A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage — and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town — the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a

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Danger mounts at a baron's remote estate as Emma Smallwood, a clever tutor's daughter, decides which of the baron's four sons to suspect and which to trust with her heart.

While running Babycakes, her mail-order cupcake business, out of Sugarberry Island, Kit Bellamy finds a new place to call home and the sweet promise of love with Morgan Westlake, a lawyer who has come home to the island to raise his goddaughter.

Tate McKettrick has always felt that leaving his high school sweetheart Libby Remington behind in Blue River, Texas, and marrying a woman he did not love was one of the biggest mistakes of his life, and as he tries to build a life for himself and his twin daughters on the McKettrick ranch, he hopes he can earn back Libby's trust and convince her to give him another chance.

Believing she will not be as successful as best friends Hadleigh and Melody in finding true love, Bex focuses on her career before unexpectedly falling for an aloof single father who does not believe in romance.

"Four years ago, nineteen-year-old Travis Brown made a choice: to raise his newborn daughter on his own. While most of his friends were out partying and meeting girls, Travis was at home, changing diapers and worrying about keeping food on the table. But he's never regretted his decision. Bella is the light of his life. The reason behind every move he makes. And so far, she is fed. Cared for. Safe. But when Travis loses his construction job and his...

"Following her adored father's death, a teenager named Autumn Falls is forced to relocate to a new school in Florida for sophomore year. And when Autumn receives an enchanted gift: a journal that literally brings Autumn's writing to life--anything could happen. Could the journal be imbued with her dad's spirit?"--

When his father is injured while rescuing three children from a fire, Max is very worried about him until he is finally allowed to visit him in the hospital.

"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future,he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--