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Fool Me Once
Ronnie Chandler's past—especially the identity of her ex-husband—is a secret, held close and shared with only a trusted few. Planning never to see him again, she’d moved halfway across the country and found a job in a profession where he'd never in a million years look for her.
Ready for a bigger challenge than selling small cabins, Ronnie and her colleagues at Horse Country Real Estate attract The Westlake Group, venture capitalists from Virginia, to underwrite the creation of Riverwood, a planned equestrian community.
Senator Evan Parker is in Tennessee on a fact-finding trip. When his path unexpectedly crosses Ronnie's, he demands a second chance, but Ronnie is fast falling in love with Luc Deschaines, one of her new investment partners.
Evan has Ronnie and all of the realtors, over a proverbial barrel. Infuriated at the stance forced on her, will Ronnie capitulate to Evan’s demands?
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A Bitter Wind Blows
Ronnie Chandler made a bargain with the devil, and now Senator Evan Parker, her ex-husband, makes good on his promise to exact revenge when he learns she's double crossed him, disclosing her marriage to handsome, charismatic Luc Deschaines, one of Riverwood's investment partners. And that's not the only problem Ronnie faces.
Her close friend and confidante, Mindy Morrison-Myers, becomes embroiled with manipulative, scheming and insufferable best-selling author, Bernard Hyatt. How will Ronnie respond when Mindy turns to her with a midnight plea for help?
Ronnie's colleague, Rickie Ahlers, finds herself increasingly drawn to Riverwood's project manager, the very capable and attractive Aaron Marks, but consultant, Alix Hamilton, makes only a one-day site visit and wreaks an incredible amount of havoc in that short time. She all but destroys Aaron's burgeoning romance with Rickie. How does Alix's estranged twin sister, disgraced former Olympic event rider, Asha Hamilton Hadley, provide a sure-fire strategy for Aaron to melt Rickie's heart?
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Signs of Life
Asha Hamilton falls apart, just days before the start of the Atlanta games. Ostracized and alone, she retreats to rural Vermont and begins slowly rebuilding her life.
Devastatingly handsome local carpenter Tim Hadley is recruited to help get hay into Asha's barn at Willow Farm and he falls hard for this exotic woman who seems so far out of his league. Will his kind, patient pursuit pay off or is their age difference impossible to overcome? Can Asha find happiness again after losing the love of her life?
And what draws her to Riverwood, to Tennessee, so far from home?
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Ride A Pale Horse
As The Riverwood Series continues, venture capitalist, Luc Deschaines, is delighted when his daughter, Stephanie, and her best friend, Alison, are accepted by his alma mater, an ivy league college. Unknown to Luc, Stephanie and Alison made a secret pact when they applied; they'll both go, or neither will. Luc arranges for them to spend the summer on the Round Top Ranch in Texas, one of his investments, and, for two teenage girls, where better to enjoy a few months of riding, swimming in the creek and improving their language skills? Luc has no qualms about leaving them in the care of Teodor Sauseda, the ranch's manager, and his large, loving, close-knit family. For most of the summer, Stephanie is as happy as she can be, during those long days in the saddle on Elena Sauseda's breathtaking blue roan mare. But then, as the days grow shorter and it's time for the girls to leave for college, it all comes crashing down when Stephanie delivers some shattering news. Is Stephanie's dream her father's nightmare? And what becomes of Silver Dollar, the beautiful pale horse? If she can't be sold, can she be given away? If she can't leave the ranch, does her new owner become a resident of the RTR?
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Far And Away
Riverwood is thriving but Ronnie Deschaines senses impending changes in her orderly world, as the next generation comes of age. Venture capitalist, Luc Deschaines, buys a building on the Riverwalk in San Antonio when daughter, Stephanie, comes to him with a business proposal that will have far-reaching effects on all their lives, far and away, in Texas.
