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Shelley left town with her sister’s fiancé. Now she’s back—a widow with his children. After years away and a tragedy that changed everything, Shelley Hart returns to Harbor Falls with nothing but a beat-up car, a broken heart, and two little girls in tow. Home for the holidays was never in her plans—especially not after the scandal she left behind. But with nowhere else to turn, she’s back in the one place she swore she’d never set foot again. And the first person she runs into? The town’s most reclusive bachelor… And the man she once loved and left behind. Police officer ...

She’s loved him from afar for years. He just wants a break from the spotlight. Can Suzie Hart stir up a match made in country music heaven? Mary Lou Picketts lives a quiet life in Harbor Falls. She’s reliable, practical, and still clings to the kind of dreams she stopped admitting out loud—like the one where she ends up with her not-so-secret crush, country music superstar Nash Rhodes. But Nash isn’t walking up to her front porch anytime soon. And her almost-fiancé Barry Phillips is. He’s sweet. Dependable. And completely unexciting. So when Barry pops the question, Mary Lou ...

Whose past has come back to haunt them?Rebekah McCauley is back home after ten long years of living and working in New York City. She left the Big Apple under circumstances she’d rather not share with her family—not yet, anyway—and wants is time to heal and recover from the mess she’d made of her life. Luckily, her grandparents’ Kentucky bluegrass farm, Wind Ridge, provides the safe haven she craves and the solitude she needs to heal. Collin Kramer, the foxhunter next door, seems determined to infiltrate her peace and invade her quiet sanctuary—not only with his noisy hounds ...

She traded romance for recipes. He’s the ingredient she never saw coming. After a public betrayal by her fiancé—and her sister—chef Suzie Hart returned to Harbor Falls, North Carolina, determined to rebuild her life, one muffin at a time. Now she’s running the Sweet Hart Inn, teaching cooking classes, and writing her dream cookbook. Love? Not on the menu. But when Brad Matthews, her former head chef and secret Asheville fling, shows up on her doorstep—and rents a room under a fake name—Suzie’s carefully measured plans start to crumble. Brad isn’t just back to rekindle a ...

When a heartbroken former ballerina meets a single dad starting over, love finds its rhythm again. Grace Hart thought her future ended the night she lost the two things she loved most—her fiancé and her ballet career. Now she’s built a quiet, safe life running Romantically Yours, a cozy boutique in the small mountain town of Harbor Falls, North Carolina. Love isn’t on her agenda… until new renters move in next door. Divorced attorney Rick Price is ready to trade long hours and courtroom stress for a fresh start with his spirited six-year-old daughter, Izzie. He’s not looking for ...

Snowbound by fate and guided by faith, can two strangers find comfort, courage, and perhaps a Christmas miracle that neither saw coming? When Nora Patterson rear-ends Reverend Rock Peters’ SUV on a snowy mountain road, her Christmas Eve takes an unexpected turn—from lonely to life-changing. Stranded together in an old cabin while a blizzard rages outside, Nora discovers the handsome minister is kind, steady, and far too easy to talk to. She’s spent the year missing her mother and praying for someone to share Christmas with—never imagining that the answer to her prayers might come ...

She swore off men for dogs—but her girlfriends won’t let her give up so easily. When puppy nanny Lyssa Larkin swears off men and devotes herself to dogs, her friends think she’s given up on love. But matchmaking chef Suzie Hart isn’t ready to let the former Harbor Falls Homecoming Queen throw in the towel just yet. Suzie sets up a series of speed-dating lunches at Sweet Hart Inn, hoping to spark romance. Lyssa, however, has more fun sampling double meals than meeting single men—and she sends her dates packing faster than she can clear the dessert plates. Just when Suzie fears ...

Can a small-town doctor heal the one heart he broke long ago? Dr. Sam Kirk was Lucki Stevenson’s childhood best friend…and her teenage heartbreak. Now he’s back in Harbor Falls, charmingly handsome, and living next door. Worse? He’s more irresistible than she remembers. But Lucki learned her lesson years ago: Sam Kirk is trouble for her heart. She won’t fall for the boy next door again. Not even if he’s all grown up and determined to win her back. Lucki has enough on her plate—coaching moody teenagers, dodging an annoying coworker, and trying to ignore the town busybodies who ...

Grace Wisdom has already made one wrong decision this day in the name of sex. She’d be damned if she’d make two. So, she walks out of the job interview of her dreams, leaving her potential employer behind, staring after her like she’s crazy. Has she just made the biggest mistake of her life? Maybe. But Mitch Carson, her potential new boss, doesn’t let her walk away so easily. In fact, he follows her.

She's the maid of honor. He's the best man. Both are keeping secrets.While Kim Martin and Thad Winchester find their happily-ever-after in Roses & Rawhide, their best friends, Jillie Abernathy and Mack Montgomery, end their sleeping bag sharing relationship during the rugged, two-week pack trip into the Colorado San Juan mountains. But when Kim and Thad host their wedding at Thad’s Colorado ranch a few months later, Mack and Jillie must come face-to-face with reality—and with each other. She’s the Maid of Honor. He’s the Best Man. Both are harboring secrets—secrets that could ...

