Donna Alward

Ethan Gallagher is a firefighter in Darling, Vermont, who followed tradition and pledged his love on the Kissing Bridge to ensure lifelong happiness. A few years later, he's a widower with two rambunctious boys who no longer believes in magic. But even he has to admit that free-spirited Willow Dunaway fills him with wonder and an attraction he cannot deny. Willows come back to Darling a different girl than the one who left after high school. Overcoming...

Her daughter deserves justice, but someone wants to stop her... Seven years after the murder of Andi Wallace's daughter, new evidence reopens the case. And this time RCMP officer Ryan Davenport is determined to catch the killer. Ryan hasn't forgiven himself for the crime going unsolved, and Andi needs closure. But getting too close to Andi could jeopardize his involvement in the case...and land them both in danger!

Jen O'Keefe agrees to just one dance with cowboy Drew Laramie for old times' sake because she can't risk losing her heart to him again. Drew left Larch Valley, promising Jen he would return, but when he didn't Jen moved on with her life. Now the childhood sweetheart Jen had stopped waiting for is back.

Friendship? Melissa Stone has done a fine job of avoiding her former best friend Cooper Ford. She was devastated when she discovered her husband was cheating on her, and felt doubly betrayed that Cooper had known all along ... Forgiveness But she can't ignore him forever- especially now that they're working together on a charity project! And as she and Cooper get closer again, she confides in him her plans to start a family- alone. Fatherhood! Cooper...

A PRICELESS FIND John Callister and his brother had built a ranching empire in Montana. They'd made their fortune - and they'd made Callister a household name. But now John wants something he can call his own. So he starts over - without the Callister name - vowing to polish a run-down spread in the small, sleepy town of Hollister into a jewel. But the jewel he uncovers isn't a ranch. Sassy Peale is pretty and shy with far too much responsibility...

The Last Mercenary: "Micah Steele was a mystery, as silent as stone and just as intractable. Not even those closest to him knew the details of his life--which was exactly how it had to be. Because Micah was a mercenary, and his lies protected those he loved. Or they had, until the young beauty he'd left behind in Jacobsville, Texas, was kidnapped by his sworn enemy. Micah was prepared to go to the ends of the earth to rescue Callie Kirby. But...

Lizzie Howard is a big-city trauma doctor who has always put her career before everything else. When one careless mistake brings her planned future to a halt, she temporarily takes over a friend's practice in the small Maine town of Jewell Cove. Widowed doctor Joshua Collins comes back home to Jewell Cover to recover from his wife's death. The two of them spark a flame that crackles higher and brighter every day and makes them wonder if a seasonal...

Laura Jessup is used to the rumors--everyone in tiny Gibson, Montana, thinks she's a home-wrecker. And Laura can handle that if it means protecting her daughter from her sweet girl's father. Only hunky EMT Tanner Hudson seems immune to the gossipmongers. The solution he proposes--a marriage in name only!--might just be crazy enough to work ... if only Laura can keep her heart out of it. Tanner wasn't sure Laura would accept a platonic marriage, even...

Then and now: "After her divorce was finalized, Elisabeth McCartney felt adrift, lost. So she decided to escape to her centuries-old family home. People in Pine River had said the house was haunted, but Elisabeth never believed them. Until one night when she heard the voice of a child. She followed the voice--all the way back to 1892. Elisabeth wasn't prepared to be thrust into a Victorian world. Nor was she prepared for the emotional pull she felt...