I've kept my father's books since I was nineteen. I know every wire transfer, every invoice, every penny he pretends not to move. So when the family council found three hundred thousand missing from the accounts, I knew it wasn't me. I also knew exactly who it was. My brother. I just couldn't prove it standing on the wrong side of the table. The council gave me two choices. Stand trial for a theft I didn't commit, or marry Nino Greco and merge our families into one. I took the marriage. Fi...

Bernadette Prejean met the man who burned her family's landing with a shotgun already leveled at his chest, and she meant every inch of it. He had thrown the first bottle. Her father went back into the fire for the queens and the record books and never got his heart to settle again, and he was in the ground three weeks later. Now Colton Zaragoza was standing on her rebuilt dock in a good jacket, offering help she would rather die than take.Bernadette keeps bees. She floats her hive...

This book synthesizes what the DeRose Method is, a lifestyle proposal emphasizing quality of life, fulfilling human relationships, culture, good nutrition and optimal health. Some of the tools used are breathing re-education, stress management, and organic body techniques to improve muscular tone and flexibility as well as other techniques utilized to achieve emotional relaxation and mental concentration. All of these tools ultimately aim to increase consciousness and self-awareness.

The one-night stand who claimed my v-card is now my new boss…An automatic red flag that I chose to ignore.Because this hot alpha billionaire wants me as bad as I want him.So I agree to this twisted proposal of a no strings attached physical situationship.I wanted to stay focused on my career since I had just graduated college, butHe gives me all the things I never knew I wanted and needed.His passion for me m...

Philippa Radbury reads people the way she reads her indigo vat. Dye goes into the vat green and only strikes blue when it is lifted into the air, and a truth kept under the surface stays green and rinses away to nothing. She spent six years married to Tristan Nethshaw, a man worth billions, and for six years she trusted that what was between them would hold in the light. Then someone told him she had only married him for the land under her family's old works, and he believed it, and he did...

Nora Inkson makes the purest tupelo honey on the Rockvale Creek swamp, and she knows the one thing about it that no one else seems to: pure tupelo never grains. Cut it to stretch it, and no matter how clear it pours in the jar, a season later the sugar comes up white and the lie tells on itself. She has built a life on that patience. She did not know she would need it to survive her own marriage.On the night of her twenty-second anniversary, someone hands her billionaire husband a ...

Corinne Jessrow builds wooden boats the way her father taught her, by hand, on the north spit of Vernal Reach, and she knows that a hull is fair when the curve runs true the whole length, with no hard spot and no hollow you can feel under your thumb. She thought her marriage ran that true. She had eleven years with Isaiah Radbrook and a daughter and a boatyard, and she thought the line of them was fair.Then she found the messages. Not a motel receipt, not lipstick on a collar. Some...

Yvette Warrhurst can feel a lie the way she feels a crooked broom. She binds brooms by hand in her late father's shop, and she knows that a broom sewn tight on the outside but slack at the shoulder stands pretty in the corner and drags crooked the first week you put it to a floor. She has been married to Thaddeus Halrow for eleven years, long enough to think their life together was built true. Then, at their own anniversary gala, in front of the whole town, her husband was handed a folder ...

The fog comes in off the water the morning the foreclosure notice lands on Blythe Prycestead's bench, and the first person through the door of her net loft is the one man who has no right to stand there. Kellan Rookhaven left her three years ago. He is an Under Wolves patch, he is the reason her daughter has grown up without a father in the house, and he says he has come to fight for the loft her mother left her. Blythe has spent her life mending nets, hooking two fingers into the web and ...

Gemma Cranhall can tell gold from the thing that only looks like it. She is a water gilder, second generation, and she has spent twenty years laying real gold leaf so thin you can see light through it, learning by hand the difference between what shines and what has weight. She thought her marriage was gold. She had been living on gilt.Duncan Bickdale is worth billions, and he built a good part of it on a single page Gemma signed without reading, the year she trusted him most, a pa...

You cannot take back a bad shift. The buzzer on it has already gone, and all you get is the next shift, and how you take it. It took me losing everything to learn what that means.I had it all once. A spot near the top of the league, a wife who saw the whole of me and stayed anyway, a little girl who thought I hung the moon. And in the lowest, most frightened stretch of a dying career, on the road, half drunk and certain I was finished, I threw it away in one night I will spend the ...

The warp is the vow. It is strung tight the whole width of the loom, holding everything under one steady tension, and it is not any one day's cloth. It is the thing you true again every morning of your life so the days have something to run through. Nina Zelwick has woven that truth into a hundred coverlets on her grandmother's old barn loom, up a fog-drowned Appalachian holler, and she never once thought she would live to watch her own marriage fray thread by thread until the whole cloth ...