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Get deported to a hobbit cult or marry the hot lawyer who came in for lunch? ***WINNER OF A 2018 SWOONY AWARD for excellence in clean secular romance.*** Just when her café is about to receive a major award, beautiful and talented chef Piper's world is racked. She's not a U.S. citizen! Worse, she's being deported. To New Zealand, where her parents have joined a hobbit cult. Up-and-coming lawyer Zach is determined to climb the ladder of his old-money law firm, when he discovers the reason his promotion has always been blocked: they only promote married associates to partner. Cue up the ...

Polar opposites face undeniable attraction in a cozy lodge during a polar freeze. Jayne Renwick has landed her dream job at a TV station, and this year she finally gets to host her ideal family Christmas. She has even booked the luxurious Wildwood Lodge for her "perfect Christmas" activities. At the last minute, though, her family all bails and she is forced to revise her guest list. It’s not all bad. In fact, one new lodger fits Jayne’s ideal first-snowfall wish for love. However, another guest turns out to be Ben Bellamy—the hottest guy from her office—who’s also her biggest ...

Poetry has always provided comfort, inspiration, and connection, especially during socially precarious and politically divisive times. That has never been truer than it is today. The Wild Edge of the Heart: Women Poets Raise Their Voices presents the work of some of our leading contemporary female poets who are lauded for their ferocity, sensitivity and eloquence.

As a lawyer for A-list Hollywood actors, Jillian Price's job is soul-sucking, and she needs a way out. She may have found one - at a yard sale. Across a junk-strewn lawn, she spies a painting that makes her heart stop. It looks to be a lost masterpiece! With that painting she could have it all: the new job, her own gallery, and even the guy - gorgeous banker Aero Jantzen.

When prosecutor Camilla Sweeten sees newly hired Zane Holyoak slide a pastry from a bakery bag, her reaction is nothing close to rational. It's the exact pink doughnut from her dream where she kissed a handsome stranger! Now she's daydreaming about kissing Zane, even though he poses her fiercest competition for the Chief Deputy promotion she desperately needs. Attorney Zane Holyoak has always gone with his gut. He's even followed it back to Yucca County, after swearing never to return. Maybe it's leading him back to fill the vacancy for Chief Deputy.

He always loved her. Now, he's back in their small town to claim the girl who promised—in a contract—to marry him, but Mr. Wrong is standing in the way. Aircraft mechanic by day, secretly wildly successful author by night, Cash never forgot his first love, Annabel. In fact, she is the princess character in all his bestselling sci-fi novels. When he must return to his hometown, if she's unmarried, he's going after her. Dental assistant and former actress Annabel will do anything to protect her eccentric old inventor father—even agree to marry a man she doesn't love, the town's most-...

Sweetheart Morgan marries a stranger - her handsome next-door neighbor Josh - solely for college financial aid. But now she can’t stop running into him or thinking about him. Which is bad - because Josh has a serious girlfriend he plans to marry. Things leap from awkward to agonizing when a well-meaning philanthropist compels Morgan and Josh to move into his mansion as “newlyweds of the year.” Their arrangement is purely hands-off, but now they’re sharing a house, and chemistry between them is skyrocketing.

An arranged engagement goes sideways when the guy lays eyes on the wrong girl first. Noah Rush has only one job to do for his father's company: win over the competition's daughter. Although he's not crazy about the idea of an arranged engagement, he falls head over heels at their first meeting. Except ... it's the wrong girl. Keeley Castle has one job on this vacation: help her cousin Echo forget Mr. Wrong and focus on the business deal with the Rush Holdings heir. She had zero plans of getting in the way of a multi-faceted merger by finding Noah irresistible. Now Noah has to choose between...

When she’s named in a mysterious stranger’s will, does Brooke dare ask her lifelong crush to serve as her lawyer, even though she’s accepted another man’s ring? Town beauty queen Brooke Chadwick knows Dane Rockwell will never take a second look at her, his best friend’s younger sister, no matter how much she’s longed for him. Dane is a Rockwell - of the felons, frauds, and cheats Rockwells. How can he possibly ask Brooke - of the upstanding, reputable Chadwicks - to accept his proposal? Now Dane is back in town with three things.

The guy next door. The world’s worst first date. A second chance ten Christmases later. Juliet and Taggart’s first—and last—date a decade ago was an unmitigated disaster, ending with Pepto-Bismol and the police. He probably needed a decade to recover. But Juliet couldn’t forget him. Now that he’s back in touch, Juliet is torn.If this is just a one-time thing, she risks carrying a torch for him for another decade. The one that got away might be the one guy she needs to be happy in life—and this date could show him she’s right for him, too. Unless the Christmas date curse ...

"Austen + Chocolate = Love" Mormon girl Susannah is ready to take a big risk. Suddenly unemployed and unmarried, Susannah puts everything on the line to open up downtown Salt Lake City’s first all-chocolate café, The Chocolate Bar. It all starts out sweetly. Susannah even catches the interest of the city’s most eligible bachelor, a charismatic attorney. But when Susannah's first love, John Wentworth, returns to town, her heart goes sideways. He’s rich. He’s handsome. And he intends to marry anyone but Susannah. Chocolate and Conversation is a light and frothy, chocolate-filled romp...

