Bøger af Tracy Broemmer

Girls' weekends are supposed to be fun, a little bit crazy even. But Chantele Morgan's bet with her girlfriends over their weekend trip in Rodey, Kentucky-to seduce a cowboy-doesn't go as planned. And rather than getting crazy or getting to know Rye Gallaher a little better, Chantele goes home alone feeling guilty for what she expected of Rye. Rye Gallaher is a Rodey, Kentucky local, who frequents the Iron Stag. He drops in after work for a beer, maybe a burger-but never a hookup. Rye's had it with flings and meaningless affairs, so even though he finds Chantele attractive, he's not interested in sharing anything other than conversation with her. Back at home, into her work routine, Chantele sends Rye an honest apology, expecting nothing in return. Instead, Rye answers her, and they become quick friends. When Rye invites Chantele back to Rodey for a weekend, will things heat up between them, or are they destined to stay just friends? A novella tie-in to the Lockland Distilling: Keys to Love trilogy and Kissing Springs Bourbon Fever Collection.

One mistake was all it took for Truman Woolff to lose the love of his life-but it was a doozy. Now, he and his one true love coparent their little boy, Ryle. Truman wishes Julie could forgive him, but he knows he hurt Julie too deeply to expect her forgiveness. Julie's thrilled that Truman's cut back his business travel to spend more time with their son. But that means she's around Truman more often now, too, and she's confused by his mixed signals. Does he simply want to be friendly while they raise Ryle, or is Truman looking for something more?

Kynlee Austin doesn't believe Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. In fact, Kynlee doesn't like Christmas at all. She'd rather skip the entire month of December, just launch herself straight from the third week of November right into a brand new year. Hard to do when she lives at the North Pole-well, okay, Reindeer Meadow, Illinois, but it's close enough. Drake Palmer, Mr. Christmas himself, is on his way from Overland Park, Kansas to Champaign, Illinois. Sure, it's a business trip, but Drake loves traveling and seeing new places, especially small towns, and especially during the holiday season. He believes small towns are charming, the people who live in them are endearing, and yes, of course, the holidays are filled with magic. The holidays certainly are filled with magic in Reindeer Meadow. There's a legend that says wishes for true love are granted at the Fayrweather Christmas Tree Farm. An unexpected blizzard and dangerous driving conditions throw a wrench in his business trip, leaving Drake stranded in the tiny little Christmas town filled with good cheer. Determined to make the best of it, Drake dives head first into Reindeer Meadow's festivities and lore. What happens when the self-proclaimed grinchette comes face to face with Mr. Christmas? Will they clash and burn or will the legend of Fayrweather Christmas Tree Farm claim another couple for true love? >This year is different. For those pure of heart, their wishes, even their wishes for true love, just might be granted. Wishing for Love is a heartwarming series about Christmas wishes of love coming true for those who have the purest of hearts. If you're looking for a feel-good read this holiday season, pick up A December Wish to meet the authors of this heartwarming holiday romance series and find your next happy ever after.

McKenzie Noble's first business trip for her first real, post-college job takes her to the picturesque Christmas town of Amesbury, Montana. Both awed and aware of how surreal the festive town is, McKenzie wanders Main Street to take it all in. As if Main Street lit up with Christmas lights and carols of the season playing around town aren't enough to make her feel like she's landed in a Christmas movie, she can't believe her luck when the good-looking guy at Caffeinated Bliss starts a conversation with her. Duran Carey is a proud Amesbury local who loves his family, the community, and Christmas. He's never questioned returning to Amesbury after college armed with a business degree; he's never looked beyond helping his dad with the family store. That is until he meets the pretty blonde who's only in town for a few days. Duran is happy to show McKenzie around Amesbury. Before long, the two develop an easy friendship that they both know could lead to more. But McKenzie's days in Amesbury are numbered, and Duran's heart has always belonged there. With time running out, and Duran's parents away on vacation, McKenzie invites Duran to come home with her and share her Christmas. Will Duran take the leap and leave Amesbury to celebrate somewhere new, or will McKenzie go home sad and alone?

