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Shamrocks Are A Girl's Best Friend

Battered, broken and looking for solitude smoke jumper Tric heads to Last Chance Beach and without warning walks into Kelly's cottage.

She knows from experience this is the best place for him to recover and she'll share her safe haven with him.

Will a bit of Irish luck and a matchmaking uncle give them a chance to find love?

Tric Ryan has spent the majority of his adult ...

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 ...

The Amish Cowboy's Second Chance

Can love find a home for a runaway cowboy and the Amish woman he left behind? Noah Detweiler thought he’d left his Amish life forever. After years on the Albertan prairie as a cowboy, he’s finally found peace with God and purpose at Second Chance Ranch working with special needs children. But when he discovers time is running out for any hope of reconciliation with his father, Noah is forced to ...

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 ...

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Written In The Stars...

A Father's Dying Wish...Miserable after the failure of her restaurant, chef Grace Cooper receives a deathbed letter from the father she thought was already dead, offering a free vacation at an Alaskan island resort. Exhausted, Grace jumps at the chance to escape, and to learn about the father she never knew. Polaris Island and the Northern Lights Retreat seem to offer everything—ocean, mountains, ...

St. Batzy & the Time Machine

After all the years they had been married, Maddie Ainsworth's presence still had the ability to discombobulate Horace. She was as tall as his own six feet--the reason they saw eye-to-eye on most things, they joked. To Horace, she was more beautiful than when they met thirty-some years ago. Maddie loved Horace more than anything or anyone in her life. When they met, they both believed they could ch ...

I Love You More

A billionaire and a single mother have more in common than they know.

Handsome, self-assured, every inch the successful billionaire, Luciano is out of Anastasia's reach. But when a hurricane strands them together and they must trust each other to survive … things heat up despite the driving rain and gale winds.

Don’t miss this poignant story of love, loss and ren ...

Wedding Cake and Big Mistakes

Welcome to Adams Grove…where the wedding cakes are sweet, but the recipe is murder. For years, Carolanne Baxter dreamed of a life beyond Adams Grove. Being the daughter of the town drunk was no picnic, so when college offered her a chance for escape, she took it. Now Carolanne has returned home, finally ready to make amends with her father, Ben, and to celebrate the wedding of her best frie ...

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 ...

Amish Christmas of a Lifetime

Abraham Schuster only wants one thing for Christmas: to fall in love. Unfortunately, he's just gone through an awful breakup and is still trying to pick up the pieces of his life. Is he willing to put himself out there again? Will he be able to find a woman in time to have a merry Christmas? Or is he destined to go through the holidays with a lonely heart?

It Happened One Night

Who has time for dating these days? Certainly not struggling entrepreneur Paisley Jameson, who has way too much on her plate to pay any real attention to her shriveling social life. And not mechanic Joe Spencer either, who has a lot on his mind with both the family business and family in general. Bu ...

Spring at the Stables on Muddypuddle Lane

Petra Kelly's whole life revolves around the stables she manages for her uncle Amos. So much so, that she's spent the last ten years without even a sniff of a date. As far as she's concerned, she's got everything she needs in life and is too busy for romance anyway.

That is until Ted, the farrier, retires and she's forced to use a new blacksmith to shoe her horses.

Harry Milt ...

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 ...

Christmas Trees and Mistletoe

When long-buried betrayal is uncovered, can the magic of the season heal old wounds? A story of friendship, love, and second chances in the second half of life After her divorce, Kathleen moved closer to her daughter and grandchildren, hoping to get to know them better and find a new place to belong. Not ready to retire, Kathleen bought the local toy store only to find that, after sinking a large ...

Love in Bloom

She’s an aspiring artist. He’s a lawyer on the rise. Will they risk their dreams for a chance at love? Wren Busch is determined to stand on her own two feet. After sidelining her painting dreams in support of her selfish ex’s law ambitions, she’s ready to turn over a new leaf as small-town Haven’s resident florist. So when a handsome lawyer struts into her shop, she’s not about to let another smoo ...

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 ...

Pacific Cove Testament of Faith

Jason and Naomi’s son, Peter, returns home from college and back to the ranch he loves. A series of devastating events will test their strength, faith, and their hope for the future. Can they endure the hardships? Through their own personal loss and that of their friends, they learn to lean on one another when all hope seems lost. Out of sorrow will come healing and out of healing a great jo ...

