Böcker av Lynn Boire

Ellen Peterson avoids conflict at all costs to maintain her illusion of a peaceful and successful family. But secrets can kill. Can Ellen live with that?

Lust, money, true love.Jenna returns home when her dad suffers a near-fatal accident. She's prepared to care for him and their family oyster lease in the pristine, beautiful Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of B.C. She sacrifices her job and a comfortable, on/off again romantic relationship. Her father's strenuous objections that women couldn't handle the demanding job shocks Jenna. When she travels to their oyster lease, Jenna faces his real reason. The rampant neglect from her father's secret alcoholism destroys her. Fueled by anger and betrayal, Jenna is fiercely determined to repair it. Pride takes a back seat while Jenna looks for solutions.The temptation of unexpected cash and a sexy blonde tourist presents Jenna with options for a different lifestyle. One choice would make her life easier and almost perfect, but the other would give her independence, integrity, and love.Who can she trust? Will Jenna's decision correct her mistakes and repair her relationships and her future?

How far would you go to protect your family? Climate migrants from the southern United States are overwhelming Washington State's infrastructure, causing shortages and chaos in every walk of life. Matt Taylor is a successful dentist obsessed with controlling his family's future. He trusts his church who advises everyone to isolate and save their traditional ways. He accuses his wife, Anna, of living in a rapidly shrinking bubble of safety while she focuses on saving one person at a time as a nurse. Feeling betrayed by her husband's lies of omission, Anna explodes when he finally tells her what he's secretly been working on for two years. He's invested all of their savings in a Safe Haven retreat on his inherited homestead in Bella Coola, Canada. Then a viral outbreak threatens all of Washington State, and Matt demands that they flee Olympia for his Bella Coola sanctuary. Anna is torn between going with him and their children and staying to help save their community. Can Matt and Anna overcome his lies and her avoidance behaviors and survive not only a marriage on the brink of disaster but a world as well?

America is in peril, but Anna Taylor's husband is convinced he's made the right decision. He built a remote Safe Haven for his family and five others in Bella Coola, Canada-far from the chaos caused by migrant overpopulation in Washington State. Even though he had to deceive his wife to do it. Lies change everything. Although she loves her husband with all her heart, Anna struggles to forgive his betrayal and refuses to abandon her beloved home in Olympia. Her life-saving medical and emergency management skills are needed in her home state. As a veteran nurse, she accepts the challenge to help battle a contagious disease outbreak. But Matt only agrees to support her decision if she promises to join him in three months. Anna yearns to reunite with her family. Will her goal to be included in their life's decisions become the reality Matt promised? Will their dream of a sustainable and safe lifestyle in their off-the-grid intentional community produce the results they'd all hoped for?

In 1937, seventeen-year-old Jim Taylor joins his ailing father on his fur trapping route in Canada's North. Surviving blizzards and loneliness only strengthen his resolve to return home to see his sweetheart, Lucy. But once back, he makes a life-or-death decision to head east on the rails, searching for a new future. His hopes to have his true love join him are crushed when she never replies to his letters.Several years later, successful and confident, he returns to resolve his past with Lucy, eager for a second chance. Above all, he craves a loving family to give new meaning and purpose to his life.Nothing can prepare Jim for the answers that have altered a decade of his life or where those answers will take him next.