Tori Baker isn't in Montreal to celebrate Christmas with her aunt. Though the holidays probably happened, Tori's too busy licking her wounds over a lost job to worry about trees and gifts. Now that it's time to go home, Mother Nature has decided to drop a load of snow to ground flights everywhere north of the Mason-Dixon Line. With an aunt who barely has time for her, Tori's stuck in a hotel, longing for her empty life back in Illinois-until she meets Hudson Jones in a coffee shop. Hudson Jones isn't in Montreal by choice. In fact, he'd rather be anywhere else and not because of the city itself. When a snow day forces his office to work from home, he finishes early and heads out for a coffee shop where he can battle his headache with a strong black brew and pass some meaningless hours on his phone. Except his battery is nearly dead. The red head at the table behind him lends him her charger with a side of sass. More interested in conversation with her than a game on his phone, Hudson invites her on a walking tour of Montreal. She's feisty; he's unassuming. No wonder they go together like cigars and jazz. Unfortunately, they only have a day together before the real world calls. Was the Monday in Montreal just a crazy fling, or will Tori and Hudson hang on for more? Moonlight in Montreal is a light-hearted and heartfelt vacation romance featuring a feisty heroine, a misplaced hero, and the cozy winter storm that brings them together.

Karrie Mallory needs a break from her stressful job as an ER nurse in Phoenix, Arizona. A few years into the job, she tells herself she's become immune to the trauma, the blood, and the life or death drama she often sees on a daily basis. But the drug-overdose of a young teen-a face Karrie has seen before-is enough to shake her up and make her rethink her life choices. She needs a break from her personal life, too, and a family situation back home in Illinois is just the remedy. Karrie takes some time away from her job and her cliché affair with the ER attending physician to go home and lend her sister and her kids a hand after a serious accident hospitalizes her brother-in-law. The trouble is, Karrie's sister doesn't want her there. With her own life up in the air, her sister's cold shoulder drives Karrie to her old school gym where she finds sanctuary on the basketball court. Nothing like good, old-fashioned exercise to drive those emotional demons out. Daxton Law quit his IT job in Chicago to come back home and coach his former school's boys' basketball team. Some might say he failed in the big city, and some might say he's living in the past, but Dax doesn't deal in gossip or drama. His ex-wife didn't want kids, and the coaching position is the perfect fit for a former basketball star who loves the game and the kids. Sparks fly when Dax finds Karrie on the basketball court one evening. His mouth gets him in trouble, and though he and Karrie sweat it out on the court, she's tough as nails and refuses to believe he's not the same hotshot guy he was back in the day. The more time they spend together, the more Dax realizes he's not just after Karrie's delicious curves and long, tan legs. He wants more, starting with her trust. Can Dax convince Karrie that there's a little something like love between them?

Monica McHenry needs a break from real life. So what if it happens to be the third week of December, and she's used to big Christmas celebrations with family and friends? She needs time away from everyone, including her family, her best friend, and most importantly, the dark memories and the horrible feelings of guilt that have plagued her since last July. A week in a remote, winter cabin sounds like the perfect escape. She's looking forward to some solitude, to some silence, and yes, to the lack of holiday cheer. How could she possibly be excited for Christmas after the way her world shattered in July? The cabin is everything she'd hoped for. She's all but snowed in, and she has nothing but time on her hands to fight and hopefully defeat her emotional demons. Except the pesky, hot neighbor won't leave her alone. Creed Jackson isn't happy that a woman is holed up alone in a remote cabin, especially Monica, who's on the road to a physical recovery after a tragic accident. From the moment she arrives, Creed is in the shadows doing things to help her out: plowing the long, unpaved driveway, delivering her an (unwanted) Christmas tree, and then having the nerve to share his family decorations with her. Though Monica wants to hide everything, including her true identity, from Creed, she finds that she likes his company. Sure, he's easy on the eyes, but he's also easy to talk to, and his observations about her life and the darkness she's running from actually make sense. With July in her rearview mirror, Monica knows the last thing she needs is instalove. But maybe a holiday fling wouldn't hurt anything, right? At least not until it's time to say goodbye and go back to the real world.

Bestselling thriller author, I.G. Arenson, i.e. Ingrid Williams, finds it funny how a family home, where childhood happens and siblings play and fight, and their lives spill over into extra bedrooms and nooks and crannies, can suddenly be too small in adulthood. It has nothing to do with spouses or children added to the family. It's simply too hard to mold four matured personalities, complete with their own lives, back into the same people they were as children. A phone call from her older sister brings Ingrid back to their now empty childhood home and their father's funeral. Ingrid, reeling from personal issues she doesn't intend to share with her siblings, simply wants to get the house packed up and sold, so they can all move on with their lives. She and her siblings don't get along well, but in the weeks when she's back at home working on the house, she finds herself entangled in their lives, in their heartaches. She's surprised at her younger sister's resentment towards her, and the guilt she feels makes her slow down and remember the way things used to be. As the days go by, and she and her siblings continue to draw closer and then push each other away, she realizes she doesn't have to go back to her big-city life. She's not sure there's much left to go home to, anyway. Not after what happened just before she returned for her father's funeral. And then there's Luke Ashley, the handy man her sister hired to fix up Dad's house. Is it all in her head, or is there a little something between them? While her family urges her to stay, and her friends urge her to come home to the suburbs, Ingrid must face her own truths. She's missed out on a lot of family stuff, and being gone so long has changed her. Used to being independent, Ingrid cherishes her alone time. But after spending time with her siblings and nieces and nephews, and spending time with Luke Ashley, Ingrid decides maybe home is relative. Maybe it's time she comes back home.

