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Cedar Cove is shocked after Pastor Dave Flemming is accused of stealing jewelry. His wife, Emily, doesn't know what to believe, especially since Dave is being so evasive. Then she finds an earring in his pocket. Could he have stolen it--or is he having an affair?

I, Shana Berrie, am my sister's official navy "parenting plan." That means I'm in charge of adorable Jazmine until my sis returns. But -- surprise! -- nine-year-olds have lots of opinions, including ones on my love life (or lack thereof). Now she's trying to set me up with our family friend, Adam Kennedy. Excuse me -- Lieutenant Commander Adam Kennedy. So he's great looking and very helpful (if dictatorial), but I am not in the market for a navy husband....

A shy Louisian librarian, Mary Warner fears she'll always be alone -- so she answers a personals ad from a rancher in Montana, a guardian of three orphaned children who agrees to marry the mysterious Southern woman sight unseen.-- Cover.

That unflattering article by Kramer Adams started the whole thing. The subject was "debutante" Maryanne Simpson, columnist at a rival Seattle paper, which her father happened to own. Despite her anger at Kramer's opinions, Maryanne decided the streetwise newsman was right about one thing: her life had been too easy. She wanted to earn her own way. She wanted to earn Kramer's respect. Maryanne quit her job, left her luxury apartment, and gave up her...

If you're a single parent and your daughter decides you should get married again, give up now! Especially if she appoints herself your matchmaker ... as hardworking, good-looking rancher and single father Cody Bailman is about to find out!

Rancher Lonny Ellison has never known a woman like Joy Fuller. For one thing, she doesn't seem very interested in him, and as a former rodeo cowboy, Lonny's not used to that. Women mobbed the Wyoming Kid during his rodeo days! And another thing. He and Joy--who's a schoolteacher and his sister Letty's best friend--seem to argue constantly.

But it doesn't matter, does it? Because he's not interested in Joy, either.

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Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy--three willing but sometimes wayward angels--are each given someone's Christmas prayer to answer. But there's just one catch: each angel must teach her charge a memorable lesson before the prayer can be granted.

Though not officially a Manning groom, James Wilkens almost became a part of the storied Manning clan -- because he almost married Christy Manning. James was jilted in a most auspicious manner -- his finacee got married to another man while they were engaged. With that broken engagement finally behind him, he spends New Year's Eve in Las Vegas, where he meets Summer Lawton--Cover.

Shelly Hansen was horrified when her great-aunt’s wedding dress arrived—because, according to family legend, she was destined to marry the next man she met. So when she tripped on an escalator and fell into Mark Brady’s arms, she told him—and herself—that she wasn’t interested in marriage. But then she started seeing him everywhere…. Coincidence?

Angie Robinson and Simon Canfield were from opposite sides of the track. But when they were seventeen, their love knew no boundaries. When Mrs. Canfield told Angie her son had found someone else, she didn't believe it--until she saw the proof. So Angie took the money Mrs. Canfield offered her to leave Groves Point. Now she's returned--to pay back every cent. Suddenly twelve long years seems like yesterday as she looks into the stormy gray eyes of...