Bücher von Devney Perry

Can you keep a secret?Aston University might be teeming with prestigious and wealthy students, but the currency on campus isn't their millions. It's their secrets. And the three women living at Clarence Manor are filthy rich in lies and deceit.Two of the roommates have played this game for years. Some would consider them masters of a ruse. The third might be new to Aston, but she's no stranger to secrets.Cassia, the outsider. Elora, the ice princess. And Ivy, the puppet master.Who's hiding the ugliest truths? We'll let you be the judge.Go ahead. Whisper your confessions in our ear.We promise not to tell.

Thea Landry has always known her place in modern-day society. It's somewhere just above the trash can her mother dumped her in as a newborn but below the class where much comes easy. With her tattered shoes and bargain-bin clothes, her life has never been full of glamour.So when a rich and charismatic man takes interest, she doesn't fool herself into thinking their encounter is anything more than a one-night stand. Months later, she's kicking herself for not getting his phone number. Or his last name. She's given up hope of seeing him ever again.Until one day, years later, Logan Kendrick waltzes into her life once more and turns everything she's built upside down. This time around, she won't make the same mistake. She's going to fight to keep him in her life-not for herself.But for their daughter.

Willa Doon has always been shy. Her quiet demeanor was something she's always embraced. That is, until Jackson Page moves to town. The one man she desperately wants to take notice struggles to remember her name.Year after year, Willa stands by, watching as the bartender slash playboy drowns his demons in beer and sex. Then one night, he shows up at her door, suddenly aware that the girl he's seen around Lark Cove is now a beautiful woman.Except what he doesn't remember is that this visit isn't his first. They spent a night together once before. A night he's forgotten, thanks to a bottle of tequila.A night that crushed a timid girl's heart, and set a broken man on the path to heal them both.

One car. One cross-country road trip. Five small town romances about six runaways finally finding home. From Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author, Devney Perry, this collection includes Runaway Road, Wild Highway, Quarter Miles, Forsaken Trail and Dotted Lines.Londyn McCormack didn't have a typical childhood. She ran away at sixteen and spent her youth searching for a place to call home. She's built a good life for herself through hard work and a little luck, but after a devastating divorce, she's running away again. Her life collides with Brooks Cohen, a small-town mechanic who gives her a reason to stop driving on that runaway road.Gemma Lane built an empire. Not a small feat, considering her home as a teenager was a makeshift tent in a California junkyard. She's dedicated her life to turning pennies into millions. And she's leaving it all behind. She's headed across the country in her best friend's Cadillac when a detour in Montana reunites her with Easton Greer, a man who hasn't changed. A man who still owns her heart.Katherine Gates has been in love with Cash Greer since the moment he saved her life from a runaway goat. But she's learned to shove her feelings for Cash down deep. They're friends-best friends. Until the day they take an impulsive road trip to the Oregon coast. And she learns that Cash has some secrets of his own.Aria Saint-James went to Arizona for a vacation with her sister. Instead, she's stuck at a wedding with her nemesis, Brody Carmichael. She blames the champagne for falling into bed with him that night. Enemy or no, the billionaire is irresistible in a tux. Except Aria gets a surprise a few weeks later-she's pregnant. When he learns that she's carrying his child, Brody offers Aria the chance of a lifetime. The catch? She has to live under his roof until the baby is born.Clara Saint-James is completing a journey. She's returning a Cadillac to California, a place she's avoided for more than a decade. It's time for closure and to put ghosts to rest. And it's time to find out if there's still a spark to an old flame. She fell in love with Karson Avery when they lived as runaway teens in a junkyard. That love stayed with her for more than a decade. Either it's finally their time to be together. Or it's time to let him go and surrender to the dotted lines that have always kept them apart.

Memphis Ward arrives in Quincy, Montana, on the fifth worst day of her life.She needs a shower. She needs a snack. She needs some sanity. Because moving across the country with her newborn baby is by far the craziest thing she's ever done.But maybe it takes a little crazy to build a good life. If putting the past behind her requires a thousand miles and a new town, she'll do it if it means a better future for her son. Even if it requires setting aside the glamour of her former life. Even if it requires working as a housekeeper at The Eloise Inn and living in an apartment above a garage.It's there, on the fifth worst day of her life, that she meets the handsomest man she's ever laid eyes on. Knox Eden is a beautiful, sinful dream, a chef and her temporary landlord. With his sharp, stubbled jaw and tattooed arms, he's raw and rugged and everything she's never had-and never will. Because after the first worst day of her life, Memphis learned a good life requires giving up on her dreams too. And a man like Knox Eden will only ever be a dream.

