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David and Kate are happily married 50-somethings when she's diagnosed with early Alzheimer's. He has never been unfaithful, but after several years of losing Kate more, he wonders: What is a married widower supposed to do? Two strong-willed women intervene and everyone finds themselves making unexpected choices. Can any marriage withstand the transformation of one partner into someone who's lost? When does a marriage end? The Half-Life of Everything, realistic in every detail except for one speculative twist, places David in the unwelcome situation of loving two women.

Josey has been the owner of Chateau Rouge for the last 200 years. She’s content with her routine existence and has been for a long time, until Archer Grayson walks into her hotel. He ignites a hunger in her which she hasn’t felt for over 100 years, and this can only mean one thing: Her love has returned to her.

As Anna's father tragically clings to life, she turns to her boyfriend for comfort. But Anna is shocked to find him cold, distant, and uncaring. While her heart is breaking, she turns to her best friend, Eleanor, for support and comfort, but instead finds herself being comforted by Eleanor's brother, Aaron, who is now living in the New Order. As feelings develop between Anna and Aaron, major conflict erupts between the two families. Torn between the man she loves or her family, Anna turns to God for help. But Aaron is hiding a tragic secret that he can't bear to tell Anna.

Everyone in Columbia Falls, Montana, believes Chelsea Friessen is a spoiled princess who is more trouble than she’s worth. They’d be wrong though, considering that tale was spun by a scorned high school crush and two years later is still the first impression everyone has of her. But then she meets a man whose personality is as arrogant as he is drop-dead gorgeous; if Chelsea was in her right mind, she should have been running away from him. The only problem is that this badass stranger walked into her life knowing he saved her from humiliation.

When Julie Paver’s husband Matt moves his business to Atlanta, she is forced to leave behind her thriving jewelry boutique, Stones. The move threatens their 25-year marriage, because now if Matt isn’t out of town negotiating a merger, he’s spending late hours on overseas phone calls with his sexy-sounding second-in-command.

After two failed marriages and countless relationships, Sandra Holiday thinks she's met the man to end her years of less than perfect choices; choices that not only derailed her travel-related career plans but also left her single and broke. Carson Holiday, a Las Vegas country crooner with swoon-inducing good looks, spent his adult life pursuing a recording contract and love, never holding on to either. After 18 years, he drops back into Sandra's life, reigniting an attraction he can't deny. When Carson reappears, Sandra must choose again. Only this time, nothing's as it seems.

When Daisy McDare attends a murder-mystery dinner theater performance, she worries that a real-life death will occur during the show. Is she just being paranoid, or does she have every reason to be concerned?

Ten years ago Winter’s heart was broken beyond repair by Stone McCoy. Now she is a travel agent ready to lead an Alaskan Cruise and to her surprise Stone McCoy is on her tour. A long ago phone call shattered her trust and her self-confidence. She never planned to see Stone again. While at college, Stone McCoy woke up, after a fraternity party, to find a girl in his bed. Weeks later she told him she’s pregnant. Calling Winter to break things off was the worst night of his life. Now he’s hoping for a second chance at happiness.

Undercover and using moves she didn’t learn at the Detroit Police Academy, Harlee races to identify the cold case murderer who has struck again. While juggling a charming ex-fiancé, a friend with benefits, and a partner who is too darn handsome for his own good, Harlee begins socializing with the potential suspects outside of work...until the killer learns of her double identity. This mystery has a perfect blend of humor, sexiness, and suspense.

Imagine this: You are a married mother of two, driving to the grocery store in a storm, changing the radio station, answering your cell phone, when you notice a woman stranded by the side of the road and, on impulse, decide to pull over.... Teri Berger’s car skids in the rain, killing 20-year-old Elise and leaving Teri reeling with guilt and the rest of her family in disarray as they struggle to adjust to this new reality. Already strained family relationships are tested, and Teri’s marriage suffers, her son withdraws, and her daughter faces a heartbreaking decision.

When Elizabeth Marston arrived home one night to find a shifter war happening in her back yard, she knew life would never be the same again. Unable to live in her own home, Elizabeth had no choice but to accept an invitation to stay with the handsome and hunky Ambrose Baxter. However, Elizabeth was about to learn that Ambrose was a shapeshifter with the ability to turn into a huge grizzly bear. And Elizabeth was also about to learn that life as the bear's house guest had its own special and pleasurable benefits.

