Star Light, Star Bright

Sydell Voeller

When Chyenna Dupres and her daughter move to a small town in Oregon, Chyenna leases a historic inn there. She plans to turn it into an upscale eatery, despite strong resistance from some of the locals. Her most vocal objector is cattle rancher Blair Westerman, who has relocated from L.A. to protect his own daughter from the "evils" of city life.

Chyenna and Blair’s opposing goals and their conflicted feelings for each other keep tensions high--especially when their daughters run away together. Now they must come together for the good of their children and realize how far apart they've let their differences push them.

 

Star Light, Star Bright

Outmaneuvered

J.L. Hammer

To FBI Special Agent Cruz Romero the assignment seems cut and dry: shadow Amanda Price, the estranged daughter of a missing high-powered CEO, and find evidence linking her to his disappearance. As the evidence stacks against Amanda, Romero brings her in for a round of heated questioning and his suspicion of her guilt deepens with every evasive answer. When a sniper makes an attempt on her life, he is forced to protect her. Plunged into a maze of deceit, Romero fears that his blinding attraction for Amanda might be his fatal downfall.

Outmaneuvered

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A Joyful Break

Diane Craver

After her mother’s untimely death, a twenty-year-old Amish woman has a difficult decision to make: Choose to break from the Plain community and her boyfriend to live in the English world permanently...or join the Amish church.

Rachel Hershberger wants to get away from her Amish home in Fields Corner, Ohio. For a year she’s been trying to fill her mother’s shoes by taking care of her father and siblings. Before her mother died, Rachel was positive she wanted to marry Samuel Weaver, but now she can’t think about wedding plans. She blames her father for her mother’s death.

A Joyful Break

Reindeer Wars

Liese Sherwood-Fabre
Tina has a tendency to go a little overboard when decorating for the holidays, but Brian decides her skills are just what he needs to get into the Christmas spirit. Can this budding relationship survive when they find themselves in a knock-down-drag-out competition to win the office’s “most outrageous holiday sweater?"
Reindeer Wars

 

The Abolitionist's Secret

Becky Lower

In 1856 New York, Heather Fitzpatrick, a bashful abolitionist, falls for young Army lieutenant David Whitman, who is tracking a runaway slave—the very slave she and her parents rescued from the hands of the slavemongers a few nights earlier.

Despite their divergent views on slavery, romance ensues. An engagement quickly follows. After his father passes, his mother insists any marriage will have to wait the requisite year, which is proper for mourning.

Heather longs to stay with David to wait out the year, since his mother has other plans.

But she knows the South is no place for an abolitionist.

The Abolitionist's Secret

Tame A Wild Wind

Cynthia Woolf

Former Texas Ranger Sam Colter isn't looking for love. Neither is pretty widow Cassie O'Malley. But when a man stalking Sam for killing his brother kidnaps Cassie, Sam discovers it's more than duty that sends him racing to her rescue. Will Cassie realize the truth about her own feelings before it's too late?

 
Tame A Wild Wind

The Christmas Village

A short Christmas romance
Elysa Hendricks
While waiting to purchase another house for her Christmas Village collection Sara falls and hits her head. Transported to a fantasy world she falls in love with a man in her dream. Is she willing to give up real life to be with him? Or should she trust that he'll be there when she wakes up?

 

The Christmas Village

On with the Show

Linda Carroll-Bradd

Visiting her small Texas hometown at Thanksgiving, fashion designer Franzi Mueller is forced to ask a favor of hardware store owner, Dietz Reinhardt, an ex-beau from high school. Circumstances surrounding putting on a show at the veteran’s hospital, and her matchmaking mother, throw them together at every turn, each glance and touch igniting old sparks. Can Franzi find what her creative spirit needs in Freedom Valley or is time running out on this second chance for Dietz to win over her heart?

 

On with the Show

All My Tomorrows

...is losing the ratings war.

 

Colette Saucier

Headwriter Alice McGillicutty would do anything to save the long-running soap opera from cancellation – even reading an old melodramatic novel she found among her mother’s possessions for inspiration.

When scandal rips Hollywood bad boy Peter Walsingham off the tabloids and into her studio, Alice doubts the small screen is big enough for his ego – or his entourage. In their battle of pride and prejudice, will Peter’s vanity and arrogance compel Alice to write him out of her script, or can she find a role for him in All My Tomorrows?

All My Tomorrows

Solo Honeymoon

Jillian Chantal

Emma Chauncey finds her fiancé naked with one of her bridesmaids on top of him three days before her wedding. Burned by the experience, she takes a friend on her honeymoon. They travel to an Italian villa where Emma plans to nurse her broken heart.