A disowned spy with one last chance, a divorced teacher needing to rediscover herself, and the search for a missing woman that brings them together. Intelligence op Birch Cardon has accepted a mission to rescue a diplomat’s kidnapped daughter. If he succeeds, he will reclaim his stolen career. Except, the woman goes missing and his intel contact turns out to be his college crush. After a messy divorce, Arden Pike takes a trip to see her college gal pal as a way to rediscover her single self. When her friend goes missing, Arden is stranded with no phone, no ID, and no access to her hotel ...

A torching kiss on a long-ago high school dare just might flare up again.Swoony Award 2021 Winner: Best Medical Romance Dr. Jasher Hotchkiss, first rate knee surgeon, never wanted to return to his hometown of Mendon. Not after what happened years ago that made him the town’s most hated teenager. Nor did he want to practice general surgery. And he certainly doesn’t want to form any ties in Mendon. Except … Sage Everton appears at an ambulance call. Sage? Nurse-anesthetist Sage Everton is widowed and is convinced she carries a hex that ruins the lives of men she begins to care about. ...

Can a single night at a class reunion change everything? She was the wallflower. He was the jock. She sent him anonymous love notes. Now, he's at the 10-year reunion to find out who his mysterious pen pal was. Tansy has come a long way since her nerded-out days as a high school nobody. She owns a successful tech business, learned to do her hair, and might even wear her sexiest red dress to the reunion. One big worry: Bridger might be there. What if he overlooks her again? Basketball star Bridger only ever dated the popular girls, but he shared his secret heart with someone else—someone ...

He needs this job to honor his late wife. She needs to complete her late fiancé’s bucket list.Former action-movie star Chet Winters has counted the days since he lost his wife last New Year’s Eve. When he’s given a shot at starring in a reboot of her favorite TV show, he jumps at it. But there’s a catch: the producers won’t hire him unless he can prove he’s regained emotional stability. They require him to bring a steady girlfriend to his five auditions. In other words, five mandatory dates for this bereft widower. Social worker Holly Day lost her fiancé to war. With his good ...

A dark and stormy night. A pillared marble mansion. A grumpy but gorgeous CEO.Un-photogenic photographer Beatrix Bay is out to snap pics at a historic mansion on the ocean-side cliffs. But, when her car overturns in the snow, she finds much more than a photo op. In the distance lies the Delacourt Mansion, as well as Hutch Delacourt, the devastatingly handsome heir to the Delacourt Chocolate fortune. However, the displaced CEO of his own family business is far from delighted to see the redheaded photographer turn up on his porch, no matter how cold or stranded or gorgeous she is. He hates ...

The hot hockey player she detests comes begging a desperate favor. When Emma—formerly super-nerdy Emily—goes out for a girls' night at the ice rink, she thinks they're hitting the Frozen on Ice show. That's why she wears her Elsa gown and goes full ice-queen glamour. Turns out, it's not Disney fun at the arena but that awful hockey team instead. Emma makes a quick exit—only to run into the man she hates most in this world: hockey star Dempsey Dean Davidson. And he recognizes her. Even though she's changed—she thought—everything about herself. Dempsey's career is tops. Until he ...

One wedding party, two jilted lovers, and three ill-behaved dogs. Can they add up to love? Numbers-guy and best man Price Robertson dances with the maid of honor, and sparks ignite. She gets him. He hasn’t ventured into a relationship since a heart-wrenching rejection years back. But, it’s pointless. He’ll never see her again. Dancing with Price is amazing, but Annika Dearborn needs this wedding to end so she can get back to studying. Being a returning student is rough. If she’d never quit school for Mr. Wrong years ago, she wouldn’t be in this mess. Too bad the Price is leaving. ...

Lisette Pannebaker speaks five languages and has a brilliant business plan - personal language immersion. Clients can hire her to shadow them and speak all day in any language they need to learn for business or travel - whatever. But there's a major hitch: she's far too pretty. Clients with less than honorable intentions sign up just to have Lisette at their side. Solution? A make-under. Way under. The bad wig, icky makeup and puffy sweaters work like a charm. None of her male clients show her the least bit of interest. Lisette's totally relieved. Until...Erik.

It's the perfect plan. Until someone ends up dead.Brick Barlow serves drinks at his dead-end job at the posh Catalina Resort, but he’s getting nowhere. And he’s got debts—big ones—but they’re not his fault. Not entirely. So, how is it Brick’s coworker Conner, who makes the same wage as Brick, drives a fancy new sports car, and Brick is about to have to live in his own car. It’s easy, Conner says. Just six magic words, and the girls' fathers are handing over the cash. It’ll be even easier for you. Brick doesn’t like it. It’s not ethical. But, then again, it’s not ...