
There is corruption in the Houston Police Department And because she is chief of police, that makes it Catherine Tanner's problem. So when evidence turns up to indicate that her husband might not have died of natural causes, she has to go outside ...
Not even wild horses... Nothing could make Michele Nightingale betray the only family she's ever known. So when Adam Duran shows up -- an uninvited stranger bearing bad news -- at the Circle T, she wants nothing to do with him. But he insists on s...
Family means everything... To Leslie Meadows, the warm, close-knit D'Angelo family is everything a family should be. Everything her own family wasn't. But the D'Angelos are facing difficult times, and when Dr. Matt D'Angelo comes home for Chris...
Willa Addison doesn't believe in fairy tales She's too busy running her mother's diner and raising her wild teenage sister. She doesn't like to dwell on the dreams she once had, dreams she put on hold. Then Owen Miller walks into her diner and cha...
“I don't know what happened to the body.: Captain Kelsey O'Roark has stumbled across a corpse -- at least, that's what she thought she saw before someone hit her over the head. When she comes to, there is no body. Having no other choice, she ...
Jordan had tried to love and support her husband Even after he'd cleaned out the apartment and sold many of their belongings for drug money. But when, as the doctor on call in the E.R., she'd been forced to treat Garry's overdose, it had nearly ki...
It seems as if Tyler Balfour's mother was the only woman in town his father didn't marry. So he's as surprised as anyone when he discovers Anderson left him a third of everything he owned. Tyler doesn't plan on sticking around. Aft...
Ria Channing fled from her family six years ago, running away after committing a sin no parent could forgive -- driving drunk in the crash that killed her younger brother. The golden child, gone. The demon child, walking away unharmed. Now Ria ...
Home is where the heart is... The quirky Victorian may be old and dilapidated, but it's the house at the center of the dreams Meg Hamilton has for herself and her little boy. And it's rightfully hers, thanks to the deed Aunt Amelia signed four years...
Alex didn't want to be too pushy. She'd heard her dad say Kit Darling was a wild thing, and she knew you had to be patient with wild things or you might scare them off. And she wanted the famous travel writer to stick around. Kit was not only way coo...
What's hidden in the Winding Stair Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma? Rainey Chapman has three young, troubled boys in her care. When they witness a crime, Rainey's difficult job becomes deadly serious. Until the criminals are caught, she must hi...
When Del Rickman leaves the FBI, he can think of no better place to start his new life than Crystal Creek, Texas. Years ago he worked a kidnapping case there, and he never forgot the town or the people. But he's surprised to discover that his new car...
Caroline Prater: A lost twin. A widow. A pregnant woman. When she discovers she has a twin living in an Arizona town called Shelter Valley, Caroline Prater decides to go there. Pregnant and a widow, she leaves her Kentucky hometown and drives west...
On a beautiful spring night Mindy Fenton went to bed thinking all was right in her world. Before it was over everything had changed -- and not for the better. Mindy was awakened by Brendan Quinn with the news that her husband had been shot and kil...
Until she met Eric, Maggie McGuire had been above reproach. Now she's been forced to drive cross-country to ask for help -- for her child, not for her -- from Eric's family. And there, to her horror, she discovers that Eric is already married. J. ...
Once upon a time, a young woman named Siddah King arrived in Libby, Montana. There she met a wonderful man who became a good father to her son. Then the man died. Siddah has worked hard to keep body and soul together, but her attempts to create a ...
Bartender Cameron Randolph is a bit of a softy. He's always there to help, whether it's his sick mom, his big family or a stray dog. So when a desperate young woman breaks in to his place one night, he can't resist taking her in. He's not even sure h...
It's amazing how one decision could change your life Back in law school Sally Stowe and Colin Foster argued in and out of class. One night, after a study session in the library, Colin offered to drive Sally home. They ended up in his dorm room makin...
What happens when you nearly kill a man -- and then fall in love with him? The car accident was Hannah Price's fault -- a few seconds of inattention that changed Gabe Holbrook's life forever, destroying everything he'd been or ever wanted to be. ...
Three's a crowd. No one ever confused the Kelly brothers, especially Lisa Malden. Even if they hadn't been fraternal twins, there wouldn't have been a problem. They were nothing alike. Joe was quiet, and Patrick the life of the party. ...
Ten-year-old Daniel has had a rough year. His mother's unexpected death has landed him in a small South Carolina town, in the custody of his uncle, elementary school principal Joshua White. Josh is a pro when it comes to dealing with other people's k...
He's a by-the-book detective determined to find his niece's stolen child. She's a youth advocate equally determined to protect the abandoned boy in her charge. Together, Rico Santini and Macy Capshaw form an uneasy alliance to investigate the child's...
Welcome to the Kathryn McFarland National Foundation. Since its inception, the foundation has assisted approximately 17,000 families in locating missing children... This is Maggie McFarland's life's work. Yet each time she helps another family loc...
Detective Nick Cantello has just lost his partner to a bullet -- one that was meant for him. All he wants is to find the people responsible. What he gets is a "babysitter" -- one who comes with a dog. As part of the canine unit, Lara Nelson is use...
As the new administrator at Blackberry Hill Memorial, Erin has more pressing issues to deal with than her late cousin's notorious husband. Such as how to keep the hospital solvent. How to make her adopted children feel safe and loved after her hu...
