Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the enchanting Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school--a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Bella Vista's rambling mission-style hacienda, with its working apple orchards, bountiful gardens and beehives, is the idyllic venue for Isabel's project...and the perfect place for her to forget the past. But Isabel's...

Escaping to the remote Northwest, Washington D.C. paramedic J.D. Harris found refuge from the media frenzy that targeted him after he became a national hero. Introduced to small pleasures that his new neighbor and her young son rekindled, would the blissful anonymity last?

"Faith McCallum is determined to rebuild her shattered life and give her two daughters a chance at a better future. Caring for her sharp-tongued new client, Alice Bellamy, is definitely a challenge, but it's Alice's charismatic son, Mason, who truly leaves Faith at a loss for words. Mason Bellamy longs to escape the family mansion and return to his fast-paced, exciting life in Manhattan...and his beautiful, jet-setting fianc�ee. But when Faith makes...

Set to inherit half of Bella Vista, a one hundred-acre apple orchard in a town called Archangel, along with a half-sister she's never heard of, Tess Delaney, who makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners, discovers a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family.

As single father Logan O'Donnell prepares to give his son, Charlie, the best Christmas ever on the shores of Willow Lake, he may be in for a Christmas surprise himself, in the form of sharp-witted and independent Darcy Fitzgerald.