“What a completely engaging and heartfelt story!” Goodreads Reviewer, 5 Stars

They were best friends.
When Shelby Hawkley’s husband was alive, Gage Jamero was a best friend to both of them. Why wouldn’t he be? The three of them grew up together in Harmony Valley, a small town nestled in a northern corner of rural Sonoma County.

But things changed.
Now widowed, Shelby has moved back to her sleepy hometown to care for her grandfather and work for the small winery that’s opening. She hasn’t seen Gage in a long time. So, when he shows up, she’s expecting their friendship to pick up where it left off. Best buds, right?

Can she stand for things to change again?
Nothing is going well for Shelby. Not the wine harvest, not her grandfather’s health, and not the diminishing days until Gage is scheduled to leave for Kentucky. Maybe Shelby’s making all the wrong choices this summer, maybe she isn’t over Nick’s death, and maybe she should keep Gage in the friend zone.

Fans of friends to forever love romance and movies like P.S. I Love You and Catch and Release will love this emotional, heartwarming, clean romance with a cast of quirky town characters and a happily ever after.

In Strangers and Angels, Gabe Reaume presents a new collection of stories about life, making a living, and living life to the fullest. From early days in rural America, to an unusual friendship as a young man with a woman old enough to be his grandmother, to an account of rising through the ranks in his chosen profession, these stories introduce an interesting cast of characters and a heart-warming look at what the world can bring you if you work hard and stay open to the unexpected circumstances and people placed in your midst.

Strangers and Angels is about making dreams come true, not only through perseverance and positive thinking but also through kindness–or, as Reaume prefers, “You win with people.” Everyone he meets along the way, from a Michigan dairy farmer to a cranky old rancher and above all, one very special granny plays a role in this bighearted memoir that will inspire and delight you.

‑-Dawn Raffel, author of The Strange Case of Dr. Couney

Loved it! 😍

A reminder that it is in the little moments that we impact a person’s life

The nature of the book made me look back upon my life and appreciate those moments when someone extended me a helping hand or even did as little as checking up on me when I did not even know I needed it. If you would like to feel genuinely warm and fuzzy inside from relatable content, this might be the book you have been looking for. It is so simple and beautiful that I could not help but keep reading and seeing what other way people would be a spark of light in a dark world.

–Reitumetse Mokoena, Reedsy Discovery Reviewer

Strangers & Angels by Gabe Reaume…It’s a terrific read by a city manager here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I was struck by something one of the readers noted in a review.

Here’s what she wrote: It’s a reminder that it is in the little moments that we impact a person’s life.

That’s the career of a public servant in a nutshell. I know it’s more complicated than that, but at its heart, public service has an impact on people’s lives. In big ways and in small, what public servants do matters. They all matter.

I wish everyone in public service could read this review or, better yet, read the book. They should know that what they do—even the small things, maybe especially the small things—has an impact.

Despite the ghosts he battles every day, his best friend Zoe Peyton finds a way to make him smile. But he has one solid vow: his friendship with Zoe is sacred and he’ll keep himself in the friendzone if it kills him.

Zoe has her own painful past. One that rears its ugly head when she’s attacked in her bed, barely escaping when Cruz rushes to her aid. As she struggles to separate her past from her present, she can’t help but wonder if she’s been wrong to keep Cruz at arm’s length for so long.

When the attacker strikes again, Cruz refuses to let someone else he cares about die. He’ll stay by Zoe’s side until danger subsides, but as the stakes raise, the walls he’s built around his heart crumble. And as they make their way closer to the truth, the enemy is nearly impossible to see.

Your attacker is murdered. Did you do it?

When her friends drag Alice out to a speed-dating night, she has no inkling just how bad it will turn out to be.

The next day, Alice wakes up in a stranger’s house with no memory of the night’s events, just a terrible feeling.

After returning home, she finds a bloodied knife in her room. And hears the news that the man who must have drugged and assaulted her has been found dead.

Alice falls under suspicion. Not least from herself. But was she really capable of such an act?

And if she didn’t commit the crime, who did?

LIES WITHIN ME is a nail-biting standalone mystery suspense thriller by bestselling Australian writer Vanessa Garbin.
The full list of her books, in order of publication, is as follows:

1. WHAT WE DID LAST NIGHT
2. THE LIES I TOLD HIM
3. YOUR EVERY MOVE.
4. THE STEPS WE TAKE
5. THEIR LITTLE SECRETS
6. NO FRIENDS OF MINE
7. FOR MY OWN GOOD
8. LIES WITHIN ME

Hello readers! Come get to know the Baker family and all six handsome brothers as they experience the ups and downs of falling in love in Copper Creek. This seven-novel sweet romance collection features rugged cowboys, second chances, former high school crushes, and brother’s best friend romances… and even a later-in-life romance for their mom!

Book 1 – Cowboys & Protective Ways – He’s loved her since the first day he saw her at the diner. She doesn’t know a good thing when it’s sitting right in front of her. After a dangerous situation forces them together on his family’s ranch, will she finally come to her senses?

Book 2 – Cowboys & Crushes – She left Copper Creek to forget about him. Now she’s back. And he can’t stop thinking about her.

Book 3 – Cowboys & Christmas Kisses – He loves Christmas on the ranch. She dreads all the fake holiday cheer. Will Christmas derail their chance at love?

Book 4 – Cowboys & Broken Hearts – A secret baby. A fiery redhead. And a cowboy who’s off-limits. Will Brock and Piper be able to deny their attraction to each other?

Book 5 – Cowboys & Second Chances – He’s loved her since they were kids. She thinks they’re just best friends. Can he risk their friendship for a chance at love?

Book 6 – Cowboys & Wedding Woes – She’s from the rival ranch next door. He’s trying to save his family legacy. Will his secret ruin their chance at happiness?

Book 7- Cowboys’ Mom Finds Love – She’s afraid of loving again. But he’s not letting his former high school crush get away a second time.

Mid-1940, the darkest of the nights for Britain during WWII. Adolf Hitler’s unstoppable military has conquered most of Europe, including France, only twenty miles from the English coast. It is now set to conquer the island-nation itself. Plotting to aid this onslaught, a German spy lurks somewhere within Winston Churchill’s government.

​Such is the dire news an emissary of the prime minister secretly brings to disgraced Churchill bodyguard, Jonas Shaw, an ex-New York City detective, along with a plea: help discover the agent before the Nazis invade. Shaw has faced many challenges in his eventful life, but none as dangerous and fateful as this one, helping save Western civilization.