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Lucinda Race

    Lucinda Race is a lifelong devotee of romantic fiction, deeply immersed in the hope these narratives represent. After years of writing non-fiction, she finally pursued her true passion, now weaving tales of strong women and the men who cherish them. Her writing offers an immersive escape into worlds of passion and determination, creating unforgettable romantic experiences for readers.

    Apple Blossoms in Montana: A Sweet Clean River Junction Romance
    Holiday Heart Wishes: A Dickens Holiday Novella
    Bouquet: A Small Town Winery Romance
    Sundaes on Sunday: A Clean Seaside Romance
    The Journey Home - Large Print
    The Last First Kiss
    • 2023

      The Journey Home - Large Print

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Where do you go to heal your heart? You make the journey home... Abby Stevens's life fell apart when her sister and brother in law died in a car crash. Since her parents recently died as well, all she has left is her toddler nephew Devin, whom her sister left in her custody. In search of a fresh start, she makes the decision to move back from Boston to her childhood home in a small town. What she doesn't expect is to reconnect with her old friends-the McKenna family. Ever since Shane McKenna's father died when he was a boy, he's buttoned his feelings down. His mother's heartbreak when her husband died has made him scared to jump into a relationship, so he has always kept his flirtations casual. When he sees Abby again, though, he is rocked by the intensity of his feelings for both her and little Devin. Can he overcome his fears, and find a new freedom in loving Abby?

      The Journey Home - Large Print
    • 2022

      A widowed school teacher and the airline pilot whose little girl is determined to bring her daddy and the lady from the ice cream shop together for a second chance at love. Although her husband died a year ago, first grade school teacher Lisa Peck is keeping one tradition she shared with him: sundaes every Sunday at their special place, Seaside Scoops. It's there that she meets a precocious five-year-old, Allie, and her handsome, dark-haired father, Hunter. Airline pilot Hunter Adams has been a single dad since his wife died when Allie was a baby. He has his life perfectly arranged. Allie stays with her grandparents during the week while he flies, then he spends weekends with his daughter, including taking her for sweet treats at Seaside Scoops. But Allie has never before been drawn to someone as quickly as she's drawn to Lisa. Is it just a little girl interested in a pretty woman, or is it fate pulling Lisa and Hunter together? Lisa is cautious, but maybe it's time to move on from the past and take a second chance on love. Everyone is encouraging Hunter to do the same, but will Lisa think he's just trying to find a mother for his child? Maybe Allie is wiser than the adults in her life. Will their sundaes on Sunday lead to true love every day of the week?

      Sundaes on Sunday: A Clean Seaside Romance
    • 2022

      Bouquet: A Small Town Winery Romance

      • 318 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Sweet second chances Liza Bradford never dreamed she'd be a widow, raising two boys and starting a business as an event planner. It wasn't part of her life plan, but neither was crushing on the handsome Drew Cameron. Besides being on the board of her family's winery and running the kids around for summer activities she doesn't have one spare minute to date. Besides she's better at planning weddings for other couples than finding her own happily ever after. After all she thought, you only get one chance at true love. Drew Cameron is good looking and rich and he fell hard for Liza the first time he laid eyes on her. He's been patiently waiting until she was ready to date. She almost knocked him over when she asked him out on their first date. He liked a woman who knew what she wanted and went after it even if that means they move at her turtle pace. But he's worried about her finances and he has the means to make her life effortless. As a bonus, her boys fill a void in his life he hadn't realized was there growing up as an only child.Is Liza ready to move forward with her life and embrace love or will Drew's wanting to take care of her and the boys turn the sweet bouquet of their future to vinegar.

