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What happens when the star quarterback recognizes the new sports reporter as a weekend fling from college, only to meet her five-year-old son with blue eyes like his? Declan Scott, star quarterback for the Rocky Mountain Rangers and heir to his family’s football team, has the perfect life. Money, star-power, and gorgeous women aplenty, with the football season going well and a championship ring teasing his future, nothing will divert him from the road to success. Nothing.

I shouldn’t want Melanie as much as I do. She's gorgeous, fascinating, and…my friend’s sister, making her absolutely off limits. I shouldn’t want her, even if she’s perfect for me. When she asks me to be her fake fiancé as a ploy for her promotion, I should say no. Though if I help her, it's my chance to prove to her that I’m not the man she thinks I am. But pretending isn’t my style, so she better be prepared for the real thing.

Natalie has high hopes for her move across the country to start a new life with her boyfriend. Those plans hit a snag the moment her flight lands and she finds out he is married. Now devastated and wishing she owned more elastic-waist pants, Natalie does her best to get off her great-aunt’s couch and put the pieces of her life back together. But the world is hard, and the couch is soft.

Beth Brockington thought she had everything figured out until her marriage fell apart just before the holidays. Now she's navigating twin five-year-olds, a bustling family store, and trying not to think about the empty space where her husband used to be. The last thing she expects is to feel her heart skip when Brett shows up looking like the man she fell in love with instead of the stranger they'd both become.

But instead of jumping on his offer, Rachel decides she’s going to open the bookstore doors for December and ‘explore her options.’ The last thing Rachel expected was to fall in love with the old bookstore, or charming Marietta. She never expected sparks to fly with handsome, arrogant Atticus Bowen, either. Smart, practical Rachel realizes she just might be falling in love with the sexy, opinionated Texan lawyer.

Christmas cookies, mistletoe kisses, and the friend zone—some traditions are meant to be broken. Dalton Grant is expecting this holiday season will be a quiet one—until his childhood best friend Savannah crashes back into town needing a fake boyfriend for the Christmas Hearts Festival. Dalton would do anything for Savvy, even risk the one thing that matters most: their friendship. When the town's self-appointed matchmaker signs them up for every romantic holiday activity—cookie contests, couples caroling, mistletoe challenges—fake kisses start feeling dangerously real.

She's looking for Mr. Fun Right Now, but he's looking for Mrs. Forever. After leaving her job as a dancer on cruise ships, Joanna Fernsby was sure that the fast-paced world of luxury real estate was her dream career. Wrong. Television definitely over-hyped things. It’s demanding, dog-eat-dog and not at all what she signed up for. So when her best friend Mieka, asks Joanna to fill in for her at her dance studio while she goes on her honeymoon, Joanna agrees.

My dating life is a disaster. Getting stood up at a bar was far from how I envisioned my night. But when the brooding yet incredibly hot bartender, Mark, keeps pouring me drink after drink, things take an unexpected turn. After a drunken dance and a broken glass, I find myself asking him to become my dating coach.

Former NFL player Asher Hale arrives in Peachwood Grove looking for a fresh start, completely unprepared to find himself falling for Izzie Grant — the girl he once knew, now a captivating businesswoman who makes every rule he's tried to follow a lot harder to keep. Izzie's teenage crush on Asher reignites fast, especially when they find themselves living under one roof and her brother's warnings start sounding less like good advice and more like the only thing standing between them.

Artist Nicole Grant has a gift for transforming the mundane into something magnificent, which makes her the perfect creative partner for Peachwood Grove's historic revival project and the last person gruff restoration expert Rhett Blevins expected to get under his skin.

Cassie Beckson’s buried her family. Now, she’ll bury whoever is responsible. The cops call it an overdose, but Cassie knows it was murder. And she has a plan-get a job as bartender at the exclusive club her brother attended that fateful night and uncover the truth. What she finds is a secret society, and herself bound by magical contract to Dexter Marin, the club's hot owner. He says it's for her safety, but Cassie refuses to be distracted by him and she certainly isn't going to ask him for help. Not when he's on her short list of suspects. But Dex has other plans.

Exemplified by the power of the human spirit, life in the face of death, she had the courage to challenge a generation to release the shackles of ignorance surrounding women and gender roles. All of this and more is lyrically conveyed in Cheryl Waiters' autobiographical novel titled "Blood Sweat & High Heels" based in Cleveland, Ohio. Her autobiography delivers a message of self-empowerment for women of all ages, nationalities and demonstrates unyielding courage to transcend the impossible and the unthinkable.

The last thing city girl Blair Williams wants to do is travel to a remote island on a lake near the Minnesotan/Canadian border for her law firm’s company-wide retreat. Having long struggled with high-functioning depression and low self-esteem, she attempts to fake her way through the weekend while battling the ever-present melancholy and negative internal thoughts that plague her. While there, she takes comfort in the quiet and serene setting, befriending Graham, the owner of the barely surviving Ruby Lodge.

When Natalie Merin's grandmother dies, she discovers that her birth mother, Colleen Winters, disappeared from the small town of Cascade Locks, Oregon twenty years earlier. Natalie travels to Oregon hoping to find out what happened to her mother. Instead, she finds people who won't talk about Colleen, who act like she never existed, or if she did, their life was better without her. She learns that several prominent people in town will do anything to protect what they feel is important to keep hidden.

What happens when it takes two men to be your perfect man? One man wants her heart, the other her mind, but both play her body perfectly. Polar opposites, these twins agree on one thing, they want to make her happy. Will she have to choose between them, or can they forgive the past and form a non-traditional family? Maryanne Merryweather is the quintessential girl next door—always ready with a kind word and a helpful hand.

What happens when the one woman you've loved for the last ten years runs out of excuses as to why you can't be together? I’ve been in love with a man I couldn’t claim as my own for ten years. Instead of giving into my heart’s desire, I broke his and married another. Now, I’m divorced and the owner / operator of a kennel catering to military members. I’ve recruited most of the K9 handlers I served with—all of whom are now veterans—to come partner with me as we build a premier working dog training facility. Last recruit on my list: the man whose love I refused.

What happens when the search & rescue veteran and his K9 get trapped in a remote mountain chalet with a gorgeous older woman from Arizona during a freak blizzard? My first time on a ski slope in twenty years, I overestimated my abilities and got lost in a blizzard that hit the mountaintop faster than anyone expected. Trapped in the trees with a twisted knee and zero visibility, I’m quickly losing consciousness when an insistent wet nose and a pair of strong arms save me. Now I’m in a mountain cabin in front of a roaring fire and a muscle bound shirtless man who insists on getting me naked.

What happens when the confirmed bachelor and K9 veteran falls for the one woman who has no intentions of ever settling down? Sure, he has biceps the size of my thick thighs and a rugged lumberjack exterior that satisfies all of my fantasies about climbing a man like a tree, but I'm not looking for a relationship—especially with a confirmed bachelor. Besides, I'm also happily single and don't plan to change that. Ever. Maybe it’s my hyper independence that keeps me firmly in bachelorette territory…

Barrie Graeber has two great kids, a loving husband, and a respected job as the high school counselor in her close-knit community. Without warning, everything unravels when her teenage daughter, Pearl, is betrayed and lashes out. Nothing prepares this mother for the helplessness that follows when her attempts to steer her daughter back on course fail, and Pearl shuts her out . . . or when Barrie discovers the unthinkable about her nemesis, the football coach.

Rachel Jameson is focused on three things: Maintaining her soccer scholarship. Finishing her final year of college. And never looking back at the rough home life she came from. Then, she meets Mack.