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The Nearness of You (The Thorntons Book 1)

The last thing Sara Flannigan needs is a man in her life. When she returns to her hometown, she vows to create a happy life for her son and to rebuild her life after a painful divorce. Yet when she meets her son’s new doctor, she can’t deny the spark of attraction that heats between them.

Heal Me (Coopers Creek #2)

After her fiance dies, Kate Donoghue has picked up the broken pieces of her heart and moved on. She’s sworn off men and is building a new life in Coopers Creek, Colorado as the local vet and senior member of the mountain rescue team. So why now is she suddenly distracted by the seriously sexy investment banker come cowboy, Ric Standford? The man screams big city playboy but what can it hurt to ind ...

Roses for Rachel

A DEMENTED STALKER THREATENS A SINGLE MOM, vandalizes her home, and sabotages her work. After her husband's murder, Rachel Santos struggles to raise her young daughters alone. How will she protect them from the mysterious lunatic who's out to get her? Rachel finds herself relying on the faithful protection of her kind coworker, Elliot Truman. But can she summon the courage to risk her heart ...

A Watchman for Willow

Ever since her husband was killed in a logging accident, Willow Morrow has been struggling to take care of her two-year-old daughter, Ila Mae, and survive. Left with limited funds and no family or friendship ties to the area, the lumber owner brought her to Sonora, California, the largest nearby city, and dumped her off with her husband’s final paycheck and two weeks extra wages. She feels fo ...

Summer's Squall

Baltimore City Police Detective, Abe (Lank) Lankton, assumes he'll be helping his cousin solve a minor problem when she calls and asks him to fly west. When he learns that he's been called out there to aid in capturing an elusive stalker, his first instinct is go straight back to Maryland. However, when he meets the alluring victim, Summer Cooper, all bets are off. With his future, and his own lif ...

St. Patrick's Shenanigans

The first task for new Butte Chamber of Commerce manager, Mitzi Lambrecht, is to organize the board of directors’ entry for the St. Patrick’s Day float. She’s advocating for a frontier theme honoring early settlers like her ancestors. But she’s opposed by a handsome but infuriating jokester. Declan Rourke is proud of his Irish roots and wants their contribution included in the float’s design. ...

Rescued

Breaking down in a nowhere town called Providence wasn’t part of the plan. When her life falls apart in a matter of hours, all single mother Amy Lawson wants is a fresh start. She doesn’t expect to break down and find herself at the mercy of strangers. Securing a safe place for her and her daughter to stay means accepting the help of a mysterious, brooding mechanic. Widower and grieving father, Be ...

Finders Keepers, Cowboy

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 ...

Always, Ransom (Three Rivers Express Book 1)

The Express took men and rode them hard across the West. That adventuring spirit belonged to men full of life, ready for whatever met them on the trail, everything, except for love. Ransom McCain was the last man hired to ride for the Three Rivers station, but he was chosen to take the first ride west because he could think on his feet. Tensions are high because there are people determined to make ...

Love From Afar

What happens when two little sisters become self-appointed matchmakers? Best friends Tillie and Lula are tired of watching Tillie’s older sister and Lula’s older brother admire each other from afar. Determined to bring their siblings together, they hatch a most brilliant plan. After all, it’s perfectly acceptable to indulge in mischief if it’s for a good cause, right? Meredith Waller has an excell ...

Thanksgiving in Welcombe Bay

Christian Second Chance for Lasting Love stories in idyllic Welcombe Bay. Recovery & Redemption love story of forgiveness from Kate Darroch, holder of the 2022 Incipere award for Best Christian Fiction and many more book awards including a Readers Favorite Gold Medal. A caring Christian community saga of people who missed out on Lasting Love first time around and now - maybe - have a second ch ...

Ten Dates

Can her online dating disasters turn into true love? Or will she lose the perfect guy in 10 Dates?

”Lacy’s books are just so darn cozy and wholesome, without being cloying.” WendyTheSuperLibrarian book blog

Lacy Williams is the USA Today bestselling author of the acclaimed Wyoming Legacy and Cowboy Fairytales series.

