Impossible Love by Gracie Owens

 

 

 Every woman deserves an alpha hero  

Impossible Love

Yosemite Ranch Book 1

by Gracie Owens

Genre: Small Town Contemporary Romance

Victoria:

I came to Yosemite Ranch to close a land deal and make partner.
Instead, I find temptation.

His name is Cal MacLaine. A smoking-hot ex-Navy SEAL and billionaire with breathtaking violet eyes. With a side of first-born-son: overprotective, suspicious, honorable to a fault. He thinks it’s his mission to protect his family’s ranch.

And keep me from reaching my objectives.

Will I close this deal? Will he send me packing? Or will we both find what we've always wanted in the most impossible of places…in one another’s arms?

Cal:

This redhead in her ridiculous stiletto heels has no business here.

Sure, she’s the most stunning thing I’ve ever seen. Sure, there’s an undeniable attraction between us. But she’s set her sights on a chunk of our family ranch.

I don’t trust her.

She says she’s in mergers and acquisitions. Sorry, gorgeous—I won’t be buying what you’re selling. So how has she succeeded where every other woman has failed? How is she knocking down the impenetrable wall I’ve built around my world—and my heart? I can’t fall in love with Victoria Backlund.

It’s impossible.

Impossible Love is a small town, enemies to lovers, billionaire, military contemporary romance and the first book in the Yosemite Ranch series. Yosemite Ranch...Every woman deserves an alpha hero.

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Love Walks In

Yosemite Ranch Book 2  

Finn:

When my wife died in childbirth, I knew my guilt and grief would never heal.

I try to focus on the life that’s right in front of me. Jasmine, the eight-year-old daughter I worry I’m failing. The successful tech company I started with my brothers. And training horses at my family’s Yosemite Ranch.

Until the day Emma Clark walks in…

Radiating beauty and kindness despite her own pain. A miracle I never saw coming, and a temptation I can’t fight. Can I trust the unbreakable bond she forms with Jasmine? Can I forgive myself enough to welcome love again? And if I go looking into her past, will I find more than any of us bargained for?

Emma:

I know I’m damaged.

Foster care, loneliness, and minimum-wage work will do that to a girl. But I’m nobody’s victim, no matter what’s in my past. What I am is a realist, and I’m sure love isn’t in the cards for me.

Until Finn MacLaine’s gaze meets my own…

The insanely handsome former Navy SEAL is my new boss. And strictly off limits. But the attraction is too intense to ignore. The connection is too strong to break.

Is love, family, and true belonging suddenly within my grasp? Or am I just a housekeeper longing for the impossible?

Love Walks In is a small town, single dad, billionaire, military contemporary romance and the second book in the Yosemite Ranch series. Yosemite Ranch...Every woman deserves an alpha hero.



Content warning: assault in the heroine’s past is referenced.

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 Gracie Owens is the pen name for two internationally bestselling authors from the American West who have teamed up to write steamy, sassy, and sweet contemporary romance novels. After years of discussing passion projects and brainstorming story ideas, they realized what fun they could have if they put their heads—and laptops—together. The rest is history!

 These days, they spend hours on the phone figuring out how their characters can fall in love despite the odds. One author writes from her couch, focused on outlines, plots, and first drafts. The other writes outside with her dogs next to her, revising, editing, and adding steamy love scenes.

 

We hope our readers have as much fun with Gracie as we do! 

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Coming Home to Magnolia Bay by Babette De Jongh

 

 

 

People and pets find their forever homes in this charming small-town romance  

Coming Home to Magnolia Bay

Welcome to Magnolia Bay Book 3

by Babette De Jongh

Genre: Small Town Contemporary Romance

People and pets find their forever homes in this charming small-town romance from Babette de Jongh featuring:

*A single mom doing her best

*Her young son who needs a helping hand

*An animal trainer who might be the answer to their troubles

*A bustling animal rescue where everyone gets a second chance

*The magic of humans who know how to communicate with animals

Sara Prescott’s eight-year-old son Max wants a dog. But their apartment doesn’t allow pets, and the divorced single mom can’t afford the certified seizure-alert dog Max needs. Instead, she and Max volunteer at the Furever Love Animal Shelter. Max forms a special bond with Jett, a big black bully breed and three-time loser who keeps getting dumped.

