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The Inn At Pelican Beach

If you like sweet romance about second chances then you’ll love The Inn At Pelican Beach! At the Inn, life is filled with the unexpected. Payton is left to pick up the pieces after her divorce is finalized. Seeking a fresh start, she returns to her home town in Pelican Beach. Determined to move on with her life, she finds herself caught up in the family business at The Inn. It may not be her ...

Eclipsed by Love, Books 4-6

Enjoy reading these second three romances inspired by the 1878 total solar eclipse. In the first book, Mail Order Blythe, Eli Morgan’s mother gives him two letters from prospective brides. Eli promises to write before the end of summer. Once he finds the woman he chooses to marry, he convinces his two professor friends—a wedding gifts—to each take a letter and send a response. FIGGY PUDDING BY F ...

Bell of Eternity: A Celtic Legends Novel

An island castle in Cornwall, family secrets, a kilt-wearing chef, and a historical legend cook up a deliciously magical, heartwarming, and suspenseful new love story from the award-winning author of Compulsion and Lake of Destiny.

Emma Larsen's mother may have been a best-selling romance novelist, but her own track record with relationships was a darker story. Emma ...

A Story of Mistletoe

The small town of Mistletoe is all about Christmas and this year four women will find love when they least expect it. This sweet holiday romance includes: Welcome to Christmas I love Christmas. Like, a lights and tinsel on everything kind of love. This is one of the many reasons I am raising my son in the small town of Mistletoe. But when I try to share that Christmas spirit with Mr. Grin ...

His Small-Town Girl

She’s sweet and wholesome. And hiding something.
He’s back home, resurrecting old ghosts.
One of them is going to get hurt.

Molly arrives in Sutter’s Hollow out of gas and out of options. The rundown ranch seems like a perfect place to hide. Except the man who owns it seems just as dangerous as what’s chasing her.

Cord’s mantra growing up? Get out of Sutter’s Hollow ...

Allie's Amish Family Miracle

Allie Mast struggles to fit into her new community. Determined to prove her family wrong, she can't help but notice how her Mennonite background and Rueben's Amish roots are causing tension between their two families. Every family has hurts and deep wounds, but the constant conflict pushes her to a place where she will do anything to get what she wants. Reuben Raber has no desire to take over Rabe ...

Lessons in Bee Keeping

Confront the past. Heal the present. Olivia is torn when her brother-in-law, Lukas, shows up in town with an unexplained child in tow. Her husband, Jake, wants nothing to do with Lukas. The bad blood between them started in adolescence, and Lukas hasn’t stopped causing trouble since. It doesn’t help that Olivia dated Lukas in high school. Olivia knows Lukas needs help, and without it, his child ...

Escaping Illusions

All she wants is a new beginning, but it will come at a chilling cost. Brook Morton doesn’t believe in happily ever after. Not after what she’s been through. Determined to protect her daughter and start a new life, she seeks refuge in the dead of winter in the small town of Vanishing Lakes. But not everything is as it seems . . . When Brook encounters an old friend’s brother, charismatic stage mag ...

Inking the Deal

Second chances aren't guaranteed... Motorcycle enthusiast, Mickey Diaz, loves the small town of Cataluma, CA where she grew up and now owns a successful tattoo shop. At twenty-eight, she hasn't found "The One" yet, and isn't sure she ever will, but she has plenty of non-romantic relationships that are fulfilling. Mostly. Besides, the only guy she ever loved was all wrong for her and broke her ...

Braiding Roses

Unputdownable sweet romance between two doctors, the talented and sassy Amanda, and her boss, the formidable Gareth, in a small town hospital in Outback Australia. Believable characters, fresh and witty dialogue, unexpected plot twists, and vivid descriptions of the uniquely romantic location

The Counterfeit Bride

One of the 20 Most Romantic Books Ever, According to BookBub Members. Texas rancher and bar owner Cassidy Flynn is shocked to learn the bride’s name in an upcoming high society wedding – Cassiopeia Dolmides. Cassidy is a woman of secrets; the deepest is the identity she was born with and thought she had escaped long ago. If this bride is impersonating Cassidy, what trouble will that cause Cassidy ...

