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Christmas Trees and Mistletoe

When long-buried betrayal is uncovered, can the magic of the season heal old wounds? A story of friendship, love, and second chances in the second half of life After her divorce, Kathleen moved closer to her daughter and grandchildren, hoping to get to know them better and find a new place to belong. Not ready to retire, Kathleen bought the local toy store only to find that, after sinking a large ...

A Royal Christmas Fairy Tale

From Karen Schaler, the Emmy Award-winning writer of Netflix sensation A Christmas Prince, comes this next feel-good royal romance, filled with humor, heart, and hope, featuring an exclusive excerpt from Schaler’s new sparkling holiday novel, Love Always, Christmas! A charming Christmas village, a storybook castle, a royal ball, and a gorgeous prince are the last things New York City reporter Kayl ...

Dear Beth: a Prescott Family Romance novella

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 ...

The Gingerbread House

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 ...

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

Wedding Cake and Big Mistakes

Welcome to Adams Grove…where the wedding cakes are sweet, but the recipe is murder. For years, Carolanne Baxter dreamed of a life beyond Adams Grove. Being the daughter of the town drunk was no picnic, so when college offered her a chance for escape, she took it. Now Carolanne has returned home, finally ready to make amends with her father, Ben, and to celebrate the wedding of her best frie ...

Eclipsed by Love, Books 4-6

Enjoy reading these second three romances inspired by the 1878 total solar eclipse. In the first book, Mail Order Blythe, Eli Morgan’s mother gives him two letters from prospective brides. Eli promises to write before the end of summer. Once he finds the woman he chooses to marry, he convinces his two professor friends—a wedding gifts—to each take a letter and send a response. FIGGY PUDDING BY F ...

No More Poodle Skirts

When the love of her life died suddenly, Daphne Madison retreated to the innocent age of the 1950s when all a girl had to worry about was keeping her bobby socks and the pompom on her poodle skirt a brilliant white. With years of support from her loving and zany family, Daphne finally found a bit of shaky courage and faced the long, long journey out into a world she wasn’t sure she wanted to live ...

Cross-Country Christmas by Laurie Lewis

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 ...

My Perfect Life at Cornish Cottage

A deliciously romantic and humorous read about love, loss and starting again.

Sophie Bailey is your typical yummy mummy. She lives in a small village where life is all coffee mornings and party plan. You may think she has the perfect life - she certainly did until she woke up one morning and her husband dropped a life changing bomb into the mix. Maybe I should let her explain.

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Eccentric Intimacy

He’s no normal person—but that’s what intrigues her the most. And he likes the fact that he can’t deduce everything about her at first glance. She does things that aren’t recognizable—simply because these things are original. There’s something about these two that makes the other curious—and that curiosity is what unconsciously keeps them together longer than they’ve ever been with anyone else bef ...

Lily's Second Chance

Swept into a dazzling charade by my former crush, his fake proposal blossoms into a floral fantasy. A pretend Valentine's Day wedding is his clever business strategy. High school chemistry brought us together, but I was too shy, and he was leagues above me. Alex is now a billionaire CEO, desperate to shield his legacy from a conniving cousin's thorns. He pledges to rescue my flower bus ...

The Raven Witch of Corfu - Episode 2

Escape to sunny Corfu but beware... Lizzie does her best to help her brother adjust, and together they set out to do the witch’s bidding, in the hope that if they do as she asks she will finally let them be. The witch’s ravens are forever spying on them or paying them a visit, but soon the sight of them becomes welcome as Lizzie and Tom’s efforts start to pay off. Slowly, they begin to have some f ...

Life's Second Chances

Angelina Samuels has lost the only job she’s ever held. A last minute interview lands her a new teaching job just days before the school year is about to begin. It turns out to be the best thing that could have happened when she realizes that her best friend from college, Gabriella Alvarez, is also a member of the teaching staff. Gabriella’s brother, Alejandro, relocates to his hometown after havi ...

Want You Back

Bethany: In high school, I was the bullied thin, painfully shy, awkward girl who vowed never to return after graduation even if it meant leaving behind Lincoln, the one kind boy who saw the real me. These days this ugly duckling has reinvented herself as a runway model, believe it or not. But trouble has a way of finding me and the only way I can fix it is to return to the town that never loved ...

Christmas on King Street

Alice's flower shop is in trouble, and her boyfriend has yet to propose. She's weary and disillusioned, so when her boyfriend suggests a trip to visit family and friends in Charleston, South Carolina, she's eager to go. But a discovery at her friend's vintage store reveals a decades-old music box with a secret that may just help Alice find what she needs this Christmas. In 1942, witty Kit and a ...

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 ...

A Doctor's Promise

Dr. Jared O'Connor has given his parents a promise--to find his dead brother's fiancee and child. But his mission is derailed when he meets beautiful flight nurse Shelly Bennett. The sadness in her eyes, mirrors his own, and he is drawn to her and to her young son in a way he's never experienced before. Shelly can't afford to be distracted by Jared's attention. Her son's upcoming testing may confi ...

