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Cops in romance books are always so sweet and protective. Unfortunately, Evie’s life is no romance book. Bookstore owner Evie Fontenot has a mystery to solve. Someone is messing with her bookstore, and there’s no way someone is going to get away with ruining the successful business she created. Her friends insist she report the issues to the police, but based on her history with the law, she knows they’ll be no help. When she meets the bossy and rigid police chief, she knows she’s right. Jake Wilson isn’t sure what’s going on at Boozy Books, but there’s one thing he does know:...

If you found a cougar lounging in your living room, would you run? Or would you hang out with it peacefully? The way you answer this question may be the difference between being generally happy or generally miserable. How do you find happiness in your current life? It’s a choice, and it starts with you. You taking care of yourself. You doing the work. You trying something and if what you try doesn’t work, trying something else. Self-care isn’t selfish, it’s essential. Forget trite self-help advice about bubble baths and smiling, this is self-care for the real world. “What to Do If...

Who would have thought emergency planning would be such a disaster? The small town of Lawson is out of compliance with a state requirement to create a disaster preparedness plan. Not wanting the town to be left unprepared for a major event, the governor sends in his top expert in emergency planning, Stephanie Holly. Steph has spent her entire career in a field that’s dominated by men. She’s clawed her way to the top and she’s not going to let a small-town mayor like Christopher Lawson ruin her perfect track record. She’s going to get him to create a plan if she has to trap him under...

Sometimes you need a bump on the head to help you see what's important. Claire and Jonathon have been engaged for two years, but she has been hesitant to actually set a date for the wedding. When she’s involved in a freak accident, Claire decides that it is finally time to stop dragging her feet and plan the romantic beach wedding they've always dreamed about. She’s ready to spend the rest of her life married to the man she loves, but Claire soon learns that life doesn't always turn out like it’s planned. Beach Wedding is a sweet and unconventional story about second chances, loss, ...

They say you never forget your first love, but what happens when your first love becomes a world-famous rock star? Justin and Peggy were high school sweethearts, but their lives changed when Justin and his brothers made it big as rock stars. Suddenly her sweet and attentive boyfriend was traveling all over the world, partying and living the high life. Then came the night when he hurt her in the worst way imaginable... She vowed to never forgive Justin for hurting her. But when he unexpectedly moves in next door to her twelve years later, bringing her flowers and talking about fate, will she...

She came to town to attend her daughter’s wedding, not fall in love with a wolf shifter! There’s something weird about the small town of Greysden. In her first twenty-four hours in town, a giant wolf jumps on the hood of Sarah’s car, a strange man throws her over his shoulder and says they are fated to be together forever, and her daughter tells her that not only are shape shifters real, but she’s about to marry one. Wolf shifter Hank figured he’d never meet his fated mate. He married for companionship, and now that he’s a widow, he’s content to live in the woods and spend ...

The love spell worked…on the wrong sister! When her sister begs her to do a love spell to attract her true mate, Cami is hesitant. Her magic is glitchy on a good day. But what’s the harm of trying? To everyone’s shock, the spell manifests exactly the man they hoped for, except for one problem…he’s in love with Cami, not her sister. Shapeshifter Stephen doesn’t believe in magic, but he does believe in fate. His wolf knows the truth: Cami is his true mate, the one he’s destined to be together with forever. If only Cami could forget about the spell and listen to her heart… “...

You never forget your first love, but what if, when you meet again, you’re both totally different people? After twenty years away, Penny moves back to the tiny coastal town of Diamond Bay to make a new life for her and her daughter. She’s surprised to learn that Mitch, her high school boyfriend, is also back – and now he’s the Sheriff. Mitch wants to rekindle their romance, but the easygoing boy Penny dated is now a Navy veteran with a bossy streak – just the kind of guy she promised herself to avoid at all costs. With circumstances – and a matchmaker daughter – throwing them ...

When you’re an introvert who works on a ranch, it’s pretty hard to meet women. Unless they fall from the sky… Peter Jeffers spent his entire life working on his family’s ranch. His friends joked that he could have been a grumpy mountain man if Texas wasn’t so flat. But the truth is, the peace and quiet of working on the land suits him. Even if it gets a bit lonely… Dr. Abigail Southerland has a job to do. There’s been a report of animal abuse on the Jeffers ranch, and as the county’s lead animal cruelty investigator, she’s obligated to see if the reports are true. She ...

She doesn't like Christmas, but she sure likes Santa... Forty-year-old Samantha Nicholson has never had much interest in falling in love. Her troubled childhood taught her that the only person she can rely on is herself. She's done well for herself, working her way up through the ranks to manage the second largest department store in the Pacific Northwest. She has a good job, friends, and a little dream house with her very own garden. Everything would be perfect if she could just get through the busy Christmas shopping season and find the perfect Santa to work at the store. It turns out the...