Fifteen-year-old Brook Thompson is scared to death. The test confirmed it. She's pregnant. Those two little lines have changed her life. But what really has her freaked out is how to tell her dad. Jenna Quinn doesn't do kids. She prefers a life fr...
All Alex wanted was to be left alone on his new ranch so he could have a second chance with his daughter, Hallie -- to make a better life for them, far away from the city and the senseless shooting that had changed everything. But he can't turn his b...
They're on opposite sides of the mountain... Her side: Molly Ferguson believes mining the mountain would be good for the community. She's thrilled that her firm has trusted her to present their client's plan to the citizens of Moose Horn, Montana...
He thinks she's a bleeding heart. She knows that's better than having no heart. Mac MacDougal is a detective with a case to solve and no one, especially not victim's advocate A. J. Ferguson, is going to get in his way. He's chasing a man suspected...
"Tell Lila not to wait..." Five simple words -- scribbled on an impersonal Christmas card to his parents -- changed Lila Sullivan's life forever. Jason Parker, the boy she'd loved, was never coming back to her...or to the daughter he'd never seen....
Zeke Rossetti likes things to run smoothly. He's the single father of a deaf child, and his job managing offshore oil sites in the Texas Gulf doesn't allow for distractions. Grace Stafford is definitely a distraction. She's searching for a downed ...
Food reporter Liza Dunnigan has always dreamed of being an investigative journalist, and she's finally got her chance. Her assignment? Track down reclusive advice columnist "Cordelia." The only way to get to Cordelia is through her publicist, Jack...
Sixteen years ago Nina Lockhart left Moscow to escape her past. Now she's helping a small Russian boy fit into his new life with his adoptive father, Jarrod Morrison, here in the States. But part of helping seven-year-old Sasha means returning to her...
Bobby Luchetti, a U.S. Special Forces soldier, has a mission: go to Mexico and rescue Dr. Jane Harker, the kidnapped daughter of a U.S. senator. Fresh from discovering that the woman he loved has married his brother, Bobby's desperate to concentrate ...
Whose baby is he? Three months ago, Isabel Baker's life came crashing down after her husband confessed he'd fallen in love with another woman -- her sister -- and that they'd had a child together. Then tragedy strikes, and Isabel's sister and h...
Just as every bee returns to its hive... She came home to help her dad. But Annie Collins never expected to run the family business on her own. Nor could she have guessed that the daughter she gave up at birth would seek her out. Will Jennings...
Sometimes Mr. Right couldn't be more wrong... Thanks to a devastating revelation about her husband, Reenie Holbrook's once-perfect marriage is over. For eleven years she had the life she wanted -- and now it's gone. Sometimes Mr. Wrong couldn't ...
Jolene and Tina have been best friends for twenty-five years. Too bad Jolene's marriage isn't as solid as her friendship. But who better to talk to about your most intimate problems than your very best friend?...
Lily Moran is observing a tragic anniversary -- her brother's death. She blames herself, just as her parents blame her then-boyfriend, Colin Gardner. For the first time, she's returning home to scatter the ashes of the past and -- maybe -- find love ...
Eileen Doyle left Ireland twenty-five years ago to start a new life in California. But nothing turned out as she expected, so she reinvented herself in letters home. Now Eileen has to return to face the truth -- and the man who broke her heart....
She won't be taken for granted! By tossing the laundry out the bedroom window, Chessie McCabe announces to her teenage daughters and her husband, Nick -- and the rest of Pritchard's Neck -- she's on strike until her needs are met. But who could ha...
I promise you, my little one, I'll do everything I can to see that your life is safe and happy. Even if that means giving you up... Markie McBride has kept a secret locked in her heart -- and in her long-lost diary -- for eighteen years. And when ...
"First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Meg with a baby carriage." Once upon a time, Meg and Scott Harper had it all. But then life got in the way, and they lost sight of what was important. Each other. Now twenty years have passed, ...
What not to expect when you're expecting... Becca Thomas is thrilled to be pregnant, even though it means bringing up her baby alone. At thirty-eight, this may be her last chance to have a child. And she doesn't expect to see Aiden Rodas again -- ...
Desperate times call for desperate measures That's why the dying town of Homestead, Texas, established the Home Free program, offering land grants in exchange for the much-needed professional services modern homesteaders bring with them. Kristi...
Julia Vandamme's nightmare began after she said, "I do." Her only comfort is her sweet little boy, and she's stayed in her marriage just for him. Jonathan Cruz is their one chance for escape, but before she and her son can know freedom, Julia has ...
For much of the year, some remote areas of northern Canada rest on land so precarious there are no real roads. They're accessible only once the perfect conditions appear. It's no different for certain people. Some say life has passed Emily Moore b...
Death changes everything. But so does love. When Tess Spencer's twin brother is killed overseas, she questions her patriotism and everything else she's ever believed in. Until, by accident, she ends up with the missing computer of Cole Harrington,...
Cottonwood Lake was so calm, it looked like glass. So why did Nate Fowler feel as if he was at the center of an out-of-control storm? Sarah Taylor. Here on his doorstep. The last person he'd ever expected to see was his ex-wife -- with a child, no...
Secrets kept. Lives changed forever. As a physical therapist, Grace Korbit has had some tough cases, but returning to her hometown to care for Seth Rowland will be the most difficult job she's ever had. When she left ten years ago, Grace was runni...
Nobody said it would be easy But Kayla Price hadn't expected it would be this hard to begin a new life with her daughter in the Texas Hill Country town of Homestead. She's excited to join the innovative Home Free program, take ownership of a parce...
