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Rose McIlroy poses as a young man for safety in the rough mining fields. Jackson Westin fishes her out of a creek and immediately knows his newspaper readers will love a story of a young man helping his injured father to keep their claim going. But how long can this charade last, especially when Jackson discovers Rose's true identity?

A new job as nanny turns deadly. Darcie Thayer needs to find what her late husband hid before she is killed. The package may be her only means of survival. She accepts a job as nanny to a best-selling author in hopes of having the time to continue her search in the last place she ever thought she would go back to. Her hometown.

Summer Meadows' chocolate candy business is booming. She's overwhelmed with her April Fool's Day wedding plans, and against her family's advice, hires her cousin to be her wedding planner. But then her cousin is found murdered and more mysteries keep occurring at family parties. Can Summer resist the urge to investigate when she and her dysfunctional relatives are dipped into a plot of unrequited love, internet scam, and jilted hearts?

After receiving a batch of photographs of missing women and discovering her face imposed on one of the victim's picture, Aislinn MacFarland realizes the serial killings taking place are personally directed toward her. When the FBI steps in, and Agent Andrew Wayne is assigned to protect her, Linn balks, determined to solve the crimes with the help of her partner. When a witness points a finger at Linn's partner as being the killer, Linn and Drew race against time to prove the other detective's innocence and catch the man known as The Photographer before more women are killed. Romance rages, bullets fly, and a madman moves closer to his idea of the perfect woman.

Widow Sadie Mathewson wants to find love again. But when an injured pony express rider shows up at her station, love finds her in an unexpected way. Luke Stetson arrives at Sadie’s pony express station searching for his runaway brother. He doesn’t expect to have to stay, nor does he expect to fall in love with the lovely, lonely widow. Circumstances spiral out of control. Can the two come together to protect those they love and admit their love for each other?

Shiloh Sloan, the girl from the wrong side of the bridge. The girl shunned because of accusations she’d made against the town’s star football player. Now, she’s returned to teach the children of the people who had turned their backs on her in hopes of showing them how wrong they were.

Detective Linn McFarland is matching wits against her toughest foe, yet. A woman, Queen Coral as the newspapers call her, is collecting men as playthings. She wants one man from every ethnic group, and her eye is on Linn's fiancee, Chief of Police Andrew Wayne. Queen Coral has no qualms about killing a man who disappoints her and is leaving a path of destruction through a small Arkansas town.

Ditched at the altar, Shelby Jenkins tosses down her bouquet, quits her job, and accepts a position as gardener and event coordinator at an upscale retirement community. Her first day on the job results with a dead body in the greenhouse under the orchids and with her as the prime suspect! Toss in a handsome handyman, quirky characters, and a flirtatious grandma and the fun never stops.

When Maegan Larson finds a box of 50-year-old love letters written to her grandmother from a soldier in Vietnam, everything changes. Maegan starts a search to find out what happened to the soldier and meets the handsome Chase Dixon. Together, the two formulate a plan to rekindle a love and find romance of their own. This delightful Christmas story will bring back the magic of love letters.

Annie Rollins longs for adventure. But her strict mother keeps her close to home, working as a Harvey Girl waitress. Dallas Baker shows up in town and takes the job Annie really wants - leading tours through the Grand Canyon. Annie's frustrated but finds it impossible to ignore the handsome outdoorsman.

When spoiled, wealthy, Alicia Robinson is asked by her grandmother to live as homeless and go undercover keeping an eye on a soup kitchen they own, Alicia is dumbfounded. She believes her grandmother has lost her mind, but agrees to the charade. It doesn't take her long to find out the man managing the soup kitchen, Seth Banes, is as near perfect as a man can be. She asks her grandmother to let her come clean about her identity. Grandma refuses, sending Alicia on a path of self-discovery where life will never be the same.

Widowed and broke, Rachel Kent collects her two children, packs up their belongings, and heads across the Ozarks to stay with her parents. They stop for the night at a newly opened campground then take a short hike. The three return to find the other occupants of the campground murdered. They flee the campsite and stumble upon a ranger's cabin, where they enlist the help of handsome, former-Army Ranger Wesley Ward, who informs them a survivalist group laid claim to the mountain.

Elderly women are dying in River Valley...after their names appear in the obituaries. When the latest woman comes to Marsha Steele for help finding the killer before she becomes the next victim, Marsha is thrust into another mystery that could very well be her last.

When Cindy Lou Hopkins turns 25, life will get better. She knows it. She'll no longer be under the thumb of her stepmother, Geneva, or tormented by her stepsisters. She just has to stay alive that long. The only kink in her plan for independence is the handsome Lance Moore, whom she jokingly calls the town prince. A man who wants to get to know her better. A man Cindy isn't worthy to be in the same room as. When Lance throws a barn dance, Cindy is determined to have one night with him that will carry her through the rest of her life.

Trinity Ashford is happy with the lull in crime around Waterfall. Until someone breaks into her car and steals a box of donations for the local animal shelter. Even then, she doesn't want to go nosing around, despite the urging of her friend and mother. But then, someone breaks the front window of Tail Waggin' and drags away the Christmas tree. The war is on!

Tatym Billings’ grandmother dies and leaves her cabin and land in Misty Hollow to her granddaughter. What promised to be a new life had instead turned into a lethal inheritance as someone wants to prove Tatym is not the legal owner and will do anything in his power to get her deed. Even kill.

Wanted: Men to Audition as Husbands. Turtle Springs, Kansas. Auditions Held May 25. Only Godly, Upstanding Men Need Apply. Check in at Mayor’s Office. When her father never returned from the war, Abigail Melton stepped into his role as town mayor. The town needs men, and she needs a husband—and she has a big idea how to find both—but her first duty is to hire a sheriff. And drifter Josiah Ingram will do just fine. Sparks fly and not always in a good way. Josiah resents the women trying to snare him into marriage. Abigail has yet to find a man she could see herself marrying. Can these ...

Zoe Barnes left Colorado Springs the day after high school graduation, dumping her sweetheart without so much as a phone call on he way out of town. So it's poetic justice that he happens to rescue her when her car breaks down on her way back years later. Can two wary, wounded souls survive a road trip to Colorado Springs?

Maureen O'Shea arrives in Devil Falls, Montana, to marry a man she's never met. When she finds out her intended had died before her arrival she is met with an uncertain future. She decides to spend the last of her funds by bringing culture to the western town in the form of a tea shop. It never occurred to her that the town preferred coffee. Not until the handsome blacksmith, Micah Webster so rudely points it out. Stagecoaches enroute to the town are being robbed and Micah is deputized to help. When Maureen's life is in danger, he realizes the fashionable Irish lass has gripped his heart in...

Iris Blossom, owner of Blossom's and More, has just broken off her engagement with the mayor's son. Just in time for the return home of Brock Samson, the man who jilted her at their senior prom ten years ago. Despite the sparks that fly between the two, they agree to help the ladies of the Red Hat Club beautify Main Street and participate in an old-fashioned dance off competition. Problem is ... the red hat's club has decided Iris and Brock should get married and set out to get wed. What Iris and Brock don't expect is how dance practice ignites the blood and threatens to topple the vows ...