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They say everyone has a doppelgänger. Hers was a killer. With only sixty-three cents in her pocket, Molly is way down on her luck. No job, no food in the fridge, no power at her cold, dark apartment. Her mom won't take her calls. Her ex only lives in her memories. Worst of all, she might be getting evicted. At the grocery store, a posh woman approaches Molly. "Wow, we look so much alike." Indeed, it's uncanny. The posh lookalike, Hester, offers to buy Molly lunch so they can chat. Who's Molly to turn down free food? "I'd give anything," Hester sighs, "to get away from my life. Just for a ...

Get deported to a hobbit cult or marry the hot lawyer who came in for lunch? Just when her café is about to receive a major award, beautiful and talented chef Piper's world is racked. She's not a U.S. citizen! Worse, she's being deported. To New Zealand, where her parents have joined a hobbit cult. Up-and-coming lawyer Zach is determined to climb the ladder of his old-money law firm, when he discovers the reason his promotion has always been blocked: they only promote married associates to partner. Cue up the contract marriage. Piper can stay in the country as the wife of full citizen and ...

Christmas, love, and a batch of cookies.Former bookshop keeper Leela Miller is back in Massey Falls. Her mom passed away last spring, and she's home taking care of her ailing father. Now, Leela is desperate to fill Mom’s shoes in the Ladies’ Auxiliary by chairing the Cookie House fundraiser. The hitch: mean-eyed Mrs. Coldicott refuses to host the event at her Society Row home as planned. Leela must find a new venue big enough and fancy enough to draw in customers, or Mom's event might get canceled. There's only one perfect place: the Layton Mansion. New vet school graduate Jay Wilson ...

A dreaded holiday wedding, Christmas duets, and dating the off-limits crush.Math-wiz Chelsea and her brother’s best friend Wyatt are two-thirds of the well-loved Christmas Tree-O. She’s always had a thing for Wyatt, but he’s been declared off-limits by her overprotective brother. This year, however, brother is out of town, and Wyatt is showing some clear interest. When Chelsea needs a date to her meanest cousin’s wedding—to Chelsea’s jerk-ex-boyfriend—Wyatt is the clear option. But a romance could endanger the friendship and their singing group’s dynamic—not to mention ...

Snow, a hunting lodge, and a flight—both to and from—love.Music composer Jesse Parrish has a dream contract! He’s been signed to write the soundtrack for a film with award potential. This one job could make his whole career. Twelve themes, all due to the producer at Christmas—but he’s completely blocked. He doesn’t have a single theme, let alone twelve. He needs to get out of Vancouver and somewhere he can think. Aspiring private pilot Mattie Daines has been crushing on Jesse since before he started dating Mattie’s older sister. His music makes her heart sing—but what kind ...

Lights on a frozen waterfall. A cozy fireplace. Carrying a torch for the single-dad.Captain Beau Cabot can’t keep a nanny. It isn’t that his kids are bad, it’s that the helpers he hires won’t believe that the only needs they should take care of are the children’s. Speech therapist Sophie Hawkins loves her niece and nephew. Despite Sophie’s lifelong, unwise crush on Beau, Sophie races to Sugarplum Falls when she hears of Beau’s needs. Someone has to care for the two cutest kids in the world this holiday! Beau knows not to fall for the nanny, no matter how perfectly nurturing ...

Secrets. Warm spices. Holiday love. And a message in a bottle! Former reality TV starlet Jessamyn Fleet is in hiding. She’s living the Sugarplum Falls version of witness protection: running the Gingerbread Inn bed and breakfast—and keeping off her famous ex’s radar. Jessamyn has changed her look, her name, her world. Instead of living the glamorous life, she’s making warm-spices-laced breakfasts and providing her guests cozy hospitality. All she needs now is to pay off that unwise loan she borrowed from that horrible loan shark to buy the place, and she can exhale—by Christmas. ...

A vintage Christmas novel lost. A romance found. It’s Christmastime, and Tabitha Townsend has come home, desperate to keep her personal shopping business, Twelve Days, afloat. Her only hope is finding a one-of-a-kind vintage novel for a wealthy client who demands total secrecy. Sigh-worthy bookstore owner, Sam, could be key to her success. Sam Bartlett, widower and owner of Angels Landing Bookstore, can’t keep his inventory of used books stocked this Christmas, thanks to competition from gorgeous but exasperating Tabitha Townsend. When an auction unearths a coveted prize with deep ...

A torching kiss on a long-ago high school dare just might flare up again.Swoony Award 2021 Winner: Best Medical Romance Dr. Jasher Hotchkiss, first rate knee surgeon, never wanted to return to his hometown of Mendon. Not after what happened years ago that made him the town’s most hated teenager. Nor did he want to practice general surgery. And he certainly doesn’t want to form any ties in Mendon. Except … Sage Everton appears at an ambulance call. Sage? Nurse-anesthetist Sage Everton is widowed and is convinced she carries a hex that ruins the lives of men she begins to care about. ...

