Saffron Brenwood is a survivor. Having endured great tragedy at a young age, she's arisen from the flames stronger than ever. She's built her own business, her former foster sisters are her best friends, and she has a great boyfriend. That her relationships never last more than two months hasn't really bothered her. There's always the next attentive date--when keeping a man at arm's length no longer works. But now her friends are getting married and...

A sprawling Montana setting; a charming bed-and-breakfast inn brimming with Dickensian decor; a beautiful and deeply spiritual innkeeper with secret sorrows from her past; a "Granny" who is as delightful as she is wise; and a handsome guest whose lifestyle and past are both trouble and troubling--these are the elements of a captivating novel of romance and intrigue.

"Years ago, Mary Margaret Sullivan changed her name, boxed up her previous life, moved into the Eagle Gate Apartments, and hid her painful memories in her chicken-wire storage unit in the basement. But secrets have an inconvenient way of surfacing when least expected. Three weeks before Christmas, an elegant man in a penthouse, a young woman named Carly---homeless and ill with pneumonia--and two calculating thieves invade Maggie's carefully reconstructed...

"Jason Jennings made a tough call two years ago when he left behind his status as a hard-partying star quarterback in order to serve the Lord. Recently returned from a mission now, he's ready to get back on the football field at UCAL. But despite turning his life around, his bad-boy reputation is proving hard to shake. Allie Hollis is everything a cheerleader should be--beautiful, outgoing, and smart--but her brilliant smile hides a devastating secret....

Hostage Negotiation Team member Bart Gutierrez is shocked to find Lucy Aguayo, a girl he knew as a teenager, working for the deadly Castillo drug cartel. This revelation uncovers a secret in Bart's family so big it forces him to accept a dangerous offer: infiltrate the cartel to keep his family safe.

Meredith Jensen has seen her share of ups and downs. She's found love twice already and lost it in spectacularly traumatic ways. Now? She just wants a peaceful life, free from love and drama. Meredith's plans for the future center around planning other people's weddings and her new online dating website. Just because she works to help other people find love doesn't mean she wants any part of it though. Unfortunately for Meredith's plans, Asher Murphy...

"Three years after a shocking scandal destroyed her family and forced her into isolation, Eleanor Hayward finally has an opportunity to put her painful history and dashed hopes behind her. But reentering society is no simple task. In her cousin's glittering ballroom, Eleanor is stunned when she comes face-to-face with the man who broke her heart those years before. Edmund Fletcher thought he had laid the past to rest until he unexpectedly encounters...

"The day of her parents' garden party dawns bright as Lydia Prescott eagerly anticipates a marriage proposal from a handsome and wealthy plantation owner. The lovely debutante plans to steal a moment away with her beau, but her plans go terribly awry. Instead of her intended, she is joined by a stranger--the largest man she's ever laid eyes on. And it is clear Jacob Steele is there for reasons far more sober than the party. With British raids erupting...

"All Gloryanna Griffin needs is a full-ride scholarship to finish her master's degree in marine biology in order to pursue her dream of saving the ocean. However, to be a serious contender for the money, she needs to publish in a prestigious magazine. A research dive off the Olympic Peninsula is a dangerous proposition but one that just might give her article the impact it needs. But when she's swept into an underwater vortex, she realizes her life...