The Christmas Wedding Bus By Chris Penhall
This Christmas Molly Cooper is about to take the journey of a lifetime.
For five years, Molly has played it safe. A tiny flat with a door that sticks. A cat called Paul Hollywood. A job baking cakes in Joe’s Café, opposite the registry office where everyone else seems to find their happily-ever-after.
Everyone except her.
Then there’s Joe. Her best friend. The man who knows her better than anyone else . . . except how she really feels about him.
Then on November 30th Molly gets on the wrong bus.
The Christmas Wedding Bus. Bright red, with a giant white bow on the bonnet, run by the impossibly charming Archie Woods, who offers Molly a chance to bake for weddings, all the way to Christmas.
Twenty-six days. One unexpected journey. And every stop brings Molly face to face with her past. The dreams she abandoned, the mistakes she regrets and the heartbreak she thought she’d left behind.
Because sometimes the road you never meant to take leads exactly where you’re meant to be.
And this Christmas Molly must decide if she’s brave enough to finally fight for the love she’s always wanted?
The Other Side Of Starting Over By Mara Williams
When her husband’s tragic death uncovers long-buried secrets, a young mother fights to protect her family and heal her heart in an emotionally resonant novel about loss, love, and second chances.
After her husband’s sudden death, Beatrice Bell retreats to her childhood home in California’s Sierra mountains with her rebellious teenage twins in tow. Her plan is to take over her parents’ antique store, ensure it survives another generation, and build a new life from the rubble of the old one.
But Bea didn’t plan on Simon, the gruff store manager with his own ambitions for the business. As they’re forced to work together, animosity gives way to grudging respect and ignites an unexpected spark. Before Bea can find her footing, everything is upended. First by River, a local boy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband. Then by her estranged mother-in-law, who reveals devastating secrets that will test everything Bea believed about her marriage.
As Bea navigates grief, betrayal, and an unexpected connection with Simon, she finds that it may be possible to begin again, but only if she confronts the truth of her past.
My Neighbors The Assassin By Michelle Heard
I thought Rowan was just the quiet bartender who watched me too closely and made me feel things I shouldn’t.
Then his past catches up to him, and I’m in for a rude awakening.
One minute I’m living my normal life, and the next, I’m on a trip across the country with a man trained to kill without hesitation.
A retired assassin. Possessive, violent, and deadly enough to leave a trail of bodies behind us.
Every mile between us and the men hunting him drags me deeper into Rowan’s terrifying world, where violence means survival and bloodshed comes way too easy.
I keep looking for redeeming qualities in him but quickly realize there are none, and there’s no escaping a man like Rowan Teller.
Not even if I wanted to.
The Other Kind Of Lion By Catherine Ryan Hyde
It’s 1970 in rural California where Shirley Bennett, a forty-year-old Vietnam War widow, lives with her two sons. It’s a routine life until she sees Cash Pierce, a scruffy eleven-year-old boy, trailing the fence alongside her Appaloosa, Phoenix. The horse has never given such a welcoming nicker to anyone but her late husband. Even her stubborn old dog Edsel takes to the boy. Out of curiosity and compassion, so does Shirley.
Abandoned by his father, his mother in jail, and being raised by his teenage brother, Cash is lonely, bullied, but smart as a whip and starved for attention. Shirley begins inviting him for dinners, providing lunch money, sewing his shirts, and offering the maternal care he desperately needs. Neither realizes that such simple acts of kindness create a bond that will span five decades and redefine family itself. No matter where life takes Cash, he will never forget her.
Through war, loss, grief, illness, second chances, and years of separation, they will meet again. Shirley was there for Cash. Now it’s his turn to be there for Shirley when she needs him the most.
The Holidate Disaster By Zoe York
Cassie and Nate broke up eleven months ago. On Christmas Eve! So there’s zero chance that Cassie’s giving Nate a second chance. Not even after an accidental make out session in the supply room of her new shop. The helicopter pilot is too emotionally unavailable for the creative wild child, end of story.
So when her mom invites her ex to Christmas Eve dinner, Cassie has no choice but to invent the fact that she has a date for the holiday…and find a date…and then survive that dinner when Nate brings a date of his own.
Nate, of course, doesn’t want anyone but Cassie. He’s just trying to hold on to the last remnants of his sanity as he watches his wife slip further and further away. This Christmas, he has one last chance to show her he wants more, he wants to be more, for her. He wants to be her everything.
But proving that is easier said than done with Minellis, and dates, around every corner at the Little Tree Farm.
