After her eighteen-year marriage to a self-help-obsessed ex crumbles, thirty-eight-year-old Phoebe Drummond is ready for a reset. Alongside her newly widowed best friend, Carrie Anne, she relocates to Sugar Sands, Alabama, to take over her late parents' sand-sculpting business. Between quirky employees, old friends, and beachside chaos, Phoebe learns that rebuilding a life takes a lot of sand, patience, humor… and heart.

Librarian Kendall Dickinson is overdue for a do-over. Unfortunately, she's clueless about who she really is or who she even wants to be. One thing she's certain about: she doesn't want anyone to know she's back in her small hometown in North Carolina because she failed miserably at her first grown-up job and relationship. When she's offered a job as a school librarian, surrounded by two of her least favorite things—kids and noise—she reasons, well, how hard can it be?She's about to...

Jayne Greer wasn't the looker or the comedian in her family; she was the thinker and the writer. And ultimately, she was the survivor. When a deadly house fire claimed the lives of her parents and sisters just hours after her high school graduation, Jayne was left virtually alone in the world. Writing down her tale of grief began as therapy, but she came to hope the resulting book could lead into the publishing world… and back into life.If only. Twelve years later, Jayne finds hers...

Libby Foster is 28 years old and never been kissed. Nor has she ever… well, you know. But so what? She has a job, a cat, and an active imagination. And in Libby's Fantasy World, her love life is perfect.Enter Jude Weatherington, fresh off the plane from England. While Libby would never dream of talking to him, she does dream of him. Fantasy Jude is refined, romantic, and completely wrapped up in Libby. There's just one problem: he's not real.Real Jude's no slouch, either. H...

Whitney Faelhaber is a strong, independent woman. Just ask her, and she'll tell you. Over and over again. But when her favorite aunt passes away and leaves her Velvet Printing, Whitney's strength and independence are challenged in unexpected ways.On paper, it sounds easy—all she needs to do is spend a few weeks in a small town in Maine and put this small business in order so she can return to her career in academia in sophisticated Boston. But the print shop comes with some difficu...

Nate Bingham's career as a pediatric nurse provides plenty of personal satisfaction, but at the end of the day, he comes home to an empty house. When his obnoxiously perfect older brother, Nick, announces his engagement, Nate decides he's ready to do whatever it takes to secure his own happily-ever-after.But he has no idea how wacky "whatever it takes" can get. Before he knows it, his next blind date has helped herself to his name, his gender, and details of his life to fuel a wild...

Peyton and Brice are on top of the world. And why not? They're in love, they're married, and this time, they're not keeping any secrets from each other.But then out of the blue, Stefan sends an email with an offer she can't refuse, and Peyton is faced with a choice. Should she tell him about their child, her Secret who didn't make it? Isn't that the morally correct choice? But if she does, what will that mean for their business relationship… and her marriage?Brice is going ...

Maura Richards can organize a job fair like nobody's business, but weddings are a different story—especially the Kansas City social event of the year, her marriage to local hero and NFL superstar Jet Knox. Handing that responsibility to Gloria, her formidable future mother-in-law, Maura focuses on her career, her fiancé, football… and not losing her nerve.The closer she gets to tying the knot, the more her wedding—and her future—tie her stomach in knots. But standing up to a master...

Nate and Betty's long-distance relocation has shrunk their pesky problems like specks in a rearview mirror… or so they think. But small-town life in sultry South Carolina includes its own challenges, and the Binghams soon discover a fresh new set of frustrating co-workers and dysfunctional families. Add in a bit of culture shock and a rambunctious toddler, and the result is a thick, hilarious pot of outsider gumbo.And just as they're getting the hang of their new home, a figure fro...

Life is perfect. Sure, Peyton has her hands full with the addition of rambunctious twins, but she's settling in to life in Springfield, the church has been rebuilt after the tornado, and even her and Brice's nemesis, Pastor Long, makes a surprise announcement that would have Peyton breaking out in a fist pump if she weren't working on self-control.But suddenly Brice is struck down—literally—and Peyton finds herself fighting for both his recovery and her ability to cope. On top of t...

There was a time when everyone told Peyton Stratford their secrets. And that was stressful. Now it seems that nobody's confiding in her—and that's stressful too! Is she being sidelined as a trusted friend and confidant because she's now a wife and mother?It even seems her husband has been keeping information from her. Who would have thought Pastor Brice could have a 'past'? Or that this recently divorced past might still have designs on his present… and future?It's a secret...

It's no secret that having a new baby is exhausting. And it's no secret that Peyton is so sleep-deprived she's practically walking into walls. But it's no secret that she loves her son—and her husband.So when Brice wants to move from Chicago—away from Peyton's family and job and friends and familiar home—she says yes, because she knows how much it will mean to his career and how much he wants this change.But now Peyton is keeping a secret about their new life: she ...