Ergebnis für "das ende" in Kleinstadt- & Landleben

Give me the smallest reason to make a bad decision, and I’ll jump in with both feet. Case in point: thinking that drunkenly buying an abandoned town with my brothers is a good idea. As builders, we plan to renovate and flip the town, maybe turn it into something worth seeing, but the longer we’re here, the more things feel … off. It’s not until a bearded mountain man breaks into my room in the middle of the night and threatens for us to get out of his town that I realize Wilde’s End isn’t as abandoned as we were told.

A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A junior at Stanford and a student athlete who specializes in platform...

Ex-Marine Mike Valenzuela ist seinen Freunden nach Virgin River gefolgt. Nach einer Verletzung im Dienst erscheint ihm das kleine Bergdorf der perfekte Ort zu sein, um sich von den körperlichen und seelischen Blessuren zu erholen. Insgeheim hofft er, hier das große Glück zu finden – vielleicht mit Brie Sheridan? Auch sie kämpft mit der Vergangenheit, und ihre Wunden gehen noch viel tiefer als seine. Mike ist entschlossen, ihr beizustehen und einen Platz in ihrem Herzen zu erobern.

Melanie Bartlett? Die startet beruflich mal richtig durch! Das dachten alle in River Bend, als Mel zum Studieren nach Kalifornien ging. Zehn Jahre später sieht das leider anders aus. Abgebrannt kehrt die Single Mom zurück, mit ihrer süßen Tochter Hope im Schlepptau und ohne Idee, wie es weitergehen soll. Aber River Bend nimmt sie mit offenen Armen auf: Ihre besten Freundinnen Zoe und Jo sind für Mel da, in Miss Ginas B&B-Pension findet sie nicht nur eine Unterkunft, sondern auch Arbeit.

Zoe Brown bleibt bestimmt in River Bend, hieß es beim Highschool-Abschluss. Irrtum! So schnell sie konnte, floh sie aus der Kleinstadt. Weg von dem ärmlichen, beklemmenden Leben ihrer Eltern - und leider auch weg von Luke, ihrer ersten großen Liebe, ihrem Anker in der langen Zeit der Tränen. Zehn Jahre später kehrt Zoe, inzwischen gefeierte Promi-Köchin in Dallas, zu einem Klassentreffen nach River Bend zurück.

Tief in den Wäldern des Staates Washington liegt die Holzfällerstadt Commonwealth. Charles Worthy hat sich mit der Gründung der Stadt und ihren gesellschaftlichen Idealen fernab von Ausbeutung und Unterdrückung einen Lebenstraum erfüllt. Doch sein Traum ist in Gefahr: Gerade als sich der Erste Weltkrieg seinem Ende zuneigt, bricht die todbringende Spanische Grippe aus. Die Bewohner von Commonwealth sind entschlossen, sich mit strenger Quarantäne zu schützen.

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Die vierzehnjährige Edie Mather lebt mit ihrer Familie auf Wych Farm, wo der Schatten des Ersten Weltkriegs noch immer über der durch die Weltwirtschaftskrise verarmten Gemeinde hängt. Es ist die Zeit der traditionellen Landwirtschaft: Die Farm wird noch mit Pferdestärken betrieben, und das Leben auf dem Land ist hart. Edie ist "ein seltsames Kind"; als eines von vier Geschwistern in einer konservativen Farmerfamilie zieht sie die Gesellschaft von Büchern anderen Spielkameraden vor.

Harriet Main moves to the beautiful coastal town of Rivers End with a heavy heart. The bookstore she’s opening on the idyllic main street is a small distraction from the pain of her recent divorce, and the guilt over failing her daughter Olive when she needed her most. When Harriet finds an anonymous old diary in a collection of books donated to the store, she’s shocked when the donor refuses to take it back, wanting nothing to do with the tragic book.

Rachel Norris wants to forge a new life and career. And she wants to forget her past. When Rachel qualifies as nurse, she does so because she wants to help others and make a difference. But she is also running from a past life that must stay hidden forever. Completing her training, Rachel moves...

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An escape to Mackinac Island, just for the season. Have you ever wondered ... What would happen if you just slipped away? Could you leave what's familiar to become someone else—in a different place, living a different life with no one noticing? That's a question Olivia Nash never knew she had, until she started answering it.

Margo has spent most of her life without a family, and with a telekinetic gift she can't quite explain. Since losing her mother, she's felt more alone than ever. When her fiancé Sam takes her to his remote Iowa hometown to meet his family and begin planning their wedding, Margo finally begins...

Brought to you by Penguin. In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. For as long as they can remember, Evelyn and Lily have only had each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know...

I didn't plan on being a runaway bride… but when I caught my fiancé banging one of my bridesmaids on our wedding day, my world got flipped upside down. In my panic, I called the one person who wouldn't ask any questions—my best friend, Carson James. He took one look at me and got us out of there fast. Unfortunately, I can't just run away without consequences. As country music's biggest star, people have a lot to say about my life and the choices I make.

They're about to follow their dreams all the way back home . . . Sam Newby loves the rolling hills and lush green grass of Ollindale, the village he has grown up in. Home is where his heart is: but when his father dies, and his cruel stepmother becomes his guardian, he begins to dream of a...

Hometown hero Ana Leigh Watkins ventures to Bitter End, Tennessee, to help her great-aunt get her house ready to sell. Bitter End seems an ironic place for Ana to refresh her weary spirit, but she's desperate for respite from her community's attention and unwarranted admiration. While on a hike in Roan Mountain, a ragtag group of amateur bird watchers take her under their wing—a little against her will. However, she quickly warms to these genuine souls seeking solace in the great outdoors.

Myles's courtroom testimony should have put Pryor, their one-eyed ringleader, behind bars after the bank robbery gone wrong, yet somehow Pryor got off scot-free while Myles served time. Now, upon his release, Myles decides he is done with his life of crime—a change that will only be possible if he can kill Pryor and turn over a new leaf. Pryor has other ideas, and the collision between these two deadly forces soon leaves the ex-con in critical condition, clinging to life in a hospital bed.