In this charming installment of the Heart Lake series, a grumpy single dad and a small-town bookseller—who's secretly an advice columnist—find love when they least expect it. As chaotic as it can be, Rosie Dean loves her unruly life. But between raising twins alone, running her struggling bookshop, and secretly writing a parenting advice column, the single mom can’t think about dating. At least that’s what she tells herself . . . until her high school crush (and his incredible blue eyes) return to Heart Lake for the summer. Even though Evan has grown into a huge grump, he’s still a super sexy one, and soon sparks begin to fly. Single dad and widower Evan Mills is used to hearing he’s too serious. But with a grieving tween daughter to raise on his own, the graphic designer is just trying to stay strong for her. He hopes a few weeks at the lake will be the fresh start they both need. Evan never anticipated reconnecting with Rosie, or that she could make him feel whole again—if he’d give her the chance. Will one steamy summer with Rosie be long enough to melt Evan’s heart? Includes the bonus novella, Annie Rains’ Kiss Me in Sweetwater Springs!

A charming second-chance romance about a big city chef whose return home to help run her family's wedding planning business means reuniting with the man who broke her heart. Chef Aurora Shipley spent years slicing, dicing, and chopping her way up the ladder of L.A.'s competitive restaurant scene, but when her sisters needed her help, she dropped everything to return home to Texas. With her family’s Orchard Inn now on its feet, it's time for Aurora to head back to the big city. At least there, she won’t keep running into ex-boyfriend Jude Jones or her high school bully Erica, who now needs Aurora and her wedding planning business to throw the celebration of her dreams. Will Aurora let the past go long enough to send the bride off without a hitch and ignore her traitorous heart urging her to stay and try again with Jude? As a teenager, Jude Jones foolishly listened to his father and let Aurora Shipley slip away. In the intervening years, the sweet, shy girl grew into a stunning, capable, confident woman, and her reappearance is messing with Jude's focus, which should be on expanding Jones' Family Herbs. He broke Aurora's heart once, and she broke his, too. This time will Jude be strong enough to fight for her—for them—and a future together?

Trick-or-treat through reader favorite Yule Heights Shopping Mall as a ghost from the past moves back in! This standalone short romance is both hauntingly swoon worthy and full of second chances. Avery Rossi, owner of Pugs & Kisses Pet Store, is nonbinary and non-confrontational. Being the younger sibling of Yule Heights original Casanova, Val Rossi, the jewelry store owner, means that Avery has had to pave their own way out of their brother’s spotlight. And they did just that…into a murderer’s son’s arms. Dr. Jekkyl Storm—or Jay, as he insists on being called—just moved back to Yule Heights after a family scandal and tragedy took him away to lick his wounds and build his optometrist business. But his wild sister needs his constant adult supervision and Jay has already spent a lifetime picking up the pieces of his broken family. Falling in love seems impossible, because who would love the cobwebs and skeletons hiding in his closet? One Halloween contest, a guide dog, and a mass cricket exodus later…there might just be some hair-raising sensations crawling into these two store owner’s hearts. Ghosts from the past are haunting the mall corridors as these two wounded individuals find healing in Halloween…and, maybe, one another.

Oh, say can you see these sparks flying in this 4th of July-themed standalone short romance when singer/songwriter Kamar Jaziri meets the beautiful and undefeated Independence Games champion in a red, white, and blue meet-cute over a plate of hot dogs. Summer Darby, owner of Summer’s Sun Spray Tan Salon, is a winner. The end. Every goal she’s had, she’s crushed and her streak isn’t about to come to an end now even though the games have changed. She doesn’t care how much the new singer in the pavilion lights her firecracker—she won’t be distracted by his star-spangled salute. When Kamar Jaziri isn’t studying in graduate school, he’s working as a singer/songwriter at small gigs around the local college town—including a recent hire at Yule Heights Shopping Mall. All he wants is a taste of freedom as he chases his American dreams, and that means he doesn’t have time for romance or dating. And he definitely doesn’t have time for the way Summer Darby looks at him. Cue the sparklers as these blue collar titans of business clash in a comedic battle for independence—and love.

Famous rockstar Logan Clay is head over heels in love. After everything he went through to be with Caroline, he knows exactly what we wants from his life. Bringing her home for the holidays to meet his family and old band members is the first step to that future together. Except that Caroline isn’t as sure as he is... about anything. Caroline has to impress her boyfriend’s parents, stop her best friend from fighting with the biker band member, and figure out her own future all in time for the holidays. Christmas with a rockstar brings a whole new kind of caroling. DISCLAIMER: This book was originally published in December 2014 with the title "Sand & Snow" by Sarah Robinson. Since then it has been re-edited, a few short scenes here and there added in, and given a new title and a new cover in order to improve the novel. This is the final product of that revision process so there have been a lot of changes, but the story itself is relatively the same. This novel is meant for 18+ years old.

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