Leaving Home

Leaving home was never part of the plan. 
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Southern belle Ellie Hawthorne loved her life. She loved her big family, the friends she’d had since kindergarten, and Red Creek, Oklahoma, the small town she called home. She could see her future as clearly as she could see the sunrise over her family’s sprawling ranch. 
When a devastating discovery shatters her perfectly mapped-out future, Ellie is left embarrassed, heartbroken, and without any idea of what her future will hold. Finally realizing her situation is never going to change unless she does, Ellie leaves the only home she’s ever known. Across the country and light-years from everything familiar and safe, with only her dog at her side, Ellie embarks on a new path that will test her courage, teach her about love, and that just might show her leaving home is the only way to find home. 


Leaving Home is the first book in the clean, contemporary romance series by Margaret Standafer. Get to know Ellie, Nicole, and Max as they navigate life’s twists and turns, forge lasting friendships, and dare to give love a chance, all while they brave a career none of them expected: middle school teacher. 
 

Coming Home

Coming home was the last thing she wanted to do.

When Nicole Emerson left home, she figured it was for good. Happy with her busy life and her grueling schedule far away from Caston, she convinces herself everything at home is under control…until it isn’t, and she has no choice but to return to her hometown.

Stuck in a job she doesn’t like, and forced to make decisions she doesn’t want to make, Nicole watches the future she dreamed of slip further and further from her grasp. Though regrets and missed opportunities haunt her at every turn, she slowly learns to accept help from new friends, and digs deep to find the self-confidence that once came so easily. While searching for her place in the town she couldn’t wait to leave, she starts to wonder if coming home might have been the answer all along. 


Coming Home is the second book in the clean, contemporary romance series by Margaret Standafer. Get to know Ellie, Nicole, and Max as they navigate life’s twists and turns, forge lasting friendships, and dare to give love a chance, all while they brave a career none of them expected: middle school teacher. 
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Finding Home

Finding home never figured into the equation.


To Max Simmons, home was something that existed only in the movies. Growing up with a father who was forever chasing the next opportunity meant stops in towns from one coast to the other, too many schools to count, and nothing resembling that cozy idea of home. 


In Max’s mind, Caston is nothing but another stop on the way to her next adventure, and teaching is only a necessary step along her path. When the cruelest of circumstances thrust Max into the spotlight, she’s more determined than ever to put Caston in the rearview mirror. But as she prepares to leave, unfamiliar feelings pull her back to the town and the friends that have somehow woven themselves into her life leading her to wonder if, at long last, she may be finding home. 


Finding Home is the third book in the clean, contemporary romance series by Margaret Standafer. Get to know Ellie, Nicole, and Max as they navigate life’s twists and turns, forge lasting friendships, and dare to give love a chance, all while they brave a career none of them expected: middle school teacher.
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