Christmas Pawsibilities

Former playboy Ryan Madison has wanted no one else since he met elfenchaun, Dori. He has waited many long months for her to be certain she could love a mere human and his quirky family. Now, as they are planning their Christmas wedding, a box of broken childhood memories arrives, as well as a space ship carrying alien canines that crash lands into a neighbor’s barn. Rescued from 1800s Olde Ire ...

Her Homegrown Christmas Wish

All five-year-old Olivia Beacon wants for Christmas is a dad… How on earth is single mom Hannah Beacon supposed to make that happen? To make matters worse, her holiday season is off to a rocky start. Between transferring ownership of the family bakery amid her mom’s decline, raising her young daughter, and the onslaught of Christmas orders, she can’t handle much more. And then her estranged husban ...

Yesterday's News

Antiques can be a dangerous business. Especially when you’re dealing with a desperate politician, a sexy ex-cop, and a couple of "spirited" companions.

Anna Yesterday owns Yesterday's Antiques in small town USA. When she finds an old newspaper clipping lining the drawer of an antique dresser, she realizes she's never heard the heart wrenching story of abu ...

The Nearness of You (The Thorntons Book 1)

The last thing Sara Flannigan needs is a man in her life. When she returns to her hometown, she vows to create a happy life for her son and to rebuild her life after a painful divorce. Yet when she meets her son’s new doctor, she can’t deny the spark of attraction that heats between them.

Sisters of Castle Fortune (5 book series)

Georgette Fortune has loved the same man for over two years now, but he does not even know she exists.
When the handsome Marquis of Onslow appears at a house party in her home, the crumbling Castle Fortune, he does not recognise her at all.
With six unmarried daughters to provide for, and in the hope of marriage settlements, Baron Fortune has invited guests to a home ill prepared for it. ...

Let's Start With Forever

Vicki had always felt growing up on Maui was truly paradise in every way. Meeting Marshall her senior year made it that much more perfect. Flying to Oahu with him and losing her most valuable possession—her virginity—comes with a high price. Having just turned eighteen and now pregnant, she still doesn’t second guess her decision about breaking her rules and going through with it. She does however ...

Loyalty's Web

Heléne de Laurant has not forgotten how the Earl of Gunthar destroyed her father’s castle during Henry II’s war with his sons. Apparently neither have her family and friends, for when someone tries to murder Gunthar, every sign points in their direction. Heléne realizes the only way to prove her loved ones’ innocence is by exposing the true assassin. As Heléne and Gunthar spar over the identity ...

The Gingerbread House

Falling in love was not on her to-do list. Left in debt after the tragic death of her husband, Tricia Adams struggled to keep a roof over her family's heads. With the help of the Grandmothers Four, she’d finally gotten everything under control.She was happy and more comfortable than she’d been in years. When Carol’s son, Eric Elliott, agreed to help renovate the guest house, mysterious and things ...

Kitty, It's Cold Outside

Paperback on sale, large-print also available

Kitty, It’s Cold Outside is a romance with a serendipitous twist at the end. I’m betting you’ve never read a story like this before, past, present, or future.

A lost kitten travels through time to bring deliverance to Victorian heiress Katherine Gills. She’s waited through hundreds of Christmases for her lover to return. ...

Christmas Lovebirds

Paperback (on sale), large print also available.

A sweet holiday romance that will delight your heart.

A mix-up between lovebirds brings Melisa Hart face to face with the dashing Dr. Rob Reed, the man she crushed on her entire life.

Unfortunately, he’s not welcome in her large Irish family. He’s not a firefighter like her father and brothers, and t ...

Banished Love (Banished Saga, Book One)

Free-Spirited… Clarissa Sullivan dreams for more from life than sipping tepid tea in stifling parlors in Victorian Boston. She defies her family’s wishes, continuing to teach poor immigrant children in Boston’s West End, finding a much-needed purpose to her life. Radical… As a suffragette, Clarissa is considered a firebrand radical no man would desire. For why should wome ...

