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Decker Davenport is on a deadline. He has 30 days - Christmas Eve, to be exact - to remodel a St. Augustine Victorian house, or the owner will put it back on the market. Not a good time for Decker’s decorator to take off on a honeymoon, leaving him with Annalise Owens, a stand-in with a malaise he isn’t privy to. But as he watches Annalise work miracles on the house and his daughter, he realizes the two of them have bonded in some ethereal way, as if they’ve always known each other.

Ava St. John is on her way to a client meeting when her car is hit from behind, landing her in the hospital. While she’s unconscious, she hears two options: “Find Lucas Phillips and live out the rest of your life, or pass on peacefully—which will it be?” She chooses to live. There’s just one problem. She hasn’t seen Lucas Phillips since she was fifteen years old. Ava questions everything she knows in her search for Lucas: her faith, belief in herself, and her life choices. But her biggest question is, what will she do when she finds Lucas?

Can a promise made as kids bring them back together as adults? In this Nantucket-set beach listen, “master of the genre” (Midwest Book Review) Courtney Walsh delivers a sparkling inspirational romance about first love and second chances.

Emma Woodson is hoping the cobblestone streets of Nantucket and the charm of her late husband’s family cottage will be the fresh start she and her young son need. Securing a dream job at an art gallery is one more step along the path to a new life...and away from a piece of her history she hopes will never be revealed. Falling in love with the guy she hires to clean out the rental above the garage wasn’t part of the plan. Jameson Shaw came to Nantucket for one reason: deliver his letter to Emma and never return. But when he sees an opportunity to help her, he takes a chance.

When Anna Hamilton crashes into gorgeous Michael Madden - Hartland Cove's newest bachelor - her heart stops, despite scattering his law brief all over the sidewalk. Is their new relationship a match aligned with the stars? Meanwhile, Anna's old college roommate, East Coast socialite Elise Kensington, has an urgent request for a place to lay low with her fiancé, an ex-Mafia member that wants out of the "family business". Can they stay hidden long enough to elope and disappear forever?

Sometimes the biggest success stories aren’t found in boardrooms or bank accounts, but around a shared cup of coffee. Perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber, RaeAnne Thayne, and Debbie Mason. (This is part of the Big Dune Island series but can be read as a standalone.) Chloe Beckett has always...

Alice Emerson and her best friend Sasha Miller have decided to swap inland living for the picturesque beaches of the Outer Banks. They pour everything they have into launching an ice cream shop in the little cottage on the beach where Alice spent blissful childhood summers with her grandfather. As Alice and Sasha add color to the walls of the shop, their fresh new life begins to take shape, and love is the last thing on Alice’s mind. But she keeps running into the mysterious Jack Murphy, and finds herself falling for his golden-boy charm and warm smile.

Lisa lived her life since she was nine years old knowing information that might have changed the outcome of the one accused of her momma's murder. As a child, she was never asked anything and didn't know she held important information until years later, when her grandmother finally told her the details of the murder. Unfortunately, at that time her brother had also been murdered. Two unsolved murders five years apart would haunt Lisa for years until one statement unraveled both crimes.

Detective Danni Grace has never met a police officer who wants to face a scenario where pulling the trigger on another person is the only option. When the worst does occur and there’s a police-involved shooting, it leads to riots and calls to disband the entire police force in La Rosa, Danni’s hometown.

About to land her biggest deal yet, Leigh Henderson is on her game. She’s prepared for this, and nothing can get in her way. Except Rebecca Mayer, who’d sashayed in a few weeks ago with a former client list that would fill the entire hallway to Leigh’s office if she laid it out end to end. When her boss unexpectedly offers the deal to Rebecca and tells Leigh he’s letting her go, Leigh finds herself without a job.

I’m the jokester of the group. I always have that one-liner that lightens the mood, even in the darkest of moments. I lost my wife 11 years ago when I was on my first deployment, so now I'm just trying to keep things light. And because of that, I refuse to put my heart out there again while I’m a Marine. So when a beautiful single mom moves in next door, I’m going to fight that attraction tooth and nail. Thing is, Maggie doesn’t want to be with me, either. Her late husband was a Marine, and there’s no way she’ll let her daughter go through that again. Or herself.

I met Ana on the playground when we were kids. She kicked me down the slide because I was scared and took too long. I fell in love with her on the spot. No matter which way life pulled us, we stayed in contact as best friends do. That’s our first problem. Best friends. Purely platonic. Our second problem has been the only thing keeping me from doing something stupid, like telling her I love her. Now, Ana is moving to Hawaii. Right down the road. I’ll see her gorgeous face every day. What I won’t do is tell her the truth.

Will Karla be able to start her B&B before her husband yanks that away? Karla grew up visiting Driftwood Bay and the home that is now her family home. Her fondest memories are on the beach and in house. Now she wants to pass those memories on to a new generation. As she makes her plan, her husband works hard to steal her dreams.

Molly Whitman’s carefully arranged life unravels when her fiancé dumps her right before their wedding. Now she’s headed to Hawaii on the honeymoon of a lifetime - alone. Helicopter crew chief Roman Russo has never thought of himself as a knight in shining armor. But when Molly forgets to cancel some honeymoon activities and needs someone to stand in as her husband, he’s right there to save the day.

Wanting to build a better life and eventually change the world, she uprooted herself and her eight-year-old son from the Sandhills of North Carolina and planted roots in Chicago, Illinois. After three years of struggling to publish even one hope-filled article, Maura’s dreams begin to crumble and fade, much like her run-down tenement. She works a second job to make ends meet and struggles to balance parenting with work, while her journalistic responsibilities are reduced to correcting typos for her plagiarizing co-workers.

Rachel Cameron prefers to lick her wounds and protect her children from gossip and shame in isolation on a small homestead in the Ozark Mountains. But lifelong bachelor and ex-marine Sheriff Garrett Stark has other ideas. Drawn to Rachel, Garrett wields all the power and charm he can muster to insist she return to town for her safety and that of her children.

Madison, Maisey, and Annabelle meet for the first time at a beautiful dude ranch in Wyoming. Their only intent is to relax, write, and enjoy some peace and quiet. One simple retreat wasn't supposed to change all of their lives forever. Madison is quiet and her real life is hidden deep in secrecy. She doesn't want anyone to know who she is or the fears and worries that follow her in the big city. In the wide-open country - where she's reminded of home - Randal steps in to show her that cowboys are good at protecting their own.

Jennie is about to get the ultimate second chance.... Wheelchair-bound Jennie has been secretly in love with her private-eye boss, Sam, for years. When she dies and gets a second chance in another woman’s body, Jennie decides to start fresh as the perfect woman for Sam. There’s only one hitch - she’s come back as his ex-wife, Maxine. Even worse, the person who killed Maxine is trying to finish the job, and Jennie must convince a reluctant Sam to protect her body...and to fall in love with her soul.

On the brink of a bitter divorce when she was struck by a cerebral hemorrhage, Hallie died, only to discover her life wasn’t over. She'd been given a second chance and reawakened as Marti West, a quiet but calculating waitress in a Florida hick town. Even worse for the former party girl, she’s carrying the child of Jesse West, the southern stranger Marti tricked into marriage. All Hallie wants, or so she thinks, is to return to California. But she can’t resist her racecar driver husband’s one request: stay until she has his baby.

Unraveled, Time to Tell is about a life of secrets turned into heart-opening understandings from God and how a questionable death of a young girl's mother can change life and leave her vulnerable and unwanted. This death leads to many consequences and puts in front of her choices she was unaware of and after her decisions, she becomes ashamed of them.