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Polar opposites face undeniable attraction in a cozy lodge during a polar freeze. Jayne Renwick has landed her dream job at a TV station, and this year she finally gets to host her ideal family Christmas. She has even booked the luxurious Wildwood Lodge for her "perfect Christmas" activities. At the last minute, though, her family all bails and she is forced to revise her guest list. It’s not all bad. In fact, one new lodger fits Jayne’s ideal first-snowfall wish for love. However, another guest turns out to be Ben Bellamy—the hottest guy from her office—who’s also her biggest ...

Poetry has always provided comfort, inspiration, and connection, especially during socially precarious and politically divisive times. That has never been truer than it is today. The Wild Edge of the Heart: Women Poets Raise Their Voices presents the work of some of our leading contemporary female poets who are lauded for their ferocity, sensitivity and eloquence.

The guy next door. The world’s worst first date. A second chance ten Christmases later. Juliet and Taggart’s first—and last—date a decade ago was an unmitigated disaster, ending with Pepto-Bismol and the police. He probably needed a decade to recover. But Juliet couldn’t forget him. Now that he’s back in touch, Juliet is torn.If this is just a one-time thing, she risks carrying a torch for him for another decade. The one that got away might be the one guy she needs to be happy in life—and this date could show him she’s right for him, too. Unless the Christmas date curse ...

When prosecutor Camilla Sweeten sees newly hired Zane Holyoak slide a pastry from a bakery bag, her reaction is nothing close to rational. It's the exact pink doughnut from her dream where she kissed a handsome stranger! Now she's daydreaming about kissing Zane, even though he poses her fiercest competition for the Chief Deputy promotion she desperately needs. Attorney Zane Holyoak has always gone with his gut. He's even followed it back to Yucca County, after swearing never to return. Maybe it's leading him back to fill the vacancy for Chief Deputy.

As a lawyer for A-list Hollywood actors, Jillian Price's job is soul-sucking, and she needs a way out. She may have found one - at a yard sale. Across a junk-strewn lawn, she spies a painting that makes her heart stop. It looks to be a lost masterpiece! With that painting she could have it all: the new job, her own gallery, and even the guy - gorgeous banker Aero Jantzen.

He needs this job to honor his late wife. She needs to complete her late fiancé’s bucket list.Former action-movie star Chet Winters has counted the days since he lost his wife last New Year’s Eve. When he’s given a shot at starring in a reboot of her favorite TV show, he jumps at it. But there’s a catch: the producers won’t hire him unless he can prove he’s regained emotional stability. They require him to bring a steady girlfriend to his five auditions. In other words, five mandatory dates for this bereft widower. Social worker Holly Day lost her fiancé to war. With his good ...

A dark and stormy night. A pillared marble mansion. A grumpy but gorgeous CEO.Un-photogenic photographer Beatrix Bay is out to snap pics at a historic mansion on the ocean-side cliffs. But, when her car overturns in the snow, she finds much more than a photo op. In the distance lies the Delacourt Mansion, as well as Hutch Delacourt, the devastatingly handsome heir to the Delacourt Chocolate fortune. However, the displaced CEO of his own family business is far from delighted to see the redheaded photographer turn up on his porch, no matter how cold or stranded or gorgeous she is. He hates ...

The billionaire needs a wife. His devoted secretary and matchmaker wishes he could see how perfect she is for the job.Tatum Carlyle is hopelessly devoted to her boss. As executive assistant to the brilliant CEO, she’s in Dawson Rafferty’s life every day. He depends on her for everything professional. If only he could depend on her for everything personal. A crush on the boss is cliché, but how can she help it? He’s all she wants, but he doesn't—and can’t—notice her. Curse those company bylaws regarding intra-office relationships! But now he's asked her the impossible—to find ...

He always loved her. Now, he's back in their small town to claim the girl who promised—in a contract—to marry him, but Mr. Wrong is standing in the way. Aircraft mechanic by day, secretly wildly successful author by night, Cash never forgot his first love, Annabel. In fact, she is the princess character in all his bestselling sci-fi novels. When he must return to his hometown, if she's unmarried, he's going after her. Dental assistant and former actress Annabel will do anything to protect her eccentric old inventor father—even agree to marry a man she doesn't love, the town's most-...

She jilted him in college. He never expected to spar with her in court.Carson Huxley is a hotshot attorney from the city with a future partnership on the line and plans to marry the boss's daughter. Becca Goldfinch is a big-hearted small-town defense lawyer who ends up doing too much work pro bono. When Becca gets tricked into taking a real estate case, she has no idea she's going to battle against the town gazillionaire, who has hired a big-city barracuda lawyer who can tear her, and her client, to shreds. What she doesn't know is, that very barracuda attorney is Carson, her ex. And that ...

