Reviews - Contemporary

Sara Barefield
Marian D.
Schwartz

WOMEN'S FICTION:  Sara Barefield has overcome a hard-scrabble beginning and is enjoying a settled, comfortable life with a good job, a nice home and her boyfriend Tully. Sarah's life takes an unexpected turn when Tully's severe PTSD causes him to commit suicide. Having recently discovered that she is pregnant, a heartbroken Sara makes the difficult decision to leave her Appalachian home town.

Audrey Evans learns not to trust anyone early on, courtesy of a childhood spent in a trailer park with a drug-addicted, alcoholic mother and no father in sight. Even so she works her way through college and lands a job as a sideline announcer for ESPN.

After an unfortunate relationship with a wealthy man, Gina has sworn off serious entanglements.  During her best friend's wedding at a vineyard, Gina meets a bartender that makes her want to throw caution in the wind… at least for one night.  Hunter was used to one-night stands with tourists; however the Vineyard owner wasn’t expecting Gina’s instant attraction to result in anything beyond the

Tiffany Thompson has been madly in love with a very unreachable man, Todd Jameson.  She endures seeing him as part of her work and best friend's lives.  She secretly dreams of him while she continues her volunteer work as well as her job as a part time social worker.  Tiffany’s parents are very well off and her dad is a retired military man who runs a top national security company.  She is bein

After wasting away several years of her life working at least sixty hours a week, Lexi Burke decides enough is enough, and she’s not about to let stress control her life any longer. She quits her job, and moves to Kauai, Hawaii. 

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