There are good secrets -- and bad ones Leslie Sanderson's brother, Cal, is dead -- and he's left behind two children no one knew he had. She and Kip Webster, Cal's closest friend, "inherit" these secret kids. As they form their makeshift family, Le...
She has the life most women dream of Too bad for Audrey Colby it's all a facade. Her seemingly devoted husband is really a monster. Their high-society "friends" protect his ugly secrets. The mansion they live in is just a gilded prison for her and...
Most men have nine months to prepare to be a father. Not Beau Stanton. Still, he's determined to be a great dad to the fourteen-year-old problem child who shows up on his doorstep. And that means the end to his days as a footloose bachelor. That's no...
The cocky ex-Secret Service agent Jack Hogan is determined to point out the security risks in this eccentric little beach town. Mayor Claire Betancourt's town. Claire is just as determined to protect Heron Point and its free-spirited citizens -- ...
Dr. Lana McCoy moved to Aransas City, Texas, hoping to escape her past. But that fateful night in California keeps coming back to haunt her. Gabe Randolph loved running his charter fishing boat business. It meant he was outdoors, active and carefr...
Running away or running home? Callie Lambert flees New York with her three young siblings for the small Texas town where she was born, waiting for the day their abusive stepfather is put in jail and it's safe to return to the city. The four of them...
His only love sprang from his only hate... Isn't that just like life to mirror something out of Romeo and Juliet? And Benedict Cassidy has good cause to hate Emily Mackenzie's father -- the corporate pirate stole his company. So what if Emily's pr...
Kaylee Carter may have just found her birth mother -- and the sense of belonging that's been missing all her life. But Sofia Donatelli's stepson, Tony, is suspicious. He thinks Kaylee's just another parasite who's come to sponge off h...
Senna McCallum was never close to her grandfather, so when he leaves her his new business -- a rustic Labrador fishing retreat -- she's shocked, to say the least. Especially when she discovers there's a catch: he owns only half the business. The othe...
Home, Sweet Home? When Eliza Shaw was sixteen, her life was torn apart. False accusations meant the only home she'd ever known -- a foster home -- was destroyed, and she and her two foster sisters were separated. That same year, tragedy struck...
Emalea LeBlanc is a different kind of woman. Nicknamed "Doc" by the locals, she's a psychologist, a member of the volunteer search and rescue team and an avid motorcycle enthusiast. But she's haunted by memories of an abusive father and relationships...
Out of the mouths of babes... After a decade away, Greer Bell is returning to Loveless County, hoping for a reconciliation with her family -- one that includes their acceptance of her nine-year-old daughter, Shelby. Thanks to the local land-grant pr...
Lauren Stanley has to unlock the secret of her past. Discovering what happened the night her mother died is the only way she'll ever have a normal life. So she travels to Peru to find a mysterious doctor named Armando Torres -- a man who is more t...
Another man's baby After her husband is killed in a barn fire, Robbie McBride Tellchick is left alone to raise three boys -- and the baby on the way. With the fire still under investigation, she can't even depend on the insurance money. She can, how...
She had to tell a lie. But that still hadn't stopped Detective St. James from coming around and asking Laura questions about the murder of her ex-husband. He seemed to see right through her when she said she didn't know anything about the ...
Ally Cummings may be the only "normal" one in her family, but her love life is anything but. No sooner does she find a stable, secure, predictable guy than she wants out. She's through with romance until she can figure out what kind of man is right f...
"Tell the sprout his old man's about to start on the adventure of a lifetime..." Some adventure. Roy Nolan was last seen more than thirty years ago heading into the Alaskan bush. His body was never recovered. And everything Alex knows about this m...
Making amends No one expected Jud Ritter to return to Homestead, Texas, least of all mayor Miranda Wright -- the woman he made a fool of right before he left town for good. Miranda has enough on her hands trying to stop the crimes directed at recipi...
Pregnancy is the last thing on her mind After all, isn't that one of the reasons Grant walked out on her last fall? He couldn't wait for her practice to settle down to have kids. Not to mention, her husband couldn't seem to commit to one woman. It...
A mysterious portrait, an unexpected commission, a disappearance in the Outback. She might not know it, but these three things bring Jessica Tennant to Mokhani Station and the notice of cattleman Cyrus Bannerman. What Cy wants to know is if there&...
She took the baby and ran... Eighteen-year-old Maggie didn't know what else to do. She'd promised her dying friend she'd keep the baby safe from his father, a drug dealer...and killer. Who else could she turn to but her uncle, Deputy Tony Rivers?...
It was on her wedding day that Melanie Harris discovered the ultimate betrayal: her sister Ariel was pregnant by Melanie's fiance. Six months later, Melanie turns to psychologist Dr. Kent Mattson for help in resuming her life. Kent, a man plagued ...
After many years away, Rafe D'Angelo has returned to Lightning River, Colorado, to give Frannie -- the five-year-old daughter he hadn't known he had -- a home after being rejected by her mother. When Rafe discovers that Dani Bridgeton, a woman fro...
Carrie St. John: Wealthy, privileged and...adopted? The idea would be preposterous, except...Carrie has never truly felt she belonged. Now she has a sister who wants to meet her and a brother no one can find. Not to mention adoptive parents she do...
