December 12, 2011 by admin
Filed under Contemporary Romance, Looking for Home, Nan Donahue
Go to Page 1 or Previous Installment Later that night, M woke to the wretched wailing of a five-year-old. Oh, no. Had Alicia gotten worse? She’d still been cranky a little too warm when they put her to bed, but M had assumed the crisis had passed. Hopping out of bed, M was halfway down [...]
November 14, 2011 by admin
Filed under Contemporary Romance, Looking for Home, Nan Donahue
Go to Page 1 or Previous Installment He didn’t halt before he reached her, but moved right into her space and encircled her in a hug. After a moment of silence, he took a deep breath, squeezed her, and asked, “Is she okay? Do we need to take her to emergency?” After a moment of [...]
October 31, 2011 by admin
Filed under Contemporary Romance, Looking for Home, Nan Donahue
Go to Page 1 or Previous Installment For the entire trip her mind bounced back and forth between the reason for Jonathan’s call and what he’d said to her. How he’d said it. The way his voice had lowered, deepened, when he told her he trusted her with Alicia. Her tummy fluttered and her heart [...]
October 17, 2011 by admin
Filed under Contemporary Romance, Larry Hammersley, Short Stories
Logan Miller sat in his college dorm room staring at his online lecture notes from Professor Crandall’s organic chemistry class. He groaned to himself at his low C grade. His roommate, Tyler, had already left on his Friday night date. Who was it? Hannah, Emily or was it Savannah? He couldn’t keep them straight but [...]
October 3, 2011 by admin
Filed under Contemporary Romance, Looking for Home, Nan Donahue
Go to Page 1 or Previous Installment M slammed the door behind them and once again slumped back against it. Why did they have to show up and stir up all kinds of garbage she tried to keep buried? Stomach churning, she headed for the back. If there was ever a time she needed to [...]
September 19, 2011 by admin
Filed under Contemporary Romance, Looking for Home, Nan Donahue
Go to Page 1 or Previous Installment Over the next few days M fell into a comfortable routine. Even though Jonathan hadn’t expected her to hang around when he was home with Alicia, she’d done it willingly. Now, with Alicia in school, and Jonathan back at his office, she had no excuse for procrastination. She [...]
August 23, 2011 by admin
Filed under Contemporary Romance, Looking for Home, Nan Donahue
Go to Page 1 or Previous Installment His icy façade was camouflage. Although camouflage was probably the wrong word since it wasn’t just the observer he tried to fool. He was trying to trick himself into being something he wasn’t. Hey, she’d spent most of her life trying to be everything that her parents weren’t, [...]
August 1, 2011 by admin
Filed under Contemporary Romance, Looking for Home, Nan Donahue
Go to Page 1 or Previous Installment Chapter Ten As soon as Jonathan left for his office, M left the sanctuary of her room. With a pad of paper and a pencil in hand, she headed out back to the poolside. Time to get serious and put some thought into the meal she’d cater for [...]
July 11, 2011 by admin
Filed under Contemporary Romance, Luanne French, Romantic Comedy, Short Stories
Marsha treated her thick, dark hair to a home body permanent once a month with great success—except for tonight. Halfway through the perm process the electricity went off. What went wrong? This had never happened before in her apartment at Dodge City, Kansas. As she pawed through her kitchen junk drawer for a flashlight, she [...]
June 27, 2011 by admin
Filed under Contemporary Romance, Looking for Home, Nan Donahue
Go to Page 1 or Previous Installment He blinked, and hesitated for a second. “Ah…okay. What do you want to know?” Em bit her lip, looked out the windshield, then looked back at him. “What happened to Alicia’s mother? Her real mother, not Summer.” Ridiculously relieved and oddly hurt that the question hadn’t been about [...]