Family Engagement

A rock star, a social worker, and a teen in need of a family. Can their pretend relationship become real? Still blaming herself for a long-ago tragedy, not to mention a failed marriage, social worker Tessa Loughty focuses all her energy on redeeming herself through her job. But when she takes Ollie, a foster teen she bonded with, to the concert of a rock star he idolizes, the failures she’s hiding from catch up with her. Ari McFarland was a childhood friend and the lifelong crush she lost touch with. When they want to adopt Ollie, Ari suggests they form an unlikely union to increase their...

Levi is a wanderer at heart and he’s got his sights on getting out of Mistletoe, Montana. Now. When he gets in a horrible accident and is rescued by a beautiful stranger, Levi starts to question if what he thinks he wants is really what he wants. The only things holding him in place at the woman’s house are some bruises and a winter storm that, like all good things, must eventually come to an end. He learns her name is Tarryn and she’s more interesting than anyone he’s met in a long time. But the storm ends and he has to leave. He wants to stay, and there are a thousand reasons why ...

What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? And most importantly, is there a scientific formula for love? Drs. John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman are the world’s leading relationship scientists. For the past forty years, they have been studying love. They’ve gathered data on over three thousand couples, looking at everything from their body language to the way they converse to their stress hormone levels. Their goal: to identify the building blocks of love.

An artist, a cowboy, and a fake marriage. Nothing can go wrong… I’m in the middle of my art show when the biggest jerk in a cowboy hat says my work isn’t worth wasting time on, let alone hard-earned money. I’m so mad I could spit! Oh, well. Doesn't matter. I'll never have to see him again. Wrong. The cowboy turns out to be my blind date the next night and I can’t leave because my sweet grandma set it up. How do you tell someone you love they have horrible taste in men? Why, oh, why, do the crazy things have to happen to me? Well, my friend, things go from lame to worse when he ...

TAKING LOVE AND LAW SERIOUSLY... Aiden O'Connell is a decorated and dedicated K-9 handler, teamed with a dynamic faithful partner, Cooper. Lindsay is a compassionate social worker who cares deeply for the displaced children she helps. These two public servants decide to adopt a little boy and get married to raise him together. Share in their engagement, training to foster-to-adopt, his job as a police officer, her work as a social worker, their wedding, honeymoon, and many other surprises along the way. But a huge obstacle threatens the home they built together when the little boy's abusive...

Britta Bolton has known and loved Mav her whole life – as friends. She’s willing to be the friend he needs even if her own happiness is sacrificed. She’s interested in dating someone else, but she promptly puts that plan on hold to come to the rescue of her best friend. She loves his company and they know each other inside and out. While a marriage of convenience isn’t what she really sees for herself, she’s more than willing to make this plan work for the guy who’s always been there for her. Maverick Tucker is in a bit of a pickle. He’s ready for the promotion he’s worked ...

He assumed she was his fake date. She’s just the kind of woman to go with the flow. And then his whole plan blows up in his face. Nora is spontaneous with a bubbly personality. When she’s approached by a straight-laced guy who thinks she’s his arranged date, she goes along without a question. He’s easy to look at and this could be a fun way to spend a weekend. Grayson wants his family to get off his back. A quiet and compliant date to his cousin’s wedding will buy him some time. He expected her to have at least read the background document he’d provided and it was disappointing ...

Janie Hunt's path to the true ways of life was shaky, beset with constant sting of rejection and cruelty from her parents. She was a teenager when she first set foot in a church, where her new best friend's dad was a pastor. Now, after graduating from college and still trying to find her path in life, it still pains her to think of her past. Bradley Bridges is a small town guy, well loved by his neighbors and friends. He didn't grow up surrounded by faith, and he didn't know that anything was missing from his life... until he met Janie. As the friendship between Janie and Bradley grows, and...

Available in Ebook and Paperback Realistic, Funny, Emotional When a tragic accident deprived Tammy Fletcher of her loving parents at the age of nineteen, she pledged to take care of her five brothers and sisters, ranging in age from eight months to sixteen years. But she’s up against her greedy step-aunt who wants to get her hands on the children’s trust fund, and the CPS caseworker who insists on putting the children in the foster care system. Dr. Jack Conan, the orthopedic surgeon treating the children’s grandmother, is both impressed by Tammy’s efforts to keep the family together...

Love was never part of the plan--not with the billionaire next door, the grumpy music teacher, or the childhood friend she should’ve never kissed. But fate doesn’t care about plans. First, Mia found herself snowed in with Alex Hawthorne--her arrogant, gorgeous enemy--and walked away fake-engaged… and secretly pregnant.Then came Sophia, who fell hard for Adrian Hale, her son’s brooding music teacher, just as her manipulative ex returned to reclaim what he lost. Now, Lilly faces the most forbidden temptation of all: Luke O’Connor—her childhood best friend, who became an NBA star, ...

