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Tropical Encounter Featured
Can she find love when she's healing from heartache? After a painful end to a long engagement, all Meg wants out of life is a fresh start. She can’t think of a better way to begin than by advancing her career in the hotel industry. When an opportunity comes along to accept a position at a five-star resort, she secures a beach house, packs her bags, and heads to the Bahamas. But her oasis has been ...
Book 4: Take a Chance on Love Featured
When their friendship develops into more, will they find the courage to take a chance on love?
Repositioning: Lost Love, Found Featured
It's been three decades since he left her alone and heartbroken. She wants to avoid him, but he wants answers, and their cruise doesn't end for nineteen days.
After years of hard work and being the family caregiver, Maria, 52, has a life she loves, cruising around the world and living every day in the present.
Until now.
Now her plans are fallin ...
A woman goes to find her heart in Ireland. What she doesn’t realize is she will leave it there. Him It was just another rainy day in Ireland. Another day giving a tour to a bunch of overzealous tourists at the Cliffs of Moher . . . until I saw her. The most beautiful woman with the saddest eyes, standing so close to the edge. Not even my jaded heart could ignore her. Without a second to los ...
That's My Sister Featured
Having a younger, beautiful sister is hard enough. Having one who’s on the cover of magazines and is loved by all? Torture. For single mom Marie Stephens, all she wants is to survive her new business, provide for her children, and ignore the intense feelings she has for her married neighbor. When her famous sister, Sadie, shows up after a five-year absence, Marie’s normal life ceases to exist. Add ...
A Bride for Clay Featured
From a USA Today Bestselling Author... Five lady outlaws sent to prison for bank robbery. Their sentences commuted to time served if they become mail-order brides. Five brothers looking for wives, take a chance on the outlaw brides. Will they find happiness or heartache? This is Gwen’s story. Gwendolyn “Gwen” MacGorman is a former prostitute turned bank robber turned mail-order bride. She’d vowed ...
Megan's Second Chance Featured
My long-lost love staggered back into my life, his memories lost in a blizzard’s swirling grasp. Now fate snows us in—the girl who got away and the man determined to make amends. I’ve avoided romance since Jasper left me shattered. Yet here he lies, that rugged frame still making my pulse race as I tend his wounds. The strong arms that once held me now lie limp, his mind a blank slate. His ...
Willow Witherspoon, a young Quaker widow, has the audacity to fall in love with a slave. Moses is intelligent, kind, and attractive. When she realizes that she is with child, he wants to run away so they can be together as a family. But Willow knows that, no matter how much she wishes it, there is no place for them to hide. Nowhere will they be accepted - not in a white community or a black one. T ...
A Wedding for Emily Featured
Emily Barone adores Christmas. Everything about the season, from her snow globe collection to the twinkle lights in her cubicle, enchants her. After months of intrusive, abysmal, and downright laughable matchmaking attempts from her well-meaning Italian parents, the solution is clear: Get that promotion in the HR department where she works, and find a place of her own after the holidays. If o ...
Slightly Stalky Featured
From Wall Street Journal & USA TODAY Best-Selling Author, Amy Vansant - an all too real, hilarious romance.
Emily never expected to find love in a dart bar, but the moment she spots tall, sexy Sebastian, she’s determined to catch his eye.
Ex-girlfriends, perpetually shirtless rich boys, frantic best friends and a mysterious orange handbag converge to stop her.
No o ...
Cordelia's Call Featured
Cordelia Smith grew up in an orphanage outside of Denver. For most of her life, she heard she was unworthy of love. Mrs. Finch’s constant reminder no one would love an orphan sent Cordelia on a path only taken by men: to write for the local newspaper. At the age of twenty-five, she must find a way to support herself while helping out at the orphanage in order to have a place to lay her head. Wh ...
Breakfast Buddies Featured
We humans are spectacularly bad at understanding our own emotions. A socially conservative Asian young man makes a life-changing decision—he moves to an international metropolis in the very heart of Europe to start his first year as a student at a prestigious academic institution.
During one of the very first breakfasts at his new residence he meets a senior student, Jürgen B., to whom ...
The Long Road to Loving Mitchell Featured
Fires, violent storms, vandalism, and governmental whims are just a few of the issues Libby Barnes has to contend with after taking over the family farm in the picturesque lower south of Western Australia. Loneliness is another. Being young and unattached, she’s also the subject of ongoing critical scrutiny by the ranks of doubters in the small farming community.
