When unexpected visitors arrive at the Courtney Boardinghouse and claim the place belongs to them, Patience Courtney finds herself homeless and penniless. