Julie Cannon

From the author of Truelove & Homegrown Tomatoes comes a heartwarming story of three generations of Southern women working to mend the rifts of the past and set paths for the future. It is summer in Euharlee, Georgia, and Imogene Lavenders garden is bursting with snap beans, okra, and tomatoes. The householdmade up of Imo; her daughter Jeanette and her new baby; and Lou, Imos nieceis about to grow as well. Imos estranged mother, Mama Jewell, has begun to show signs of senility, and Imo has decided that it is her duty to take her mother in. Mama Jewell brings with her some secrets from the past, including the story of Lous mother, a revelation that sends Lou in search of her neer-do-well father. For Imo, who is feeling the squeeze of being in the middle of the generations, Mama Jewells temperamental nature stirs up long-buried memories of a difficult childhood. And much to everyones surprise, wild Jeanette is so determined to find a husband that she joins the church choir to be closer to the handsome and enigmatic young reverend.Mater Biscuit is a wonderful evocation of small-town life in the South, a world where hard work and prayers unite the community. Life isnt always easy for Imo and her girls, but they have only to look as far as Imos beloved garden to be reminded that all things change with the seasons.

When her beloved husband of forty-eight years dies, Imogene "Imo" Lavender takes solace in her tomato garden and finds her own life beginning to blossom. Raising two young womenher rebellious sixteen-year-old daughter, Jeanette, and Lou, the thirteen-year-old niece she has taken indemands most of her time, but a friend insists that a trip to the Kuntry Kut n Kurl and a new man are what Imo really needs. At her prompting, Imo sets off on a hilarious dating spree with a series of unsuitable bachelors. While Jeanette grows increasingly reckless, Lou joins her aunt in the garden, learning lessons about love and life. A shocking announcement from Jeanette and a sudden death then remind them all that life, like a garden, changes with the seasonsand that the healing of a heart comes with time, love, and patience, just as surely as a new crop of tomatoes rewards a devoted gardener.

In the middle of a three-week fishing trip, commercial fisherman Roberta (Bert) Coughlin rescues Alissa Cooper from her burning yacht and has no choice but to take the pampered rich girl along.Alissa and Bert are from very different worlds. Bert struggles to succeed with the whims of Mother Nature. Alissa owns a successful advertising agency and is the epitome of high class and high fashion. When Alissa volunteers to help on the boat, Bert is more than a little surprised at how well she does.The attraction between them grows, and one stormy night their pent-up desires crash together like the waves against the ship. When the ship returns to port, both women realize their lives are too different for anything other than their brief affair. They are simply too different. Their families are too different. Their lives too different. Then why do they keep coming back to each other?

What should be just business becomes much more when two women agree to a deal that changes their lives. Real estate tycoon Dillon Matthews, in the middle of negotiating the deal of her life, is stunned when the owner of the small parcel of land she desperately needs to complete her latest project presents the final condition she must meet to close the deal. Callie Sheffield is struggling to pay the attorney she has hired to appeal her brothers conviction for a crime he didnt commit. When Dillon and Callie meet by chance, they realize each has what the other needs. A simple business transaction will give them both what they needuntil love threatens to derail the negotiations.

Speed, competition, danger, and sex...Shannon Roberts has it all, just the way she wants it...on her terms.Being on top is the only thing that matters to Shannon. If not in that position in a hotel room with the latest groupie on the mountain bike racing tour, its seeing her name in first place on the leader board. That is until she comes head to head with Caroline Davis, her main rival and the woman with whom she had a brief, yet sizzling sex-fest ten years earlier. Two world class competitors pit their skills against one another in a struggle for the world championship of downhill mountain bike racing, all the while fighting an even tougher battlethe attraction they thought they had extinguished.

Two women on a vacation that turns deadly face down one of natures most ruthless killersand find themselves falling in love.Refusing to allow her absent lover to ruin her vacation in an exotic corner of Thailand, Emily Stone determines to set her private disappointment aside and enjoy herselfuntil a natural disaster strikes and turns her world upside down. Major Hayden Caldwell plans to escape the restrictions of her job for a rare few days of freedom when she and Emily are forced into the fight of their lives. Together, Hayden and Emily face death, disease, despair, and imminent death, and find in themselves and each other the strength to deny the tsunami two more victims. But can their intense bond survive outside of the extreme situation in which it was forged?Uncharted Passage is the story of two women who face one of lifes deadliest challenges and find their hearts forever changed.

