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Sometimes, doing the right thing backfires... spectacularlyBella Amaud is about to lose everything. Her shop, her home, and her fragile financial security.Then she finds out the man she is falling for, Owen, is the businessman at the center of all her problems.Owen has secretly long to belong-somewhere-anywhere-his whole life. When he decides to do the right thing for his long-lost brother, he ruins any chance of putting down roots and the family he longs for.Yes, sometimes doing the right thing does backfire and life explodes around you.Get The Shop on Main, the charming first book in the heartwarming Comfort Crossing series. Join Bella and her best friends, Jenny and Becky Lee, as they navigate life and love in the small southern town of Comfort Crossing, Mississippi.

Sometimes, mistakes are made for the best of reasons...When Dr. Clay Miller returns to Comfort Crossing with his two daughters, Jenny Bouchard knows it is time. Time to tell him the truth, no matter the consequences. Clay has a son, Nathan.From the moment Jenny and Clay see each other again, the attraction still pulsates between them, a fact they both do their best to ignore. Jenny searches for the right moment to tell Clay the truth and a chance to explain-she had made her choice, kept her secret, to protect her son. When Nathan is injured, she knows her time is running out. Jenny fears when the truth is revealed, she will lose not only Clay, but Nathan as well.But Clay has a secret of his own...

Sometimes life offers second chances ...Madeline Stuart has made one too many careless mistakes at her high-powered job and is asked to take a highly suggested vacation.But who could blame her scattered thinking? She's reeling from a breakup with her long-term boyfriend and her mother's recent death. While trying to fill the endless hours of free time, Madeline's curiosity is piqued when she finds an old letter hidden in her grandmother's antique writing desk addressed to Josephine Amaud in Comfort Crossing.It seems like a perfect time for a road trip to deliver the long-lost letter. What better way to keep busy?Deserted by his big-city girlfriend because he's a "country bumpkin," Gil Amaud, a business owner in Comfort Crossing, Mississippi, has sworn off women...... then he meets Madeline who needs his help. How could he refuse her?They soon discover the love letter was written many years ago by Josephine's first beau, Paul, but she never received it. While they try to unravel the mystery of how the letter ended up in the desk and work together to locate Paul, both Gil and Madeline try to deny the attraction developing between them.Can a big-city woman and a small-town businessman help reunite the star-crossed lovers? And can they find a way to put aside their differences to build a future together in this sweet, heartwarming tale of love and forgiveness?Maybe, just maybe, a second chance is all they really need.

Sometimes, the past isn't quite what it seems...Reluctant restauranteur, Keely Granger, wants nothing more than to escape the small town she's lived in her whole life, but her guilt and family responsibilities keep her firmly entrenched in Comfort Crossing, Mississippi.Lonely photojournalist, Hunt Robichaux, takes a break from his life-is-short, chase-after-your-dreams lifestyle and returns home to help his recently widowed sister and his nephews. But every responsibility he's ever taken on ends in disaster, so he's determined to leave before anyone starts to depend on him and gets hurt.As Keely and Hunt's relationship cook up to a more-than-childhood-friends level, Hunt has to decide if he's been chasing his dreams in the wrong part of the world. But as secrets from their past begin to unravel, Keely reels from the knowledge that everything she's believed to be true is all a lie. A disaster - and the truth - threaten to tear them apart forever.

Sometimes, you do unexpected things to protect the ones you love...Becky Lee is strong, independent, and lives on her own. She's happy with that, really she is, but she's always secretly longed for a family of her own. She just didn't expect to get one quite like this-by marrying a man she barely knows to keep her nephew safe. Becky Lee owes her sister that much.Cal would do anything to keep his nephew from a life of being raised by his grandfather, the same ruthless, do-anything-to-win man Cal has been running from for years. He's all in on Becky Lee's absurd marriage proposal because it just might be the only way to protect the boy. Cal owes his brother that much.Neither is prepared for the danger that surrounds them or the attraction that builds between them after their Unexpected Wedding.

