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Welcome back to Aspen Cove.... One Hundred Decisions: Waitress Natalie Keane seeks peace and quiet. When she becomes guardian to her 12-year-old brother, her life is anything but calm. Add to that her growing feelings for a sexy shop owner, and her life is pure chaos. One Hundred Glances: Artist Sosie Grant has a bout with Lyme disease that leaves her unable to paint. She is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers, specifically Baxter Black. One Hundred Lessons: Schoolteacher Mercy Meyer had dreams until her cheating husband stole them away. She’s sworn off men until sexy Alex Cruz.

Poppy Dawson has spent her entire life wanting what she can’t have - namely, Mark Bancroft, Aspen Cove’s deputy sheriff. Growing up the daughter of a cattle rancher, she’d had no time for silly things such as love. But after watching her terminally ill mother wither, Poppy realizes that life is not only unpredictable, it’s short. She has to decide if she’ll settle for the life laid out for her or the life she desires.

Aspen Cove has offered Natalie Keane the peace and quiet she lacked growing up in foster care. While fear of getting too close to anyone has led her to settle on the outskirts of town, she’s found a happy routine, until life throws her a massive curveball in the form of the little brother she never knew existed. Thrust into parenthood, Natalie faces the enormous task of handling a rebellious 12-year-old.

As the personal assistant to pop star legend Indigo, Deanna Archer moved to Aspen Cove for work. But when her longtime crush dumps her, Deanna is determined to get him back, even if that means enlisting the help of Aspen Cove’s new deputy sheriff, Merrick Buchanan, to act as her fake boyfriend. After all, the best way to get a man is to make him think he can’t have you, right? As her plan unfolds and her feelings toward Merrick grow, Deanna is faced with a dilemma: Does she stay on course or veer off in the direction her heart wants to take her?

Eden Webster has always been generous to a fault. The word "no" isn’t in her vocabulary. That’s how, at 28, she finds herself homeless, alone, and pregnant in Aspen Cove. Abandoned by the one person she should have been able to count on - her sister Suzanne - she’s forced to accept the generosity of strangers. The last thing she expects is to meet Mr. Right at exactly the wrong time.

Actress Cameron Madden is sick and tired of being tired. With her last movie failing at the box office and her career in question, she heads to Aspen Cove to lick her wounds. The small mountain town is the perfect place to escape the prying eyes of a critical public, the demands of her career, and the rules set by her team. Expecting a female bodyguard named Valery, she's shocked to find the script has been flipped and Valery is a tall, dark, and annoying man who goes by Val. The first thing he does is hand her a set of rules—his rules. And she plans to break every one of them.

Author Reese Arden has been hiding most of her life. Some would call her a wallflower, but she’s the root of that flower, hidden far beneath the soil, where no one can see her, hear her, or shame her. Her lifelong stutter has silenced her, but when she moves to Aspen Cove, she vows to give herself a new beginning and find the courage to be heard. Her first encounter with a handsome hitchhiker spurs her inquisitive writer’s brain. Tucked inside his pocket, next to his heart is a mysterious pink envelope. Could this man be her muse?

Vivian Armstrong has taken control of Vortex, her family's security business, and she’s determined to prove her worth. She may be the youngest of seven and the only woman bodyguard on the team, but she’s every bit as tough as her older brothers. On a trip to Aspen Cove, she finds herself working for famous bass player Red Blakely, the personification of everything she detests in a man: arrogant, entitled, and too handsome for his own good. How can she protect him when all she wants to do is kill him?

Horse trainer Trinity Mosier never looks for trouble, but it finds her at every turn. After losing her job, she packs up and moves to Aspen Cove, hoping her brother will take her in. However, when she arrives, he makes it clear that one wrong move will have her out on her ear. Things are starting to look up when a bully from her past comes back to taunt her. Just as she readies for battle, Wyatt Morrison steps in and redirects her fury, but can he keep her storm on its new trajectory, or will she leave destruction in her wake once more?

Grad student River Roberts is at the head of her class. But outside of the lecture hall, she’s struggling to make ends meet. Refusing to let her diploma slip through her fingers, she joins a secret student society that caters to the wealthy alumni’s deepest desires. But when she starts to fall for a handsome client, she realizes she never factored in the price her heart would pay.

