When Sarah Westwood’s deadbeat husband deserts her and their young son, she takes a job at her family’s restaurant, The Three Chocolatiers, working with her famous chef grandfather and her pastry chef cousin, Paisley. Determined to never fall for the wrong guy again, Sarah vows to stick to chocolate for stimulation and steer clear of men, especially her delicious ice-cream supplier, Blake Harrison. But when Paisley signs her up for a dating site, Sarah is soon engaging in a sexy online flirtation with a stranger.
Blake Harrison wants nothing more than for Sarah to give him a chance, but all she’ll give him is the cold shoulder. Never one to run from a challenge, he works on becoming the kind of man Sarah can’t refuse. And since he just happens to be on the same dating site, he’s not above using a little cyber-intel to worm his way into her heart.
When Sarah’s grandfather collapses just weeks before an upscale chocolate-themed wedding that could make or break the business, the staff of The Three Chocolatiers is sent into a tailspin. With the pressure rising on personal and professional fronts, Sarah might just have to let someone sweet melt her defenses.
Includes four recipes from The Three Chocolatiers Cookbook.
"Deliciously entertaining, emotionally satisfying, with engaging characters. -Patricia Grasso, bestselling author of To Tempt an Angel
"An engaging, irresistible chocolate-laced romance. Chocolate lovers may also enjoy the recipes at the end of the novel." -Kirkus Reviews
"Lovers of romance and all things chocolate will devour this sweetly spicy story." -Booked Solid
When Mary Reilly turns up in a hospital hundreds of miles from the senior community where she lives, Nell and Bridget discover their mother has been hiding a secret life for over forty years. She has a lakeside cottage in Vermont and a set of complex relationships with people her daughters have never met.
Nell is a carpool mom and corporate trophy wife who yearns for a life of her own. Bridget is a glamorous interior designer who transforms herself for every new man, always attracted to the bad ones. Mary was an army nurse in Vietnam, then married handsome navy pilot Thomas Reilly and lived happily ever after…or did she?
As the two sisters delve deeper into their mother's past, it leads them to question their own lives. Her refuge becomes the gateway to change for all three women.
“This is that kind of book, one so real and important that it bears at least a second reading - after the first sinks in.” ~Grady Harp, 5 stars
San Francisco Review of Books
(Amazon Top 100 Reviewer)
A sweet (YA/Adult) romance,
set against a mystical coming-of-age journey.
Emily Ross attracts spirits, has prophetic visions and can sense people's thoughts. She's learned to hide her strange talents, and leads a lonely existence until she takes a job at the curio shop owned by elderly occult scholar, Henry Paradis. He teaches Emily to accept her magical nature. She sets out to create the path to happiness, guided by the Tarot's Higher Arcane, the twenty-two cards known as “the Fool's Journey.” When Emily falls for sexy international antique dealer Tony Novak, who claims to adore her, she struggles to find the courage to trust him. Tony says she can steer the future with her thoughts. Will Emily succeed at making her dreams come true?
Publishers Weekly says:
"Each chapter of this unassuming novel is illustrated with a card from the tarot, and the contents of each section are loosely related to the meaning of the corresponding card. Cleare’s narrative follows Emily, a young woman on a path of self-realization and awakening.... Readers already interested in the tarot and its uses for divination will enjoy Cleare’s serious meditations on the meanings of the cards, and the way the tarot plays out in Emily’s life. What’s more, Cleare offers a little bit of self-help and a little bit of chick lit, packaged together with a positive, make-your-own-destiny message: a pleasant, comforting read."
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