Donna Mazat

7 books8 year old Joey making Great Grandpa feel betterBecoming an empty-nester at 80 trying to make Joey feel happyRomance

After spending much of each year traveling by motorhome and exploring communities and landscapes across the United States, she brings warmth, resilience, and lived experience to her stories. Later, she built a career in commercial and residential real estate, bringing her into contact with a remarkable variety of businesses, families, and personal situations. Those years gave her countless stories to tell and unforgettable people to remember. Writing became her way to celebrate courage, human connection, and discoveries waiting just beyond the familiar.

Books

GGP & Little Joey

A heartwarming summer of fishing, healing, and the bond between generations

8 year old Joey making Great Grandpa feel better

At eighty years old, Phillip never imagined he would find himself an empty nester. Just four weeks after losing Mary, his beloved wife of forty-nine years, the silence of his rural Maine house is deafening. With only memories and tears to keep him company, Phillip feels utterly lost. Then eight-year-old Joey steps off the cross-state bus. Armed with a scuffed basketball, a bright orange backpack, and a heart full of determination, Joey has dedicated his summer vacation to a single mission: cheering up his great-grandfather. Between practicing free throws, bravely sampling Phillip's experimental cooking, and casting lines from the quiet local pier, Joey does his best to bring light back into the shadowed home. Yet beneath the boy's sunny smiles lies his own confusion over losing his great-grandmother. When a summer storm traps them together indoors, their unspoken grief can no longer be hidden. In this tender, uplifting novel, Donna Mazat weaves a poignant story about family resilience, quiet strength, and how the smallest hand can guide us out of the deepest heartache.

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Love on Hidden Harbor

A sparkling coastal adventure where mystery, second chances, and true love set sail

Romance
Literary Fiction

Eleanor Vance has spent decades conquering the boardroom. Arriving in the picturesque seaside town of Heron's Cove with a set of watercolors and a desire for peace, she expects nothing more challenging than capturing the ocean tide on canvas. Enter Arthur Pendleton: a charming, widowed venture capitalist and avid sailor currently untangling his family's chaotic coastal estate. A hilarious spat over property boundaries quickly transforms into an irresistible partnership when the pair discovers cryptic survey markers and a centuries-old maritime mystery hidden beneath the bluffs. Yet paradise is never simple. A predatory relative schemes to seize the historic waterfront for a luxury development, while Eleanor's fiercely protective daughter arrives armed with corporate audits, certain Arthur is out to break her mother's heart and bank account. As Eleanor and Arthur brave sailing expeditions, midnight clue deciphering, and family skepticism, they realize the greatest discovery of all might be each other. In this heartwarming and witty tale, Donna Maren proves that life's most thrilling adventure can begin at any age.

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Enemies to Lovers

A fierce neighborhood feud becomes an unexpected love story.

Romance

For sixty-three-year-old Lilly, her wildflower yard is a badge of independence after a devastating divorce. For sixty-eight-year-old Frank across the street, every stray dandelion seed drifting onto his manicured lawn is an act of war. A grief-stricken widower hiding behind a hedge trimmer, Frank makes sure the whole neighborhood hears about it. From tossed dandelion bouquets to midnight clover seeding, their petty vendetta escalates until a late-night gas tank mishap lands them in front of an exasperated municipal judge. The sentence? Court-ordered joint psychological counseling. Forced into the same room, their sharp armor begins to crack. Underneath years of righteous indignation lie two lonely souls wounded by grief, betrayal, and stubborn pride. When a shared ride leads to bourbon, moody jazz, and an electric slow burn, long-simmering irritation erupts into unexpected, breathless passion. As their fiery feud melts into a tender romance, both must decide whether to cling to old defenses or let love take root in unexpected ground. Enemies to Lovers is a warm, witty, and deeply romantic late-in-life story proving passion and second chances have no expiration date.

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A Ledger of Second Chances

Balancing life's losses against an unexpected, enduring love.

