Grace Greene
1) Beach rental
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Juli Cooke, hard-working and getting nowhere fast, marries a dying man, Ben Bradshaw, for a financial settlement, not expecting he will set her on a journey of hope and love. The journey brings her to Luke Winters, a local art dealer, but Luke resents the woman who married his sick friend and warns her not to hurt Ben-and he's watching to make sure she doesn't. Framed by the timelessness of the Atlantic Ocean and the brilliant blue of the beach sky,...
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Wildflower House volume Wildflower Christmas Novella
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In Wildflower Christmas, a Wildflower House novella, Kara is looking forward to a quiet holiday--just like the ones she's always known--but this year, instead of celebrating the holidays with her father in the city, she's at Wildflower House and she's alone. Kara is okay with a low-key Christmas because after hosting the hectic first official event at Wildflower House she's ready to enjoy some rest and relaxation before January arrives and the final...
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Wildflower house volume 4
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Kara is on track to turn the old mansion her father left her into a creative retreat and event space, but after a successful holiday season and then a joyous Christmas celebration with her friends and family, it's now January and winter has settled in. The brightest spot in the shorter, darker days, is the man she's fallen in love with. But she's worried. Suppose the growing relationship is more a distraction than a 'meant-to-be' love story. She has...
4) Cub Creek
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In the heart of Virginia, where the forests hide secrets and the creeks run strong and deep . . . Libbie Havens is fine on her own. When she chances upon the secluded house on Cub Creek she purchases it. She'll show her cousin Liz, and other doubters, that she can rise above her past and live happily and successfully on her own terms. Libbie has emotional problems born of a troubled childhood. Raised by a grandmother she could never please, Libbie...
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Maia helped her friends find their happily-ever-afters ~ Now she's ready for her own happy future.
Along the Outer Banks of North Carolina and the Crystal Coast ~ from THE FRONT STREET GALLERY in Beaufort, NC, to the beaches of Emerald Isle and across Bogue Sound to Morehead City...Maia Donovan watched her friends find true love and has dreamed of her own happily-ever-after, but wishes and reality don't always match up.
When Maia met Joel Sandeford,...
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From rural Virginia to coastal Carolina ~ Lilliane Moore leaves the forests and rolling hills of her rural Virginia hometown, Cub Creek, to accept a temporary job as a companion to an elderly man who lives at the beach. It's a risky move that's out of character for her, but her thirties are passing quickly-she feels like she's closing in on forty fast-plus she's got a hole in her roof and no AC. The big payday she's been promised for this short-term...
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In the heart of Virginia, where the forests hide secrets and the creeks run strong and deep . . .
Libbie Havens never fit in. She bought the old Carson place on Cub Creek and moved to the Virginia countryside to prove she could live on her own terms. In the process, she learned some truths about herself and found love-but love, acceptance and belonging can be easier to find than to keep.
While on a trip to Sicily with Libbie, Jim Mitchell must leave...
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“A Dancing Tide” continues the story of Lilliane Moore of Cub Creek in rural Virginia, who accepted a temporary companion job for ninety-year-old Merrick Dahl of Emerald Isle, North Carolina-and discovered it's not always so easy to go home again. That if you do, you'll find your life has changed in unexpected ways.
How do you put the pieces back together? Should you try?
Lilliane accepted the temporary job because she needed the cash, but the...
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From rural Virginia to coastal Carolina ~ Sometimes the biggest risk is in playing it safe...
Lilliane Moore leaves the forests and rolling hills of her rural Virginia hometown, Cub Creek, to accept a temporary job as a companion to an elderly man who lives at the beach.
It's a risky move that's out of character for her, but her thirties are passing quickly-she feels like she's closing in on forty fast-plus she's got a hole in her roof and no AC....
10) Beach Winds
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Off-season at Emerald Isle ~ In-season for secrets of the heart
Frannie Denman has been waiting for her life to begin. After several false starts, and a couple of broken hearts, she ends up back with her mother, with whom she doesn't get along, until her elderly uncle gets sick, and Frannie goes to Emerald Isle to help manage his affairs while he's recovering.