Animal Trainer Justin Reed comes back home to Magnolia Bay and visits the shelter to find a dog actor for a TV series set in nearby New Orleans. Justin chooses Jett, but the shelter’s director rejects his application because Jett needs a finally-forever home, not a job with an end date. The shelter’s resident animal communicator proposes a win-win. Justin can use Jett as an animal actor if he also trains Jett as a service dog for Max.

Sara and Justin have no business indulging their mutual attraction. Sara is focused on her son, and Justin will be leaving soon. But Max and Jett have other ideas…

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Magnolia Bay Memories

Welcome to Magnolia Bay Book 2

Babette de Jongh brings you a bright and hopeful romance filled with:

*People and animals who get a second chance

*A community that makes everyone feel at home

*Friends-to-lovers romance that proves everyone deserves a forever home

Struggling widow Heather Gabriel takes a job at Magnolia Bay's Animal Shelter to provide for her family. She isn't ready to be anything more than colleagues with Adrian Crawford, the shelter's new business consultant. But the shelter's animal communication expert Reva Curtis knows there's more attraction between Heather and Adrian than they let on, and she's determined to bring them together. With the help of Heather's three children and all the animals at Bayside Barn, Heather and Adrian soon realize they can have a future together…if they can let go of the past.

Small town romance will never look the same once you've traveled to Magnolia Bay!

"Charming…a satisfying blend of romance and animal cameos."—DEBBIE BURNS, bestselling author of the Rescue Me series

"Babette de Jongh's books are crafted with heart and humor, roaring heat and cuddly love."—JOANN SKY, author of the Biggest Little Love Story series

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Warm Nights in Magnolia Bay

Welcome to Magnolia Bay Book 1

Welcome to Magnolia Bay where:

*The animals interfere in their owners' love lives

*Everyone (humans and animals alike) has an opinion about everything

*The neighbor is as infuriating as he is gorgeous

*And a sprinkle of hope is just the right thing to have you believing in love again

Abby Curtis lands on her Aunt Reva's doorstep at Bayside Barn with nowhere to go but up. Learning animal communication from her aunt while taking care of the motley assortment of rescue animals on the farm is an important part of Abby's healing process. She is eager to begin a new life on her own, but she isn't prepared for the magnetism between her and her handsome, stubborn and distracting new neighbor.

Quinn Lockhart snapped up the foreclosed estate next door determined to renovate and flip the beautiful bayou property. It's all part of a plan to make a financial comeback and reconnect with his estranged son. Definitely not part of the plan is the noisy petting zoo next door dragging down his property value. But getting rid of it becomes more difficult when he falls for the lovely and passionate Abby and bonds with an abandoned wolf dog who's mournfully waiting for his family to return. For humans and animals alike, it will take all the courage they can muster to learn to love again. But that's a journey worth taking—with a little help from their furry friends.

You'll fall in love right along with Abby as animals and humans alike find unexpected ways to connect, nurture each other, and thrive.

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Hear Them Speak

A Twelve-Week Course in Telepathic Animal Communication

by Babette de Jongh

Genre: Nonfiction, Pets, Animal Communication

Would you like to know what your animal companion is really thinking? If you're holding this book, the ability is literally within your grasp. Hear Them Speak is an engaging and easy-to-follow twelve week course that guides you through the process of discovering your own superpowers of telepathic animal communication. With real-life examples to increase understanding and tasks to help you practice your emerging skills, animal communicator Babette de Jongh walks you through every step of the journey to claim your innate ability to hear them speak.

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Babette de Jongh is a telepathic animal communicator, energy healer, Reiki Master, and award-winning romance writer who has taught ballet, yoga, elementary school, and animal communication. Whether it involves a happy-ending romance, a way of self-nurturing, or help in understanding our companions, the cohesive thread that ties all these things together is a desire to save the world, one happy ending at a time.

Babette’s first romance novel, Angel Falls, won two Readers’ Choice awards. In Hear Them Speak, Babette helps humans better understand their animal companions. In Welcome to Magnolia Bay, a romance series from Sourcebooks Casablanca, a telepathic animal communicator conspires with the human characters’ animal companions to help everyone—humans and animals—find forever love.

