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It’s been years since all the family was home for Christmas—will they all make it this year?When Gage Parker requests the family come together at Rock Creek Ranch for Christmas, they wonder what he has up his sleeve. After all, he’s a busy corporate executive and rancher—and generally aloof and distant when it comes to family. So, it’s inevitable the rumors fly about Gage’s intent. But all that doesn’t worry Finn Rankin. What worries her is that when the family gets together—the Parkers, the Rankins, and the MacKays—she will likely have to reveal a secret she’s been ...

They said it would be a quiet Christmas at the beach. When a Nor’easter sweeps into the coastal town of Tuckaway Bay on Christmas Eve, the residents and guests of Sea Glass Inn prepare to hunker down and weather the storm. But which is worse—the storm raging outside, or the one brewing inside the inn?**** Having survived their first year of running Sea Glass Inn—and a year of marriage—Zach and Lia Allen decide to celebrate the holidays by inviting their friends back to Tuckaway Bay for the Christmas holiday weekend. Wait. Correction. Zach reluctantly agrees. He really wants a quiet ...

Grace Wisdom has already made one wrong decision this day in the name of sex. She’d be damned if she’d make two. So, she walks out of the job interview of her dreams, leaving her potential employer behind, staring after her like she’s crazy. Has she just made the biggest mistake of her life? Maybe. But Mitch Carson, her potential new boss, doesn’t let her walk away so easily. In fact, he follows her.

Rodeo took him from her once. Will it take him again?It’s been a decade since Garth Nash left the Triple R Ranch to become a bull riding star. Now he’s back home to pay his final respects to the man he’d loved like a father, and to console the pesky tomboy he’d loved like a little sister. But there’s nothing pesky or boyish about Amarilla Ray now. She’s a gorgeous, barrel-racing cowgirl who knows exactly what she wants—to compete at the Cowgirl Classic. Just once. And then she can get on with the rest of her life. Rilla loved Garth like a big brother all those years ago, but ...

New Year’s Eve is just around the corner and Emma Jo Baker has tried every trick in the book to land a date for the annual New Year’s Eve Bash at Falls Lake Lodge. This year she doesn’t want to go alone. She even tries setting up a kissing booth at the Harbor Falls Elementary Winter Carnival to meet a potential new date (under the guise of a school fundraiser, of course) until the school principal promptly shuts her booth down, deeming it inappropriate. She would love to show him inappropriate! After eight years of teaching and five more in his role of principal, Will Craig knows he ...

What’s a small town cop to do when the love of his life runs away when he pops the question? Call in the matchmaker for backup, of course! Katie Long is not about to be saddled with commitment. She has dreams, plans, and she’s working hard to fulfill them. Her relationship with local Harbor Falls police officer Chris Marks is fine just the way it is. Why does he think they need to change it up? She knows why. She just doesn’t want to deal with reality. But when Chris pops the question, reality hits her square in the face and she panics. After Chris exhausts all hope of reasoning with ...

She's the maid of honor. He's the best man. Both are keeping secrets.While Kim Martin and Thad Winchester find their happily-ever-after in Roses & Rawhide, their best friends, Jillie Abernathy and Mack Montgomery, end their sleeping bag sharing relationship during the rugged, two-week pack trip into the Colorado San Juan mountains. But when Kim and Thad host their wedding at Thad’s Colorado ranch a few months later, Mack and Jillie must come face-to-face with reality—and with each other. She’s the Maid of Honor. He’s the Best Man. Both are harboring secrets—secrets that could ...

Suzie Hart is back in Harbor Falls after her television debut in New York. She and her cousin, Sydney, have a number of catering gigs lined up. She’d love to fix Sydney up with a date but when this new guy starts hanging around the bakery, her radar goes up. This guy is definitely not on Suzie’s matchmaking list. Sydney, however, has other ideas. High tea or sweet tea? As long as there are scones, it doesn’t matter. In fact, Suzie’s cousin Sydney Hart, owner of Sydney’s Sugar High Bakery, makes the best damned scones east of the Mississippi and south of the Mason Dixon, and there ...

As local celebrity chef Suzie Hart starts to step out of her regional fame and into the bigger world, she launches her debut cooking show with some local flavor—a blind date matchmaking sketch with a friend that goes south quicker than geese in winter…. Becca North doesn’t want a boyfriend—she is so off men. Her best friend Nora, however, makes boyfriend hunting a sport. When Nora, owner of the Harbor Falls’ bookstore, Nora’s Novel Niche, meets Suzie the matchmaking chef during a book signing at her store, she finagles her way into a romantic picnic blind date lunch on Suzie’s...

Evan MacKay is grateful to have his four brothers working beside him at Sweet Grass Ranch. Maintaining their ranch lifestyle is his priority, but the bank is breathing down his neck, and he worries the ranch can’t support their growing family. Secretly, he waits for the other boot to drop. Turns out the other boots are Jimmy Choo black stilettos worn by the new bank loan manager. Jessica Chase doesn’t claim to be an expert on ranching, but she’s a whiz in finance, particularly in whipping delinquent accounts into shape. As the new kid on the block, she is driven to succeed, and ready ...

