While recovering from a car accident, recently divorced Clare Wilson takes stock of her life and begins a transformation into a confident single woman who is happy to be on her own, which soon makes her the center of male attention.

"With her two younger sisters heading for the altar, will Samantha Castle exchange old dreams for new ones? Lately she'd rather be on the North Carolina coast with family than in New York with agents and actors. Though she vows not to let her teenage crush on Ethan Cole influence her decision, it's hard to ignore her feelings for the local war hero. Ethan lost more than his leg in Afghanistan. He lost his belief in love. Even being surrounded by couples...

The Granger brothers left behind their family's Virginia estate--and the bad memories it holds--years ago, but their dying grandfather's request brings them home: to a failing business, a legacy of secrets and a deathbed promise to make things right.

Presley Christensen returns to Whiskey Creek with her little boy -- and a dark secret. After two years away, all she wants to do is spend time with her sister, but thoughts of past flame Aaron Amos keep getting in the way.

Too bad not all memories are pleasant! Everyone in Whiskey Creek remembers Sophia DeBussi as the town's mean girl. Especially Ted Dixon, whose love she once scorned. But Sophia has paid the price for her youthful transgressions. The man she did marry was rich and powerful but abusive. So when he goes missing, she secretly hopes he'll never come back, until she learns that he died running from an FBI probe of his investment firm. Not only has he left...

After fireman Gabe Sullivan saves widowed single mother Megan Harris from an apartment fire, they try to resist their mutual attraction, as both have been hurt by love in the past, but without success.

"Despite family disasters, irritating ex-husbands, and kitchen catastrophes, ... three women are going to find out that Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year"--Page 4 of cover.

Valentina isn't averse to sensual pleasure, or even to the idea of finding true love, but as a Hollywood business manager she's watched too many smart women fall for actors only to be torn apart when the fairytale comes to its inevitable end. But when intense weeks together on set turn their heated attraction into red-hot flames of passion, Smith knows he has to find a way to convince Valentina to let him get a little bit closer. Close enough to completely...

Jaded private investigator Rafe Sullivan returns to the dilapidated lake house of his childhood and starts a summer fling with Brooke Jansen, but when things start to get serious, they both face some difficult choices.