Christmas Wishes Anthology

Twas the night before Christmas and all across the world, thirteen authors gathered to share stories untold. From comedy to dark romance they cover it all. So sit by the fire with your pipping hot drink and read the stories brought to you by ST Nick. This is a multi-author anthology stories may end on a cliffhanger or come with a trigger warning. Please beware before reading.

Cross-Country Christmas by Laurie Lewis

When CC Cippolini is offered a temp job driving a custom car across the country, she leaps at the chance to leave Chicago, put her past in the rearview mirror, and make a fresh start. But one car crash and broken cattle fence later, CC ends up at the home of ruggedly handsome rancher Reese Brockbank. Reese doesn’t hesitate to rescue the reckless woman who has crashed into his life, but when circum ...

Robyn: A Christmas Bride

Colorado, 1877. Who’s the perfect match for a flame-haired Welsh tomboy who loves driving wagons?

Raised by three free-spirited older brothers, Robyn Llewellyn has learned to fight for what she wants—and now she wants to transform her boss and best friend, Max Peregrine, into a lifelong partner. Determined to become the image of what a marriage-minded man wants, Robyn trades he ...

Dance of Hearts: a Cinderella Regency Romance Retelling

In Regency England, 1816, it is not fashionable to display fairy blood. Over 75 ratings on Goodreads and Amazon.⭐⭐⭐⭐

Melinda Wychwood managed to stay at her family home after her father’s death by working as her cousin’s unpaid housekeeper. But when a childhood friend returns, playing a game of deception, will she be satisfied playing the dowdy chaperone?

A Cin ...

Falling For My Small Town Boss Sample

Love ignites as three guarded loners come face to face with three smart and sassy damsels in distress. #1 Falling For My Forsaken Boss I never expected a second chance with Lucas, the brooding forest ranger I once adored. He's a single dad now and still closed off and serious. But his affection for his daughter lights him up from within. He needs a nanny, and I need a job. But I don’t know ...

Crashing Tides

"Be prepared to CRASH! What I love about this novel is the "REAL LIFE" aspect. We all plan out our futures and know EXACTLY how we want them to play out...well rarely does that happen." ~ HJ Bellus, USA TODAY bestselling author Prepare to make the BEST mistake of your life! You can predict the tides but not the changes they make. Gunnison Del Valle was the current in the tide that was about to cha ...

Christmas at Whispering Creek

A sweet romance set in December. Fall in love with Samantha and Cole as they navigate life's chaos before the holidays. Will this Wisconsin teacher and country boy musician find a love that lasts? Finalist in the Faith, Hope & Love Reader's Choice Awards and in the Angel Book Awards. Samantha and Cole are semi-finalists in the ACFW Carol Awards, too.

Grafted Vines

It’s often said, when one door closes another opens. But what if, in the end, you’re left standing alone in its threshold? At fifteen, Dani Valdez lost the most important man in her life—her father. After years of therapy, she’s continued to make one bad choice after another, desperate to soothe the emptiness his death left behind. Even with a fulfilling career as an in-home nurse and caregiver, h ...

Tangled Paths

Is it possible to flee your past? Or does it sit patiently, waiting for your return? Tired of traveling the world in order to escape reality, Bri Hunter has finally found a place to call home. Settled into Santa Barbara, close to her brother and cousin, she's ready for a little peace. Wanting to avoid the tormenting, incessant calls she receives, she throws herself into helping her sister-in-law's ...

The Wedding Promise

They used to call her the Bon-Bon Heiress. As one of Bon-Bon Chocolates heiresses, Tiffany Bonander grew up in New York with a silver spoon, a heart of gold, and a lifelong supply of sweets. But now her life is falling apart. Recent changes in cocoa supply from Ecuador are threatening the quality of the family’s chocolate and sales are down. Add to that Tiff’s penchant for falling in l ...

