A 5-star rating in the Readers’ Favorite International contest!It’s 1925 in St. Paul, Minnesota, a haven for hardened criminals—and the women who find themselves trapped in a dangerous game…Charlotte LeDoux’s nine-year marriage to bootlegging kingpin, Gus “Lucky” LeDoux, is falling apart. The same day Char learns she’s pregnant, she catches Gus in the act of adultery and it’s clear he has no intention of ending the affair....

Does time really heal all wounds?Libby Cunningham has finally found the daughter her father forced her to give up for adoption nearly sixteen years ago. She has never forgiven herself and now desperately wants to make it up to Amber for the years they’ve lost. However, she has also learned that Cash MacKenzie, Amber’s father, has custody. Libby has never forgotten that Cash broke her teenage heart and deserted her when she needed him the most. Now he holds...

Merry Connor is struggling to feed her two children, pay heating bills and fix her secondhand car.Though she’s barely making it financially, life is good. That is, compared to two years ago when she lost everything—thanks to her lying, deceiving ex-husband. She’s come a long way since then and doesn’t intend to look back. Even so, it’ll be a long time before she trusts anyone with her heart again.Tony Lewis hasn’t had a merry Christmas ...

It sounds too good to be true...The invitation from “Perfect Match Online Dating and Travel Agency” offers Ava Godfrey an all-expenses-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 “pe...

Guess who’s coming to dinner?Sophie Lillie is looking forward to spending the holidays in Hawaii with her family on their annual Christmas cruise. It won’t be the same this year, however, without her mother. Maggie’s death has drawn the family closer together, but when Sophie’s father shows up with his new fiancée, their fragile reunion is torn apart. Sophie turns to an unlikely stranger for comfort, a man who is dealing with a betrayal of his own…...

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. Determined to start ov...

Lonely and alone...At sixteen, Libby Cunningham’s mother is deceased, her father is constantly away on business and her grandmother rarely speaks a kind word to her. God is always judging her—or so she believes. Feeling unloved and unwanted, she dreads coming home after school to an empty house. The only bright spot in her life is the very thing her father forbids her to have—a boyfriend. Cash MacKenzie fulfills her deepest need when he vows to love her al...

It’s 1926 in St. Paul, Minnesota and Prohibition is in full swing. A woman can vote, work full time, show her legs in public and cut her hair but she can’t enter a speakeasy without a man by her side…Charlotte LeDoux is struggling to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Her late husband, Gus, has left her a lot to deal with—his sprawling business empire, his enemies, and an ex-mistress who desperately needs a friend. It’s tough for a woman to compete ...

As charming as your favorite holiday movie…Katie McGowan is desperate to make it home for Christmas.Since the death of her husband in a snowmobile accident two years ago, her family has filled the void left by Josh’s passing. Returning home from a business trip on December 23rd, Katie finds herself trapped by a blizzard in Alexandria, Minnesota. Stranded travelers have filled the hotels, leaving her no choice but to take a...

Annika Nilsen is a small-town girl with big-city dreams…At twenty-eight, she’s stuck in her hometown of West Loon Bay, Minnesota, population 397, with no boyfriend, no money, and no future. Life is boring and predictable until her best friend convinces her to take a road trip out west to see what they’re missing. Everything is going according to the plan until her brother suddenly shows up with his bandmate, Alexander Lange. Annika’s attraction to Alex is ...

When old friends reunite, will a new enemy keep them apart?Ashton Wyatt has spent a decade running from her past.Hanging out with a bad crowd in high school cost Ashton her reputation, her boyfriend and her relationship with her parents. Determined to start over, she has moved far away, but can’t escape the loneliness that shrouds her heart. When she receives an offer to return to the small, tourist town of West Loon Bay to revive The Ramblin’ Rose...

Rock Henderson needs a wife—and fast.His dying mother’s last wish is to leave this world knowing her son is blissfully married…and producing grandchildren. It’s just a small lie to make her eternally happy, one he doesn’t think he’ll have to make good on until Zelda storms his riverfront penthouse the week before Christmas with her nurse and her twenty-pound tabby cat. With his ex-fiancée long gone and his wheelchair-bound mother demanding to meet his wife...