Eden Brinker is eager to rejoin the work force now that her children are in school. Then she learns she's pregnant. Her mixed feelings about adding another child to their family turn to apprehension when she learns her baby may carry a genetic marker for a fatal disease.Meanwhile, someone is stealing scholarship funds from her family's college foundation right out of the office where her husband, Hale, works. Could Hale be the the guilty party? She knows how worried he has been abo...

In this final story in the Lamberts of Pacific Knoll series, parents Nathan and Iona Lambert have had a good life together for more than forty years. Only their youngest son, Logan, still lives at home. But when he and big sister Debra are caught and injured in a landslide, Logan's true parentage is revealed, shocking the entire family.Nathan, with whom Logan has been especially close, reacts badly to the news. But it's Iona's reaction that makes the least sense to the rest of the ...

Single mom Amanda Gardner begins her first academic appointment at private Buckley College in northwest Washington state, eager to begin a new life, pay off her school loans and become established in her career as an English professor. Two men complicate her life: Carlton Winslow, with whom Amanda must share and office; and, Marcus Dunbar, a journalism professor who befriends her and captivates her nine-year-old daughter, Cecelia.Although Carlton is unpleasant to Amanda, he seems g...

At Jane Collins' five-year high school reunion party in small town Evergreen, Washington, bad boy and law school wanna-be Chet Barton surprises Jane by rescuing her from a would-be rapist. Although she is intrigued by Chet, her guardian Bert doesn't trust the young man with the bad reputation.In spite of their differing upbringings—she from a working-class family and he from one of the wealthiest families in town—Jane and Chet become friends.Jane's life becomes even more ch...

A bundle of four single-title contemporary women's fiction stories with strong romantic elements.

Veterinarian Joel Taylor has loved his wife, Angela Wright, a family physician, since they met in college. At a conference, he has a drunken one-night fling with an old girlfriend—the biggest mistake of his life.Ridden with guilt, he is desperate to preserve their marriage, begs forgiveness and insists Angela can trust him to remain faithful. But months later, she wrestles with doubts. To make matters worse, she's pregnant again—at age 45!Will Joel be tempted again, perhaps...

Talented real estate broker Olivia Brown has a simple goal: find a family for her grandfather's spacious old home and move him into a more manageable place, even though her late father warned her never to represent a relative.Architect and Southern charmer Beau James, is the last buyer Olivia wants for Granddad's house, especially after he declares he'll turn it into a B&B! And, in spite of their mutual attraction, a romantic relationship with a client would violate Olivia's strict...

Decades after the boating accident that Trish Barton believed took the life of her unborn son's father, she learns Denis is alive. His grown son, Chet, is just as thrilled as she is. Not so much her wealthy, controlling husband, Richard, who persists in making her life miserable, even as she sues him for divorce. Life becomes even more complicated when Eddie, her stepson, finally decides to come out of the closet, a disclosure Richard is unlikely to accept with grace. It's almost more than...

Life experiences mark a person. The death of Sally Hughes' mother from breast cancer leaves Sally with a painful emotional scar and the discovery of a lump in her own breast frightens her to her core.When Sally meets Paul, the brother of her best friend's new husband, she learns that the former Marine is recovering from injuries sustained during his last combat tour in Afghanistan. Reacting to the demons that continue to assault him in the night, Paul insists he doesn't need more m...

Seventeen-year-old Isabella Campbell is forced to give up her newborn daughter. Twenty-plus years later, Destiny gets the surprise of her life when her birth mother, now a librarian in Evergreen, Washington, contacts her.Despite Destiny's adoptive mother's suspicions about Isabella, Destiny accepts Isabella's invitation to visit. While Bella learns the joys of motherhood, Destiny begins working in a local bookstore with Isabella's friend, Henry, whose nephew, Gavin Cambridge, is te...

Dannilynn Kelly may have been date-raped, but she sets aside how badly her first year at college ended, eager to work at Joel Taylor's veterinary clinic on Cedar Island. There she meets Ben Edwards, a veterinary extern. His friendship becomes her key support when she discovers she's pregnant.Determined to keep her pregnancy a secret, she returns to college, but her worst fears are realized when her father pays her a surprise visit at private Buckley College. He demands that Danni g...

Gretchen Martindale, a former foster child, steps up when Laine, 12, and Nettie, 5, need a home after they run away from their foster dad whom Laine suspects is molesting Nettie. Gretchen's heart becomes entwined with the girls and she decides to adopt them, creating the family she thought she'd never have.But Laine aches to find her birth mother. When school counselor, Craig, offers to pay for a DNA search, no one is more surprised than he with the results. Laine is Craig's daught...