Linda Barrett

Pilgrim Cove-where love can be as powerful as the ocean next door. On the surface, Pilgrim Cove seems like any other coastal town. Picturesque and peaceful with long stretches of unspoiled beach, fresh ocean breezes and the sense of time passing slowly. However.... ...only in Pilgrim Cove live a group of friends called the ROMEOs whose sole aim to take care of the town. ...only in Pilgrim Cove stands a unique house right on the beach. Sea View House. A very special place-some say magical-to the people who reside there each season. ...and only in Pilgrim Cove are strangers welcomed, while everyone else takes a front row seat as a love story unfolds. Reluctant Housemates is the third of the four-book Pilgrim Cove series. Pilgrim Cove native Rachel Goodman has come home for one good reason: to prove to the town and her family that she's not a loser. She'd graduated from high school-barely-and gone to college on a swimming scholarship. And now the swimming jock is the new assistant principal for academic studies at Pilgrim Cove High. Her uphill battle to win over the teachers and improve test scores might have gone well except.... Marine biologist Jack Levine has a woman in every port and his boat, The Wanderer, is his most prized possession. When he winds up teaching science in Pilgrim Cove, he finds that he likes the small town very much. So what if he doesn't follow the rules at school? So what if his boss finds him difficult to work with? As for being housemates at Sea View House...? Well, that's nearly impossible. Except for the sparks that fly whenever they're together. And then Jack and his boat go missing...

Pilgrim Cove-where love can be as powerful as the ocean next door. On the surface, Pilgrim Cove seems like any other coastal town. Picturesque and peaceful with long stretches of unspoiled beach, fresh ocean breezes and the sense of time passing slowly. However.... ...only in Pilgrim Cove live a group of friends called the ROMEOs whose sole aim to take care of the town. ...only in Pilgrim Cove stands a unique house right on the beach. Sea View House. A very special place-some say magical-to the people who reside there each season. ...and only in Pilgrim Cove are strangers welcomed, while everyone else takes a front row seat as a love story unfolds. The Daughter He Never Knew is the final book in the four-book Pilgrim Cove series. Check out the Sea View House series for more stories set in this town. After his twin brother died on the night of their senior prom, Jason Parker disappeared from Pilgrim Cove. Nine years later he returns in order to make peace with his family-with Lila Sullivan, the woman he can't forget-and with himself. But nothing and no one is the same as he remembers. Certainly not his family. Not Lila, with her fianc and a child. Not even his old house. Can a wanderer ever find home again? Do second chances really exist? Lila wants no part of this man who owned her heart years ago but vanished when she needed him most. His music ignites her emotions, but can she trust him not to break her heart again? Worse still, can she trust him not to break their daughter's heart?

Pilgrim Cove-where love can be as powerful as the ocean next door. On the surface, Pilgrim Cove seems like any other coastal town. Picturesque and peaceful with long stretches of unspoiled beach, fresh ocean breezes and the sense of time passing slowly. However.... ...only in Pilgrim Cove live a group of friends called the ROMEOs whose sole aim to take care of the town. ...only in Pilgrim Cove stands a unique house right on the beach. Sea View House. A very special place-some say magical-to the people who reside there each season. ...and only in Pilgrim Cove, are strangers welcomed while everyone else takes a front row seat as a love story unfolds. The House on the Beach is the first of the four-book Pilgrim Cove series. Laura McCloud has a bright future but needs a place to pick up the pieces of her life and career after losing her mom, her boyfriend and surviving a battle with breast cancer. A script that doesn't play well for a single woman. Happy childhood summers in Pilgrim Cove pull her back to town and a stay in Sea View House. Matthew Parker, his two young sons and his dad have shared a home since both men were widowed several years ago. And now, no women are needed in the Parker domain. But when Matt meets Laura, he discovers that his home might be missing something vital-a woman's love. Can these two determined people figure out what's important and take a chance on a new beginning?

Coffee Break Reads: a book of twenty short stories by Linda Barrett and Rob Nisbet. Each story is the ideal length to fit into a coffee or tea break. Between them the authors have had many stories printed in magazines worldwide. This is a selection of the best, with the addition of a few original tales.

From the Greatest Generation, a love story to remember... Two soldiers go off to war in Europe. Both from the same neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. Only one returns home. Rose Kaufman's grief is soul deep. Her husband, Joe, had been her one true love, so right for her that a lifetime together wouldn't be enough. When Charlie Shapiro shows up with stories of Joe, eager to rebuild his war-shattered life with Rose and her baby daughter...she warns that a marriage of convenience would be unfair-to him. She cannot promise her heart to this kind and gentle man. Through the years, Charlie wonders if love can grow or if he'll always be second best. Who is her true love? The man she married with all her heart, or the man who married her with all of his? It's a question only Rose can answer.