First line: “You have a whisker.” From the back cover: Lucy Lang isn’t looking for fireworks. She’s looking for a nice, decent man. Someone who’ll mow the lawn, flip chicken on the barbecue, teach their future children to play soccer. But most important: someone who won’t inspire the slightest stirring in her heart…or anywhere else. A young widow, Lucy can’t risk that kind of loss again. But sharing her life…

First line: Mia Marcelli was used to sleeping alone so it came as something of a shock to wake up with a strange man in her bed. From the back cover: A smart, independent woman with a gorgeous four-year-old son, Mia Marcelli lost her one true love. Four years ago, while working undercover for the CIA, she watched Diego, the father of her unborn child, perish before her very eyes…

First line: If Darcy Jensen had known she was going to be kidnapped, she would have worn better shoes. From the back cover: The rebel of the Marcelli family, Joe never joined his sisters Katie, Francesca, and Brenna in running the winery business. Instead, he chose a life of military service. But now that this handsome, headstrong, former Navy SEAL has received a new, undercover assignment – protecting none other…

First line: Borrowing a million dollars from the devil was one thing; picking a fight with him while doing it was something else. From the back cover: Of all the Marcelli sisters, the only one who dreams of running the family’s winery is Brenna – and she’s about to get her chance. But taking the helm at Marcelli Winery is tougher than she bargains for – especially when she butts…

First line: Suzanne Dietz didn’t set out to start the Cackleberry Club, the whole thing just sort of happened. From the back cover: Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lost their husbands but found independence – and, in each other, a life raft of support, inspiration, fresh baked goods, and their own business. But when the Cackleberry Club cafe opened its doors in the town of Kindred, who’d have guessed that the…

First line: It had taken four months, calling in every favor ever owed, a case of expensive Scotch and a date with a slimy private investigator who had made the mistake of thinking “date” meant “sex”. From the back cover:  Dana Birch vowed never to put herself at the mercy of a powerful man. She became a deputy so that she could take care of herself, and protect those she…

First line: “It’s only two million.” From the back cover: Lexi Titan can just see the headlines. All of Titanville will be buzzing. Not that she has any other choice. Faced with exactly thirty days to come up with two million dollars, she is out of options. Marry Cruz Rodriquez or lose everything – the successful day spa she built herself, her tyrant father’s respect. And the long-standing competition with…

First line: “I’d like you to marry my daughter.” From the back cover: Skye Titan’s wealthy father thinks he can still dictate his daughter’s choice in men. Now widowed and a single mother, Skye isn’t the yes-girl she once was. Especially since the love of her life is back in Texas after eight long years. He won’t like the answers to the questions he’s asking. About why she left him…

First line: In the movies there was always a warning before something bad happened. From the back cover: Izzy has always been the fearless Titan sister.  But when an oil rig blows up, leaving her barely able to see, her sisters find themselves as concerned by her emotional withdrawal as by the possibility that the explosion was no accident.  Are the mind games their long-lost brother Garth has been playing…

First line: A back-alley crawl had certainly sounded like a tantalizing idea to Theodosia when she’d first conceived it. From the inside cover: It was the Dickensian evening Theodosia Browning had hoped for. Flickering candles lined the narrow cobblestone alleys of Charleston as shop owners, dressed in cloaks of yore, threw open their back doors to shoppers. Visitors took advantage of bargains on antiques, heaping bowls of crab chowder –…