Small Fish

He needs a wife to inherit his grandmother’s estate. She needs cash to save her family’s lodge. Will a fake marriage solve their problems, or uncover hidden emotions? Carter Haines is declared the heir to his grandmother’s estate, provided he satisfy one requirement--stay married for two years. He can fulfill the request if he can find a woman as anxious as he is to enter a temporary marriage. When Emma Waite’s grandmother dies, she’s stunned to learn the family lodge is on the verge of ruin. Her disappointment increases when the bank refuses her a loan. Carter, the bank president...

What do you get when you cross Northern Exposure with a Hallmark Christmas movie? Polar Creek: population quirky. Where moose have the right-of-way and the only stoplight blinks when it feels like it. Sadie looks forward to spending Christmas wrapped in romance and holiday magic in a cozy Alaska cabin. Instead, her world turns over when she finds her fiancé has been gift-wrapping his heart for someone else. But when Sadie tries to return home, a precarious bush plane flight strands her in the tiny town of Polar Creek during a fierce Alaskan blizzard. Kreston runs the tiny town with more ...

New beginning or new heartache? Nurse Lana Smith gives herself a gift for Christmas, a fresh start in a small town. After escaping a dead-end relationship with a celebrity, she avoids her patient's grandson, a pro football player. When Arturo gradually thaws her frozen heart, can her Christmas wish for family and affection come true? Football is Arturo De La Vega's life, but he returns to his hometown to help his ailing grandfather. Lana challenges Arturo to reach for stars of faith and love. Is Arturo's quest for glory worth crushing Lana's dreams and sacrificing his heart's true desire?

Silas Spotted Wolf is dead --- murdered. Nobody seems to care, For his family and friends, it is life as it has always been at Pine Ridge. For the whites, he is just another dead Indian. But for Ash Zschernig he is a friend. And Sarge has asked that his friend be his ‘Spirit Bundle Keeper”. In Lakota tradition the Spirit bundle is central to purifying the soul to enter the after-life and being the keeper is not a position Ash takes lightly. He attends his friend’s funeral and takes on his duty, but then is drawn inexorably into penetrating the web of lies surrounding the murder.

Karen Milner recently turned 19 and was in love with life! Easter was a few weeks away and she was fortunate enough to get a job working in the local candy store. She was a happy go lucky girl and everywhere she went, people instantly fell in love with her charming ways! She did have a way about her that seemed to draw crowds wherever she went. Barton Keller had had his eye on her for several years and was determined to make her his. The challenge was, every other guy in town had the same idea. While desperately trying to come up with a way to set himself apart in her eyes, he goes into the...

She fled her family legacy. But when a crisis pulls her back, can a free spirit find a fulfilling path in the small town she left behind? 42-years old and recently divorced, Jasmine LaFleur is living an aimless life in New Orleans. When her twin nieces call begging her to return to the small town where she grew up, she plans a quick visit to support them. Once there, she discovers that her sister has relinquished custody of the tweens to Jasmine with the requirement that they be raised in Cypress Lake. Suddenly thrust into the role of mom, Jasmine struggles to find her footing. And it ...

“This book had me hooked right from the start. Ended up reading in one sitting (uh oh - no sleep for me). I loved every character, human and animal.” ~ Amazon 5-star review Ex-champion bull rider, TJ, has zero time for romance and even less faith in love. Fish-out-of-water Paige needs time to heal her broken heart and a safe space to start over. Neither anticipates the powerful bond that comes from saving the life of a pregnant and abused little donkey named Miss Valentine. Paige’s fresh start goes from bad to redonkulous— Paige Jackson lost two years of her life to grief. Finally ...

Don't fall for the captain. I'm a fresh-faced journalist with something to prove. Writing about bake sales and city council meetings wasn't exactly my dream. But when my editor assigns me to investigate the "Heartthrob of the High Seas," I see my chance at a real story. Captain Leo Maxwell is too perfect to be real. In fact he's the walking definition of every popular guy who never gave me a second glance in high school. No actual ship captain has millions of swooning followers or looks like he just stepped off a romance novel cover. He's got to be a fraud, and I'm going to expose him. That...

Lisa and Elliot have been best friends ever since the day they met as children. Popular, bright and sporty, Lisa was Elliot's biggest supporter when the school bullies made his life a misery, and for that, he will always be grateful. Twenty years later, life has pulled the pair apart, and Lisa is struggling. Her marriage is floundering, her teenage kids are being secretive and she's so tired she can't think straight. So when Elliot knocks on the door, looking much better than she remembers, she can't help but be delighted to see her old friend again.

