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Delicious Food for Family Gatherings and Holidays. Are you drawn to certain recipes because they bring back memories? A heartwarming story is the hallmark of a romantic read, and every one of my sweet and inspirational romance books contains a recipe submitted by a reader, my beloved mother or grandmother, or friends in Ireland. Now these recipes are all together in one book for easy referral. Savor the magic of my sweet reads—from Tudor to Contemporary, Holiday to Homemade fudge. Enjoy your happiest moments spent in the kitchen, and the recipes created by my characters. Each recipe is a ...

Rachel Lockhart grew up running wild and free with nomadic gypsy children on her father’s estate. Craving adventure, her imagination conjured up an impossibly perfect, grey-eyed man to share it with. Now grown, her outspoken ways are about to send her home from London in disgrace. Until she unexpectedly clashes with an impossibly perfect, grey-eyed man. And the back of her mind echoes with God’s promise: I will not leave you comfortless. As if she’d find comfort with a man as arrogant as Nash Browning.

Losing his wife and daughter to influenza shook James Colchester's faith in God. As another epidemic threatens, he's torn between what's best for his fragile son: fleeing to his Welsh homeland, or staying put. In a moment of weakness, the black-haired, green-eyed Gypsy's delicate touch on his palm quells his fears, and her beauty ignites a warmth he hasn't felt in years. Desperate to return to her people, Valentina Rupa goes against every lesson her mother taught her to soothe the Englishman into a false sense of security.

A florist's Wishing Blooms rekindles the faded Christmas spirit of a disillusioned hometown photographer, but can her cheer, a rescued pup, and the magic of the season revive his holiday hope and love? Ivy Bennett's artistry and vision have made her flower shop the highlight of idyllic Evergreen Valley. But when a scathing article threatens her success, the spirited florist must protect all she's built. Blake Shepherd, a successful but disillusioned photographer, has built his career photographing glamorous events out West. Yet, his true passion lies in capturing the fragile beauty of our ...

Colum O’Brien, a professional ballet dancer, is still hurt from a breakup four decades earlier. All this time, his heart has gravitated toward the woman who left him behind. Sure, he’s moved on with his life, but he’s never forgotten his childhood sweetheart Keira Murphy. That is, until he meets her again. Because, his father is marrying her mother.

In Cora Carpenter’s small California hometown, Christmas is tailor-made for couples. Unfortunately, Cora is a party of one, thanks to a con man who stole her heart, then bilked her out of thousands of dollars. What’s on her Christmas wish list this year? Nothing whimsical. She’ll take a new vacuum cleaner, thanks - and no dating for the foreseeable future. But when she meets a stranger with a broken-down car, his warm smile and perilously blue eyes almost make her want to tweak that list. If only she could get over the pain and humiliation of her past.

Music of both birds and harmonicas fills Max’s life, but it’s the near-silent forest guide he meets in Cherish, SC, who captures his attention. Small and slim, pretty Sarah’s smiles and graceful hands speak louder than her voice. In fact, she’s so quiet, he's not sure he’s made much of an impression. But with her, he can imagine making this temporary stopover into something permanent.

Hardworking accountant Nora Lancaster returns to her modest hometown to help manage an inn that her parents once owned. In order to escape small-town living, she’d married young and moved away. Now, as a single mother of a rebellious teenage daughter, she doesn’t intend to stay long - only a few weeks at most - or until the current owner of the inn recovers from his heart attack. World-weary Julian Wilson is a businessman who arrives in town for one reason - to open another restaurant.

A disillusioned widow longing for a change. A hard-working truck driver looking for love. Will Emily and Joe find their happily-ever-after in a forgotten summer breeze? Widow Emily Varon doesn’t believe in love anymore, and she isn’t wasting her time trying to find it. At her age, she’s learned that life is a daily routine. Rinse and repeat. Safe and secure. And she’s not about to change her ways now. With her hard-won affluence, succumbing to a truck-driver’s invitation to spend a summer weekend together means only one thing. Friendship.

Penelope Reid owns a toy business, and meets an elusive, handsome stranger on a plane trip to Hilton Head Island. Along the way, she confesses her problems and fears, her aspirations, and unrealized goals, while she believes the man is only half-listening. She is a single mother in her late 40s, readjusting to her life after a difficult divorce, and raising a challenging 12-year-old son. Two months later, she comes into direct contact with Jacob Williams, the new pediatrician in town, and the man she met on the plane.

Faith is fragile. Faith takes time. Alone in a mountain cabin near Cherish, North Carolina, David wrestles with his inner critic as he struggles to put brush to canvas. Until he meets a luminous woman who dispels his crippling fear with her warmth and laughter. Ashley’s optimism is a balm to David’s hurting soul. Yet as their attraction warms, Ashley senses David is holding something back—and that saving her own dream is intimately tied to restoring his faith.

The last thing she can fix is her own life. Until one man’s offer changes everything. There’s been one constant in Belle Boots’ nomadic life. Horses. She’s lived in Roses, North Carolina, for a couple years, but lately the universe seems to be telling her it’s time to pack up her equine therapy practice and move on. Maybe Florida. Or California. But when she’s offered a horse-friendly fixer-upper near where she grew up, her usual sense of adventure gives way to a longing for something familiar. Salt air, wheeling seagulls, summer sand between her toes. Wilmington. Home.

Holiday love and romance are in the air—but Shanice Williams will be spending the second most popular date night of the year alone, agonizing over selling the quirky old farmhouse she inherited from her beloved grandmother. The money would help save her struggling landscaping business, but emotionally, she can’t bear to part with a place so filled with memories—especially of Lincoln Reid, her mad teenage crush. Then she accidentally overhears his heartbreakingly familiar voice, and she realizes Lincoln still makes her heart race.