Timeless Moments (Michele Ashman Bell)

Paige St. Claire is a survivor. After battling breast cancer and suffering through a painful divorce, she is working on rebuilding a simple, uncomplicated life. Quite by accident, she stumbles across a link to her past that will forever change her future—the M.I.A./P.O.W. bracelet she wore as a teenager. Paige wonders if the soldier ever made it home.
Dalton McNamara did return from Vietnam after spending time as a prisoner of war in Hanoi. He now lives in Newport Beach—near Paige's best friend, Louisa. When Paige goes to California to help her friend through surgery, she visits the returned soldier.
After an awkward beginning, Paige soon realizes that Dalton is an amazing man. And even though this widower and single father has many female admirers in the local LDS community, Dalton recognizes that there has been no one he has connected with—until Paige.
As their friendship grows into love, can they overcome their emotional and physical scars of the past and face whatever the future may hold? From best-selling author Michele Ashman Bell, Timeless Moments is an unforgettable story, glimmering with hope and healing.

This was a good LDS love story. It is a relaxing read and just enough drama to keep your attention.

Gables of Legacy : The Silver Linings & An Eternal Bond (Anita Stansfield)

After a lifetime of emotional trials and heartache, for Tamra Banks this day brings a unique and almost impossible joy. It’s the long-awaited moment of her marriage to the love of her life, Jess Hamilton.
But in this time of unparalleled happiness, Tamra and Jess will be plagued by challenges unlike any they’ve yet faced—challenges that will test the very limits of their faith, while deepening their gratitude for the divine and fragile blessing of family.
Jess and Tamra are about to learn powerful lessons of life and love in The Silver Linings, the third and intensely compelling installment of the popular Gables of Legacy series. It’s a remarkable story about personal revelation, the power of the Comforter, and a profound discovery about the meaning of eternal bridges.

Jess Hamilton believes he could never fill the shoes of his late father. Now responsible for a century-old family business and a boys’ home, Jess knows he is expected to uphold a great patriarchal legacy. As Jess struggles to find a footing in a world full of new obligations, he finds himself drawn into an ugly court battle where a child’s future—or perhaps even his life—is at stake.
For Jess’s wife Tamra, her own inadequacies surface when her abusive mother comes to be cared for in the Hamilton family home. Even though Tamra has forgiven her mother, the situation brings an ugly past much too close to the present—which only adds to Tamra’s rising feelings of discouragement as she searches for help with her own physical challenges.
Volume four in best-selling author Anita Stanfield’s Gables of Legacy series, An Eternal Bond journeys into the changing lives of the Hamilton family and explores how adversity can bless and unite families in eternal bonds of love.

Gables of Legacy : A Guiding Star (Anita Stansfield)

Armed with the love of a good man, Jess Hamilton, Tamra Banks has made the difficult decision to reconcile with her estranged mother. Over the years, Tamra has had to fight through the ugly memories of her abusive childhood, the complete absence of her father, and her mother’s angry reaction to Tamra’s conversion to the Church. When the encounter with her mother goes badly, memories and doubts threaten to suffocate Tamra with long-buried emotions. In a swirling tide of confusion and distrust, the confidence Tamra feels about her relationship with Jess quickly dwindles in the face of her growing doubts. With my background and upbringing, am I worthy of Jess’s love, after all? Volume II in Anita Stansfield’s stunning series, Gables of Legacy, explores the powerful grasp of a horrible childhood, the guiding light of the gospel, and the healing that comes when you learn to forgive others-and yourself.

Gables of Legacy : The Guardian (Anita Stansfield)

Over the past few years, Tamra Banks, a confused, new convert from a troubled family has blossomed into a faithful Church member. Friends, family history, a mission in the Philippines, and the sacrifice of all she knows bring about this change. But stability in life does not mean stability in love. And now, Tamra is faced with her greatest challenge.
Tamra moves into the home of Michael and Emily Hamilton, a couple from Australia she met during her mission. The Hamilton's son, Jess--burdened by the guilt of being involved in an accident that killed his brother and sister-in-law--believes that life is no longer worth living. And though Tamra at first finds Jess brooding and harsh, she cannot deny her attraction to him, because she sees who he once was, and who he could become. Living in his ancestral home, sharing the stories of his family's history, Tamra begins to connect with Jess, and a cautious love develops between the two. Jess's depression runs deep, however, and the day is fast approaching when he may choose isolation over marriage, and a permanent end to his pain.
Join best-selling author Anita Stansfield in her thrilling new series, Gables of Legacy. Volume One, The Guardian, is an exhilarating story of triumph over despair, of ancestral connection, and of the decisions that could mean the difference between eternal love or bitter tragedy.

This is one of the many books in the Byrnehouse-Davies & Hamilton Saga. I have read 4 of 14 in this family story. You can either read them in order or separately. I really enjoy this families story. I know Brittany has also read some of their stories also.

Life is Hard, Food is Easy (Linda Spangle)

Does a conversation with your mother drive you to consume a gallon of ice cream? Have you ever eaten a whole bag of chips and wondered “How did that happen?” In Life Is Hard, Food Is Easy, Linda Spangle, R.N., M.A., explains why emotional eating dooms all your dieting efforts. Over the past 15 years, Linda Spangle has helped thousands of clients learn to cope with their emotions, thereby allowing them to lose weight successfully and keep it off — permanently.
In Life Is Hard, Food Is Easy, Spangle shares her fool-proof method for beating emotional eating — the method that accounts for her clients’ 90% success rate! Spangle reveals how you can cope with your feelings of frustration, boredom, or loneliness, and offers her proven step-by-step program to stop your emotions from interfering with your eating habits. These 5 simple steps teach you how to identify the emotional void the food is attempting to fulfill and empower you to break your self-destructive behavior.
According to Spangle, your weight-loss success rate increases dramatically only when your emotional coping skills become stronger and incorporated into your daily life. So before you devour another bag of M&M’s, learn Spangle’s 5 mental exercises and free yourself from the emotional cravings that sabotage your weight-loss efforts.

If you suffer from emotional eating or eating because you are bored, this book has a lot of helpful exercises to teach you how to get around these troubling situations. I learned a few good things to think about from this book.

Redneck Cinderella (LuAnn McLane)

Raised by her widowed father, Jolie Russell could keep up with any man—that is, until wealthy and sexy land developer Cody Dean struts into her life.Cody buys the Russell farm with an impossible-to-refuse multimillion-dollar offer, then relocates Jolie and her dad to the Copper Creek Estates. But the country club atmosphere isn’t ready for Jolie’s kind of country. As her two worlds collide, Jolie wonders how she can ever hope to capture Cody’s heart without giving up her grits.

This novel was funny and sexy at the same time. A good read.

(some sensual scenes)

City of Bones (Cassandra Clare)

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?
This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . .
I enjoyed this story. I was a little disappointed in the ending but I'm looking for to the next book in the series.