Then a handsome strange ...
Starlight and Tinsel Featured
It's the perfect way to ring in the Christmas season!
Star is moving into the Murphys cabin. It seems that everyone who lives there finds their happily-ever-after, and Star is hoping it's her turn. Ever since Eden, her van, her childhood home and only inheritance from her mother, broke down in Fortune Bay a year ago, she thought perhaps her mothers hand ...
Seven years ago, Mark Beller joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, bewildering his pacifist Amish family and escaping the heartbreak of a love gone terribly wrong. Now he is broken again—only not from love, this time—from war. Finding his way back to his Amish roots on Prince Edward Island and hoping for peace at Christmastime, he comes face-to-face with his greatest regret... A beauty from ashes l ...
Tropical Encounter Featured
Can she find love when she's healing from heartache? After a painful end to a long engagement, all Meg wants out of life is a fresh start. She can’t think of a better way to begin than by advancing her career in the hotel industry. When an opportunity comes along to accept a position at a five-star resort, she secures a beach house, packs her bags, and heads to the Bahamas. But her oasis ...
Christmas Honeymoon For One Featured
Her ex-fiancé took everything except the honeymoon package. Kate wanted nothing more than to forget all about the man who left her for someone else right before they were supposed to get married. But how could she do that when she barely had a cent to her name and the honeymoon they’d planned to take was non-refundable? She’d go on the trip. Her friend said it would be cathartic. Besides, it wasn’ ...
Lord of the Betrayed Featured
An Earl who fears betrayal, a Lady certain in her affections, a long lost friend, an unhealthy obsession, a love saved from scandal and ruin. Roland Shelton, Earl of Eldwood, has finally allowed himself to trust that he will not be betrayed, to believe that he is worthy of love, and is soon to marry. Cautiously, he hopes for happiness. Lady Gabrielle Vickery has dreamed of marrying Lord Eldwood fo ...
Ride for a Bride in Wyoming Featured
Marriage is the last thing on Annora Lee Bostwick’s mind when she moves to Wyoming to start a new branch of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Her focus is centered solely on saving animals…until blackmail and deceit force her to reconsider.
Buffalo Birch Struthers has no desire to marry, but must if he wants to keep his father’s ranch, and time is running ou ...
Brant Featured
He's a cranky cowboy trying to save the family ranch. She's a freelance journalist hoping to get a full-time writing gig. What she writes could either make or break him.
Brant Cross feels responsible for his father's accident.
The money set aside to pay off a big loan against the ranch has all gone to medical bills. Now it's up to Brant to find a way to make ends m ...
The Wrong Kind of Man Featured
2015 WISHING SHELF INDEPENDENT BOOK AWARDS FINALIST At thirty years of age, Maggie Fields has had her fill of “bad” men. Unbeknownst to her, her investment counselor husband had paid for their luxurious Denver lifestyle by scamming his law-abiding clients and laundering money for his law-breaking ones. He lasted two nights in jail before a client who didn’t trust him to keep his mouth shut had him ...
The Baker's Batter Featured
Madeleine Malone's small town bakery is her dream come true, but her bank statements are not exactly sweet. Whipping up a successful business is the only recipe she can’t seem to master. Well, that and finding love. Her dating life is as flat as a fallen soufflé. Luke Taylor’s big city career is on the rise. His all-star charisma kept him center field in high school as the town’s Home Run King, ...
Crazy for the Rancher's Cousin Featured
Becca Lawrence comes to her uncle’s Black Rock Ranch with her life in turmoil, hoping that the peace of the mountains will help her figure out a Plan B. The last thing on her mind is running into her old high school crush, Nate. He’d been a star football player and she’d only tutored him in algebra, but now? Her heart is pounding again, and she can’t concentrate on planning her future. **** Nate H ...
Joy of Today Featured
The best things come in pairs. Summertime in Nicolet has always been idyllic, but for Heidi and Shelly Lakanen, the summer of 1994 brings just a little more than they’ve bargained for. When Steven Davis comes to town, the Lakanen girls know their lives will never be the same, but they have no idea just how much their sisterly bond will be put to the test as a result. It bends under the strain, but ...
