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Sometimes all we need is to believe. Ariana Estrella’s blog features all things Christmas, all year long. While traveling upstate New York in search of the perfect Christmas village, she lands in Charmington amidst the town’s annual Christmas Jubilee—and a snowstorm. Delighted and giddy with holiday cheer, the magic of the season seeps deeper into her bones. Matt Matson—owner of the century-old Main Street Hardware in Charmington—despite all the holiday hoopla, dislikes the season. He’s all about regular business—there’s not a holiday ornament or tree trimming bauble to be ...

Can a couple on the verge of divorce find romance again during their last Christmas holiday at Holly Hill Inn? Will and Ava Cohen were wildly in love—five years ago. Today, they are ships passing in the night, two professionals driven to reach the pinnacle of their professions. When Will steps in the door of their restored brownstone in Brooklyn each evening, Ava is already on stage at the Gershwin, playing the role of Glinda in Wicked. They are calling their marriage quits—but not until they spend one more Christmas together with their families at Holly Hill Inn. Traditionally, the ...

Welcome to Harbor Falls! This two-book bundle is your series starter into the 15-Book Harbor Falls Romance Series!All of My Heart, Book 1 - Life is perfect. When Suzie Hart inherits the lakeside Victorian cottage that eventually becomes Sweet Hart Inn, she imagines her life all planned out ahead of her. She will run the inn, write her recipes, conduct her cooking classes, and pick up an occasional catering job with her cousin Sydney Hart, who owns the local bakery. Her life in Harbor Falls is predictable--a welcome change from the chaos of recent months--and that's the way she likes it. ...

When yet another acting rejection stuns Wynter Holly, she decides to give up acting altogether—until her friends set her up for potential success with an unconventional, and perhaps unsuitable, intervention. All Wynter Holly, aka stage name Wyn Hall, wants for Christmas is to be cast in a significant role in the upcoming Harbor Falls Actor’s Playhouse production. What she gets is a gig playing nanny to four children who are attached to the casting director of the play—the casting director who doesn’t think she’s suitable for any role in the play. All Rob Black wants for Christmas ...

Can souls touch through time and hold on when all odds are against them?Claire Winslow vacations on an East Coast barrier island, content with her life and her potential future—until the illusion of a man walking the misty shore haunts her. Then one kiss—a beautiful, soulful, stolen kiss in the night—and her life changes forever. Nearly 300 years past, Jack Porter is in hot pursuit of his kidnapped wife. Not an easy feat considering the year is 1718 and the kidnapper is the notorious pirate Blackbeard aka Edward Teach. Determined to rescue his wife and take the pirate’s head, Jack ...

A small town romantic suspense novel.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 drug cartel, and to determine if she is ...

Rebekah McCauley is back home after ten long years of living and working in New York City. She left the Big Apple under circumstances she’d rather not share with her family—not yet, anyway—and wants is time to heal and recover from the mess she’d made of her life. Luckily, her grandparents’ Kentucky bluegrass farm, Wind Ridge, provides the safe haven she craves and the solitude she needs to heal. Collin Kramer, the foxhunter next door, seems determined to infiltrate her peace and invade her quiet sanctuary—not only with his noisy hounds running amok over her land, but with his ...

Sylvia Moore returns to the small town of Dickens during the annual Christmas in July festival, hoping to land the New England location for a new Christmas romance movie. She knows the town will award only one filming permit a year but she's confident the deal’s in Santa’s bag.

Snowbound in a secluded cabin. Lost in ghosts of the past. Driven by a life unfulfilled.All Blaire Kincaid wants is to make her own way in the world. Using her newly acquired PI skillset, she sets out on an eighteen-year-old cold trail to find the missing nephew of heiress, Reva MacGlenary. But Darian MacGlenary doesn’t want to be found. When he spies the young woman stumbling into his Appalachian hollow, he panics. The bearded mountain man has tucked himself deep into the backwoods for the past decade on purpose, and the last thing he wants is a woman nosing around. When Blaire arrives a...

Grace Wisdom made one wrong decision this day in the name of sex. She’d be damned if she’d make two. So, she walks out on the job interview of her dreams, leaving her potential employer staring after her like she’s made the biggest mistake of her life. But her potential new boss doesn't let her walk away so easily.

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 ...

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! ...

Welcome to Carrington, Louisiana, and this deadly romantic comedy series! Three southern-fried comedies with a touch of romance, a side of mystery, a smattering of paranormal, and three crazy sisters…. Freshly Dead, Book 1 All Mitzi Winston wants is enough money to pay this month’s mortgage payment. That is the only reason she even considers the phone sex job. Ever since her husband’s disappearance, she has held things together nicely—until recently. And now, well, she just needs the money. Biting the bullet, she goes for the interview, only to find that the phone sex job isn’t ...

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. ...

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.