Ivy Nrapu has always had an uncanny ability to know where her relationships will end. There’s not one man who’s pursued her, she couldn’t figure out in an instant. From the hobbies they’d prefer, or their favorite toy as a child, to where they’ll take her on dates and the pick-up-lines they’ll use to woo her, she can see it all from a mile away. What’s a girl who adores adventure, living in a world that offers her none, to do? When, on one unassuming day, the door to her mother’s flower shop Tulips to Kiss opens to bring a new man into her life, everything changes. Tall and handsome, with a smile to rival the sun itself, nothing about this stranger lines up with her impressions and that is as terrifying as it is thrilling.
Dahlia Orson has never considered herself one to stop traffic. She keeps her head down, works hard, and cares deeply for those she loves. She’s never been one to draw attention when she walks into a room or to be whispered about in a crowd. Imagine her surprise, when, one day, letters from a secret admirer begin to arrive. The pretty words on paper stir her heart and make her dream of a tall, dark, and mysterious stranger. That is, until they begin to coincide with disappearances in the local news. Just who is this dark stranger Dahlia has inspired, and will she be his next target?
Trevor O’Toole knows what it means to live in the darkness and hide his troubles from the world. To drink himself into oblivion just to forget the monsters of his past. That’s all behind him now though, or so he believes. With one hard-earned year of sobriety under his belt, he receives a letter from the last place he ever expects: his estranged father’s estate lawyer claiming he is the sole heir to the liquor store his father chose over him. What will become of a man plunged to the bottom of a bottle to clean up his father’s mess? Trevor can only pray he can hold on long enough not to fall prey to the whiskey haze once again.
Tiffany Bianco is used to getting her way in life. What’s not given to her, she will take. This is the philosophy she lives by and it has served her well in all things including building an empire out of her two favorite desserts, cheesecake and cupcakes. At least it did until she wanted to get her product onto grocery store shelves and out of her little online cupcake shop on the gauche world wide web. Now she has to contend with Bentley Overton the quintessential knight in shining armor if she wants in on the business his father built with his own two hands. Can this woman with a heart of steel learn to work with the man with a heart of gold?
Tabitha Thompson had never known where home was before Garret Murphey came into her life. After her mother passed when she was a little girl, she’d grown up helping her drunken father off the floor and covering the bruises he left in his wake. But her life before Garret is done. Now she has structure. When Garret’s construction business finally takes off, the woman without a home finds her roots beginning to grow. Though her past is never far from her thoughts, the four towering walls he builds around her keep the shadows at bay as they build his business, and their life, together, until a cut brake line changes everything and returns uncertainty to her world. Garret’s right-hand man, Harrison, finishes construction on the custom home Garret designed for Tabitha, leaving her to reconstruct her life between the four walls he built her, and the secrets they hold.
Camille Jensen grew up to be Camille Leonard, and then Camille Martin, but where did she begin? An army brat, Camille has an overwhelming love for her father who rules with an iron fist and a short temper, and a mother who raises her on a steady diet of wedding dreams and fairytales. Moving from state to state with a constant worry about her blood sugar hanging over her head, she chooses to spend her time in the world of her dreams; until the summer she meets Caleb Arthur Leonard, a self-proclaimed bad boy and the key to the rest of her life.
Colton and Spencer Briggs are brothers in arms and brothers by blood. They think life will be a breeze when they leave the military and start up their own security business. What’s the worst that can happen shuffling prissy popstars from one show to the next? Little do they know what will happen when they stop by their favorite little coffee spot on the way to their next job. Elenore Shotts’ biggest worry is making enough in tips to cover her bills, that is until a strange man with deadly intentions walks into the small coffee shop where she works. His sights are set on her and her back is to the wall until two of her regulars step in to offer a helping hand. Shots will fly and passions will flare. Will anyone be left standing?
Ever since she was a child, Miriam (Mimzie) Montebello has loved macaws. Her adoration for these beautiful creatures began with her grandmother’s macaw, Major. Loud, intelligent, and a handful, she saw herself in him. It’s no surprise to anyone who knows her when at twenty-six she founds Mimzie’s Macaw Mafia, a sanctuary for these beautiful and often misunderstood birds. When macaws and other large parrots begin to pour into the sanctuary at an ever-increasing rate, Mimzie sets out to discover why. Single father Avery Grayson runs exotic pet shop Taste of the Wild, and business has never been better. Happy customers come and go from his shop daily, especially since he began carrying exotic birds. Who doesn’t love a pet that can talk? Carrying birds is something Avery promised himself he would never do, but when his business began to fail and it came to a choice between keeping food in his daughter’s stomach, or letting a few owners learn on the fly, he learned to overlook a few things. When a loud-mouthed woman comes snooping around his shop demanding he stop trading in these winged meal tickets, will he tell her to test her wings off a cliff, or will sparks fly?
Cherry Miller doesn’t know where she fits in life. With a restless spirit, an ailing grandmother whom she loves dearly, and painfully awkward social skills, what’s a girl to do? Each afternoon while her grandmother sleeps, Cherry walks down to the fifty’s style soda shop a few blocks away to sip on a marshmallow cherry float and daydream about the shop owner with broad shoulders and a smile to outshine the sun. When he offers to walk her home one night, Cherry finds she’s not the only one restless to get her out of the house.
From the start, Nikki Rainiers has had to fight for what most people take for granted. Abandoned by her teenage mother after being born with a bleed in her brain and a subsequent surgery to save her life, her grandparents raised her working alongside them in their small bakery.After her grandparents’ passing it’s Nikki’s turn and she’s determined to do things her own way and make Cherry Sunrises the doughnut shop of her dreams. But when old health issues resurface to threaten everything, Nikki must fight for it all once more.Male nurse Wes Owens is a man used to the dailyteasing of his colleagues, but he’s never let it stop him from giving each patient his all. However, when he meets Nikki, a woman determined to succeed at the cost of her health, will giving his all mean losing his heart?
Adella Leigh Carpenter has a job in New York she loves and a heart that’s closed after a hard-won fight to leave her bruised and battered past behind her. But when the mother of her first love and greatest heartbreak reaches out in the season of forgiveness begging for her help, that past comes flooding back. With the help of her best friend Parker, she returns home to Vermont to face the ghosts of seasons long past. Will Adella find it in her heart to forgive a man with no memory of his sins and maybe even find love again?