dark hair and innocent brown eyes to be my new legal assistant. I can't bring myself to call her on her mistakes or treat her harshly.

Saffron sank into a despondent heap by the side of the road, wedding dress and all. I've made a terrible mistake. I never should have tried to run. It'll just make it worse when they catch me and take me back. This time, a voice answered from inside her. It was the voice of her fox, which was usually still and quiet inside her. The only time it had spoken to her lately was a single word, back in town: Run! Now, it told her to be calm. We're going to get out of this.

Duftender Lavendel, ein Mann ohne Vergangenheit und ein Mord am Mont Ventoux. Im Provence-Krimi Lavendel-Wut löst die junge Kommissarin Lilou Braque ihren 7. Fall: Cosy Crime zum Wohlfühlen mit jeder Menge Südfrankreich-Flair! Der Lavendel blüht, und die örtliche Rennrad-Community von Carpentras ist in Aufruhr: Das berühmte Gipfelschild des Mont Ventoux ist verschwunden! Anstatt auf das gestohlene Schild stößt ein Suchtrupp auf die Leiche eines Radfahrers – offenbar ist dieser schon vor Tagen im unwegsamen Gelände des Berghangs zu Tode gekommen.

When Prescott Pemberton–a local artist who made it big in New York City before moving back to Head Rock Harbor–is found dead in the harbor, it’s tragic, but no one suspects foul play. However, when it becomes clear that several people in town might have benefited from his death, questions arise. Was this death by misadventure…or was Prescott murdered?

I've never been enough for the people around me, not for my parents before they died and not for the tough grandfather who raised me. When he unexpectedly passes, leaving me the famous (and failing) Sugar Maple Farms, all I want is to sell so I can leave the weight of being a Carville behind. Until Jane shows up. The woman is smart, salty, and sexy as can be. I can't admit it, but her vision for Sugar Maple Farms is captivating. Everything about her is captivating. While we spend every day arguing, I spend every night thinking about her.

Tig Costello has arrived in Darren, Kentucky, commissioned to paint a portrait honoring her grandfather Benjamin. His contributions to the rural Appalachian town and his unimpeachable war service have made him a local hero. But to Tig, he’s a relative stranger. To find out more about him, Tig wants to talk to the person who knew her grandfather best: Eloise Price, the woman who murdered him fifty years ago.

When Brid Harcus is sent to the Orkney Islands, in the far reaches of Scotland, she has high hopes for her trip being short, straightforward and lucrative. Her mother has inherited a cottage from her Great Aunt Jennet which has been unlived in and unloved for decades, and the time has come to make it habitable and saleable. Easy, right? But Midness Cottage has other ideas. For one thing it’s rather more ‘fixer upper’ than Country Living. And Brid definitely hadn’t planned for the strongly held local belief that the cottage is meant to be the home of the Orkney Witch.

When Leah and her husband moved to France, it was with the dream of becoming self-sufficient. But in truth, it’s not the ‘good life’ she’d imagined, as three hours of digging barely yield a single straggly carrot. Worse, her teenage daughter is acting up, and her husband seems to find every strange excuse under the hot French sun to disappear. So when her friend entreats her to join the new book club she’s forming, Leah decides it’s something she will do for herself.

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.

PO DESZCZOWEJ WIOŚNIE WRESZCIE NASTAJE SŁONECZNE LATO. Do niewielkiego, sennego miasteczka wprowadza się tajemnicza i niezwykle atrakcyjna Rita Plat. Swoim pojawieniem się wzbudza zainteresowanie mieszkańców. Mężczyźni zaczynają się zupełnie inaczej zachowywać. Są dla kobiet czuli, prawią im komplementy, spełniają ich zachcianki, obsypują kwiatami. Zaskoczone panie nieufnie przyglądają się tym zmianom, które dla jednych stają się szansą na nowy rozdział w życiu, a dla innych powodem do oskarżeń i szukania winnych. Plotki, podejrzenia i sekrety rozgrzewają niewielką społeczność nie mniej niż wakacyjny upał.

Die von Nebelwänden umgebene Hallig 11 liegt weitab von den anderen Marschinseln. In dieses Idyll verschlägt es die Hamburger Kommissarin Rike Lorbeer, die, von Burnouts geplagt,. als Leiterin der dortigen Polizeiwache auf ein friedliches Berufsleben bis zur Verrentung hofft. Die Kriminalitätsrate liegt auf dem fünfunddreißig Bewohner fassenden Eiland praktisch bei Null. Es könnte alles so schön sein, wäre da nicht der geheimnisvolle Wagner. Ein älterer Tourist, der viele Fragen stellt,. vor allem den unter mysteriösen Umständen verstorbenen Vorgänger Rikes betreffend.