Bøger af Kyle Hunter

Blair McCartney's goal of becoming a fashion designer took a detour after an unplanned pregnancy. Eight years later, she's raising her son, Jake, in Brenner Falls and working in a clothing factory. Though she adores Jake, it's a far cry from the life she dreamed of. Cooper Dawson, a contractor, still grieves the loss of his brother. He wraps up a housing project, then returns to Brenner Falls with his dog, Zipper. There, he wants to build his own dream house. In the meantime, he moves in next door to Blair and Jake.What begins as a friendship blossoms into something deeper. Blair's rundown rental house presents its own challenges. Then, the sudden reappearance of Jake's biological father throws their lives-and budding romance-into turmoil, triggering old hurts, and testing the limits of faith and love.

Nathan Chisholm's high-pressure job in the big city is interrupted by an inheritance he doesn't want, a struggling dinner theater. He returns to his hometown of Brenner Falls, Pennsylvania, so he can sell it fast and return to his normal life. Leah Albright's plans for her life went up in smoke and she's forgotten how to dream. Instead, she spends her days at a dull job in Brenner Falls and her evenings with musical instruments and her cat. As holidays approach, she fakes cheer to stave off her disappointments. Nathan and Leah rekindle the friendship they had in high school and attraction brews. But Nathan's leaving town once he sells the theater. And the residents of Brenner Falls, including Leah, don't want their beloved historic theater sold. And certainly not to the developer who's been lurking around. Nathan finds himself trapped by well-meaning decisions and growing feelings for Leah. He may have gone too far to turn back from the risks to his future and his heart.

Love takes an international detour...to Paris! Nikki Mancini, a high school teacher in New York, has loved Mike for as long as she can remember, though she was never more to him than his best friend's little sister. She claims to be a homebody but secretly fears moving beyond her comfort zone. Mike Branagan has his own emotional wounds to resolve, having lost his parents in an accident when he was fourteen. He's tried to escape painful memories by leaving New York and starting a new life on the West Coast, but years later, new facts indicate that his parents' deaths might not have been an accident. At Christmas, Mike returns to New York for the first time in three years to visit and to chase down a lead in his parents' case. When he sees Nikki again, romantic sparks fly, but their mutual attraction takes an unexpected detour. Nikki is shattered. She impulsively takes a one-year teaching opportunity in Paris to face her own fears and get over Mike.>"One December sizzles with romantic tension, taking the reader on a roller-coaster ride from New York to San Francisco, with a delightful detour in Paris. I couldn't put it down!" - Elizabeth Musser, author of The Secrets of the Cross trilogy and The Swan House.

Going home isn't easy, but sometimes it changes everything. Hailey Anderson's job at the family textile mill is simply frustrating. During a time when mills are closing all around them, her father won't listen to her ideas for saving the business. Finally, she leaves North Carolina and moves to Colorado, to be near her sister. But when a health crisis strikes her father only months later, he asks Hailey to return and take over as acting president of the mill. Maybe she'll be able to save the mill and finally gain her father's approval. Hailey returns home but things aren't what they seem at Anderson Mill. She and the assistant manager clash and buried family secrets simmer just below the surface-secrets no one will talk about, especially her father. Her only spark of joy is her budding romance with her neighbor, Alex Moreno, but is it for real? When events grow darker, she no longer fears only for their livelihood, but also for her life. Can Hailey overcome challenges that seem too strong and many to handle?

Author Marissa Thompson has had writer's block since her husband died almost two years earlier. Her three closest friends are a comfort. Despite this, things are getting urgent as her career hangs by a thread, and repairs on her historic home mount up. Prodded by desperation, Marissa heads to Wilmington, North Carolina for a Civil War research trip. She hopes for inspiration but receives support from a surprising source, a feisty character from her last novel. Jarrod Lambert has already lost his wife. He's always been close with his only daughter, a college student, but she seems to be slipping further away from him. In an effort to reconnect with her, he makes an impulsive trip to see her in Wilmington. Through an accident, Marissa and Jarrod meet and discover common ground. Will it be enough to overcome the obstacles standing between them? (Book I of Second Chance Series) In The Second Chance Series, you'll meet Marissa, Julia, Sydney, and Eden, four college friends who, twenty-five years later, renew their friendships as they find themselves empty nesters and single again. You'll love getting to know these women and following each one in her own book.

