In Chance, Connecticut, it’s about living the small-town life. Here everyone knows everybody’s business. Gossip and drama spreads like wildfire in this town. But I’m happy here, content with my little café where locals come together. Even the rich wives-club have their own corner where they can sit around and swap gossip stories. Luckily, I’ve managed to stay off their radar…until a handsome writer arrives in town. William is older, wiser, and nothing like any other man I’ve met. The attraction between us is instant, and totally unexpected. While I try to ignore the connection we share, the entire town starts to notice. Suddenly my personal life has become the new topic of conversation. A twenty-six-year-old falling for an older man is exactly the kind of gossip that can stir a lot of drama in Chance. Question is, will our newfound love survive being the talk of the town?

It’s the holidays in Chance, but not everyone is feeling the holiday spirit—especially me. Ending up in a car crash two weeks before Christmas with nothing but a lengthy recovery process in sight, was not how I imagined spending the festive season. My parents finding out about my secret relationship with Miles wasn’t part of my plans either. With Miles refusing to leave my side while I recover from my injuries, and my parents undisguised contempt of the man, my life explodes with one complication after the other. I love Miles, and I know he loves me too. But what once was a simple, yet beautiful romance has now turned in to a difficult and complex relationship. The frustration of my long recovery, and Miles having to contend with my parents’ blatant disapproval of him complicates everything. Now I find myself in the middle, struggling to keep the peace. In the end I know I’ll have no choice but to choose. My family…or the man I love.

Bruce Grady, Chance's All-American good guy hasn't had it easy. After his father's crippling fall, he's forced to return home to take over the family business, giving up his own dreams. But he's a man of honor... and his word.The woman he's secretly loved for years has married another man. He's moved on to a new love, but life in a small town means your past is always around every corner.When temptation and opportunity come hand in hand, can Bruce fight one while chasing the other? Can he keep the promises he's made to those he loves and still get what he wants?Excerpt:“You have your doubts. Listen, it’s all good, man. I’m not ready for anything heavy, anyhow. I’m focusing on work and nothing—”In his ear, a sultry voice said, “All work, and no play makes Bruce a dull boy.” He turned his face almost into Ophelia—Effie—Torres’ generous cleavage, then quickly up to her face. She grinned wickedly and sat beside him, close enough that their legs touched. Bruce’s brain said move away, but his body disagreed. Logic reminded him that Effie was barely twenty-four, and he just turned thirty. They belonged to different decades. Probably had little in common.Illogic made him watch her lips against the wineglass. The way she threw her head back when she laughed, exposing her slender throat. When the music started up again, he couldn’t tear his eyes away from her body as it swayed to the beat. He downed his beer and ordered another. Normally, he was a two and done kind of guy. Not tonight.“Effie, why aren’t you going up there to sing?” Marisol chided Ophelia. To Bruce, she said, “My sister has a beautiful voice.” Her pride in her younger sister showed plainly.“Okay, okay. But only if my cuñado sings with me,” answered Ophelia.“What if your brother-in-law doesn’t feel like singing?” Pedro had the sound of a man who knew he had no chance of winning his argument. When he chugged his beer and pushed his chair back, it confirmed what Bruce suspected—he wanted to sing; he just couldn’t act like it.“What are we singing, cuñada?”Effie tapped a long coral painted nail on her full bottom lip and glanced up. She clapped her hands together and said, “How about we do—”“Don’t say—” began Pedro.“Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes, Senorita,” said Effie.Pedro dropped his chin to his chest and groaned while Marisol teased. “Go on, now. Sing a sexy song with my sister.”Effie grabbed Pedro’s wrist and dragged him to the corner of the café where the band had set up. She leaned close to the guitar player’s ear, and he nodded as she spoke. As he switched out the electric for an acoustic guitar, the bass player pushed two mic stands to the front and the house band’s singer placed a music stand in front of them. Effie tapped on her cell phone, then set it on the stand. Bruce watched all this, mesmerized. He even failed to notice Mae, Rosabelle, and Lotus pull up chairs to their table until Mae nudged his arm and said, “Wow, is she gorgeous, or what?”Bruce’s jaw snapped close, and he asked, “Who?” He fooled no one.Lotus’s laughter bubbled as she said, “Um, the Cuban goddess on the stage, maybe?”Rosabelle chimed in, “Yeah, the one you haven’t taken your eyes off of since she got up there?”He met Marisol’s amused gaze. She shrugged as if to say, “What can I say? My sister is beautiful.”

Seventeen-year-old Feather Anne Byrd already knows what she wants to do with her life. In fact, she's known it for a long time... and she's never told a soul. Until now. She's loved Brandon since forever, and he loves her. They've even planned a future together - marriage, children, and a house with a white picket fence. But then Nick shows up with his guitar and bad boy good looks. Just when her dreams start to come true, the unimaginable happens, devastating not only her but the people she loves most in the world. Can this small-town girl leave it all behind for the lure of the big city and the call of her dreams? Or will love keep her tethered to the town she once despised?

Eight years in the life. Five families. One town. Welcome back to Chance.It's been a year of changes for all; some good, some bad. Mae's new way of life has been a struggle, and with Bruce's abrupt exit, she's been unmoored and adrift... and realizing how much he's meant to her.Feather Anne returns from a music tour that's been anything but fun, and now she has to face the boy she left behind. If they rekindle their romance, will she ever be able to chase her dreams? When her one-time music partner, Nick, follows her back home, resentments and rivalry threaten to ruin everything she tries to fix.Bruce's growing business has kept him busy, but it hasn't taken his mind off Mae as he'd hoped. All his efforts to avoid her can't stop fate. Just when things look up, a new stranger creeps into town and turns their world upside down again.It seems Brianna is back to her old tricks again... or is she? When she makes a hard to refuse offer, it forces Brandon to choose his poison... family or freedom?Meanwhile, an unlikely alliance forms between two enemies, raising more than a few eyebrows. Old friends and past loves return to make amends... or stir up trouble?