What would you do if an irresistibly desirable but utterly untouchable woman whispered to you, If you want me, youll have to come and get me?Thats exactly the dilemma that Elliott Foster, CEO of Foster MacKenzie, faces when she meets the alluring Lauren Collier, Chief Legal Counsel of a Fortune 500 company. Elliott never has a shortage of attractive women willing to share her bed, and she doesnt care if they are interested in her or just her money. By her rules, if two women are attracted to each other theres no reason why two women with a mutual agenda for pleasure shouldnt spend the night togetheror in some cases, the afternoon. No strings, no complicationsuntil Lauren, who is intriguing but decidedly off-limits. Lauren doesnt fit the pattern of casual liaisons and Elliot knows she should walk away. Instead she finds herself in the unusual position of pursuing a woman, and even more disconcertingly...on Laurens terms. Suddenly Elliott finds herself on a rollercoaster ride of passion and discovery that promises to be the ride of her life.

What happens when you can never forget the first kiss, the first touch, the first taste of lips on skin? When the first sigh of pleasure, first glimpse of soft, smooth skin, the slide of fingers through warm, wet folds burns into your memory? What happens when you know you will remember every single detail of a mysterious woman?Emery Barrett is under doctors orders to rest while on a three-week cruise. Dana Worthingtons only plan is to improve her tan and have her passport stamped in every port. Adventure, anonymity, and the idea that they will never see each other again propel Emery and Dana into twenty-one days of pleasure. Neither woman has any idea their vacation will be one to remember in more ways than one. But the biggest discovery awaits them when they return home.

Andrea Finley is the flight director for NASAs latest space flightto the moon. The mission is the first with a woman in charge, and Andrea will stop at nothing to ensure this is a textbook perfect mission. Her personal life is virtually nonexistent, and she has devoted her entire life to this, the pinnacle of her career.When the mission runs into serious trouble, Andrea has no choice but to call Kenner Hutchings, a brilliant twenty-something whiz kid from MIT with a reputation for living life fast and loose. Kenner is their last chance to save the lives of the seven astronauts entrusted into Andreas care.Andrea doesnt trust Kenner to get the job done, and Kenner takes it as a challenge to break the reserve of her new boss. Can two strong-willed, powerful women overcome their differences to save the lives of seven others and begin a life they never imagined together?

Three stories of fun in the sun during one unforgettable summer.In Maui Magic, Addison Bradbury can build anything, but her love life falls apart before it even gets going. Erin Williams, the owner of Maui Magic Catamaran, is more interested in having fun with a woman than building a future with one. Addison is used to getting her way and Erin simply sails through life. Theres no way theyll fall in love, right?In Bahama Breeze, Samantha Recker is not a stereotypical CFO. Shes into Harleys, hang gliding, and living life on the edge. When she meets Teresa Tinsdale, Sam is completely thrown. She has met her match in more ways than one. Like magnets, they are pulled together and pushed apart, and theres no way theyll stay together, right?In Jamaican Haven, as an introvert, Cora Donaldson expects to spend her volunteer time quietly cleaning kennels and poop-scooping for a charity dedicated to rescuing stray dogs, until she spills her entire bucket of poo on beautiful, captivating Tyler Sanchez, the shelters director. Theres no way Cora is ever going to recover, right?

Two strangers collide on an empty country road...accident or fate?Political strategist Rachel Stanton, jaded and disillusioned by the scratching, clawing, and mudslinging of the campaign trail, books a week at the Springdale Ranch for a much-needed vacation. Springdale sounds like just the place to exorcise unhappy childhood memories and straighten out her head. Shivley McCoy has spent the last four years casting out her own painful past, working and sweating to make her ranch a successful business venture. She has nothing in common with fast-living Rachel Stanton, and after their inauspicious first meeting, is quite certain shell never see her again.Shivley is thrown when she comes face-to-face with Rachel among her group of new arrivals, and sparks of a most unexpected sort ignite.We have to stop meeting like this. People might talk.And what would they say?That were madly in love and cant bear to be apart.