The truth about Amy Ludlow Fourteen-year-old Amy lives with her father in Ouray, Colorado. Her mother -- or so she believes -- died at the time of her birth. What William Ludlow knows that his daughter doesn't is this: Amy's mother isn't dead. He'd...
Life has never been easy for Tim. Abandoned and left to fend for himself, he's finally found a home with Dean Luchetti. But something's missing. Tim's convinced that what he needs is a mother and what Dean needs is a wife. And he thinks he's got the ...
Home isn't always as you remember it Her foster mother's stroke brings April Jeffries back to Maraville, Mississippi, the town of her youth. It's a place of memories for her, good and bad. Memories that lead her to fulfill a long-stand...
On the surface, Josh and Lydia Quincy have it all -- a nice house, a baby on the way, work they both love. But one tragic act reveals cracks in their marriage that can't stay hidden. While Lydia mends physically from an attack that ends her dream ...
Never get involved with your patients. That's no problem for by-the-book police department psychologist Kira McGinnis. She has enough on her plate taking care of her five-year-old daughter and her troubled teenage brother. And now she has the diff...
Meredith Santera is the leader of the Operatives, always putting the needs of others in front of her own. And that means she chose the job over a relationship with Jack Haden. Now her job is putting her in contact with Jack once again. But this time ...
A man lost in grief. A woman who can heal him. A secret that could destroy everything. Honey Creek Cottage is the house of Jezebel Hart's dreams -- and the place of Gamble Smith's nightmares. The place he built with his own hands, every ...
Pilot Rachel Quinlan is fearless fighting forest fires, but on the home front it's a different story. She's still not completely over her crush on Cole Hudson, love of her sister Missy's life -- and he left Eden eleven years ago. Not that it matters,...
Libby Wilson needs to find out if her father -- the father she never knew -- was murdered. He died on the day he was going to marry her mother when the plane he was piloting crashed into an Alaskan lake. It was never found. His business partner, who ...
This is not how she pictured her life Pregnant, single and no prospect for love. How's a globe-trotting freelance photographer like Carey Langford supposed to cope? Well, love will just have to wait while she focuses on her baby and getting through ...
This was supposed to be paradise. That's why Tim Wainwright moved his three children to Williamston, Tennessee, population 123. It was to be a refuge from the tragedy that had fractured their lives, a place where Tim could forget his mistakes. ...
A second chance doesn't mean second best! Elizabeth O'Connell has survived one of the worst betrayals a wife can imagine. Finding out that she wasn't the only woman in her husband's life meant the end of her marriage and a year of personal hell. N...
First she nearly runs him down with her truck, then she's taking potshots at a sailboat with empty beer cans and leading him on a wild-fish chase! She's the craziest -- and most interesting -- woman he's ever met. What Ethan doesn'...
Patrick Stevens is a great teacher. All of his "kids" say so -- except Emily Patterson's oldest son, Jason. Jason is Patrick's lone failure -- the one student he couldn't reach. And that's too bad, because when Patrick and Emily are thrown togethe...
Joe Brody: Out of prison but still serving time -- all because no one in his hometown believes he's innocent. He'd leave the place in his dust, but his father -- the only family he has left -- needs him. Ashley Cade: Widowed with a toddler to take...
High school history teacher Joe Wisniewski may be in a rut, but he dug it himself and he's not planning on getting out anytime soon. The last thing he wants is to mentor a starry-eyed newcomer, so when he gets an unexpected assignment -- Emily Sulliv...
Behind every code of silence... Detective Jolene Preston has the right to expect backup from her partner, but the sexist attitude from the rest of the force is something the narcotic squad's lone woman fights on her own. Until she discovers a thirty-...
A child needs a mom... Ever since her mother left them, nine-year-old Kelsey Shepherd has been raised by her dad, Mark, who's also the principal at her school. Kelsey loves her dad, and she misses her mom -- but she's uncomfortable about the secre...
Gary Lindstrom doesn't remember ever being a child named Lucien. So when his long-lost sister calls to remind him of who he was, he tells her he's not interested. But even he can't resist the pull of the past, and he goes to meet the only family he h...
In a moment of grief, Caleb Tucker made the biggest mistake of his life. He gave away his wife's baby, born under the most tragic circumstances. Three years later he gets a second chance. All because Sophie Owens walks into his feed store with her...
When Jo Hunter was sixteen, she told a lie that changed the course of her life and the lives of her two foster sisters. Now she's home to make things right. She needs to make peace with Maddie Oglethorpe, the only mother she's ever known. ...
The lawman with a heart of gold Caleb McCain, Texas Ranger, will always be a son of Texas -- loyal to the badge, always working above and beyond the call of duty. Which means taking care of Belle Doe, a woman rescued from a horrible fate and left wi...
Widowed before her son, Chris, was born, Gwyn Sinclair has put all her energies into being a great mom. But after meeting David Bretton, she starts to wonder if it's time to be more than a mother. And she's starting to realize Chris needs more, too. ...
Aidan Wythe and Rae Cordell had one incredible night together -- just before Aidan transferred Rae, his star VP, to Pittsburgh. Now, more than eight months later, Aidan arrives on Summer Island to spend his vacation. But instead of the empty house he...
Sometimes a family resemblance is hard to see...especially if you're not looking for one. And Sabine Knoll isn't. She's the widow of Victor Knoll and the mother of his three children. She loved him -- deeply -- and even though he's been gone four ...