All this is only the beginning for a late bloomer who is just getting started. To find out more about Babette, everything she does, and everything she’s up to these days, please visit her website at www.BabettedeJongh.com.

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Just For Your by Abbie Zanders

 

 

No matter how much he wants her, he knows he can't have her.

Just For You

A Cerasino Family Novella #5

by Abbie Zanders

Genre: Sweet, Small Town Contemporary Romance

Gina

With my shiny new master’s degree in hand, I’m ready to break free and take the world by storm. No one understands my desire to flee the comfort and safety of my modest town and large Italian family except him. Viper. The lead guitarist for my favorite band and my number one crush since he first smiled at me backstage years ago.

He’s tatted and pierced in all the right places with a creative soul and a dark energy I can’t get enough of. And now that I’ve gotten to know the man behind the performer, I’m more drawn to him than ever.

But it’s not meant to be. Our crossing of paths is just a temporary thing, and despite my best efforts, he’s determined to keep me solidly in the friend zone.

Gray

When my tour is unexpectedly cut short, I’m not as disappointed as I should be. I’m beyond weary, and worse, I don’t hear the music in my head like I used to. What I need is time away from the craziness. Time to stop being Viper, lead guitarist for Bad Influence, and go back to being Grayson Mitchell. I’m not even sure who that guy is anymore, but if anyone can help me remember him, it’s my twin brother.

When I head to Grant’s for much-needed rest, relaxation, and long overdue bro time, I didn’t expect to find him smitten with a beautiful young doc. Nor did I expect to find myself equally drawn to said gorgeous doc’s younger sister. Gina is … amazing. She’s vibrant and beautiful and so unjaded it makes my dark heart ache. When I’m with her, I hear the music again.

She’s into me, I can see it in her eyes. But no matter how much I want her, I can’t. I won’t. I … shouldn’t.

Just For You is the 5th book in the Cerasino Family Novella series, a short, sweet, mildly suspenseful love story featuring an ebullient heroine ready to take on the world and a jaded hero who already did and has the scars to prove it. No graphic sex or violence. Minimal adult language.

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Gina 

 

Grant Mitchell’s twin brother is freaking Viper. 

That was the thought that kept popping into my mind every time I looked at him over the course of the afternoon. 

I’d never been starstruck before. Well, not since my first time backstage when I was thirteen. My uncle Vito was a concert tour promoter, which meant my siblings and I had gotten to get up close and personal with a lot of bands over the years. There were few household names I hadn’t met at one time or another. 

None of them had ever affected me as much as Gray Mitchell. 

Yes, I’d met him before. And, yes, I’d had the same reaction then too. Total deer in headlights. The difference this time was, I wasn’t a pubescent teenager anymore. I was a fully grown, adult woman. And Gray? He was even sexier now than he had been then. More chiseled man. Less droolworthy F-boy. 

He didn’t remember me—that was obvious. And why would he? I was one of thousands—probably hundreds of thousands—of girls who’d stared at him adoringly and fantasized about him while letting his unique, deep, purring voice soak into my soul. There was a reason the band Bad Influence was as popular as it was, and I was looking at him. Lyricist. Lead guitarist. Voice of sin and salvation. 

He looked different from the last time I’d seen him. His body had filled out. His features were sharper and more defined. Back then, he’d had gloss in his streaked hair and guyliner accentuating his gorgeous hazel eyes. He’d been shirtless, his lean, ripped torso covered in tattoos and slicked with sweat. 

My eyes dropped to his chest, where I knew that, beneath that perfectly respectable button-down, both nipples were pierced. 

Is he wearing hoops or bars today? I wondered before setting that thought aside to ponder later in private. 

Instead of skintight leather pants that left nothing to the imagination, he had on faded, well-washed blue jeans, like a normal, regular guy. 

There was absolutely nothing regular about Gray Mitchell. He oozed charisma and sex appeal, no matter what he was wearing. 

My female cousins Valentina, Corina, Lucia, and Ramona were falling all over themselves, and he was treating them like they were the most fascinating creatures on earth. I wasn’t jealous. Not at all. It was an act, an integral part of the consummate performer he was. I would just have to remember that if he ever turned his attention my way. 

