The future looks rosy until the fateful night when Frank Anderson, Nick’s abusive father, is shot to death in his filthy trailer. Through childhood disasters and teenage woes they cling together as friendship turns to love. Armed with only a tin of bee balm and steely determination, Alix treats the raw evidence of a recent beating that mars his back, an act that changes both of their lives forever. But nothing was ordinary about the day she met ten year old Nick Anderson, a boy from the wrong side of town. Sweet tea, corn bread, and soup beans everyday fare for eight year old Alix French, the precocious darling of a respected southern family. Torn between the man her heart has never quite forgotten and the man she’s engaged to, Lanie can only pray that love will truly be better the Second Time Around. Give them three months to try to mend the marriage his father tore apart, or he’ll fight her tooth and nail for custody of their son.

Now she’s ready to move on with her life, and has even agreed to marry the local veterinarian until Quinn gives her an ultimatum. It’s taken Lanie McAllister five years to get over losing the man she loved with every fiber of her being. Not his father, and certainly not his wife’s fianc. Now he’s going back to Wyoming to claim what’s his, and nothing can stop him… He’s tempted to give his wife the quick divorce she wants until he finds out about the son he didn’t know existed. Now he’s discovered that his divorce was bogus, and his whole world is spinning out of control. While he lay in a coma from injuries sustained during an auto accident, the woman he loved divorced him. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Five years ago Quinn McAllister’s life was almost destroyed. It was a last-ditch attempt to win the woman he really wanted. Unfortunately, only one thing will gain her Tate's love his realization that the night he spent with her was no drunken accident. Now she has almost everything she's ever dreamed of. Desperate, but too proud to ask for help, she finally agrees to accept a job from Tate the job of being his wife. But the last thing she needs is a baby when she can barely take care of herself. Loneliness and a secret yearning for this man she thought she'd never have led her to spend the night with Tate. For Abby, it's a struggle just to fill her belly and keep a roof over her head. As the daughter of the town whore, people either avoid her or think she's like her mother. There's only one problem.he has to tell his fiancée. Once again, Tate must take responsibility for his actions, and makes plans to marry his child's mother. Now, six weeks later, she's pregnant, alone, and broke. Until the night he gets drunk and sleeps with a woman he barely knows. All his life Tate McCullom has been taught to be responsible, and he is the very model of what a respectable man should be.

What price paradise by katherine allred