Maggie Angel accepts a chance of a lifetime when her aunt offers her the family’s dilapidated Bayou Cottage in the swamp at Cypress Cove. It’s the perfect place to run away to after her heart was broken. The first night while she’s down at the road to lock the gate, a hunky guy on horseback steps out of the woods, but Maggie doesn’t recognize him. Turns out they were childhood playmates long ago during winter visits to her grandparents’ cottage. Justin Chastain, local vet and wild horse advocate, heard through the grapevine that Maggie had returned to Cypress Cove and wanted to see her for himself. But he didn’t know that she was hiding from a failed marriage, leaving her with a big chip on her shoulder. It remains to be seen if she can ever trust again. The chemistry Maggie senses fluctuates between lukewarm and molten, but for Justin, it’s constant and he’s falling in love, hard. Then he unintentionally commits a blunder that Maggie will struggle to forgive, and they have to start all over again. Is there another chance at love for Maggie Angel?

She’ll do just about anything to please him. Maggie Angel doesn’t want the fuss of a tree and all the chaos of Christmas. But she’ll let Justin have what he wants. Then she gets on an extension ladder to decorate a tall live tree at her dock when he’s not around and he isn’t thrilled, continuing the conflict of Maggie and Justin battling wills. A mother dog and her pups found under Bayou Cottage gives Maggie an idea that will ultimately bring the community together on her behalf after she takes a boat ride in the fog. In the end, a wonderful surprise brings them the joy of Christmas.

Bayou Cottage is getting a reputation for being a place where couples fall in love. When Maggie Angel’s friend Katrina, visits Cypress Cove during Mardi Gras, her intention is to get a little R & R. But a fisherman’s boat runs aground near Maggie’s dock and his presence changes everything for Katrina when romance is added to that rest and relaxation.

When Maggie Angel and Justin Chastain aren't in each others' arms, they are busy saving animals in Cypress Cove. Nothing can interrupt the peace and the romance they are finding on the bayou, right? Then, the Bureau of Land Management moves a band of wild horses from national lands to state lands which border Maggie's property. One of the mares is expecting...and she has an affinity for Maggie right away. What is she trying to tell her?

An accidental encounter with Sheriff Dave Chastain piques more than Katrina Blanchard’s interest as chemistry and magnetism shoots the passion quotient into the danger zone. She’d left Pensacola, following Maggie Angel to Cypress Cove. Life was falling into place for Katrina Blanchard. A promising relationship that had deflated into the comfort of an old shoe seemed like enough for her. At the pinnacle of her career, the travel it required was just enough excitement. She’d found an old Creole Cottage to restore which filled the rest of the void. Happenstance meetings with Dave grow from admiration to love. As they settle into the enchanted cottage together, the universe has more in store for Katrina and Dave than they could have ever imagined.

Luke Esprit, single and thirty something, isn’t looking for Miss Right. But a chance encounter at Bayou Cottage while working on Justin Chastain’s barn introduces him to Navy Nurse Corps Lieutenant, Bridget Benoit. She has to report for deployment to Afghanistan in two weeks, so they spend the time in relative bliss until having to say goodbye. She has no intentions of seeing him again; it was great sex and companionship, but that was it. But while she’s overseas, Bridget discovers she’s pregnant. She returns to Cypress Cove to tell Luke he's going to be a daddy before returning to complete the deployment and places the baby in his care.. Luke and Baby Emily thrive together when he tries to make the decision he doesn’t need a woman to complete the family. But the universe has other ideas.

Justin and Maggie have a love that surpasses all others. All Justin wants is Maggie to be his in wedlock, but she doesn’t care about the piece of paper. When the vintage Oscar de la Renta wedding gown Justin’s mother wore surfaces from the depths of her long-sealed cedar closet, it comes with exposed buried secrets. But Maggie doesn’t care about bad mojo; she’ll wear the gown on her special day. Then, just as Justin is feeling most vulnerable, Maggie’s old nemesis, Amber Greely shows up the same night as the gown, and it’s the last straw for Maggie. Will Maggie wear the beautiful dress when she marries Justin? Or is the engagement over for good this time?

One sultry summer evening in Cypress Cove, a boat ride after dark stirs up a discovery that will give Maggie new purpose in life after a devastating loss. Within days, Maggie and her friends set out to make big changes in Cypress Cove.

Hunky physics teacher, Adam Spencer finds out he’s not only going to be a father, but that he’s going to have sole custody of his daughter. New grad Kate Theriot can’t find a job after college graduation and is hired to work at her sister Calista’s daycare center. When her former physics teacher/lifeguard at the local pool shows up with his baby, Kate discovers she wants to be more than his babysitter.