I tried not to gawk and focused on other things. I chatted with my brothers’ other halves briefly. They asked how my schoolwork was going, and I, in turn, inquired about their lives. 

Eventually, Gray and my brother Dom started talking music, comparing live bands, and that was when I got pulled into the conversation. Dom and I were the diehard rock fans of the famiglia and had attended a lot of concerts over the years. Now that we were older, the torch had been passed to us as chaperones for the younger generation—something we had both heartily embraced because it gave us a good excuse to keep going. 

I had no problems entering the discussion. I spoke like I knew what I was talking about, because I did. I didn’t say Bad Influence was my favorite live band of all time even though it was. That would sound too much like I was sucking up. I didn’t even rank them in my top three when I was ticking them off on my fingers. Dom, who knew my music preferences as well as he knew his own, didn’t call me out. His smirk told me he knew exactly what I was doing. If Viper—uh, Gray—took offense to the blatant omission, he hid it well. 

Grant took Sofia back to her place at some point, which was disappointing. Sofia was recovering from surgery after a car accident, and I’d been planning to use her as an excuse to not only scoot out of there early, but to also justify my absence for the rest of the day. 

I had a ton of work to do on my final presentation, and I was behind. I was about to graduate with a master’s in graphic design and illustrative arts. My thesis and my final project would be the pièces de resistance to my portfolio. If I nailed it, I would be that much closer to getting a coveted position at Kensington Graphic Creative with the Andrea Collins. If I got that, I could write my own ticket. 

“I need to go too,” I said shortly after Grant and Sofia left. 

Since Sofia’s apartment was off-limits for a couple of hours, I’d have to go to either the library or the graphics lab, where I had a small office. I tried to avoid those places when possible, especially during times when security was at a minimum and there weren’t a lot of other people around, like late nights and weekends. 

“It’s Sunday,” my mother said, shooting me a disapproving look. 

Sundays were for family time, but I’d had about as much of my cousins’ fawning as I could handle. Plus, having my loud, boisterous famiglia around was not conducive to getting my project done. 

I stood to go, then kissed both my parents and my grandparents, resigned to do what I must. I’d be okay as long as I didn’t get too wrapped up in my work and I stayed aware of my surroundings. Plus, I kept my pepper spray close by. “I’ll be at the studio late tonight. Don’t wait up.” 

To my surprise, Gray also pushed back his chair and stood. “I should be going too. Do you mind if I catch a ride?” 

I blinked at him. “A ride?” 

He gave me a hopeful, almost-shy smile. “I came with Grant.” 

I tamped down the thrill that zinged through me. This wasn’t about me as much as it was a silent plea to help him escape. Honestly, I didn’t blame him. My cousins were relentless. However, the thought of sharing such a confined space with Gray sent a wave of something through me. Anticipation? Anxiety? 

What I said was, “Uh, sure.” 

His smile did funny things to my insides.  “Great.” 

I didn’t have to look to know that my cousins were shooting poison-tipped daggers of envy in my direction or that my brothers were setting down their napkins and pushing back their chairs. 

“I can take him,” my brother Dom said with that protective big-brother look in his eye. The same one Nick, Vinnie, Paulie, and my father currently sported. The only male who seemed unconcerned was Nonno. 

“You sit,” Nonno told Dom, waving his hand. “He-a go with Gina.” 

Everyone turned to Nonno. His eyes were glittering, and he was looking directly at me. I heard several sharp intakes of breath and murmured curses in Italian. My nonno was a notorious matchmaker, and if I didn’t know any better, I’d think Nonno had just matched Gray and me. 

Oh no. 

Abbie Zanders is a USA Today Bestselling Author with more than 65 published romance novels to date. Her stories range from contemporary to paranormal and everything in between. She promises her readers two things: happily ever afters, always, and no cliffhangers, ever.

Born and raised in the mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania, where she sets most of her stories, she’s known for small town romance featuring golden-hearted alpha heroes and strong, relatable heroines. Besides being an avid reader and writer, she loves animals (especially big dogs), American muscle cars, and 80's hair bands.

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