It looks like this could be a Romance kind of day. While browsing through the usual suggestion emails a couple of interesting books popped up, with authors new to us. Now, it’s interesting on two levels.

Sorrento Girl (The Historic Hotels Collection)

It’s 1938, and Ann Brooks has big dreams of her new life as a Seattle College coed. She’s left the old-fashioned ways of her small country town behind to pursue higher education and a teaching career.

But not everyone is ready for change.

Society still preaches that a woman’s place is in the home. Some refuse to see Ann as an equal deserving of an education — let alone a career — and Ann’s friends think school is simply a springboard to pursue a marriage of wealth and convenience.

When Ann meets Paul, an aspiring journalist with strong ideas of his own, she learns an unexpected lesson in courage and discovers what it really means to live her dreams.

Will Ann give up everything she thought she wanted for love? Or can she have it all?

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Juliet’s Journey to Love: Women’s Fiction – Inspirational Romance (Great Smoky Mountain Getaways Book 1)

Escape to the Great Smoky Mountains…

Juliet isn’t sure of God’s plan for her life, but the opportunity to serve as the leader of the Freedom and Faith small group, helps her to feel needed, like she belongs. The group plans to hike sections of the Appalachian Trail, using the back to nature approach to grow closer to God. Determined to succeed, Juliet leads two other women on a hike, but when she falls ill and they’re days away from the exit point of their planned journey, her friends must call 911.

When a man shows up looking more like a grizzly bear than a rescuer, she’s forced to accept his help. Loner extraordinaire, Jake wants them gone. Except when Juliet and her friends are ready to leave, it’s Jake who succumbs to the illness, and this time it’s Juliet to the rescue.

In the process, she discovers a man with a heart and a past. Her failure to lead the group prompts her to renew her efforts to be needed, and she’s determined to help Jake get through more than his illness. When she learns of an opening at the medical clinic in Hollow Creek, she applies, knowing it would give her a reason to stick around town and give her time to help Jake get his life back on track.

Her methods aren’t always squeaky clean, but her heart is in the right place. When Jake finds out the truth, the walls come tumbling down. Can the two of them muddle through the past and their own issues to work out their differences?

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The Complete Blueberry Beach Box Set Books 1-8

Escape to Blueberry Beach in this charming collection of sweet, heartwarming romances!

Book 1 – Yesterday’s Treasures: When Lindy leaves her workaholic husband and moves with her teenage daughter to their summer cottage on the shores of Lake Michigan, will she find joy and healing with the help of her new neighbors in the town of Blueberry Beach? And when it comes down to a choice between her bright new future or the value of yesterday’s treasures, does her husband dare to hold out hope that he can win her back?

Book 2 – Tomorrow’s Blessings: Dealing with her husband’s departure, her son’s leukemia diagnosis, and an unexpected pregnancy from a short, sweet summer fling, can Anitra navigate the complexities of her life and find hope with the support of her friends and neighbors in Blueberry Beach?

Book 3 – Beautiful Forevers: Can Gage and Zariah’s relationship, which seems too good to be true, survive the outrageous actions of Zariah’s teenage niece, Macie, who’s caught in a crime spree in Blueberry Beach? And will the small community ever feel safe again?

Book 4 – Precious Memories: Although dealing with a mysterious illness that has depleted her energy and left her listless, can Laura find a future with the mysterious stranger who rents the small apartment above her grandfather’s shop in Blueberry Beach?

Book 5 – Misty Mornings: What will happen when Leiklyn reunites with her high school friends after eighteen years to renovate the Manor they bought for $1, only to discovers her daughter’s explosive secret? Will Leiklyn’s own dark secret come to light?

Book 6 – Sweet Afternoons: Can Willen overcome perfectionism and learn that she’s worthy of love? And how will Drake Jensen, a Hollywood leading man who wants to disappear, choose between Hollywood and the new life that could be his, especially when he falls in love with a woman determined to make him her enemy?

Book 7 – Magical Twilights: Can a broken woman, who has a lot of regrets, sins, and secrets, and a pastor with a secret past of his own, find love and forgiveness in Blueberry Beach despite their troubled histories?

Book 8 – Tender Mercies: Can Bev and Bill, who lost their baby and broke up when they were fifteen, find their soulmates and a family in their fifties, after a long-held secret from the town’s pillar is disclosed and directly affects them, destroying everything they thought they believed?

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Today is a good day for authors we don’t see as often, or ever. The stories look pretty good too.