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It sounds too good to be true.... The invitation from “Perfect Match” offers Ava Godfrey an all-expense-paid week on Enchanted Island with the man of her dreams. Seven days of Caribbean sunshine, tropical beaches and candlelight dinners sounds like heaven. The only catch - she can’t meet her Prince Charming until she arrives on the island. The scenario sounds risky, yet she finds the prospect intriguing. Will she find her “perfect match” or will she encounter the perfect scam? They send him to deal with the diva.

Jonas is on the verge of bankruptcy, but that’s not what keeps him up at night. His employees depend on him for their livelihoods, and he can’t let them down - not if he wants to keep the promise he made to his late mother. When his self-centered fiancée refuses to lift a finger to help and kicks him to the curb, Jonas is forced to enlist the help of his assistant.

Emmitt Brown's demons are even bigger than he is, and as a defensive lineman for a pro-football team, that's something. When the team captain tasks his defensive line to go home for Christmas and get rid of their biggest past regret, Emmitt finds himself returning to the small town he grew up in to find the woman he never should have left. Too bad she hates him and tells him to go away.

Their second chance was the one that mattered most. When Chance Overstreet left love behind 10 years ago, he never thought it would grace his life again, but when an injury ends his military career, he finds himself back in his hometown of Courage, Colorado. Managing a ski resort comes with its own challenges especially when he finds out his high school sweetheart is his employee.

Matchmaker Meg Austen is focused on one thing - finding the financial backing to create the app for her company Love, Austen. When the investment firm tells her she needs a boyfriend to prove her faith in her matchmaking process, she fears her dreams might never become a reality. Sure, she can match up other people, but love for herself? She's not interested.

So what if the guy Addison Sparks had a crush on when she was 13 just so happens to be her next door neighbor when she moves across the country for a fresh start? And so what if she embarrasses herself in front of him. Repeatedly. If Ian Kendrick hadn’t grown up to be so good-looking, kind to his grandma, skilled at carpentry, and completely dateable, then it wouldn’t be so difficult to stay away from him. Addison is just getting over a breakup, though, and Ian is, too.

Is it possible to find true love through a message in a bottle? Spending a week on a Caribbean island with the members of the Romantic Hearts Book Club is like a dream come true for Lisa Kaye. On their last night, each woman writes a personal message to her “dream hero”, stuffs it in a bottle and tosses it out to sea. Lisa’s real dreams crash, however, when she returns home and loses not only her job but her boyfriend in the same day.

After their last encounter with Genevieve, the children are nervous as to what her request might be. When she comes to visit them in a different form, their apprehensions grow. For this quest, the children will find themselves in ancient Egypt, but will they be able to face the dangers and return home? Find out what new powers will be revealed in this book by clicking above.

A seemingly perfect quarterback. A designer with a celebrity crush. What happens when you stumble across something you were never supposed to find? Blaine Hollis, quarterback of the Tornadoes, appears to have everything together, but no one knows the secret he's been hiding. He's enamored by Kenzi when he meets her at the center, so he lets her into his life - something he rarely does. But when she finds out his darkest secret, will he open his heart or turn her away?

Elizabeth is out of control. Can her great aunt and a disgraced preacher succeed in reforming her? Elizabeth Garrett crossed the line. Her latest flirtation embarrassed her father, a Massachusetts judge. He is determined to see her reformed or sent away. Who better than his Aunt Mindwell to oversee Elizabeth’s reformation? With a name like that, Elizabeth is sure her freedom is gone. After his wife’s death, Reverend Gideon Frost loses everything: His faith, his congregation and most especially, his way.

A matchmaker who can’t commit, a jaded divorce lawyer, and a mutually beneficial business agreement. Matchmaker Meg Austen is focused on one thing - finding the financial backing to create the app for her company, Love, Austen. When the investment firm tells her she needs a boyfriend to prove her faith in her matchmaking process, she fears her dreams might never become a reality. Sure, she can match up other people, but love for herself. She's not interested. Parker Matthews is determined to get the partnership left vacant by his father’s death.

Profiler Maya Radcliffe can tell with a glance if a person is lying. It's her job, and she's good at it. But she's having trouble reading Ethan Foster, her late father's rescue-farm assistant, whom she's legally tied to for six months, as per the codicil in the will. It might as well be six years having to stay in the small town of Harper’s Hollow with that scruffy man in the flannel shirt. And who is the enemy who seems to take delight in threatening her life? Is it a former client or a disgruntled neighbor or someone closer to home? Contains mild Christian references.

An out-of-work hairdresser, her childhood crush, and a summer on Nantucket. Olivia Justice is trying to get back to real life after appearing on a reality dating show. She needs a job to support her mother's long-term care and after no luck with openings in a hair salon, she accepts a position as a nanny - at the summer house her parents used to own. The one good thing is that her best friend, Ella, will be there - along with Ella's older brother, the guy Olivia has carried a torch for since she was a teenager.

Lucy dreamed of marrying Samuel, until she woke up as his wife. Samuel Wilson is dismissed after a disastrous year at the newly created Harvard Medical School, ending his dream of becoming a doctor. Shamed by his dismissal, he returns to his North Shore home where he avoids his former fiancée, Lucy Simms, and tries to dismiss all ideas of marrying her. Lucy pretends Samuel’s rejection means little as she helps her family on their farm. An early New England blizzard brings challenges and death to her door.

Will the stone work in a made up book? Spenser and his siblings have been tasked with getting the hair from a superhero, but Spenser hasn't liked any of the books he's read. Will the stone work if he writes his own? And what new adventures await the three children?

Cara Hunter owns the bed-and-breakfast in town, but before she came to Fire Beach, she was in the military. Strangely, no one seems to know exactly what she did when she was in the military, but when Bubba and Makenna find her unconscious on the floor, her past may finally get revealed. Cole Davenport is a criminal investigator whose lead suspect is Cara Hunter, but when he meets her, he has a hard time believing she's a killer.

A woman on the run, a man willing to help, a cabin by the lake. Ginny Darling has finally gotten the courage to leave her abusive boyfriend. She is overjoyed when she lands in Fire Beach and meets strangers willing to give her a fresh start, but when her ex returns to the scene, will her future become her past again? Graham Graves is not a bodyguard, but when his new employee needs a place to hide out, he offers her protection at his family's cabin. Will their attraction bloom while in lockdown?

Can a daughter's love rekindle an old flame? Presley Hays and Brandon Scott were best friends in High School until Morgan entered their town and stole Brandon’s heart. Devastated, Presley took a scholarship to Le Cordon Bleu, but five years later, she is back in Star Lake after a tough breakup. Brandon thought he’d never return to Star Lake after Morgan left him and his daughter Joy, but when his father needs help, he returns home and finds more than he bargained for. Can Presley and Brandon forget past hurts or will their stubborn natures keep them apart forever?

Ruby Hunter gets nervous talking to people. And with a camera around? Forget it. When she's offered the chance to be on The Suitor, the only reason she accepts is that it's an opportunity to conquer her fears all at once. Little does she know the leading guy is her ex-fiance, whom she broke up with eight years earlier - the one regret she's had in her adult life.

Max has loved Layla since the moment he met her, but the time has never been right to tell her. When she breaks off her engagement, will he finally get the courage to tell her how he feels or will he lose his chance forever? Layla has been using relationships to determine her worth, but when her latest one falls apart, she decides to give up on men all together. When she realizes Max has feelings for her, will she stand by her conviction or will she give love one more try?