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She never expected to be caught up in a Romeo and Juliet-style family feud.
When Gretchen Roberts graduated from college, she planned a brief stay in her hometown of Candle Beach. Ten years later, she's still working for her parents and wondering how her life got so off-rack. Luckily, she's got a plan for the future, which hinges on being hired for the lead sales job at a luxury housing development south of town. With a referral from her best friend,...
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All relationships take work, but is she ready to make a sacrifice this big?
Interior designer, Amelia O'Connor, came to Candle Beach to renovate and manage a historic hotel with her brother. Now that the hotel is completed and on the brink of success, she's not sure being a hotel owner is a good fit for her. Unfortunately, when you're in business with your brother, you can't just quit.
Jordan Rivers is at the peak of his career as a leading man...
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A promise between brothers. A secret that threatens to tear a budding romance apart.
Maggie Price is resilient. After her husband died, leaving her a young widow with an infant son, she returned home to Candle Beach to create a new future for them by purchasing the Bluebonnet Café.
She loves her life, but something feels like it's missing...
Jake Price promised his younger brother he'd take of his wife and child if something happened to him while...
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Always the friend. Never the girlfriend.
Over the last few years, Sarah Rigg has watched her friends find their soulmates, but it's never been the right time for her to find love.
When she meets Patrick Willett, she knows he's not going to be Mr. Right. Although he's funny, smart, handsome and loves kids, he's got one flaw-he's engaged to another woman. But maybe he has a friend who's just like him?
Her last blind date ended up with her friend...
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A life-changing inheritance...but not in the way she expects.
Dahlia thought settling her aunt's estate in the seaside town where she'd spent her childhood summers would be easy – a one- or two-day job at the most. Discovering that she's inherited a crumbling house and a failing bookstore puts a wrench in that plan.
With a nasty trustee who is determined to keep her from selling her inheritance, and Garrett, a handsome neighbor who challenges...
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A family secret brought her to Candle Beach. The same secret might drive her away.
It had always been just the two of them, mother and daughter. After her mother died, Angel Bennett found out it was all a lie. Discovering her mother's secrets, she moves to Candle Beach to find out the truth. What she finds is so much more.
Adam Rigg is unlucky in love. He's the constant friend, never the boyfriend. He's resigned himself to be the best journalist...
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It was love at first sight. Will his arrival ruin it all?
The first time Maura saw the historic Candle Beach Hotel, she knew it was the perfect future site for the local historical society's museum. Now that it's on the market, she just needs enough money to buy it before some greedy developer swoops in and demolishes the crumbling building.
Experienced hotelier, Aidan O'Connor, has been searching for his dream property for ages, so when his friend...
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A whimsical gift shop, a BBQ food truck, and their feuding owners.
Charlotte Gray grew up spoiled and privileged but gave it up to make her own way in the world. Years later, she's fought to get where she is, the owner of a gift shop located in a vintage Airstream trailer in scenic Candle Beach. Everything is perfect until she finds a smelly BBQ food truck parked next to her gift shop one afternoon. The minute she sees it, she knows it's got to go...
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Mummies, Mommies, and Murder.
Planning the Ericksville Haunted House at the Boathouse Event Center wouldn't be so bad if Angela Laveaux wasn't in the picture. To make matters worse, Jill allows her sister-in-law, Desi, to talk her into joining a local mom's group, which brings up conflicting feelings about balancing a career with motherhood. The discovery of a woman's body at Angela's house makes Jill regret her ill thoughts about Angela, and she...
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Murder by marshmallow stick?
After a long, stressful summer, Jill Andrews is looking forward to a relaxing vacation with her family at her old friend Leah's lake cabin resort. That becomes difficult when she discovers a marshmallow-roasting stick impaled in a man's body near the campfire pit. With a string of costly acts of vandalism plaguing the resort and now a murder, things aren't looking good for the resort's future.
Joined by her sister-in-law,...
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A preschool auction can lead to murder.
At least that's how Jill Andrews feels. After volunteering to coordinate her son's preschool auction at the Boathouse Event Center, she's about to kill her nemesis Nancy Davenport, the Queen Bee of Busy Bees Preschool. Nancy's micromanagement of the event is making Jill crazy, but it isn't Nancy who turns up dead.
Local coffee roaster, Louis Mahoney, is supposed to have a basket to donate to the auction,...
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A Merry Christmas with family, fun, and foul play.
Jill is deep into preparations for Christmas parties at the Boathouse Event Center, when a trip to the local retirement home with her son's preschool class turns up a deadly surprise. For once, Jill has no tie to the murder victim, until a surprise connection to a family member is revealed. With the chaos of the Christmas season intensifying, will she be able to discover the real murderer in time...
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Plans for a fairy-tale wedding. A dead body. So much for happily wedded bliss.
Less than four months into her new job as an events coordinator at the Boathouse Event Center, Jill Andrews is unexpectedly thrown into managing the whole place while her in-laws are out of town. One of the biggest events on her plate is the wedding between two of Desi's good friends from college. When she finds the body of one of the groomsmen floating next to the Boathouse's...
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Plans for a fairy-tale wedding. A dead body. So much for happily wedded bliss.
Less than four months into her new job as an events coordinator at the Boathouse Event Center, Jill Andrews is unexpectedly thrown into managing the whole place while her in-laws are out of town. One of the biggest events on her plate is the wedding between two of Desi's good friends from college. When she finds the body of one of the groomsmen floating next to the Boathouse's...
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Life is a series of decisions, but they're not always cut and dried…
Cassie dreams of owning a bakery, and when the best bakery in town goes up for lease, it could be the perfect opportunity – except there's no way she could afford it. Her ex-husband, Kyle, offers to help, but she wants to do it on her own – especially since she can't shake the feelings she still has for him.
With a possible promotion and a new love life on the horizon, Kyle...
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Now that the Inn at Willa Bay is well on its way to becoming a premier wedding destination in the Pacific Northwest, chef Meg Briggs hopes it's finally time for her to realize her own dream-converting the old barn on the property into a first-class restaurant. However, the barn has been a dumping ground for resort castoffs for years and renovations seem a far-off prospect. Can a mysterious journal she finds while cleaning out the barn help her find...
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It's the Christmas season, and romance, friendship, and family conflict abound in the small seaside town of Willa Bay.
Tia should be ecstatic-she's moving into one of the sunset-colored cottages at the Inn at Willa Bay with her friend, Meg, but she's preoccupied with a surprise newcomer to town and the impending holiday visit of her overbearing parents.
Cal has spent the last year forging a new life for himself in Willa Bay, seemingly worlds...
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Saving a rundown seaside resort makes dealing with bridezillas look like a piece of cake.
Achieving her dream career as a wedding planner hasn't been easy, but Zoe's sacrifices are about to pay off. Unfortunately, her carefully crafted life is knocked off course when her elderly landlord, Celia, is hospitalized, and Zoe learns that their home, the former Inn at Willa Bay, is in jeopardy.
Her friend, Meg, left a prestigious chef position in the...
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