Judith Keim
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Guests can be surprising…
Ann and Rhonda continue their work at The Beach House Hotel, always striving to make their upscale property the best on the Gulf Coast of Florida. As they've learned, not all guests are easy. When they receive a request from Hilda Hassel, a member of the Bavarian royal family, for a two-week stay at the hotel in January, demanding the best room and high tea every afternoon, Ann is uneasy. Other Hassel family members cancelled...
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La famille et les sœurs peuvent être compliquées: Piégée par sa sœur, Jill Conroy devient pour l'été la femme de ménage et la cuisinière du Seashell Cottage o Greg Campbell et son neveu Brody ont été engagés pour effectuer des travaux d'entretien. Contrariée dans un premier temps, elle s'aperçoit rapidement qu'elle revit loin de sa maison de New York et des souvenirs de son défunt mari, qui la maltraitait émotionnellement. La magie...
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Set sail to new adventures and escapes with eight best-selling authors in the exciting new Sail Away series!
Sometimes magic happens…
Gabby Willets returns to her hometown of Ellenton, NY, to care for her father, who's dying of cancer. She and her father are exceptionally close because her mother died giving birth to her in a situation that should never have happened. As Gabby was growing up, she and her father shared a love of cars and even participated...
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A humorous collection of definitions to provide any dog owner help in understanding his beloved pet.Like many young couples, Judith and Peter Keim's first "child" was a dog. Tio, their first Dachshund, began a life-long journey of living with Dachshunds, providing them with a lot of material about the antics of this fun-loving breed. But any dog lover will find plenty to laugh about in this humorous collection of definitions. Enjoy your dog and have...
5) Salty Kisses
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Olivia "Livy" Winters agrees to spend the summer at Sanderling Cove on the Gulf Coast of Florida with her two cousins, Charlotte "Charlie" Bradford and Brooke Weatherby, to help manage The Sanderling Cove Inn while their grandparents take a long road trip in Europe. Livy hopes a summer away from her past surroundings and her job as the owner of a bakery in Virginia will help her forget a traumatic incident there. Unknown to her and her cousins, the...
6) Coming Home
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Families can be complicated…
Camilla "Cami" Chandler comes home from France to take over the Chandler Hill Inn and Winery for her recently deceased grandmother, Lettie, as she'd always promised. Determined to succeed in this new venture, she finds herself in trouble from the beginning when she discovers most of her grandmother's estate intended for maintaining the inn and its business expenses was lost in a Ponzi scheme. She forges ahead to provide...
7) Going Home
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A family saga filled with love…
In 1970, Violet Hawkins' only wish at eighteen is to escape her life in the Dayton, Ohio, foster-care system and make her way to the west coast to enjoy a mellow life and find the love she's been missing all her life. Lettie makes it to San Francisco, but soon learns she needs a job if she's to live properly. A kind young man named Kenton Chandler offers her a sandwich and a job at his father's inn and vineyards....
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Family is worth finding and keeping…
Sheena Sullivan Morelli and her sisters, Darcy and Regan, work to complete their Uncle
Gavin's challenge of turning his rundown hotel into a profitable operation within one year. Winning means earning a share in their uncle's sizable estate. More than that, it determines how they'll spend the rest of their lives. Sheena wants to stay on at the hotel, overseeing the hotel operation. But Darcy and Regan want to...
9) Baby Talk
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A gift from the heart is the best gift of all…
When Marissa Crawford and her husband Brad decide to start a family, Marissa has serious doubts about her ability to be a good mother-she was raised by one of the worst. Torn between telling Brad the truth and hoping she doesn't get pregnant, Marissa's life is completely upended when a baby girl is left in a basket on the front porch of her large home in Maine. Caring for the baby given specifically...
10) Love by Design
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Keeping a family promise can be the beginning of a whole new life for everyone in town.
Danielle "Dani" Gilford eagerly accepts her share of the gift of a cottage on the property of the Lilac Lake Inn in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Her grandmother, Gigi, has decided to sell the inn after realizing it's too difficult to run as she ages and with rising taxes. Dani and her two sisters, Whitney and Taylor, must renovate and maintain the cottage...
