AustLit

'Flight doctor Christina Farrelly and G.P. Joe Barrett have been in love for two years —part-time. Joe spends a week every month at the Crocodile Creek Medical Center, where Christina works. He lives for their time together, and can't give her more than that. But Christina wants all of Joe—or nothing.

'Christina finds it hard to tell the big, gorgeous doctor it's over. It's only after she does, that he discovers he can't live without her—and she discovers she is pregnant. His fight to keep her has only just begun.' (Publication summary)

'Gorgeous Joe Capelli is back in town Will a summer fling with former classmate Mary Jane Cherry lead to something more? Find out in the new installment of Lilian Darcy's The Cherry Sisters miniseries

Fifteen years ago, Joe Capelli left town to make his way in Hollywood–leaving Mary Jane Cherry behind to nurse her secret crush. So why is he suddenly back in town, working at his dad's garage–on her car? With twin little daughters, no less?

'All Mary Jane's ever wanted is a husband and family. She knows that desire normally sends guys running in the opposite direction. Yet as her old crush on Joe revives itself, dare she believe that gorgeous Joe actually wants her, too–and for more than just a steamy summer affair?' (Publisher's blurb)

'Everyone has baggage by the time they’re into their thirties.

'When single mom and Marietta High School teacher Gemma Clayton acquires a strong, family-oriented and very good-looking new neighbor over her back fence, she’s not put off by his complicated past as the attraction flares between them. Her own past is a very different matter, however.

'Nobody knows what she went through on the night of the 1996 Marietta High School senior prom, between running after Judd and Garth Newell’s car as it left River Bend Park and limping into her friend Neve Shepherd’s street two hours later.

'But Gemma’s secrets have been rusted up inside her for so long that not even a gorgeous man like Dylan Saddler can help her to break them free.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'How do you stop being angry at someone when they’re gone?

'Kira Shepherd Blair’s older sister Neve died eighteen years ago at River Bend Park, on the night of the 1996 Marietta High School senior prom, and Kira is still mired in feelings she can’t resolve. So much of her life has been shadowed by Neve, from the adolescence she spent banished from the family spotlight because Neve was so greedy for it, to the bad marriage she made at twenty-one because she and her parents needed the security and the promise of a future, after Neve’s tragic death.

'Kira is working to make a good life for herself and her ten-year-old son Jake after her divorce and is finally starting to feel that she’s getting on track, when Neve’s high school boyfriend Casey “Jay” Brown comes back to Marietta and turns everything upside down.

'Casey has never known in his heart how much he was to blame for what happened to Neve that night, but when he and Kira are forced to work together at the renowned Haraldsen Architectural Foundation in the foothills of the Absaroka Mountains, she leaves him in no doubt as to her opinion on the issue.

'That’s how you stop being angry at someone when they’re gone. You channel your anger onto the man you hold responsible, the man who’s right here, no matter how heart-stoppingly gorgeous he is.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Charlie Barnett barely has time to buy new socks, let alone time to fall in love.

'Spanish street musician Ramona Garrido-Lopez isn’t looking for love, either. With her parents depending on her, their only child, all she really wants is to make them happy.

'Despite the sparks that fly between them, she and Charlie couldn’t possibly be serious about each other, when they’re committed to lives on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean… could they?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'No one in Marietta, Montana, would ever forget the 1996 Marietta High School Senior Prom and everything that happened late that night at Riverbend Park.

'For Tully Morgan, it was the night she found out the real identity of her birth mother, stood up her prom date with no explanation and left town for good. When she returns to Marietta eighteen years later to care for the flawed woman who gave her life, she has no idea that the emotions of Prom Night are about to come full circle.

'Tully Morgan hasn’t been back to Marietta for more than a few brief visits since the night of the 1996 senior prom eighteen years ago, when the chance exposure of a long-held family secret sent her running to her uncle in California in shock. She stood up her date Ren Fletcher that night, and she hasn’t seen him since.

'Now she’s here for an extended stay, to help take care of her seriously ill mother. It’s an edgy reconciliation, the first time that Tully, Patty and Sugar Morgan have been together since that long ago prom night. Tully has had so much anger toward Sugar… can she ever forgive her?

'And Sugar still has one more secret that needs to be dealt with, one that needs Ren Fletcher’s help. Has he forgiven Tully for leaving him in the lurch on prom night? And is there any chance that he and Tully can rekindle what they might once have had, when he’s still tied to someone else?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'It’s May 1996 and Marietta High School English teacher Kate MacCreadie is almost at the end of her rope, torn between the demands of her work and her heavy involvement in helping her younger brother Rob and his wife Melinda take care of their five young children on the MacCreadie family ranch.

'When Marietta’s fine-looking new sheriff, Harrison Pearce, pulls Kate over for her third traffic violation in as many months, they both know it’s a sign that something has to give.

'Kate finds it almost a relief to be told by this calm, strong man to get her life in order, and then she just keeps on seeing him – at school after there’s been a suspicious break-in, on the evening of the prom when he’s off duty and driving his nephew and friends to the event in one of his brother’s gorgeous vintage cars.

'Late that night, after prom is over, a tragedy at River Bend Park brings Kate and Harrison together yet again, and this time, in the highly charged atmosphere, Kate discovers that she never wants to let him go. But with his divorce still fresh, is Harrison ready for someone new?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'In this first Cherry Sisters title, Lilian Darcy shows just how tricky mixing family and romance can be!

'Daisy Cherry hasn't seen rugged landscaper Tucker Reid for ten years. Not since the wedding between him and her sister had been called off, just before the big day!

'Now she's hired a landscaper to fix the grounds of her parents' Adirondack resort, Spruce Bay. Yes, it's Tucker – he's the best man for the job. Surely that's okay after all this time?

'Er…no. Her parents go mad. Her big sister disapproves. And her younger sister, Tucker's ex, doesn't know – yet. And none of them know that the instant, wild, intense attraction between Daisy and Tucker has bubbled into a secret affair. That would be explosive. Dynamite. But when it's this good with Tucker, isn't it worth the family fallout…?' (Publisher's blurb)