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Leila & Skylar
Two women in different places in life find exactly what they are looking for together.
Skylar Nash’s life is in turmoil after her mom is unexpectedly killed in a car accident. She’s moved back to her hometown to get her mom’s life settled while putting her own on hold. Torn between the life she loves in the city with her girlfriend and giving her siblings the kind of small town childhood she had. She’s trapped. Unable to move forward, she takes over her mom’s job at the high school and is making friends with the teacher across the hall. The ever hot Miss Hensley.
Too bad the woman doesn’t think she is up to the task of raising her brother and sister. It’s the same thing Skylar thinks, but only her former teacher would say it out loud. To her face.
Leila Hensley has accepted that this is her life and it's in a rut. As a small town teacher, she puts all her time and energy into her students, trying to forget the fact that she was passed up for a principal position she’d coveted for years. At home she has her hobbies and her dog since her love life is long dead and with no prospects she has quit trying. She knows nothing will change.
Not until her best friend’s daughter starts teaching in the room across the hall from her. A woman who once was her student, but she had definitely grown up. Too bad Leila keeps putting her foot in her mouth whenever they speak.
A sizzling age gap romance between a former student and her teacher in a small town. Drawn together by a troubled boy, a sullen girl and a basset hound who loves them all.
Lauren & Nissa
It was only supposed to be one night.
Until their different worlds collided.
Lauren Almquist gave up every dream she had to help her brother raise his kids; a degree, a girlfriend, a life of her own. Now she’s in her thirties and doesn’t know how to get any of it back. Or if she even wants to. After all, she’s settled. Why change that now?
Nissa Willis missed out on a few things after having kids young; parties, hookups, and irresponsibility. Now at only twenty-one, she doesn’t have time for those things. With two little girls, an absent ex, college classes and working for her parent’s company, she doesn’t even have time for herself. Much less time to date.
When the two meet by chance, they are drawn to each other despite their many differences. Ending up in bed wasn’t on either of their radars, and one night will have to be enough. When morning comes, they go back to their real lives, happy with their moment in time.
Until they run into each other again, far from where they met before. Now they have to decide if one night was enough. If happiness isn’t just worth finding their similarities.
Hilary & Cate
There are no second chances with first impressions without a little hard work.
Hilary didn’t believe in love at first sight until she saw Cate. In a flash, she knew she never wanted to be without her. But when Hilary turns her back, Cate vanished, leaving Hilary’s life in a turmoil of the likes she had never experienced before.
Cate wanted to experience everything college had to offer, except she didn’t want to be another notch in Hilary’s bed post. She wanted to find the love of her life. That is until her college career comes to an abrupt end and her days turn to adulting in an instant.
Months later, when Hilary runs into Cate at her job, she gets a second chance, but her usual bravado is gone. She is messing up at every turn. Can she convince the girl who hasn’t left her mind to give her a second chance?
This story isn’t about a second chance, it’s about working through the hard stuff, so a second chance isn’t needed in the first place.
When her estranged sister is injured in an accident, Cate Herrera’s well-crafted life is turned upside down as she rushes to her side. Despite knowing she wouldn’t want to see her if she wasn’t in a coma. Only then does Cate find out that not only does she have nieces and a nephew, but she is the only thing standing between them and foster care.
Everything happens so quickly Cate says yes to taking them in before she talks it over with her girlfriend. Telling herself that it was just for a week or so, and Hilary would understand, its family. Even if they had agreed years before that they didn’t want kids, but did this really break that agreement?
Hilary Mathews has no love for Cate’s sister and can’t understand why her girlfriend would agree to take in her kids, even for a minute. After all, it will only lead to heartache and pain when her sister wakes up just as homophobic as before the accident. Only this time she will take the kids Cate is rapidly falling in love with away from her.
Before Hilary can get her head around kids in the house, she is offered a job opportunity that she longs to take. Especially since it involves a move across the country that will bring them closer to her own family. But now with the kids around, Cate isn’t interested in leaving. Can Hilary give up an opportunity that might never happen again?
Suddenly, their perfect life is in turmoil. Each is pulled by each wanting to be closer to their families. Making staying together seem impossible. Is it time to move on without the woman you love?
Georgia & Liv
Prequel amiable April 2022
What do you do when your world falls apart?
You go home.
But what if that home hasn’t been home for far too long?
Award-winning photographer Georgia Quinn lost her family years ago for loving the wrong person. A woman who became her everything without them in her life. After her passing, Georgia’s lost. Now she is back in Minnesota to help her mom through cancer treatments, giving her something to focus on. Because her camera has lost all its appeal.
Staying at her family’s lake house should be relaxing, but her mom isn’t exactly a good patient and her sister is avoiding her. Add to that, her mom demands she hide that she’s gay, something she hasn’t done since leaving them behind. Making getting out of the house a priority, her walks on the beach with her dog a lifeline. Running into the daughter of her mom’s best friend gave her something to look forward to.
Her silly teenage crush is all grown up and still oblivious to how Georgia sees her. Which is fine, because Georgia’s not over her wife. What she needs is a friend, and Olivia Janes is someone she can talk to when her family won’t. In return, Georgia pushes Liv to take her first tentative steps into the dating world after her divorce.
But what happens when Georgia starts to see Liv as more than a friend? Will her family send her away again, this time for good? Is she willing to risk her heart that is just starting to heal?