A child, a puppy and sweet romance… Sick and alone with her three-year-old daughter at Christmastime, Belle needs help. When her neighbor’s brother gets involved, she welcomes the soft-spoken, good-looker into her world. Rescuing her kidnapped daughter isn’t part of the deal but any man willing to babysit his sister’s menagerie of pets and cares that much about a stranger’s baby is a guy she wants to get to know much better. Jesse has only loved one woman in his life. Years ago, she left him with a broken heart and a lot of poignant memories. No one can replace her. No other woman has ever come close. So why does this loving mom sneak into his head continuously? And why can’t he shake her loose? One spoilt girl in his life, a sister who expects him to live on a pedestal, is enough for any man.

A young mother’s eight-year-old secret… Anne Pichette is an eighteen-year-old exchange student who goes to live in Texas for a year. Rose Walsh, her host mother, treats her like a daughter and Anne believes her life is perfect. Rose’s teasing, devilishly handsome son, Clint, on whom Anne develops a crush, has a lot to do with this belief. One night, Anne shares her tender passion with Clint, but sadly, he’s too inebriated to remember. A week later, she returns to Paris devastated—and pregnant. Anne fully intends to tell him about her condition except her plans are deterred due to a letter arriving announcing his impending marriage to a pregnant woman he loves. Eight years later, Rose appears in Paris to beg Anne to come back to Texas to help her through her final days of cancer. Unable to refuse her dear old friend, Anne accepts. Now she’ll have to divulge that her boy, Max, is Clint’s son. Clint Walsh might be hardened and embittered but he knows he has a good reason for acting this way. After all, his wife, the slutty woman he believed was his true love, leaves him with their daughter and never looks back. So how’s a man supposed to handle that kind of treachery? Especially after they’d shared one beautiful night of lovemaking he’s never been able to forget. Or, due to his state of intoxication—clearly remember.

Audra can’t fight her attraction to her cousin’s lover, so she leaves their small town and builds a life for herself in Los Angeles. Soon, her cousin, Cari, begs to move in with her and give up her life as a spoiled daughter, and girlfriend to the man every woman in town desires. How can Audra refuse? She’s never stood up to Cari’s female force… until a baby’s life depends on it. After his birth, she finds the strength once more to fight for him. Really, how can Cari expect her to let the beautiful baby of the only man she’s ever loved, be given up for adoption? Johnny finds it impossible to believe the one person he’s trusted his heart to is leaving him. How can she be so cruel? Although he doesn’t beg her to stay, he misses her with such heartbreak, he pushes everyone away and replaces fun times with constant hard work. Worst of all… he doesn’t find out about his three-year-old son until the hospital calls for him to get there as soon as possible. Book #1 - She's Not You Sick and widowed, running scared from a man who insists she belongs to him; Belle is forced to let the charmer down the hall help her out of a terrible situation. Not just for her sake, but it's Christmas, she’s in trouble and her little girl has decided their sympathetic neighbor is her special hero. Book #2 - Love Me Tender How can Anne go back to Texas knowing that her son would be meeting a father and grandmother who never even knew he existed? But how can she stay away when a woman, who’d been the only mother she ever knew, is dying and needs her?