Eden Godfrey has been a widow too long. Or so her friends tell her. For the first time, she agrees, but she has a more pressing objective. Having sold the family business, which occupied her time and attention for over a decade, she now wants to find a bigger story where she can help people in need. Romance would be secondary. Especially since her brief stint with online dating didn't end so well . . . as she pushed away the only man with potential. To the surprise of her friends, she decides to return to college to fulfill a long-term desire of finishing her degree. This will help her find her passion and silence the painful echoes of her past. Just as she discovers a cause worth investing in, she stumbles upon a suspicious scheme that overshadows it . . . and threatens to derail her dreams once again. Can she finally grasp her dreams and find someone special to share them with?Book 4 in the Second Chance Series. Join four college friends twenty-five years later as they find themselves single in mid-life. Each woman has her own story where she learns about herself and God, faces new challenges, and discovers love again!

Industry icon MIRKA ANDOLFO presents an all-new vision for the She-Devil With A Sword, in a thrilling new ongoing series! Our story begins in a village on fire, set by members of the dreaded Three-Eyed Shezem. When Red Sonja arrives, the only survivor of the flame is a lively child with curious white tattoos. The child will become Sonja''s travel companion, on a journey from hardened ice to imposing forests, where dangerous secrets wait to be revealed...Begin a trailblazing adventure with MIRKA ANDOLFO (Unnatural, Mercy) and incredible artist GIUSEPPE CAFARO (Suicide Squad)!

Can a crisis lead to the revealing of an old secret and a second chance at love? Sydney Bennett''s life is anything but calm. She''s a high-school teacher and the single parent of a teenager. An unexpected event shakes her pressured but predictable routine. As she tries to regain her balance, she''s drawn to a secret that even her daughter doesn''t know. Nor do her three best friends.Her private quest leads her to the beach town where she grew up, and her strained relationship with her mother. The last thing she expects is to cross paths with the man who once upended her life, a man she''s never forgotten.As Sydney''s past collides with her present, she''s forced to reveal her secrets and encounters the surprising power of letting go.  

(Book 2 Second Chance Series) Can a stack of letters provide clues to an age-old conflict and a doorway to a new family?  For the last three years, Julia De Luca has juggled her successful interior design business with caring for her elderly mother. Following her mother''s death, Julia finds old letters from distant relatives in Italy. They remind her of visits she and her mother made when Julia was a child. Could these letters hold the answer to why their trips to Italy ended abruptly when she was ten years old?   These people whose names she''s forgotten are the only family Julia has left on earth. How can she reconnect with them after so many years? Would it be crazy to try?   Her compelling desire to locate her distant family leads Julia on an impulsive trip to Florence, Italy. Along with savoring the sights and flavors of Florence, Julia discovers that families can be messy, that it''s not too late to fall in love, and that there''s more to Julia De Luca than she ever knew. Second Chance SeriesIn The Second Chance Series, you''ll meet Marissa, Julia, Sydney, and Eden, four college friends who, twenty-five years later, renew their friendships as they find themselves empty nesters and single again. You''ll love getting to know these women and following each one in her own book.

Hailey and her father haven’t always seen eye to eye, especially in running the failing family textile mill. Frustrated, Hailey leaves the mill and her hometown in North Carolina to start a new life near her sister in Colorado. Only months later her father calls to ask a special favor. He needs heart surgery and asks Hailey to run the mill in his place. Moving back would devastate Hailey’s sister, Hope. Yet Hailey would have an opportunity to possibly save the mill, and at a time when her father needs her most. And maybe he’d even approve of her for the first time in her life.Filled with self-doubt, Hailey returns to North Carolina and struggles to make a difference at the mill, facing more challenges than she bargained for. Her attractive neighbor, Alex, is almost enough to outweigh the difficulties, but she doesn’t know that in the shadows lurks someone who wants to destroy both her and the mill.