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Cash, Jace, and Sawyer. Three rugged cousins. One inherited California ranch. And more surprises than they ever bargained for… After months of chasing stories as an investigative journalist, Sawyer Dalton just wants to lie low at Dry Creek Ranch. But thanks to his mother, his barn loft is now home to Gina DeRose—a beautiful, scandal-shadowed celebrity chef who’s hiding from the headlines. Gina's career is hanging by a thread. Someone is stirring up sabotage. And when incriminating photos swarm the internet, even brooding—gorgeous—Sawyer is convinced she needs his help.

Returning to her hometown for a class reunion was supposed to be a brief escape for Willow. A chance to breathe between the cracks of her carefully constructed life and the relationship she left hanging in limbo. Benjamin Davis knows permanence. It’s in every line he draws at his tattoo studio and in the promises he keeps to his daughter. His life is structured, stable, and predictably imperfect. When they cross paths at a local bar, neither expects the immediate pull between them, or the impossible choice it presents.

One stormy night. One act of kindness. One chance to change everything. Five hundred acres of gorgeous California land is a life-changer for cousins Cash, Jace, and Sawyer—and a surprising chance for each of them to find a game-changing love ... Sheriff Jace Dalton doesn't have room for complications. Between raising two lively boys, fighting for reelection, and keeping the family ranch afloat, his days are already worked to the bone. Then he finds Charlotte Holcomb stranded on a back road, her car packed and her eyes shadowed with secrets.

Yūko è in grado di vedere cose che gli altri non vedono, e di indovinare i desideri e i pensieri di chi le sta intorno grazie a una sensibilità fuori dal comune. Compiuti quattordici anni, tutto sembra assumere sfumature misteriose, e il mondo si popola di bizzarre creature. Yūko sta imparando ad assegnare un colore a ogni stato d'animo e a ogni emozione; a insegnarglielo è Kyū, il suo maestro di disegno, che ha il doppio dei suoi anni. Quando dal fusto di una pianta fuoriescono degli strani omini verdi, loro sono gli unici a vederli.

On an inherited ranch in Northern California, one family is discovering all the possibilities life can offer—and the kind of love that will outlast even the land... Angela Dalton's return to Dry Creek Ranch is anything but simple. After being charmed by a handsome face into bankrolling a violent militia—then helping the authorities bring them down—she's now a target. Leaving witness protection is a risk until she can figure out where to go next—and the good-looking cowboy who lives across the creek from her cabin is an inconvenient distraction.

Cash Dalton isn't a rancher—he's a former FBI agent haunted by a case gone wrong. The last thing he expects at Dry Creek Ranch is to find out he's the father of a twelve-year-old girl he never knew existed. Fresh off a broken engagement, Aubrey is focused on rebuilding her life and ignoring the small-town rumor mill. When Cash's daughter draws them together, Aubrey starts to see a gentler side of him—and wonders if she's ready to take a chance on love again.

Samantha Callahan fights hard to succeed in a man’s world. At the top of her game with a promotion nearly in her grasp, nothing can stand in her way, not even greedy competitors or a crashed laptop. So, an overdue and well-deserved vacation to the beach with the girls shouldn’t put her on edge. But, perhaps, Sam’s head has been down in the trenches for so long, she’s forgotten how to enjoy life.

Solange du bei mir bist... Jack und Tess sind wie Feuer und Wasser. Es knistert gewaltig zwischen ihnen, doch auf keinen Fall will sich Tess von ihrem Studium ablenken lassen. Als Jack nach einem schweren Arbeitsunfall auf einer Ölbohrinsel sein Leben neu ordnen will, nimmt Tess ihn, wenn auch widerwillig, bei sich auf. Sie braucht dringend einen neuen Untermieter und Jack braucht eine Bleibe, um wieder auf die Beine zu kommen. Die beiden kommen sich immer näher, doch die Ereignisse der Vergangenheit drohen Jack einzuholen.

When she washes up with no memory of who she is, the last thing she imagined was that she'd end up living with her rescuer - a famous movie star - and his adorable puppy. But someone out there knows her real identity and the more she remembers of her past, the more her new life, and love, are in danger....

Told in alternating timelines, this romance novel with a murder mystery twist takes place on the 16-acre island of Garden Key, the second largest island of the Dry Tortugas, a group of sandbars 68 miles southeast of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s home to Fort Jefferson's hexagonal fortress. Beyond the moat, where you'll find on two sides the docks, primitive camping grounds on the southern part of the island, picnic areas under swaying palms, and immaculate white sand beaches. This is where darkness descends, and then murder and madness ensue.