You've reached that comfortable spot in life-the one where your kids are happy, and your marriage has endured the test of time. Grocery shopping has become a Friday night date. You're financially stable. You have a successful career. Your sons are good, compassionate people who make you proud. And you count good friends as one of your many blessings.When you close your eyes at night-no matter where you are-you always feel safe. And then it happens. One morning-ten minutes-in a hotel room in Aspen, your safe, happy life is shattered. Your marriage is tested. Your relationship with your sons is strained; your good, compassionate boys struggle to understand the horrible thing that you won't tell them. You keep secrets to stay true to yourself, but you can't be yourself when you're living a lie. Slowly, you rediscover pieces of yourself, only to lose them again.Life happens-bad things happen-even when you lock yourself away in a tower of fear. And the dragons aren't going to slay themselves. **This book contains a rape scene and the main character's struggle to overcome the trauma.**

Ellie Jordan lost something far more important than her innocence, and she blames no one but herself. Determined never to forgive herself for mistakes she made in the past, she lives alone and starves herself of love and attention. She can't right her wrongs, but she refuses to let herself be happy.No one understands bad decisions and bittersweet memories like Jay Bryant. Divorced from a woman he had no business marrying, he fathers his son from across the country and wishes for something more: more time with his child and a woman to love.Ellie Jordan just might be that woman, but can Jay prove to her that mistakes can be left in the past and everyone deserves a chance at love?

As the oldest of the Williams siblings, it was Olivia Girard's job to hold her family together after the loss of their mother. But she didn't, and things went from bad to worse when their mother died. Now, with their father gone, Liv's own family life is falling apart around her, and she doesn't have the heart or the energy to dedicate to her siblings. Liv has no desire to finish redecorating their parents' old house, because once it's done, her childhood home will be sold to someone else. Her daughter is graduating from high school and looking forward to college, while Liv can only wonder where time has gone and worry for Gracie's happiness and safety. And most troubling to Liv, her marriage is on the rocks, and she has only herself to blame. Desperate to make waves, to make her husband Wade see her again, Liv did a bad thing, and now she's paying for it. Wade isn't sure he can forgive her mistakes, and Liv isn't sure she wants him to, because she's not sure of anything in her life at the moment. Except that she's miserably unhappy from the inside out, and no one, not even Wade, not her children, not her siblings, can change that. Can Liv accept that she's the only person who can change her heart before she's free to offer it again to those she loves? Will they wait for her to figure it out, or will her loved ones move on without her?

One lesson we're not taught when we're little is how to pick out a monster in a crowd, not when that monster looks like the rest of us. Gwyn Hansen is all grown up, but she sleeps with the lights on and she refuses to leave her house because she's met the boogeyman. Gwyn's ex-boyfriend, Walker, and her best friend, Sara, want to help her recover, to heal emotionally as well as physically. But Gwyn claims her experience has changed her, maybe not for the better. Gwyn isn't keeping secrets because she's afraid to share them. Rather, she needs to keep her secrets as a matter of self-preservation. How can she ever be comfortable with her friend and lover again if they continue to see her as a victim? If she can't say everything, can Gwyn find the right words to start the healing process? Will Walker and Sara have the patience to wait for her, or will they each move on with their lives without her?

December 30, 2015 Dear Jaclyn Perris: I can't help it....Just...Lena. Really? Why? Why did you do that to Lena? I can't even...I mean...there's a formula, Jaclyn. Remember? The formula? Yeah, yeah, technically, you followed it, but...just. Poor Lena. I threw that book. Just so you know. When I finished it, I threw it across the room. Okay, so, that made me feel really guilty, because books are BOOKS, ya know? But you frigging ripped my heart out when you did that. Okay. Over it. I'm over it. Promise. I'll read more-who am I kidding? My plan is to work my way through your backlist, one delicious read at a time and devour your new releases as soon as they're available! Yours, Remi But. I mean. I dreamt about her. Lena. Ripped. My. Heart. Out. It was kind of messy. The whole ugly cry thing...

