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Christmas is approaching, and private investigator Geneva Pomolo is spending a blissful week at a local bed and breakfast. But her hopes of a few idle days spent reading and relaxing are shattered by a scream in the night. A woman stumbles into her room with a strange tale of ghostly apparitions and a phantom figure clutching his severed head. Geneva dismisses the story as the ravings of a fantasy-prone woman, but soon it becomes clear that the bed and breakfast is crowded with more ghosts than a Dickens novel.

Geneva Pomolo and her investigating partner, Iris Reeves, visit a local nightclub where up-and-coming entertainers read poetry and perform music. A young folk singer named Leora Kismet is interrupted during her performance by Mrs. Maribel Smythe’s ranting about “depravity” and “the end of days”. The rich widow’s outburst provokes consternation and confusion — all the more so when she is found dead on her front porch just a few days later.

The last thing Lindy Cook wants to do is leave Yorkshire behind. The countryside is the only home she’s ever known, and its splendid landscapes lift her spirits even amidst trouble, so does Titus, the bright-eyed country boy who’s always been her dear friend. Lindy’s troubles are many. Papa has gone to London for work; Mama is quite unwell, and her two little brothers constantly need to be fed and cared for. With no resources, she has no choice but to pack her little family into a stifling railway carriage headed for a whole new world - a world she doesn’t understand.

With Iris now dating and working on her first novel and Geneva reaping the benefits of being the most famous amateur sleuth in northern Indiana, things seem to be looking up for the crime-solving duo. That is, until the day they go shopping at a high-end clothing store and discover a scene of carnage. Marilyn Abshire, 77, the genius impresario behind Sunday Chic, is found run down in a deserted alley.

Annie Hershberger’s engagement doesn’t last 24 hours before her fiancé backs out and dumps her. Devastated and humiliated, she flees to Hollybrook to work in her uncle’s toy shop. Maybe this move will give her the new start she desperately needs. But Annie doesn’t count on an accidental shooting and the painful loss of one of Hollybrook’s youngest. She doesn’t count on meeting the victim’s grieving brother or the compassion for him that stirs in her heart. She doesn’t count on her father insisting she come home to attend her former beau’s wedding to his new fiancée.

With a broken heart, James Clyde’s swears he’s done with love. His marriage will be one of convenience, only to ensure an heir to the family ranch. But when Alisha Smith shows up in Culver’s Creek, it’s clear all bets are off. Alisha is smart, stubborn, compassionate, good with horses...and the most beautiful girl he’s ever seen. On top of that, she’s the kind of girl who believes in love at first sight. And her first sight of James might be enough to prove her theory true. But Alisha’s got her own sad story, the kind of past all too familiar to James.

Sophie Connor has only known love once in her life and when he marries another, she is faced with a choice. Either spend the rest of her life as a sad old maid, haunting the lower stories of her parents home, or agree to become a Mail Order Bride to a man in Mountain Pass, Oregon. But the man she becomes engaged to has a tragic history of his own. Sophie falls for her husband to be at first sight. Tall, handsome, kind—and not given to long speeches—Evander Holland is exactly the sort of man she hoped he would be.

Twenty-year-old Naomi Lambright has always harbored a fervent desire to teach at her local Amish schoolhouse. Her anticipation peaks as she awaits the deacon's offer for the coveted position. Yet, her dreams crumble when he announces the role has been given to Silas Yoder, who soon arrives in town with his two young dependent cousins in tow.

Shane Ellis is in dire straits. With a ranch to run, his brother’s children to take care of, and nothing but tragedy in his romantic life, he’s got his hands full. When his mother becomes injured, he’s left with no choice but to bring someone in to help. Local girl Trudie Stevenson is willing to help a handsome bachelor out, but instead, he sends for a Mail Order Bride, Clara Goodwin.

After a devastating end to an engagement, Mary Wittmer finally finds contentment as a live-in caregiver for Dinah, an elderly woman in the Amish community. Mary tends to the household but becomes frustrated with the ragged condition of the property. Despite fixing what she can, the house and outbuildings need carpentry work. After Mary falls off a ladder, Dinah requests help from her grandson.

Private investigator Geneva Pomolo and her partner Iris Reeves are busier than ever. An old foe has challenged them to a contest to see which pair of friends can take the most one-day courses at the local community college. Never one to shirk from a challenge, Geneva now has her hands full three evenings a week learning the basics of sailing, baking, watercolors, Olympic sports, and mystery writing.

Eli King returns to Rock Point, Ohio, reluctantly summoned by his father's passing and the responsibility of managing the family farm. As he grapples with the ghosts of his past, including his first love, Beth Brubaker, Eli finds himself thrust back into the harsh reality of gossip and suspicion. Meanwhile, Beth is caught between her affection for Eli and her growing courtship with Phillip Mueller, whose animosity toward Eli threatens to tear apart the fragile peace of their Amish community.

Katie Smucker didn’t set out to break the rules. The first time she saw her shunned sister and spoke to her, she nearly buckled with guilt. But every time after that, it got easier and easier. Both Katie’s sisters have left their Amish roots. Katie’s heart breaks every time she thinks about her mother never seeing her two grandchildren. Is there any way Katie can intervene? But how, without taking even more risks…

Alice Thorton is only five years old when her parents are killed in an accident. Together with her two little sisters, she is sent to live in a dismal part of London near the docks. Her grandfather loves them, but Christmas is a quiet, lonely affair in his little cottage. As the streets surrounding them turn dangerous, the girls are confined to the cottage. Alice’s only friend is Charlie Tillman, a cheerful young dockworker who is always looking out for her and her sisters.

Eliza Montgomery has always lived under someone else's direction. So, when her overbearing father passes away, she is at a loss—for the first time in her life, the choice is up to her. Applying to a matrimonial agency, she agrees to become a Mail Order Bride for a farmer in Culvers Creek, Montana.

When Tom Knox decides to take his best friend’s advice and write for a Mail Order Bride, he figures it will be a marriage of convenience—someone to help him around the ranch and to keep him company. But when his intended bride arrives, it turns out to be anything but convenient… May Chapman, an heiress adrift, flees the stifling expectations of London high society for the promise of a fresh start. Boston was to be her salvation, but when fate uproots her plans, she finds herself venturing to the rugged plains of Texas.

Sarah Jennings hasn’t had an easy life. Raised in an orphanage, she’s desperate to get away. Answering an advert for a mail-order bride seems to be her only choice. Jack Thompson is well-known as a catch in Mossy Meadow, Nebraska. But he’s a widower, with a little girl and a mother to care for. More than that, he never recovered from the death of his first wife. The last thing he wants is to marry again. But his mother takes the choice out of his hands and writes an advert for a mail-order bride.

When Belva, six, is abandoned at the workhouse, she naively believes her mother, Grace, will come back for her. In the bleakness of her new reality, she also misses her dear friend, Hayden, who always made her laugh. Hayden, nine, doesn’t know where his friend Belva has gone. She’s nowhere to be found, no matter how much he searches for her. As he grapples with the responsibilities of caring for his siblings, he makes a solemn vow—to reunite with Belva, no matter the cost.

In the wake of losing both her parents, young Joanna believed Bernard Woods was the solution to all her problems. It’s only after her baby, Della, is born that Joanna discovers Bernard is a scoundrel and a drunkard, more interested in gambling than in caring for his little family. When Bernard’s past catches up to him and Joanna finds him dead, police suspect she was the one who drove the knife into his heart. She has no choice but to take her baby and flee into the perilous streets of Victorian London, where children are a commodity and women a convenience…