Lyndsay Snyder spent every summer of her childhood in Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, and, after returning to the small town to explore the secrets of her family's past, she makes a surprising decision to stay on as a teacher for the town's small school.

Three angels with a penchant for trouble bring some much-needed Christmas magic into the lives of three people--an elderly man searching for peace of mind, a young woman afraid of commitment, and a little boy with a special holiday wish.

"Friendly and bubbly, Julia Padden likes nearly everyone, but her standoffish neighbor, Cain Maddox, presents a particular challenge. No matter how hard she's tried to be nice, Cain rudely rebuffs her at every turn, preferring to keep to himself. But when Julia catches Cain stealing her newspaper from the lobby of their apartment building, that's the last straw. She's going to break through Cain's Scrooge-like exterior the only way she knows how:...

Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, has found new life. People have started moving here-people like Lindsay Snyder, who came for one year to work as a teacher and stayed, marrying local farmer Gage Sinclair. And now Lindsay's closest friend, Maddy Washburn, has decided to pull up stakes and join her in Buffalo Valley, hoping for the same kind of contentment. And the same kind of love...Jeb McKenna is a rancher, a man who's learned to endure, as the Dakota...

Three women meet at their fifteen-year class reunion and discover that their lives have taken unexpected directions. Back in their college days, Gretchen Wise had been engaged to a top law student. Carol Furness, head cheerleader, had said yes to the school's football hero. And Maddie Cobain was the girl who'd fallen for a professor. Now the three of them gather around a popular fountain on the college grounds. This fountain was where lovers met,...

The alarm on Hallie's biological clock is buzzing. She's about to turn 30 and there's no prospects of marriage in sight. Hallie, an organized, goal-setting kind of person, decides to give herself a year to meet Mr. Right. But all her dates are disasters. Too bad she can't fall for her good-looking neighbor Steve. But he's busy trying to win back his ex-wife who's about to marry someone else. Life would be simpler if he could fall for someone else--like...

"Since opening the Rose Harbor Inn, Jo Marie Rose has grown close to her handyman, Mark Taylor. Jo Marie and Mark are good friends--and are becoming something more--yet he still won't reveal anything about his past. When Mark tells her that he's moving out of town, Jo Marie is baffled. Just when she is starting to open herself up again to love, she feels once more that she is losing the man she cares about. And as she discovers the secret behind Mark's...

Her grandfather wants her to move home, and Molly thinks she just might. His ranch will be a good place for her sons to grow up, a place to escape big-city influence. Then she learns-from a stranger named Sam Dakota-that her grandfather is ill. Possibly dying. Molly packs up the kids without a second thought and makes the long drive to Sweetgrass, Montana. Once she arrives, she immediately has questions about Sam Dakota. Why is he working on her grandfather's...

Meet blissfully happy newlyweds Bobby and Teri Polger. He's an international chess champion, she's a salon stylist, and both will soon be confronted by deadly threats from a vindictive Russian rival.

"Two lifelong friends, a bartender and a pastor, decide to trade places the week before Christmas and end up finding love along the way in this delightful novel from the queen of holiday stories, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Peter Armstrong and Hank Colfax are best friends, but their lives couldn't be more different. Peter is a local pastor who is dedicated to his community. He spends his time visiting the flock, attending...