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When prosecutor Camilla Sweeten sees newly hired Zane Holyoak slide a pastry from a bakery bag, her reaction is nothing close to rational. It's the exact pink doughnut from her dream where she kissed a handsome stranger! Now she's daydreaming about kissing Zane, even though he poses her fiercest competition for the Chief Deputy promotion she desperately needs. Attorney Zane Holyoak has always gone with his gut. He's even followed it back to Yucca County, after swearing never to return. Maybe it's leading him back to fill the vacancy for Chief Deputy.

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.

He needs this job to honor his late wife. She needs to complete her late fiancé’s bucket list.Former action-movie star Chet Winters has counted the days since he lost his wife last New Year’s Eve. When he’s given a shot at starring in a reboot of her favorite TV show, he jumps at it. But there’s a catch: the producers won’t hire him unless he can prove he’s regained emotional stability. They require him to bring a steady girlfriend to his five auditions. In other words, five mandatory dates for this bereft widower. Social worker Holly Day lost her fiancé to war. With his good ...

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 ...

The girl of his nightmares might be the girl of his dreams.Dr. Luke Hotwell is the best heart surgeon in the whole hospital network. He’s on track to be named most valuable surgeon. So, when a gorgeous redhead comes storming into his office and accuses him of malpractice, he’s upset. A lawsuit could ruin his goals. He can’t quit thinking about her threats—or the woman who made them. Sheridan Chandler is a life coach deeply devoted to her clients. They’re like family to her, and even though she’s peaceful and positive, if one of them has been wronged, her warrior instincts bubble...

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. ...

Two Friends + Onstage Chemistry = Christmas TroubleClaire Downing is the last person to audition for the Sugarplum Falls’s notoriously bad town Christmas play. She's far too shy, and the holidays are the busiest time of year for her clothing boutique. Besides, the theater world belongs to her diva best friend. Claire's bestie's boyfriend, Owen Kingston, has no intention of trying out for the play, either—even if his diva girlfriend insists. The former construction company owner volunteers to build sets instead. Anything to keep her in town and not traipsing off to L.A. before he can ...

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 ...

He’s a benched quarterback who needs redemption. She’s the single mom of their child. He’s back in town to make amends.Charlotte Nilsen never thought she’d see McCoy Armstrong again after he hit the big time in the NFL. After all, she’s the one who insisted on an annulment after his scandal with the cheerleader. She’s rebuilt her life now. Her one regret is she never told McCoy their brief marriage resulted in a son. McCoy has been benched. A shoulder injury will do that to an NFL quarterback. Enough time has passed that he dares to hope that his ex-wife Charlotte will forgive ...

As a lawyer for A-list Hollywood actors, Jillian Price's job is soul-sucking, and she needs a way out. She may have found one - at a yard sale. Across a junk-strewn lawn, she spies a painting that makes her heart stop. It looks to be a lost masterpiece! With that painting she could have it all: the new job, her own gallery, and even the guy - gorgeous banker Aero Jantzen.

What's More Romantic than Falling in Love on a Covered Bridge?Boston financial district star Emily England has never forgotten her teenage dream of romance on a bridge. When a covered bridge comes up for sale in rural Vermont, she jumps at the chance to buy it—who cares what it costs? She’s got plenty saved and prospects for a great year ahead. Maybe her charming boyfriend will even propose to her on her newly purchased bridge and make her first-snowfall wish come true. But, things go sideways at her firm and with her boyfriend, and Emily finds herself back in the countryside ...

When she’s named in a mysterious stranger’s will, does Brooke dare ask her lifelong crush to serve as her lawyer, even though she’s accepted another man’s ring? Town beauty queen Brooke Chadwick knows Dane Rockwell will never take a second look at her, his best friend’s younger sister, no matter how much she’s longed for him. Dane is a Rockwell - of the felons, frauds, and cheats Rockwells. How can he possibly ask Brooke - of the upstanding, reputable Chadwicks - to accept his proposal? Now Dane is back in town with three things.

She jilted him in college. He never expected to spar with her in court.Carson Huxley is a hotshot attorney from the city with a future partnership on the line and plans to marry the boss's daughter. Becca Goldfinch is a big-hearted small-town defense lawyer who ends up doing too much work pro bono. When Becca gets tricked into taking a real estate case, she has no idea she's going to battle against the town gazillionaire, who has hired a big-city barracuda lawyer who can tear her, and her client, to shreds. What she doesn't know is, that very barracuda attorney is Carson, her ex. And that ...

"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...

Her good heart has a really bad plan--destined to fail spectacularly.Nanny and grad student Eliza has a harebrained, movie plot-based scheme to teach her terrible boss a lesson: find a wretched hobo, give him a Hollywood makeover, and trick the selfish woman into falling for him and becoming a better person. What could go wrong? Hint: everything. Henry, the hunky lost traveler with the dashing Australian accent that weakens Eliza’s knees, is game. More than game. For Eliza, he gladly gets a glow-up, debuts at a film premier, and plays the role of the fake rich dude on a posh, exclusive ...

This Christmas, she's determined to meet and marry a prince.This holiday season, historical architecture expert Mallory Jameson has landed her dream job—for her dream client. Hired to consult on a remodel for a European prince, she might finally receive her first-snowfall wish of meeting and marrying royalty. After all, she has a good, pure-hearted reason for wanting nothing less than to marry a prince. However, when she arrives at Buckworth Castle on the cliff-lined coast, the place is anything but royal-looking. And the only man present in Mallory's daily life is a construction worker ...

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.

Come back to Mendon, Massey Falls, and Reedsville--with a quick Christmas destination wedding thrown in--and experience three flutter-inducing romances by USA Today bestselling clean romance author Jennifer Griffith. Read about— *A handsome surgeon who never forgot his first kiss with the girl of his dreams and his Christmastime second chance with her. *A professional musician who returns to her hometown after a career-ending injury, only to meet up again with her long-lost crush who is now painting the ceiling of her childhood home in his "Michelangelo Moment." *A pair of workplace ...

Dowdy art exhibit coordinator Ava Young is happy with her man suits and sensible clogs. She likes the way they clip-clop on the museum's tile floor. But they don't win her any lovelorn looks from her office crush. In fact the handsome new guy calls her "sir" when they first meet. Oh well. She's always known the only way a guy would take a second look at her was if she was the only person in the room. And on fire.

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 in Massey Falls, it’s up to Natalie to return to her hometown 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 Hunter Hawthorn, who humiliated her and broke her teen-aged heart. Hunter Hawthorn has agonized for years over his cruel mistake. ...