History. Reality. Fantasy. All rolled into one zany family.If Justine Hale had the time, she'd get in her car and go crazy. She owns two kids, an ex-mother-in-law, and a bankrupt mother. Money scarce, she moves her entire family into a run-down, two-hundred-year-old farmhouse.Resident ghost Lottie Roberts offers to help. She’s bossy, but she cooks. So what if she’s betwixt and between? After all, it's her house. Before Lottie can intervene, though, Tucker H...

A high-flying adventure in second chances…Parnell’s first and only love is flying. He’ll never fall in love. He’ll never have kids. And He’ll never, ever be a hero. So the last thing he needs is some do-gooder and her orphans when he’s struggling to keep his air cargo business solvent.Rebecca Hollis believes caring for others is the road to happiness. Tasked to shepherd five orphans on a flight to a conclave to meet prospective adoptive parents, she learns ...

A rich tapestry of wit, grit, and humor…Twenty-four-year old Phoebe Hawley is on a quest to find her family a home. On the road with two siblings, twelve-year-old Maydean and five-year-old Willie-Boy, Phoebe is out of money, out of gas and out of patience. The only things she owns in abundance are backbone and pride—neither of which she can trade for food or gas.A collision with Gage Morgan puts Phoebe’s mission in even worse jeopardy—until Phoebe discovers...

He had his eye on her for years. But she was married. Now she’s not. He’s all in.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 life-long 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. Exasperation and a...

From USA Today bestselling author Jackie Weger and Jerri Hines comes an unforgettable Southern mystery set in the final years of World War II, where secrets run deep and nothing is as it seems.In a town ruled by whispers, one girl hears the truth no one else dares face.In the shadow of the Appalachian Mountains during the final years of WWII, Cady Blue lives on the edges of Oak Flatt—poor, misunderstood, and burdened with the “bell...

After her own family is shattered, Willa Manning answers a plea from her adopted daughter's biological grandparents to share in the life of their only grandchild.Her own health in unexpected jeopardy, Willa sells all she owns, and in a risky leap of faith moves cross-country to meet the couple. She soon finds herself reckoning with feelings for the acerbic, idiosyncratic attorney who brought them together.He doesn't trust her motives. She doesn't trust his. Willa determines...

A man ruled by pride. A woman once scorned.Rich in history and flaming with passion, travel with Jennifer DeWitt from New Orleans—that humid, high-stepping city of music and magic on the Mississippi River—to the Louisiana swamps where a brash, sexy Cajun is on the hunt for a wife.Adrien Merrill offers Jennifer a marriage bed. She has her hand out for a paycheck. Yet Jennifer finds herself falling into an unexpected destiny in a hundred-years-old culture as ...

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Dive into a world of secrets, laughter, and passion! Three gorgeous men and three fiery women find their destinies together in this unforgettable romance collection.No Perfect SecretAnna Nesmith has it all… Until one sleet-filled winter day, she doesn’t.When an investigator begins asking Anna questions, her great marriage, dream job, and ordered world begin to crash like Jenga blocks.No Perfect Fate

Cleo Anderson’s people skills are hesitant and her life broken, yet she is determined to leave her past behind.Alone is good and she is finding her way. Drawn to a fish camp in the wilds of the Okefenokee Swamp, she parks her Play-Mor where gators yawn, bears slumber, and snakes slither. The camp pace is slow, the owner kind, and the people friendly. Cleo encounters Fletcher Freemont Maitland and his goddaughter, eleven-year-old Katie. Cleo didn’t know her life was about to unravel...

Leah owns a decrepit car, a budget that won't stretch, and the moxie to make a decent life. She lives in the present, hiding in plain sight until one sun-drenched day, a past she has outrun imperils her future and threatens all she holds dear.When her boss announces that someone is embezzling company funds, history begins to repeat itself. Detective Leo Garvey has her in his sights as the number-one suspect and more. Leah knows she must be careful, that nothing good could come from...

Anna Nesmith has it all… Until one sleet-filled winter day, she doesn’t.When an investigator begins asking Anna questions, her great marriage, dream job, and ordered world begin to crash like Jenga blocks.Frank Caburn is man to the bone and manufactures testosterone like Frito Lay does chips, which seems not to impress Anna one whit as she picks through the rubble of her shattered life. Attracted to Anna, Caburn determines to make her his own, but how to te...