Never-married, retired librarian Elsa Buchanan isn’t known for subtlety; she’s known for getting her way. Aging and in questionable health, she’s worried her time for falling in love is overdue. Always up for a challenge, she sets her eyes on irascible Trenton Van der Veen, who is like a first-edition hardback book—quality through and through but showing a lifetime of wear and tear. Can she crack through his binding to enter his heart, or will she have to return him for a newer edition?

She has a secret. He needs the truth. Is it possible to rekindle a love gone wrong? Veterinarian Sara Arden made a mistake when she was a sixteen-year-old girl. The mistake wasn’t in falling in love with rancher Lloyd Dawson. It wasn’t even in getting pregnant. Sure, that part could have waited, but the mistake was in never telling him she had his daughter. Now, thirty-two years later, she’s back in Aspen Cove with her daughter, Reese. And this time, there won’t be any denying the truth.

He’s leading a double life. She’s following her heart. Will his sexy secret ruin their perfect romance? Grad student Luca Gregorio has smarts, sex appeal, and a dirty little secret he’ll never tell his devout Catholic family. To bankroll his education, he’s mastered the art of satisfying wealthy alumni’s wildest fantasies. But his own dreams of graduation falter when he falls for an alluring woman who makes him question whether the burden of student debt is heavier than the soul-crushing cost of selling himself.

Alexa Cross leaves Los Angeles with a scarred heart, beat-up car, and a secret. She's ready to move on and leave her past behind, but fate has had a way of knocking her right back down. Marooned in the middle of nowhere, she imagines misfortune has dealt its final blow, but this time, destiny seems to have a different plan when she ends up in a place aptly called The Last Resort.

Beautiful but deadly, Katya Petrenko’s future has been decided. She’ll marry the man her father orders her to, or she’ll pay the price. After narrowly escaping a marriage to the wrong Wilde brother, she has now been promised to a notorious Russian hit man who has the Wildes in his crosshairs. Ultimately, Katya must choose between loyalty to her family and protecting Matt, the Wilde brother who stole her heart years ago. Matt Wilde has had his share of troubles. Born into mob life, it’s all that he knows.

Laatstejaarsstudent Luca Gregorio is slim, sexy, en hij heeft een geheim dat hij nooit zal opbiechten aan zijn diepgelovige katholieke familie. Om voor zijn studie te kunnen betalen, vervult hij de meest kinky wensen van rijke alumni. Maar zijn eigen droom ooit met een diploma de universiteit te verlaten wordt bedreigd als hij valt voor een aantrekkelijke jonge vrouw die hem met nieuwe ogen naar zijn leven laat kijken. Is de prijs die hij moet betalen voor een opleiding te hoog als hij zichzelf ervoor moet verkopen?

Het leven van Paul Yoder staat of valt met het doen van grote dingen. Hij is charmant, intelligent en steenrijk, maar wat hij het liefste wil is iemand vinden die van hem houdt zoals hij is, iemand die meer ziet dan wat hij aan rijkdom te bieden heeft.

Laatstejaarsstudente River Roberts is de beste van haar jaar. Maar buiten de collegezaal heeft ze moeite de eindjes aan elkaar te knopen. Omdat ze haar kans op een diploma niet wil laten schieten, wordt ze lid van een geheime studentenclub die als doel heeft de diepste seksuele verlangens van alumni uit te laten komen. Maar als ze verliefd wordt op een knappe cliёnt, beseft ze dat ze nooit heeft stilgestaan bij wat dit spelletje haar aan liefdesverdriet kan kosten...

Kelly Charles-Collins is a retired attorney, award-winning TEDx speaker, author, and coach. After earning her Bachelor’s degree and two months before beginning her MBA program, Kelly discovered she was pregnant. She could have quit school or ended her pregnancy. She did neither. Instead, she completed her MBA and in 1995, after attending law school on a whim and as a single mom of a 4-year, Kelly began her career as a lawyer. For 24 years she wowed everyone with her impeccable trial skills. But in 2018, she began feeling unsettled, knowing she was meant to do and be more. Kelly knew that her...

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