Does going home mean living with the past �" or living down the past? The death of teenager Bobby Compton shocked the community of Rivermist, Georgia. It also destroyed the lives of Neal Cain and Jennifer Gardner. Neal was sent to prison, and Jen...
What her husband doesn't know...could destroy them all Dan Logan thinks he's got it all: a great job as a D.A., the ideal marriage and two wonderful children. Now he's been nominated Citizen of the Year. Seems his rigid pursuit of honesty and inte...
When Connor Smith has to unexpectedly care for his nine-year-old niece, he isn't prepared. In fact, he's overwhelmed. Blending their lives poses one problem after another until Jaye's violin teacher throws them a lifeline. Abby Reed not only knows...
She's the last person Luke expected to see Just why is Julianna staying at his father's ranch? Luke has come to Sante Fe to mend fences with his dad and lie low until the political fury over his current police investigation calms down. He&...
Much more than she bargained for... All Abby Cahill wanted was a quiet summer job in the beautiful Wisconsin woods. But the hospital where she's filling in turns out to be overcrowded, understaffed and decidedly stretched for cash. And as if she d...
But Cecile is not completely convinced he's the right man for her -- even though the rest of her family approves. And when she meets Raul Montalvan -- a mysterious Argentinian -- she knows she has to break the engagement. Not that she really expe...
What does it take to become a family? Nina Kennerly has a full life, but she's always regretted giving her daughter up for adoption and losing Reid Robertson, her first love. Now her grown daughter has found her -- with her own baby girl in tow! -- ...
His daughter's secrets Since becoming a single father, Mac Edwards has struggled to keep his small family together. But now his custody of his twelve-year-old daughter is threatened by the secrets she's keeping. His last hope In a bitter twist, th...
Heather Marshall is fearless. But to Officer Dave McCoy, the social worker's fearlessness spells trouble. And he can't understand why she's so afraid to trust her safety -- and her heart -- to a cop. Heather's dad was a cop -- one with problems...
Coincidence...or fate? Ava Vincent hightailed it out of Texas more than twenty years ago, vowing never to return. Too many bad memories. Too many people she'd abandoned and let down. So she's shocked to find her new job has brought her to the very t...
Former Navy pilot Marlee Stein has only a few simple goals when she and her young daughter, Jo Beth, move home to Whitepine, Montana. Help her brother run Cloud Chasers, their family's charter air service, fly mercy missions for Angel Fleet, and be a...
Nothing, not even the beauty of Montana's big-sky country, can make up for the one reckless mistake Derrick made twelve years ago. And so he buries himself in raising his son, his only outlet the poignant country songs he writes and plays at the ...
David McKay had put Broken Yoke behind him ten years ago when he'd left to pursue his career--but that changed when he promised to help his frail grandmother fulfill her husband's wish to have his ashes scattered over a mountaintop. He'd expected ...
Gabe Townsend has a lot of nerve to show up after seven years and book in to her B and B. It hadn't been easy for Kendall Van Allen to move on after her husband was killed. But she'd persevered, picking up the pieces, running a successful business an...
Fitz Kelleran is headed to Montana to film his latest blockbuster. Ellie Harrison, the ranch owner and a widowed mom, is trying to save her land by renting it out, Hollywood-style. The on-screen cowboy and the real-life rancher aren't the likelies...
It takes a funeral to drag bad boy Christian Kelly back to his rural New Zealand hometown. He'd do just about anything to blow out of town for the last time. And never see Kezia Rose again. His first love. And the only woman he'd ever hurt. But wh...
In preparation for his new book, author Nick Lancaster has spent years researching the life of murdered jazz singer Simone DeRosier. But one mystery still haunts Nick--who was Simone's "one true friend"? Nick travels to Summer Island, convinced th...
He's proven his father wrong Beau McCain has become a successful lawyer, held the family together, mended fences and watched while others found love.... Now it's his turn. Or it would have been if Beau had managed to show Macy Randall that he wasn't...
The Harmony Agency: Bringing happiness to all through fulfilling relationships... That's Scout Berensen's mission for the branch she's opening in McGrath, Alaska. McGrath's remote, but downright civilized compared to the bush where...
She longed for a baby Following years of heartbreaking miscarriages, Frankie McBride has left an unhappy marriage and returned home to Texas, where an unexpected attraction to Texas Ranger Luke Driscoll turns into an unexpected pregnancy. Luke's wi...
Suffice it to say, Daisy's childhood had been less than idyllic. It hadn't been easy growing up the daughter of the great Frank Truman -- a respected and prolific painter who was not what he'd appeared. Even fifteen years after his death,...
Making over the creaky Victorian into a bed-and-breakfast is probably a crazy plan, but the ramshackle house is all Tara has. And even though she can barely scrape together her brother's college fees, she won't give up. Until the townsfolk decide to ...
Single dad Andrew Durham had resigned himself to losing Rachel Ford. After all, she wants more kids, and he doesn't. But the minute he finds out his second child is coming he goes after Rachel......
Simon Castle's on his way to a make-or-break meeting unseasonably scheduled for December 25 -- until the gorgeous redhead subbing for his limo driver takes him on a detour.......
Angela Forrester is determined her foster child will get the one thing she wants for Christmas: to meet her real father--even though he doesn't know he has a little girl....
She wanted a family...but four babies at once? Business hotshot Elise Richardson is successful, beautiful, single...and her biological clock is clanging like a church bell. So independent Elise takes matters into her own hands and now she's pr...
