Sallys Second Chance

Sally's search for love has been a string of disappointments, until a surprise revelation: her first love, Jesus, still carries a torch for her. The one who held her heart all those years ago, the one she thought she'd never see again, wants a second chance. Despite their painful past, Sally agrees to meet Jesus once more, reopening the door to memories and emotions she thought she'd long left behind. Can they rekindle the flame that once burned bright, or will the scars of their past prove too deep to overcome?

This inspirational story is about Sandy Goodwin, a homemaker from Dix Hills, N.Y., who suddenly finds herself widowed and thrown into the world of singles. Despite her devoted family, it doesnt take her long before she has moved to an adult community in South Carolina, where she makes new friends and becomes familiar with the environment. With the help of her friend Cynthia, Sandy is soon weaving her way through the maze of internet dating and the trials of reentry into the singles scene. Sandys first encounter with romance is her liaison with a sexually obsessed Southerner, who sweeps her off her feet. She matches his demands for a sexual relationship with standards of her own, but is ultimately forced to end their affair when his excessive drinking becomes too much for her to handle. By a stroke of good luck and encouragement from her son, Sandy meets the man who will become her life mate, and we watch them embark on an adventure of discovery and passion.

One woman’s humorous memoir about leaving the corporate world behind for life on a northern England farm with her whole family. Ever dream of reinventing yourself and starting over? Sally Urwin did. Even though her feet don’t quite reach the tractor pedals, this city-girl-turned-shepherd found happiness and love with one husband, two kids, grumpy rams, ewes and lambs, Mavis the Sheepdog, and a very fat pony. Once employed to market the insolvency services of a large accounting firm, Sally along with her husband, Steve, now run High House Farm in Northumbria. Built around 1840, High House is a working farm where the whole family (including two children) pitches in. In a fresh and funny voice all her own, Sally tells her story of the shepherding life?which at High House also includes the sideline businesses of a tearoom, winery, and a barn for weddings. Diary of a Pint-Sized Farmer reveals the highs and lows of the shepherding life and the hard work in making a living from the land. Filled with grit and humor, eccentric animals, and local characters, this is the perfect book for anyone who has ever wondered what it’s like to pack up and find a new life on the other side of the fence. Praise for Diary of a Pint-Sized Farmer “Urwin’s account of a year on High House Farm, with its mix of arable land and 200 sheep in windswept Northumbria, is no rural idyll. But it’s full of passion for the realities of life lived knee-deep in the countryside. . . . Despite the hardships, Urwin still finds the fun in rural life.” —Daily Mail “A wonderfully honest and comic account of what life on a farm is really like.” —Living “With her witty humor and candid descriptions, it’s hard not to fall in love with Sally.” ?Countryman’s Weekly

April Summers’ wedding day was anything but happy. A cheating ex-fiancé has her going on their honeymoon alone. Ready to give up on love, the trip winds up being a turning point in her life. Depressed and unhappy, she meets the inn owner’s ruggedly handsome nephew and sparks begin to fly. Joshua Long was hurt by his first fiancé a long time ago and has given up on ever finding the right woman for him. At least until he meets April Summers. Suddenly all he can think of is her and he finds himself smiling when he does. Can their second chance at love work? Or will her vengeful ex-fiancé put an end to their budding romance.

He was the high school sweetheart who disappeared without a trace. Now he wants a second chance at her heart. Can two wounded souls learn to love again? When a Hollywood movie takes over sleepy Orcas Island, Rose Hardy is hardly impressed—even when she discovers August Quinn is among the crew. She's got a plan to save the family farm, and nothing's going to stop her—not even a wild night with her ex. Rose was just eighteen when her mom died and August left town in the middle of the night. With the support of friends and her beloved grandfather, she pursued a singular focus: to keep her mother’s legacy alive. But when a record-breaking heat wave hits and threatens to take away everything she's worked for, she’s forced to find out who she can trust—and who she can’t. Much changed in August’s decade away from Orcas Island…just not his love for Rose. Trouble is, after an accident shattered his leg, he’s convinced he’s half the man she needs. And when his doubts get the better of him, he does the only thing he knows how: disappears. Struggling to reconcile between her head and her heart, Rose must learn to find happiness again. Set on a rugged island at the edge of the Pacific, Second Chance Rose will have you rooting for love and the power of second chances. This is book 2 in the Wildflower Romance series. Each can be read as a complete standalone. HEA guaranteed!

