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Merry Hurst, a fierce widow and single mom, is determined to give her young son the life he deserves—including a male role model who will stick around for the long haul. She can't afford to fall for a man who isn't planning to stay in Huckleberry Falls, so she might as well stop dreaming about Carlisle Wyndham. If only it were that easy!

Landscape architect Emma Treager is searching for answers to a family mystery. She stumbles across an important clue at the run-down Indio Pointe Plantation where mystery floats through the air like the ghosts of the former owners. She can’t pass up the job that property owner Theo Lambert offers like an enchanted rose, despite his reputation of being a beast of a boss. As the two of them delve into the secrets of the past, Theo and Emma discover that finding clues is almost as much fun as finding each other.

She thinks sports figures make bad role models. He's her nephew's new baseball coach. Julie’s life is thrown a curve ball when her brother arrives the night before his seven-month deployment asking her to take care of his son. As a preschool teacher, she’s used to dealing with toddlers, not nine-year-olds. Noting her nephew’s interest in baseball, Julie signs him up for little league. She’s anything but thrilled to find out his coach is a celebrity.

When Rebecca returns to Yearly and hires a local contractor, she doesn’t expect to come face to face with the ex she left behind...holding a ring. Rebecca Martin, a high-powered executive chef, doesn’t want her widowed mom to lose their family home. There might be a way through: Open a restaurant in her home town. That way, she’ll achieve her lifelong dream of running a restaurant, and her mom will have an income. Then she meets the contractor: Her now-successful ex.

Lyn North just wants to move past the anniversary of her heartbreak. Swearing off any romance, she embarks on a South Pacific cruise. But the handsome surgeon in the cabin next door revives emotions she’s tried to forget.

When horse trainer Colt Johnson strikes out on his own, he leaves Nevada for northern California and meets pretty Mandy Evans, a children's counselor. He's never met a horse he couldn't tame, and she's able to help children most at risk. Their work is similar which is part of their instant attraction. They find love riding in the hills by Donner Lake and Soda Springs, but when problems such as meddling relatives and former lovers come calling, that love is threatened before it has a chance to shine.

Audria Rylatt is the school system’s liaison for homeless students. She strives to make Christmas bright for hundreds, while the season brings only heartache after her fiancé was killed in combat nearly two years ago. So when her family decides to play matchmaker, she is less than thrilled. To make matters worse, they’ve invited a soldier friend of her deceased fiancé to the family cabin for the holiday.

Leah Martin has a secret that she's not ready to admit to the world: She's pregnant. Leah has always wanted to be a mom, but the circumstances are all wrong. When a local contractor, Beau Hill, bumps into her at the doctor's office two towns over, Leah is certain it won't be long before all of Yearly knows her private business. So she corners the handsome handyman and demands he keep her pregnancy news quiet until she's ready to tell.

A stuttering billionaire who’s paralyzed around women must get past an abused woman’s scars if he’s to find his happily ever after.

All Abby Walker ever wanted was to live a normal life in her small suburban Chicago house. After traveling around the world in her youth, staying put in one spot is a dream come true. But when she winds up on a game show as a favor to a friend, her life takes an adventurous turn she isn't at all prepared for. Noah Grant has put his small-town Indiana roots behind him. He travels all over the world, enjoying the freedom and adventure. He has no intention of settling down anytime soon, if ever. But then he finds himself married to Abby in a bizarre quirk of fate,

Injured Army Veteran and rancher Jonas Barnes is too scarred inside and out to ever truly open his heart. Pregnant and alone Autumn Lavin is determined to make a life for herself but soon realizes she needs the rancher's help. Can Autumn's love wrap around Jonas and ease his doubts or will he be fated to a life alone?

To escape notoriety from her role in the school-shooting she barely survived, Elizabeth Lambert moves from Houston to Hoffman Grove, Illinois. Plagued by panic attacks and nightmares, she’s determined to embrace her second chance at life, knowing that death could take her in an instant. A one-night stand with a local, handsome firefighter should remind her that she’s alive, but like a good cookie, one is not enough to satisfy her craving. Will he reject her when he learns about the blood on her hands?

Lillie Cohen hates Rex Utah for abandoning her six years ago after taking her virginity and leaving her pregnant. To heal her broken heart, she dedicates her life to running the family cattle ranch with her father. But when she learns Rex is back in town and about to hang for a murder he didn’t commit, she is forced to rescue her son’s father and help him clear his name. Rex Utah regrets the day he disappeared from the Cohen Ranch, leaving behind the only woman he ever loved.

The last thing cowboy Colt O’Malley needs is another busybody intent on curing him of his grief. Deeply bitter, Colt finds it almost impossible honoring his brother’s last act of kindness. Spring Reed grew up in the foster care system and when she finally ages out, she relies on her protector and friend, Billy Jack to help them make a life together. To her horror, Billy becomes an abusive bully. Her rescuer arrives in the form of a coffee drinking, hard studying college student, Caleb O’Malley.

Lia’s not afraid of ghosts. She’s not afraid of anything...except love. Lia Savage has things to do. There's a castle to help remodel and a ghost to free before she can head back to Sacramento to pursue her dream. But dealing with Coop Montgomery isn't on her list. While working with her old crush to get rid of the specter, Lia's heart comes alive like never before. The only problem is that Coop's dream is to remain at the castle. To follow Lia's means she'll leave.

Nurse Eve Stewart is excited to take on another bucket-list fulfillment trip, this time to Edinburgh. That is, until she discovers who’ll be spearheading it: her high school best friend who kissed her and hasn’t spoken to her in 12 years. She doesn’t expect her old feelings for Darius to come alive. When they do, Eve must decide if she can learn to trust again.

When Ahri's estranged husband leaves her in the lurch, he does so with an obscure warning that neither of them is safe. Alone and not knowing who might be after her, she flees across the country to her brother. When her husband is murdered, she finds she must assume a new identity and stay in hiding, working for her brother’s handsome business partner. And she has no idea how long she has before the murderers will find her.

Walt Kinkade left for acting school with a promise to love Linda forever. She never heard from him again. Thirty-five years later and a famed actor at a crossroads in his career, he’s back in Huckleberry Falls, hoping to heal and make amends.

Becky Vasquez was a young medic in the US Air Force. While on a humanitarian mission in El Salvador, she and her team are betrayed by one of their own. Worse yet, it is a man Becky loves. When they are attacked by drug runners and left for dead, Becky's heartbreak leaves her more wounded than her physical injuries. Her zest for life gone, Becky heals on the outside and hides her more personal pain. She accepts a job that she hopes will be routine and stress free on Mackinac Island in northern Lake Huron. But Becky hadn’t counted on meeting dashing young Tim Green.

Charles is only supposed to guard Maude and her sisters to their destination. He should have guarded his heart. Still raw with grief after their father's funeral, Maude Lancaster and her two younger sisters refuse an ultimatum from their ill-intentioned uncle. Since it's a new century and women can travel unchaperoned, they decide to flee out west to live with their older brother.