Christmas in July

Sylvia Moore returns to Dickens during the annual Christmas in July festival, hoping to land the New England location for a new Christmas romance movie. She knows the town will award only one filming permit a year but is confident the deal’s in Santa’s bag. After all, she’s the hometown girl with the hometown advantage. But her rival, Chase Ellis, is also in town, and he’s out to grab the Dickens ...

The Billionaire's High School Reunion

Friendship turns into young love, a nasty breakup, and, maybe, a second chance. Can this billionaire make his great life perfect? Blake Murphy wants redemption. More than that, he wants a second chance. He'd been avoiding his home town since the day he left for college. Trista Kennedy would be there, and he had no idea how he'd face her after the way he'd treated her. But now, he'd find out. His h ...

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 ...

An Exceptional Twist

What’s a girl to do when the one person she’s been forewarned about is the only one that her heart desires? Leah Valdez is a sassy, intelligent, hard-working woman whose beauty shines from both inside and out. Friends and family have always come first, but it's time for her to start thinking about her own future. Stefen Hunter is a rich, charming, sexy playboy. With seemingly no effort on his part ...

Cabin Mate

When the woman of my dreams finally becomes available, all bets are off. I lost a bet to my older brother. My evil, life-ruining older brother. (Okay, maybe that’s a little over-dramatic). Now I can’t go on a date for FOUR months. I can’t even touch a woman. No hand holding. Forget kissing. I’m walking the straight and narrow (AKA dateless and lonely) just fine. Until my best friend (the woman I’v ...

Together for Christmas

Four sweet and clean Christian romances to warm your heart! Snuggle up with these faith-filled stories of hope and love, celebrating the true meaning of the holiday season. Visit London for a Scrooge accountant's fake Christmas dates with a Hollywood heart-throb. Experience New Year’s Eve in Edinburgh when a grumpy wounded photojournalist, the last man she wants to accept help from, assists a sun ...

Chloe's Second Chance

Sparks fly when fate throws this nerdy band girl back into orbit with the bad-boy heartbreaker who humiliated her. As a wedding planner, I thrive on helping dreams come true. I’m orchestrating a breathtaking New Year's Eve wedding in my hometown. But chaos crashes the party when the DJ bails at the last minute. Enter Dylan, the dreamy childhood crush who shattered my heart. He’s the ...

Tangled Paths

Is it possible to flee your past? Or does it sit patiently, waiting for your return? Tired of traveling the world in order to escape reality, Bri Hunter has finally found a place to call home. Settled into Santa Barbara, close to her brother and cousin, she's ready for a little peace. Wanting to avoid the tormenting, incessant calls she receives, she throws herself into helping her sister-in-law's ...

Intertwined Hearts

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. ...

Street Dog Dreams

What if dogs were royalty and humans their loyal servants? Hop aboard our invisible flying machine as Aunt Maddie and Uncle Horace join an international search for a new dogdom. The Royal Canines are recruiting street dogs who want a better life with devoted humans who speak the language of dogs. As foretold in an enchanted tapestry, their dream will turn an abandoned village in Sardinia, Italy, i ...

Christmas Stray

Paperback ON SALE, Large Print Available

2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Award Winner!

"Touching story of love and miracles." - Chantel Rhondeau

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lessons in Bee Keeping

Confront the past. Heal the present. Olivia is torn when her brother-in-law, Lukas, shows up in town with an unexplained child in tow. Her husband, Jake, wants nothing to do with Lukas. The bad blood between them started in adolescence, and Lukas hasn’t stopped causing trouble since. It doesn’t help that Olivia dated Lukas in high school. Olivia knows Lukas needs help, and without it, his child ...

Better Together

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 ...

A Beastly Scandal

In November 1812, after a disastrous Season when Belle's unusual talent for sensing what's unseen lets her down and results in a man's death, a chance to atone for her past mistake sends her dashing to a haunted manor in the wilds of Cheshire, England, in the middle of a snowstorm. There, she meets the beastly Lord of the Manor and becomes embroiled in a mystery to unmask a killer. Belle struggles ...

Healing Hearts

The Scandalous Billionaire: A Sweet Clean Billionaire Fake Marriage Romance

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 ...

The Art of Falling in Love with Your Best Friend

The realization that you’ve fallen for your best friend is, for me, pretty scary. It’s not that Reid is all the way in the stratosphere out of my league, it’s more like I want to get it together so I’m not the one who feels so inadequate. But when I take ten steps forward, I’m shoved twenty steps back and left wondering if we’d be a good match in the end. And I want the best for my friend…ev ...

