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When Will seeks to rekindle a flame with his ex-girlfriend, his best friend Monique reluctantly suggests a plan involving secret admirer notes to divert his ex's attention. In a surprising turn, Monique finds herself infatuated with her new boss, prompting Will to reciprocate with anonymous tokens of affection. However, as the deceptive game unfolds, both Monique and Will come to realize that the heartfelt sentiments expressed in the secret admirer notes were their own true feelings. So, what happens if the plan works? What happens if it doesn't?

Only a Christmas miracle could make them work together again.Gretchen and Levi were good together once, romantically and professionally. But competition isn't always good for the soul.Now, years later, Gretchen is determined to beat Levi in the holiday baking competition that will put her in front of a global audience. ¿But when a rival bakery tries to sabotage the competition, Gretchen and Levi will have to work together to salvage their creations, and their reputations--and maybe their past.

Where one life ends, another is revealed.Liz Evans is setting out on a cross-country road trip, with her grandmother's cat, to carry out her grandmother's final wishes. However, she's about to learn that the coupon clipping woman who raised her was actually a wealthy, Hollywood icon who had her share of international lovers.Mark Watts is only one of the secrets Liz's grandmother kept from her. A biographer, he resides in Liz's grandmother's Palm Beach home, which Liz knew nothing about. As her guide into her grandmother's past, Mark becomes a confidant, a friend, and more.Though Liz's journey is to learn about her grandmother, she finds these lessons turn inward. Content with her life of solitude, Liz is challenged to live a big fat life with no regrets--which just might include a crazy cat, a house in Palm Beach, and a man.

What more could you need than unrealistic romance expectations from movies, and best friends to watch them with?There's always the funny, mouthy, less-than-perfect best friend in a rom com, but the sidekick is never the one to get the love interest. Since Ruby can't even keep a roommate, she's fairly sure that's the life she will continue to live, so she has always assumed her role with pride.When Jason moves back to Colorado, moving in with someone he knows seems like a good idea. But it doesn't take long for him to fall for the voluptuous redhead in the next room. Unfortunately, the unspoken rule would be to not make a move on his sister's best friend. But what if it just happened?True love can't be stopped, but unforeseen drama always threatens to tear apart relationships and friendships. Do the rom coms have it right? Does it all work out in the end? Or are those movies just full of unrealistic exceptions?Ruby is sure she knows the answer to that, but what she hasn't banked on is Jason's determination to do what's right for her, whether he gets to love her forever, or not.

What more could you need than unrealistic romance expectations from movies, and best friends to watch them with?Once a month, for as long as they'd been friends, Lisa, Mindy, Ruby, and Tina gathered for Rom Com Movie Club night. Facial masks, nail polish, and wine could settle the world around them as they dished on movies that made them want to love-even if the premise of happily ever after seemed far-fetched. Having been tossed around from home to home growing up, Lisa didn't have much of an idea of what happily ever after was supposed to look like. Her friends had become her stable home, and their love was enough to carry her though day to day. But life had always thrown obstacles at her, she never considered it might throw a man her way, which would cause a rift with her best friend before her best friend's wedding. When things went bad, it usually started a trend, and Ryan was caught in that loop when he decided to return home to live with his parents until some other opportunity came his way. He had no idea that opportunity was going to come right at him when he followed his brother into the girly chaos that was Rom Com Movie Club night, and he fell head over heels for Lisa, in a clay facial mask and wet toenails. Falling in love with her best friend's soon to be brother-in-law wasn't ideal timing, but when had timing ever been on Lisa's side? Now with a man who loves her and a best friend who assumes Lisa's out to ruin her wedding, Lisa must decide which happily ever after she wants. The one with the man and the fairy tale ending, or the love of a friend who has been there for her whenever she needed her.

Sometimes love needs a little shove.At the Happily Ever After Bookstore, happiness is always found within the pages of the books on its shelves. Its owner, Leona, revels in finding each reader just the right book to bring them joy. She also enjoys meddling just enough to bring readers together who might not know they are destined for one another.In need of a holiday pick-me-up, Sadie seeks out Leona's advice for a good holiday romance. While scanning the book selections, she knocks into Charlie McGowan, who is certainly out of his element. When they learn that Leona "accidentally" gave them the wrong bags at check out, Sadie and Charlie set out to find one another, only to fall for Leona's matchmaking tactics. When author Fiona Gable and her ex-husband Price Richter end up in the same town, leave it to Leona to put them in one another's paths. Decades of marriage couldn't keep them together after love and loss, but could finding one another under new circumstances change everything?Though skilled at pairing people together, Leona's ability to find love eluded her. Her true love was her bookstore. When the bookstore is in need of repair, Jon Ford is sent to fix it. Leona wonders if she might have finally found her happily ever after. But, as fate would have it, Jon comes with baggage-ages three and four. Does Leona have it in her to take on a store, a man, and a family just to have a happily ever after of her own?