      Bouquet: A Small Town Winery Romance
    • 2022

      Tric Ryan has spent the majority of his adult life jumping out of airplanes and into infernos. That is until a fateful jump nearly ends his career as a smoke jumper. Badly in need of a change, he drives to Last Chance Beach to recover. A short respite at Shamrock Cottage promises him the solitude he needs to recoup, or to figure out how he’ll face a future without the dangerous job he loves.Kelly O’Malley moved to Last Chance Beach after a broken heart. She’s living in her uncle’s rental, Shamrock Cottage, after a fire destroys her home. Brandishing a skillet she’s ready to defend her safe haven from the battered and bruised man in her living room. A quick call to her uncle confirms the mix-up, and that he’s accidentally rented the cottage to both Tric and her for an open-ended stay. When they both agree they can share the spacious vacation home, sparks are sure to fly.Kelly helps Tric recover with easy walks on the beach and friendship. Will the magic of Last Chance Beach,with a dash of luck from the Irish, heal the heartaches Kelly and Tric carry and help them find the love and a future they both deserve? After all Shamrocks are a girl’s best friend.

      Shamrocks Are a Girl's Best Friend: Last Chance Beach
    • 2022
    • 2022

      Sugar Plum Inn

      • 138 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      Enjoy this sweet, clean, small town romance by award winning and bestselling author, Lucinda Race. The chef and the restaurant critic are about to come face to face. After being unjustly fired from a restaurant position in Boston, Chef Dora Bennett relocates to Northern Vermont in an effort to jump-start her career. Going to work at the small, but well-run, Sugar Plum Inn might just be the second chance she needs. Despite a few scathing reviews, Dora intends to do all she can to restore the inn's reputation with her amazing food. Charlie Ward is hiding not one but two secrets when he arrives at Sugar Plum Inn. First, he's an inn and restaurant reviewer who always shows up incognito. Second, he's been deaf since college. He's not ashamed of it, but he also doesn't want to be pitied, so he prefers that the world doesn't know any more than necessary. He's enjoying his life of traveling, writing reviews, and working on his first novel. While neither Dora or Charlie are looking for anything outside their demanding jobs and their desire to move forward with their lives, a little holiday magic might make them stop to appreciate there is more to life than work and living single. Sugar Plum Inn is novella in the Christmas at the Inn Series, although each book can be read as standalone. A sweet and clean romantic story with a guaranteed happily ever after. Happy reading!

      Sugar Plum Inn
    • 2021

      Heartfelt wishes and holiday kisses?When social media director Vera Davis loses her job in the city, she takes her adorable, goofy rescue pup and heads home for the holidays, to her sweet hometown of Dickens. She's hoping to move in with her mom and start a new business. But her drive is when she rescues a handsome, snowbound stranger stranded by side of the road.Newspaper reporter Tony Barbee may be a stranger to Vera, but Dickens is his hometown, too. He's come to spend Christmas with the uncle who raised him. But Vera and Tony are in for a surprise when they find her mother and his uncle living together. Aren't they moving too fast?Tony and Vera share something besides relatives in a blossoming romance: a tradition that when they see the Christmas tree in the gazebo on the village green-a scene right out of a Norman Rockwell painting-they should make a Christmas wish. Though they resist their own growing attraction to one another, Christmas is a time of surprises and gifts, and the unexpected answer to a heartfelt holiday wish may bring Vera and Tony the greatest gift of all?

      Holiday Heart Wishes: A Dickens Holiday Novella
    • 2021

      Crush: Crescent Lake Winery

      • 284 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Enjoy this clean, small town romance by award winning and bestselling author, Lucinda Race.He’s just the spark she needs…Anna Price’s work at her family’s winery in a small town in upstate New York has her feeling as if she’s invisible. There has to be more to life than just developing wine. She’s jolted when her father suffers a heart attack, then gets a jolt of a different kind from the man taking care of him. Colin's the one man who made her believe in romance love at first sight.Colin Grant is a nurse practitioner specializing in the care of cardiac patients. He’d met Anna once before, but she was the girl who slipped away. But this time, it’s different. There’s no denying his attraction to the girl who has it all, brains and beauty, and has no idea how captivating she is.After falling in love with Colin Anna’s offered an opportunity of a lifetime and she can’t say no. Colin’s job is caring for other people’s hearts and he’s determined not to have his own broken again. Absence doesn’t always make the heart grow fonder. But is it worth the risk for a lifetime of love?Crush is the second novel in the Price Family Romance Series, although each book can be read as standalone. A sweet and clean romantic story with a guaranteed happily ever after. Happy reading!

      Crush: Crescent Lake Winery