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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 valuable poppy crops. Her upcoming marriage is one of convenience. Marrying Tye Gentry will save her Ohio ...

What are they fighting for? Their love or their lives?Detective Jordan Cross has one thing on her mind--get the bastard killing kids in her small southern city, the person she thinks is also responsible for her niece's disappearance. Journalist Tate Walker has a similar goal--keep the people of his city informed about the serial killer and write a Pulitzer-worthy story. As their lives careen together around the case, they pick up the battles of their pasts and carry them forward--battles of trust and mistrust, lust and love, truths and misunderstandings--battles that erupted within their ...

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 ...

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 ...

When master chocolate taster, Scott Matthews, escapes to Harbor Falls to visit his brother and sister-in-law, Brad and Suzie Hart Matthews, he has only one request—no talk about work, and that includes any discussion of chocolate. Scott knows Suzie is a celebrity chef and warns them away from any fanfare or discussion of his professional work with the Italian-based, world-renowned chocolate company, Bianchi Chocolates. All he wants is an uneventful few weeks to get away from chaos and relax. What Jillian Bass wants is to make a success of her new business in Harbor Falls. This Manhattan ...

Another deadly romantic comedy—three sisters, a smattering of ghost, a touch of romance, a boatload of mystery, and a stitch of southern humor. Molly Campbell had everything—a gorgeous Louisiana mansion, a rich husband, and a lucrative career. Had—not has—because her redneck husband dies in a seven-car pileup on the way to a monster truck pull, setting off a chain of events that leaves her penniless and moving into her deceased Gran’s home in Carrington, Louisiana. To say lifestyle change is a bitch is an understatement. She misses Don (and admittedly, his money) but doesn’t ...

When Jasmine Walker returns to Harbor Falls after a fifteen-year absence—she expects to tie up some legalities of a will and head back to her home in Atlanta that same day. She doesn’t expect her troubled teenage past to collide with her well-planned, professional future. When Ms. Leinie Harbor Crockett dies and leaves something for Jasmine Walker in her will, Jasmine returns to Harbor Falls to meet with the attorney of the estate and learns she has inherited the contents of a safety deposit box. A letter explains Ms. Leinie’s wishes and the stipulations around Jasmine’s inheritance...

A southern-fried comedy with a touch of romance, a side of mystery, a smattering of paranormal, and three crazy sisters…. 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 real and she’s too late—not for the interview, but to save her husband. For there he is, dead on ...

When Parker Rankin’s father dies, he expects life on the ranch to change. What he didn't expect was Reba Morris.Parker wonders how much his stepmother, Abby, has influenced his father’s final wishes. Although Abby has been a part of his life for years, her goals for the ranch are different from his: he wants to keep it a working cattle ranch; she wants to convert it to a dude ranch. All Parker wants is to continue his way of life—running the Montana ranch until the day he dies, just like his father. The last thing he expects the day of his father’s funeral is for life to throw him ...

When Cole Stevens travels from Montana to Texas to close a business deal with his old friend, Chandler West, he never expects to close in on a relationship, too. But with one brief flicker of eye contact in the airport with a pretty young woman carrying a guitar, his heart starts to unravel. Sarah MacKay, fresh off the South Dakota ranch she grew up on, is touted as the up-and-coming country music singer of the year. Invited to sing at Chandler West’s annual ranch barbecue, Sarah finds herself in opposition with her manager, and Cole steps up to protect her from the smarmy, poor excuse of...

The Chief Financial Officer of the non-profit Cerise Thacker runs has been cooking her financial books. The DA fears the CFO’s deep family roots will come after her, particularly after the CFO states he will “see to her death.” So, Cerise is whisked away in a Yellow Cab into a short-term police protection program to keep her safe. The cabbie? Isaac Walker, undercover cop. For the duration, Isaac will be her protector, even though Cerise doesn’t want protection. Cerise and Isaac are not strangers. In a different world, far away from their regularly scheduled lives, they shared a role...

