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Sometimes the rules really do need to be broken. Wanting something she can't have? Apparently there are rules for that. At least at Vaughn Jennings Restoration where Chelsea Chathford works as a master carpenter. There, she isn't allowed to want her boss. Isn't allowed to love him either. But she does. What's a girl to do? It's Christmas. And Chelsea has only one holiday wish. But Garrett Vaughn Jennings the Third follows his no employee dating rule. To the letter. And this year is destined to slip away like the last. And Chelsea is destined to face another New Year alone. Unless Vaughn ...

There are some who are blessed to hear the Divine voice. Stephanie Holmes is one who did hear. Like a modern-day Job, she is a reluctant traveler who follows an extraordinary path during a freak snowstorm that leaves her and her fiancé, Daryl, stranded in the mountains of East Tennessee on Christmas Eve. no less! Oh, and is it mentioned, she is eight months pregnant? Daryl Robard know these mountains. From one side of the vast wilderness to the other. He grew up here. Wants to come back home, to live his life here with Stephanie. And that life -- that future he desires -- starts now. He's ...

Virgil Push, the golden boy of Vermin County was handed a silver spoon worth 16 million dollars. He used it to sample all the decadence of life. Without care of thought for others, he took that spoon and rode it. As fast, hard and away from Vermin County as he could get. But the ride skidded to a stop; all of it slipping away in bankruptcy, poor choices, and debauchery. Now Virgil is back in the town he swore never to return to. Divorced, destitute, service as mayor in a job's he's been told is easy as pie. He's done a lot of shitty things in his life. The worst he's yet to do. Serving a ...

Greg Dawson, former FBI, now TBI supervisory agent is hardnosed. Arrogant. Cynical. And those are his good qualities. He sees the worst of humanity and searches for evidence to prove his hunches. Too bad he uses those same tactics in his marriage. His beautiful wife is understanding, but one or two missteps on his part – Hell, make that a dozen or more and his perfect marriage is in serious peril. Liza’s given him no reason to doubt. Yet he can’t comprehend, or accept how the former high society, internationally acclaimed piano virtuoso with a legion of admirers could possibly be ...

Hayden Michael Roark came home a decorated war hero. But no amount of medals, or commendations, can make up for the fight he lost to save his family and his Appalachian hometown from the greed of big coal and the environmental hazards of mountaintop removal mining. It has cost him everything. His reputation. His home. The life he wanted. And Elsa Billings, the woman he loved. He’s done fighting. All he wants now is peace. A place to come home to heal his wounded spirit. And mend his battered soul. Instead, he finds Elsa Billings McCreary and her seven-year-old daughter living in his house...

A devastating industrial accident leaves Brandon Shove at a crossroads in his life. Although truth be told, it wasn't solely the accident that brought him here. It was the drugs. The alcohol, and hell. Who was he kidding? He has been charting this course since he was sixteen. This is the end of the line for him. He has no place else to go. Except one last visit home before he drives himself across the next state and into the ocean to end it all. For good. Hell of a time for the sweetly hot, sexier than hell Melissa Trainor to be standing on her porch. His very own judge and jury. He ...

Kristen Williams has lost everything. A cooking empire. Her reputation. Her dream decimated. The IRS has taken everything. Except her soul, and her personal relationship with God. With only a few thousand dollars to her name, she returns to her hometown of Oakley Springs, Maryland. Pulled there by a voice in her head. But is it Divine guidance? Or a cruel twist of Fate? Because she finds Alec Daniels there. Her one true love. And like a Good Samaritan, he is offering her a place to live. A job. And a chance to start over. This man who'd taken her heart and broken it. Really, God, this is ...

Sometimes a second chance is all you need. Ray Trainor is the unofficial law in Vermin County. At least since his return from the war in Vietnam. The quiet solitude he craves is shot to hell the day he pulls up to a ditched motorist on the Shiner's Trail. He knows the non-descript coupe is loaded down with moonshine. Knows the driver is most likely selling. But what he could never have predicted was the gut punch to his heart when he lays eyes on the hotter-than-hell brown-eyed blonde with her own set of sass and willful determination. Maise Stevens desperately wants a second chance. That's...

Bobby Wayne Forsythe is a NASCAR superstar on the verge of greatness the likes of The King and The Intimidator when an on-track accident leaves his career in jeopardy and his future uncertain. He returns to the home he owns with Lauren Foster-Forsythe, Wife Number 3. The only woman he has ever loved. And the only woman who has ever walked away from him -- without a backward glance, leaving his heart broken. And a gaping hole in his soul that no other woman has ever been able to fill. And he's tried. A lot. Lauren Foster Forsythe is a country music sensation and the ex-wife of Bobby Wayne ...

Can lives based on lies lead to love? Joe DeMarco of Nowhere, West Virginia, believes in love at first sight. From the first moment he sets eyes on the gorgeous, long-legged beauty stranded on the side of the road outside his town, he knows. She’s the one. Even if she’s standing in front of him, brandishing a bottle, threatening to blind him with hand sanitizer. He likes her idea of foreplay. He likes everything about her. Even when she’s maligning his character, calling him a terrorist — and he, the chief of police. He should tell her who he is. And what he does. And he would… ...

Isabella Mankowski is a born and bred New York City journalist. Given the odious assignment to write a captivating, click-worthy article about on-line dating. A subject that has been written about to death. If she doesn’t do as her new editor demands, she loses her job. Her livelihood. And her apartment. It’s a total lose-lose situation. No way is she looking for love. Or expecting to find it. This is an assignment. A do-or-die situation that has her uploading her faux dating profile on the Heartland agricultural dating app, no less! Swiping right on a potential “love” interest and ...

Officer William Raymond Trainor, Billy, breathes order. All that changes the day he finds a four-year-old child abandoned on a desolate mountain. His dull, ordered existence thrust into a fiery battle of wills and desire when an intriguing, exasperating woman with more secrets than she cares to share arrives at his door. Wanting the same thing he wants. Custody of the child. A battle he has no intention of losing. A mystery he has every intention of solving. Not only the one surrounding the very hot Anna McFadden. But the leads he follows pointing to a baby selling ring. In his hometown! ...

A devil's bargain. That's what Vincent Push, owner of the Lucky Strike Oil Company made. Coerced into a marriage (in name only) to a woman he loathes. Done to save the son he loves. And hell on earth is where he'll reside for the rest of his miserable life until he stumbles into a dive bar on the outskirts of untapped Burton, Oklahoma. Where he finds an earthbound angel tending bar. The sparks of desire arcing between them hot enough to scorch the ground. You know, burn the house down hot. He, with no future. Wanting nothing more than one night in this angel's arms. Knowing it isn't ...

Crystal Rose McDermott only knows how to do one thing. Model. Well... Maybe two things. Lying comes as easy to her as breathing. She's done it all her life. She's lied about her age. She's lied about her experience. But no amount of lying will change the fact she's getting older. Nearing the end of her modeling career as the top fallen angel for Sinfully Sexy, the hottest lingerie company in the country. And they've put her on waivers because of few added pounds. A few extra pounds! With her career in crises, her future uncertain, and no place to hide from the rumors, she escapes the hustle...