It's Complicated

He’s an over-achieving perfectionist. She doesn’t tolerate bossy men. Grant Foster is organized, focused, and hardworking—or as his younger sister calls it, neurotic. When the opportunity of a lifetime—becoming the Vice President of Marketing—is within his grasp, he is determined to succeed. He must rely on the help of an accomplished and beautiful coworker to achieve his goal. A coworker who is a ...

Her Adventurous Cowboy

Ryan Hunt has a job to do. He’s been brought in for one week to help the Calhoun family learn how to run a youth camp. He doesn’t have time to be distracted by a beautiful, intriguing woman. Cate Calhoun is tired of being passed over for responsibilities on the ranch. She has her eye on the newly available job of camp director, but nobody in her family seems to think she can handle it. Ryan Hunt m ...

A Royal Christmas Fairy Tale

From Karen Schaler, the Emmy Award-winning writer of Netflix sensation A Christmas Prince, comes this next feel-good royal romance, filled with humor, heart, and hope, featuring an exclusive excerpt from Schaler’s new sparkling holiday novel, Love Always, Christmas! A charming Christmas village, a storybook castle, a royal ball, and a gorgeous prince are the last things New York City reporter Kayl ...

The Raven Witch of Corfu - Episode 4

Lizzie waited twenty years to return to Corfu... Lizzie plucks up the courage to tell Stamatis everything about the witch, who has now revealed her true motive and doesn’t seem to ever intend to let her go. Soon, Lizzie teams up with a powerful ally who proves to be her only hope. All she has to do now is trust… But can she do it? Will Corfu ever be again the perfect paradise she once knew? "I'm u ...

The Long Way Home

He had a boat. She needed a ride. A simple lift became the adventure of a lifetime. After being stranded in Nassau, Meg Freeman ran into Jon Davenport, an old friend from her past, who offered her a ride home on his yacht. Before making the trip, they decided to visit a deserted island and scuba dive a beautiful coral reef. While diving, they discovered evidence of an ancient shipwreck, but they w ...

Sunsets At Pelican Beach

Moving on from her divorce and finding love again was the best thing that happened to Payton in a long time. After all, who could resist the charm of the handsome and well-respected Cole Miller? Unfortunately, all it takes is one bad apple to spoil everything… In book two of the Pelican Beach series, Payton's new photography client proves that she can't be trusted around Cole. Have you ever ...

Mission: Merry Christmas

When sports therapist to star athletes loses her job and apartment right before the holidays, she accepts a temporary assignment in the Caribbean. The bah-humbug baseball player is a challenge, but there's more at play than meets the eye. Join Avery and Drew in the sunny islands, and the white Christmas they pull off for his young nephew.

NEXT TO YOU

Some rules are meant to be broken Pretending to be Marcel Saunders’ girlfriend is by far the worst idea Kendra Hayes has ever heard, and she certainly doesn’t want to spend Christmas Day pretending to be something she is not. She knows full well that being added to Marcel’s very long list of girlfriends—fake or real—can only end in disaster, especially as he is not only handsome, but has a genu ...

Marrying the Single Dad

Building a new life for himself and his preteen daughter brings Joe Messina home to Harmony Valley. That and showing his town that the onetime bad boy is now a responsible single father. His first move is to get his grandfather's defunct garage up and running. Except now he's got the FBI poking around, and there's a beautician with her eye on the abandoned auto parts. An artist who's happiest turn ...

Leveling Up

Debbie “Widow” Wheeler has everything money can buy except the one thing she wants most: a family of her own. Tired of waiting for the right man to come along, she decides to forgo marriage and become a foster mother. Her plans are right on track when she runs into Austin Reed. Too bad he wants nothing to do with her. Single dad, Austin Reed, works hard to provide for his children, so it irrita ...

A DEAD RED CADILLAC

#1 in THE DEAD RED MYSTERY SERIES Like Janet Evanovich? Sue Grafton? You’ll love this humorous mystery series! Deeply buried and deadly secrets resurface with a drowned Cadillac Her trophy red Caddy has been hijacked and now police ask how an elderly woman, who couldn’t possibly see beyond the hood ornament, is found strapped into the driver’s seat and six feet under water?

