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As war approaches in 1939, Abby Stapleton’s safety is under threat. Her father, a British diplomat, insists she go back to America until the danger passes. Abby vows to return to her home in London - but where is home? With her family facing mortal danger so far away and feeling herself isolated, she finds it hard to pray or read the Bible. Did she leave God behind in war-torn London, too? Abby becomes friendly with Jim, a gardener on her uncle’s estate.

After a failed engagement, Captain Andrew Lee James has focused on building a career in the Army he loves. That commitment includes helping a feisty, out-of-work ballerina whose devotion to her grandmother’s dying wish immediately grabs his heart. She’s the one, but will he be able to win the heart of a woman who has vowed to never be involved with a soldier? College graduate Clara Malone swore to never love anyone in the military again, but when her dying grandmother asks her to deliver a love letter to the general who broke her heart decades ago, she agrees.

Judging a chocolate-making competition for the women’s shelter’s annual fundraiser should be an easy, even pleasurable, assignment for Maise, new food critic for the Bloomingfield Daily Dispatch. Too bad just the smell of chocolate makes her stomach roil. By the time she reaches the last table, she hopes her face isn’t as green as her holiday sweater. But the tall, square-jawed man behind piles of fudge makes her want to linger, even savor the moment along with his chocolate-coffee-flavored confection.

To help her archaeologist sister, geeky Samantha Rose swaps her black T-shirts and diet of pizza and ice cream for a pretty apron and a summer caring for her adorable twin nieces plus their Newfoundland dog in Huckleberry Lake, Idaho. How hard can it be? When the homemaker blog meant to reassure her sister goes viral, everyone believes it's real. Sam needs to convince them she truly is a Proverbs 31 woman before the girls' overprotective grandma swoops in to remove them.

He was a handyman hired to clean and take care of the billionaire’s yacht. He was not the billionaire himself. But Thea doesn’t know that. She was a nanny, looking for some kids to love and guide. She wasn’t looking for a horde of scoundrels. Okay, they weren't so bad, but training them to be good, obedient children and use the gifts bestowed upon them was not going to be easy. Grunt is the actual billionaire - an elderly, gruff gentleman who is rather eccentric.

Emily Stewart is a daring business owner in New York. Keeping up with appearances has hit her finances hard, and a promising phone call turns into a troubling dilemma. If she has any hope of saving her match-making business, she needs to find a husband. Enter billionaire David Marks, an architect with a problem of his own. He lied to his family and now needs to find “the one” before grandmother Marks’ big party.

Bryce Montgomery is a local magazine’s number-one most eligible bachelor - but he’s not thrilled about it. He was talked into doing an interview by a self-serving friend and ended up at the top of the list, drawing all sorts of unwanted attention. Jaded by a failed engagement, all he wants to do is focus on growing his business, Titan Enterprises, but when he has a chance encounter with a woman at a restaurant, he is instantly intrigued by her.

A secret, an unseen witness, and a misunderstanding threaten to keep apart two people who have loved each other their entire lives. When these barriers to love are finally lifted, can she overcome her own insecurities and finally see the truth?

Kaine Prescott is no stranger to death. When her husband died two years ago, her pleas for further investigation into his suspicious death fell on deaf ears. In desperate need of a fresh start, Kaine purchases an old house sight unseen in her grandfather's Wisconsin hometown. But one look at the eerie, abandoned house immediately leaves her questioning her rash decision. And when the house's dark history comes back with a vengeance, Kaine is forced to face the terrifying realization she has nowhere left to hide.

No one knows who the victim was, where he came from, or why he staggered out in front of Chief Cade’s car. Guilt overwhelms him that he killed the mysterious stranger, until Cade learns that the man had been shot at close-range before he was struck. Determining his identity and finding the shooter becomes Cade’s top priority. But then Cade vanishes off of the island of Cape Refuge. Rumors spread like wildfire that Cade was involved with the dead man’s wife and that the death was not accidental. Did Cade run to escape murder charges, or has something sinister happened to him?