The story of first love featuring Katie, 13. When her father, a widowed army colonel, moves to another town, Katie meets Jimmy, 23, a garage attendant, and she falls in love with him. Unfortunately Jimmy is married and a father, and though he likes Katie very much he is not about to leave his family. A tale of platonic love, narrated by Katie. By the author of The Pull of the Moon.

Four novellas in one book. If a woman was fortunate enough to secure a teaching position before 1920, then she needed to work diligently to keep the school board's strict guidelines for female teachers. Four such women here face career challenges while learning unexpected lessons in life and love. Judith King enjoys her job teaching in a schoolhouse along the Lehigh Canal. But after meeting a widower and his troubled children, she wonders if God has...

American blogger and food writer Ree Drummond relates the real life story of how she met and married her "Marlboro Man." Her stories about her husband, family, and country living paint a warm and touching picture of life on an Oklahoma ranch.

Family court judge Olivia Lockhart becomes front page news when she refuses to grant a divorce to a naval officer and his wife after the the death of their baby, and discovers the lives of her family and friends to be increasingly complex.

From the French Riviera to the back streets of New Orleans, Remy moves secretly as she traces her family's ancestry, hoping that some of the answers to the mysteries of the present may be buried in the past.

Completely Smitten : "Haley Foster had lived her entire life in a box. Guided by her preacher father and the residents of her tiny hometown as to what to do, what to wear and even who to marry, she'd lost herself along the way. But no more. Now she was going to live on her own terms and do all the things good preachers' daughters didn't do. Starting with Kevin Harmon."--P. [4] of cover. Hers for the Weekend : "Piper Jamieson needed a date with no...

Buffalo Valley, North Dakota is a town struggling to hold on to its way of life against the tide of progress. Vaughn Kyle, a young man in search of a life to live, comes to town to meet the local pharmacist Hassie Knight and falls in love with her assistant.

Grace, a seemingly reserved librarian, shows the town of Cedar Cove what she is truly made of when her husband mysteriously vanishes, forcing her to call upon her inner strength and courage to help her two daughters deal with his disappearance.

Old flames reignite and new passions burn when lovers follow their hearts back to the place they once called home. . .
"Whale Island" by Cathy Lamb
Family secrets and imposing friends are making Chalese feel like an outsider in her very own home on beautiful Whale Island. But it's only when a shocking revelation makes her feel truly lost that she opens her heart to the possibilities the past offers—including a chance...

A collection of three stories about love and knitting. In Twenty-First Wish by Debbie Macomber, ten-year-old Ellen hopes that her adoptive mom, Anne Marie, will fall in love with Tim, her birth father, who's recently entered their lives. In Susan Mallery's "Coming Unraveled," Robyn Mulligan returns home to run her grandmother's knitting store and meets handsome T.J. Passman. And in Return to Summer Island by Christina Skye, after a devastating accident,...