There's nothing quite like a first love.Except a second chance with him.Despite having her own heart broken, wedding planner Hope Turner is a diehard romantic and has dedicated herself to Ever After Ranch and happily ever afters—other peoples.For Levi Langdon there’s only ever been one woman for him. Now that he’s back in town after ten long years, he plans on proving to Hope that those feelings have only grown str...

One runaway bride. One night only. One problem— I want more.I’ve spent years pretending Jess Anderson doesn’t get under my skin.Working with her on the trail committee made it harder.Watching her settle for a future that never fit her made it impossible.So when I find her hiding at the old cabin on her wedding day, neither of us expects what happens next.One argument.One kiss.One night we swear we’ll forget.We agree, ...

They say your forties are the new twenties.Maybe that would be true if my ex-husband hadn’t turned out to be a lying, cheating, stealing ass who left me with nothing except my pride.And it’s that pride that should keep me from accepting Phillip Conrad’s sexy, sinful, and way too indecent proposal to pay off the debt I owe him.I should walk away. I should slap him. Hell, I should tell him exactly where he can shove his offer.But I can't.Becau...

She’s the sunshine to his grump, and suddenly six months of exile doesn’t seem so bad.Chase never fit in with his big tight-knit family. Always on the outside looking in, as soon as he could, he left small-town life—and his family—behind.Now, a clause in his father’s will has forced him home forSix. Long. Months.Sunshiny and oh-so-sexy, Annie is just the distraction that Chase needs until he can put his hometown in the rearview for good. The...

He broke her heart once. Now he wants her back—he just doesn't know who she is.The last time I spent a summer in Cedar Springs, I was the chubby, awkward girl hopelessly in love with Ian McCormick. The boy who shattered my heart before he even knew he had it.That girl is gone.Seventy-five pounds, a thousand workouts, and three million followers later, I'm back in town with one question I can't shake.Do looks really matter?Then I see ...

I let my first love walk away. Now we're faking a relationship for the holidays. Only my feelings? They're stronger than ever.Harper Bennett wasn’t just my first love—she was my only love.I wanted to be the man she built a life with.But she dreamed of culinary school and a bigger life than I could give her.I loved her too much to ask her to stay.Now she’s back—helping out at her grandmother’s restaurant while Willa's health ...

Starting over was the goal—falling in love wasn’t.I came back to Trickle Creek to open a brewery and build a life for my daughter.Falling for the uptight bookstore owner next door? Not part of the plan.Delaney Brooks is all closed doors and cool glares—especially when my construction noise crashes her book club.I try to charm her. She shuts me down.But the more we clash, the more I want her. And when a snowstorm traps us tog...

**Please note this is a short story in the Springs Series and is best enjoyed after reading Falling into Forever and the rest of the Springs Series**Quote: "With the right person, marriage isn’t a life sentence. It’s a life."Fighting for Forever (The Springs) by Elena Aitken: Ever since falling in love at The Springs, Rhys and Kari have been living a fairy tale, but fairy tales aren't real. Or are they? When Kari runs from the idea of forever, Rhys will have to fig...

A single mom needs a fake fiancé by Friday. He says yes without blinking. Now they're both falling for the family they faked.I've raised my son on my own for years. We don't need anyone else.Then his father walked back into our lives. With a lawyer.If I can't prove I have a stable, two-parent home, fast, I could lose my boy. So I did the only thing I could think of.I asked Declan McCormick to be my fake fiancé.Everyone in town knows ...

Snowed in for Christmas…She only wants to ignore it. But he’s determined to show her everything the season has to offer…including love.For Andi Williams, Christmas represents everything she’s supposed to have—and doesn’t. Running away to a remote mountain lodge seems like the perfect way to escape the season. And it would have been if it weren’t for the snow storm and a booking mix-up that finds her stranded. That is, until a rough around the edges, green ...

A runaway bride and a playboy. One bedroom in a remote cabin. A spark neither of them have felt before.After almost hooking up with a gorgeous blonde stranger as a misguided way of dealing with his problems, Asher Carlson needs to escape. Discovering he has inherited a remote mountain cabin provides the perfect solution. The last thing he expects is for a runaway bride—that same beautiful blonde woman—to jump in the cab of his truck and demand to go wherever he is ...

He chose his career. She settled for ‘just friends’. Now he’s back, and everything’s changed. Except her feelings.Charli Carlson’s never been good enough. Not for her family, Not for herself. And definitely not for her best friend whom she’s been desperately in love with since they were kids. But that hasn’t been an issue since he left their small mountain town years ago to pursue his career.Two-time Olympic medalist, Symon Scott is back in Trickle Creek to...