Trusting My Billionaire Boss Featured
When sparks fly with a handsome stranger, Lacy hopes it's a sign her luck is changing. Except he turns out to be her boss' boss' boss, the billionaire CEO. Yeah, that's not going to happen. Especially since someone has recently stolen three million from him. And he thinks it's her. David can't believe he nearly fell for a thief. Nor does he care about her excuses. The evidence is clear. H ...
A billionaire in exile, a feisty hotel employee, and an island getaway like no other. Damian Hartley doesn't do vacation. But one major mistake has led to his worst nightmare: a Caribbean holiday. The only thing that might make it bearable is Finlay Cooper’s offer to give him swimming lessons. Though between her sharp tongue and his fear of the water, he might not live to tell about it. But at lea ...
An Amish Forever Home Featured
A Canadian Amish farmer... A Lancaster Amish businesswoman... A Prince Edward Island foster child... Providence brings together a mismatched family in a marriage of convenience, giving all three a second chance for love. Only love may never have had such a tough job.Lydia Miller is an anomaly among her Amish people-a single woman in her 30s, running her own store, determined to forge a lif ...
House of Dreams Featured
Julia Turner's life as a successful designer in San Francisco takes a dramatic turn when her father's ill health calls her back to her hometown of Harbor Cove. There, amid the enchanting aroma of pastries from the Upper Crust Bakery, and the whispering cedar forests, her heart's deepest yearnings meet the harsh light of reality. Lives intertwine, destinies collide, and she is forced to confront th ...
Book 5: Undeveloped Love Featured
She’s tried being polite. He’s digging in his heels. When complete opposites feel the tug of romance, will their holiday become a blizzard of delight? Blake Fisher won’t let anyone destroy the life she’s built. So when a silver-spoon-in-his-mouth snob refuses to listen to her proposed deal, the hardworking real estate agent sneaks her way onto his land to demand a face-to-face meeting. But while s ...
Nora’s life is striking a dissonant chord since her recent divorce, but a new melody calls her to Cataluma, California, to help her uncle Jock’s struggling music store. There, fate reunites her with Jock’s stepson Eugene, whom she hasn’t seen in twenty-five years, since she was a gangly fifteen-year-old trying in vain to get twenty-year-old Eugene to notice her. Well, he’s noticing her now, and No ...
Falling For My Grumpy Boss Featured
He's a contrary diamond in the rough. She's sweet, with enough fire to warm his heart. Butch, a damaged loner with a mysterious past, rescues Joelle from a rowdy gang of drunken hoodlums. Joelle, the ‘new’ girl in town, is the daughter of the man who was once his best friend. She aims to repay this quiet cowboy for his kindness. Unable to resist her charm, Butch reluctantly lets her work for him o ...
Bride by Beguilement Featured
Kirsten Macleod is in a bind. Her father’s last will and testament stipulates that she must either marry, lead the plantation into a first year profit, or forfeit it to her uncle. But marriage is proving no easy option. Every suitor seems more enamored with the land than with her. Until her handsome neighbor sweeps into her stable to the rescue… of her beloved horse. Silas Westbrook’s last yea ...
Frozen in Jeopardy Featured
Her routine night turns terrifying. As the storm of the century howls through Destiny, Texas, Dr. Paige Wade remains at her clinic to care for any animals that might need assistance. Her quiet night is disrupted when a man dumps an injured dog on the doorstep just hours before Paige is attacked in the parking lot. He's uncovering deadly connections. A call from the local animal hospital ...
A woman with autoimmune disorders & a "no dating policy." A mysterious, cocky British stranger. A dream trip to Paris. What could go wrong? Reeling from the reality of turning thirty soon, Christine decides to take her bucket list trip. She has dreamed of going back to Paris, but since being diagnosed with several rare autoimmune disorders, she never imagined she would get the chan ...
Book 1: Grocery Girl Featured
She inhales life with every breath. He’s suffered a world of pain. Can they rise above tragedy to find their happily ever after? Maree Davenport refuses to let a tearful past rule her future. After losing her parents at the age of five, the big-hearted fabric designer is determined to embrace her feelings and find happiness no matter what. So when she literally runs over a handsome new firefighter ...
Countdown to Christmas Featured
Welcome to Winterwood… a small town with more heart than people! “Fans of Rachael Bloome and Rachael Lucas will love this new series by Dianna Houx!” When Grace is told it's unlikely Granny will live to see another Christmas, she comes up with a unique plan to transform her home into a festive inn for the holidays, offering an authentic, old-fashioned Christmas experience to her guests. To make he ...