Her uncle's oceanfront home, Captain's Walk, is small and unpretentious, and even though...
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The novels of The Emerald Isle, NC Stories series ~ now available in a three eBook boxed set ~ BEACH RENTAL, BEACH WINDS, and BEACH WEDDING.
It's always a good time for a love story and a trip to the beach and reading The Emerald Isle, NC Stories Series of romance and sweet inspiration is a great way to get there. BEACH RENTAL is first - it's Juli's story. BEACH WINDS is second - it's Frannie's story, and BEACH WEDDING is third and it's Maia's...
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Center Point Large Print
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2021.
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"A woman returns home to hide from her past mistakes and discovers one more chance at happiness. Sandra Hurst has left her husband. Again. After dropping out of college to marry Trent, divorcing him, then remarrying him, she's shown up on her parents' doorstep nursing her wounds. But her parents refuse to help this time--emotionally or financially. Desperate to earn money and determined to start over, she accepts an offer from her aunt to house-sit...
13) WILDFLOWER HEART
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The Wildflower house volume 1
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"Kara Hart was scarred by loss -- first the loss of her mother and now her husband. She feels broken, with no will to move forward, until her father does the unexpected: he moves to the Virginia countryside to restore an old Victorian mansion. Kara decides to go with him, telling herself that it will only be temporary. The huge house is neglected and derelict, but Kara discovers its breathtaking field of wildflowers and is stunned by their beauty....
14) WILDFLOWER HOPE
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Wildflower house volume 2
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"Kara Hart suffered overwhelming heartache when she lost her mother and husband, and her father's sudden death might be the blow that breaks her -- unless she turns her grief into purpose. She'll finish renovating his Victorian mansion in rural Virginia, but with her own twist. She'll turn the old house into a creative retreat for artists and writers. Kara has never tackled a project this big alone, and she's not ready to open her heart to others...
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"To keep a devastating family secret from being revealed, a young mother's desperate lies could end up destroying everything, and everyone, she loves. The Memory of Butterflies is a poignant story of family and forgiveness--of knowing when to let go and when to hold each other close. Hannah Cooper's daughter is leaving for college soon. The change is bittersweet. A single mother since the age of eighteen, Hannah isn't eager to confront the pain of...
16) Kincaid's hope
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Kersey Creek Books
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2015.
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Beth Kincaid has created a life in the city, free from untidy emotionalism. But when she is called back to her hometown of Preston, a small town in southwestern Virginia, to settle her guardian's estate, she runs into the mess she had left behind a decade earlier: her alcoholic father, the long-ago sweetheart, Michael, and the poor opinion of almost everyone in town. As she sorts through her guardian's possessions, Beth discovers that the woman who...
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Emerald Isle NC novel volume 3
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Kersey Creek Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
18) Beach heart
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Barefoot Tides volume Bk. 4
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Kersey Creek Books
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[2022]
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"Emma made her best childhood memories with her great aunt Eva at her aunt's home, Beach Heart. Years later, Emma finds herself a widow, broken emotionally and financially, and at odds with her stepson Macon. He's grown now, but only ten years younger than Emma, and they'd been close. The final fracture of their relationship occurs when Emma sells the family home to cover debts incurred during her husband's long illness. On the lowest day of her life,...
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Kersey Creek Books
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[2019]
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Kara Hart is looking forward to a quiet holiday-just like the ones she's always known-but this year, she's at Wildflower House and alone. But fate-with an extra dose of Christmas spirit-intervenes as the people now in Kara's life show up. If Kara is ready to up her holiday game, she may find new traditions to build on for the future.
20) Emerald Heart
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Kersey Creek Books
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[2023]
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"Welcome to The Emerald Heart Hotel -- The sign on the big gate is faded, and the gate is usually locked because the hotel closed two years ago when Mignon King lost her husband. His death, on top of the loss of their daughter many years before, has Mignon mired in grief. But it’s more than grief that has her trapped. Before she can move on, she must decide what to do with the hotel she and her husband owned and managed for more than two decades....