C.L. Howland

Books

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Coppertown

“A bird and a fish may fall in love, but where would they live?”

In 1898 Boston society, Josephine Shipton's bicycle riding is scandalous, but her arrest is intolerable. Exiled to rural Vermont, instead of the planned ostracism, the heiress finds opportunity and new experiences. Free of societal constraints and her overbearing stepmother, Josephine discovers not only a fascination with the medical profession, but a passion to help others. This passion turns to something deeper when she tends a seriously injured miner.

Braxton Beaumont was a handsome child of the streets—who grew to a man savvy enough to use that attractiveness to his advantage...amassing a fortune along the way. But when he strides into the Coppertown, posing as a miner, neither his wealth nor strength can save him when the mine collapses.

Josephine and Braxton hail from different worlds. But neither social rank nor circumstances can stop the swell of sensations as old as time. Even if they surrender to this ill-fated love, will there ever be a place in society for the millionaire and the miner?

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The Good Life

For Madison O’Neill, it's motherhood versus Hollywood.

When A-list actor Ring Stanford arrives in town claiming to be the father of her unborn child, Madison is shocked to learn he's telling the truth. Now this anonymous donor wants to be part of her baby's life.

Madison's world is runny noses and small-town minds. She wants no part of the celebrity circus he inhabits. Yet, she can’t deny an attraction to the man movie-goers never see...

Can two people from different worlds come together for the sake of their child, and perhaps discover the true meaning of the good life?

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To Thee I Sing

Cerulean skies. White sand. Festive luaus.

Hawaii is heaven on earth.

Until a sleepy Sunday morning in December...

Elizabeth Wellman, a reserved academic, survives the attack on Pearl Harbor only to flee her Vermont home under a barrage of sensational press. She soon learns long sleeves can't hide all her scars.

Dante Montenari, a wounded veteran, is drawn to Elizabeth despite his best efforts to keep her away from the back-alley violence of his world. He has lost women to bloodshed and may again as the couple become pawns in a territorial dispute between the Italian and Irish mobs.

War has already exacted a heavy price from these injured souls. Will they at last find peace, or perish?

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Legacy of a Wallflower

Flashing blue lights along a rural Vermont road change Mina Mason's life forever. She breaks her engagement to Sam Miller. He deserves a chance at happiness.

Half a world away, the pull of a trigger shatters Sam's existence.

Haunted and adrift, he returns just as the world Mina's dedicated herself to crumbles...

Look for the sequel to My Mother Grows Wallflowers

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My Mother Grows Wallflowers

There isn’t a heck of a lot that doesn’t scream target about Mina Mason: her weight, the out-of-date homemade dresses, even the hoarder’s paradise loosely disguised as the Masons’ home. Dependent on Mina, her reclusive parents are oblivious to the bullying she endures at school since they’ve never been past the driveway.

Samuel Two Bears Miller reshapes Mina’s understated existence with his arrival at the school, his dark skin and long black braid exotic next to the Puritan pallor of the local boys. Happy, loud and often larger than life in the rural Vermont community, the Millers are the antithesis of the Masons.

In a confrontation she can't avoid, Mina must choose between the one person who makes her feel alive and the family who relies on her.