BLUE LADY

A friends to lovers, second chances, romantic comedy short story… BLUE LADY is the Prequel to The Angelica Mason Series (There are three books in this series with a new book,Blue Lady's SEARCH for LOVE scheduled for release in the Spring 2023).

The books revolve around a common theme—the search for love and life purpose. Which is more important?

No longer satisfied with her high ...

The Chaplain’s Daughter

A minister's daughter abandoned during war survives by taking on the grueling work of an army laundress. A wounded widower feels God has forsaken him. Will her devout care bring medicine to his soul or rub salt in his wounds? Ellen White is assigned to attend a debilitated artillery captain after the Battle of Second Manassas. She offers God's strength, but Gideon Sharpe would rather rely on his o ...

Fields of Glass: Prescott Family Romance #3

Micah Prescott will do anything to save his family's sheep ranch, even if it kills him. With a city-based firm pressuring him to sell and the bank threatening to call in his loan, he has less than a month to figure out a solution to keep the property his father strove so hard to protect. But when a storm rolls in, washing out the only bridge to town and bringing with it an unwanted visitor, he fin ...

Leonora and the Lion's Venture

vA romantic comedy, with characters from The Sisters of Castle Fortune series, plus the cast of Delphine and the Dangerous Arrangement, in a tale of fated, or perhaps foolish, love. ‘Remember Mr Carstairs,’ said the determined fourteen-year-old, Leonora Fortune, ‘I’m coming for you!’ That was three years ago, and now she has come. Leonora, one of two beautiful Fortune twins newly arrived in Town f ...

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 ...

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?

Calico Hearts: A Sweet Billionaire Second Chance Romance

On the day that Layla Franklin is promoted to manager of the Pinwheel Plant Shop, she discovers her first business meeting will be with her billionaire ex-boyfriend, ceramicist Bradley Marconi. Five years prior, when Layla had to drop out of art school to support her disabled mom and her younger brother, Bradley broke off their relationship and broke her heart by saying they came from different ...

Intertwined Hearts

To let go, forgiveness is necessary. Even if the one that needs it is yourself. As a teacher in her hometown of Santa Barbara, California, Abby Sullivan finally feels like she has something to offer. She has a purpose, a wonderful best friend, and a supportive mother. Abby is very talented at many things, especially hiding the pain of her past. That is until her world collides with Caleb Hunter’s. ...

Cabin Mate

When the woman of my dreams finally becomes available, all bets are off. I lost a bet to my older brother. My evil, life-ruining older brother. (Okay, maybe that’s a little over-dramatic). Now I can’t go on a date for FOUR months. I can’t even touch a woman. No hand holding. Forget kissing. I’m walking the straight and narrow (AKA dateless and lonely) just fine. Until my best friend (the woman I’v ...

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 ...

Hexed and Hitched

There are worse things in life than being in love with your best friend—like being his fake fiancee. Until then, I felt like I had a handle on things. Sure, I was a hot mess when it came to magic—but my wedding planning business was thriving, and I got to secretly admire Troy every day at work. (Who was winning? Me, that's who.) But when an unexpected curse sends Troy scrambling for a fake f ...

Mister Catfish

Sweet Romantic Comedy!

A Romantic Comedy Novella About Online Dating in the Face of Genital Pictures and Kinky Requests Legal investigator Nicole is great at her job—but unlucky in love. That is, until she meets Matt on an Internet dating site. The geeky app developer is sweet, decent, and nothing like the losers she’d dated before. But when Matt’s not-so-decent twin, M ...

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 ...

Invitation to the Ball

This Cinderella invited to the ball gets help from a surprising source. But will she win her Prince Charming, who's relegated her to the friend zone? When store department manager David Warwick, her secret crush, unexpectedly invites shy florist Ellie Ashton to represent the store at a glittering London ball, she feels more the ugly step-sister than princess material. No make-up, hair that was las ...

Fake-Dating My Billionaire Enemy

Samantha can't seem to keep any guy she likes. Nor does she appreciate her recent ex flaunting his newfound happiness with his fiancee. She needs an escape. Fast. But gorgeous Henry, her ex's cousin, is the last person she'd expect to step in and save the day. Henry knows Samantha would rather be burned alive than be saved by him. But he needs help with his ailing mother and she needs a new ...