Sometimes love shows up when you've stopped looking.Work was Toby Maxwell's lover, and there wasn't time to even consider a relationship, even though all of his friends had paired off, gotten married, and had kids. But he was content to wander the halls of his luxurious home alone. Bridal consultant, Laura Torres, had driven by the enormous house in Boulder at least a thousand times wishing she could get an invitation inside. The possibilities of using the house for a wedding venue had dollar signs going off in her head. But the owner wasn't one to make friends outside of a close knit circle he kept. Wasn't it her luck to pick up a pair of clients that were part of that circle?When Laura convinces her clients to have their wedding at Toby's house, she knows she can make him a proposition that will net her a windfall. What she doesn't expect is to fall for the lonely millionaire who thinks she's only out for his fortune.

Chloe Richardson had just landed the biggest client of her career. A promotion was in her future, or so she thought until the handsome Jason Mitchell walked into her office with his gorgeous smile and searing blue eyes-and took her job.Losing her job so close to Christmas, Chloe's only choice was to go back home to Aubrey Heights, where the Christmas spirit is celebrated in a tourist loving, wonderland. Perhaps she can pull herself together before the new year-before her new career search.However, Jason follows her to Aubrey Heights-with a mission of his own. First he stole her job-now he wants to steal her heart.Is the spirit of Christmas alive enough in her to let that happen?

Everyone deserves one last goodbye.¿ As far back as Grace Carter could remember, she'd been able to communicate with the deceased. Of course, working in her family's mortuary put her in constant contact with those who had crossed over, if she didn't take steps to block them out, which she preferred to do. However, some spirits are stronger than others…Nora Campbell had nearly been ready to die, but she still had some unfinished business. From the other side, she found the woman she wanted her grandson to fall in love with, and she put her matchmaking plan in motion. Nora was insistent that Grace get a message to her grandson, TV reporter Matthew Campbell, and together they could pass on the last goodbyes of those who had passed. ¿ Only now Grace must convince Matthew she is in touch with his grandmother and not some crazy woman who spends all her time with the deceased.

Seeing the future is a curse that Abigail Weston has carried her entire life. Knowing how and when someone will be hurt, or the whereabouts of missing people haunts her enough to move away from the town that no longer trusts her.  When real estate developer Carson Stone meets the intuitive Abigail, he can't help but feel the connection to her and wonder if love at first sight is possible, especially since they share a passion for old buildings. She believes they all should remain, while he builds new ones in their place. No matter Abigail's feelings for Carson, knowing that their future is to be together does not ensure them a happily ever after, especially if she can't figure out what the other side is trying to show her--because in her visions Carson's future is dark and cold.

Someone has decided to become the moral compass for the women in town, and now they're turning up dead. It will be up to Detective Lacy Pratt to find their killer before her relationship with Declan Matthews, brother to one of the victims, marks her as a target.

Chandra Chavez didn't buy into the whole falling in love thing since she didn't seem to be very good at it. She certainly didn't see where opposites could attract, until the day that Mike Cavanagh set foot into Maguire's, and sat at the bar. When the seemingly lost software developer fell short on luck, Chandra, the tough and tattooed bartender, thought she was only taking pity on him by giving him handyman work. What she never saw coming, was the change he brought out in her, and her willingness to try love with someone who wasn't like her at all. It seemed too perfect until her ex-husband showed back up and threatened what might have been a perfect relationship. Then again, true love can withstand a shakeup—or can it?

Gia Gallow has traveled the world. Her wanderlust landed her in Georgia where she has created a life for herself away from the petty differences of relatives and domineering ex-lovers. Having settled in America, she has a successful business and dear friends—and the attention of both Dane and Russell Walker. Due to her own family's dramas over dueling hearts, she might have to forget about her feelings for Dane to keep peace within the Walker family, but sometimes even running thousands of miles away can't keep a heart from going after what the heart wants. And Gia's heart wants Dane.

Always the bridal consultant, never the bride. That was former bad girl gone business professional, Pearl Walker''s life until she put her hands on Tyson Morgan while measuring him for a tux.Tyson was happy being a miserable man, taking care of his family''s land, and not involved with a woman. However, even he can''t resist the pull of attraction to the beautiful, and off limits, Pearl?The feud between the Walkers and the Morgans had torn apart friends and families for generations. What might happen when Pearl Walker and Tyson Morgan become business partners-and more?

True love is more powerful than a Hollywood tragedy.Bethany Waterbury left Hollywood and the shadow of her mother''s death to give herself a fresh start. Her main intention-to connect with the family she''d never really had the chance to know. Author Kent Black is enjoying his chart topping success and living freely wherever his travels take him. But when he meets the illustrious Bethany Waterbury his wanderlust subsides and the thought of a steady future begins to take over.Kent believes in happily ever after, but the burden of Bethany''s past might be too much for him to embrace-unless true love is more powerful than a Hollywood tragedy.

Susan Hayes moved to Georgia to start the life she wanted to live and build her catering career. On the brink of having everything she ever wanted, Eric Walker and his family happened into her life.Eric Walker''s life had been quiet, structured, and boring until his uncle gambled away the family''s property and jeopardized Eric''s livelihood. Now midst family secrets learned, someone ruining his business and trying to drive him off his land, he fell in love. Things will never be the same for them-especially if someone succeeds in destroying the Walker family and killing Eric.