When Josefina “Joey” Roma moves to the Virginia with her sisters, she’s looking for a fresh start. Their fiber arts and weaving company, Three Sisters Roma, keeps Joey focused—and drained. When a sexy beekeeper-slash-veterinarian rescues her and her new lambs from a swarm of bees on a country roadside, she had no idea how ‘fresh’ her life would turn. She hadn’t expected a man with a cocky attitude ...
Fresh Starts and Small Town Hearts Featured
A lawyer trying to prove her worth... A handyman who thinks she's worth everything... Vivian Bradford is a woman on the run from her past. When her estranged grandmother dies and leaves Vivian the family home, she finally thinks her life might be heading in the right direction. After the people of Carson’s Bayou realize who she is, will they welcome her into their small-town community? Or will she ...
Can you like a guy who hates ice cream? Can you more than like him? It’s enemies at first sight when Doug King rides into town on his motorcycle. It’s easy enough to overlook his sky blue eyes, the beard that gives him both a distinguished yet wild look, and his buff bod. Vroom. Vroom. What? It’s summer and hard not to notice things like that. Why do I hate him? Sheesh. So many questions. For one, ...
Where secrets go, distrust follows. Can two lonely people let go of past hurt and learn to trust again? Single mom, Cassie Verano, and her two young daughters move to small town Worthy, Ohio to be near her brother and his family. She longs to raise her daughters without her ex-husband’s family’s controlling interference, and live in peace. When her daughters befriend two girls who are cared for by ...
Will the blush of new love bring them together? His mother’s final illness waylaid Sam Price’s college dreams, but he’s content working in his family’s vineyard in the Finger Lakes region of New York. When he finds a woman with a flat tire on a vineyard road, he’s stunned to discover it’s the girl he’d had a crush on in high school. He’d never been confident enough to ask her out back then. He’d b ...
Southlea Bay's favorite sweethearts, Flora and Dan, are getting married and the members of the Rejected Writers' Book Club are excited to help. Especially the group's head honcho, Doris Newberry, who, much to Flora’s frustration, wants to control every detail, attempting to strong-arm Flora into accepting ridiculous wedding vows, wayward bongo players and into wearing a huge, old-fashioned wedding ...
QUIRKY CAREERS? You bet! Follow the Fun with NEW Romantic Comedies! There’s humor when love and work get all mixed up.
We all need a little laughter, or a lot, especially at work while trying not to fall in love. It's not easy when the jobs involve unusual skills: grooming ostriches, sitting Santa in a bar, inspector of Legos, toothpick QA, etc.
Warning: These seven brand-n ...
Who says you can’t find your soulmate when you’re five-years-old? Melissa “Missy” Green and Noah “Shep” Shepherd’s fates were sealed as childhood sweethearts one fateful day on the playground when they were just kids. When she’s forced to leave Shepherd Grove, Texas by Noah’s spiteful, wealthy parents after high school, Missy’s world is shattered. Leaving Texas, her family, and Noah behind, she sh ...
Ava hasn’t given much thought to her hometown in years — until her gorgeous former neighbor Mateo comes knocking. Ava owes him a favor from a decade ago, and now that Mateo needs a fake fiancée, it seems like the perfect time to collect
Juliet Washington left Orlando for LA five years ago to forget Ivan Underwood. When her company buys Ivan’s magazine, she’s forced back home to handle the transition—and what’s worse, she must work closely with Ivan. Now more than ever she’s determined not to let him get too close—he already broke her heart once. After magazine editor, Ivan Underwood’s boss informs him of a new parent company take ...
When Alex O’Donnell’s world falls apart, she finds it hard to imagine that a door to a new world will open. Leaving everything she knows behind, Alex moves from her Baltimore apartment to a villa in Italy where she discovers the inherited vineyard she never knew existed and a life of possibilities beyond her hopes and dreams.
Arriving at the villa, Alex is taken aback by the animosity a ...
Jackson Aldridge has been deemed the second most eligible bachelor in Seattle, Washington three years running. He's an intelligent, handsome billionaire at the top of his game who lives by a strict set of rules. But when a high-risk investment goes South, Jackson will need to re-evaluate his lifestyle and his rules to prevent his glass house from shattering into a million pieces. Rule No. 1: Bu ...