The Art of Falling in Love with Your Best Friend

The realization that you’ve fallen for your best friend is, for me, pretty scary. It’s not that Reid is all the way in the stratosphere out of my league, it’s more like I want to get it together so I’m not the one who feels so inadequate. But when I take ten steps forward, I’m shoved twenty steps back and left wondering if we’d be a good match in the end. And I want the best for my friend…ev ...

Pinkie: A Short Story

Recent divorcee Rebecca has returned to Utica, NY to give back her ex’s diamond ring and put that whole sad episode of her life behind her once and for all. As she boards the train to return to her new home in Richmond, VA, she is determined to take a hiatus from relationships. And next time around, she’ll make sure she spends a good long time getting to know a guy before jumping into any kind of ...

FLYBOYS

Flyboys are a group of men who thrive on adrenaline, toy with playboy reputations, and a bunch of self-proclaimed misfits. This sweet romantic series is full of soaring emotions, sweeping intense moments, and loyal friendships that unite the most unlikely characters into an unforgettable love story.

Rocking Her Boat

Lifelong passion and perseverance have finally given Nina the one thing she ever wanted: her own environmental non-profit. And yet it’s when she should be on top of the world that she feels the empty results of her neglected personal life. At twenty-seven, maybe now’s the time to see what happens when she takes a break from her hard work. Chelsey’s passion is music. Still the rebellious stoner he ...

Somebody Like You

When Laurel Stone's garden center is targeted by vandals, she comes face-to-face with the man who once broke her heart: Aiden Gallagher. Aiden's now one of Darling's Finest, but the memory of how he hurt Laurel back in high school has stuck to his conscience. Helping her get back on her feet is the least he can do to make it up to her. And, as time goes on, he realizes how much he cares for the wo ...

The Rejected Writers Christmas Wedding

Southlea Bay's favorite sweethearts, Flora and Dan, are getting married and the members of the Rejected Writers' Book Club are excited to help. Especially the group's head honcho, Doris Newberry, who, much to Flora’s frustration, wants to control every detail, attempting to strong-arm Flora into accepting ridiculous wedding vows, wayward bongo players and into wearing a huge, old-fashioned wedding ...

Sweet Peppermint Kisses

There’s no place like home. Until the heart gallops off in an unexpected direction… Prepare for romance in this heart-warming holiday book brought to you by USA Today bestselling author Josie Riviera. After Chiara passes her RN license exam, she plans to leave Virginia and return to her beloved Kansas hometown for good. Except her home health client’s handsome brother makes her consider changing h ...

Love Overboard

Forced to share a stateroom with her ex-fiancé, Caitlyn fakes amnesia to stay on board her dream Alaskan cruise. Torn over deciding his future, Cruise Director Gregory tumbles into helping her. As they grow closer, unspoken secrets threaten to rip them apart, for good.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Summer's Squall

Baltimore City Police Detective, Abe (Lank) Lankton, assumes he'll be helping his cousin solve a minor problem when she calls and asks him to fly west. When he learns that he's been called out there to aid in capturing an elusive stalker, his first instinct is go straight back to Maryland. However, when he meets the alluring victim, Summer Cooper, all bets are off. With his future, and his own lif ...

Love Comes Later

When newlywed Abdulla loses his wife and unborn child in a car accident, the world seems to crumble beneath his feet. Thrust back into living in the family compound, he goes through the motions—work, eat, sleep, repeat. Blaming himself for their deaths, he decides to never marry again but knows that culturally, this is not an option. Three years later, he’s faced with an arranged marri ...

Shattered Treasure

Addison Morgan has spent years ignoring the broken pieces of her past that etched deep scars in her heart, scars that left her vulnerable to remain in a relationship with an unfaithful boyfriend. Her feelings for him have been fading for months, and after he betrays her again while she’s still hurting over the untimely death of her sister, Addison causes a car accident involving a teenage girl. Po ...

