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The heart doesn’t forget. Charlie had no intention of falling in love. In fact, it was the last thing on her mind. Running her grandmother’s retirement home seems like the safest place for her. Mitchell has finally located his grandmother. He leaves his multi-billion-dollar real estate company and flies to Sitka, Alaska to reunite with her. Brought together by Mitchell’s grandmother, Charlie can’t help but feel a connection to Mitchell. Just when she finds herself opening up to him, his fiancée shows up. Now asked to help with the wedding, Charlie’s convinced it’s for the best.

I wanted Asher and I to move past his confession. We’ve been friends for so long, we can get over anything, right? Wrong. Not only has our relationship fundamentally changed, but he disappears for a month and comes back to Harmony, engaged. Apparently, he rekindled his relationship with his high school girlfriend. Gloria insists that I write the expose on their wedding. Asher’s fiancee is the daughter of the Mayor of New York City. It’s the kind of story that will restore the town’s trust in the paper after the Proctor disaster.

Jenna is home for Christmas, and she's just trying to survive her mom's insistence that she get married, and her feelings for Dean that haven't really disappeared. Showing up with her new fling seems like the best way of avoiding both of them.

This story is told through four different points of view. Shelby, Miles, Abigail, and Bash. It's a story of romance and friendships between women.

After I returned to my small hometown six months ago to attend my estranged grandmother's funeral, I swore I would never go back. That is, until my grandmother's lawyer calls me up. If I don't return to Harmony Island and fulfill my grandmother's stipulations, the generationally owned family inn will be turned over to the state and sold off to the highest bidder—my grandmother's rival and mother to the man who broke my heart, Missy Willis. I'm not sure I'm strong enough to return home, but I also know, I can't let Miss Willis win.

Tensions escalate in Smoky Hills as the warring pack battles to see who the new alpha will be. Friends are pitted against each other and humans' lives are at risk.

Sean Petty is ready to quit all of his odd jobs and finally take over his grandfather’s ranch. He wasn’t born to be a lawyer—despite what his parents say. Christine Jordan is moments away from getting fired as an IRS agent. Her boss told her to either succeed at the field audit or don’t bother coming back. When she shows up at Sean Petty’s ranch and he’s as stubborn as a mule, she knows she can’t let his rugged good looks or surprisingly caring manner distract her.

I live by three rules. One: I never get lower than an A in any class. Two: I never lose a cross-country race. And three: I never talk to Cade Kelley. Well, number three came crashing down the moment Principal Connell asks me to guide Cade back onto the right path. Something about helping him turn his life around. If only Principal Connell knew our history, he’d understand just what he’s asking.

Shari has discovered that being a single mom is one of the hardest things she has ever done. With her job, strained relationship with Tag, and trying to keep her household from falling apart, she barely has time for herself, much less dating. One night, and out of an act of sheer stupidity, she allows Fiona, the new, young move-in, to convince her to go to a club across the bridge.

I've been in love with my brother's best friend for as long as I can remember. Once upon a time he was my knight in shining armor, but now? He acts like I’m his worst enemy. I don't know why Cooper Jenkins insists on keeping me at arm's length—which is hard to do when he’s my partner at the Academy—or why he insists on shielding me from every other boy at school. I don’t want to be at Oakwood high anymore than he seems to want me there, so why won’t he leave me alone?

The summer is coming to an end, and I’m barely surviving. Dad’s gone. Mom spends more time passed out on the couch than doing anything else. Thankfully, I have school and soccer to keep me distracted. Until Logan Cartwright walks back into my life. He’s acting like his family didn’t ruin mine and confusing me more than ever. I’m supposed to hate him, but he’s nice and everywhere I don’t want him to be.

Everything is going according to plan until I discover that not only is my ex-best friend, Grayson back, but he’s also volunteering. And we get paired with siblings. Great. I not only have to talk to him but I have to spend time with him and his mentee. Which seems doable as long as neither of us bring up the past. Which seems harder to do than say. Now I’m so confused, I can’t keep my mind straight. There’s something Grayson isn’t telling me and feelings that creep up that weren’t there before.

I'm determined to make my senior year epic. I'd finally risen up in social rank, and I'm ready to rule the school. Everything seems perfect, until I find myself standing in front of Colten.

Sophia feels as if she’s finally able to put her past behind her. Her father left, Noah left, and her mom and brother passed away. Noah’s back in the suffocating small town he left years ago and facing the one woman he’s never been able to forget. Sophia. But that doesn’t matter. He has one mission: fake a marriage with Sophia to bring her father out of hiding. Her safety is his number one concern. If he loves her, he’ll keep her at a distance, no matter how much it hurts.

Even though I’m around hot football players every afternoon, they are not allowed to date me. If they even come close to flirting, my dad, Coach “The Boss” Davis, makes them run laps around the field until they puke. Not only has he forbidden me to date anyone at all, he’s even made me the football team’s water girl so he can keep tabs on me. What Dad doesn’t know is that I spend every last second of those two blissful hours of practice in the scorching California heat staring at Tyson Blake. He is the epitome of perfection. And Dad hates him.

I promised my best friend I'd take care of his family... But Sadie doesn't want me within ten feet of her. Still, I try. But at some point, seeing her smile became my whole world. I don't know how to be true to my friend and fall in love with his widow. At some point, I'm going to trip a wire and this whole thing will blow up in my face.

It's Christmastime in Magnolia, and Maggie is determined to mend the fissure between Spencer and Penny. So she comes up with a plan: create a Christmas extravaganza for them to participate in. After all, who couldn’t fall in love during the Christmas holiday? Plus, focusing on someone else helps keep her from thinking about her own heartbreaks. All the women of the Red Stiletto book club join in to help. Some have found their happily ever afters. Some have hiccups of their own. Abigail joins in and discovers just what’s she’s missing at home.

When Emilia told me she won an all inclusive trip to Christmasland, I laughed. Out loud. Surely a place like that didn't exist. Boy, was I wrong. Now I'm stuck on holiday repeat where everywhere I turn there's Christmas carols, sledding, cookie decorating, and holiday cheer. All of which, I'm told, is part of the "experience" of Christmasland. But I can't believe that. A whole town dedicated to recreating a Christmas movie for all of its guests? You've got to be joking.

We're starting over. Mom and Dad think the best way for me to move on from the death of Ben is to move to Oakwood. There, we can spend time with Mom's late best friend's family and open a new bakery. And I'm okay with that. After all, I get to dance and in Oakwood where no one knows me, which means there are no pity stares and silent whispers.

Return to the McKnight family series where the one person Penny never wanted to come back has just walked into her life: Katie's dad.