One car. One cross-country road trip. Five small town romances about six runaways finally finding home. From Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author, Devney Perry, this collection includes Runaway Road, Wild Highway, Quarter Miles, Forsaken Trail and Dotted Lines.Londyn McCormack didn't have a typical childhood. She ran away at sixteen and spent her youth searching for a place to call home. She's built a good life for herself through hard work and a little luck, but after a devastating divorce, she's running away again. Her life collides with Brooks Cohen, a small-town mechanic who gives her a reason to stop driving on that runaway road.Gemma Lane built an empire. Not a small feat, considering her home as a teenager was a makeshift tent in a California junkyard. She's dedicated her life to turning pennies into millions. And she's leaving it all behind. She's headed across the country in her best friend's Cadillac when a detour in Montana reunites her with Easton Greer, a man who hasn't changed. A man who still owns her heart.Katherine Gates has been in love with Cash Greer since the moment he saved her life from a runaway goat. But she's learned to shove her feelings for Cash down deep. They're friends-best friends. Until the day they take an impulsive road trip to the Oregon coast. And she learns that Cash has some secrets of his own.Aria Saint-James went to Arizona for a vacation with her sister. Instead, she's stuck at a wedding with her nemesis, Brody Carmichael. She blames the champagne for falling into bed with him that night. Enemy or no, the billionaire is irresistible in a tux. Except Aria gets a surprise a few weeks later-she's pregnant. When he learns that she's carrying his child, Brody offers Aria the chance of a lifetime. The catch? She has to live under his roof until the baby is born.Clara Saint-James is completing a journey. She's returning a Cadillac to California, a place she's avoided for more than a decade. It's time for closure and to put ghosts to rest. And it's time to find out if there's still a spark to an old flame. She fell in love with Karson Avery when they lived as runaway teens in a junkyard. That love stayed with her for more than a decade. Either it's finally their time to be together. Or it's time to let him go and surrender to the dotted lines that have always kept them apart.

Anne Snow planned to ring in the 1988 New Year wearing pajamas and watching Unsolved Mysteries. Instead, she's been guilt tripped by her friends into a cabin getaway slash cross-country skiing fiasco. No sooner than she arrives, Anne realizes it's not a fiasco but a nightmare.Harrison Eden, the guy she's managed to avoid since their break up in high school, greets her at the door. Unfortunately, in the past six years, he's only gotten more handsome. And apparently, he still loves to push every one of her buttons.Anne's plan is to avoid him at all costs. Except then she learns that her friends invited too many people. There aren't enough beds for everyone to have their own. And guess who volunteered himself to be her New Year's roommate?

I carry a journal with me. A journal with a list.Take a karate class. Go skydiving. Learn to play the ukulele. Say yes to everything for an entire day. The list goes on, line by line, of youthful dreams.For too long that list has haunted me. But starting today, I''m going to cross one item off. Today, I''m opening my new restaurant in Bozeman, Montana. The Maysen Jar.It should have marked the first day of a new life. A fresh start. But then Cole Goodman waltzed through the door and brought with him the past. A man who shattered my heart. A man I tried to forget.Maybe it''s a good thing he insists on sticking around. Because the only way I''ll finish the list is with Cole''s help. And then I can finally say goodbye.

So hatte sich Genevieve Daylee ihren siebenundzwanzigsten Geburtstag nicht vorgestellt. Allerdings kann sie seit dem Tod ihrer Mutter und deren Verbindung zu einem ehemaligen Motorradclub kaum noch etwas schockieren. Nun steht sie vor einem Standesbeamten und neben ihr der Mann, der sie gerettet hat. Obwohl er ihr eher wie ein Raubritter vorkommt, als ein strahlender Prinz auf dem berühmten weißen Pferd. Isaiah Reynolds hat seine Gefängnisstrafe abgesessen und in Clifton Forge nicht nur einen Job, sondern auch ein Zuhause gefunden. Tief im Innersten glaubt er aber, dass er weder die Freiheit noch eine Frau wie Genevieve verdient hat. Dann ist es ja auch gut, dass ihre Ehe nur vorgetäuscht ist und nicht von Dauer.Doch die Liebe hat ihre eigenen Regeln und vielleicht sogar die Macht, zwei gebrochene Seelen zu heilen.

Das Letzte, was Presley Marks nach ihrer desaströsen, nicht stattgefundenen Hochzeit gebrauchen kann, ist eine Erinnerung an die schrecklichen Vorfälle in Clifton Forge. Noch einmal alle Emotionen zu durchleben, die damit verbunden waren, würde sie wirklich gern vermeiden. Die Hoffnung auf Ruhe und Frieden kann sie jedoch begraben, als ein Hollywood-Filmteam in Clifton Forge auftaucht.Shaw Valance ist nicht nur Hollywoods neuester Megastar und Hauptdarsteller in dem Film über die jüngsten Ereignisse in Clifton Forge, er ist zudem auch der Produzent des Projekts und hat vor, längere Zeit in dem kleinen Städtchen und vor allem mit Presley zu verbringen. Beide schlittern in eine Beziehung, die so viel mehr sein könnte, wenn sie denn die Liebe nur zuließen.