After Liz McDonald and Joseph Allen are married in the mid-1940s, things go terribly wrong on the family farm in Chatham, Ontario, and there is a great deal of sadness for everyone. Joe and Liz decide to move to Philadelphia, Mississippi, where Joe has accepted a new job designing bridges and overpasses. In 1947, they are excited to begin a new life, especially as they are expecting their first child. But Joe and Liz are unprepared for the outright...

Tia Wang's Wedding Planning To-Do List: 1. Find a dress her perfectionist, future mother-in-law approves of 2. Keep her cool over fortune cookies 3. Divorce her not-so-ex husband, Andrew Parker When she fell in love and married her childhood best friend on a whim in Vegas, Tia innocently thought love conquered all. Turns out, that was a crushing lie. Her world shattered as she and Andrew were torn apart by secrets and mistakes. Ten years later, Tia...

Dawn Botstein is doing just fine after her divorce, thank you very much. She's got her yarn store to run, her house to herself for the first time in her life, and no use for men anymore. That is, she didn't until the hottie silver fox who walks into her store turns out to be her old high-school crush-the guy who rejected her thirty years ago. No way is she going to lose her head over him this time, no matter how well he wears that salt-and-pepper...

Dawn Botstein is doing just fine after her divorce, thank you very much.

She's got her yarn store to run, her house to herself for the first time in her life, and no use for men anymore. That is until the hottie silver fox who walks into her store turns out to be her old high school crush—the guy who rejected her 30 years ago.

No way is she going to lose her head over him this time, no matter how well he wears that salt-and-pepper

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Sabine Debois likes her wine pink and her life predictable. As a private tutor for the rich and famous, she doesn't get starstruck. But when a tattooed espresso fiend saves her from death by sweater, she's a little bit…grateful. That's all. Just grateful. Sunshine Capone just had the best album of his career, and then his girlfriend burned down his house. Well, his ex-girlfriend now. So he moved to Chicago to focus on his music and avoid the drama...

The Rest of Their Lives A Summer's Change book in Common Threads in the Life Book 7 This is the last book in the Common Threads series. This saga began for the characters Tom and Joel in 1965 and ends in 2015-a full 50 years. Along the way the Reece family added adoptive children who grew up married and had children. But more important this is the story of how a mixed family of blood inheritance, adoptive members, and those who come into the family...

A Season of FamilyCommon Threads in the Life Book 6 By the time the new millenium dawns, Tom and Joel Allen-Reece have been together for thirty-five years. Their daughter Shara is now twenty-eight years old and, following the near fatal shoting of both her fathers just four months earlier, she has decided to move back to the Common, New Mexico, to be with them. She practically has to give up her potential writing career, and her fathers worry about...

Chloe and Brandon have nothing in common. She's a spontaneous, people-loving fiber artist; he's an uptight, introverted law student. The only thing they agree on during their blind date is that they hope to never see each other again. Except they do have something in common-Brandon's mother Dawn, who happens to be Chloe's boss and dear friend. And that's how they end up stuck with each other for a six-hour road trip to Dawn's destination wedding....