"Candy shop owner Charlotte Caine knows temptation. To reboot her life, shed weight and gain perspective, she's passing up sweet enticements left and right. But willpower doesn't come so easily when hell-raiser Spencer Gregory comes back to Hope's Crossing, bringing with him memories of broken promises and teen angst. A retired pro baseball player on the mend from injury-- and a damaging scandal-- he's interested in his own brand of reinvention. Now...

"Protecting the streets of Haven Point isn't just a job for police officer Wyn Bailey, it's a family tradition. But lately she's found herself wanting more, especially from her boss--and overprotective brother's best friend--sexy chief of police, Cade Emmett"--

His second-chance family: Julia Blair is hoping for a fresh start. So when she sees an apartment-for-rent sign on Brambleberry House, she can't help but feel that it's a good omen. Having spent summers as a teen in a cottage near the rambling Victorian home, Julia easily pictures herself and her two children starting over in the one place that's always felt welcoming to her. When Julia walks up to inquire about the apartment, she finds her old friend...

"Sage McKnight is an ambitious young architect working at her father’s firm who takes on her most challenging client in Mason Tucker. The former pro baseball player is still healing from the physical and emotional scars after a plane crash left him a wheelchair-using single dad, and he’s determined not to let anyone breach his emotional defenses. Sage knows her work on Mason’s new home in Hope’s Crossing is her best work yet, and she won’t...

"Computer-tech millionaire Bowie Callahan is about the last person that schoolteacher Katrina Bailey wants to work for. As far as she can see, he's arrogant, entitled, and not up to the task of caring for his young half-brother Milo. But Kat is, especially if it brings her closer to her goal of adopting an orphaned little girl. And as her kindness and patience work wonders with Milo, she realizes there's more to sexy, wary Bo than she'd ever realized"--Back...

In "A Cold Creek homecoming," When Quinn Southerland discovers his foster mom's hospice nurse is Tess Claybourne, he's surprised. In "Coming home to Crimson," Escaping from a cheating fiance in a "borrowed" car, Sienna Pierce can't think of anywhere to go but Crimson, the hometown she swore she'd never go back to.

"When Meredith Collins was a child, the little beach town of Cape Sanctuary lived up to its name. Spending summers there with her grandmother, Meredith finally felt safe and loved. Now shes returning in disgrace. Her late ex-husband swindled investors out of millions of dollars and made Meredith a figure of scornthough she knew nothing about his scheme. But she still has the beach cottage she inherited from her grandmother and half ownership of the...

A Cold Creek Christmas story: Celeste Nicholas prefers to keep to herself in her hometown of Pine Gulch, Idaho. That is, until one of her children's stories becomes a major success. Millionaire Flynn Delaney has moved back home to help his little girl heal from losing her mother. Celeste holds some indefinable magic for them both. Can Flynn find a family, and true love, in the one who got away? Christmas in Cold Creek: Rebecca Parsons claims to be...

When a beautiful stranger saves the life of Jack Dugan’s daughter, Jack knows he has to find this mystery woman. He’ll do anything to repay her. But Grace Solarez turns out to be more than he expected, for her sad brown eyes tell him she needs to be saved, too. Saving Grace: Until the night she saved Jack’s little girl, Grace felt she had no hope. Soon, Grace begins to care about something again—about the sexy single dad and his daughter....

Holiday gift: All windowed rancher Faith Dustin wants is a quiet Christmas with her two kids and her best friends - cowboy Chase Brannon. Until he kisses her under the mistletoe! Chase lost his chance with Faith years ago; he won't blow this one. But he'll need all the magic of the season - and two matchmaking kids - to unwrap a second chance at love. Cold Creek Noel: After a devastating tragedy, Caidy Bowman wants only to hide out on her ranch. then...