Literary Fiction
Romance

For twenty-five years, Alice Patterson poured her soul into her marriage and family, only to watch her life shatter when her unfaithful husband files for divorce. Worse yet, Kenneth poisons their three teenage sons against her, shipping them off to boarding school and leaving Alice completely estranged from the boys she adores. Heartbroken and besieged by her spiteful in-laws, Alice seeks shelter in the predictable hum of her executive assistant job. But her quiet sanctuary is shifting. Her distinguished boss, Thomas Henderson, is contemplating retirement—and realizing that over the past decade, Alice has become the center of his world. When Kenneth tries to leave Alice penniless with fraudulent accounts, Thomas steps forward as an immovable anchor. As late-night office hours turn into honest candlelit dinners, years of unspoken companionship bloom into something deeper, warmer, and undeniably electric. To reclaim her life, Alice must fight for her sons' trust and untangle her past. But in balancing the books of heartbreak, she may just find that the best part of her life is only beginning.

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Backyard Runaways

Sometimes the farthest place to run is just across the lawn.

Young Adult

Sixteen-year-old Lilly and fifteen-year-old Dawn have had enough. As the eldest of eight children, their lives are a chaotic blur of endless babysitting, stolen clothes, and zero personal space. Craving freedom and fed up with the household madness, the sisters drop a bombshell: they are officially running away from home to live as independent adults. To their astonishment, their unflappable mother smiles, waves goodbye, and only asks that they keep in touch. Determined not to look foolish, Lilly and Dawn recruit their younger brothers and sisters to haul the family's vintage pop-up camper across the yard—plugging its heavy-duty extension cord straight through their parents' bedroom window. Welcome to sovereign backyard territory. Between covert snack smuggling run by their enterprising younger brother, a sweet spark of romance with the helpful boy next door, and sudden midnight storms, life fifty feet from home turns out to be wilder than they ever imagined. As the sisters navigate their hilarious experiment in independence, they realize that breaking free might just mean discovering where they truly belong. Backyard Runaways is a heartwarming, laugh-out-loud coming-of-age story about sisterhood, first love, and the messy beauty of big families.

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The Unrequested Volume

Some books reveal ancient secrets. This one is already writing your future.

Mystery
Fantasy

Walter Finch loves predictability. As a mild-mannered library archival clerk, he prefers old paper, quiet stacks, and a life neatly arranged in alphabetical order. Then an unmarked shipment arrives. Inside is an antique, leather-bound volume Walter never ordered. When he cracks the spine, his blood runs cold: the yellowed pages detail his exact daily routines—along with events from his future that have not yet occurred. As Walter hesitantly follows the book’s unsettling instructions, he is swept into the Obsidian Colophon, an elusive underground syndicate of rogue bookbinders who weave, alter, and trade human destinies like rare manuscripts. When the ruthless Grand Archivist realizes a master volume has leaked into civilian hands, Walter becomes the target of a deadly manhunt. Marked for erasure from the grand ledger of existence, Walter must trade his catalog cards for courage. Teaming up with an eccentric coworker, a rebellious artisan, and an enchanted tea shop keeper, Walter must infiltrate subterranean vaults to stop a tyrant from controlling humanity’s fates. To survive, the quiet clerk must discover the courage to seize the binding needle and author his own unwritten destiny.

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Mother Road Route 66

6 Siblings Travel Chicago to Santa Monica

Child Books
Adventure

Six siblings. Two thousand miles. One vintage motorhome packed to the brim. Sixteen-year-old Daisy Muddle has the ultimate summer planned: pilot her five spirited younger siblings and their beloved dog, Toby Puffins, down the historic expanse of Route 66 under the watchful eye of their adventurous grandmother, Rosie. With a meticulous itinerary and an empty scrapbook ready for perfection, Daisy aims to document every legendary stop from Chicago to the Pacific Ocean. Her ten-year-old brother Felix has different ideas, determined to crack a cryptic vintage road map and chase down every quirky roadside spectacle in sight. But when an engine blowout strands them in a fierce Oklahoma thunderstorm and their cherished travel logs mysteriously vanish, chaos threatens to derail the dream. To reach the sunlit shores of the Santa Monica Pier, the siblings must put aside their differences, decode the secrets of the Mother Road, and weather the unexpected bumps together. Along the way, Daisy discovers that life's most unforgettable adventures happen when you throw away the map and embrace the detour. Route 66 Family Odyssey is a heartwarming, laughter-filled road trip adventure celebrating family bonds, discovery, and resilience.

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