Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Settling into ranch life with her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, former Wall Street trader Mags Rogers doesn't miss the world of investment banking because its destructive tentacles have reached Reno, Nevada, where desperate families are squatting in foreclosed homes without water or electricity. Mags and her gregarious great-aunt Jeep Reed want to help, but they're up against corrupt officials, ruthless politicians, and a merciless murderer. After...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It's 1938 and women seeking a quick, no-questions split from their husbands head to the "divorce capital of the world," Reno, Nevada. There's one catch: they have to wait six-weeks to become "residents." Many of these wealthy, soon-to-be divorcees flock to the Flying Leap, a dude ranch that caters to their every need. Twenty-four-year-old Ward spent one year at Yale before his family lost everything in the Great Depression; now he's earning an honest...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane Rule's first novel-now a classic of gay and lesbian literature-established her as a foremost writer of the vagaries and yearnings of the female heart Against the backdrop of Reno, Nevada, in the late 1950s, award-winning author Jane Rule chronicles a love affair between two women. When Desert of the Heart opens, Evelyn Hall is on a plane that will take her from her old life in Oakland, California, to Reno, where she plans to divorce her...
4) Dream on
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
His Love Life Was A Nightmare...
Country singer Bradley Nelson always had big dreams. He's sure they're coming true until his debut album tanks, his record contract is cancelled, and his rock star girlfriend kicks him off her tour bus in Reno. Single and stranded, Bradley tracks down his IRS auditor-turned-casino-worker mom. But while he's looking for a shoulder to cry on, Mom's got problems of her own, namely a gang of thug casino owners who are...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family's unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country. Through a series of face-offs that are raw, ecstatic,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Father Desperate To Save His Daughter
Dr. Emma Shields had to help him. Mark Williams had come to the gifted physician to heal his sick little girl. But Emma had suffered her own loss...;.
Driven by the death of her son, Emma was determined to make Mark's daughter well. The devoted single father had come to her in his time of need and she couldn't let him down. Nor could she forget what they'd once shared...;. Now they faced new challenges. Together...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Architect Hunter Russell's grandmother just won a Reno casino in a high-stakes poker game! And she wants Hunter to help renovate it. It is a crazy idea, and he is just about to tell her so--until he meets the stunning young woman who is his grandmother's new business partner. Suddenly Hunter is tempted to say yes. Lydia Montgomery has lived the life of a trophy wife. Now she is a trophy widow, with a young daughter to support, longing for independence...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"For fans of Beautiful Ruins and Lessons in Chemistry, a novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch," about the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future "A delicious literary page-turner from a fierce new voice." -Rebecca Makkai. Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sofia Grant entices us into following three women seeking the Reno Cure, as they overcome their disillusionment over the lives they expected to have and summon the bravery to embrace new and unexpected paths." --Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room Francie Meeker and Vi Carothers were sold a bill of goods: find a man, marry him in a white wedding gown, and live happily ever after. These best friends never...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jaclyn Wentworth is on her own with three little kids. She used to be married to the golden boy of their small Nevada town, but the marriage was a disaster because the golden boy never grew up. Now Jaclyn's living in Reno, making it on her own. And who, of all people, does she run into there but Cole Perrini, the bad boy of Feld, Nevada. He was her ex-husband's opposite in every way -- and still is. Because Cole has made good in every sense of the...
11) Bet on my heart
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
French-trained chef Donovan Russell needs a change--a big one. So he is trading in his five-star Parisian kitchen for the restaurants at his grandmother's up-and-coming Reno casino. Donovan's cooking techniques are flawless. It will be culinary perfection as soon as he convinces his spirited and unconventional new pastry chef to follow his rules!. Hendrix Beausolies never follows recipes. Her desserts are a mouthwatering riot of complex flavors, each...
12) Drawing hearts
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taking over the boutiques at her grandmother's Reno casino is a lucky break for fashion buyer Kenzie Russell. But while she relishes the challenges at Casa de Mariposa, Kenzie longs to launch her own designer line. There's also another distractionReed Watson, the supersmart, ubersexy tech guru who's generously offered to fix the casino's software glitches. Ever since he made his first fortune before the age of twenty-one, Reed has been surrounded...
13) Love's wager
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one can do A-list glitz and glamour like public relations consultant Nina Torres. The grand reopening of a Reno casino and resort to rival Vegas promises to be the media event of the decade. And with Casa de Mariposa's unveiling slated for New Year's Eve, Nina's got to work her legendary magic fast. But this smart and sophisticated divorced woman has come too far to let some uptight ex-soldier cramp her style, even if Scott Russell is off-the-charts...
Author
Language
English
Description
For nine long days, the mayor and district attorney of Reno, Nevada, have been missing--vanished without a trace. Did they fly somewhere together? Take off with a big pile of money? Were they murdered? Their disappearances have finally made the national news. Mortimer Angel, a private-eye-in-training, is on the case....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ex-IRS agent turned gumshoe-in-training, Mortimer Angel, is approached by a beautiful hooker, Holiday, in a casino bar in Reno. Mort first met Holiday two months ago, but now learns that she's not really a hooker. She's a college engineering student, searching for her younger sister, Allie, who disappeared three months ago. Having seen Mort in the news, Holiday knows he's a PI who finds missing persons. While in the bar with Mort, Holiday gets an...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"IRS agent-turned-PI Mortimer Angel is relaxing in a hole-in-the-wall bar in a Reno casino when an attractive young girl hires him to find out who left her a cryptic message demanding a million dollars. At the girl's house, Mort finds the body of missing rapper Jonnie Xenon--Jo-X to his legions of fans--hanging from the rafters with two bullet holes in him. Mort is shocked when he learns the identity of the girl's father--and even more shocked when...
17) Bad mother
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Sienna Walker is nearly fired from the NYPD, the last thing she expects is a second chance in the one place she vowed never to return to. But she can't afford to turn down the job offer, even if a painful familial past and a broken engagement hardly make Reno, Nevada, home sweet home. It's made even less sweet by Sienna's first case-a serial killer with a curious fixation on her. Along with his victims, the killer leaves perplexing clues and...
Author
Series
Marriage mistake romance volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Accidentally hitched. Cue the sweet insanity ... Waking up next to the world's hottest stranger is my first red flag. The huge rock on my finger? Hint number two I'm head-over-heels in trouble. I'm hair-on-fire freaked by the marriage certificate. Then I sit down with Noah Bernard, my mysterious new 'husband.' He talks a good game. Easy, when he'd put Hercules to shame. Olympian abs. Defiant growl. Come-to-mama eyes. Mammoth freaking ego. I almost...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request