You Are Now Entering Riverbend, Indiana...Riverbend...home of the River Rats - a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown up now. Living their lives and learning that some days are good and some days aren't - and that you can get through anything as long as you have your friends. Aaron Mazerick is Back!... He isn't the town bad boy anymore, but some people still don't think he's good enough - especially not for Riverbend's Golden Girl, Lily Holden. Which is fine with Aaron, since he's convinced there's an even bigger reason he and Lily shouldn't be together ...

Charlie Callahan is the original good-time Charlie. At least, that's what everyone thinks, especially Beth Pennington, and she should know. After all, she was briefly - disastrously - married to him. But even Charlie isn't laughing when they discover they share an inheritance left to them by Riverbend's favorite patriarch.Now they're forced back together to settle the strange bequest...and to deal with the problems of a troubled boy.

Tom Baines, one of Riverbend's favorite sons, has come home to recuperate. After the year he's had, he needs some peace and quiet. More important, he wants to reestablish a relationship with his estranged children. But he doesn't expect to meet Lynn Kendall, a woman unlike any he's ever known before. Living in a small town might just have its advantages!

Riverbend...home of the River Rats - a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown up now. Living their lives and learning that some days are good and some days aren't - and that you can get through anything as long as you have your friends. Mitch Sterling has a lot on his plate. He owns a hardware store that's competing with a big national chain. He's taking care of his elderly grandfather - though Granddad might argue about that - and he's a single father to a young child. On top of that, he's just met a very pregnant, very stranded, very single woman who needs a friend. And if Mitch is honest with himself, he'll admit that he wants to be more than her friend....

When his father betrayed him, Jacob Steele left Riverbend, vowing never to return. He even changed his name to Jay Lawrence. Fifteen years later, he's back - because of his father's strange will - to claim the inheritance he doesn't want but definitely needs. He's also making sure his maiden aunts are protected from Kate McMann, the woman who stands to inherit if Jay doesn't fulfill the terms of the will.Jay knows Kate is up to something. And the only way to find out what is to hide his true identity and lie his way into her home. But even Jay isn't prepared for what he discovers....