SPIRIT CREEK, ARIZONA: where secrets outnumber the people He can’t remember… She can’t forget… Years ago, artist Tori Amherst was assaulted and now the man she accused of the crime has been found innocent and exonerated. Consumed with guilt over her part in his sentence, she’s desperate to make amends. Before Lincoln Caruso is released from prison, an inmate fight leaves him hospitalized, with no job, no money…and no memory. Determined to get his life on track, he accepts help from Tori, a woman who claims to be an old college friend. But Luke doesn’t trust himself. DNA proved he wasn’t guilty of the rape, but for all he knows, he may be as evil as the prosecutors claimed him to be. As passion ignites and love grows, remembering becomes urgent. Linc needs answers and vows to find the monster who took ten years of his life. Tori never imagined falling in love with the man she sent to prison, and his quest to find the perpetrator challenges their growing feelings. Tori’s wants more than anything to see the monster behind bars, too, and agrees to help, but she knows when Linc discovers who she really is, she’ll lose everything. Misguided loyalty, bitter betrayal, obsession seduction, covert passions...the Secrets of Spirit Creek will astound you!

Since when does "be right back" mean in a few years? Serena Matlock has been asking herself that question ever since Cole St. Germaine took off. And now that he's back in Spirit Creek, he'll have to pony up a lot of apologies before she'll even consider forgiving him. The real heartbreak, though, is that she still loves the idiot. Despite all the poor choices he's made, she knows he's a good man. But can they move beyond the chain reaction those choices kicked off? Or will he constantly remind her of the life-altering decision she had to make?

Marriage? This must be a joke! Natalia Sokoloff has nerves of steel, but when David "Mac" MacAllister proposes marriage, she breaks into a cold sweat. A wife is Mac's best chance at adopting the son he fathered while on active duty in Iraq. And Natalia is his buddy. Besides, she owes him for saving her life during combat. So how can she refuse? Especially if this is temporary—they'd only need to play house until the adoption is final. Except even that's far too long and too intimate for Natalia. Because there are some things a girl doesn't want even her best friend to know!