Stuck? Stalled? Slow to Start?Authors, this book is for you. If you are a new writer, determined to break into the publishing world, you might think you must do it all—which often slows you down. Or worse, shoots you down the wrong spirally, sticky slope that oddly resembles Alice’s rabbit hole. You keep trying to open the doors to success but can’t find the right key. And just when you think you’ve found the right key, the door cracks open a little wider—enough to glimpse what’s on the other side. Another golden key! It’s sure to bring success. Right? And oh! You want that! ...

No one ever kissed her like Ethan. No one. And even after all this time, Brandley remembered his kiss—this kiss—like she’d had one every day since the day he left her. Navy SEAL Ethan MacKay returns to Sweet Grass Ranch to recuperate from an injury suffered on a mission, and eventually help manage the South Dakota family ranch with his identical twin brother, Evan. But he’s been gone too long, and he’s not the man who left the ranch over a dozen years ago. Not by a long shot. His body broken, and hopefully not his mind, he prays what they say is true—that cowboy runs deep in ...

She's from the wrong side of the tracks. He's a rich bad boy with a past. Neither think they are good enough for the other. Mira Featherstone knows her place in life and it's not with Jake Remington. Rich guys play on the wrong side of the tracks, but they don’t bring girls like her home to mama. Since Mira has no expectations beyond the moment, she doesn’t mind playing—and she loves toying with the bad boy lawyer, until it gets her into trouble with her boss, Chandler West. Jake Remington is a wealthy Texas cowboy whose family land borders West Hills Ranch, owned by Chandler West. ...

When Suzie Hart’s success as the matchmaking chef hits the national foodie scene, her publicist produces a list of requirements totally unrelated to Suzie’s newfound cooking show success. Interested more in Suzie’s matchmaking talents, Patricia Plum presents The Husband List. Patricia Plum knows she’s attracted to commitment-phobic men. Worse, they adore her. Unlucky on her own in the couples department, she asks her new client for help. If Suzie Hart is as good as everyone claims, Patricia feels confident this hot new chef-turned-matchmaker will deliver the husband of her dreams. ...

Gracie Hart is the Diva of Romance in small town Franklinville, KY. The owner of a successful, sophisticated boutique called Romantically Yours, she has no intention of falling in love again. Instead, she lives a quiet life, running her shop, and healing from the tragic accident that robbed her of her ballet career, and her fiancé. When her new neighbors, Carson Price and his six-year-old daughter Izzie, arrive on the scene, and wreak havoc in her life, she realizes she has to face her past, before she can hope for the future.

A thrilling time travel novel set in a dystopian future featuring a pirate cult based on Blackbeard lore. Can souls touch through dreams and find their way home again?Jackson Porter seeks to fulfill his mother, Claire Porter’s, dying request, and find answers about the imaginary lover who haunts his nights. His future, he learns, is in a place called Ohio, miles and centuries away from his barrier island home in 1745. The land, his dying mother tells him, is his legacy. She urges him to claim it. In the year 2038, Kari Upton is driven to fight federal sanctions to save her land and her ...

She rescued a cat and gave the feline a furever home. Did she find her forever man in the process? The peaceful mountain town of Harbor Falls is the perfect place to start a new veterinary practice—or so new-in-town, Dr. Caleb Wyatt thinks—until the morning he opens the doors of his animal clinic. Mrs. Pierson’s poodle is looking for love in all the wrong places. A colicky calf keeps him awake. A yellow-tinged iguana, a cursing Lorikeet, and a bird-eating cat all seem hell-bent on wreaking havoc with his business. In short, chaos! Until the lovely and quite organized, Samantha ...

Small town. Check. Love triangle. Check. Murder. Maybe. Deception. Definitely.Two years after Kate Cooper's law enforcement husband is murdered on the job, she finds herself falling for another man. When that man turns out to be not whom she thought, and when her husband turns out to not be dead after all, she realizes she's been double-crossed. ATF Agent Michael Lassiter knows Kate's husband is alive and well. When he goes undercover in Kate's elementary classroom posed as a school drug cop, his mission is to find out what Kate knows about her husband's supposed death, his involvement in a...

Leaving Noah is a heartwarming tale of love, loss, second chances, and the power of the written word.When a rodeo accident leaves Rock Creek Ranch shorthanded, Connie MacKay travels from South Dakota to Montana to visit her daughter and help with the neighboring ranch’s cattle roundup. Raised on a ranch and comfortable in the saddle, she is determined to help. After decades of working ranches throughout the northwest, Noah Parker heads home to Rock Creek to stay—maybe. That all depends on the reception he gets from family. When he arrives, the last person he expects to see there is ...