The hot hockey player she detests comes begging a desperate favor. When Emma—formerly super-nerdy Emily—goes out for a girls' night at the ice rink, she thinks they're hitting the Frozen on Ice show. That's why she wears her Elsa gown and goes full ice-queen glamour. Turns out, it's not Disney fun at the arena but that awful hockey team instead. Emma makes a quick exit—only to run into the man she hates most in this world: hockey star Dempsey Dean Davidson. And he recognizes her. Even though she's changed—she thought—everything about herself. Dempsey's career is tops. Until he ...

Get deported to a hobbit cult or marry the hot lawyer who came in for lunch? ***WINNER OF A 2018 SWOONY AWARD for excellence in clean secular romance.*** Just when her café is about to receive a major award, beautiful and talented chef Piper's world is racked. She's not a U.S. citizen! Worse, she's being deported. To New Zealand, where her parents have joined a hobbit cult. Up-and-coming lawyer Zach is determined to climb the ladder of his old-money law firm, when he discovers the reason his promotion has always been blocked: they only promote married associates to partner. Cue up the ...

Sweetheart Morgan marries a stranger - her handsome next-door neighbor Josh - solely for college financial aid. But now she can’t stop running into him or thinking about him. Which is bad - because Josh has a serious girlfriend he plans to marry. Things leap from awkward to agonizing when a well-meaning philanthropist compels Morgan and Josh to move into his mansion as “newlyweds of the year.” Their arrangement is purely hands-off, but now they’re sharing a house, and chemistry between them is skyrocketing.

One wedding party, two jilted lovers, and three ill-behaved dogs. Can they add up to love? Numbers-guy and best man Price Robertson dances with the maid of honor, and sparks ignite. She gets him. He hasn’t ventured into a relationship since a heart-wrenching rejection years back. But, it’s pointless. He’ll never see her again. Dancing with Price is amazing, but Annika Dearborn needs this wedding to end so she can get back to studying. Being a returning student is rough. If she’d never quit school for Mr. Wrong years ago, she wouldn’t be in this mess. Too bad the Price is leaving. ...

Lisette Pannebaker speaks five languages and has a brilliant business plan - personal language immersion. Clients can hire her to shadow them and speak all day in any language they need to learn for business or travel - whatever. But there's a major hitch: she's far too pretty. Clients with less than honorable intentions sign up just to have Lisette at their side. Solution? A make-under. Way under. The bad wig, icky makeup and puffy sweaters work like a charm. None of her male clients show her the least bit of interest. Lisette's totally relieved. Until...Erik.

He’s a benched quarterback who needs redemption. She’s the single mom of their child. He’s back in town to make amends.Charlotte Nilsen never thought she’d see McCoy Armstrong again after he hit the big time in the NFL. After all, she’s the one who insisted on an annulment after his scandal with the cheerleader. She’s rebuilt her life now. Her one regret is she never told McCoy their brief marriage resulted in a son. McCoy has been benched. A shoulder injury will do that to an NFL quarterback. Enough time has passed that he dares to hope that his ex-wife Charlotte will forgive ...

The girl of his nightmares might be the girl of his dreams.Dr. Luke Hotwell is the best heart surgeon in the whole hospital network. He’s on track to be named most valuable surgeon. So, when a gorgeous redhead comes storming into his office and accuses him of malpractice, he’s upset. A lawsuit could ruin his goals. He can’t quit thinking about her threats—or the woman who made them. Sheridan Chandler is a life coach deeply devoted to her clients. They’re like family to her, and even though she’s peaceful and positive, if one of them has been wronged, her warrior instincts bubble...

Her unattainable crush just flirted with her—during class. In front of everyone. Daphne only has one semester left in law school. All this time, she's been crushing on Tighe. Tighe, the unattainable. Tighe, the all-American athlete and student and dream guy. She's never spoken to him outside study groups, where they stuck to the topic. She got too nervous around him. Besides, rumor had it Tighe was engaged. Rumor also had it, they'd broken it off. Everything changes one day in class when Daphne is called on to take part in moot court against Tighe. That is, she's called on because she's ...

An arranged engagement goes sideways when the guy lays eyes on the wrong girl first. Noah Rush has only one job to do for his father's company: win over the competition's daughter. Although he's not crazy about the idea of an arranged engagement, he falls head over heels at their first meeting. Except ... it's the wrong girl. Keeley Castle has one job on this vacation: help her cousin Echo forget Mr. Wrong and focus on the business deal with the Rush Holdings heir. She had zero plans of getting in the way of a multi-faceted merger by finding Noah irresistible. Now Noah has to choose between...

What's More Romantic than Falling in Love on a Covered Bridge?Boston financial district star Emily England has never forgotten her teenage dream of romance on a bridge. When a covered bridge comes up for sale in rural Vermont, she jumps at the chance to buy it—who cares what it costs? She’s got plenty saved and prospects for a great year ahead. Maybe her charming boyfriend will even propose to her on her newly purchased bridge and make her first-snowfall wish come true. But, things go sideways at her firm and with her boyfriend, and Emily finds herself back in the countryside ...