Sublime

sybarite.

She had forgotten that her best self was independent and ambitious.

Given who had dumped her, almost in fact, jilted her, given too, my blood association with this person, my mind in that moment just couldn’t go there.

After all, despite everything, he still believes in her decency. Which she, too, believed in once: her own decency, a rag to clutch at, amid the squalor of their life.

inconvenient yearning.

Finley Fox refuses to give up her life’s work. With her family’s cabin rental business at risk of going under, the eldest of five has been laboring for years to care for the property, not to mention her now grown siblings. But when a New York billionaire makes a play for the ailing resort, Finley struggles to resist her attraction to the handsome m

it’s still in good working

Two True Loves Or, how to make peace with the truth about love

Sometimes Furlong, seeing the girls going through the small things which needed to be done – genuflecting in the chapel or thanking a shop-keeper for the change – felt a deep, private joy that these children were his own.