Bøger af Laurie Loveman

Over the space of several weeks in the summer of 1935, 13 starving horses and ponies are left in Woodhill, Ohio. The people of Woodhill rally behind horse owner Laura Darvey and newly arrived Ramona Hernandez, to help restore the abused horses to health.The unknown person behind the arrival of the horses earns the nickname, The Horse Fairy, but The Horse Fairy is not out to save lives; he is Bobby Darvey, a gangster determined to harm Laura and Fire Chief Jake McCann to avenge his cousin's death by bringing in the abused horses to pass on a disease that will kill all of Laura's horses. He is also determined to see Jake publicly humiliated and forced out of his job. For this, Bobby uses two Woodhill residents who want to oust Jake from the chief's job for their own agenda. Among the victims in Bobby's scheme are Alex Carpenter and Nelson Dobos, who learn too late that Alex's son, Bill, is working for Bobby and could be a danger to them both. With advice from his father, New York City homicide detective J. P. McCann, and the help of Woodhill Police Chief, Matt Gardner, Jake teams up with Bobby's top man, Benjy Talbot, to stop Bobby from carrying out his plans for vengeance.

Woodhill Fire Department Captain Freddy Pratter has earned the reputation of a "love 'em and leave 'em" kind of guy. Freddy is not that kind of guy at all, he's just never allowed anyone to know his true feelings, and being divorced, Freddy never expects to find love. Newly-divorced Glynis Hampton, has returned with her two children to her family's dairy farm in Dalebridge, a village north of Woodhill. As Freddy is called upon to help investigate mysterious fires in Dalebridge, a chance meeting and a shared love of photography spark an interest between the two. The spark isn't ignited without complications--an old high school sweetheart, a fire in an old, abandoned house, a murdered man, and personal secrets stand in the way of Freddy and Glynis revealing their true feelings for one another.

Woodhill is faced with more trouble as the possibility of the closing of the quarry leads to a life-threatening accident that leaves everyone questioning their future.

The first in the series of Firehouse Family books, Memories begins the story of the tumultuous, passionate, and forbidden love affair of Jake McCann and Laura Darvey. After leaving the New York City Fire Department, Jake McCann and his two friends, Freddy Pratter and Mickey Justini, reunite in Woodhill, Ohio to accept positions in the fire department. The three friends all suffer from emotional, personal demons. Sharing a passion for Appaloosa horses, Jake falls in love with Laura Darvey, a woman who is married to a local bootlegger and operator of a protection racket. The affair causes the three friends to become tangled in a series of horrifying crimes that force them all to unexpectedly face their demons.

Laurie Loveman shares her experience going through several years of a divorce and the process of trying to regain the self-assurance and confidence she had before her marriage. It was critical to her future that she accomplish this, and after a brief introduction, Loveman begins her memoir in 1979 when her husband and she determine their best future is not as a couple. In 1980, a friend's daughter dies in a house fire, and that sets Loveman off on a quest to find out how fire departments operate. Her research takes her from a role as a visitor at the Shaker Heights Ohio Fire Department to becoming a member of the firehouse family. Over the course of the years 1981 through 1983, she is forced, through no-nonsense treatment, to once again become a strong self-sufficient woman. Along with raising two teenagers, trying to figure out what she's going to do career-wise, and managing a barn full of horses, Loveman confides her fears and frustrations in her horse, Amigo; the one confidante she can depend on to keep what she says to himself. Her firehouse experiences, marital ups and downs, and her moments with Amigo are interwoven throughout this journal of Loveman's rediscovering herself as her life changes. Hey Guys, the Redhead's Back! approaches divorce and career changes with an insightful, often playful tone.

Woodhill Fire Department Captain Freddy Pratter has earned the reputation of a "love 'em and leave 'em" kind of guy. Freddy is not that kind of guy at all, he's just never allowed anyone to know his true feelings, and being divorced, Freddy never expects to find love. Newly-divorced Glynis Hampton, has returned with her two children to her family's dairy farm in Dalebridge, a village north of Woodhill. As Freddy is called upon to help investigate mysterious fires in Dalebridge, a chance meeting and a shared love of photography spark an interest between the two. The spark isn't ignited without complications--an old high school sweetheart, a fire in an old, abandoned house, a murdered man, and personal secrets stand in the way of Freddy and Glynis revealing their true feelings for one another.

Dr. Jessica Malloy, the physician in charge of the emergency room at Woodhill Memorial Hospital, is losing a beloved patient. In the process, she finds her emotions torn between her feelings for Woodhill Fire Department First Aid Lieutenant Eli Sheffler and her patient's son, Boris Hegerty, the foreman of Liberty Sand & Gravel. Woodhill is faced with the possible closing of the quarry that employs many Woodhill men. Mining expert Aaron Chandler is hired to evaluate the quarry's future, but in doing so, he is brought face-to-face with a devastating revelation from his past. More trouble literally explodes in Woodhill when an accident at the quarry seriously injures Boris. Boris' life-threatening injuries inadvertently unite Aaron Chandler with his past, and create questions about everyone's futures.

Linda Marie Newman and Jenny Donnelly have been rescuing young girls from sex traffickers in 1930s New York City. Wealthy, politically and socially prominent Alderman, Jayden Wallace has been enjoying the income from trafficking until his operation is threatened by Linda Marie and Jenny. When Linda Marie and Jenny are called upon by their friend, Captain Will Peterson, to help a teenager involved in prostitution, they are reunited with an old friend, Sharon Beckhurst. Convinced the women are stealing his girls to start their own brothel, Wallace enlists help from the Mob to find them. When Sammi's friend, Conrad, also becomes Wallace's target, Linda Marie sends him to safety in Woodhill, Ohio, where her estranged son is a firefighter.Linda Marie must let go of the past to allow for a new future, but will it be in New York City or in a small town in Ohio?