Brambleberry Shores: An Anthology,Used

Product Description Two favorite Brambleberry House stories from USA TODAY bestselling author RaeAnne ThayneThe Daddy MakeoverEben Spencer learned long ago to keep his eye on the ball and his emotions under wraps. This philosophy has taken him to the pinnacle of success in business. But in his personal life, it led to a shattered marriage. So it's just him and his little girluntil he meets Sage Benedetto. She's warm, emotional, openeverything Eben is not. Sage's bewitching nature soon has this tycoon rethinking his future.His SecondChance FamilyAs a teenager Julia Blair found more than fun in the sun at Cannon Beach. She found a homein the arms of her first love, Will Garrett. A bright future stretched out in front of Julia. Though life hadn't worked out as planned, here she is, back in Cannon Beach, with her two kids in tow. Only to find Will there, too. Julia believes Will can still make her dreams come true, but will he let her into his heart to do the same for him? Review 'RaeAnne Thayne begins the Women of Brambleberry House miniseries with The Daddy Makeover (4.5), a warm, wise story with emotionally a warm, wise story with emotionally complex and intriguing characters.' RT Book Reviews'RaeAnne Thayne continues the Women of Brambleberry House miniseries with His SecondChance Family (4.5). Welldeveloped characters, plus plenty of raw emotion and humor add up to one of the author's finest books.' RT Book Reviews About the Author New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne finds inspiration in the beautiful northern Utah mountains where she lives with her family. Her books have won numerous honors, including six RITA Award nominations from Romance Writers of America and Career Achievement and Romance Pioneer awards from RT Book Reviews. She loves to hear from readers and can be reached through her website at www.raeannethayne.com. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. On a scale of one to ten, Sage Benedetto would probably rate the concept of jogging before sunrise every day somewhere around a negative twenty.While she highly doubted she would ever evolve enough that she could wholly enjoy these runs, after a month, she had at least grown to tolerate the activity. Her gut didn't automatically cramp at just the idea of throwing on her running shoes and her muscles no longer started to spasm after the first few steps.She supposed that was a good thing.This would probably never be her favorite thing to do, but she had promised, she reminded herself. And while she had many faultsall of which somehow seemed more glaringly obvious in the pale light of early morningbreaking her word was not among them.Despite the random muscle aches and her inherent dislike of just about any activity that involved sending her heart rate into heavy exertion mode, she had even come to discover an ethereal beauty in these quiet earlymorning runs.The towering sea stacks offshore glowed pink in the first, hesitant rays of the sun; this wide, gorgeous stretch of Oregon beach was empty, at least for a little while longer.Soon the beach would be crowded with treasure hunters looking for shells or colored glass or any other gift the sea surrendered during the night. But for now it was hers.Hers and Conan's, anyway.A huge red beast emerged from behind a cluster of rocks and shuffled to her, scaring up a seagull.She sighed. This was the reason she was here before sunrise, her thigh muscles burning and her breath sawing raggedly. This rangy, melancholy creature was her responsibility, her curse, her unexpected legacy.'There you are. You can't keep slipping off your leash or we won't do this anymore.'Abigail's big mutt, rescued from the pound right around the time Abigail rescued Sage, cocked his head and gazed at Sage out of doleful eyes the murky dark green of the sea in a November storm.Some days these jogs along the shore seemed to lift his spiritsthe only reason she carried on