Wealthy, titled, and handsome women’s shoe designer Dario de Luca is also at the villa. In disguise as a dance instructor, he’s determined to find a woman to love him for himself, not his wealth and title. Sparks fly between Emma and Dario, until she learns his true identity. Hurt that another man has lied to her, and distrusting her own judgment, she flees. Dario follows her to New York. But Emma’s former fiancé is back with an agenda of his own. Can Dario convince Emma he’s the man for her even though he lied about his identity? Can he convince her she deserves true love?

SOLO HONEYMOON

Big Horn Storm

Kim McMahill

Niki tolerates her job and the city, but she lives for her summer vacation with her grandfather at his sheep camp in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming—until this year. When the U.S. comes under attack, including an aggressive attempt by foreign invaders to locate nuclear missiles hidden throughout the west, the serenity of her mountain refuge is shattered. As area ranches are commandeered, neighbors and friends, including Deuce, her childhood infatuation, band together. Throughout their struggle to stay alive, Niki begins to understand what came between her and Deuce, but before past mistakes can be corrected they must endure a terrifying manhunt and a desperate fight for survival.

Big Horn Storm

Tame A Wild Heart

Cynthia Woolf

He's not her brother, but Duncan thinks Catherine sure needs one. A woman has no business trying to run a ranch. Not in 1880s Creede, Colorado. Even though she's loved him forever, she swears she doesn't need his help, but in between stampedes, fires and a kidnapping, the ex-bounty hunter and gunslinger becomes determined to do more than protect the ranch. Working together to catch a dangerous outlaw might just be the best thing that ever happened to them both.
 
Tame A Wild Heart

Counterfeit Love

Elysa Hendricks
Growing up on the mean streets of LA didn't prepare computer security investigator Maggie McCade for life in a small Midwest town - picnics, high school football games, pumpkin carving, lost puppies, and Trick or Treating. Sent to sniff out a hacker, she never expected or wanted to fall in love with her prime suspect - Jared Blake

When widower Jared Blake gave up his big city, high powered career in computers and returned to his home town to raise his daughter and teach high school math, the last thing he expected or needed was to fall in love with California girl - Maggie McCade.

Add in nosy neighbors, meddling family, amorous high school boys, a lost puppy, and a sad little girl, and anything goes.

Counterfeit Love

Yesterday's News

Sam Cheever

Antiques can be a dangerous business. Especially when you’re dealing with a desperate politician, a sexy ex-cop, and a couple of “spirited” companions.

Anna Yesterday owns Yesterday’s Antiques in small town USA. When she finds an old newspaper clipping lining the drawer of an antique dresser, she realizes she’s never heard the ugly story of rape and suicide detailed on the yellowed newsprint. So she starts to dig, and her sleuthing exposes an ugly cover-up that casts the residents of Crocker, Indiana into danger and intrigue, and leaves them with a corpse.

 
Yesterday's News

A Question of Fire

Karen McCullough

When Catherine Bennett agrees to attend an important party as a favor for her boss, she knows she won't enjoy it, but she doesn't expect to end up holding a dying man in her arms. Nor did she anticipate she’d become the recipient of his last message about the location of evidence that would prove his brother innocent of murder. Now the killers are after her to get that information. She’ll need the help of attorney Peter Lowell, as well as the victim’s difficult, prickly younger brother and a handsome private detective to help her find the evidence before the killers do.

A Question of Fire

Shopping for Love

Lynette Sofras

Love can find you in the strangest places - but it's never for sale!

They meet - of all places - buying tomatoes in the supermarket and there’s no denying the attraction is mutual. But Greg, a software developer, is still raw from his painful divorce and Emma, his children’s teacher, is recovering from her own heartache. Then the reappearance of Emma's career-obsessed ex-boyfriend and Greg's spiteful ex-wife threatens to kill their new love before it has even begun.

Is Emma’s love strong enough to survive Greg’s demanding past and the threats to both their careers? What will be the cost of falling in love in a world where everything comes with a high price tag?

Shopping for Love

Seven for a Secret

Shirley Wine

After her father's death, Anna Belmonte learns she's his love child with the family's au pair, Megan. As Anna unravels the secrets, she meets Megan's stepson Slade and they quickly forge strong emotional bonds.

Anna, a gifted artist, thinks art and marriage incompatible, but with Slade can she have it all? Art, marriage and children…

Anna’s meeting Megan is a disaster…this is one secret never meant to be told. The dead hand of Anna's father reaches out to destroy their dreams…Must Slade choose between Anna and his family….how can Anna prove she wasn't a party to her father's diabolical scheme… or expect Slade's trust…

 
Seven for a Secret

The Baby Race

Elysa Hendricks

Race Reed doesn’t want a wife, but he needs a baby, Claire Jensen needs a husband, but she wants love. Wants and needs are bound to clash when they run The Baby Race.