11) Straight Talk
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Life can bring unexpected challenges...
Samantha Hartwell's life changes completely when she's attacked by a client's boyfriend. She leaves Boston and Straight Talk, her consulting business, and escapes to California wine country to heal and to help her sister and brother-in-law with their vineyard's growth. But she can't escape the desire Derek Roberts, a worldwide photographer, had sparked inside her. The two challenge each other in ways they've...
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A boy who doesn't believe in Santa Claus and a woman eager to help him discover the joy of giving to others.
When Juanita Sanchez and the Desert Flowers-Willow Sanchez Kincaid, Rose Bowers, and Lily Walden -open Juanita's Kitchen, the food kitchen Alec Thurston and they formed as a charitable organization, a young woman named Ivy Barrett and her seven-year-old son, Benjy come into their lives. Ivy is appointed head of the kitchen staff and they all...
13) Sweet Talk
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A child can teach us the right words to say…
Following her divorce, Allison Hartwell leaves Maine for California to become a partner in her college roommate's art gallery. She's out to prove she can succeed in business, get along without a man and have fun along the way. But things quickly fall apart; the business is financially insecure, and she's left with the care of her roommate's eight-year-old daughter, Daisy. When Blake Whiting, owner of...
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Families and sisters can be complicated...
Jill Conroy is tricked by her sister into becoming the housekeeper and cook for the summer at Seashell Cottage where Greg Campbell and his nephew, Brody, have been hired to do maintenance projects on the house. Annoyed at first, Jill soon realizes how wonderful it is to be away from her home in New York and the memories of her deceased, emotionally abusive husband.
Soon the magic of the beach heals Jill enough...
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Ann Rutherford's and Rhonda DelMonte Grayson's lives continue to be full of surprises as they run The Beach House Hotel, their small upscale hotel on the Gulf Coast in Southwest Florida. Things heat up when Tina Marks (Valentina Marquis, a famous young movie star) is sent to the hotel in secret to lose 25 pounds in eight weeks for her next starring role. As much as Ann and Rhonda want to help Tina succeed, the hotel is known for its delicious food...
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Three talented women are brought together by a man they all love, becoming his Desert Flowers, who work together to save his hotel from being ruined by the company buying it…
When Willow Sanchez is asked to help Alec Thurston, the man for whom her parents work and who's always treated her as the daughter he once lost, she doesn't hesitate to leave Boston and come back home to Palm Desert, California. Alec is dying of cancer and needs her help in...
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A woman and her beloved granddaughter take a trip of discovery…
After agreeing to enter the New Life Assisted-Living Community outside of Boston, Agatha "Aggie" Robard talks her devoted, serious granddaughter, Blythe, into driving her to Florida, stopping to see old college friends along the way. She particularly needs to speak to Donovan Bailey, the man she'd thought she would marry right after graduating from college. By asking Blythe to go with...
18) Change of Heart
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People and hearts can change...
Emerson "Em" Jordan always wanted a Valentine's Day wedding. But after being dumped by her boyfriend, she spends the holiday at Seashell Cottage on the Gulf Coast of Florida with Devin Gerard, a family friend who has no interest in her or any other woman and is instead concentrating on his pediatric medical practice and continuing medical missions in Costa Rica.
Em, who's always wanted a large family, doesn't mind his...
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Ann and Rhonda are fed up with the way the new majority owners are changing the Beach House Hotel from the small, elegant hotel they once owned and operated into a tacky, South Beach wannabe property. What's their only recourse? Buy back the property to save it from getting even worse. And with the new management ruining Ann's daughter's plans for a Christmas Eve wedding, they have to get to work right away to regain control of the hotel.
Facing...
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Three talented women are brought together by a man they all love, becoming his Desert Flowers, who work together to save his hotel from being ruined by the company buying it… When Lily Weaver is asked to help Alec Thurston, the one man she's ever truly loved, and to come to Palm Desert, California, she doesn't hesitate. He's dying of cancer and needs her help in overseeing the sale of his hotel, The Desert Sage Inn, to another hotel group. For five...