Garrick Evergreen is the most annoying person on the planet but tormenting him is becoming my favorite part of my day. Everyone in this small, Christmas-themed town hates me. Even my sister. No one else wants to be mayor, but I do them all a favor by taking on the job and suddenly, I’m the outsider who wants to destroy their town. My ideas are really good, but no one can see it. Especially not Garrick, the gorgeous outdoor guide who thinks I’m the one blocking his attempts to get the permits he needs to grow his business. I’m actually the only one fighting for him to get those permits...

Antwone Quenton Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment his single mother gave birth to him in prison. As a foster child, he suffered more than a dozen years of emotional abandonment and physical abuse, until he escaped and forged a life on the streets. And just as his life was about to hit rock bottom, Antwone enlisted in the U.S. Navy, a decision that would ultimately save him. There, he became a man and discovered a loving family he never had.

The tiny house movement is an emerging and growing trend in architecture and home design. It has been present in the real estate market for years but has only now grown to become the latest craze in the architectural world. Many people have decided that less is actually more, and even more are beginning to downsize their living to create a more suitable and much more affordable lifestyle.

Tristan Calhoun doesn’t play games and knows exactly what he wants: a genuine woman who will love him for himself, not his family's fortune. To Tristan, Stacey embodies everything he desires. He falls fast and he falls hard. Stacey Kempt's past is marred by unfaithful, rude, and disrespectful men. To shield her heart, she has decided to put relationships on hold, prioritizing her family, friends, and nursing career. But then she meets Tristan Calhoun, and her well-constructed plans start to waver. As their relationship intensifies, the walls Stacey built around her heart begin to crumble ...

Previously published as The Notorious Ian Grant by Mark R. Hunter When B-list celebrity and infamous party boy Ian Grant learns his sister is marrying a cop, he leaves Hollywood behind and drives straight to Indiana. He has a simple plan: Make up for all the times he embarrassed his sister Allie and the rest of their family by planning Allie's upcoming wedding. Too bad he didn’t tell his sister. So, Ian’s never planned a wedding. How hard could it be? The tornado-ravaged Hurricane, Indiana, is like another world to Ian—a world he'd like to be part of, if only people would stop judging...

Before Adam Farrer’s family relocated to Withernsea in 1992, he’d never heard of the Holderness coast. The move represented one thing to Adam: a chance to leave the insecurities of early adolescence behind. And he could do that anywhere. What he didn’t know was how much he’d grow to love the quirks and people of this faded Yorkshire resort, in spite of its dilapidated attractions and retreating clifftops. While Adam documents the minutiae of small-town life, he lays bare experiences that are universal.

He’s fashion royalty. She’s the queen of thrift. Now their career hopes are pinned on each other… Nothing could make Janelle Novak go back to the competitive world of New York fashion – except a threat to her store, Tailor Thrift. If she can win the first season of a new design reality show, she’ll be able to secure the loan she needs to save her business. But first, she needs to spend the next six weeks working with the pampered playboy she slept with – and walked out on – years ago. Everything has come easily for Ashton Royce – except the career he wants. Relegated to the ...

Love isn’t meant for him. Her life is filled with regrets. Can they fight the attraction or will they open their hearts to more? Savvy New York techie, Savannah Thompson, is on the fast track with no time for love. When she flies to El Tesoro Ranch to take care of her late sister’s effects, she’s shocked to meet Asher Sterling, the powerfully built cowboy who makes her struggle to keep her heart safe. Asher’s vow to deny love is challenged when he meets Savannah. His feelings in check, he helps her take care of her sister’s effects. Inwardly, he fights the desire that threatens ...

William J. Cobb's Book Sense 2006 Pick showcases a fishing town on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Goodnight is slowly being swallowed by an increasingly lifeless sea. Shrimpers and fishermen, with nothing to catch, watch their vessels rot in the stagnant brine. And then a gigantic sea creature, long believed extinct, washes ashore. But during the struggle to profit from this find, a menacing hurricane looms offshore.

Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house to find the front door unlocked, dinner on the table, and the family nowhere to be found - Carrie, her husband, and two daughters have disappeared. When the police turn up no leads, Emily turns to her former boyfriend David Raker, a missing persons investigator, to track the family down. As Raker pursues the case, he discovers evidence of a sinister cover-up, decades in the making and with a long trail of bodies behind it.

He barely remembers his dad. She’s all about community. Can he let go of anger and harvest a passionate new life with a sweet country girl? Brisbane, Australia. Justin Wheeler wishes it was just another ordinary day. Living with his mum after her marriage fell apart, the listless software developer grew up without a phone call, a birthday card, or even a letter from his birth father. So when the man dies and bequeaths him his rural dairy farm on the Sunshine Coast, the bitter young man reluctantly attends the funeral, intending to liquidate the property. Freya Montgomery brought her ...