Fear, envy, rumors of buried treasure -- Hawthorn Bay is braced for the return of Jack Killian... Mayor Nora Carson knows that council's plan to bulldoze the Killian family's mansion won't just stir up bad blood--it will attract the ...
If you're good you get what you ask for. If you're loved you get something more... Adopting one child is challenge enough for a single woman like Suzanne Chauvin. Now that she has the chance to adopt a brother and sister who shouldn't be separated, ...
The truth about Kate... Kate Winthrop's sizable inheritance was stolen by her ex-husband. So she does what any wronged woman would -- she gets even. When she breaks in to his empty house, she stumbles onto a large sum of her money. She takes i...
A man at the crossroads... Jesse Filmore has a new life waiting for him. There's just one thing he has to do first--face his painful past in New Springs. This dusty desert town is filled with bad memories, not to mention the accusing looks of all the...
Nathan Kent knows what he wants He and his wife, Casey, have moved back to California so he can take a shot at making partner in his prestigious law firm. Even if it means being closer to the family he doesn't quite fit into. It'll also give...
After the wreck of her marriage, Detective Angel Harrison swore no man would ever control her again. Then she had to infiltrate a dangerous cult, and pretending to be a submissive wife was the only way in. Even worse, her new "husband" quickly arouse...
A mother-to-be far from home... As a member of Montana's Angel Fleet, Mick Callen has airlifted injured climbers before. But this time is different--because he's more than a little attracted to one of the women he's rescued. However, Hana Egan's s...
He was born into luxury... Returning to Cypress Landing brings back the best-- and worst--moments of Cade Wheeler's life. Because the bayou was where he'd first tasted the sweetness of love and the bitterness of loss.... She was born to be wild... ...
They have so much baggage between them they could open a store! She's nearly broke and raising two kids on her own, thanks to her deadbeat ex. He's dealing with a pair of mischief-making twins still grieving the loss of their mother. To top it all...
Leaving home wasn't hard for Erin McNulty and she had no plans to return. Ever. Until she gets a phone call... The aunt who raised her has been killed in a car accident, and her father, Charlie, is in critical condition. Back in her hometown, poli...
Down with Cupid! Elle Adams, Rebecca Potter and Lucky Morgan all have valid reasons for distrusting Cupid. And with February 14 coming on fast, they decide to take matters into their own hands. If the plucky little cherub can't do his job, they'll...
Beware the "terror" of Heron Point Elementary! She's only just arrived at this seaside tourist town as the new principal and Evie's already heard about the area's biggest troublemaker--nine-year-old Gemma Muldoone. If having a ...
No one believed that Lieutenant K. C. Jones would make it to Top Gun. Which is why she'd kept the night she'd flamed out over Alaska a secret--along with what happened afterward, when she'd ended up in a stranger's arms and got pregnant, risking ever...
When troublemaking leads to matchmaking... North Star, Montana, sure isn't the big city. And that's fine with Rissa Mathews--but not with her daughter. Fourteen-year-old Skylar refuses to fit in. To Rissa's relief, though, Skylar finally makes a fri...
She'd been keeping secrets long enough... Nothing's harder than moving back to your hometown after you've hit rock bottom--unless it's telling your high school sweetheart he's the father of your nine-year-old daughter. Diana Smith still has feeling...
Ms. Squeaky-Clean meets Mr. Breaks-All-The-Rules This can't be happening to by-the-book accountant Holly Stephens! First she's wrongly accused of fraud and barred from her home and office. Now she's forced to take a job with a bad-boy ...
Overcoming her Ex-factors took perserverance... She was an ex-wife, ex-lawyer and soon-to-be ex-owner if her restaurant didn't turn around. To top things off, Margo Evans's ex was getting married again. What if her two children preferred their new s...
Over the past ten years Maggie Rivers has faced more than her share of trauma. Everyone has been amazed at how nothing seemed to faze her--until she fell in love with Detective Matt Lebretti and was confronted with the constant dangers of a cop's lif...
After his divorce, Wayne Hammond hesitated to make anyone the second Mrs. Hammond. Topping the list of the women he shouldn't pick is Maggie Harrison Sinclair. Maggie has already left Tucker, Montana, once. She's back only to lick her wounds and f...
Jen Delazzeri never expected to see Max Rickman again. Their brief but intense affair was a mistake: they were young and he was grief stricken at losing his fiancee in a fire. Besides, he'd told Jen he didn't love her. All good reasons she'd kept the...
Rundles and Salingers don't mix. Not since the tragic accident involving Zach Rundle's brother and Lindsey Salinger's mother. But when the well-being of Zach's five-year-old nephew is at stake, Zach and Lindsey are dragged together again. At first...
Treasure hunting is in his blood... Jake Rawlings has been searching for the Spanish galleon Concha his whole life. And he's paid a heavy price. Suddenly he's saddled with Annie Miller, a marine archaeologist who claims she can take him to it. ...
What single mother Nora Clark knows about style would fit on the head of a pin. Yet with her identical twin begging her to cover her job as a personal shopper, she wriggles into her sister's clothes and does what she has to do. But backtracki...
Laurel Woodall dreams of having a baby. But she can't let herself fall in love and will never again let a man in her life.-- Without a husband or a lover Caleb Manes thinks Laurel is his future. When he hears she wants to have a baby on her ...
This cowboy wants only one thing... Holly Bennett hadn't listened to her father, and his words came back to haunt her when the boy she idolized got her pregnant and left town. A decade has dulled the pain--until the cowboy who broke her heart ...