When sports therapist to star athletes loses her job and apartment right before the holidays, she accepts a temporary assignment in the Caribbean. The bah-humbug baseball player is a challenge, but there's more at play than meets the eye. Join Avery and Drew in the sunny islands, and the white Christmas they pull off for his young nephew.
Hearts on Ice, Love in Bloom, and Passion Reignited: Three Enchanting Second Chance Romances #1 Megan’s Second Chance: A Small Town Amnesia Romance My long-lost love staggered back into my life, his memories lost in a blizzard’s swirling grasp. Now fate snows us in—the girl who got away and the man determined to make amends. I’ve avoided romance since Jasper left me shattered. Yet her ...
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Imagine vowing to never celebrate Christmas again only to be snowed in with your hunky husband in a cabin rich in Christmas pasts.
Juliette Martin isn’t happy when her husband, Gabe, surprises her with a Christm ...
She ran away years ago. He never truly let her go. Will their renewed romance survive her shameful secret? Lauren Carter can’t seem to catch a break. Suddenly jobless and blindsided by her grandmother’s rapidly declining health, she decides to finally return home after a lengthy self-imposed exile. But nothing could have prepared her for the pain of running into her old sweetheart. Blake Tully has ...
Ryan Hunt has a job to do. He’s been brought in for one week to help the Calhoun family learn how to run a youth camp. He doesn’t have time to be distracted by a beautiful, intriguing woman. Cate Calhoun is tired of being passed over for responsibilities on the ranch. She has her eye on the newly available job of camp director, but nobody in her family seems to think she can handle it. Ryan Hunt m ...
They both have claim to the same land. How will they figure out who gets it without killing each other first? Alexandra I won’t sit by anymore and let my good deeds go punished. Especially while some jerk’s bad behavior is rewarded. Sometimes one man’s karma is another person’s responsibility. And I am that person. But a rugged mountain man, with sarcasm for days, stands in my way of del ...
Love kindles when a fake engagement brings best friends together. World Champion snowboarder, Wyatt Fernandez, should be hitting the slopes in the Andes and spending his days teaching as the new ski instructor. But an emergency means he’s heading off the family’s tree farm with his best friend, Harper. She’s too busy with her books and earning tenure to notice his hopes for more than friendship. H ...
Going back might be her dumbest decision. Ever. Emily Potter’s life takes an unexpected U-turn when she returns to the job that caused all her problems and heartache. She’ll have to confront the bad habits that almost broke her and face the man she walked out on, her onetime crush, the hotel chain’s handsome, off-limits CEO… Jackson Wyatt hasn’t been enthusiastic about anything since Emily q ...
After Alejandro Alvarez’s best friend dies of kidney disease while in high school, Alejandro vows to change his life. Determined to help others suffering from his friend’s illness, he rejects joining his father’s pediatrics practice and instead trains as a nephrologist and a transplant surgeon. Fourteen years later, devotion to his career has rewarded him with a reputation as an excellent surgeon, ...
My guarded, bashful boss lends a friendly hand to this damsel in distress. I fled to Willow Creek to escape my charming but thieving ex and start a new life. Love is the last thing on my mind, and it's certainly not on Ethan's radar. He’s my new boss, a kind and bashful doctor grieving the loss of his father and a broken engagement. But life in a small town has a way of surprising you. A heav ...
Abraham Schuster only wants one thing for Christmas: to fall in love. Unfortunately, he's just gone through an awful breakup and is still trying to pick up the pieces of his life. Is he willing to put himself out there again? Will he be able to find a woman in time to have a merry Christmas? Or is he destined to go through the holidays with a lonely heart?
Everyone wants of a piece of Robin Stewart. As he blazes a path across the pop culture landscape of the 1970s, from television sex symbol to rock superstar, he’s the ultimate picture of cool and the romantic fantasy of women everywhere, carrying the hopes and burdens of his show business family on his sexy shoulders. But nobody knows how much alcohol it’s taking to keep up that image, or how terri ...
Love in the Adirondacks—where hearts come together like the moon and the stars shining bright in the sky, showing the boats the way home at night. The last thing she wanted was a man. But he was exactly what she needed. Tayla Johnson doesn't have time for romance. She barely has time to stop and smell the roses. However, when her parents plan a big family reunion, she makes a promise to her mom an ...