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A Chance Mistake

By the flip of a coin, famous novelist Kory Slate travels to Wales intent on finding rest and relaxation. His latest bestseller has left him freaked out, and he begins to suspect he's being followed. An intriguing bookstore piques his interest. He is astonished to meet Dafina Perry, the spitting image of the beauty in his book. As his unusual vacation progresses, he inexplicably finds himself play ...

The Glass Road: Prescott Family Romance #2

Austin Wright had bigger dreams than to inherit his grandfather’s old property, but with the help of his nephew and a few volunteers, he decides to reopen the idyllic summer camp of his youth. Following her accident at the first triathlon of the season, Tess Prescott’s dreams of the Olympics are shattered, and when her brother volunteers her to work at his friend’s summer camp, she is anything ...

Baby, Just Say Yes

After a terrible car accident, Laura’s memories of the life she and Steve shared since childhood are gone. They return to their home and routine, in hopes that her memories will come back on their own. Steve is determined to do whatever it takes to win back her love and get back on schedule with their wedding as planned---memories or not. His intentions are to keep things simple, though the days t ...

The Heir

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 ...

Loving Lila

A time for love in nineteenth century America, a time to be thankful. Shortly before she prepares to start her third year courses at the University of Iowa, Lila Cleod is called home. She leaves the Sewell family where she also works as a nanny and boards the train for Denver, Colorado. Her father has died. After the funeral, she will learn if he left her, his oldest daughter by his first marriage ...

NEXT TO YOU

Some rules are meant to be broken Pretending to be Marcel Saunders’ girlfriend is by far the worst idea Kendra Hayes has ever heard, and she certainly doesn’t want to spend Christmas Day pretending to be something she is not. She knows full well that being added to Marcel’s very long list of girlfriends—fake or real—can only end in disaster, especially as he is not only handsome, but has a genu ...

The Farmer's Wife

The secret they've kept can either bring them together or tear them apart. Youngest sibling and only sister, Kim Luchetti returns to the Illinois family farm after her father's heart attack. Eight years ago she vowed never to return, believing only distance would allow her to forget the tragedy that broke her heart. Returning means she must face everyone's questions, including those of her first l ...

A Small Town Christmas

Experience the magic of Christmas with two enchanting romances set in small towns. Sweet Yuletide Desperate to escape her new stepfamily over the holidays, Sheridan DeMarco decides to housesit in a quaint coastal town. Her dream of spending Christmas alone, however, is shattered when she finds herself sharing the cozy beach cottage with a stranger, Michael "Mikey" Patterson. A kiss under the mistl ...

Inking the Deal

Second chances aren't guaranteed... Motorcycle enthusiast, Mickey Diaz, loves the small town of Cataluma, CA where she grew up and now owns a successful tattoo shop. At twenty-eight, she hasn't found "The One" yet, and isn't sure she ever will, but she has plenty of non-romantic relationships that are fulfilling. Mostly. Besides, the only guy she ever loved was all wrong for her and broke her ...

Fields of Glass: Prescott Family Romance #3

Micah Prescott will do anything to save his family's sheep ranch, even if it kills him. With a city-based firm pressuring him to sell and the bank threatening to call in his loan, he has less than a month to figure out a solution to keep the property his father strove so hard to protect. But when a storm rolls in, washing out the only bridge to town and bringing with it an unwanted visitor, he fin ...

Wishful: A Sweet Small Town Romance

Charlie Brandon wanted out of Haven's Mill, but his start-up dreams in LA crashed and burned when he began a relationship with the wrong woman. The only place he can think to go? Right back to where he started. Dee Stewart was never popular in high school, which is why Charlie never gave her the time of day. That didn't stop her from having a heart-melting crush on him from the first day right up ...

The Sweetheart Plant: A Sweet Fat Girl Romance

When Pinwheel Plant Shop delivery driver, Amos Finch, who is hard of hearing, accidentally mixes up the cards on two Valentine's Day deliveries, he ends up giving wannabe ASL interpreter Petra Dylan a heartleaf philodendron from a secret admirer who isn't admiring her. Which Amos thinks is a shame, because Petra is just the kind of woman he admires. Petra, whose "for now" job is at the Secondhand ...

