Bøger af Cynn Chadwick

Working class mother Carrie Angel is raising her two teenage sons in Section 8 housing while she finishes her carpentry certification. It's not the ideal place to raise the boys but it is all she can afford since her divorce. Divorce also forces upscale Jen Manners and her resentful daughter Emily from their comfortable, suburban lifestyle into subsidized housing. Jen's decade old Lit-degree and lack of work history send her into a system she thought reserved for a different class of woman than herself. And so Carrie and Jen meet. Two women with nothing in common in their lives but their financial situations and Section 8 Housing. Together they begin to believe that yes, life is what you make it.

Dixie Stuart, Queen of the Southern Romance novel is forty-two, divorced, living in Manhattan, overweight, and custodial parent to an increasingly rebellious teenaged daughter. Against Dixie's will, her muse, Mary Nell Dupree, and heroine of each of Dixie's many books, has risen to knock out Dixie's seeming writer's block. When Dixie's sister calls from Virginia to beg Dixie to help with their aging father who is experiencing the onset of dementia, Dixie decides to pack up her daughter and return home. She arrives to find the once majestic farm of her childhood in as rapid decline as her dear daddy's mind. Dixie is determined to save both her father and his estate. As the Table Turns is a rollicky roll through the Shenandoah Valley which introduces us to a bevy of quirky Southern characters from Dixie's bosom-heaving bodice-ripping protagonist, her angst-ridden daughter, pesky ex-husband, dramatic sister, flamboyant brother, and demented daddy, but it is the reconnection with her once secret beau that has Dixie's own bosom heaving instead of her character's.

Realtor Kate Nordstrom returns to her seaside home after the holidays to discover her bank account drained, her house emptied, and her beloved boat, The Laney, shredded. When she finds an ominous message left by the culprit, Kate immediately recognizes the deeds as the handiwork of one Cory Sorca, a past affair gone very wrong. With bigger fish to fry, the police abandon their investigation, leaving Kate to begin her own search for the dangerous and devious woman she once trusted with the most intimate details of her life. Meanwhile, 750 miles south, restaurant owner Sara Monroe, a happily married mother of twins, falls under extra pressure when her husband's business venture takes him out of town indefinitely, their babysitter leaves for college, and her bartender quits. To her relief, newly-hired Coraline Sorcachelli -- Lina to her friends - steps in to lighten Sara's burden. As Lina becomes more demanding, however, Sara is thrust into a frightening psychological mind game that ultimately threatens her marriage and her children. A tale of strong women bent on self-protection, retribution, and revenge, That's Karma Baby...delivers action and suspense, with a little Karma sprinkled on top.

Girls with Hammers," the truck proudly proclaims--the sign of Lily's carpentry business, which ran smoothly for years until her longtime friend and coworker departed. With that loss, Lily is spinning out of control, according to live-in lover Hannah, a psychotherapist who then moves out after "a lifetime" with Lily to get a different perspective on things. When Lily's dad suddenly dies, she is faced not only with additional loss but also with the burden of taking over his construction business. Since his workers don't want to report to "a girl," she resorts to women who may have held a hammer (sometimes she wonders) and Arlo, a lanky holdover from her father's days. Will she manage to maintain her own business, run the family enterprise (against her will and better judgment), placate family members who insist she give the latter priority, and, by the way, reconcile with Hannah, who wants a baby to add to this confusing mix, which unexpectedly includes a man? A sweetly sad and funny tale that transcends its soapy components. Whitney ScottCopyright (c) American Library Association.

Everything's falling into place for Cat Hood. Her first book has been published, her big-city agent's making big plans, and the whole town of Galway, North Carolina thinks she's a celebrity. So why does she feel like something's missing? She's got Lily, her life long best friend, and the carpentry business they share, a Harley Duo Glide, a German Shepherd named Mike, and a long-lost brother who comes back to the mountains with a pregnant wife. And the romance of Cat's dreams just walked into her life, the relationship she's been waiting for! So what's she waiting for?

Babies, Bikes, and Broads is the third book in the Cat Rising Series. Cat Hood doesn't want to go home. She has a new life and a new love in Scotland. But her brother, Will, has been widowed and left with two small children. So there's no choice for Cat now. She must return to Galway, North Carolina, the place she left when love got lost.

CAT Hood is back! It is ten years later in Little Galway, and life in the quiet mountain hamlet is not as peaceful as when we left. Cat's career as an award-winning novelist has garnered her modicum of fame and fortune. Her relationship with Janey McDaniels has survived, so far, but the appearance of a hot young motorcycle racer, who has taken an interest in the older but not so much wiser Cat Hood, is chipping away at its foundations. A new generation of Hoods are growing up and beginning their own lives. Sixteen year old McKay has found a voice and talent in singing, while her twin, Stryker, has already etched out a career on the motor-cross circuit. Lily and Hannah have stumbled upon hardship as their teenaged daughter Rosie rebels, and Hannah finds Jesus. Fans of Cat Hood and Lily Cameron won't be disappointed as the familiar cast of characters: Arlo, Sophia, Rae Dawn, and Will Hood return in this 4th book of the continuing Cat Rising Series!

Rochdale, Lancashire, England, 1885.Martha Anne Ashworth is in trouble in school, once again. The precocious and gifted 10 year old daughter of mill owner John Ashworth has, for the umpteenth time, tried school and parental patience and now legal authority with her quick wit, sharp tongue, impudent defiance, and certain determined independence. With her mother dying, and her father drowning his woes in whisky, young Martha Anne's wildness leads to her eventual arrest as an Incorrigible Rogue; all seems to be spiraling out of control until an uncanny friendship with the village wise woman, Betty Nuppy, helps guide Martha Anne on a path to salvation, if not, at least, redemption.

After Anna Shields receives an invitation from her estranged Aunt Lydia, she flies to Tennessee to find a number of older women-Tasha, Sadie, and Chloe-also living on Lydia''s farm. Losing power during a blizzard, the women share dark and startling secrets. Skating between past and present, they reveal frighteningly desperate things that they have done. Anna begins to realize, to her shock, that these things are connected to her own past and become key to her future.