Christmas at Holly Hill Inn Box Set

A Dickens of a Sweet Holiday Romance! Get all three books in the Holly Hill Inn Dickens Romance series in one complete box set. Follow Jenny and Ben as they fall in love and acquire Holly Hill Inn in Home for Christmas. Then read about their children in Miracle at Holly Hill Inn. Last, share the holiday with the Cohen family as they return to Holly Hill Inn, perhaps for the last time, in The Last ...

Safe In His Arms

She's determined to escape her past. He's looking to build a future . . . with her. Will she open her heart and let him help, or keep on running alone? Anna Henderson is guilty of one thing: trusting the wrong man. Now she’s running for her life from an ex-boyfriend who will stop at nothing to find her. The little town of Quintin, Texas seems like the perfect place to lay low, and its quaint li ...

Better Together

Love kindles when a fake engagement brings best friends together. World Champion snowboarder, Wyatt Fernandez, should be hitting the slopes in the Andes and spending his days teaching as the new ski instructor. But an emergency means he’s heading off the family’s tree farm with his best friend, Harper. She’s too busy with her books and earning tenure to notice his hopes for more than friendship. H ...

A Season for Serenity

A toymaker with a dilemma, twelve hours to make it right, and a special ops paramedic at her side? Not exactly the Christmas Eve Serenity planned…

Serenity Yates is an hour from closing her toy shop for the holidays and starting a much-needed break. But first, she’ll hand over a handmade dollhouse to her final customer of the year. At least, that’s the hope–until the plan goes ...

The Groom

The only thing more awkward than falling in love on national television, is having your heart broken in front of millions of viewers. When public school teacher Millie Kincaid signed up for the popular dating show, The Groom, falling in love was always a possibility. But then Jace proposes to someone else on the season finale, and her hurt and humiliation leave her desperate to escape the glare of ...

Her Mail Order Family

Ten year old Chloe loves her dad, wealthy rancher, Tanner Holt, but she needs a mom. So, armed with her dad’s credit card, she orders one. Down on her luck, Heather Ayer did the craziest thing and filled out an application at a mail order bride agency. Could it be the fresh start she needs?

Pacific Cove Haunted Visions

Naomi & Jason Sanders, move to Pacific Cove Ranch shortly after their wedding. Prior to her graduation from college, Naomi’s younger sister is killed in a hit and run accident. Naomi is having a hard time accepting her loss, and the isolation of her new surroundings bring a new type of terror; haunted visions that keep her on edge terrifying her. Is Naomi being tormented by her own inner ...

Ten Dates

Can her online dating disasters turn into true love? Or will she lose the perfect guy in 10 Dates?

”Lacy’s books are just so darn cozy and wholesome, without being cloying.” WendyTheSuperLibrarian book blog

Lacy Williams is the USA Today bestselling author of the acclaimed Wyoming Legacy and Cowboy Fairytales series.

About 10 Dates:

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Harvest Wishes

With her life in tatters after ending an abusive marriage, Madison literally falls into the arms of her ex-high school sweetheart—the only man she’s ever truly loved. Will she allow him to help mend the broken pieces of her heart, finally finding the love she deserves? A failed marriage. No job. A looming court date to face her abusive ex-husband. Worst of all, she’s had to move back in with her p ...

Happy Returns

When Meredith Thomas returns home to Shady Piers for the huge birthday party her parents put on for her each year, she is frustrated with a writing career going nowhere. For her estranged and lifelong friend Logan Nole, his life has taken a very different turn. Now the single parent of a bubbly 4-year old, he has no time to spare as he works double shifts just to keep their lives afloat. An unexpe ...

The Waiting Room

The Waiting Room is a delightful romp with three women who meet in the waiting room of a doctor’s office and grow to become life-long friends. After Allison’s roommate goes missing and later is found dead, the man they identify as a suspect stirs up trouble for them. Fortunately, life has its way of making things right, and so it was left to the three women to see things through to the end and cor ...

