Delia Eleanor Walker's life is perfectly planned. The wedding date is set, the invitations mailed. Her family is gathered at a North Carolina beach house ready to celebrate when Delia receives Prentice's unexpected Fed-Ex announcing he has married someone else!
What on earth will she do?
Delia centered every aspect of her future around her upcoming marriage, and she knows her family will somehow blame the breakup on her. They always do. They'll call it one more immature botch by the baby of the family.
In her lap, among the mail just received, Delia seizes on the answer--an invitation from Maureen Cross for a last visit to her aunt Dee's old cottage near Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Delia knows it's cowardly to run, but run she does, hoping to find in the mountain getaway time to heal and space to chart a new direction for her life.
Instead of peace and quiet, Delia finds a troubled cousin she's never met hiding out in her aunt's house and a childhood playmate and heartthrob, Tanner Cross, back in town, reminding her of yet another time she made a fool of herself romantically. To top it off, a criminal is on the loose, along with an increasingly complicated array of problems Delia never expected to encounter.
This warm contemporary romance follows Delia as she makes her way through surprising twists of sorrow, suspense, and sweetness amid the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains and the charm of Gatlinburg.

Delia's Place (Smoky Mountain)

Literature & Fiction

Lin Stepp

United States

Canterbury House Publishing

Life is sometimes hard for a widowed, single mother with three young children, a business to run, bills to meet, and debts to pay. Despite it all, Rosalyn McCreary tries to count her blessings. She cherishes her shop, Second Hand Rose, her family, and her friends. A practical woman by necessity, she seldom indulges in impulse and fancy except for that crazy spring day she danced with a total stranger she d never met. Whatever was she thinking? And to learn later that her mystery stranger, Kendrick Lanier, planned to move to Wear's Valley. Great. Just one more problem she doesn t need.
Despite Rosalyn's efforts to crowd him out, Kendrick soon pursues her, finding ways into her life and the lives of her children and creating complications Rosalyn simply doesn't want to deal with. Especially since the more she learns of the man's life and secrets, the more she realizes how ill-suited they are.
Given Rosalyn and Kendrick's troubled pasts and Rosalyn's temper, readers will find it a toss-up whether these two stubborn, determined individuals should or shouldn't ever get together.

Second Hand Rose: A Smoky Mountain Novel (Book Five) (Smoky Mountain, 5)

Contemporary

Vivian Delaney arrives in the quiet Wear's Valley, on the backside of the Great Smoky Mountains, carrying a heavy load of hidden problems. She is eager to find a quiet place to escape the recent troubles of her past. Right away, Vivian encounters unexpected challenges with her landlord, Scott Jamison. From Vivian's first meeting with Scott, which takes place at the end of a rifle barrel, he seems determined to push past all Vivian's defenses and find a way into her heart. Just as Vivian begins to trust Scott and share her secrets with him, love for a little foster girl, Sarah Taylor, challenges their new relationship. When Sarah is lost in the mountains, suspense and conflict build in the lives of several characters caught in the balance. This is the first in a planned series of 12 linked, upbeat, sentimental contemporary romance novels. Each is set in a different area of the Great Smoky Mountains, so readers get to experience new areas along with the rich pleasures of good Southern stories about memorable characters. Familiar characters and places tie the stories together in an enjoyable way.

The Foster Girls: A Smoky Mountain Novel (Smoky Mountain Series, 1)

Christian Books & Bibles

Makin' Miracles

Kensington Books

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