The Impossible Wish by Christine Nolfi

Title: The Impossible Wish

Author: Christine Nolfi

Release Date: January 10, 2014

Summary: Birdie Kaminsky has landed in the small town of Liberty. And against the original plan she has fallen in love—with a man and the people in the town. The newly engaged con-woman turned model citizen, Birdie is happy and ready for a new life of normalcy when the one thing that can take it all away butts into the picture. Her mother and the queen of fraud. But, the town is there to stand behind her, even though no one has ever gotten away with outsmarting Wish Kaminsky.

Author website: www.christinenolfi.com

Skinny Me by Charlene Carr

Title: Skinny Me

Author: Charlene Carr

Release Date: September 1, 2014

Summary: Jennifer is struggling after life has thrown her a handful of heartache. Her mother has passed away, her brother is in a coma, and her father is off with his other family that he left her and her mother for when she was younger. Feeling alone and isolated Jennifer has soothed her pain with non-judgmental aid of food. Finally, done with being overweight and full of self-loathing Jennifer sets off to lose the pounds and find the skinny woman underneath that she desperately feels will make her feel happy.

Author website: www.charlenecarr.com

Worth The Effort, Ella’s Story by Kai Strand

Title: Worth The Effort, Ella’s Story

Author: Kai Strand

Release Date: May 3, 2014

Summary: Ella Jones is a seventeen year old high school student who arrives early to her job at a coffee shop, early one morning and is startled to find a homeless person in the back alley. The most startling revelation to her is that this person, this young man, is not much older than she is. As the pages turn, Ella becomes intrigued by the boy, Ayden, sleeping behind the coffee shop and the plight of the young homeless population in her own hometown. And, in the end Ella is forced to make a choice if she wants to keep Ayden in her life.

Author website: www.kaistrand.com

Retailer links: Amazon

Book Talk Tuesday ~ After We Met by Sara Rishforth

Title:  After We Met

Author: Sara Rishforth

Release Date: December 17, 2014

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Summary: After We Met is the sequel to Sara’s first book Adventures in Dating, where Kari Covington chronicles her move from South Carolina to Alaska and her search for Mr. Right.

In After We Met, she’s got him and now it is time for the next chapter in this young foodie’s life. Kari not only takes us along as her relationship grows, but as she faces career choices, no longer sure her work as an architect is satisfying her. While Kari is dealing with all of her life changes in Alaska, tragedies strike her family back in South Carolina and have this newlywed contemplating the distance she’s put between herself and her South Carolina family.

Author website: www.sararishforth.com

Retailer links:     Amazon