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A reluctant rancher. A lonely librarian. A family in shambles. Can the rancher risk a second chance at love and heal his family at the same time?When John Rankin’s wife dies, leaving him with two children to raise, he wonders how he can he take care of a family and run a working cattle ranch, too. Annie’s domain was home, hearth, and the kids. Her dying put a hole in his day-to-day existence like nothing he’d ever before experienced—not only in his rancher lifestyle, but also in his heart. As the months roll on, his heart is only one of his problems when eleven-year-old Callie ...

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...

Beach therapy, they call it, with a twist of lime.Six women return to the same beach house in Tuckaway Bay, the same week in August, for over twenty years, drinking and laughing their past year’s problems away. Beach therapy, they call it, with a twist of lime. Lia contemplates a surprise marriage proposal from her long-term partner—one she doesn’t want. Maggie questions the arrangement she made with her husband years earlier. Julia fights depression after a horrible loss. Wren worries about the legalities of her sister’s business, while her twin, Willow, avoids a medical issue. And...

Can a couple on the verge of divorce find romance again during their last Christmas holiday at Holly Hill Inn? Will and Ava Cohen were wildly in love—five years ago. Today, they are ships passing in the night, two professionals driven to reach the pinnacle of their professions. When Will steps in the door of their restored brownstone in Brooklyn each evening, Ava is already on stage at the Gershwin, playing the role of Glinda in Wicked. They are calling their marriage quits—but not until they spend one more Christmas together with their families at Holly Hill Inn. Traditionally, the ...

A Rock Creek Ranch Short StoryIt’s the day before Callie Rankin’s wedding to Murphy Reynolds, and he, for one, cannot wait to get a ring on Callie’s finger. Murphy has loved Callie since she was a teenager. The plans are in place—venue, minister, flowers, photographer, caterer and more. Murphy waited a decade for Callie to come home, and he never really thought she would come around to loving him—but she did. Callie can’t believe how everything fell together so quickly. After the horror of her father’s accident and his death, and her rush home to be with family, she never ...

Leaving her job behind and heading home to Montana for a family emergency is worrisome enough, but when Callie Rankin’s New York future collides head-on with her Montana past, she is faced with making a life-, and perhaps, love-altering decision.When Callie Rankin’s father falls critically ill, she returns to her Montana home. Leaving New York, her promotion, and a budding relationship behind, she heads back to the ranch, planning to stay only until she knows her father is out of the woods. But her homecoming is not entirely welcome. Her relationships with her siblings and stepmother ...

When yet another acting rejection stuns Wynter Holly, she decides to give up acting altogether—until her friends set her up for potential success with an unconventional, and perhaps unsuitable, intervention. All Wynter Holly, aka stage name Wyn Hall, wants for Christmas is to be cast in a significant role in the upcoming Harbor Falls Actor’s Playhouse production. What she gets is a gig playing nanny to four children who are attached to the casting director of the play—the casting director who doesn’t think she’s suitable for any role in the play. All Rob Black wants for Christmas ...

Teacher’s Pets: She’s Hot for her BoysPrivate school teacher Caty Bea lays down the rules after school with her two best boyfriends, James and Marco.

Two ménage à trois Christmas novellas in one package!Bidding on the Beauty Bree Noël Conner doesn’t do relationships well. Like most men she knows, she has a straying eye that often gets her into trouble. She loves pretty men and frequently wants to sample them. That fact has gotten her into more trouble, and out of more relationships, than she’d care to admit. So, when she finds herself standing on an ottoman in an artsy-fartsy holiday party being auctioned off to the highest bidder (for a good cause, of course) and subsequently bound to a king-sized bed built for three, her merry ...

A Strange New World... An Erotic Short Novella. Ditching her Iowa farm-life upbringing for a chance to train as a spy lands Sissy Moore in a strange, new world of intrigue—and a sexy new world of domination and submission that calls to her in ways she never dreamed. When put to the test, suddenly, her training takes on a completely new dimension.

A vintage erotic short storyA tempting lunch hour from work creates a sexual liaison of an otherworldly kind—and shows that love, and sex, can cross boundaries of life and death.

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 ...

Can souls touch through time and hold on when all odds are against them?Claire Winslow vacations on an East Coast barrier island, content with her life and her potential future—until the illusion of a man walking the misty shore haunts her. Then one kiss—a beautiful, soulful, stolen kiss in the night—and her life changes forever. Nearly 300 years past, Jack Porter is in hot pursuit of his kidnapped wife. Not an easy feat considering the year is 1718 and the kidnapper is the notorious pirate Blackbeard aka Edward Teach. Determined to rescue his wife and take the pirate’s head, Jack ...

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 ...

Suzie Hart Matthews is hard at work on her new cookbook, Perfectly Matched, when she asks the local wallflower, Mary Lou Picketts, to help her with a project. Mary Lou fantasizes about falling in love with country music star Nash Rhodes, but is ready to settle for Barry Phillips down the street. After all, Barry is her real boyfriend and he has actually popped the question. The likelihood that Nash Rhodes ever will, is slim-to-none. Nash is nothing more than a celebrity crush waiting to never happen. Nash Rhodes enjoys his newfound status in the country music world—after all, it is what ...