Hollywood actress Ariel Hart is ready for some major changes in her life. So she sells everything and moves to Chula Vista--the place where she was once truly happy, back when she was plain Aggie Bixby, and passionately in love with a boy named Felix. When she arrives, she meets wealthy rancher Lex Sanders. But there's something familiar about his eyes.

Is the heart smarter than the head? Artist Miranda Jones begins to trust her heart enough to escape from her life of privilege and start over in Milford-Haven, the small town of undiscovered beauty on California's Central Coast. She connects with environmentalist Samantha Hugo- a brilliant PhD twenty years her senior, who gave up a son years earlier, and with restaurant owner Sally O'Mally, who left Arkansas to create her own dream. Each woman wrestles...

"Set in a future where the United States has dissolved and California is its own independent republic, Lord of California follows the struggles of the Temple family as they work at running a farm on a nationalized land parcel in the central San Joaquin Valley. When the family patriarch, Elliot, dies, it's revealed that he had been keeping five separate families, and in the aftermath of this discovery, his widows and children must come together to...

"Gold Rush California's notorious "Legislature of a Thousand Drinks" launches a secret consortium of frontier barons, triggering the collapse of independent mines throughout Sierra Nevada. James MacLaren, a fugitive from Scotland, embarks on a new life in California, escaping his secrets but not his hatred for the upper class. He is a man always on his guard, leery of the entitled and wary of his own temper. While raising a beautiful, headstrong daughter,...