For the Abbott siblings, Vermont has always been an idyllic place to call home. But it isn’t until they open themselves up to love that they’ll truly discover how fulfilling life can be…Almost seven years after losing her husband in Iraq, Hannah Abbott Guthrie isn’t sure she’s ready—or able—to move on, but the attentions of a lifelong friend are making her think about it for the first time. The memory of the sweet kiss she shared with Nolan Roberts hasn’t strayed far from her thoug...

Owen Lawry has made a living as a traveling musician and enjoys his footloose and fancy-free lifestyle. But after meeting Laura McCarthy and helping her land the job as manager of his grandparents' hotel on Gansett Island, he decides there's something to be said about a roof over his head and a warm, sexy woman in his bed.Laura, a newlywed who discovered that her husband never quit dating, came to Gansett for her cousin Janey's wedding, but ended up staying after she met Owen and t...

Washington, D.C., Metro Police Detective Sergeant Sam Holland needs a big win to salvage her career—and her confidence—after a disastrous investigation. The perfect opportunity arises when Senator John O’Connor is found brutally murdered in his bed, and she’s assigned to the case. Things get complicated when she has to team up with Nick Cappuano, O’Connor’s friend and chief of staff…and the man she had a memorable one-night stand with years earlier. Their sexual chemistry still sizzles, an...

Michael, a prosecutor about to try the trial of his career, and Juliana, a hard-luck hairstylist, meet at Baltimore-Washington International Airport on a Friday night on their way to visit significant others in Florida. Both have a lot riding on this weekend as they try to repair relationships strained by distance. When they discover they’re on the same flight home, they agree to meet up again to compare notes about how their weekends unfolded... but everything is about to change. The inst...

The first time Travis North lays eyes on Liana McDermott, she's wearing the most hideous bridesmaid dress he’s ever seen. He doesn't immediately recognize the world-famous model who’s attending her cousin Enid's wedding at the country club he owns. Thanks to Enid's shameless matchmaking, Travis and Liana become acquainted and later embark on a two-week fling intended to be free of emotion and entanglement. As Liana's return to work gets closer, however, Travis wonders how he'll ever let he...

Olivia Bryant has spent years preparing for the role of a lifetime...Starring in her first major motion picture should be a dream come true, especially since Valiant tells the powerful true story of her sister Natalie's courageous fight to bring a predator to justice. Produced by her brother-in-law, Oscar-winning actor Flynn Godfrey, and Quantum Productions, the project means more to Olivia than fame or awards. Failure isn't an option.The ...

Paul Martinez has been run ragged by the demands of managing the family’s landscaping business and his mother’s battle with dementia. It’s been so long since he had sex... he can’t remember the last time. The arrival of nurse Hope Russell brings some badly needed help to Paul and his brother, Alex, in managing their mother’s illness, but Hope’s presence has sparked a whole new problem for Paul—lusting after one of his employees, something his late father would never condone.Hope an...

These family lawyers said they'd never fall in love...Griffin Remington takes center stage as he moves in with his ex-girlfriend to spend more time bonding with the daughter he didn’t know he had and certainly didn’t expect to fall madly in love with. Now, if he can just keep himself from falling for her mother, too, then he might have a prayer of keeping the vow he made with his siblings to stay single no matter what. After two Remington brothers broke th...

Who says you can’t go home again?For years, Kara Ballard Torrington has kept her distance from the town in Maine where she was raised and the boisterous, often-troubled Ballard family. She’s made a whole new life for herself on Gansett Island that is upended by a phone call in which she learns that two of her brothers have been accused of murder. When her parents ask her husband, celebrated attorney Dan Torrington, to come help them, Kara is forced to conf...

Wade Abbott is one and done—one look, one conversation, one weekend—and he knows who he wants. The only problem is that Mia Simpson is not free to return his affection. In fact, he suspects she's in an abusive marriage, but she never confirms that, and he has no choice but to mind his own business where she's concerned. Then two years after they first met and a year after he last heard from her, she shows up half-frozen, bruised and beaten on his doorstep, needing something only he can pro...

“This will resonate with anyone who’s suffered a loss.” 5 Stars!I come home to find him passed out on the floor…LexiAlmost three years after losing my husband, Jim, to ALS, I’ve started to emerge from the fog of widowhood, thanks in large part to my sexy roommate—and former high school crush—Tom Hammett. When he offered me a suite in his spacious home, he got me out of my parents’ ...

The stories in this book will involve you in the drama of shelter adoptions that are sometimes nearly miraculous. You will read about the joy adoptions have brought to families, the tragedies that brought these animals to the shelter as well as the humor and surprise of animal life in adoption shelters.