Living in a year around Christmas town has its drawbacks. The caroling, the decorations, the insanely cheery spirit, it never disappears. It's why I like to hibernate away in my cave - I mean housekeeping a healthy distance from the holly jolly spirits. And all was going according to plan until my nemesis, Storee Taylor, moved in next door to care for her Aunt Cindy. Without blinking, she turned my simple world into a real nightmare-before-Christmas, especially when she decided to enter the town Christmas Kringle contest - which she was determined to win.

When mystery author D. B. Ziegler is late delivering her book, Abi Schore steps in to help. Surely she can give her favorite author moral support over the holiday break and get the manuscript to her boss at Tea & Sympathy Publishing in time for the new year. When Abi shows up on Ms. Ziegler’s doorstep bearing holiday treats, she’s met by the author’s handsome grandson Dov, who reveals a startling plot twist. His grandmother isn’t able to finish the book and Dov promised he’d complete it so fans won’t be disappointed—a task that’s harder than he ever imagined.

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.

All newly minted pediatrician Jamie Malek wants is to borrow a roasting pan for Christmas dinner. Unfortunately, that requires her to interact with Marc—her best friend’s troublemaking brother, who’s now a tech billionaire. He’s the one who got away. She’s the one who broke his heart. Outside, a howling blizzard. Inside, a crackling fire. Suddenly, being snowbound with the man she never expected to see again might not be such a bad way to spend a winter’s night.

Five Years Earlier: Henry Dunne knows three things: that agreeing to host this raucous house party was a terrible idea, that he absolutely cannot show up to his nursing shift tomorrow with a hangover, and that the beautiful redhead in the corner will be sleeping in his bed tonight.

Evie Crowe is starting over in a strange town with her newborn, and men are the furthest thing from her mind. If only the quiet, hulking farmer, Luke Ward, would stop coming into the thrift shop and piquing her reluctant interest. Evie wants to stay single all the way—she can’t trust anything more than friends-with-holiday-benefits. But Luke is in it for the long haul. He’s fixed on making this a Christmas Evie will remember forever. If she gives him a chance.

Obituary writer Nadine Barbault doesn’t mind being called “Lady Death”. It suits the ice queen persona she’s cultivated to survive the fast-paced Toronto Herald. So when Nadine learns that famous (and reclusive) author Dot Voline has died, she doesn’t hesitate to run the obituary…only to discover that Dot is very much alive. Nadine’s screw-up has brought Wesley Chen of the rival Spear no end of joy—she’s been a thorn in his extremely ambitious side for years. But the renewed interest in Dot also surfaced chatter about a mysterious past scandal.

Tilly Farriday isn’t feeling very jolly this season. Recently divorced and broke, she’s squatting in one of her rental agency’s properties until her new home is ready. The sprinkles on top of the burnt Christmas cookie that is her life? The new owner shows up early, forcing Tilly to hide in the attic to save her job…and what remains of her dignity.

After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I'd find the cure for what ravaged her and leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I received an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it's rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before, those whose bones are said to make up the island's white sandy shores. And restless ghosts aren't even its most daunting peculiarity.

There's no place like home for the holidays ... especially for Lesley Carver. Life in the big city just wasn't her jam and now she's back in Hickory Falls, working at the family diner and helping her mom after she took a tumble. Lesley longs to build a life here, working at the cafe, selling her handmade ornaments and ... er, apparently reviving her high school crush on her best friend’s older brother. Only one problem, her mom wants her to leave Hickory Falls far behind.

A mail-order bride who’s gone missing — not once, but twice — and the reformed outlaw determined to give her the happily-ever-after she deserves... MaryAnne Branson is a legendary mail-order bride, a survivor of things that make even the most hardened cowboys shudder. But surviving isn’t the same as riding off into the sunset — something that won't happen anytime soon since the man she falls in love with happens to be on the nation's most wanted list. Hunter Sherrington is the kind of outlaw who will make an instant hero out of the lawman who finally claps him in handcuffs. ...

An impoverished debutante is in a hurry to marry, a rough and tough cowboy is on the hunt for a wife, and neither is being completely honest about their reasons. To the world, Daisy Danvers is a spoiled debutante who always gets what she wants. But she has secrets — big, festering, riches-to-rags secrets that she doesn’t want her best friend, Meg, to find out. Daisy enlists her help finding the perfect husband to claim her hand in marriage the moment she steps off the train in Arizona. Her very life might depend on it. She neither expects her troubles to follow her west, nor a whole ...

A lonely federal marshal working undercover, a wealthy heiress posing as a mail-order bride, and a marriage of convenience that turns out to be anything but convenient… Meg Gladstone is a wealthy heiress who’s never experienced life outside the palatial fortress where she was raised. The moment her late father’s shipping dynasty transfers to his business partner, she finally pursues her dream of living an ordinary life. After hearing the hype about becoming a mail-order bride, she walks into an agency and is surprised to learn they are advertising things like love, family, and ...

A runaway bride meets the cowboy of her dreams, but she's afraid to take a leap of faith on love in this sweet and clean historical romance. Tennyson Barra, a claim jumper turned rancher, is ready to settle down with a wife and family of his own. He figures the easiest way to find the perfect woman is to let the Boomtown Mail Order Brides Company do the searching for him. He never counted on his prospective bride being kidnapped by highwaymen on her journey west. Or being the man sent to rescue her, only to discover she never intended to follow through with their marriage contract in the ...