He can't forget her, but she's completely forgotten him. And everything else.Real estate mogul and Army Reserve officer Jeremy Houston has finally achieved success. So much so, he's ready to go back to his hometown, wintry Wilder River, to find out whether Danica Denton—the girl who hates him most in all the world—will give him one last chance. After all, the restraining order should have expired by now, right? And no one could actually prove he intentionally vandalized her sister's wedding. If Danica, spunky owner of The Candy Cane Cottage, can finally see Jeremy for who he's become, ...

Poetry has always provided comfort, inspiration, and connection, especially during socially precarious and politically divisive times. That has never been truer than it is today. The Wild Edge of the Heart: Women Poets Raise Their Voices presents the work of some of our leading contemporary female poets who are lauded for their ferocity, sensitivity and eloquence.

Christmas, sleigh bells, and dashing through the snow—toward love.Hotel owner Ellery Hart’s business is on the rocks. Rooms are empty, the lobby is ugly, and a huge loan payment is due. Unless she can pay, she will lose her grandpa’s legacy, the Bells Chalet. While her mom would have her marry the rich banker who is holding the hotel’s title ransom, that idea is beyond unacceptable. Ellery needs brilliant business solution. But how to make one happen fast? Bing Whitmore has been running the family business, Whitmore Thoroughbred Stables, on his own. But when his heart is broken by ...

A Christmas wedding. A dream mansion. And a loaf of hot, homemade bread. Artisan baker Natalie Tanner is the last person who should plan a wedding. She can’t even plan a dinner party for three. But when her little sister’s Christmas wedding preparations fall apart back home, it’s up to Natalie to return to Massey Falls and give it her best. To her shock, the wedding venue is Yuletide Manor. Yes, it's her childhood dream mansion, but it belongs to the family of Hunter Hawthorn, who humiliated her and broke her teen-aged heart. Hunter Hawthorn has agonized for years over his cruel ...

A second chance romance sweeter than a peppermint stick left for Old Saint Nick.History buff and blacksmithing enthusiast Bryony had very good reasons for dumping Colton two years ago. Dumbfounded CEO Colton has no idea what those reasons could be. Things had been going so well before her demolition day struck. He'd even bought a ring! Now, the exes work together daily, restoring the historic houses in town--while their relationship's history bubbles just beneath the surface. When Colton’s meddling sister insists Colton show up at their family holiday gathering fake-engaged, can a holiday...

Can a single night at a class reunion change everything? She was the wallflower. He was the jock. She sent him anonymous love notes. Now, he's at the 10-year reunion to find out who his mysterious pen pal was. Tansy has come a long way since her nerded-out days as a high school nobody. She owns a successful tech business, learned to do her hair, and might even wear her sexiest red dress to the reunion. One big worry: Bridger might be there. What if he overlooks her again? Basketball star Bridger only ever dated the popular girls, but he shared his secret heart with someone else—someone ...

"Austen + Chocolate = Love" Mormon girl Susannah is ready to take a big risk. Suddenly unemployed and unmarried, Susannah puts everything on the line to open up downtown Salt Lake City’s first all-chocolate café, The Chocolate Bar. It all starts out sweetly. Susannah even catches the interest of the city’s most eligible bachelor, a charismatic attorney. But when Susannah's first love, John Wentworth, returns to town, her heart goes sideways. He’s rich. He’s handsome. And he intends to marry anyone but Susannah. Chocolate and Conversation is a light and frothy, chocolate-filled romp...

A disowned spy with one last chance, a divorced teacher needing to rediscover herself, and the search for a missing woman that brings them together. Intelligence op Birch Cardon has accepted a mission to rescue a diplomat’s kidnapped daughter. If he succeeds, he will reclaim his stolen career. Except, the woman goes missing and his intel contact turns out to be his college crush. After a messy divorce, Arden Pike takes a trip to see her college gal pal as a way to rediscover her single self. When her friend goes missing, Arden is stranded with no phone, no ID, and no access to her hotel ...

Sweetheart Morgan marries a stranger - her handsome next-door neighbor Josh - solely for college financial aid. But now she can’t stop running into him or thinking about him. Which is bad - because Josh has a serious girlfriend he plans to marry. Things leap from awkward to agonizing when a well-meaning philanthropist compels Morgan and Josh to move into his mansion as “newlyweds of the year.” Their arrangement is purely hands-off, but now they’re sharing a house, and chemistry between them is skyrocketing.

He always loved her. Now, he's back in their small town to claim the girl who contracted to marry him. Aircraft mechanic by day, wildly successful author by night, Cash never forgot his first love, Annabel. In fact, she is the princess character in all his bestselling sci-fi novels. Dental assistant and former actress Annabel will do anything to protect her eccentric old inventor father—even agree to marry a man she doesn't love, the town's most-eligible bachelor. When a work assignment sends Cash back to their hometown, he sees Annabel, and his heart knows he can't let her slip away ...

Lisette Pannebaker speaks five languages and has a brilliant business plan - personal language immersion. Clients can hire her to shadow them and speak all day in any language they need to learn for business or travel - whatever. But there's a major hitch: she's far too pretty. Clients with less than honorable intentions sign up just to have Lisette at their side. Solution? A make-under. Way under. The bad wig, icky makeup and puffy sweaters work like a charm. None of her male clients show her the least bit of interest. Lisette's totally relieved. Until...Erik.