Bøker av Joann Buie

Sadie Stanton worked five years teaching fourth grade students, and loving it every minute. It was a career she had chosen ever since she was in the fourth grade, all because of the teacher she had that made learning enjoyable and achievable. Sadie wanted to be like her by making learning fun, and interesting for her students.Sadie was always an elite student, and through her school experience as a student, she understood it wasn't so much the subject being taught as it was about how the teacher presented it. Sadie always remembered that through the years.After teaching for five years Sadie was about to quit her teaching career. She had worked hard, and the kids responded with most of them reaching or exceeding the State Standards each year. The problem was that a lot of her co-workers resented her. They felt she was making them look bad, and that put a target on Sadie's back. It made the workplace very uncomfortable and a hostile place for Sadie, to say the least.Not certain what it would be like if she was to leave what she thought was her dream job, and now not knowing if she would ever want to teach again, but she knew she couldn't stay there any longer.Sadie knew she was ready to begin a new chapter in her life. She decided she would search for a new job, in a new town, and a new start.Would Sadie find what she wanted all her life or maybe that life some how would find her.

Lexi had lost her dream job and her fiancee, Phillip, in New York City on the same day. Now, she was worried about her safety because of his indiscretions and of the illegal banking information she had stumbled upon that Phillip had been doing to his clients. The only thing she could do now was get out of New York City fast and stay under the radar of Phillip's rage. Lexi would now return to her family's home in Michigan, where she thought she would be safe from Phillip, only to have him track her there. Little did she know that her first love was working at the resort where she had lived with her Aunt Sandy.On Lexi's return home, her life becomes an up-and-down battle. She battles with her old New York life that continues to haunt her, and the new life she is seeking keeps her in constant turmoil. As she tries to plan her future, she uncovers things from the past that happened during her college years that become so devastating to her that she thinks it may be in her best interest to just move away from all her family and friends.Will Lexi find a future and the love she desires so desperately?

Abby struggled with her life right from the beginning by living in one foster home after another, until she graduated from high school. Everyone had referred to her as the basket baby that had been abandoned at a fire station after her birth, which was difficult for her to overcome.Knowing she wanted to escape from there, and her past, to make a fresh start with her life in another town or state, she accepted a house sitting job in Jasper, Tennessee, not knowing what to expect or what would be waiting for her around the corner.This heart warming romance story will leave you wanting to find out more about Abby's life, and how it had been changed along the way.