Emily Langdon thought she’d put her traumatic past behind her…until a letter from the adoption agency changes everything. Single and child-free, Emily has spent most of her life focused on her career, resigned to never having a family. But now the baby Emily put up for adoption twenty-one years ago wants to meet her, which means telling her daughter the painful truth about what happened in college. Brian McKenna is like another father to his niece Jane, so when he learns that she’s found her birth mother, he’s determined to keep her from getting hurt. As he gets to know Emily, he ...

Marie’s new boss is a bear. Literally. Marie Caldwell has watched all of her best friends find their fated mates, and despite their best efforts to reject their soulmates, they’re now all living their own version of “happily ever after”. But not Marie. She’s stuck in the same job she’s had for twenty years, slinging cocktails for the shifters of Greysden and worried that life has passed her by. When her boss dies, the wolf shifter thinks it may be a sign to leave town and find something new. She agrees to stay just long enough to help the new owner learn how to run the bar ...

The hunky baseball player has his eye on her, but she knows better than to trust an athlete! Agnes always promised herself to avoid athletes at all costs. The daughter of a hockey player as famous for his philandering ways as his skill on the ice, she learned the hard way that men can’t be trusted. So when she meets a hot younger man who happens to be a Triple A team pitcher, she’s ready to run the other way. Nolan loves three things: baseball, his mama, and the PR executive who’s working with him to bring more publicity to his baseball team. Sure, she’s a little older than him, a ...

Her psychic skills must be on the fritz again…there’s no way that she’s about to fall in love with a wolf! Meri’s family has always been a little bit different. The daughter of a witch and a psychic, she frequently has visions of the future. Unfortunately, they’re seldom very helpful. Want to know if something bad will happen tomorrow? Don’t ask her. But if you’re looking for your lost keys, Meri’s your girl. Most of her visions don’t come true, so when she sees herself curled up with a hot older guy who likes to howl at the moon, she figures it’s just another useless ...

Just when she’d given up on finding her fated mate, he turns up in her kitchen. Pepper Rosewater is known around town as the “mate magnet”. Everyone in the magical town of Greysden seems to find their true love when they’re with Pepper. Shifters, demons, witches…she helps them all, whether she means to or not. Now she’s decided to focus on her newly restored witchcraft and do something she’s always longed to do – learn how to cook. Charles is a magical mutt. He’s part demon, part wolf, part vampire, and one hundred percent grumpy about it. Ever since he turned forty his ...

He's supposed to be watching the rock stars, not their sister... Jen has been managing her family farm alone for years while her famous rockstar brothers tour the world. With their record contract expiring, the guys head home to mend fences with their estranged sister and think about their future. But when the band's bossy security chief Nick moves in too, sparks fly. Nick says he is ready to put down roots, but Jen knows better than to trust someone just passing through town. She's not ready to let down her walls. Unfortunately for her, Nick knows just the way to break them down. Is it a ...

There are two things Lana Lewis avoids like the plague: relationships and holidays. Although she's famous for her epic Halloween parties, family holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas bring back bad memories she would prefer to forget. Unfortunately, the new marketing consultant her company just hired, Ian Sherman, is determined to convert the self-proclaimed Thanksgiving Scrooge into a holiday lover - and a relationship person. Can Ian convince Lana to look past her fears and give holiday love a chance? Maybe if he keeps talking in that distracting English accent… "Thanksgiving Scrooge...

Clothing designer Kat Phillips nearly lost her life escaping her hometown. The tiger shifter did the unthinkable: leave the tiger streak and their autocratic and old-fashioned ways. She’s clawed her way to independence, and now she’s finally in a place where she feels safe and stable. Until a wolf walks into her store and insists that they are fated mates. For contractor Stuart Grey it’s love at first sight, for him and his wolf. Kat insists that she doesn’t feel the same, but even the strongest tiger can’t fight fate forever. Cats and dogs might be enemies, but a tiger and a wolf...

They both believe it’s too late for love, but is it? Now that she’s in her fifties, Stacy Roberts has given up on love. She’s been divorced for ten years, her kids are all grown up, and dating seems like too much work. She’s ready to just enjoy her life and do precisely what she wants, as soon as she gets through her daughter’s wedding… Dave Harkin has just retired from the military. After years of being separated from his kids, he’s looking forward to reconnecting with them and transitioning into a quiet civilian life, starting with attending his son’s wedding. Thirty years...

It was magic when they got together. Until it wasn’t… Growing up as part of the infamous Rosewater family of witches is a lot of pressure, but now that Sage is on her own, she’s ready to be a “normal”. She has one incredible night with a guy she meets at a college party, but when she wakes up, suddenly she actually is a “normal”. The guy she gave her virginity to somehow drained her magic and disappeared! Edward has been searching for his lost soulmate for four years. When he suddenly has a psychic vision of her kissing another man, he heads out to the town of Greysden to find...