Sometimes all you need is A Dream to Believe InAnnie Davenport owns the cheerful Bookish Cafe in the charming town of Sweet River Falls. She's perfectly content with her life.That is until Nick Chambers returns to town.Nick takes a leave of absence from his medical practice to accept a temporary university teaching position. He didn't dream he'd run into Annie again after all these years.But fate has other plans, as it often does.Sparks fly between them once again-or maybe they never died. After doing their best to avoid each other and failing miserably, Nick and Annie make a tentative truce and agree to put their past behind them.Nick helps remodel the loft area above her shop that she's hoping to have finished before the May Festival and the start of the busy tourist season. But a terrible accident reminds Nick why he left his medical practice and why he needs to move on from Sweet River Falls.Once again, they want-and need-different things out of life. Dreams and reality collide. But maybe this time the fates will be kinder. Maybe this time they can find A Dream to Believe In.A Dream to Believe In is book one in the feel-good fiction Sweet River series. Meet Annie and her best friend, Nora. Together they experience small-town life at its best and its worst, struggle to keep their businesses afloat, and maybe, just maybe, find love when it's least expected.A Dream to Believe In - Book OneA Memory to Cherish - Book TwoA Song to Remember - Book ThreeA Time to Forgive - Book FourA Summer of Secrets - Book FiveA Moment in the Moonlight - Book Six

Sometimes just A Memory to Cherish isn't enough...Beth Cassidy is out to prove something. To the town and herself. When she decides to run for mayor, the one thing she doesn't count on is bad-boy Mac McKenna showing back up in her life. Mac moved away from Sweet River Falls and has no desire to have anything to do with the town that always considered him an outsider, but he can't fight his growing attraction for the woman trying to overcome her own reputation in town. The town that seems to be having its fair share of trouble.And Mac seems to be right there every time something goes wrong. The cops and the town will never believe he's innocent. Even when Beth's best friend, Sophie, believes in Mac, it doesn't totally alleviate the doubts in the back of Beth's mind. Is Mac as innocent as he claims?Mac vows to wipe the dust of Sweet River Falls from his boots, and leave the town far, far behind. For good this time. He means it.Mac leaving for good is probably for the best. Beth is sure of it. Pretty sure...Will Beth and Mac find a way to have more than just A Memory to Cherish?A Memory to Cherish is book two in the Sweet River series. Annie and Nora, along with Nora's daughter, Beth, and her best friend, Sophie, navigate life in the charming town of Sweet River Falls. Book two is a heartwarming story of redemption and trust.

Sometimes a song brings back a memory...Sophie Brooks runs the small art gallery in Sweet River Falls. She's thrown herself into keeping the gallery open. She owes her parents that much.But when Chase Green arrives in town, long-buried memories of the dreams Sophie had for her life bubble to the surface.Chase is hiding from his own haunted past and keeping long-held secrets. When the secrets explode will they end his faltering country singer career?But when they team up for a duet, the chemistry between them is impossible to deny. Chase has a choice... will he let the past destroy his future?Sophie has a choice... will she walk away from everything to chase after her dreams? Sometimes the Song Remembers... even if you don't.

Sometimes is very, very hard to forget or forgive...Bree Stuart wants nothing more than to pack up her parents' cabin on Lone Elk Lake and get it ready to sell. One less reminder of her past.Jason Cassidy is thrilled to see his friend, Bree, back in Sweet River Falls after twenty years. He offers to help her get the cabin ready to put on the market. He convinces himself he's only doing it because she is his friend, nothing more.But complications arise when Bree's sisters arrive at the cabin-the very last thing in the world that Bree wants. Old wounds open. Secrets are spilled. And it seems like the Stuart sisters will never find a way to put the past behind them. History threatens to repeat itself, and Jason fears he's lost his one last chance with Bree.

A woman with a secret. A man who will never forgive her.Cece Stuart hadn't planned on ever finding love and she's made her peace with that. Really, she has...Zach is over women and their secrets. Really, he is...But fate laughed at them, as it often does, and threw them together finishing up a new wedding venue at Sweet River Lodge. As they unexpectedly begin to care about each other, Cece knows the truth will have to come out.But her secret from her past-her one big regret in life-is the one thing Zach can't forgive.

