Brenda Novak

How do you start a new chapter of your life when you haven't closed the book on the previous one? Eighteen months ago, Autumn Divac's husband went missing. Her desperate search has yielded no answers, and she can't imagine moving forward without him. But for the sake of their two teenage children, she has to try. Autumn takes her kids home for the summer to the charming beachside town where she was raised. She seeks comfort working alongside her mother...

After growing up in cheap motels, moving from town to town with her sister and mother, Cheyenne Christensen is grateful to be on her own, and for the friends she found once her family settled in California. But she's troubled by early memories of a smiling blonde woman. A woman who isn't her mother. Cheyenne has repeatedly asked, but no one is talking. She's set on finding answers, but without so much as a birth certificate, it won't be easy.

"With her piercings, tattoos and spiky blond hair, Ellen Truesdale doesn’t quite fit in with the other folks in Coyote Canyon--and that’s just fine with her. She’s only here to put her father out of business, as payback for abandoning her when she was young. Either way, she’s struggling to keep her rival well-drilling company afloat. And being a single woman in a male-dominated field has started to take a toll. So when Hendrix Durrant steps...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Brenda Novak brings you a trilogy that Publishers Weekly called "a great read."

Every town has its secrets--and Stillwater, Mississippi, has more than most!

Starting with a murder almost twenty years ago...

DEAD SILENCE
There's a body buried behind a farmhouse.
Grace Montgomery knows who it is and why it happened.

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Five-year-old Sloane McBride couldn't sleep that night. Her parents were arguing again, their harsh words heating the cool autumn air. And then there was that other sound--the ominous thump before all went quiet. In the morning, her mother was gone. The official story was that she left. Her loving, devoted mother! That hadn't sat any better at the time than it did when Sloane moved out at eighteen, anxious to leave her small Texas hometown in search...

First love. Second chance? As the daughter of a hoarder, Phoenix Fuller had a tough childhood. So when the handsome, popular Riley Stinson became her boyfriend in high school, she finally felt as though she had something to be proud of. Phoenix was desperate not to lose him -- especially once she found out she was pregnant. Yes, she might have acted a bit obsessive when he broke up with her. But she did not run down the girl he started dating next....

Kyle Houseman believes that he'll never find anyone he could love as much as Olivia Arnold, who's now married to his stepbrother. Not only did he lose her, he's been through one divorce and has no desire to go through another. He's determined to be extra careful about the next woman he gets involved with, which is why he fights his attraction to the beautiful stranger who rents his farmhouse for the Christmas holiday. Lourdes Bennett is a country...

Returning home to Coyote to sell her late aunt's home, Talulah Barclay, in this place where no one has forgiven her for leaving her fiancé at the altar, discovers she still has close friends who rally around her when someone sets out to make sure she's not welcome in town.

Publisher Annotation: Come home to Silver Springs for the holidays, where broken hearts learn to love again...together. Silver Springs series, (Original), 432pp.

After a painful divorce, Maisey Lazarow returns to the small island off the North Carolina coast where she grew up. Upon finding a box of old photographs, Maisey and her brother Keith begin to uncover distant memories of a little girl who they believe was their sister. Their mother claims there was no sister, but Maisey is convinced there was. So where is she now?