Somebody Like You

When Laurel Stone's garden center is targeted by vandals, she comes face-to-face with the man who once broke her heart: Aiden Gallagher. Aiden's now one of Darling's Finest, but the memory of how he hurt Laurel back in high school has stuck to his conscience. Helping her get back on her feet is the least he can do to make it up to her. And, as time goes on, he realizes how much he cares for the wo ...

Somebody Like You

Strike One ... in one night, Brooke Miller loses her boyfriend, her job and possibly her reputation. She vows revenge on her old boss by bringing a defunct vineyard back to its former glory. But ex-baseball star Billy Turlock swoops in and buys her dream vineyard.

String of Hearts: A Sweet Single Dad Romance

When widower Ryan Tupper walks into the Pinwheel Plant Shop, owner Avery Wheeler is surprised to see her brother’s best friend from high school and confused by her attraction to him. It’s only been six months since Avery’s husband died in a car accident and she’s had zero desire to date again, but Ryan knows what it’s like to be the spouse left behind. While he’s been adjusting to his new life ...

Ambassador's Bride

In a dystopian future where humans have foolishly squandered Earth’s natural resources, the few remaining people are becoming desperate. Crowded in huge underground cities, they’ve finally come to the end of the line and they must decide whether or not they will trade the only valuable resource Earth has left... Women. Being the daughter of a wealthy diplomat, Rose is blissfully ignora ...

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 ...

Amish Heritage Series (3 Book Series)

From Book 1: Beth is in love with Jonah, a love that would seem could never be broken, but when Jonah informs her he has to leave their community because of a duty to his Englisher friend, Beth's world is thrown into turmoil 
Beth Fisher is living the dream. Strong and happy in her faith and about to become a baptized member of the community, she has every reason to believe that her ...

Merritt and Her Childhood Crush

I said I’d never set foot on Oakley Island again. Not so long as HE lived there. But after my life implodes, I’m reconsidering EVERYTHING. Including my reasons for avoiding the first—and only—man I’ve ever loved. I’m a high achiever. Driven. Maybe a little TOO driven. So when my boyfriend confesses to cheating AND steals the promotion I’ve been working toward for years, I do the unthinkable for so ...

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.

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 ...

Season of '72

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 ...

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 ...

Happy Returns

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 ...

The Invisible Woman in a Red Dress

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 ...

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 ...

A DEAD RED CADILLAC

#1 in THE DEAD RED MYSTERY SERIES Like Janet Evanovich? Sue Grafton? You’ll love this humorous mystery series! Deeply buried and deadly secrets resurface with a drowned Cadillac Her trophy red Caddy has been hijacked and now police ask how an elderly woman, who couldn’t possibly see beyond the hood ornament, is found strapped into the driver’s seat and six feet under water?

A DEAD RED HEART

#2 in the Dead Red mystery series When a troubled, homeless veteran covers her vintage Cadillac with paper snowflakes, Lalla Bains decides a showdown is needed. Unfortunately, she arrives too late for that conversation---he’s lying in a pool of blood, stabbed with his own scissors. But someone is watching, and now a killer has targeted her for murder.

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.

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 ...

Falling For My Forsaken Boss

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 ...

It Started with a Note

Avery Parks loves her job in the Admissions department. She really does. It's nice and calm and...far too predictable.

Just like her personal life.

She has big dreams—how would she ever realize them if she stays in her current rut? She needs to take a big, bold, daring move to shake her out of her humdrum life. Like taking a vacation to Belgium to see her childhood friend.

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The Waiting Room

The Waiting Room is a delightful romp with three women who meet in the waiting room of a doctor’s office and grow to become life-long friends. After Allison’s roommate goes missing and later is found dead, the man they identify as a suspect stirs up trouble for them. Fortunately, life has its way of making things right, and so it was left to the three women to see things through to the end and cor ...

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 ...

Christmas Lovebirds

Paperback (on sale), large print also available.

A sweet holiday romance that will delight your heart.

A mix-up between lovebirds brings Melisa Hart face to face with the dashing Dr. Rob Reed, the man she crushed on her entire life.

Unfortunately, he’s not welcome in her large Irish family. He’s not a firefighter like her father and brothers, and t ...

It's Complicated

He’s an over-achieving perfectionist. She doesn’t tolerate bossy men. Grant Foster is organized, focused, and hardworking—or as his younger sister calls it, neurotic. When the opportunity of a lifetime—becoming the Vice President of Marketing—is within his grasp, he is determined to succeed. He must rely on the help of an accomplished and beautiful coworker to achieve his goal. A coworker who is a ...

Racing Hearts

Relish the romantic journey as two close friends slide into love! Stock car legend, Tom "Torque" Tyler, faces a bleak future following an horrific off-track car wreck. Thanks to a traumatic head injury, he's developed epileptic seizures and can never race again—a powerful blow to this adrenaline junkie. To avoid tabloid reporters and well-meaning friends, Tom holes up in a cottage protected by ...

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