With All My Heart: Book One In The Exciting New Maren Springs Series by Aasia Khan (Amazon) (14 Reviews)    Price verified 7 minutes ago

Layla Ahmed is in hiding. She has been living a lonely life after losing her parents, and their killers are after her. Her only hope is her unfamiliar foster family in Maren Springs. For Usman Bakhtiar, it is love at first sight when he meets Layla after twenty-five years. She has many secrets while he has just one; she belongs with him, and he will not let her go.

Genre: Family Life

Not So Wicked by I. C. Talbot (Icy Road Publishing) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Joanie is Captain of her Soccer Team, and a girl who knows her own mind. She lives with her mother, Martha, newly married to a nice guy with the dorky name of Delbert and his son Jeff. Jeff wants to learn to play guitar, but he's really, really bad at it. He's determined to learn, he plays until his fingers bleed, which is freaking his step-mother out. Another part of the problem is that their little house is full of stuff. Nobody is happy living in a house full of boxes. Joanie has decided it's time to de-clutter the house and stop Martha from picking on Jeff. She might be his step-sister, but she's not about to be his wicked step-sister. This short story is 3k words.

Genre: Family Life

Facing the Music by Marcia Willett (962 Reviews)    Price verified 14 minutes ago

Vanessa's letter comes out of the blue: May her son, Alex, visit his godfather - Fiona's husband, James - on his forthcoming trip to England? Fiona is thrilled - Alex is a particular favourite, and she hasn't seen him since he was a little boy. However, her delight is mixed with unease. Ever since the tragic loss of their own daughter, James has seemed ambivalent about his godson. It is as if he resents the boy's existence. As she muses on the best way to reconcile James to the news, Fiona looks back to the early days of their relationship. She and her friend Vanessa were teenagers in the sixties, about to start practising the intricate steps of the dance of life... Willa Marsh was born in Somerset and lives in a Georgian parsonage in Devon with her husband and two Newfoundlands. As Marcia Willett, she also writes well-reviewed novels published by Headline.

Genre: Family Life

Expectations - The Andersen Saga: Clean and Wholesome Womens Fiction. (The Andersens Book 11) by Jacie Middlemann (15 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Chris has always been a dreamer... happy to spend him time drawing with pen and pencil, pastels... even crayons. Adam has always been the pragmatic one... intent on his studies and long term goals. Yet no two brothers could be closer despite their many differences... Expectations is the eleventh novella in the ongoing story of the Andersen family. Livia Andersen was a woman who held her family together with a quiet smile and an iron will. It's only been months since her death and the four children she leaves behind continue to grapple with the shifting changes in their lives now that she's gone. Disappointments she kept to herself are coming to light. And the grandchildren she adored are struggling for answers not easily found. Adam Andersen has had his future plotted out for him almost from the day he was born. Now he is faced with the realization that the future others have set him on the path for isn't the one he wants. Worse, he's uncertain about what it is he does wants. As he looks out over the lake he wonders if here in the seemingly middle of nowhere he might find the answers that have so far eluded him. Chris Andersen is the living image of his father. But unlike his Dad... and his brother, he has always looked at life as an adventure and the unknowns just around the corner as an unexpected challenge to be explored. Also in contrast to his brother his thoughts have little to do with his future. But during the unexpected visit to their aunt his future seems unexpectedly mapped out for him... if it's what he wants. Who could have known that the years spent drawing and doodling with whatever was at hand... pens, pencils, charcoal, pastels... could lead to something more? Patrick Andersen needed to talk with his youngest sister. He wasn't going to do it over the phone or any of the other more convenient means. He wanted to see her reaction when he told her what he'd found and the conclusions he'd drawn from it. That meant another trip to where she'd ...

Genre: Family Life