The Raven Witch of Corfu - Episode 4

Lizzie waited twenty years to return to Corfu... Lizzie plucks up the courage to tell Stamatis everything about the witch, who has now revealed her true motive and doesn’t seem to ever intend to let her go. Soon, Lizzie teams up with a powerful ally who proves to be her only hope. All she has to do now is trust… But can she do it? Will Corfu ever be again the perfect paradise she once knew? "I'm u ...

A Mother's Heart

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

Eclipsed by Love, Books 1-3

Enjoy reading these first three romances inspired by the 1878 total solar eclipse. Although the books were originally published in several multiple author projects, for the first time I have put them in order of occurrence. MAIL ORDER BLYTHE – the book that started it all. Blythe is forced out of her job as a maid after her employer discovers she is with child due to the lecherous behavior of ...

The Amish Cowboy's Second Chance

Can love find a home for a runaway cowboy and the Amish woman he left behind? Noah Detweiler thought he’d left his Amish life forever. After years on the Albertan prairie as a cowboy, he’s finally found peace with God and purpose at Second Chance Ranch working with special needs children. But when he discovers time is running out for any hope of reconciliation with his father, Noah is forced to ...

Heart of Crystal (Book One: Trust Me)

Crystal was permanently scarred by her ex-boyfriend last semester. After a few months of attending a writers’ group she joined as a form of therapy, Mario, the group leader and a spoken word artist, asks her out. She is reluctant to start another intimate relationship, so things are further complicated when a second group member pursues her and causes her to question what she really knows about ei ...

Marrying the Single Dad

Building a new life for himself and his preteen daughter brings Joe Messina home to Harmony Valley. That and showing his town that the onetime bad boy is now a responsible single father. His first move is to get his grandfather's defunct garage up and running. Except now he's got the FBI poking around, and there's a beautician with her eye on the abandoned auto parts. An artist who's happiest turn ...

A Hand-Me-Down Heart

Second hand, never used. Vintage Condition. Grace Stavenaugh has lived her life in the shadow of her older sister. Even as children, Hope was always the talented one and Grace the smart one. Hope received the attention, the boyfriends, and the beautiful clothes; Grace received the hand-me-downs. The leftovers never bothered Grace, until it came to one boy. Her sister went through boyfriends and th ...

A DEAD RED GAMBLE

#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 ...

Full Circle

What if you had a second chance for a first romance?

After surviving a broken engagement, Cassie Ward decides going home to Dragonfly Lake for the summer is exactly the change of scenery that she needs. A relationship of any kind is the last thing on her mind. Yet, when she wakes up in bed with the guy who broke her heart in high school, and no memory of how she got there…her wo ...

The Fourth Law of Kanaloa

"I broke the fourth law of Kanaloa. I made physical contact with a human." Running from her past, a jazz singer finds refuge on the island paradise surrounding Pearl Harbor, but her life is forever changed when Japanese fighters attack and a mysterious man emerges from the sea to save her life.

Heartsong Hills

Amish girls don’t dance. Dancing is against the rules, and Nora Beiler always follows the rules…until a runaway logging truck shatters her world forever. Desperate to heal from the accident, she enrolls in Shuffle off to Fitness, an exercise class at the local senior center. She never dreamed it involved tap-dancing…or just how much she’d love to dance. Exiled from Nashville, country music star ...

Rocky Mountain Diner (Free Novella)

After losing their father and learning local mob boss Caruso wants to collect on their dad’s old gambling debts, Dahlia and Minerva hightail it out of Chicago on a hilarious and sometimes scary journey west. Accompany them on their adventure and be right beside them as they unexpectedly find new friends and face the shadows of their past.

From This Moment

If the creek don’t rise . . . Erin Hennings might be stuck shopping in the petite section for the rest of her life, but what she lacks in stature, she more than makes up for in spunk. Her rough edges and sharp barbs have always kept people at a comfortable distance, but an eighty-pound puppy, a mysterious neighbor, and a new best friend just might break through her tough-girl exterior. They may ev ...

Kayaks and Kisses: A Shops at Sunshine Bay Novelette

Grace has always played it safe until the loss of her best friend prompts her to seek more adventure in her life. Grief-stricken and longing for change, she confronts her fear and embraces the adventures she has always avoided. When David, a seasoned kayak instructor, invites her to take a class, she takes the plunge despite her fears. Awkwardness marks their initial interactions as Grace grap ...

