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Cherry Blossom Point
Series · 3 books · 2019-2022

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#1

Starting From Scratch

2019

A story of love, sisterhood, and starting over… Lena Merrill and Owen McEnna have been best friends for decades, and she’s done a great job of pretending she’s not in love with him that whole time…until recently. Maybe it’s all the changes in the air. Maybe it’s realizing that life is passing her by and most of her dreams are still unfulfilled. Whatever the case, her already notoriously bad poker face is slipping, and it needs to stop, pronto. Because there’s only one thing worse than not having Owen love her back, and that’s the thought of driving him away altogether. When Nikki Merrill set off to find her long lost sister, Anna, she never imagined she'd be returning home to Cherry Blossom Point with her in tow. Battle lines are drawn when each of her siblings have wildly different reactions to their new family member. Lena is willing to invite Anna into their lives, Gayle and Jack can’t even look at her, and Nikki? She’s caught dead in the middle of things. Will building a relationship with her new sister splinter the one she has with the siblings she's always known? Anna Sullivan didn’t want another family. Now that she has one, though, she’s in for the long haul. When she leaves Bluebird Bay to spend some time with Nikki and meet the rest of her siblings, she isn’t prepared for the drama that ensues. It’s kind of hard to make a good impression when half of them see her as a walking representation of their father’s infidelity. And when more family secrets are uncovered, she realizes they’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg. Will Anna figure out how to navigate these choppy family waters, or will her visit to Cherry Blossom Point turn out to be a disaster of Titanic proportions? \\The Cherry Blossom Point series is a spinoff from the Bluebird Bay series but can be read as a stand alone.
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False Start

2022

After losing her husband in a car accident and having his baby all in the same year, Gemma Davis has been through hell and back. She was just starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel with her little family and a growing friendship with her neighbor, Patrick, when his ex-wife comes back into town. The woman is like a tornado wreaking havoc on their peaceful safe-haven. Will Gemma lose at love again, or fight for what she knows is right? Maritza has finally broken away from her familial obligations to work toward her own dream of becoming head chef at a restaurant. She even meets a handsome stranger that she really wants to get to know. But when her mother's beloved food truck winds up becoming a hotbed of criminal activity, she has no choice but to put everything aside and step in. Family first. Always. Finally on the other side of a skiing accident, Wyatt Merrill is on the mend, but Jack knows his son will never be able to compete at the level he used to. When he teaches him the arts of survival and tracking to keep him busy, he never imagines it will thrust them both into the middle of a life and death rescue mission deep in the heart of the wilderness.
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#7

A Running Start

2022

Bobbie-Jo Pardue has a secret that's about to get blown wide open when her best friend, Marcus, comes to Cherry Blossom Point. He has no idea that their one night together over a year ago resulted in the surprise of a lifetime. A perfect, amazing, chubby bundle of joy named Archie. She's hidden the truth for far too long, and Marcus deserves to know his son. But coming clean now could cost her everything. Can he ever forgive her, or will she lose her best friend forever? Gemma felt so blessed when her neighbor, Patrick, and his young daughter, Zoe, came into her life when she'd needed them most. Just when things started to take a romantic turn, Patrick's ex came back into the picture like a hurricane, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake. Now Gemma is left to pick up the pieces. Will she be able to help heal Patrick and Zoe the way they'd done for her, or has Hurricane Judy truly ruined them all? Wyatt Merrill is a survivor. He lived through a skiing accident that would've been the end for most people and has come out the other side a better person. But now he's at a crossroads. Should he go back to the sport he'd spent most of his life pursuing, or is fate pointing him in another direction entirely?

Author

Christine Gael
Christine Gael
Author · 15 books
Christine Gael is the women's fiction writing alter-ego of USA Today Bestselling contemporary romance author, Christine Bell, and NYT Bestselling paranormal romance author, Chloe Cole.
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