IS LOVE GOING TO THE DOGS? Head vet at the Forever Friends animal rescue shelter, Gabriel Moretti is known as the Dog Whisperer because of his gift for soothing rambunctious patients. But it’s the two-legged species that has him, and his libido, working overtime. Marla Popov single-handedly saved the shelter from financial ruin. But the bossy trust funder is even more irritating than her snooty St ...
When two strangers cross paths their lives are forever altered. Kayla Russel has all but given up on finding love until a new guy to town walks into her flower shop. There is something mysterious about him that intrigues her, but when she finds out the truth everything changes. Derek Parker wants to leave his old life behind, but it proves to be harder than he'd anticipated when his past finds him ...
Candace Parks lives a passionless life in Richmond, Virginia. The computer programmer returns to the empty family home in the Blue Ridge Mountains to evaluate her job, faith, and boyfriend. Her high school crush, star football player and prom king Trigg Alderman, is in Twisty Creek visiting his grandmother who lives next door to Candace’s family home. He doesn’t recognize her at first and remember ...
When Meredith Thomas returns home to Shady Piers for the huge birthday party her parents put on for her each year, she is frustrated with a writing career going nowhere. For her estranged and lifelong friend Logan Nole, his life has taken a very different turn. Now the single parent of a bubbly 4-year old, he has no time to spare as he works double shifts just to keep their lives afloat. An unexpe ...
Meg Hawke’s antique store is faltering. When her octogenarian neighbor Hank asks her to clean out his shed and sell antiques on consignment, she has a real chance at discovering forgotten treasure. If she steps foot on the Montana ranch, however, she’ll come face-to-face with her childhood frenemy and Hank’s grandson, Ryan. After selling off the ranch’s cattle years before, Ryan Kincaid dove in ...
To honor the happy lovers everywhere celebrating Valentine’s Day, six New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Authors have joined together to offer this beautiful collection of holiday romance stories. From full-length books to novellas, they all have one thing in common—a thrilling happily-ever-after that will make your heart beat faster. Every story in this collection is… UNFORGETTABLE!
#6 in the Dead Red Mystery series Like Janet Evanovich? Sue Grafton? You’ll love this humorous mystery series! What if building a case against corruption gets you killed? On track to a successful political career, a charismatic young judge’s detour into corruption will uncover the scandalous truth of his father’s murder…and ultimately his own. Now it will be up to P.I. Lalla Bains to scour through ...
Two weeks to survive on a deserted island with a woman he can’t stand… Cade Armstrong Waters turned his back on his family’s money and walked away from his legal career to build his foundation to help at risk children. To secure the funding he needs, he agrees to spend two weeks with a woman he just met. All Cade must do is survive - with or without Cynthia Sterling’s help – but she has to stay fo ...
Beulah Beatrice “Be-Be” Connor, who is approaching the age of thirty, gave up on marriage after the second man who had courted her left and never returned. Unlike the two maiden great-aunts, after whom she was named, she did not have an inheritance to fall back on. She worked almost half her life for her own support. When the café job in Wichita, Kansas, disappeared as the Panic of 1893 conti ...
Two best friends. Two fresh starts. Will old regrets sabotage their second chance? Janna’s heart is heavy with grief and broken by betrayal. But as she leaves the big city for a quaint midwestern town, the future feels less frightening with her best friend, Shelby, by her side. After landing a job in the local fresh market and the attentions of a handsome architect, she may yet learn to heal ol ...
Falling in love was not on her to-do list. Left in debt after the tragic death of her husband, Tricia Adams struggled to keep a roof over her family's heads. With the help of the Grandmothers Four, she’d finally gotten everything under control.She was happy and more comfortable than she’d been in years. When Carol’s son, Eric Elliott, agreed to help renovate the guest house, mysterious and things ...
A single mother who dreams of home meets a contractor on the run from his past. Will he tear down their only chance at a shared future? If you like matchmaking daughters, heartfelt stories of mending broken homes, and fixer-upper romance, then you’ll love Carolyne Aarsen’s tale of second chances
I’ve been gone for a lifetime, but I’ve only lived half a life. Coming back to this small town after a career in Army special operations feels like entering another world, but there’s part of me that recognizes it’s home—or used to be. Sarah James has always been on my mind, even after she destroyed my world and sent me running. Turns out she’s back in our hometown too, and instead of keeping her ...