Holiday Luv bundle: Four Christmas Romances

A boxed set of four sweet holiday romances.  

A jilted bride meets a handsome Scrooge.

Love blooms on a Christmas tree farm.

Second-chance at love on a TV bake-off.

A lost dog stirs up Christmas romance for a single mom.

“Warmed my heart and had me believing in the magic of Christmas again!”

— Reader Review

That's My Sister

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 ...

Island of Miracles

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 ...

Love Comes Later

When newlywed Abdulla loses his wife and unborn child in a car accident, the world seems to crumble beneath his feet. Thrust back into living in the family compound, he goes through the motions—work, eat, sleep, repeat. Blaming himself for their deaths, he decides to never marry again but knows that culturally, this is not an option. Three years later, he’s faced with an arranged marri ...

Skinny Dipping

Everyone has a fear. Fear of spiders? Arachnophobia. Fear of small spaces? Claustrophobia. And of course, the fear of being tickled by feathers: pteronophobia. Sophie Smart fears drowning. No, her fear isn’t some made up malarkey like exposedflabophobia (acute paranoia when wearing a swimsuit and baring pasty thighs and a round bottom). Sophie drowned as a child. She died for three minutes. Her ch ...

Christmas at Whispering Creek

A sweet romance set in December. Fall in love with Samantha and Cole as they navigate life's chaos before the holidays. Will this Wisconsin teacher and country boy musician find a love that lasts? Finalist in the Faith, Hope & Love Reader's Choice Awards and in the Angel Book Awards. Samantha and Cole are semi-finalists in the ACFW Carol Awards, too.

Falling For My Small Town Boss Sample

Love ignites as three guarded loners come face to face with three smart and sassy damsels in distress. #1 Falling For My Forsaken Boss I never expected a second chance with 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. He needs a nanny, and I need a job. But I don’t know ...

A Hero at Heart

She’s holding on to her late husband’s memory. He won’t let go of his secrets. Will an old flame light up a second chance at love? Kelsey Swain knows there’s no such thing as a knight in shining armor. Her late husband had one foot out the door when a mysterious accident left Kelsey a widow. Now her only chance to keep her and her young son afloat is to revitalize the family restaurant. She plans ...

Beyond our Forever

Some loves last a lifetime. Ours will live forever... Our story doesn't end with happily ever after. For Bruce and I, it was just the beginning. Marriage, the promise of happiness. That was what everyone saw. However, that was nothing more than a mirage. The reflection of the sun on the desert sand. Our story was imperfect, just as we were. Now, I wander lost in a world I don't know, blur ...

House of Diamonds

Enjoy this sweet sparkler of a modern love tale! Handsome James Huntley the Third faces a challenge or two at his Australian jewelry business. Sparkles fly when newbie jeweler Stella Rhys sets up her home-made jewelry stall outside his shop. She steals the limelight at his expensive PR stunt, and then she steals his heart. Will these dazzling duelling jewelers ever work out what to do with an enga ...

Christmas Wishes Anthology

Twas the night before Christmas and all across the world, thirteen authors gathered to share stories untold. From comedy to dark romance they cover it all. So sit by the fire with your pipping hot drink and read the stories brought to you by ST Nick. This is a multi-author anthology stories may end on a cliffhanger or come with a trigger warning. Please beware before reading.

Mennonite on the Edge: An Unlikely Romance

Though a country-girl at heart, MaryJo can't wait to have a life of adventure in Manhattan with Adam. But an old relationship haunts her, and she begins to wonder if she'll repeat past mistakes.

A trip home gets her more confused than ever. Meanwhile, Adam lands a dream job in the city. Can MaryJo make peace with her past so she can have the life she dreams of with Adam? Will she ever f ...

Pacific Cove Haunted Visions

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 ...

Almost Home

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 ...

Grave in the Garage

A lifeless hand rises ghost-like from a car mechanic's pit. Who does it belong to? And what happened? Annabelle and DI Nicholls set out to solve the murder, but find themselves wrapped up in not one, but three different mysteries. A puppy helps, too.

Love for Christmas

Ten sweet, clean, and heartwarming stories, each featuring a small-town Christmas. Hours of reading enjoyment -- real emotion, faith, humor, and a dash of danger! Reunions, cowboys, second chances, single dads, single moms, friends-to-love, enemies-to-love, finding home and family, plus humor, faith, mystery and suspense abound in these inspiring romances. Each is a complete romance with an uplift ...