The Emmy award-winning news anchor of Outnumbered Overtime with Harris Faulkner and co-host of the talk show Outnumbered shares the lessons she learned growing up in a military family paying homage to the military ideals that shaped her and showing how everyone can benefit from bringing the wisdom of military service into their lives. Born into a military family, Harris Faulkner revered her father, a decorated career officer who served three tours of duty in Vietnam and raised his children with the values and ideals of the US military.

I left town with big dreams and a bigger fear of settling down. Now I’m back—jobless, directionless, and weeks away from thirty—with nothing to show for my ambitious life but a suitcase and an aching heart. Chandler Monroe was my best friend. My first love. The boy I made a marriage pact with when we were sixteen. If we were both single at thirty, we’d marry each other. He never forgot. And now that I’m back in Harbor Ridge, he’s daring me to say yes. It’s supposed to be a joke. A harmless practice date. A pretend engagement that spirals out of control faster than small-town ...

From their first kiss, 27-year-old writer Danielle Trussoni is spellbound by a novelist from Bulgaria. The two share a love of jazz and books and travel, passions that intensify their whirlwind romance. Eight years later, hopeful to renew their marriage, Danielle and her husband move to the south of France, to a picturesque medieval village in the Languedoc. It is here, in a haunted stone fortress built by the Knights Templar, that she comes to understand the dark, subterranean forces that have been following her all along.

Aleksandr Berinksi is a Russian biochemist in the United States on a visa that is about to expire. Marriage will allow him to stay - marriage to Julia Conrad. If Julia's going to save her Seattle-based company, she needs him as much as he needs her. There's a Groom Wanted in Julia's life. And not just any groom!

To quell his grandfather’s fears of a 300 year old curse coming to fruition, the del Castillo brothers have agreed to marry or become engaged to appease the old man. All Reynard de Castillo had been looking for with Sara Woodville was an open-ended engagement with no prospect of seeing it into marriage. Stinging from the fresh wounds of a broken engagement, Sarina Woodville accepts her identical twin sister’s invitation to join her on Isla Sagrado, but on her arrival she finds herself involuntarily masquerading as her twin. Unwilling to take part in the charade, Rina is determined to ...

Her perfect date? Veronica Grant needs a man to take to her cousin’s wedding in order to keep her matchmaking mother at bay. A man like Fergus Kavanagh. He’s perfect—rich, charming and sexy. If he accompanies Veronica, her mother won’t mention marriage for weeks! Luckily, Fergus has matchmaking relatives of his own he wants to avoid, so he proposes a pact: he will be Veronica’s pretend lover if she becomes his! Now he just needs to remember it’s all an act…even though their sizzling chemistry feels oh-so-real!

These passionate, emotional romances will heat up your nights… Fall in love all over again in sizzling hot love stories featuring Hollywood’s super powerful family, The Maguires. All these romances come with late-night guaranteed, irresistible Happily Ever Afters. TEMPTING THE HEARTBREAKER Former child star Sabrina Maguire is poised to make a major comeback, but an image destroying scandal while she’s in Italy threatens the film’s success. Her brother’s friend Rafe Cavelli hides her until a PR campaign reverses the damage. Sparks fly between them and they indulge in their desires ...

Single mom Daisy Sorensen doesn't believe in fairytale endings - at least not for her. All she wants is to enjoy a much-needed, stress-free family vacation at a friend's Lake Tahoe home. So of course everything that can go wrong does. Including a gorgeous man and his daughter showing up in the middle of the night. Soon-to-be Governor Jack Harrison has had a crazy week, but he's sure nothing can top arriving to find a bathrobe-clad, beautiful stranger in the home he's staying in for the week.

When Elizabeth Chatham met her new boss, department-store owner Nicholas Lancaster, she completely fell for him. But she never imagined that after a whirlwind courtship, Nick would be on bended knee proposing to her. It was the stuff of a Christmas fairy tale... Then Nick and Elizabeth decided to hold their wedding in Elizabeth's hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and their dream of an idyllic Christmas wedding began to turn into a disaster. Elizabeth's family wanted a lively, down-home, country-style party with all their friends and relatives. Nick's family, on the other hand, pushed for...

A broken engagement is complex. You were at the ultimate high point of love - planning your dream wedding and future - and, suddenly, the dreams disappeared. I understand you. Let's talk about it, and let's talk about how you will pick yourself right back up, piece-by-piece, and push forward, little-by-little. You will, and I will help you. And so will God, whether you know him right now, or not.