A Bride for Frank

THE PRESCOTT BRIDES Five lady outlaws sent to prison for bank robbery. Their sentences commuted to time served if they become mail-order brides. Five brothers looking for wives, take a chance on the outlaw brides. Will they find happiness or heartache? This is Maisie's story. Maisie Sheahan was married to a monster. Luckily he died. Unlucky for her, he owed money to a very cruel man and that man w ...

Love for Christmas

Ten sweet, clean, and heartwarming stories, each featuring a small-town Christmas. Hours of reading enjoyment -- real emotion, faith, humor, and a dash of danger! Reunions, cowboys, second chances, single dads, single moms, friends-to-love, enemies-to-love, finding home and family, plus humor, faith, mystery and suspense abound in these inspiring romances. Each is a complete romance with an uplift ...

Island of Miracles

Katherine Middleton leads a charmed life in her million dollar Georgetown Brownstone. The daughter of a world-renown anthropologist, she is happily married and employed by the Smithsonian when her world comes crashing down after the discovery of her husband’s secret life. An impulsive decision to hide out on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, in order to re-evaluate her own life, leads Kate to earth-shatte ...

The Sweet Spot

If you had a second chance with your childhood crush, would you throw caution to the wind and try again…or take a step back and forget about your brother’s best friend? Ari: When your good friend asks you to be the ambassador for her new food truck, what do you do? You say yes! At least that’s what I did––and then I found out my co-worker is my high school crush who is also my older brother’s best ...

Falling For My Forsaken Boss

I never expected to run into Lucas, the brooding forest ranger I once adored. He's a single dad now, and still closed off and serious. But his affection for his daughter lights him up from within. When he asks me to be a nanny for his daughter, I'm hesitant at first. But I can't resist the chance to be close to Lucas again. Sparks fly as I challenge his gruff exterior. But he keeps pushing m ...

Love and Hope in a Small Town

Love blossoms between unlikely couples in this tender, heartfelt collection of ten small-town sweet romances! A single-dad cowboy ex-player enters a marriage of convenience; a spunky plus-size cowgirl reluctantly gets a makeover from a city slicker; a struggling single mother reunites with a man whose heart she broke; sparks--and cakes!--fly between two competing co-chefs, and much more. Book 1 ...

New Beginnings

Audrey Norris is worried but determined. Her life has taken a drastic turn. A short year ago, she was a happily married woman with a young daughter and a warm, cozy home. Now she’s a widow responsible for her daughter, her mother, and a big fat mortgage she didn’t even know about. She can’t pay the house note and she doesn’t have a job. Her options are few and mostly undesirable. Widower Caleb Jef ...

Coffee and Crushes at the Cat Café: a Furrever Friends Sweet Romance

What do you do when you meet the guy of your dreams? Set him up with your sister, of course. Kari doesn’t have time for love when she’s opening her new cat café. She’s busy hiring employees, fighting with the health inspector – oh, and welcoming 16 shelter cats. She’s doing this for the cats, the community, and her family. The café will give her sister, Marley, a job worthy of her baking skills. T ...

The Wrong Kind of Man

2015 WISHING SHELF INDEPENDENT BOOK AWARDS FINALIST At thirty years of age, Maggie Fields has had her fill of “bad” men. Unbeknownst to her, her investment counselor husband had paid for their luxurious Denver lifestyle by scamming his law-abiding clients and laundering money for his law-breaking ones. He lasted two nights in jail before a client who didn’t trust him to keep his mouth shut had him ...

Stagecoach Bride Katrina

Nothing is ever as it seems Range detective, Zane McClure, wants to bring an outlaw to justice. While Katrina wants to find her brother’s killer. The only way they can accomplish their mission is to join forces, even if it means a fake engagement.

When they are forced into a marriage of convenience, could it possibly turn into the real thing? Or are there too many obstacles for them to ...

Love From Afar

What happens when two little sisters become self-appointed matchmakers? Best friends Tillie and Lula are tired of watching Tillie’s older sister and Lula’s older brother admire each other from afar. Determined to bring their siblings together, they hatch a most brilliant plan. After all, it’s perfectly acceptable to indulge in mischief if it’s for a good cause, right? Meredith Waller has an excell ...

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