A renowned archeologist rarely visits her cozy hometown, because she’s secretly crushing on the sheriff. But a string of danger brings them together to unravel a century-old mystery involving a missing heiress. Bliss Hawling has been in love with Sheriff Gil Remington since their silly first kiss in high school. Someone dares him to do it, so it’s mostly a joke — to everyone but her. A few years later, he marries someone else. Now he’s a widower. After the funeral, she plans to leave town again and never return. However, Gil arm twists her into coming back for one last visit. The ...

A successful rodeo owner doesn't believe in love at first sight, but there’s nothing he won’t do to help his tribe — even proposing a marriage of convenience to a single mother who’s fallen on hard times. Wayne Whitaker (or Chief Lighthorse, as his fellow Comanches prefer to call him) is constantly putting out fires on their poverty-stricken, crime-ridden reservation. The old-timers on his squabbling tribal council claim it’s because he’s too young, too inexperienced, and too single to run both the tribe and his family’s rodeo business. What they don't understand is that he ...

A newly elected mayor wants to ensure every child in storm-torn Heart Lake receives a gift for Christmas, no matter how hard one very grumpy rancher tries to derail her plans. Mayor Heavenly Remington doesn’t care how much budget finagling and last-minute fundraising it takes to purchase a Santa-sized pile of toys. Her hometown desperately needs a dose of holiday spirit. Weary of town officials making promises they can’t keep, single dad Wes Hawling taunts his fellow citizens into flooding the mayor’s suggestion box with prank requests for the forthcoming gifts — each one more ...

A federal investigator is sent undercover to the small-town restaurant his ex-girlfriend runs — a steakhouse slotted for the next big meeting of a dangerous criminal ring. Agent Marco Perez has secrets. Keeping them is part of his job. His rules for dating while working undercover are simple: Don’t get too close. Don’t care too much. Don’t let it last too long. Never break the first three rules. He's always lived by these rules, right up to the point when his ex-girlfriend plants a kiss on him. Though it’s part of his assignment to cross paths with her again, she’s more than a ...

A woman returns to her hometown to unite two rival high schools under one roof. It’s her dream job…with one very big hitch. The cowboy who broke her heart is the same man who's been hired to protect her. As the new head principal of Heart Lake High, Hope Remington oversees the task of busing students from the tornado-devastated farming communities to the uptown business district. For the first time, the students of the longtime feuding Remington and Hawling families are housed on the same campus. There's an immediate uptick in fighting and student gang activity. But that’s not the ...