Sometimes even the best intentions don't help...Nora Cassidy wants nothing more than to run Sweet River Lodge on Lone Elk Lake. But change is coming to the lake.Harrison Stanworth is certain his mother is not getting a fair deal on the sale of their family property on the lake and travels to Sweet River Falls to see what shenanigans his cousin is up to with the sale.While staying out of sight of his cousin, Harrison stays at Nora's lodge and they begin a tentative friendship. A Moment in the Moonlight leads to unexpected deeper feelings.Then Nora finds out that Harrison's family is at the heart of all her problems on the lake.Harrison's attempts to help may not be enough and all may be lost... his family's cabin, the peaceful lake... and Nora.A charming conclusion to the Sweet River series.

Sometimes all you need is to believe in yourself...Charlotte finds herself living back on Belle Island, struggling to make a living in her now floundering art career. She moves in with her life-long friend, Robin, and attempts to find her love of painting again and prove to her family that she's a successful artist. A bonus would be if she could make a bit of money from it so she could pay the bills...Ben works nonstop running the marina he took over when his father suddenly passed away. That, along with keeping an eye on his mother and restoring his father's old boat keep him impossibly busy.But then Charlotte comes back to town and he can't quite keep his mind on business...Though Charlotte is convinced that Ben still has a crush on her beautiful, captivating sister. What man doesn't? Eva, the golden daughter, draws everyone's attention when she enters the room.Charlotte has a chance to prove to everyone she can reinvent herself and have a successful art career-even if her family thinks her new style of nostalgic painting isn't really considered art. And Ben's push to make his mother a bit more independent backfires on him.But wishes made at Lighthouse Point have a way of coming true-sometimes in surprisingly unexpected ways.Continue on with the stories of Charlotte, Sara, Robin, and their friends and family in this spin-off series of Lighthouse Point.This is book two in the Charming Inn series: One Simple Wish - Book OneTwo of a Kind - Book TwoThree Simple Things - Book ThreeFour Short Weeks - Book FourFive Years or So - Book FiveSix Hours Away - Book SixThe Lighthouse Point Series: Wish Upon a Shell - Book OneWedding on the Beach - Book TwoLove at the Lighthouse - Book ThreeCottage Near the Point - Book FourReturn to the Island - Book FiveBungalow by the Bay - Book Six

Sometimes a wish is only heard by the heart...Widow, Ruby Hallet, has almost adjusted to living life on her own. She has her knitting friends in The Yarn Society-they call themselves The Yarnies. Her son, Ben, drops in often to see her-and he's dating that darling woman, Charlotte. And she has her beloved dog, Mischief. What more could she need?David Quinn has not adjusted to his new life. He misses everything about his old life and he's come to Belle island to escape.When Ruby and David meet on the beach and slowly become friends, they both begin to think they just might have a chance for a new life. Ben disagrees-loudly and often. The last thing his mother needs is a man in her life. Especially one who is just on the island for a short visit.But when David finds out the one thing Ruby doesn't need might be exactly what he has to offer, their happiness is in jeopardy. Even the unwavering support of the Yarnies can't change the cold hard facts.As The Yarnies work on the winter festival, a surprise visit and a wish made at Lighthouse Point might change everything. Because wishes really do come true when you toss a shell into the sea at Lighthouse Point and make a wish.Don't they?A feel-good read in this spin-off series from Lighthouse Point. Continue reading about best friends, Sara, Charlotte, and Robin as well as the familiar townspeople of Belle Island.Either series can be read first, so jump right in This is book three in the Charming Inn series: One Simple Wish - Book OneTwo of a Kind - Book TwoThree Simple Things - Book ThreeFour Short Weeks - Book FourFive Years or So - Book FiveSix Hours Away - Book SixThe Lighthouse Point Series: Wish Upon a Shell - Book OneWedding on the Beach - Book TwoLove at the Lighthouse - Book ThreeCottage Near the Point - Book FourReturn to the Island - Book FiveBungalow by the Bay - Book Six