They've always been best friends, but he's never known about her secret fantasy...Marlowe Glass has always been the girl next door. Responsible and organized, she is raising her orphaned niece while holding down a full-time job.Clark Hudson knows the only woman on the planet who isn't a man-eater is his best friend, Marlowe. She stood with him in high school and has had his back ever since his wife walked out on him to pursue a career in New York City. They've been best friends and neighbors forever.When a tree falls on her house, of course he offers to allow her to live with him while her house is being fixed.Their personalities and parenting styles don't mix – she's super organized with a rigid schedule and he's very relaxed, but their years of friendship have given them insight into the other's personality.They can rub along just fine – except for the laundry, which has to be done his and hers.Until one night after the kids go to bed, Marlowe's long-held secret fantasy comes out. What's a gentleman cowboy to do but make her dream – kissing her best friend – come true.Maybe these best friends could fall in love, if it weren't for the kids and the ex and the in-laws, along with small town gossip and a big family who won't get out of their business.Can they risk their life-time friendship for the chance of a life-time love?

He's the boy from the wrong side of the tracks. She's the pickle fortune heiress. They had an innocent summer fling, then she made a catastrophic mistake and he paid the price...Cassidy Kimbell knows Torque didn't have to lie and serve her time. Because of his sacrifice, she's spent the last ten years making some major changes in her life. She's become a lawyer and a child advocate, always fighting for the underdog. Still, she can't keep herself from feeling like she owes the man who made it all possible. But he won't tell her what he wants.After being released from a ten-year prison stint for a crime he didn't commit, Torque Baxter is eager to get back to working on his passion—diesel motors. Except the out-of-date Popular Mechanics magazines provided by the prison weren't enough to keep him competitive, and no one wants to hire a convict with a rap sheet, no matter how undeserving it is. Cassidy thinks she owes him and doesn't realize that there's only one thing he's ever wanted.What do ten years of a man's life cost?

Rancher Cordell "Cord" Stryker just wants to settle down on his ranch, and he's convinced the twin sister of his best friend to tie the knot with him. But as the wedding day approaches, he finds himself drawn more to her sister. But that can't be, because she's his best friend.Librarian Rosaleen "Rosie" Bloom is addicted to reading romance novels and living vicariously through them, rather than pursuing the man she loves in real life.Rosie had been content to read about romance, letting life pass her by, but could she rewrite her own love story?

Harris Winslett can't believe she lost her leading man. No. What she really can't believe is that her friends think their brother-in-law, Harris's childhood nemesis, Turbo Baxter, might be able to play the part.However opening night is three short weeks away and she has no other options. She can only hope he suddenly develops a brain, acting skills and a big boil on his handsome face, because when the guy decides to be charming, he is irresistible. Still, she refuses to fall for a man who hates libraries and has never read a book.In order to get his truck fixed, trucking company owner, Turbo Baxter, must agree to be the leading man in the stuffy librarian's play production. Turbo takes the part because he needs his rig back on the road, even though he hates books, libraries and, most of all, librarians.Turbo is actually starting to enjoy antagonizing the stodgy librarian, until opening night, when the entire play is in jeopardy and he must work together with Harris to save it.Can two opposites overcome their differences and fall in love?

Can you love someone and hate them at the same time?She led him on, lied about him, then dumped him for his cousin.She was his enemy.He walked.But he loved her still.Can people change?Cora Fischer knew they could. Heartbreak, abject poverty and a mother's bear instincts to protect her children at all costs could turn a selfish, spoiled girl into a strong, formidable woman.But first loves die hard.They were enemies, never lovers, despite what she told her family and the town. She hated him then, and he hates her now.But she can give him what he wants, and she's willing to make a deal. Is she strong enough to conquer her foe and not destroy herself?Or maybe she could write new chapter: old enemies make the best husbands.

Frustrations and tensions fly amid adversaries turned partners in this fun and sweet romance.When the high school's float explodes five days before the National Farmer's Day parade, Principal Calvin Finkenbinder sees his chance at the promotion to Superintendent disintegrate. Unless he enlists the help of Ellie Bright, the most annoying, disorganized and kissable woman he knows.Standing in Principal Fink's office, again, for driving her daughter to school late, again, Ellie is given two odious choices. Either her straight A daughter receives detention for another tardy that's not her fault, or Ellie uses her artistic skills and helps the uptight, stringent principal build a new float.As they scramble to construct the float in time, Ellie's chaotic life collides with Fink's methodical plans. A tangle of arguments and decorations leads to a stolen kiss. Underneath their long established animosity is an unexpected passion that threatens to...

He's the billionaire heir of Sweet Water Ranch. His family is throwing a ball and he must choose a wife.She's too poor to attend the ball as a guest. But she can go as the hired help.One magical dance and a case of mistaken identity later, and nothing is as it seems. If he backs out, he loses everything.She never had anything to lose to begin with. Other than her soul-mate. Will he choose love over a multi-billion dollar business and the biggest ranch in North Dakota? Can she let him give up everything for her?

He couldn't face her.She was too beautiful.He'd been deformed in a farming accident years ago.He'd managed to build a successful business on his North Dakota ranch, but clients didn't need to see him. His sister handled the face of his company.Until his sister took a vacation and hired an out-of-work supermodel to take her place.He couldn't show himself to her. Although after dark he could share his love of the stars with her.But the more he hides, the more she wants to see.Can he trust her with his face? Because he's very close to losing his heart.

Her family is the reason his brother went to prison.Thad Truax is focused on getting the shop he owns with his brothers on the right side of the law and turning a profit, but he's not against the idea of romance. So when he sees a beautiful woman along the river, he doesn't hesitate to strike up a conversation that leads to friendship.Unfortunately, by the time he realizes who she is, he's already falling for her.After the awful incident that split their town and ended up with Thad's brother in prison, Justice Hopkins could never be seen in public with Thad Truax. But there's another, even more explosive reason they can't be together.Still, they can't keep pretending to be strangers during the day while stealing sweet kisses at night under the willow tree.Can they bring their relationship out to their family and friends without it destroying them?

When Mack's sister dropped her kids off with his dad in his trailer park, he knew he needed to step up and be an uncle. But he'd told his buddy he'd be in Sweet Water, ND over the holidays, so he takes the children and drives north.Angela Davis had been the sedate good daddy's girl all her life, doing whatever her parents wanted, even trying to trap a man into marriage to help them get out of debt. Mack knew of her past, and didn't trust her, but he needed someone to help him with his nieces and she needed someone to help her put on the best Christmas festival Sweet Water had ever seen.Could they trust each other enough to work together? And what about that mistletoe kiss?