She's earned some good karma. An Army widow at twenty-one, Heather Clarke has spent the past three years running her aunt’s quilt store, raising her twin girls alone and earning a degree in landscape horticulture. Finally, she’s launching her new career and starting to feel like she’s on solid ground.And then Rick Slater rides onto her job site.Heather needs a mysterious, gorgeous, ex-Army distraction like a hole in the head. Especially when he’s the restless type who’s flirting with re-enlisting. And flirting with her! Even if she were ready to love again, she wouldn’t it on a man who might not stay.Now, if he decides to stop moving and grow some roots… then that's a whole other story.
From high school crush to enemy number oneGemma has always been a rescuer. Birds with broken wings, abandoned baby raccoons, anything that needs help. But when it comes to her lifelong crush, doctor Nathan Smith, she has to curb her natural instincts. All of them. Nathan doesn’t trust midwives, and he doesn’t want her help.Back in town to restore the community hospital his father bankrupted, Nathan's just as determined to shut down the birthing center. How can Gemma Whitmire save her center and prove Nathan—and the other critics—wrong? And more importantly, how can she stop falling for him?
Losing a parent is never easy, and during the holidays the emptiness seems magnified. Local newspaper owner Neil Bailey knows that first-hand. That’s why he’s determined to help his neighbour, Dr. Charli Prescott, find the meaning of the season. Luckily he has enough cheer to go around—and the recipe for perfect cocoa.If that isn’t enough to get Charli into the spirit, the town also has a Secret Santa. Everyone's buzzing with news of the large anonymous donation and, once Neil promises to discover Santa’s identity, his paper’s circulation numbers sky-rocket. It’s his duty to report the truth. Except, as he gets closer to Charli, he’s sure she’s keeping something from him.All he can try to do is keep his journalistic integrity intact… while protecting the woman he thought was his Christmas miracle.
Since leaving Brookhollow and her fiancé, Luke Dawson, twelve years earlier, Victoria Mason hasn’t looked back. She’s traded the small-town dream of marriage, kid and family Christmas dinners for late nights working at a high-powered acquisitions firm, lunches at trendy New York restaurants and jet-set vacations on the slopes.So her latest work assignment, to acquire Brookhollow’s sporting goods store, poses a challenge for Victoria, in more ways than one. Because it’s almost Christmas, and she’s got other holiday plans. And the owner is reluctant to sell. And the owner is Luke.If she can just wrap up the deal before she gets caught up in her old life and her old love… or becomes trapped under the mistletoe. Again.
Independence, New Mexico, needs a lifeline, and Myka Solis is determined to provide one. She thinks her online craft business can transform the dying town into a vibrant, creative hub. And she knows exactly the person who can help: Joshua Nez, the confident, big-city architect who’s back in town to rebuild his own life.Thanks to Josh’s expertise, Myka finds herself leading a revitalization effort that draws in the entire community. But working with Josh has to stay a business-only arrangement.Josh has dreams, too, and his involve opening an architecture firm far away from Independence.If only Myka can show him they both have a future in Independence… together.
Elsa May Malone was only five when the sea took away her beloved father. Traumatized, angry and forced to leave her home on the Cumbrian coast, she became hostile and withdrawn. Then she met Bryn Evans, a kind-hearted boy who’d experienced loss, too. Slowly, Elsa began to let down her barriers – until she and Bryn were torn apart.Alone again, Elsa was sure of one thing: Everyone she loved would eventually leave her. When Bryn and Elsa finally reunite, Elsa’s determined not to let her true feelings show. But they’re grown up now, and Bryn clearly hopes their childhood friendship can become something more. Elsa is painfully aware that love can be as serene and yet as terrifying as the sea.But can she let Bryn into her heart before she loses him a second time?
When Brooke O’Toole’s sister and brother-in-law die in a tragic accident, her only priority is the emotional well-being of her one-year-old nephew, Connor. Unfortunately, that means making nice with the man she holds responsible for her mother’s murder. Hunter Stone.Allowing Hunter into her life is the opposite of easy. Brooke’s never understood why her sister forgave him—and worse, became his neighbour and friend. But even she can’t deny the bond between the man and child, or how much she’s come to rely on both of them.Despite her instinct to fight this ex-cop who’s challenging her right to custody, Brooke suspects the best thing for Connor is a life with both of them in it.
Jake Thompson never realized how many decisions he used to make in a day until he lost the nerve to make any and was forced to leave the Army. But he’s starting to believe this horse therapy program they’ve put him in might actually help to get past the nightmare of indecision he’s faced since losing his troop.And it’s all because of instructor Charlotte Nicholson.As if the recently widowed single mom in charge of the rehab farm doesn’t have enough on her plate without Jake adding his problems to hers.But being with Charlie makes him think beyond his pain to the future. If seems as if he’s being offered a second chance at happiness… and all he needs to do is make the decision to take it.Something far easier said than done.
A nurse and grief counsellor, for years Christie Bates has been teaching her patients to confront their fears, express themselves and trust in hope. But as her feelings for cancer survivor Eli Roberts and his two children grow, can she overcome her own fear and love a man who lives everyday with the possibility of recurring illness?Tackling cancer and single parenthood simultaneously have turned Eli into a devout realist. Which is why he finds Christie's perpetually upbeat attitude so aggravating. Still, despite himself she’s making a place in his heart.If only he could offer Christie more than an uncertain future.
Meg Ripley may run the local diner, but she has never been one to get involved in the small town craziness of Willing, Montana. Now suddenly she’s entangled in it? In addition to harbouring a pregnant runaway, she’s been enlisted to transform scruffy bachelor cowboys into husband material for a reality dating show.Including her ex-boyfriend, and the only man she’s ever allowed herself to love, Owen McGregor.Owen is still devastatingly handsome and the passion between them hasn’t faded with time. Unfortunately, neither have the issues that drove them apart. But that doesn’t mean Meg is ready to turn him into the perfect man for someone else!Because despite their past, Meg suspects that Owen is still the one.