An absentminded school teacher, a cowboy with custody of his spirited niece and nephew, and the marriage of convenience that will solve all their problems...or create new ones! Amelia Cornwall has been dismissed from her position as a music instructor at a bankrupt orphanage. If it wasn’t for the newspaper clipping that all but fell into her lap, advertising the services of the Boomtown Mail Order Brides Agency, she might've ended up on the street. Rancher Nathan Jagger has recently taken custody of his rambunctious niece and nephew, and both are in desperate need of a mother. When a ...

The things a woman in love will do to keep her man... Belinda Fairfax is tired of waiting for Colt Branson to remember she's still in love with him. She put their wedding plans on hold and supported his decision to travel west in search of his missing sister. She championed his plan to open a mail-order bride agency — one with a Gallant Rescuers Clause to keep other brides safe from the kind of trouble his sister ran into. But she’s waited so long for him to return home to marry her that she's afraid another woman may have captured his heart along the way. Without the funds to travel ...

A ruined socialite who needs a husband to save her reputation, a matchmaker tired of watching everyone besides him find their happily-ever-after, and the journey west that sparks an unexpected attraction... Olivia Rothschild has made another mistake. She always tries to follow the advice of her social climbing aunt, but she never quite plays the game of a debutante to her guardian’s satisfaction. This time, she kisses the wrong man — in plain view of her biggest rival, no less, who can’t wait to spread the scandalous tale. According to her aunt, she must now marry him or face complete...

When love and the law collide… Levi Barra receives a telegram warning him to pay off a loan he wasn’t aware existed, or he'll risk losing his ranch. Since his sister has been pestering him non-stop about getting married and settling down, he decides the quickest way to solve both of his problems is to advertise for a mail-order bride with a background in law. Felicity Braxton has all but given up her dream of practicing law, because not a single firm on the east coast seems interested in hiring a female lawyer. So when the Boomtown Mail Order Brides Company describes the unlimited ...

A kindhearted spinster is more concerned about the needs of others than her own, which captures the attention and interest of the town’s highly-sought-after bachelor minister… Madge Barra has a finger in every pie — managing her rascal half-brothers and their mail-order brides, feeding the diamond mining crew at Hope’s Landing, and helping run the Ladies Auxiliary. Now she’s being arm-twisted into serving as the church secretary until her handsome new pastor can hire someone to assist him full time. Abe Sullivan is at his wits’ end preparing sermons, overseeing church ...

A bounty hunter is on the trail of a missing mail-order bride who looks identical to the only woman he’s ever loved. When Gabe Donovan is recruited to track down a missing mail-order bride, he receives the shock of his life. She could pass as a twin to the partner he thought he lost in a fire — the same woman he never got around to confessing his feelings to, for fear of ruining their partnership. If she's still alive, she must have faked her own death. Leaving him precious little time to track her down before the past she’s been running from finally catches up to her, and he loses ...

A fake bride, a groom who’s not the man he claims to be, and their highly inconvenient spark of attraction… Lorelai Woods is convinced she's engaged to the perfect man, until she discovers he’s part of a cattle rustling gang trying to steal her blind. In a desperate bid to regain control of her family’s ranch, she applies for a job as a Pinkerton agent. Unfortunately, they need her to serve undercover as the fake bride of a fellow agent for a few weeks before launching an investigation into her family’s troubles. John Langston was pressed into sailing on a pirate ship when he was ...

A wealthy debutante dodges an arranged marriage by becoming a Pinkerton agent, only to find out her first assignment will involve working undercover with the man she was supposed to marry. All her life, Bernadette Chambers has been following orders about how to dress, what to say, and who to say it to. However, she draws the line at marrying a man she’s never met, even though it means she’ll be disowned. Desperate for both money and adventure, she signs on as a Pinkerton agent, never dreaming her new partner will be the very man she was trying to avoid. Park Harrington is a shipping ...

When Cedar Falls’ most eligible bachelor decides to pursue the only woman in town who’s NOT trying to capture his attention… After the tragic loss of her fiancé, Laura Bennett can’t imagine risking her heart a second time, so she devotes herself to charitable causes instead. She soon becomes known for her inability to turn away a stray animal, including the rider-less horse that wanders her way with a broken horseshoe on Christmas Eve. She pays an emergency visit to the blacksmith, doubting she’ll find the handsome bachelor at home. To her surprise, he’s hard at work at his ...

A single mother finds out she has a bounty on her head that her brother’s best friend is determined to collect in this sweetly suspenseful historical romance! Charity Powers isn’t aware of her late husband’s debts, and she certainly isn’t trying to dodge payments when she and her four-year-old daughter board a train. They arrive in the cozy small town of Cedar Falls, Texas, to attend her brother’s wedding. The moment Schmidt Barnes tracks her down, he realizes something more sinister is afoot. Unfortunately, his lovely target can’t afford a lawyer to defend her, and she’s way ...

A wealthy heiress hires a rugged bounty hunter to pose as her fiancé in this sweet and swoony opposites-attract historical romance! Thanks to a lavish inheritance, Rachel West can finally afford to follow her dreams and open the Cedar Falls Finishing School for Young Ladies. Unfortunately, a former co-instructor from Boston follows her to her hometown, claiming a deathbed promise to look after her. All too soon, he's pressuring her to marry him, making her fear he's only interested in getting his hands on her money. Bounty hunter Boone Cassidy is accustomed to far more dangerous ...