Bøger af Leah Omar

Can two shattered survivors find healing in one another?Can two shattered survivors find healing in one another?Carrie is a survivor, and if there's one thing growing up with an eccentric mother taught her, it was how to chase her dreams. After beating cancer, things are finally looking up for her. She buys a fixer-upper on the idyllic Lake Traverse with plans to convert it into a bed and breakfast. When her hometown crush, Dax Abram, begins to notice her, Carrie is starting to believe that her future is full of hope.Dax is lost and shattered. When the confident, successful, and charismatic basketball player became a widower, he threw himself into being the best single dad possible. His daughter, Kylie, kept him going when he lost all hope. Now, he's sworn off relationships, thinking he could never find the happiness he had before cancer ripped his life to shreds. Dax is caught entirely off guard when he starts to notice Carrie in a new way. He's known her his entire life, but after losing the love of his life, he can't fathom having feelings for another woman.Carrie and Dax fall into an easy friendship, but they must heal from their pasts if they are to find happiness together.

Camilla Bergland has never called anywhere home, happy to be tied to no one and no place. A citizen of the world, she thinks the only real roots she has is her grandparents' lake cottage in Wheaton, where she spent every summer of her nomadic childhood. So when her grandparents need help, she volunteers to spend the summer with them while she figures out her next move.What she didn't anticipate was relishing the precious time with her grandparents despite her grandmother's increasingly heartbreaking Alzheimer's, small-town life, and reconnecting with childhood friends.All roads in Wheaton seem to lead to Jake Abram, her childhood crush and the person she spent her summers following around, but the kindhearted Jake she had idolized seventeen years ago has become a different person. He's rude, edgy, and likes to remind Camilla that while she's been traveling the globe, she's also been neglecting her grandparents and their growing needs. Unfortunately, Jake's the only one who can help her fix up her grandparents' rundown lakefront cottage. Before long, she's made a deal with the devil. He'll help Camilla renovate the cottage in exchange for her decorating his lake home next door.The more time they spend together, the more she remembers why she used to like him back in the day. But can their growing attraction survive the secrets he's keeping and Camilla's determination to always leave before she can get hurt?