HEART OF GRACE by Michele Bardsley   •   Romantic Comedy/Paranormal
The dream of every heart is love...Grace Talbot's idea of opening a home for down-on-their-luck expectant mothers is crushed by the cold heart and legal rigamole of lawyer Cal Malloy. Cal has his own reasons for buying the house and property currently occupied by Grace and several very pregnant women. He may be known in the business world as the Iceman, but when it comes to pretty, defiant Grace, his cool exterior melts away. Little does Cal or Grace know that an angel named Sophie is playing matchmaker...and when love's on the line, she aims straight for the heart.

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DESERT ROSE by Carrie S. Masek   •   Romance
In the winter of 1991, an emotionally scarred young widow is determined not to become romantically involved with anyone, particularly not the sexy Marine sergeant who storms into her convenience store and accuses her of selling booze to his underage men. With the help of her two small children, he persuades her to let love back into her life, only to have Operation Desert Storm threaten to steal it from her forever.

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THE SHERIFF TAKES A WIFE by Nancy Pirri   •   Contemporary Romance
Twenty-seven year old model and city woman, Summer Sanders can't believe the advertisement in the newspaper: "Harmon Junction, Minnesota is looking for brides." After arriving home from her last modeling job, she discovers her twenty-year-old sister, Autumn, has left a note that she's moved to Minnesota in her pursuit to find true love and happiness. Because of an air-traffic controller's strike, Summer has no choice but to drive to Minnesota to stop her sister from making the mistake of marrying a Midwest farmer-a stranger. Summer's first ‘taste' of Harmon Junction, a tiny farming community, is a run-in with the local sheriff, Nathaniel Whitefeather, who immediately issues her a speeding ticket. When he runs her license, he discovers California has revoked her driver's license because of the non-payment of several speeding and parking tickets.

Once she determines her sister is happy in her marriage, Summer plans to leave for Monterey, California where she's purchased a building for her new clothing boutique. Her plans change when the sheriff informs her that-due to a reciprocal agreement between Minnesota and California--he's obliged to place her under arrest until she pays off all of the tickets. She agrees voluntarily but then learns that she won't be escaping this town quite so easily. She must also appear before the circuit judge, who only makes an appearance in town once a month, to take care of the speeding ticket Nathaniel has just issued her. Summer finds Nathaniel as infuriating as he is gorgeous, and the sparks fly between them each time they're together. But she has a whole different life waiting for her in Monterey. Can she give up her plans for the sheriff who's determined to get her locked up in his jail-or in his heart?

Beneath Nathaniel's cool exterior lies a man with insecurities, a man afraid to leave his home because of horrific things in his past. Will Summer, his dream-woman come alive, convince him to follow her?

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THE STING OF LOVE by Barbara Raffin   •   Contemporary Humorous Romance
Forest Ranger Kelly Jackson has been given the fluff job of babysitting Hollywood's latest action star as he researches his next movie. When Zack Archer doesn't follow her orders and falls into a ground hornets' nest, she figures she can kiss good-bye her chances for advancement in the job she loves. But Zack proves to be a far more genuine article than she expects from a Hollywood action-adventure star.

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PENELOPE'S PROBLEM by Julie Skerven   •   Romantic Comedy
A carefree, hippy chick in the process of closing her Home Help Agency meets a conservative District Attorney. He needs a home-helper pronto because his mother is being ejected from her retirement home for instigating a food fight. Mix a matchmaking mother, a wild child, and a crystal ball and what do you have? Penelope's problem.

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A ROSE FOR ROMEO by Karen Wiesner   •   Contemporary Romance
What happens when a nationally renown sex therapist and author begins to abhor every aspect of her successful occupation? She falls in love, of course. Dr. Melina Rose is sick of discussing, listening to, and writing about sex. She's spent her life avoiding intimacy in her own personal life. After abandoning everything she's worked all her life for, she returns to the small, peaceful town of Amethyst, Wisconsin she grew up in only to discover that everything has changed-everything except her crush on her sister's old boyfriend Scott "Romeo" Romero.

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HEART OF STONE by Karen Woods   •   Paranormal Suspense
Geologist Katie McCord is being stalked by a person or persons unknown. When threatening deliveries are made to her rock shop, her brother-in-law, the local chief of police, calls in the only man who can help--Katie's estranged husband, Army Ranger, Colonel Steve Moore. The only thing Katie wants more than never to see Steve again is his love. United in the goal of keeping Katie safe, can the two of them survive long enough to work out their problems?

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