Sydney’s award-winning scones have caught the attention of a rival baker. But while he comes for the recipe, will he stay for the woman? Sydney Hart, owner of Sydney’s Sugar High Bakery, makes the best scones east of the Mississippi and south of the Mason Dixon, and there is an article in Southern’s Best magazine to prove it. But when a mysterious stranger comes to town, stalking Sydney’s scones, and attempting to romance her out of her recipe, will she divulge her secret ingredient? Stone Kellerman, former “best scones in the south” baker, isn’t above romancing the winning ...

Becca North doesn’t want a boyfriend, but Suzie Hart’s matchmaking cooking show has other ideas. Becca North is so over men. Her best friend, Nora, however, treats dating like a sport—and when she ropes Becca into joining a matchmaking segment on Suzie Hart’s brand-new cooking show, Becca has no choice but to play along. Suzie’s plan? A romantic blind date picnic featuring Nora. The problem? Nora’s date has eyes for Becca. Enter Sam Ackerman, landscaper and childhood friend of Suzie’s, reluctantly dragged into the scheme. He’s sworn off relationships, but one look at Becca ...

Stuck? Stalled? Slow to Start?Authors, this book is for you. If you are a new writer, determined to break into the publishing world, you might think you must do it all—which often slows you down. Or worse, shoots you down the wrong spirally, sticky slope that oddly resembles Alice’s rabbit hole. You keep trying to open the doors to success but can’t find the right key. And just when you think you’ve found the right key, the door cracks open a little wider—enough to glimpse what’s on the other side. Another golden key! It’s sure to bring success. Right? And oh! You want that! ...

No one ever kissed her like Ethan. No one. And even after all this time, Brandley remembered his kiss—this kiss—like she’d had one every day since the day he left her. Navy SEAL Ethan MacKay returns to Sweet Grass Ranch to recuperate from an injury suffered on a mission, and eventually help manage the South Dakota family ranch with his identical twin brother, Evan. But he’s been gone too long, and he’s not the man who left the ranch over a dozen years ago. Not by a long shot. His body broken, and hopefully not his mind, he prays what they say is true—that cowboy runs deep in ...

She's from the wrong side of the tracks. He's a rich bad boy with a past. Neither think they are good enough for the other. Mira Featherstone knows her place in life and it's not with Jake Remington. Rich guys play on the wrong side of the tracks, but they don’t bring girls like her home to mama. Since Mira has no expectations beyond the moment, she doesn’t mind playing—and she loves toying with the bad boy lawyer, until it gets her into trouble with her boss, Chandler West. Jake Remington is a wealthy Texas cowboy whose family land borders West Hills Ranch, owned by Chandler West. ...

“I don’t make commitments.” He shrugged. “Me either." “Even so, it will never work, you know, you and me.” Tate remembered thinking that a challenge. “Oh? And why not?” “Because we’re too much alike.” “Could work to our advantage.” She cocked her head. “How so?” “If we’re so much alike, then there will be no surprises.” She pulled back and laughed. “Until the sky falls and one of us doesn’t see it coming.” Detective Jordan Cross has one thing on her mind—get the bastard killing kids in her small southern city, the person she thinks is also ...

She rescued a stray cat… but does her own heart need saving? Dr. Caleb Wyatt thought opening a veterinary clinic in the quiet town of Falls Mountain would be a dream come true. Instead, he’s drowning in chaos—Mrs. Pierson’s poodle has a dating problem, a colicky calf keeps him up at night, and his office looks like a zoo gone rogue. Enter Samantha “Sammi” Jamieson, an administrative assistant with a soft spot for rescue animals—and one particularly mischievous cat. She’s only at the clinic for a checkup, but when she sees how much help the new vet needs, she steps in to lend...

Leaving Noah is a heartwarming tale of love, loss, second chances, and the power of the written word.When a rodeo accident leaves Rock Creek Ranch shorthanded, Connie MacKay travels from South Dakota to Montana to visit her daughter and help with the neighboring ranch’s cattle roundup. Raised on a ranch and comfortable in the saddle, she is determined to help. After decades of working ranches throughout the northwest, Noah Parker heads home to Rock Creek to stay—maybe. That all depends on the reception he gets from family. When he arrives, the last person he expects to see there is ...

When Emma Lavender is called to corporate headquarters at the end of her first week of employment at WestInn Hotels, she is shocked at the proposition offered by the company CEO. So shocked, in fact, she takes him up on his offer. Emma is your average college graduate—eager to make a go of her first job and pay off those student loans. Fresh out of a relationship going nowhere, she leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, behind and heads for the wild west—Billings, Montana. But in Montana, no one takes her seriously or appreciates her southern belle upbringing, except for one man—CEO of ...

Chocolate taster Scott Matthews wants a break from his career, but Jillian Bass’s chocolate shop—and the woman herself—are impossible to resist. When master chocolate taster, Scott Matthews, escapes to Harbor Falls to visit his brother- and sister-in-law, Brad and Suzie Hart-Matthews, he has only one request—no talk about work. He knows Suzie is a celebrity chef and warns against any discussion of the renowned Italian chocolate company, Bianchi Chocolates. All he wants is an uneventful few weeks to get away from the chaos and relax. What Jillian Bass wants is to make a success of ...