When tragedy strikes, four friends reunite in this life-affirming tale from the New York Times bestselling author of Falling and Sister Stardust. In school, Tom, Holly, Saffron, Paul, and Olivia were the best of friends. Twenty years later, they’re barely more than strangers. But when Tom dies in a heartbreaking instance of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, the four that remain are thrust back into each other’s lives. Quickly falling back into the intimacy of their youth, Holly, Saffron, Paul, and Olivia are forced to reexamine the choices they’ve made. As their secrets rise to the surface, Tom’s death becomes the catalyst that changes them all, giving four estranged friends the chance to find a new beginning...

A treasury of motivational anecdotes from people who wanted another chance at something good—and took it. The book collects the hopeful examples of people who found a leg up, another spurt of energy, a hidden talent, or even an untapped strength, sometimes with the unexpected help of friends or strangers, to make a happier life for themselves. It’s the big stuff like going back to college after the kids have grown up, as well as the little things like getting a judo belt when you thought you could hardly manage a push-up. From the author of One Good Deed, Like My Mother Always Said, and other entertaining and motivating volumes, this book is an inspiring guide to letting the future win over the past.

Meet Tannie Maria - recipe writer turned crime fighter - and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself embroiled in another mystery. In this wonderful sequel to Recipes for Love and Murder, Slimkat the bushman finds his life under threat and Tannie Maria is determined to find out who wants to kill him. But her boyfriend is keen to keep Tannie out of danger, and she's pretty sure he's hiding something so Tannie has mysteries of her own solve . . . Blending a perfect whodunnit with lovable characters, Sally Andrew really does have the perfect recipe for a crime series.

A breathtaking novel of dark suspense and bittersweet nostalgia, Second Chance breaks new ground for a writer whose work critics have favorably compared to such disparate writers as Camus, Cheever, and Stephen King. In Second Chance, Chet Williamson defines a generation and gives readers the ride of their lives through a disquietingly different and threatened America. Thrills, romance, and nail-biting suspense combine to create a novel in which a Big Chill-like gathering of old friends could lead to the real "Big Chill" for every person on Earth. It all begins innocently enough. Woody Robinson, a successful musician, gathers his baby boomer friends and recreates an evening in 1969 out of nostalgia for his long dead love, Tracy. The party quickly becomes a wake for lost ideals, and then something more, as time and fate play wonderful and terrible tricks on the celebrants. By the evening's end, Tracy is back in Woody's life as though she had never left. But there is another change as well, a shocking one. His name is Pan. An environmental terrorist who wants to save the world by destroying humanity, he has the deadly viral ammunition to do just that. Pan will prove that the darker side of the sixties isn't dead -- it's only been sleeping. Now it's awake and furious. And only one man and one woman can stop the nightmare. With the swirling color and magic of a Fillmore West poster, the hallucinogenic impact of a Jim Morrison lyric, and the wistful voice of early Dylan, Second Chance is an unforgettable tale of love, loss, and redemption, an electrifying synthesis of past and present that will enchant its readers today and haunt them tomorrow. PRAISE FOR SECOND CHANCE: Publishers Weekly: "This time-travel thriller is great fun throughout, capped by an unexpected, but suitably quirky, finale." Time Tunnel: "...a novel of suspense and fantasy, but more than that, it is a piercing look at idealism unhinged, of the world-shattering power of love, hate, and zealous belief...one of the most unusual and moving books in a long time." Charles De Lint in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: "...there's a reason for my enthusiasm for Williamson's work: he has never let me down. And Second Chance is no exception." New York Review of Science Fiction: "Second Chance, quirky, time-traveling ghost story that it is, with all its dreams and nightmares blossoming out of the fertile soil of drugs and rock-and-roll, remains a wonderful and dreadful evocation of the way in which history and politics haunt us all."