For Lynn Danfort, the sudden loss of her young husband had been almost unbearable. With two children to raise, she'd counted on the support of her husband's best friend, Ryder Matthews. But then Ryder left town without warning and Lynn found herself feeling alone and betrayed. Now, three years later. Ryder is back. Ryder had tried to deny th reason he'd fled Seattle, but the truth has finally caught up with him. He's in love with Lynn -- always has...

A confirmed bachelor, Cliff Howard drives an expensive car and dates stylish glamour girls. But one look into Diana Collins's soulful brown eyes has him thinking about car pools instead of the fast lane. Try as he might to resist, Cliff is soon forced to admit that this lovely widow and her rambunctious young daughters could grow on a man. But can they convince Cliff to give up his playboy ways for domestic bliss?

Robin Masterson's ten-year-old son, Jeff, thinks he needs a dog more than anything in the world. And there just happens to be one right next door! But the friendly black lab belongs to Cole Camden, the unfriendliest man in the neighborhood. Cole hadn't always been so solitary, so aloof. The deaths of his wife and son have embittered him, and that is something Robin could understand. Her own much-loved husband died when Jeff was just a baby. Still....

Trading Christmas: Deciding to spend Christmas in Boston with her daughter, widow Emily Springer, through the Internet, swaps houses with history professor Charles Brewster, but destiny intervenes when this unlikely couple is forced to spend the holidays together.

Shadow Chasing: The last man Carla Walker's going to count on is a cop as far as her love life's concerned. Her dad is a police officer, so she's already decided that's not the kind of future she wants. She knows about the long hours, the unpredictable calls, the danger. Carla meets Philip Garrison on vacation, and it's more than a holiday fling. She falls for him. Hard. And then she learns he's a cop. For All My Tomorrows: Lynn Danfort had always...

Yours and mine: "Marriage is an experience that single mom Joanna Parsons doesn't plan to repeat, no matter what her eleven-year-old daughter, Kristen, thinks. Tanner Lund feels the same way. Like Joanna, he got divorced after a short, disastrous marriage. And like her, he's raising his eleven-year-old daughter, Nicole, alone. But Kristen and Nicole have other plans in mind--and it involves the best friends becoming sisters. Both Tanner and Joanna...

It's nothing special on the surface, merely a rambling old Victorian summerhouse on a secluded island, where the sky is blue and the water is clear. Yet after a month at the Rainshadow Lodge, people begin to change -- and fall in love. How else can you account for what happens to the most mismatched, unlikely couples? There's Beth, who's stuck sharing the lodge with a complete stranger -- and a difficult one at that. And Mitch, a workaholic on a deadline...

The Playboy and the Widow: Unwilling to let go of the memory of her husband, Diana Collins is struggling to raise her two girls on her own. When confirmed bachelor Cliff Howard swoops in and helps her one day, their connection is immediate. But Diana isn't ready to risk her heart again, and Cliff doesn't think he's ready for family ties. Cliff comes to realize that while he may seem like he's got everything, he doesn't have what he really wants, and...

Nell Bishop is a widow and mother of two kids and has changed Twin Canyons into a dude ranch. Among her first visitors is Travis Grant, a famous person of sorts, an aspiring cowboy, and a man from the East known for his Western books. Nell's kids are wild about Travis, and Nell is getting a little crazy about him, too. It is too soon, she thinks, to think of dating and marriage. And Travis appears intent on shaking up the town, by discovering a mystery...