Where Bantry Bay in Ireland meets the wild Atlantic, three lost souls stumble together united by their inability to forgive themselves. A heart-pounding and magical tapestry of romance, history, legend, and complex themes of inequality that resonated as deeply centuries ago as they do today. Perfect for fans of Susanna Kearsley, Nora Roberts, Mary Stewart, Maeve Binchy, and Susan Wiggs. < ...
Eliza Sommer is thirty years old and still lives with her parents, Amos and Mary, helping them run the family farm shop. Eliza is resigned to a life helping her parents in their advancing years, but seeing her siblings marry and have families of their own, makes Eliza realize it is the one thing she truly desires in her life. Eliza was born with a condition that has caused her parents to be over-p ...
Naomi & Jason Sanders, move to Pacific Cove Ranch shortly after their wedding. Prior to her graduation from college, Naomi’s younger sister is killed in a hit and run accident. Naomi is having a hard time accepting her loss, and the isolation of her new surroundings bring a new type of terror; haunted visions that keep her on edge terrifying her. Is Naomi being tormented by her own inner ...
After a disastrous 26th birthday party, Olivia Donaldson flees her wealthy but overbearing parents and her controlling soon-to-be ex-husband and makes for Shady Piers, the former hometown of her now-deceased grandfather, in Maine.
Desperate for even the most basic of needs she reluctantly accepts help from a local pub-owner Brent Scott, who takes ...
Katherine Middleton leads a charmed life in her million dollar Georgetown Brownstone. The daughter of a world-renown anthropologist, she is happily married and employed by the Smithsonian when her world comes crashing down after the discovery of her husband’s secret life. An impulsive decision to hide out on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, in order to re-evaluate her own life, leads Kate to earth-shatte ...
When Lalla and her dad take a trip to Arizona to inspect her new property, Dad disappears. Panicked that he's lost in the desert, Lalla enlists the help of a local tracker and finds him unharmed at the bottom of a mine pit. But dad has company. A very dead local police chief. And within a stone's throw, a young artist will be found strangled in her bed. What're the chances that these two murder ...
This Novella is the first of seven in the Billionaire Royal Series. Home for the summer, Jo Finley struggles to save her family's marina, comfort her ailing father, and find a way to break up with a controlling boyfriend. She quickly becomes distracted by a newcomer to their small town. Immediate attraction has her reeling and second-guessing her choices. Nick Waters, otherwise known as Nico Valde ...
With her life in tatters after ending an abusive marriage, Madison literally falls into the arms of her ex-high school sweetheart—the only man she’s ever truly loved. Will she allow him to help mend the broken pieces of her heart, finally finding the love she deserves? A failed marriage. No job. A looming court date to face her abusive ex-husband. Worst of all, she’s had to move back in with her p ...
Colorado, 1876. Many years have passed since Bernadette Bellamy fled the Cariboo Gold Rush and her reputation as the sister of a French-Canadian gang of thieves. Armed with only an honest talent for sewing and a willingness to lead a solitary life on the run, she stays one step ahead of everyone seeking her brothers’ last—and now lost—heist. Until a craving to settle down makes her reinvent hersel ...
Recent divorcee Rebecca has returned to Utica, NY to give back her ex’s diamond ring and put that whole sad episode of her life behind her once and for all. As she boards the train to return to her new home in Richmond, VA, she is determined to take a hiatus from relationships. And next time around, she’ll make sure she spends a good long time getting to know a guy before jumping into any kind of ...
To let go, forgiveness is necessary. Even if the one that needs it is yourself. As a teacher in her hometown of Santa Barbara, California, Abby Sullivan finally feels like she has something to offer. She has a purpose, a wonderful best friend, and a supportive mother. Abby is very talented at many things, especially hiding the pain of her past. That is until her world collides with Caleb Hunter’s. ...
As arable farmland grows scarce, the United States opens up former sections of Indian Territory for homesteading. Those who want to claim land must make a run for it. Rose Calloway feels guilty about living off her sister’s, meager schoolmarm’s wages. She responded to a matrimonial advertisement and sees a promising future with Joshua Kent. Joshua Kent, landless and working as a farrier, sees prom ...
Samantha can't seem to keep any guy she likes. Nor does she appreciate her recent ex flaunting his newfound happiness with his fiancee. She needs an escape. Fast. But gorgeous Henry, her ex's cousin, is the last person she'd expect to step in and save the day. Henry knows Samantha would rather be burned alive than be saved by him. But he needs help with his ailing mother and she needs a new ...