Skinny Dipping

Everyone has a fear. Fear of spiders? Arachnophobia. Fear of small spaces? Claustrophobia. And of course, the fear of being tickled by feathers: pteronophobia. Sophie Smart fears drowning. No, her fear isn’t some made up malarkey like exposedflabophobia (acute paranoia when wearing a swimsuit and baring pasty thighs and a round bottom). Sophie drowned as a child. She died for three minutes. Her ch ...

The Heir

This Novella is the first of seven in the Billionaire Royal Series. Home for the summer, Jo Finley struggles to save her family's marina, comfort her ailing father, and find a way to break up with a controlling boyfriend. She quickly becomes distracted by a newcomer to their small town. Immediate attraction has her reeling and second-guessing her choices. Nick Waters, otherwise known as Nico Valde ...

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 ...

A Romance for Christmas

Can you fall in love again when the love of your life has gone? A year ago on Christmas Eve, the love of Dara's life passed away in a tragic accident, leaving her with their three-year-old daughter. Though insurance paid off the house and provided the basics, there wasn't much left over. A car accident drained finances and cost her missed work. She's hoping for a chance to go back after the new ...

Small Town Second Chances

Hearts on Ice, Love in Bloom, and Passion Reignited: Three Enchanting Second Chance Romances #1 Megan’s Second Chance: A Small Town Amnesia Romance My long-lost love staggered back into my life, his memories lost in a blizzard’s swirling grasp. Now fate snows us in—the girl who got away and the man determined to make amends. I’ve avoided romance since Jasper left me shattered. Yet her ...

Lake of Destiny: A Celtic Legends Novel

magical novel about destiny, family, food, intrigue, healing, men in kilts, and the sometimes twisted path to love from the award-winning author of Compulsion. "Delightful, charming, and heartwarming." --NYT bestselling author Wendy Higgins

Helping her aunt organize a festival in a picturesque village nestled among the Highland braes of Scotland seems li ...

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 ...

Sewn With Love

Madeline Graham is hard at work on the eve of her youngest sister’s wedding, sewing intricate details into her dress. No one in the household appreciates her fine needlework and poor Madeline feels that she is destined to a life of servitude for her family. Madeline is the eldest sister but the last to find a beau. On her deathbed, her Grandmother persuades her to apply to be a mail-order bride. T ...

A DEAD RED HEART

#2 in the Dead Red mystery series When a troubled, homeless veteran covers her vintage Cadillac with paper snowflakes, Lalla Bains decides a showdown is needed. Unfortunately, she arrives too late for that conversation---he’s lying in a pool of blood, stabbed with his own scissors. But someone is watching, and now a killer has targeted her for murder.

The Wedding Favor

Ava hasn’t given much thought to her hometown in years — until her gorgeous former neighbor Mateo comes knocking. Ava owes him a favor from a decade ago, and now that Mateo needs a fake fiancée, it seems like the perfect time to collect

Amish New Beginnings

Eliza Sommer is thirty years old and still lives with her parents, Amos and Mary, helping them run the family farm shop. Eliza is resigned to a life helping her parents in their advancing years, but seeing her siblings marry and have families of their own, makes Eliza realize it is the one thing she truly desires in her life. Eliza was born with a condition that has caused her parents to be over-p ...

Ana's Home

Ana has everything a person could ever want: an exciting and wildly successful career, a big house in the country, good friends to keep her laughing. But the higher she climbs into fame and fortune, the more she can’t deny there’s really only one thing she wants... The love of the man who broke her heart all those years ago. Ana's Home is the fourth and final book of the Legrand Series. B ...

Secrets and Sacrifice - A Christian Romance

When Grace O'Connor arrives in the Scottish Highlands, she's hiding a secret and trailing more baggage than she cares to admit. Grace's sister, Brianna, has a history linked to Grace's secret. There, amongst the rugged Scottish Highlands and a community of caring, loving Christians, Grace meets the handsome Ryan MacGregor, an ex-military Paratrooper with a history of his own. As the secrets of Gra ...

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 ...

Lorraine's journey down under

She had given him her heart. He walked out on her.

Lorraine Marshall, age 40, shaken by the loss of her boyfriend to another woman, journeys to the land Down Under to overcome her great sense of emptiness and despair. To her surprise her vacation in Australia transforms her life in unexpected ways. Filled with adventure, suspense, the art world, and romance this is a moving story you wo ...

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