He transitioned home from the Marines expecting to start a job at the local fire station, join the reserves, help his grandfather with his tree farm, build his own house on their extensive property—and find a wife. Now his grandfather is gone, his inheritance is in trouble, someone else has his job—and he’s facing the holidays alone.

Kerri Olsen’s dream is about to become a nightmare.

Nine months ago, Kerri’s grandmother passed away unexpectedly, leaving her a home and business she loves—and a houseful of “collections” which have gotten entirely out of hand. Now her mother has given her an ultimatum: clean out Grandma Bess’s house and hand over the cash value of her share of the inheritance—by Christmas. Kerri always dreamed of meeting a man and raising a family here. Will she really have to sell her home to pay what she owes her mother?

Ryan has known Kerri all his life, but when he meets her again the day before Thanksgiving, he realizes she represents everything he’s always loved about this town—and everything he’s always wanted in a woman.

Kerri never dreamed Ryan would look at her the way he’s looking at her now. But they’re both facing a tough decision. Can they find a way to stay together in this place they call home? Or is leaving Chance Creek their only option?

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Ten years ago, desperate to save his father’s life, Carter Elliott pulled the plug on Elliott Ridge, the failing company town owned by his family for generations. After a decade with the Navy SEALs, he’s back to resurrect it so he can bring his father home. He’s ready to start a family of his own, too, but first he’ll need a wife. The minute Carter meets Amanda Stakewell, he knows she’s everything he’s been looking for, so he offers to sell her his house for a dollar—and to renovate it for her, too.

She’s searching for a place to call home…

Three months ago, Amanda allowed her father back into her life, but when she discovers he’s swapped one of his forgeries for a masterpiece, she steals the original from him, determined to return it. Too late, she learns a far more deadly criminal is after the painting. Now she’s on the run and a small, abandoned logging town sounds like the perfect place to hide. She’s willing to trade a dollar for a temporary roof over her head. And if a handsome Navy SEAL wants her to help him renovate it, she can go along with that, too. She’s not going to fall in love with him, though. She’s learned her lesson when it comes to men.

Now Carter is doing his best to show Amanda how good life on the Ridge with him could be and she’s finding it hard to resist his vision of the future.

But when Amanda goes missing, Carter finds himself in a race against time to find her before he loses everything he loves—all over again.

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Twelve years ago, Lincoln Elliott made a rash decision that wiped out his family’s business—and turned Elliott Ridge into a ghost town. Now he’s back from serving with the US Special Forces, and he’s ready—with the help of his four brothers—to bring the Ridge back to life. They’ve got the family lumber company up and running again, but a town needs people—specifically women. So when Lincoln meets Charlotte Holmes at the Chance Creek airport, he’s desperate to get her to settle down—not just because he’s trying to build up their community, but because he wants to know if the instant attraction between them can turn into something more. He offers to sell her his house for a dollar—and help renovate it, too. He’ll work night and day if that’s what it takes to earn Charlotte’s love. If only she’d tell him what she’s so afraid of.

Charlotte Holmes thought she’d won the jackpot when wealthy racehorse owner, Ivan Gasperyn, paid her way through veterinary school, but her dream position working at his stables soon turned into a nightmare. She’s finally escaped from Ivan’s iron control, so when Lincoln offers her a home in the remote ghost town he’s bringing back to life, she says yes. Life on Elliott Ridge turns out to be everything she always wanted and Lincoln is the kind of man she’s always wanted to meet. Can she let her guard down long enough to fall in love with him?

Lincoln knows he’s found the woman he wants to spend his life with, but when a stranger shows up looking for a stolen horse, it’s clear that Charlotte is in trouble.

Can Lincoln save her in time?

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Emma Miller’s fiancé left her days before her meal delivery business went bust. Now she’s broke, homeless and starting out all over again, weighed down with debt that isn’t even hers. So when she learns she and her estranged sister, Ashley, have received an unexpected inheritance, she’s thrilled. Now they can both move to Seahaven, California, and run Brightview, her grandmother’s rambling beachside bed-and-breakfast. She’ll do the cooking. Ashley can tend the Cliff Garden, the attached acre of winding paths and flowerbeds that has been in their family for generations. With her money and family woes solved, who knows—maybe someday Emma will find love again.

He’s 33 and just hit it out of the park…

Noah Hudson’s life couldn’t be better. He’s sold his successful business and can finally right the wrong he did years ago to his older brother’s career. Andrew deserves his turn in the limelight, so Noah just bought one of the last undeveloped oceanfront lots in Seahaven. He’ll give Andrew an unlimited budget to design and build a luxury vacation home that will land on the cover of every architectural magazine. While he’s waiting for his new digs, Noah has found a handy living situation in the bed-and-breakfast next door. While Andrew pursues his dream, he can spend his days on his own passions: extreme sports photography.

Emma is furious when she finds out Ashley sold their grandmother’s garden to the newly minted millionaire renting one of her guest rooms—a very handsome millionaire who seems to have nothing better to do but surf, snap a few photos and play havoc with her heart.

Noah just realized what he left off his to-do list: find the woman of his dreams. Turns out she’s his current landlady and about to be his next-door neighbor—if she doesn’t kill him for destroying her grandmother’s legacy first.

Can Emma and Noah find a way to heal the past without ruining their future together?

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Ava Ingerson traveled for years creating her popular video blog for students, The Roving Scientist, so when she inherits a lovely beach house in Seahaven, California, she’s more than ready to settle down—especially when she receives a dream job offer to teach at an alternative outdoor school in the same town. Only problem is, her long-time boyfriend wants no part of it. When he takes off—along with all their traveling gear—she figures it’s another sign. She’s meant to stay single.

When Fate takes a swing at you, duck.

