Wounded in Afghanistan, Navy SEAL Zachariah Tremayne returns to his home on Swann Island, determined to shut out the world. There he's reunited with Sabrina Swann, who has also come home to put the tattered pieces of her life back together. As the two of them learn to love and trust again, a killer lurks in the shadows.

A collection of holiday tales includes Fern Michaels's "Silver Bells," in which a movie star decides to leave her glamorous life behind and return home to Apple Valley, Pennsylvania, where she encounters her high-school boyfriend.