She makes him feel like a superhero For all his success, Aidan Nikolas couldn't save his wife. And he couldn't save himself from what followed. But maybe he can save Beth Tully, her troubled son and her struggling business in one single bound. Bet...
Lia Howard Pogue is flat broke and on the run. Her only hope for a new start is to rely on the kindness of strangers. One in particular--the rough and tough ex-Army Ranger who's all hard muscle and soft heart. Jake Robbin is more than ready t...
When a broken arm forces Dr. Eric Mitchell to hire temporary help, the veterinarian who arrives on his doorstep takes him by surprise. Physically, Alison Truesdale seems too fragile. Emotionally, her smile never quite reaches her eyes-- especiall...
Failure is not an option What's a single father to do when his twelve-year-old daughter is caught shoplifting a box of expired condoms? Derrick Cavenaugh sure doesn't know, so the ex-all-American football star turns to Bailey Greenwood for help, but...
Allison Cabot is all about babies She'd even been ready to marry a guy she didn't really know to get one. Except that her last-minute prenup scared him off. It turns out she got lucky. Mark Travers's sister hadn't been so fortun...
Smart women stay away from cowboys... Taking a teaching job in a desolate corner of Idaho was Kate Steele's way of making sure her in-laws didn't turn her son, Danny, into a shiftless bronc buster like his father. Except in the middle of nowhere she...
To Eli, the sould of my soul, the beat of my heart... The sentimental words of a love-struck girl. Gabriela Navarro had inscribed them in a book back when she'd believed she and Eli Wolverton would always be together. Before he'd abandoned...
Do not adjust your set. That really was Casey Greene being jilted by her fiance on live TV! And that really was Memphis's most eligible bachelor who stepped in to marry her instead. Millionaire businessman Adam Carmichael wanted only to help Casey s...
Sarah Tennyson has it all planned. In two months she'll travel to China to adopt the beautiful baby girl she's always wanted. Even after a mountain of setbacks, she has the faith that one day she'll hold her daughter. But that's befor...
What if your son's grandmother calls, wanting your help? The problem? The woman doesn't know she's a grandmother. Rosie DeWitt is a savvy political consultant and devoted single mother. When Vivian McCloud gives her the career opportunity of a l...
Ninety percent of what every cop hears is a lie And Daniel Bishop knows it. Which is why he's surprised to realize he wants the beautiful Anise Borden to be telling the truth. Anise's soon-to-be ex was shot as she hugged him goodbye. And that make...
Never say “Never again” Nick Logan had a gift for counseling teens who came from violent homes, but his job at the Rockford Crime Victims' Center wasn't easy. Three years ago he and Madelyn Walsh had started out as coworkers and turned into lo...
"Actually, we've met before..." Ten years ago, to be exact. Then, Julia Sommerville was just an awestruck student in love with a dashing young professor. Now, after she has saved his life, Cameron Birch sees her for the attractive, alluring woma...
He wants the truth... Journalist and single dad Dylan Smith is on assignment--looking for the father he has never known. He finds himself in Sturgeon Falls with barely any information, and there's only one person who seems able to help him.... ...
Abby Miller has everything she wants... Abby's come to this small town in northern Quebec to research beluga whales. And her dog, Figgy, is all the company she's interested in. But then she meets widowed captain Marc Doucette and his brokenhearted d...
Old-fashioned values never go out of style Grandpa Garnier used to say, Love is like a bucking bronco. It takes guts and determination to hang on, but it's worth the ride. If only Grandpa was around now to help Tyson Garnier out of this mess. The ...
Love and the leader of the pack... After Selena Milano adopts sixty pounds of rambunctious puppy, her disorganized household starts to fly apart at the seams. Though her twelve-year-old son, Drew, worships the carpet Axel chews on, their neighbors...
Small-town practice would be heaven if it weren't for the women hounding Dr. Bryan Booker. Tired of playing games and dodging passes, the handsome doctor is resigned to staying single. Until he's guilted into hiring a new office assistant, and she ma...
Legend has it that the lost bowl of Inca ruler Manco Capac has the power to heal. And the one who finds it will gain the answers he seeks-- Lucas Rydall is looking for redemption. His search leads him to his ex-wife, Sydney Mitchell--and the son...
She'd seen his type before... To everybody else, Jordan King is a selfless philanthropist and most-eligible bachelor, but newspaper columnist Kate Brogan has inside information that he is a home wrecker--handsome and full of false promises. Just l...
He has a secret -- one he has to hide Rhian's Rooftop Resolutions: 1. Write a children's book 2. Learn to play basketball 3. Have a summer fling Between caring for her orphaned nephew and working as a tech writer, Rhian MacGregor has spent sever...
Sara Calhoun has a perfectly orchestrated life. Until she opens her door one morning to come face-to-face with Ryan, the son she'd loved -- and given up for adoption twenty-one years ago. Sara's memory of the night Ryan was conceived is virtu...
Who says history can't repeat itself? Few people can say they're starring in a real-life version of Romeo and Juliet. And single mom Leigh certainly doesn't want to play the role of disapproving mother. But when her daughter runs off t...
His last chance, her only hope Seven years ago Lucas Blaylock let his dark family history cost him a future with Miranda Ward. Now the independent Montana cowgirl needs him to help find her missing sister. This time Lucas won't let Miranda down. T...
