Thomas Cooper Library Columbia Sc Novels & Stories

The story revolves around a waiter, Terry, at the Happy Hill pub. Would he overcome the temptation of money to live his own life? Or would he be like rosehip petals that soon be withered?

A company trust building trip turns into a trip home to the company’s CEO Micha Moran. He takes the group back to the ranch he grew up on. While there he finds that Sophia is also a farm girl and she proves to be much more to him then he planned on when a deal between them for two weeks could turn into forever. A true statement was you can take the person off the farm but not the farm out of the person. Sophia proves this to herself and to her boss who doesn't stay her boss for very long. They have everything the other wants in a partner. As they build their life together from the foundations of the farms they grew up on everything else finds its place easily.

Scarlett needed a job and fast. Bills were piling up and she needed to pay them. When her friend and roommate gives her a time and place to be somewhere Scar's whole world changed. Enter the man everyone knows but no one really sees. He enjoys it that way so he can learn their secrets. Scarlett changes everything in him with her innocence and her willing to do nearly anything, he commands. They find a love most dream of.

The heaviness in the air is the prequel to the Across the desk. However it is told from Max's point of view. He realizes that he is stuck in life and he really wants to move on but he doesn't know how. His first time going out with a person he is accused of the worst thing a man can be accused of. Though the truth came out later he had already lost his place in his family and in the town. He never trusted women again. He knows that it all revolves around one women though. Then one day he is getting ready to go over his files for his job as an detective he sees one that he doesn't know. He opens the file and it is her, the woman who ruined his life. She was now dead. He is assigned the case to find her murderer. This is his chance to redeem himself and finally put the past to bed. He has to revisit everything in this woman's life and with some twists and turns he finally finishes the case with a jaw dropping person accused of the murder. Then he goes through the trial and he makes himself a promise. When the case is finally over he will move on and find the family he wants to have. The day the verdict for the last of the trials comes to an end Deanna Watson walks into his office. This is his chance to finally do something about his slight obsession with the tiny student. This story goes right into the across the desk and answers the questions of how Max is the way he is when it comes to dealing with the Watson family.

When Jasmine Martin walked into the school’s building she had no idea how her life was going to change. Meeting Josh Tillman was life changing for many reasons. Including learning a bit about a professor desires...

The continuation of the story Across the Desk. The Second book in the Insanity Series. Max and Deanna still have a lot to get through from the action of her brother/father David like the funerals of her parents and sister. they also have the family fallout that has been waiting around them as the truth comes out about what Deanna really is. The trial of the century will soon take place and nothing will be left in the dark with the Watson's family secrets. How will the couple cope with everything and still remain together?

This is the third book in the "Insanity series" with the story for Max and Deanna continues. The two have everything now in front of them or so they thought. They know there is more to the Watson family legacy but no one could be prepared for what they find and how the family's story comes to an end finally. David can not hurt anyone again. None of the Watson's can. Only Deanna remains standing and shows the world she was the strongest of them all. She knows though that she could only be that way because of Max by her side. They found the best in each other and they grew by twos. The Andersons won over the Watson's.

Desiree has no idea what she actually is. She was raised completely without a pack. She had no idea that she was actually in hiding until he found her. Gabriel wanted his mate. He search the entire world for her and then the two of them have to work together to fix the past.

Sara better known as princess to her friends, is a Professional contractor for the Army. She realized with the help of some friends she was ready to find love, in the mean time she was an unwilling part in a plot to kill her friends and herself. An op in the past turned somewhat bad through no fault of theirs. Sara finds out that some people can hold a long grudge and one that can go across countries. AS piece by piece things show themselves she has also found a person to trust, she hopes. A member of the team she didn't know liked her. He found her online profile and offers a game to learn about each other. When he is the one who can protect her she learns how to trust him with everything including her heart.

Paige was reassigned to a new boss. She had zero clue as to what she was walking into. However right from the start that spark was there and it turned into a flame that could burst into a raging fire at anytime. She had to wonder if they would actually ever get any work done. When the two meet everything goes right for the both of them changing their lives for the better as long as they continue to work together. When huge life decisions loom in front of them it was easier to accept them because the other was there. A Cinderella story with a few twists and turns that shows that love has no time table.