Beyond Summer Dreams

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours presents an uplifting novel set in a small Texas neighborhood where unexpected challenges and new relationships give deeper meanings to “home.” When eighteen-year-old Tam Lambert learns that her family’s upscale home is in foreclosure, the life she's known is forever changed. Tam and her family must move into a tiny house in a changing Dallas neighborhood called Blue Sky Hill. New resident Shasta Reid-Williams knows nothing of real estate schemes when she and her husband purchase a home in Blue Sky Hill. To her it’s the perfect place to raise her children. Better yet is getting to know Tam, who lives right across the street. When neighbors realize that a corrupt deal could force them from their homes, friendships and loyalties are tested. Over the span of one summer, two young women discover the strength and maturity to do the impossible. They find that even in Blue Sky Hill, life-altering relationships and amazing possibilities can begin to blossom...

"...[a] captivating, emotionally charged journey through America's past."--Publishers Weekly starred review on With Every Breath Anna O'Brien leads a predictable and quiet life as a map librarian at the illustrious Library of Congress until she stumbles across the baffling mystery of a ship disappeared at sea. Thwarted in her attempts to uncover information, her determination outweighs her shyness and she turns to a dashing congressman for help. Luke Callahan was one of the nation's most powerful congressmen before his promising career was shadowed in scandal. Eager to share in a new cause and intrigued by the winsome librarian, he joins forces with Anna to solve the mystery of the lost ship. Opposites in every way, Anna and Luke are unexpectedly drawn to each other despite the strict rules forbidding Anna from any romantic entanglements with members of Congress. From the gilded halls of the Capitol where powerful men shape the future of the nation, to the scholarly archives of the nation's finest library, Anna and Luke are soon embroiled in secrets much bigger and more perilous than they ever imagined. Is bringing the truth to light worth risking all they've ever dreamed for their futures?

Now in one volume, three unforgettable stories of summer love from an award-winning, bestselling author. "Of Dreams and Magic": The ethereal Sheri was the stuff of fairy tales, too good to be true. But oh, how Jack Ryan wanted to believe. "The Morning After": Lacey had a ring to prove she had just been married to Cameron. Could the bond truly last beyond the morning after? "A Summer to Come Home": Jake returns to Riverbend and Paige is dreaming he came home because of her.

The Getaway Of A Lifetime...Kinda.Summer Callahan isn’t in Cambria for the beach or the ocean or the pine-scented air around Paradise Pines Lodge. She’s there as a companion to her flighty cousin, Deah--with the understanding that they will have separate agendas the entire time. Summer just wants to be left alone to dream up the romance novels she writes under a pseudonym.A Real-life Hero Who Rivals a Romance Novel...Really!But never in Summer's wildest writer's imagination does she dream of being caught in an undertow and almost drowning, only to be rescued by a wealthy artist. And when Logan Bullard proves hard to shake, Summer fears for her heart--especially when Deah sets her sights on Logan.A Cupid to pull it all together...?But at Paradise Pines Lodge, what's meant to be has a way of happening...at the best time and in the best way. Miss Angelina Love--who may or may not own the place--has an "in" with Heaven's own "department of romance." And she's determined to see Summer and Logan together.

About the Book Growing up among the rich and famous in Beverly Hills, California, in the forties and fifties wasn't what you would expect. Time and circumstances have changed the world dramatically since then steering his life in directions he could never have imagined. That's what this book is about, life as he has lived it, from schoolboy to CEO of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses. With anecdotal detail he shares his recollections of his boyhood hometown, working for America's greatest volunteer organization and the journey that took him there and beyond. He reveals his business philosophies and life lessons as he shared them with his staff and family.

Some things and events are plain and simple, just regular routine stuff. That of which we all know to be real. Then we have dreams and sometimes illusions which we know to be fantasy or fiction. Now for your pleasure, I will introduce to you stories of events which may fall into a new catagory. Free your mind and journey with me to the incredible world of "Beyond Reality"...This book is dedicated to my buddy Damien Perez, who has been advertising my books with great success.