cynthia thomason

Fast Fiction Romantic – short stories with a Happy Ever After

Bobbi Lee Blanchard has scrimped and saved for years as a waitress to buy Bayberry Cove's favourite restaurant and give her two sons a good life. Zach Martingale is everything Bobbi Lee isn't: successful, refined, handsome. But he wants the restaurant too. Bobbi Lee is giong to have to resort to drastic measures, including getting a makeover!

You can't live a lie forever

One magical summer: that was all it took for Alexis Foster to fall deeply in love with Daniel Chandler. And then she gave him up to keep Daniel from sacrificing his own dreams. But the passionate bond they shared is rekindled when Alex returns to her family's farm...with a powerful secret.

Ohio's youngest state senator, Daniel's star is on the rise. He's also discovering a kindred spirit in Alex's seventeen-year-old daughter. Alex has to tell him the truth even at the risk of his political future...even if it costs her the two people she loves most.

This time the teacher's learning the lesson…in love 

Brenna Sullivan has a strict policy about not getting emotionally involved with her students. Yet there's something about the new student, Carrie, and her father that has Brenna breaking all her rules. 

Mike Langston's parenting methods may be more than a little outdated, but Brenna is struck by the brave and honorable man he is and, despite her better judgment, she's falling deeper and deeper for him. But how can she cross the line when their feelings start to grow?

She's done with love...until he comes into her life.

When single mother Camryn moves to Bufflehead Creek, she's hoping only for somewhere peaceful to raise her daughter and the baby she's expecting. So her immediate attraction to neighbour Reed, a divorced parent of two boys, is an exciting surprise. Their connection deepens as their families grow closer - but Cam keeps her pregnancy secret. When Reed discovers the truth, will he shatter Cam's hopes for a new romance?

The man least likely to be a father…finds out he has a son!

Living in a remote cabin with his dog suits rafting guide Jace Cahill fine. Until an orphaned boy and his guardian show up in Holly River. Kayla McAllister tells Jace he has thirteen days to prove himself as a father. And when he falls for the pretty, ambitious DC assistant, Jace must prove he's exactly what she and his son need.

The road she's meant to be on.

Hoping for a fresh start, Kitty Galloway packs up her son and a few bare necessities and hits the road. Only now they're stranded in the Blue Ridge Mountains and at the mercy of small-town justice. But it's the temporary gig she gets caring for an injured pilot that makes her start believing in second chances.

After completing his tour of duty, Campbell Oakes came home a hero to his North Carolina town. Until a freak accident forces the decorated soldier to accept the help of the down-on-her-luck single mother. Quirky and far too appealing, Kitty — along with her sassy kid — is making Campbell trust in the future again. Except it turns out that Kitty isn't the woman he thought she was....

A runaway teen at Christmas... brings a special gift into her life.

When Ava Cahill returns to Holly River to reunite with the son she gave up for adoption, she's stunned to encounter Noah Walsh again. The attractive biker she knew six years ago had no idea of her secret. And now Ava's mentoring his troubled daughter. As she and Noah rekindle powerful feelings, can she tell him the truth and become one forever family?

He'll always love Miranda Jefferson…but this cop has a job to do.

Seeing his high school sweetheart after fourteen years fills Holly River police chief Carter Cahill with so many conflicting emotions. One thing hasn't changed – the love that brought them together in the first place. But the single mother's asking something Carter isn't sure he can give. Is he a man who follows the law…or his heart?

Life is meant to be lived...

Surprising her family for Christmas seems like a good idea…until Carrie Foster loses control of her car in a freak blizzard. Now she's stuck in the middle of nowhere with a fractured leg, the unplanned–for guest of the man who saved her life. 

Keegan Breen lives in a secluded cabin on his family's neglected campgrounds, which nature–lover Carrie sees as a potential paradise. The haunted war correspondent is a world away from the boy he was once. But together, can they prove the cynics wrong and show that opposites can not only attract, but be soul mates?

It takes courage to fall in love 

To everyone in her rural Ohio community, Jude Foster O'Leary's dead husband is a war hero. Yet how can she forgive him for choosing the military over his family when they needed him most? And now the charitable foundation she established in his name is in danger of going belly-up, until Liam Manning comes to the single mother's rescue.

But the financial adviser's arrival in Dancing Falls wasn't happenstance. Despite her attraction to the driven professional in his three-piece suit — and Liam's winning way with her young son — Jude has to protect herself from this caring, contradictory man who takes dangerous risks. And from the treacherous feelings Liam's awakening.