Fredrick, MJ - Free Library Land Online - Contemporary

Lone Star Longing (Hearts of Broken Wheel, #1)

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:25:33 +0300

Twelve years ago, a terrible school bus accident divided a town, but bonded the survivors. Some of them fled the small West Texas town, some remained, and some felt drawn back to the place where they lost their innocence.

Beck Conover didn't intend to do more than check in on his mom in Broken Wheel when he was driving through Texas on his way to his job in Las Vegas. He hadn't been home in, well, longer than he'd care to admit. But when he gets there, the house is in terrible shape. Despite his contentious relationship with his mom, he decides to stay in town and fix up the house so he doesn't have to feel guilty about leaving her alone.

He's already hired a home health nurse to check on her, but he doesn't think she's getting enough help. When he comes face to face with her nurse, he's startled to see it's Lacey Davila, the girl he pulled from the flood waters the day the bus was swept off the road.

Lacey Davila stayed in Broken Wheel because she didn't want her father to be alone after her mother left him, bored by life in this town. Her job as a home health nurse was a natural extension of her need to care for others. Even though she chose to stay, she understands why Beck left, why her mother left.

When she discovers she's pregnant, the child's father turns his back on her, but Beck is there, stepping in to help as he had the day the bus washed into the creek bed.

But like her mother, he will leave when the town gets too small for him. And she'll be alone.

She won't risk that for herself, or for her unborn child.

Welcome to Bluestone 1 - Bluestone homecoming

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:41:53 +0200

War correspondent Leo Hansen returns to his hometown of Bluestone to help his son settle in with his grandparents so Leo can continue his job. He doesn't intend to stay long, doesn't expect his son to need him so much, doesn't expect to fall for the pretty counselor who's been working with Max. Can the young preacher's sister help him remember what home means? Can she convince him to stay?

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Leaving Bluestone

Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:16:40 +0200

Quinn Alden is leaving Bluestone. As soon as he can get someone to buy the bar he bought with his Army buddy, the one who didn’t come home, he’s heading for someplace where the fishing is as good, but the winters aren’t so miserable. This was never his dream, the lake, the bar, the girl...

Lily Prater is the heart of Bluestone. As the owner of the landing where people dock their boats, rent a launch or a cabin, she has a lot invested in the town. She’s fighting hard to save her town, hit hard by the recession. Her mind is always spinning with ideas, ideas she can usually get Quinn to help her carry out.

They work together on the summer celebrations, the outdoor movies, the winter carnival, the tension growing between them.

But it takes leaving Bluestone for him to see her as more than his best friend’s girl, and make him wonder if leaving Bluestone for good is what he wants at all...

Welcome to Bluestone 2 - Bluestone song

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:41:53 +0200

Beth Lapointe has her hands full--her teenaged sister is struggling with new motherhood, her job as a waitress is becoming more strenuous as her boss is pulled in different directions, and her alcoholic father is demanding she help him or he’ll return to Bluestone. The last thing she needs is her high school sweetheart to show up live and in person and to realize she still has feelings for him.