When CC Cippolini is offered a temp job driving a custom car across the country, she leaps at the chance to leave Chicago, put her past in the rearview mirror, and make a fresh start. But one car crash and broken cattle fence later, CC ends up at the home of ruggedly handsome rancher Reese Brockbank. Reese doesn’t hesitate to rescue the reckless woman who has crashed into his life, but when circum ...
Love blossoms between unlikely couples in this tender, heartfelt collection of ten small-town sweet romances! A single-dad cowboy ex-player enters a marriage of convenience; a spunky plus-size cowgirl reluctantly gets a makeover from a city slicker; a struggling single mother reunites with a man whose heart she broke; sparks--and cakes!--fly between two competing co-chefs, and much more. Book 1 ...
A magical novel about destiny, family, food, intrigue, healing, men in kilts, and the sometimes twisted path to love from the award-winning author of Compulsion. "Delightful, charming, and heartwarming." --NYT bestselling author Wendy Higgins
Helping her aunt organize a festival in a picturesque village nestled among the Highland braes of Scotland seems li ...
A man wasn’t on her holiday wish list… His grandfather’s will had made it perfectly clear: Gabriel Kane had to be married by the age of thirty-seven or he’d be denied control of the family business. With only days to go, billionaire Gabriel isn’t above maintaining his deception and using blackmail and bribery to get what he wants. Too bad his friend, Josie, is his only option. But is she desperate ...
Madeline Graham is hard at work on the eve of her youngest sister’s wedding, sewing intricate details into her dress. No one in the household appreciates her fine needlework and poor Madeline feels that she is destined to a life of servitude for her family. Madeline is the eldest sister but the last to find a beau. On her deathbed, her Grandmother persuades her to apply to be a mail-order bride. T ...
Kate Brady never thought she'd set foot in her hometown of Golden Grove again. After all, it was the scene of the biggest embarrassment of her life, back when she was "Katie Braces", the art nerd. But if she's going to make good with the bosses at her design corporation she has to take on a job with Nitrovex, the boring chemical plant in her old hometown. Peter Clark never thought he'd still be in ...
Some days Rhea Cronun felt like Cinderella before she was liberated, but she knows life isn’t a fairy tale. Besides, she doesn’t want a glass slipper or the prince who comes with it. Why would she? She has all the family she needs, along with a new café that she birthed six months ago. The five-star ratings are making her the talk of the town and her days might be full but she’s used to hard work. ...
I never expected to run into Lucas, the brooding forest ranger I once adored. He's a single dad now, and still closed off and serious. But his affection for his daughter lights him up from within. When he asks me to be a nanny for his daughter, I'm hesitant at first. But I can't resist the chance to be close to Lucas again. Sparks fly as I challenge his gruff exterior. But he keeps pushing m ...
nother summer break wrangling for the Marigold Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and boy was last semester a doozy. Whitnee needed to get down and dirty with her favorite equines and forget all about the stress of getting her bachelor's degree. Too bad her ex, Gage, decided to come back for the season, too. As additional responsibility and a fresh wave of guests arrive at the Marigold, she's beginni ...
Petra Kelly's whole life revolves around the stables she manages for her uncle Amos. So much so, that she's spent the last ten years without even a sniff of a date. As far as she's concerned, she's got everything she needs in life and is too busy for romance anyway.
That is until Ted, the farrier, retires and she's forced to use a new blacksmith to shoe her horses.
Harry Milt ...
The last thing Hannah needs is to have the hunky bane of her existence move in next door. But he did. And just in time to witness the collapse of the perfect life she’d always said she’d have. She’s divorced, her youngest son keeps sticking his tongue out at the town gossip, her job doesn’t pay enough, and if she wants to keep her broken family in the same timezone, she’s going to have to move hal ...
After finishing his veterinarian training, Tye Prescott is back in Colorado and ready to give his relationship with Beth another chance, only she's made it very clear she wants nothing to do with him. Beth Walsh is a hopeless romantic, except when it comes to her own love life. In her opinion, love is best left to the storybooks. But when a few nosy octogenarians decide to play matchmaker, she ...
Forced to share a stateroom with her ex-fiancé, Caitlyn fakes amnesia to stay on board her dream Alaskan cruise. Torn over deciding his future, Cruise Director Gregory tumbles into helping her. As they grow closer, unspoken secrets threaten to rip them apart, for good.