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. ...

One more deadly romantic comedy. Meet Mitzi, Molly, and Marla—three sisters, southern-fried born-and-bred, and the ghosts who love them. Marla Newberry has no interest in dating someone local. She much prefers midnight runs to a biker bar in Shreveport. Cooter Haines, drummer for a Grateful Dead tribute band called Skull Bone, owns the biker bar called The Deadhead. He also happens to be the only guy who can curl her toes like a sprung guitar string. And while she enjoys surrendering to his toe-curling on occasion, she’s not interested in bringing the long-haired drummer home to daddy--...

Gracie Hart lives a quiet life in Harbor Falls, North Carolina, until the renters move in next door! “A heartwarming emotional story.” “Captured my attention from the beginning. It had me in laughter and tears…” Gracie Hart is healing from the tragedy that robbed her of the two things she loved the most and will never get back—the love of her life and ballet. The former ballerina now spends her time running a successful boutique gift shop called Romantically Yours located in the heart of downtown Harbor Falls, North Carolina. Rick Price, seeking a new life for himself and his ...

When Nora Patterson rear-ends Reverend Rock Peters’ SUV on a secluded mountain road one snowy Christmas Eve, she finds herself temporarily snowbound with the attractive minister. She has prayed for someone to share Christmas with this year—and yes, for the rest of her life. She’d thought time was running out, but could Reverend Peters be the one? Or will love pass her by again this Christmas? Reverend Rockford Peters has accepted being alone but often longs for a special someone to share his life. He has experienced a couple of significant relationships over the course of his adult ...

Suzie Hart is earning quite the reputation as a matchmaking chef in the small town of Harbor Falls, North Carolina. Can she navigate the dating game for Lyssa Larkin? When puppy nanny, Lyssa Larkin, tells her friends she has given up on dating and is devoting her life to dogs, Suzie realizes it’s time to take matters into her own hands. She sets up a series of speed dating lunches for Lyssa at Sweet Hart Inn, designed to help the former Harbor Falls High Homecoming Queen meet as many men as possible in a short time period. Suzie knows Lyssa needs a push and some confidence—but soon ...

“True love conquers all—isn’t that why we read these books?” EmmaRae, Romancing the Book (Review for All of My Heart) 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. ...

Dr. Sam Kirk broke Lucki Stevenson’s heart in high school. Years later, he’s moved back into his childhood home—the house next door to Lucki. Will he leave her heartbroken again? Or can the good doctor mend her broken heart of the past? Lucki Stevenson spends most of her time coaching unruly teenagers and avoiding the unwelcome advances of a co-worker in her Harbor Falls Parks and Recreation job. So when all-grown-up, boy-next-door, Dr. Sam Kirk moves back into his childhood home, she doesn’t hesitate welcoming him back into town and her life—as her childhood best friend, of ...

When Shelley Hart ran off and married her sister’s fiancé, the whole town of Harbor Falls was in a twitter. A few years later, with her husband deceased and two little girls to take care of, Shelley realizes her only recourse is to go home. The last thing Shelley wants is to go home for the holidays. She left Harbor Falls years earlier and hasn’t returned. Her leaving humiliated her entire family and caused friction with her older sister, Suzie. Who could blame Suzie for being upset? After all, Shelley ran off and married Suzie’s fiancé, Cliff. But everything has changed now—and ...

The year is 2095. The Americas Revolution has ended.And Cyan Sebastian—the last blue-eyed, Caucasian woman known to exist in the Western hemisphere—is on the run. Her safe and sequestered life ripped apart, she is running with a man who has sworn to protect her. A man who once hunted her for the bounty she would fetch. The man who, days before, killed her father. Devin McCrae is that man. Having tracked Cyan and her family for years, Devin never dreams her father will one day drop her into his lap with a proposition he cannot refuse. He never imagines that instead of hunting Cyan for ...