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Coming Soon: Falling in Love With Her
A LEFT AT THE ALTAR, FRIENDS TO LOVERS, BROTHER’S BEST FRIEND, AFRAID TO COMMIT, DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER, ROMANTIC MYSTERY NOT TO BE MISSED!
Ingie
Love, marriage, and a family aren’t in the cards for me after my fiancé left me at the altar. I was so certain he loved me, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. My mother’s words haunt me. “She’s an ugly duckling. She’ll never attract a man. A husband and family aren’t in her future.” Instead of dwelling on the past, I focus on running Three Rivers Fly Shop and Boat Repair, the legacy from my father.
Two years later, Ian Callahan, my brother’s best friend and my childhood heartthrob, returns home. Certain he’ll never see the swan lurking beneath the ugly duckling, the same as when we were teenagers, I protect my heart by insisting on a friends with benefits relationship. The fact is, I don’t need love. I have my work, a persnickety, one-eyed cat, and keeping the Trench Coat Brigade in line—a wacky group of seniors with a penchant for meddling, matchmaking, and mystery-solving.
Ian
After my last relationship crashed and burned, I left my job as an arson investigator and firefighter in Seattle to return home. Ready to settle down, my hometown is the only place I want to put down roots. And the only woman I want to make a life with is Ingie Pulaski. She’s smart, sassy, and fearless, but she wants a causal relationship.
When a building is torched and a body is found, I find myself keeping tabs on the Trench Coat Brigade to ensure they stay out of trouble. But there’s an added benefit to keeping my eye on the the group—I’m spending a lot more time with Ingie. And I’m making it my mission to show her there’s more to our relationship than friends with benefits.
Ingie
I’ve been looking for love in all the wrong places until I meet up with Ian again. Now I have to conquer my deepest fear—abandonment—or lose the only man who loves me just the way I am.
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Forever His
She’s home and hearth. He’s a superstar baseball player.
Emma Delaney has always loved Sam Parker. Sam reminds her of warm sunshine, laughter and passion. In his arms, she dreams of white picket fences and happily-ever-afters, until the day he leaves her for baseball.
A knee-ending injury puts Sam permanently on the bench. With his baseball career cut short, he returns home to face his guilt, and the woman he abandoned for the game. The woman he can never have—Emma.
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Forever Mine
He’s lost everything that gave his life meaning. She’s determined to show him that she’s his new beginning.
Cassie Cooper’s neat, orderly life is turned topsy-turvy when overnight she becomes a single mom to three rambunctious boys. Between running her beauty salon and caring for her new charges, she has no time for a relationship. But love is definitely in the air when her childhood friend, Griffin Valentine, moves back to town.
Griffin Valentine, famed orthopedic surgeon, walks away from a lucrative practice after his two-year-old son dies in a car accident and his wife divorces him. Returning to Hope’s Crossing to take over a small medical practice, he throws himself into caring for his patients. As much as he’s drawn to Cassie and her readymade family, the past looms over him, threatening to destroy the new life he’s building.
Can Cassie help Griffin find the courage to love again? Get your copy today because a second chance at love doesn’t come along every day._
Forever Yours
He had the world by the tail. She’s the love he left behind.
Willa Dunbar grew up in Hope’s Crossing and planned on a career running Mumford Theater with her uncle—until they had a falling out. Over a decade later, Willa returns home to care for her uncle only to discover the bad boy of baseball—and her first love—is living next door.
Ben Valentine left Hope’s Crossing straight out of high school to play professional baseball. After his baseball career crashed and burned, and his marriage fell apart, he returned to Hope’s Crossing to build a new life. When he reunites with Willa, all he wants is to prove to her that he’s not the playboy the media has portrayed him as.
Can the bad boy of baseball show Willa he’s her one and only? Get your copy today because your first love is the one you never forget.