検索キーワード： 著者 "C. P. Cabaniss" すべてのカテゴリー

She’s chasing memories. All he wants is someone to stay. Six years ago, Kara spent a beautiful summer with her family in Mountain Ridge, Arkansas. Five years ago, she lost them in an accident. Returning to the small mountain town in hopes of finding healing, she reconnects with Lee, the first boy she ever kissed. Lee is tired of everyone leaving. After spending his formative years moving from place to place with nomadic parents who had big dreams, he settled in the only place that ever felt like home: Mountain Ridge.

He’s caught in a whirl of indecision. She’s the spark to give him direction. Upon returning home to Glenwood for the first time in two years, John Hart is tasked with planning and organizing an Independence Day celebration. With mere weeks to pull things together, and his own life in disarray, he’s a fish out of water. Debbie Abrams, recent high school graduate and history buff, is staying in Glenwood with her grandparents for the summer. Overhearing that there are plans for a big Independence Day celebration, she volunteers to help.

She has something to prove. He doesn’t understand why she hates him. When high school rivals Georgie and Eoin find themselves back in town for Christmas, the newly minted Glenwood Christmas Games draws them into a new competition. One Georgie is determined to win. As the week of competition unfolds, the two discover that rivalry doesn’t have to mean war. Sometimes the best person to fall for is the one who pushes you the hardest.

Valarie thought she was living a fairytale–a whirlwind romance in college, an engagement, plans for the wedding of her dreams, and her happily ever after waiting at the end. When her forever turns into never, she vows that love and romance were left in the past with her broken heart. Then she meets Ethan, a man who knows similar heartache, and begins to wonder if it’s possible to love again.

This collection of four stories can be considered extended epilogues to the books in The Vals. While the main novels of The Vals can be listened to and appreciated in any order, you need to have listened to all three of those novels to appreciate these stories.

Can before and after become now? Valancy has lived two lives: before and after. Before grief devastated her, she was bold and fearless, with boundless dreams. After, she pulled into herself, leaving that life and its people behind for one of routine and order that promised safety. A decade later, her well-ordered life is thrown into disarray when Will, her best friend from before, shows up in her after. As the two reconnect, Valancy's old dreams begin to rekindle and she wonders if her before and after can become a better now.

When you build your life on lies, how do you find the truth? After years of trying–and failing–to make relationships work, Rose has come to the realization that she isn’t made for anything that lasts. When you can’t even befriend your own cousins, why would anyone else want you? But faced with the reality of attending another family holiday alone, she enlists Michaelson, her handsome, friendly, talented coworker to pose as her fake boyfriend. The only problem is, she doesn’t even know his name. Dmitri has known loss and the heartache that comes with it.