Kirjahaku

Surrendering her virginity to her high school sweetheart the same night her family entered the Witness Protection Program comes back to haunt Dawn Wainwright when she is not allowed to inform him of their daughter's birth. Later, the death of her parents frees Dawn from the WIP, but she discovers Rick Landry has moved and for fifteen years Dawn raises Kelley alone. Then the respected scientist relocates to San Francisco and crosses paths with Rick. Fearing his reprisal, Dawn still keeps their daughter's existence secret. While at the DMV Kelly sees her birth certificate for the first time and discovers Dawn listed her father as Unknown. Convinced her mother lied to her about her father and slept around in her teens, the distraught girl runs away. To insure her safety, Dawn sends Rick to bring her home. He guesses the truth and forges lasting but fragile bonds with his daughter.

Wilda Stone goes for a hot air balloon ride, and after a heart-stopping crash in California's Owens Valley, realizes she has somehow traveled back through time to 1874. Confused by this turn of events, Wilda accepts help from stoic Hal Grantham, who promises to take her to the silver mining town of Cerro Gordo. A sandstorm makes it impossible for them to reach their destination they seek shelter in a cave. In the modern day world Wilda is from, this would not be a problem. But in 1874, her reputation is now compromised. To protect her, Hal insists they marry. Wilda declines. Hal persists, and she relents, for she had fallen in love with the terse lawman. Their turbulent marriage is filled with adventure and adjustments, but tempered by their all-consuming love. Only Wilda's kidnapping by a man intent on killing Hal threatens their happiness. She survives a mine-shaft cave-in only to face the danger of diphtheria spreading through Cerro Gordo. Fearing for his wife's life Hal secretly repairs Wilda's hot air balloon and forces her to return to her own time, shattering her heart. Wilda is faced with a choice -- go home, or stay with the man she loves.

A marriage counselor with marital problems? Jill O'Malley is determined to give husband Drew a son, while Drew secretly prays Jill will never conceive. He fears the responsibility of raising a child, but can't reveal his fear and risk losing Jill. His conflict compromises their marriage, and Jill doesn't even know why. In an attempt to save his marriage, Drew books a trip for them to visit family in Ringskiddy, Ireland, in hopes of distracting Jill from her all-encompassing need for a child. The clean Irish air soon makes Jill forget those woes. Now she has new ones. Drew's baby brother died in infancy, yet no one ever mentions him. Why? Jill accidentally awakens ghosts from Drew's past and his childhood nightmares return. Then the near drowning of his nephew forces Dew to confront his memories and reveal his now resolved fear of fatherhood. Will Jill still love him?

Her roof leaks, the plumbing, too. But on a teacher's salary, Treasure Montgomery cannot afford to pay the taxes on the grand Victorian house she inherited from the great-aunt who raised her, let alone pay for the needed repairs. Seeking fulfillment in an otherwise empty life, Treasure surrounds herself with other people's children. Until she meets Buck. The retired rodeo rider turned philanthropic-contractor donates his labor to anyone who needs a helping hand, spending his father's fortune to make amends for the man's ill-gotten gains. He wants to help, but prideful Treasure refuses to accept Buck's charity. He persists. She resists, so Buck circumvents Treasure's objections through subterfuge. Then she learns the truth -- her new roof cost far more than planned. Fearing Buck will demand her house in payment, she empties her bank account, pays him and sends him packing. If she would only open her heart to him, Buck might be the answer to restoring more than just her home.

Successful businessman Luke Townsend hires Krista Lake to stage his Rancho Santa Fe estate for quick sale. He has unwillingly assumed the responsibility of running the family conglomerate following his father's sudden death and has placed his own plans on hold. The product of foster care, Krista longs for a home of her own, and promptly falls in love with Luke's. He wrongly believes unloading his house will relieve his stress until Krista points out the obvious -- his mother is also qualified to fill Luke's CEO shoes. Relinquishing the company reins frees Luke to move to Sacramento and head his favorite charity, a non-profit for fatherless, at-risk boys. He should be happy there, but he's not, even after his estate sells for a nice profit. The sale of the home she'd poured her soul into nearly breaks Krista's heart. Then Luke comes up with a plan to make everything right.

To satisfy the requirements for her graduate degree in fine art photography, and in turn secure her young daughter's future, Amy Millington is determined to photograph Charles Harding's boarded-up mansion. The reclusive architect allows no one to enter his former Mission Hills home, the traumatic scene of tragedy when he was four. Charles denies the gutsy widow's request, but Amy is nothing if not persistent. Amy and Marta's plan to teach Charles to have fun and smile again succeeds, and once he learns to appreciate landscape photography as fine art, he opens his house for Amy to photograph. Even though he has no intention of entering it himself. Then during a photo session, Marta disappears somewhere among the secrets hidden in the old home. In desperation, Charles enters his house for the first time in over thirty years to help Amy search. He finds Marta holding his mother's long-lost suicide note. The note shatters his memories and reveals truths he'd long forgotten, opening fresh wounds. Charles must choose between letting those wounds continue to fester, or finally allowing them to heal and building a new life with Amy and Marta.

Carina Carrington equates happiness with success, which means she has built a sound business but her sex life is nonexistent. Then she hires Greg Lawless, a secretive temp with exceptional office skills to cover for her secretary. With Greg comes temptation and Carina's problems multiply. Her strong attraction to him confounds her and her wandering daydreams about him break her focus. Greg seems uninterested, but at least when she catches the flu he steps in and covers the office while she's ill. Then strange problems at work lead Carina to suspect Greg is trying to sabotage her company. Torn between her wish to believe him innocent and the likelihood he is guilty, she lays him off, but he convinces her to give him twenty-four hours to find the one responsible. Unwilling to be discovered, the true culprit kidnaps Carina right before Greg determines her stalker's true identity. Greg is a great temp, but can he save Carina before it's too late?

Reclusive widow Jenny Hamilton retreats to her modern cabin in the Eastern Sierras, content to be cut off from the outside world, the victim of an abusive marriage that leaves her terrified of men. She spends her time writing, weaving and tending her animals until Tom Driscoll washes up in the creek below. Somehow Jenny finds the strength and courage to rescue the unconscious man and nurse him back to health while slowly falling in love with him. Then a burly intruder intent on revenge for crimes her late husband committed arrives and attempts to rape Jenny. Tom prevents the rape and saves her from harm, but the terrifying incident traumatizes her and all her earlier fears of men come flooding back. Convinced she can never trust another man, she orders Tom to leave, effectively shutting him out of her life. Can Tom soften Jenny's hardened heart and teach her to feel again?

Deputy Sheriff Jon Sutherland reunites with his high school sweetheart when he responds to a silent alarm she sets off while house sitting. This chance meeting sends the sheriff and Zoe Westmoreland on a roller coaster run for their lives. Burglars escaping from her parents' home, send her sprawling. Twice. Then she finds the gardener floating face down in the family pool and interrupts a burglary-in-progress next door. When the gardener's death is ruled a homicide Jon moves in to keep Zoe safe. Not all that easy. Two men try to force their vehicles off the road, and the one time Jon leaves Zoe alone those really bad guys show up again. Thanks to Zoe's quick thinking and resourcefulness, the crooks get a free ride to the hospital and she winds up in Jon's arms for keeps.