Her Homegrown Christmas Wish

All five-year-old Olivia Beacon wants for Christmas is a dad… How on earth is single mom Hannah Beacon supposed to make that happen? To make matters worse, her holiday season is off to a rocky start. Between transferring ownership of the family bakery amid her mom’s decline, raising her young daughter, and the onslaught of Christmas orders, she can’t handle much more. And then her estranged husban ...

Determined Dreamer

She’s been hiding her pain her entire life. If she doesn’t come clean, it could jeopardize the future she’s always wanted… Cologne, Missouri. Kalie hasn’t been completely honest with her family. Telling no one she was bullied since childhood by a classmate, she’s finally taken control of her destiny by buying a small-town coffee shop. But the secrets she harbors could push away her new business pa ...

The Holiday Arrangement

Her mother hired a matchmaker. He’s tired of being set up. Will their holiday arrangement fizzle or sparkle with the new year? Corinne Carter returns to her maiden name and her hometown, ready for a fresh start. But her impatient mother has hired a matchmaker to get the Christmas ball rolling. Jeremy Payne is still finding his rhythm after the failure of a long term relationship. And despite the a ...

Chocolate Cherry Cabin

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 ...

His Small-Town Girl

She’s sweet and wholesome. And hiding something.
He’s back home, resurrecting old ghosts.
One of them is going to get hurt.

Molly arrives in Sutter’s Hollow out of gas and out of options. The rundown ranch seems like a perfect place to hide. Except the man who owns it seems just as dangerous as what’s chasing her.

Cord’s mantra growing up? Get out of Sutter’s Hollow ...

Christmas Romance Short Stories

Two sweet Christmas romances that will be sure to warm your heart. Saving Peters Tree Farm - After the death of her father, Charlotte Peters makes the big decision to move back to Archer Lodge, North Carolina to help her mom and the family’s failing Christmas tree farm. After a quick stop at the local hardware store, Charlotte is confronted with a part of her past she’d nearly forgotte ...

His Christmas Wish

Carly Bishop doesn’t want to come home for Christmas. Hood Hamlet is filled with nothing but heartbreaking reminders of the fiancé and brother she lost six years ago. But her family needs her, so Carly must dig deep to unearth her Christmas spirit so she can give her niece and nephew the best holiday ever. Mountain rescuer Jake Porter believes he could have saved his two friends that fateful day a ...

Wherever Love Finds You

It’s his game. He makes the rules. Rule number one – only he can break the rules. Zach Lowe lives his life without relationships in business and personally. Getting involved doesn’t work well when you’re the Black Knight of Wall Street. Ellora Duvall, the sweet kid who crushed on him in high school, waltzes into the world of corporate finance with the same wide eyed innocence she had in chemistry ...

Abandon Ship

Squalls ahead!


Nicole Crawley’s life is all mapped out—graduate from coll ...

The Raven Witch of Corfu - Episode 1

A terrible evil lurks in the mountain… Lizzie is not your average tourist. She may have just arrived on the idyllic Greek island of Corfu, but her mind is not on having a good time. Far from it, Lizzie has a daunting task to undertake: to claim back her twin brother who was kidnapped twenty years earlier on her previous visit. In a cave. By an evil witch. When Lizzie sees her brother again, she re ...

Lake of Destiny-A Celtic Legends Novel

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 ...

Written In The Stars...

A Father's Dying Wish...Miserable after the failure of her restaurant, chef Grace Cooper receives a deathbed letter from the father she thought was already dead, offering a free vacation at an Alaskan island resort. Exhausted, Grace jumps at the chance to escape, and to learn about the father she never knew. Polaris Island and the Northern Lights Retreat seem to offer everything—ocean, mountains, ...

Lorraine's journey down under

She had given him her heart. He walked out on her.

Lorraine Marshall, age 40, shaken by the loss of her boyfriend to another woman, journeys to the land Down Under to overcome her great sense of emptiness and despair. To her surprise her vacation in Australia transforms her life in unexpected ways. Filled with adventure, suspense, the art world, and romance this is a moving story you wo ...