Tech wizard Samuel Cross can’t believe he’s paying a small fortune to spend two weeks with his old college buddies at a vacation rental in Seahaven—including his ex-fiancée and best friend, who are getting married next month. If he refused, he’d look like a loser, but the minute he arrives at the beachside cottage, he knows he’s made a big mistake. Seeing Ben and Chloe together reminds him of every mistake he’s ever made—especially the ones that are still costing him dearly. One thing he knows for sure—he won’t get played again. From now on, he’s keeping things casual.

Ava thinks she’s getting the hang of this vacation rental thing until she finds one of the guests hiding in her Range Rover. Sam can’t believe he’s resorted to stowing away in the rental owner’s vehicle, but there’s no way he’ll survive a daylong sailing charter with Ben and Chloe on the same boat. Besides, Ava’s kind of sexy for a scientist. Maybe they can have a little fun.

He’s not falling for her, though.

Except, he is.

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It’s been a rough year for Westin Abbott the fourth, Wes to his friends. Just when he’s ready to start his own fishing charter business, his parents boot his sister from the family telecommunications business and demand Wes step in as CEO—right now. He’s agreed to take on the job, but not until after one last fishing trip with his favorite guide. He’s come back to Seahaven every year for a decade, but when he arrives this time he finds Fisherman’s Point is now EdgeCliff Manor, and a stranger is running the show. A very pretty stranger. She’s filled his quiet getaway with a raucous wedding party, and she claims she knows nothing of his longstanding booking.

Penelope can’t believe there’s an outstanding reservation left from her uncle’s fishing charter days. She’s got only one room left to offer Wes—the spare bedroom in her attic apartment. When he asks if there’s any way she can take him fishing on her uncle’s old boat, it’s hard to say no when one bad review could tank her business. Now she’s fishing in the morning and dealing with a bridezilla and her entourage the rest of the day.

Can she possibly pull this off?

Or will she lose the beach house she loves so much?

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Millionaire Carl Whitfield has set his sights on small-town chef Camila Torres, but she won’t have him until he can prove he means to settle in Chance Creek for good. He’s spent the last three years searching for the perfect ranch. She’s spent the last three years keeping him at arm’s length. Now Carl will do anything to secure a spread, including siding with the Coopers in their ages-old feud with the Turners, a move that could make his dreams come true—or destroy them for good.

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Noah Turner’s losing a war with his heart—and a war with his neighbors. Competing with the Coopers for the Founder’s Prize—and the Ridley property, the prime ranch land it confers—has pitted him against the woman of his dreams. The one woman he’s not supposed to love: Olivia Cooper.

Olivia knows loving Noah is all wrong. His family has been nothing but trouble for the Coopers. Now a drought has struck Chance Creek, and without the water rights they’ll gain from the Ridley property, her family is bound to lose their ranch.

It’s Turners vs. Coopers—and all is fair in love and war.

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Lance Cooper knows he shouldn’t try to escape his present problems by focusing on the past, but running Chance Creek’s Fourth of July Revolutionary War re-enactment is far easier than sorting out his family’s long-running feud with the Turners. At least it was until Maya Turner joins the historical society and upsets all his plans.

Maya Turner loves history, but Chance Creek’s re-enactments are boring—and far too predictable. Everyone knows who won the Revolutionary War, after all. Why shouldn’t they inject some drama—and sexy intrigue—into the annual event?

It’s bad enough Maya’s ideas are catching on with the rest of the re-enactment committee. It’s worse Lance’s heart is betraying him, too. How can he fall for her knowing how her family destroyed his?

But the past has its own secrets—and learning them can change everything…

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With the Coopers taking the lead again in the battle for Chance Creek’s Founder’s Prize, Liam Turner is determined to put his family back on top. And if that means kidnapping his secret childhood crush, Tory Cooper, well, a cowboy’s got to do what a cowboy’s got to do.

Tory set herself one rule when she returned to Chance Creek: don’t get involved—with her own family or anyone else. As soon as she’s finished with law school, she’s leaving again, and she won’t be back. But her family won’t get the message, and Liam Turner is a problem on a whole different level. Handsome, smart and determined, he won’t shake easily.

And she’s not sure she wants him to.

Now the summer’s heating up, and so is the trouble for both their families. Soon they won’t be fighting each other; they’ll be fighting for their lives.

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The Coopers and Turners are tied in the battle for Chance Creek’s Founder’s Prize, both families desperate to own the ranch that will be awarded to the winner. But Steel Cooper also needs to right the wrongs his father committed before he died in prison—and convince Stella Turner to marry him, despite a hundred years of animosity between their families. He’s willing to give it his best shot, but when disaster strikes Chance Creek, his best shot might not be enough to save anyone, let alone the woman he loves.

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Navy SEAL Brian Lake is out of luck. Going rogue on his last mission landed him on a fast track out of the Navy—years too soon to have saved up enough money to buy the ranch he’s always wanted. Without a career—or the cash to start over—Brian’s options are few, until Army general Augustus Reed steps in with an intriguing new mission—a permanent one.

Ignored by her absentee father, duped by the thief he appointed to oversee her family’s ranch, Cass Reed is done with men for good. From now on she’s determined to run Two Willows herself, so when her father sends a Navy SEAL to fix up her house, she vows to run him off her land as soon as possible. But Brian’s just as determined to stay, and he’s in a far different league than the men she’s met before.

Brian’s ready to do anything that will earn him a share of a prosperous ranch—even take a chance on marrying the General’s daughter. And he soon realizes it won’t be a hardship to marry Cass. She’s everything he’s ever dreamed of in a woman—and Two Willows is everything he wanted in a ranch.

But he’s not the only one who wants Two Willows—and Cass.

Will falling in love be the most dangerous mission of all?

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