Clay Dillon is everyone's hero -- especially to his family. So when his kid sister needs a kidney, he tracks down Jenna Wright. Jenna's the only one who can help, but to gain her trust he has to lie. Jenna believes Clay can be everything t...
Their attraction can't stay covert forever Special agent Maggie Fitzgerald has her mission. Go deep undercover as reclusive journalist Caleb Gomez's cleaning woman. Then swipe his intel on infamous crime lord Benny Delgado. Unfortunately Caleb ...
One night is all it takes One night of loosened inhibitions and Natalie Simmons's world has come completely unraveled. It must have been the experience of the white-water rafting. Or maybe it was the result of being dumped and on the rebound. Eith...
Name: George Breed: Harlequin Great Dane Identifying Traits: One blue eye, one brown eye... and a propensity for trouble! George was last seen escaping from the home of his recently divorced owner, restaurateur Brad Ralston. He wasn't we...
When the past isn't over... It's taken five years for Cassie Warner to come to terms with the violent act that shattered her life and resulted in the end of her marriage to Van Haddon. Now, for the sake of her ailing father, she's returned to Honest...
Raising a family on his own doesn't leave widower Seamus Lee much time for cultivating new relationships. Which is just how he wants it. But Rory Gorenzi, the unconventional wilderness instructor at his children's mountain school, has other i...
She'd been looking for "Something Big" to change her life... But playing nanny to Gregory Finch's daughter wasn't exactly the Something Big Melissa had anticipated. And she would've turned down his job offer if it hadn'...
"The Bachelor, the Babe and the Baby" It could be a screenplay--except this is no movie. Film producer Burke Elliot really is snowbound in a remote Montana cabin with his glamorous star. He's here on a mission--to convince Nora Daniels to sign a con...
It took five minutes for life to go from normal to... Bella Monroe woke up one morning to find her life dumped into the litter box. After sixteen years, her husband took the car and the family's savings--leaving Bella with a note, a failing busine...
After answering a call asking for backup, Texas Ranger Jeremiah 'Tuck' Tucker discovers an abandoned child at the crime scene. Little Brady has been neglected--and it turns out he has no living family. Tuck is determined to give the two-year-old boy ...
She's pregnant by another man... Clayton Creek ranch was the scene of a Texas-sized engagement party--until a gate-crasher stunned everyone with the news she was pregnant with Chase Clayton IV's child. The "father-to-be" was the mo...
For Beth Lindstrom, the rundown cafe she inherited in the small town of Lone Wolf was simply a means to an end. Selling it and moving on was the young widow's only hope of a fresh start for her and her five-year-old daughter--though she doubted there...
The truth is dangerous territory... Jack Parker was just a kid when they locked his father away for murder. Raised by adoptive parents, he's been searching for a sense of identity ever since--and a truth he can live with. And if that means ending hi...
Life was supposed to be less complicated here... But it's not working out that way for Regan Flynn. Her new job at the high school came with a difficult boss and an even more difficult twelve-year-old student. And then there's the girl's charming c...
Lately, it seems widowed rancher Jon Rider just can't climb out of the cow muck. Since his wife's death, raising his seven kids has become impossible to manage--especially with a ranch to run and a household that sends housekeepers fleeing in panic...
Lose some, win some Annie Kincaid has never held the right cards, not when it comes to love. Twice married, twice divorced, she's given up on finding her soul mate--though not on having a family. So Annie's decided to have a baby. On her own. But h...
Can a stand-in nanny... Become a stand-up father? It all starts with a mysterious message from his upstairs neighbor. The next thing he knows, Royce McIntyre is sharing handmade treats with ten-year-old Jake Garner. But it's Jake's alluring mom, Kat...
It took guts for Annie Raye to come home to Vegas. With a cardsharp for a father and a convicted embezzler for an ex, she's already got two strikes against her. The last thing the struggling single mother needs is some private investigator deep-sixin...
Nurse Kate Rhodes is duty bound to report the abusive father of one of her charges--despite the lawyer who proclaims the man's innocence. Stephen Creighton isn't in the habit of getting involved in his cases. For him, it's get in, fight like hell,...
Dr. Sarah Benedict had tried--but failed--to forget Matt. Even after marrying another man and moving to Central America, she couldn't shake the memories of her childhood chum. She'd grown to realize she loved Dr. Matthew Cameron deeply.... Yet to him...
How do you choose between love and your livelihood? When Becca Reynolds heads for rural Georgia to investigate a suspected crop insurance scam, she's concerned about her career, not her heart. Chief among the suspects is handsome Ryan MacIn...
The odds are always against her... But this time Tessa Jamison isn't leaving River Bluff, Texas, until she finds what she came for: the father of her sister's two-year-old son. And the stand-in Santa at the local church bazaar could be the man she...
Is he living someone else's life? He wakes up in a hospital unaware of how he got there or who he is. Memories tease him--haunting images that seem to come from someone else's life. But the biggest mystery of all is the woman who stuns him with ne...
Outside a storm is raging... When a blizzard strands Fiona MacPherson and her students in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, their only hope of survival is to seek shelter at Thunder Mountain Lodge. Their host is John Fallon, a handsome, enigmatic wa...
Some places have a magic all their own... It's Christmas, and Navy pilot Michael Kavanaugh is home from deployment -- with a "Dear John" letter in his pocket. In spite of a rather serious case of Bah-Humbug, Mike heads to Christmas, Mi...