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From USA Today bestselling author Claudia Burgoa comes the fourth novella in the Kentbury Tales series.

Welcome to the Stables on Muddypuddle Lane! Escape to the heart of the charming English countryside with these four sweet stories of love and friendship, second chances, and new beginnings.

When the rich and handsome Gregg and his fiancé the peppy, mysterious Emmie decide to take a drive to meet the parents, they had expected a five-hour journey of sunshine and top-40 tunes on the radio in their convertible. But then came a summer storm. It was indeed the storm of the century, but far from simply a meteorological event it also creates an inner turmoil of epic proportions as they try to solve and survive an impossible situation that was beyond their grasp.

Two cups of tea, one old flame, and a stolen flash drive plunge Karen Winters into the past she's determined to leave behind. Caught in the middle of someone else's fight, she'll need every ounce of strength to get back to the man who never really let her go.

A disillusioned widow longing for a change. A hard-working truck driver looking for love. Will Emily and Joe find their happily-ever-after in a forgotten summer breeze? Widow Emily Varon doesn’t believe in love anymore, and she isn’t wasting her time trying to find it. At her age, she’s learned that life is a daily routine. Rinse and repeat. Safe and secure. And she’s not about to change her ways now. With her hard-won affluence, succumbing to a truck-driver’s invitation to spend a summer weekend together means only one thing. Friendship.

I wish I could say that when Benson and his gang showed up we drew on some previously unknown strength and kicked their Rich Kid asses; that we chased them all the way back to their fancy cars and tucked and rolled seats and kicked in their doors and fenders; although we really would do that later, not to them personally but to guys like them, in those dog days immediately after high school - when Orley had yet to join the army and I’d yet to lose my mother, and LA was just a twinkle in Kevin’s eye.

"My life is over," Piper DeWitt thinks to herself, awaiting departure in the overcrowded International Terminal of the Philadelphia airport for an overseas business trip, to romantic Paris no less. She watched as her husband, Tosh, put his own suitcase into the trunk of a taxi the day before.

Anna's life as an accountant is pretty mundane - just ask her. One of the bright spots in her day is stopping in at The Trusty Mug for a cup of whatever tasty tea happens to be in season. But when a handsome detective asks her to help him check out what he believes is a baseless tip, her life will never be the same...

"No justice, no peace!" The crowd marched through the streets, chanting as their hearts and minds are weighed down heavily. Each individual’s soul has been tattered and worn. The Black and Brown faces that make up the group all house expressions of anguish, pain, and restlessness. The words—"We the Jury, find the defendant, Tyler Mitchell, not guilty"—sting as they fall upon the ears of those who have gathered on the courthouse steps. Another White male has mercilessly taken innocent and unarmed lives. When will it end?

Mia is kind, caring and dependable; perfect characteristics for a young mother. Singlehandedly raising her karate-mad son Lincoln, she finally takes him to her local dojo. Here, Mia meets the devilishly handsome Jonathan and insanely jealous Ronan. Mia cannot stop thinking about Jonathan's sinewy, lean muscles when she goes on a business trip... until she discovers Jonathan is there too.

Kidnapped and terrified, Lily has become determined to talk her way out of this. The gang that's captured her can't possibly be so ruthless as to kill an innocent woman, can they? In fact, she'd bet that Liam and Cameron, the ringleaders, are a lot nicer than they want to admit. She's pretty sure they don't want to kill her. And Lily is exactly right. Liam and Cameron don't want to kill her. Not at all. What she doesn't know? They've both fallen for her...and Liam and Cameron have always shared everything.