Tim Hadley meets his German Shepherd's former owner and invites the boy home to see Maggie, setting in motion a series of events that will change his family forever. Young Mia Hadley and best friend, Hannah Rhodes, have a successful online quilting business until Luc unwittingly ignites a passion for flying in Hannah and the girls' lives diverge. Texas is the last place Mia expected to find herself, so far from all that's familiar.
And what of Texan, Elena Sauseda? Will she return to the Round Top Ranch after taking a summer job as nanny to a wealthy family on Nantucket, and matriculating at an exclusive eastern college? Or is she, too, a stranger in a strange land?
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The Hand Of Fate
In this, the sixth and final book in The Riverwood Series, things are changing.
The younger generation is ready to make their way in the world as they go their separate ways. Stephanie and Allison have a business plan that will soon touch everyone's lives. Hannah struggles with a passion for flying and the controlling boyfriend trying to tie her down. A chance meeting brings Mia her first love; is it a random occurrence or was it meant to be? Basketball plays a huge role in Justin's life—more than anyone imagined. And what of Elena? Does she have a compelling reason to remain in Boston?
Riverwood is a thriving equestrian community, a great success for The Westlake Group, but what's next? Ronnie and Luc Deschaines take a trip out west with Lucinda and Chip Westlake; perhaps there's a new equestrian opportunity in Colorado.
Choices…decisions…plans…with all their lives in the fickle hand of fate.
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Sunrise Side of the Mountain
Avery Beall takes an immediate dislike to Andrew Markham when she encounters him on the Harvard campus. Her aversion grows as he seems to cross her path everywhere she goes. If he isn't a fellow law student or a law professor, what's he doing there?
Years later, Avery looks back on her life, on the events that got her to where she is. If she had it to do over, would she have made the choices she did, make the sacrifices she had?
And where does she go from here? She's only fifty-one, with decades of living ahead of her.
Avery steps out of the shadows and into the sunshine when she moves halfway across the country to explore new opportunities and make new friends in northern Vermont.
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Heart So True
Avery Markham hasn't lived in tiny Winslowe, Vermont, for long. When she arrived, she knew no one, not even a friend of a friend. But now, she knows everyone and has a thriving business upstairs over the general store, the beating heart of the town.
Life is good—until Eliza Clayton fails to show up for her first day of work the summer between her high-school graduation and matriculation at an elite New England college. Avery's overloaded and overworked until a solution presents itself from the most unlikely source, her nemesis, her curt and distant landlord, Rhys Williams. Avery sees Rhys in a new light; does her heart begin to thaw?
There are surprises for all the characters in this sequel to Sunrise Side of the Mountain. Some have their hearts broken. Some have their hearts mended.
But they all come to recognize and value the friendship of those whose hearts are true.
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The Stars Shine Bright
In the third book of The Green Mountain Trilogy, Harlee Oliver also needs a complete change of scenery and a different lifestyle when a freak accident leaves her a young widow. Like Avery Markham, she moves halfway across the country. And like Avery, she settles in a small town in northern Vermont.
But unlike Avery, who didn't know a soul when she arrived, Harlee is on a mission to connect with the one person she does know. She's lost touch over the years, but she has fond memories, and she's determined to rekindle an old flame. She doesn't just 'look him up;' she establishes herself and draws him in. For her, the thrill of the hunt is as exciting as the big game she bagged all those years ago.
Harlee knows exactly what buttons to push, and she's not about to let Avery stand in her way.
But Harlee underestimates her rival, and Avery pushes back.
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The Homecoming
Sixteen-year-old Alexandra Wallace's life is shattered when her family faces a difficult decision. What do you do when you're suddenly uprooted from your comfortable life in an upscale Boston suburb and relocated to what your sophisticated East-coast friends refer to jeeringly as "Flyover Country?"
When her parents break the news, Lexy does not take it well. She and BFF Georgia Stewart spend hours on the phone, proposing an unlikely solution.
But what would make the move more palatable? Driver's Ed? A horse? New family friends with teenage sons?
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