Race Reed doesn’t believe in wedded bliss. He reserves his love and attention for the abused horses he cares for, but to save his ranch he needs a baby. His only option – cheat in The Baby Race.

Claire Jensen wants two things out of life, home and family. To gain custody of her orphaned stepsister her only option – run the The Baby Race.

 
The Baby Race

Centauri Dawn

Cynthia Woolf

Audra is a normal grad student in law school in Boulder, Colorado. Until the day she finds out she isn't. She's a princess from the planet Centauri. Her mission, whether or not she chooses to accept it, is to marry an alien and save the world, in order to save her family.

Darius is charged with delivering his brother's bride home to Centauri, ready to be queen. Falling in love isn't just forbidden, it's a death sentence for him and for his world.
 
Centauri Dawn

Rescuing Lacey

Rebecca Heflin

When tough battle-scarred photojournalist-turned-wildlife-photographer Lacey Sommers travels to Costa Rica in a last-ditch effort to save her job, she meets beach-bum-gorgeous Luke Hancock, an outdoor guide, environmentalist and expert on economics and sustainability, who’s been hired by her magazine to serve as her pilot and wilderness guide for the duration of her stay.

It’s clear from the outset there is a powerful physical attraction between the two, but strong personalities, pre-conceived notions, an unexpected and contentious family connection, and the scars from a tragic death and a terrifying event threaten to keep them apart.
Rescuing Lacey

The Bull Rider's Brother

Lynn Cahoon

Shawnee, Idaho is known for two things. Amazing salmon fishing and the first local rodeo of the summer. For four friends, growing up in Shawnee, meant one thing, making plans to get out. Five years later, that wish has been granted for all but one. What happens when they all get together again changes five lives.

When James Sullivan visits his hometown’s rodeo weekend, learning that his high school sweetheart had his child - six years ago – Lizzie Hudson’s world is thrown into turmoil. In THE BULL RIDER'S BROTHER, James struggles with family and Lizzie questions the risk of love.

 

The Bull Rider's Brother

Wine & Roses

Susan R. Hughes

A widow at 42, Abby Wells has poured her heart into the restoration of The Roses Inn, a historic Niagara-on-the Lake establishment reputedly haunted by a 19th-century ghost. In walks Jason Brinleigh, a gorgeous winery owner nine years Abby’s junior, intent on buying the place from her. The transaction falls by the wayside as Abby and Jason fall for each other. But the scars left by past loves run deep, challenging them both to surrender their hearts. When unexpected events threaten to tear them apart, will it take a little intervention from the spirit world to set things right?

Wine & Roses

Shadows of Fire

Nina Pierce

Thirty years ago, her life saved after a horrendous vampire attack, ALEXANDRA FLANAGAN was thrust into the secret world of immortals. Now, deadly fires in her quaint town have brought her to the attention of REESE COLTON and his elite vampire military operation. With the number of murdered vampires escalating and evidence against Alex mounting, Reese isn’t sure whether to follow his heart or the clues in bringing down a viscous villain hell bent on revenge.
 
Shadows of Fire

Dare To Believe

L. A. Sartor

Catherine Malloy had it all. When her husband dies in an accident, she discovers she never had anything at all. With nothing but a dismal bank account, Cate fights to rebuild her life, until her daughter is kidnapped.

Jason St. Pierre doesn't think of himself as a knight, just a man who lives by his rules and damn the consequences. He'll move heaven and earth to protect the innocent, and his heart.

Their reunion pits them against a kidnapper who is always one step ahead and takes them on a hunt from the mountains of Colorado to the beaches of Hawaii.

 

Dare To Believe

Surfer Bride

Jillian Chantal

Quincy Holt, a world champion surfer, was in love with a police officer, Fennimore Smith. He dumped her over a rumor that she cheated on him. Two years later, she’s moved on and is engaged to Percy Hicks, a British man that she believes could make her happy.

Quincy thinks her fiancé is an antiques dealer but he’s actually a firearms smuggler. A smuggler being investigated by her former lover, now an ATF agent. When Percy’s private plane full of weapons is confiscated while Quincy is aboard and she’s arrested for arms dealing, Fennimore Smith flies to Bali to rescue her and get her to testify against Percy. She turns him down as she has plans of her own. She sets off to London on a quest to trap her fiancé and bring him down. Will she survive her mission? Will her former lover have to rescue her again?

 

SURFER BRIDE