Category: Book Talk Tuesday

Title: Love Handles

Author: Gretchen Galway

Release Date: April 24, 2011

Summary: Bev Lewis is a preschool teacher who has just inherited her grandfather’s fitness fashion empire. But she wants out. She’s not cut out for the fashion industry. Family drama runs amuck as she tries to heal the wound cut between her mother and aunt so many years ago. However, she can’t seem to get out of the agreement.

After returning to her preschool job and then being fired from that job she has no choice left but to try to make it work in the fitness fashion industry. You would think her grandfather’s VP, Liam—the Olympic gold medalist—would be her best ally, but instead he’s working as hard as he can to make life difficult on her. Including, the way he makes her weak in the knees anytime he is around.

Author website: www.gretchengalway.com

Retailer links: Amazon

Title: The Road Home

Author: Meg Gray

Release Date: March 29, 2015

Summary: When Blake Anderson decides to sneak away from the limelight of his father’s political career, he sets out to find an answer that has haunted him his whole life. He heads to the small town of River’s Edge in the heart of Oregon’s wine country along the Columbia River. In the small town, he gets his first taste of anonymity and it feels good. His trail quickly runs cold and instead of racing back to his family’s mansion he decides to stay for a while, and makes a place for himself as Reg Wheeler’s hired hand.

Maria Sandoval is recovering from a devastating loss and has sought refuge on her grandparents’ prosperous estate, Ramirez Vines. Doing her best to outrun haunting memories from her college days, she takes great solitude in riding her horse along the edge of the vineyard property. One night she runs across a stranger who claims to work for her grandparents’ old neighbor Reg Wheeler. Her mistrust and anxiety push her emotions to a new level as she tries to determine the stranger’s real purpose for helping the cranky crippled old man.

Secrets, trust, and love all combine as Blake and Maria journey together toward finding answers and healing old wounds. But in one emotionally charged night it all starts to come undone. As one life hangs in the balance, questions are answered, but will it be too late?

Author website: www.meggraybooks.com

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Title: Colors Like Memories

Author: Meradeth Houston

Release Date: May 15, 2012

Summary: Julia is a Sary—an infant that died before her first breath and is now an angelic being that walks among the living, helping to save the lives of those that are thinking about taking their own.

Julia is currently assigned to a high school girl who has lost her mother and has made multiple attempts on her own life. The burden of having lost her Sary-companion over a century ago weighs heavily on her in this assignment. When help arrives, so Julia doesn’t fail her assignment, another twist is added to this time-shifting plot.

Author website: www.meradethhouston.com

Retailer links: Amazon