Lowe Carter and Faith Williams could not be more different. Lowe comes from money, very old money. Faith scrapes by, living paycheck to paycheck, sending what little she has left to her mother and little sister. Lowe is just starting her obligatory two-week visit with her parents when she collides, literally and figuratively, with the beautiful Faith. What better way to spend two weeks of hell than in the company of a hot, sexy woman? The only problem is that employees like Faith are forbidden to fraternize with residents and their guests. Join Lowe and Faith as they sail on The Escape, the worlds largest private residence on the water.

Leaving a trail of broken hearts scattered across the islands, surf instructor Colby Taylor, aka Breaker, is running full speed away from her selfish actions years earlier. Hiding in the crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean, the last thing she expects to encounter is Elizabeth Collins, a stuffy, judgmental college professor forced down her own escape path. Elizabeth is uncharacteristically drawn to the mysterious surfer but cant picture herself having a vacation fling, or any other relationship with the enigamatic Breaker.Set in the backdrop of Maui, one of Hawaiis most beautiful islands, both women must overcome their doubts and apprehensions to discover the true beauty of lifeeach other.

Tyler Logan reluctantly agrees to pose as the girlfriend of her in-the-closet gay BFF at his companys annual retreat. Stupid idea, but simple. Shed done it a dozen times before.Kristin Walker, doesnt want to go on this trip, be the perfect hostess, or be the bosss wife anymore, but finds herself trapped in all three.When an unexpected turn of events transforms their three days in paradise into a fight for survival, both women struggle against the odds and their own fears. However, the biggest challenge is their growing attraction toward each other and the question of who will rescue whom?

What would you do if being with the woman of your dreams meant sabotaging your career?Thats the exact situation high-profile executive Leigh Marshall finds herself in when she falls hard for her golf pro, who also happens to be an ex-con. Her board of directors hasnt gotten the memo regarding workplace equality and who she sleeps with is still more important than her stellar qualifications.Peyton Broader has no interest in anything other than keeping her head down, reporting to her parole officer, and getting her life back. Oh yeah, and making up for nine years of celibacy. The last thing she needs is to lose her job or get sucked into other peoples drama, no matter how hot and tempting the woman is. So why cant she stay away from Leigh?

Brady Stewart lives for the fire. Nightmares of the fire haunt Nicole McMillan. Whether fighting fires in the Kuwaiti desert, in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico or the heartland of Oklahoma, both women hide behind a smoke screen of who they really are. When they meet and face the challenge of their lives, their passion ignites because where theres smoke, theres fire.

Kelsey Brunel knows exactly what the future holds: shell one day inherit the Arizona dude ranch that has been in her family for three generations. She tells herself that the business and her good friends are all shell ever want or need. Long-term relationships arent in the picture, which after witnessing the devastation of her parents failed marriage, is just fine with her.Elizabeth Sutton has grown up proving to her family that shes as capable and accomplished as they demand her to be, even if that means working for the family business. Her latest assignment, to turn a backwater ranch in Arizona into another link in their international chain of wellness centers, feels like a demotion and she cant wait to get it done and escape back to civilization.Two women from different worlds have nothing in common and every reason to wish theyd never metexcept for the attraction neither can deny.

What would you do if the woman sitting across from you at the negotiating table is the same woman you shared a bed with twelve years earlier?Thats exactly the situation when Adrienne Phillips enters the offices of Foster McKenzie. Sloan Merchant, the opposing attorney, is a rising star in the world of corporate law with one of the premier companies in the world. Adrienne has never forgotten the thrill of desire in Sloans eyes, the sound of her name whispered in the dark, the rising crescendo of the pleasure of her touch, and the heartbreaking loss when it was over. Sloan has the world at her feet and any woman at her fingertips so why does she dream of her college fling? And what in the hell is she going to do now with her sitting across the negotiating table in one of the biggest deals of her life?

Barrett and Kelly, two complete strangers, shared a harrowing experience where they were completely dependent on each other for survival. When Barrett is rescued and forced to leave Kelly behind, she returns several months later to free her from their captors. After returning home, they go their separate ways and try to pick up their lives, but circumstances and feelings they didnt expect pull them together and threaten to drive them apart.Can love overcome feelings of guilt, obligation, gratitude, debt, and responsibility?