The Donovans
Welcome to Marlboro, Texas - home of the Donovan family. From bartenders to accountants, tattoo artists to bakers, and almost everything in between, the Donovan family works hard and loves even harder. Join Cee Bowerman as she ventures into a new town and introduces you to a family that you can’t help but fall in love with.
Quinn Donovan is a single dad with too much on his plate. He is surrounded by his wild and crazy family at home and at work while raising two little girls who are the light of his life. When a complete stranger swoops in to help him when he needs it most only to then disappear without a word, it seems he’s lost his chance to get to know her. Luckily, another chance encounter might lead to a future he wasn’t sure he’d ever have.
Kyla Morgan has worked hard to get to a place in life where she can coast and enjoy the fruits of her labor. Unfortunately, celebrating how far she’s come isn’t much fun to do alone. Once she meets Quinn and his family, she’ll never have to worry about that again.
Welcome to Marlboro, Texas and the Donovan family in the first book of Cee Bowerman’s new series full of family, friends, and the happily ever afters they deserve.
Coming from a family as large as the Donovan clan, Lake hasn’t had many secrets in her life. She works with her family, lives in the same building as all of her siblings, and has two sisters who are identical to her in almost every way. But now, she’s got a secret, and the longer she keeps it, the bigger it’s going to get.
Mark came from the kind of family that most people can’t even comprehend. As a child, he lived a life that anyone would consider a nightmare, but the Donovan family became his saving grace. Falling in love with one of his best friend’s younger sisters was never the plan, but he couldn’t help the feelings that he’d developed for her over the years. When Lake married a man that was wrong for her, it was almost more than he could bear. He wanted nothing more than to comfort her after the marriage ended, but he kept his distance because no one could know how he felt.
One night changed everything for Mark and Lake, and now, he’s going to make it his mission to give the woman he’s always dreamed about the love story she’s always imagined.
Join Cee Bowerman for the second installment in the Donovan series and enjoy getting to know the family as they all find the happily ever afters they deserve.
Sometimes love just isn’t enough, or is it?
Lana Gold, one of the Donovan triplets, found her one true love in college but lost him when the life he’d dreamed of became reality. Being an outsider looking in and so far away from her family and hometown took its toll on Lana and her marriage until she’d finally had enough and left it all behind.
Co-parenting with the man she’s still in love with has kept him in her world. Even though they live very different lives, they’ve still got their daughter in common. When a health scare threatens Clay’s life, Lana steps up and fulfills the vow she made when they married. In sickness and in health still applied after a divorce, didn't it?
Clay Gold spent his youth trying to reach his ultimate goal of playing professional football for his favorite team. With Lana by his side through college and then the draft, he was riding the high that came from reaching a goal he’d worked for his entire life. Unfortunately, that goal and his career overshadowed his relationship and cost him his marriage.
Having to be content with just being friends with the woman he was still head over heels in love with was agonizing, but Clay had to make peace with it since that was the only way to keep Lana around. With circumstances spinning out of his control, Clay found the loss of the dream career he’d worked so hard for wasn’t as heartbreaking as he’d imagined, especially when he realized it was going to give him back the family he’d hated losing.
Join Cee Bowerman in Marlboro, Texas, home of the Donovan family, and watch as two people who are fated to be together find their way, surrounded by the love and family relationships her books are known for.
A failed marriage and single parenthood are enough to bring the strongest woman down, but Jolie Donovan refuses to let the choices she made when she was younger define her life. Raising her son to be a good person, enjoying the life she has surrounded by family, and watching her brothers and sisters find love should be enough to make her happy, right?
Dante Pardo has the weight of the world on his shoulders. The loss of his wife and mother weighs heavily on him. The father who’s here but still so far away makes his life hard to handle on the best of days, but he has to push through for the sake of his daughters and the rest of the family.
Jolie and Dante thought that their time together had ended years ago, but a chance meeting and then another showed them that if they work together to fight for what they want, they might get the life of their dreams.
Join Cee Bowerman in Marlboro in this second chance, single-parent love story. Catch up with the Donovans you’ve come to love and check in with some of your other favorite characters as Cee helps Jolie and Dante find their happily ever after.
Wes Donovan and his best friend Max aren’t like most guys. Having been friends since they were very young, they’ve shared almost everything. As single men, they’ve had their share of adventures together without any complaints from the woman lucky enough to be their focus, even if it was only for a short time.
When Wes and Max met Damaris, a co-worker of their new sister-in-law, they tried to resist their instant attraction. It wouldn’t do to hurt the relationship they were building with Quinn’s new wife by pursuing her best friend. Instead, they studied her from afar and wondered what their lives would be like with her in it until a weekend far away from home presented them with a chance that would change their lives in ways they never even imagined.
Single and childless by choice, Damaris is ready to make some major life changes. It’s time to settle down in her forever home and maybe even buy a dog for some companionship. As rudimentary as that may seem to most, it’s quite a step for her. After raising her younger brothers and sisters in their mom’s absence, Damaris has had her fill of being responsible for another human being. That aversion kept her from committing to a man she’d have to wake up next to for the rest of her life.
One weekend with the two handsome men she’d had her eye on for months will change Damaris’ outlook on everything. They’ve got so much in common that falling in love with them is almost as easy as a walk in the park. Now she’s found herself seeking out reasons to keep Wes and Max by her side instead of making her way alone. She’s on a new path even if it goes against everything she thought she knew about herself.
When the life they’re building implodes, will they be able to stick together or will they let something that’s out of their control pull them apart?
Ransome Donovan isn’t very good at communication. Or being around people. Or keeping his inner thoughts from coming right out of his mouth and starting a storm that his business partner has to step in and tame. Customer service isn’t his forte, so he’s content to stay in his kitchen creating gorgeous cakes and flaky pastries. Rather than try and be more sociable and find the right person to start a family with, he has decided to focus on growing his business and doing what he loves until one day, he’s swept up in a negotiation that could bring him a piece of equipment that would take his bakery from cozy to commercial.
For years, Celeste has settled on relationships with people who are content to let her bend over backwards for them while they do nothing in return. Her engagement to the seemingly perfect man is wonderful until she realizes that there’s a third partner in this relationship - his overbearing mother. Celeste’s every decision is critiqued until she barely recognizes herself anymore. She soon realizes that if she goes through with this wedding, she’ll lose what little of herself is left. Until one day, she breaks free and finds her white knight waiting to rescue her . . . again.
Can this beauty tame the beast? Possibly. Especially if he’s got carbs to offer and is more than willing to share them with her. Can the beast rein in his inner grouch to make this beautiful woman happy? Definitely, because he can’t imagine living a life without her in it.
Join Cee Bowerman in the sixth book of the Donovan series as she introduces you to more members of the family and tells a story about an unlikely couple and the love they are more than ready to share.