Tessa Caldwell’s carefully structured world is thrown into chaos when the handsome stranger she had an uncharacteristic fling with reappears in her life. Ben not only gets the promotion she thought was hers but is also intent on resuming their physical relationship. Although Tessa’s rational mind insists on a professional association, both her heart and her traitorous body have other ideas. Can her sensible nature possibly win against such temptation?

When Dale returns to Bandera, Texas, for Christmas, all he expects is to spend time with his beloved dog Buck. However, running into Shanna, his high-school sweetheart, reminds him of the time he has wasted and all he lost by running away on Christmas Eve nine years earlier. When he discovers something awful happened to Shanna on the night that he left, Dale is determined to make it up to her, but first he must be able to forgive the way that God has forgiven him.

Mansfield Mansion seemed the perfect home for Debbie and her two boys. Debbie wanted a fresh start after her divorce, and the beautiful mansion in the country seemed the perfect place for her family to start over. But the beauty of the mansion soon becomes overrun with terrifying evil that soon takes over their lives. Deadly visions appear, terrifying Debbie and the boys. Noises from beyond the grave have horrifying consequences, and physical altercations with an unknown entity have deadly results. For no one knows the horrific and deadly past that Mansfield Mansion holds, but Debbie and her family will soon find out. Can they leave Mansfield Mansion before they fall victim to the mansion's gruesome past?

With a strong jaw and chiseled abs, were-dragon Coram was impossibly attractive. And he knew it. So, when he joined cute and curvy Leanna Shire on a mission to the planet of Lacerta, he immediately sensed her attraction for him. With one eye on the task at hand, Coram was never going to pass up the chance to sleep with an attractive human woman. However, the consequences of his actions would be both a surprise and a shock for the most handsome were-dragon in the universe....

One widow, one killer - who will die first? Gutsy, grieving Anna is determined to find who murdered her husband. Hampered by agonizing loneliness, her obsessive-compulsive mother, and her over-controlling father, she defies convention, and the law, to investigate on her own. When she runs up against Lee Adams, a handsome police detective who’s determined to save Anna from herself, she has to step up her rogue search for the killer, before time and dwindling leads run out.

The shy daughter of a powerful politician, Melanie Owen is fed up over her father’s attempts at controlling her life. Hiding out in Lobster Cove seems like the perfect solution. But a misunderstanding and unwarranted act of heroism bring the town’s doctor, Seth Goodwyn, crashing to - and through - Melanie’s front door. Seth's attempts to repair the situation insert him into her life, raising Melanie's worries of losing her newfound independence to another controlling man.

Saddle-weary former deputy US Marshal Jac Andrews rides into Denton, Texas. He’s hunting a swindler and his daughter - or identical twin daughters if Jac is right - and he feels he finally has caught up with this criminal gang. Unfortunately, he is immediately distracted by the lovely redhead Esther Brians. Esther, feeling like an old maid surrounded by all her close friends who are happy married couples, is drawn to the intense gaze, blue as the Texas sky, of an unknown cowboy. But several things cause her to become wary of his intentions - and his spiritual well-being.

Even the seaside town of Lobster Cove can't keep the horrors of Vietnam at bay for war-widowed Annie. When the young mother finds herself falling for a man with a secret, she must choose between giving her shattered heart another chance or getting back into her red Barracuda and hitting the road. Which will it be - love? Or the open highway? Steve doesn't believe he's worthy of a woman like Annie. He's been so busy hating himself for not being who he thinks he should be, he's lost sight of who he is. But the times, they are a'changing...and one man's doubt might hide a true hero.

Charlene Trumbel is 29 years old, a spinster daughter of a wealthy New York family. However, she is appalled at the wasteful lifestyle her family lives. When given a chance to ride on the Orphan Train to get firsthand experience to write an article to induce wealthy families to support the Orphan Train, Charlene jumps at it. However, her poor eyesight, which has caused her to remain a lonely wallflower her whole life, almost stops her from the trip. That is until she meets a young city boy who agrees to come along with her and be her eyes. Along the way, Charlene learns.