Wes Ingram loves his wife. He thinks. So then why has he slept walked through ten years of marriage, stealing every opportunity to daydream about the girl he had before? It's been an easy, friendly marriage, and he and Maura have two great kids. Both of them are committed to their children's happiness, even if it means ignoring the lack of passion between them and pretending they're happy just to maintain the status quo...until they share a stolen moment of passion during daylight hours, and Wes decides it's time to push for more. Unfortunately what he wants to say gets tangled up with what and who he's been thinking about, and before he knows what happened, the damage is done, and his wife is devastated. How do you save a love you don't realize is the most important thing in your life until you're faced with losing everything? Can Wes make it up to Maura, even when he knows saying I'm sorry isn't enough?

Blond hair. Blue eyes. Killer smile. Model perfect. Honors program. Record-setting star quarterback. Good friend. Mia's guy. Jude Young. Tall, dark, and Dangerous?

As the baby of the Williams family, Amber watched her sisters grow up and leave home when she was just a little girl. Resentful of the split-family her parents created and hurt that her sisters struck out on their own to create their own lives, Amber grew into a suspicious, unforgiving woman. Now the single parent of a teenage daughter, Amber juggles her freelance photography career, the boyfriend she is determined not to marry, and her family-including her rebellious daughter, a brother she doesn't see often enough, and the sisters who suddenly want to be a part of her life. After her dad's death, Amber and her siblings have come together to deal with his estate and ready his house for sale. As they work together on the house, they continue to grow closer and then push each other away. Amber's fourteen-year-old daughter is suddenly curious about her father, and her boyfriend of two years is pressuring her to marry him. Amber longs to open up to her sisters, but she's afraid to reach out, to trust, envious of the relationship they share that has always seemed to exclude her. However, when Amber's secrets become too much for her, she realizes she needs to lean on someone. Will her sisters be there when she needs them, or will they be caught up in their own lives? And even if they do want to listen, will Amber learn to trust them and open up about the heartache she's carried inside all her life?

Mal just wants a fun night out. His buddy's getting married, so the guys should be hanging at a strip club, right? Nope. Aria wants to do a couple's night out. What happened to the traditional bachelor party? What happened to Mal's best friend? Mal's plans don't include ever committing to one woman-far too many fun, sexy women out there to settle down! Until Everleigh captures his attention on the dance floor...and drags him outside for a fun little break in the action. And then happens to be the new barista his mom hired at her coffee house. What happens when they come face to face the morning after what was supposed to be a fun one-night fling?

Serial-dating entrepreneur Stevi Hague loves life, but she's currently running on empty. Who knew owning and running the trendy, upscale bar-the Mississippi Queen-with her sister and cousin wouldn't be enough for her? Throw in some fun nightlife and dating adventures with friends and friends of friends, and Stevi always assumed she was all set for her own brand of happily-ever-after. Enter her sister's new love and the baby they're expecting and suddenly, Stevi thinks she might need more from her own life. Add in some heavy-duty flirting with sexy bartender Duncan Marks and Stevi finds herself a flustered mix of emotions that she isn't sure how to maneuver. After all, Duncan's not just a sexy guy good for a fun-while-it-lasts fling. He's her cousin's stepbrother; Stevi's known him for years, and she loves him like family. Not to mention, he's an integral part of the Queen's success.Duncan Marks can't keep his eyes off Stevi anymore. He's tired of trying to behave. Stevi's a beautiful, lively woman, and she's flirting back, which means she's ready to play, right? When a friendly game of bar dice pushes them into dangerous territory, Duncan promises he can handle a steamy fling and walk away with no hard feelings. But the closer he gets to Stevi, the more he wants from her, maybe even forever.

Teel Alexander has the perfect life: a happy marriage, two beloved daughters, and a fulfilling career in teaching. Little does she know the siren she hears in the middle of a random week night is the beginning of a nightmare that threatens to unravel the happy life she and her family have taken for granted. Teel's world-her family's world- is shattered by the news of Marin English's suicide. Devastated by the death of her youngest daughter's friend, Teel is rocked by Keegan's callous lack of reaction. Suicide. Teen suicide-even more terrifying for a parent. After all, sometimes it seems contagious. When the police become involved and Keegan's secrets are exposed, Teel wonders if she ever knew her daughter at all. She didn't raise her children to be bullies, but Keegan learned the unacceptable behavior somewhere. As Keegan sinks further into her own depression, flanked by grief and finally guilt, Teel worries their family will become just like all the other families in the news-the broken ones that lose their children, their dreams, and their happiness. Forgiving Keegan might be the hardest thing Teel will ever do, but that mercy might be the only thing that can save her. What if your daughter was to blame?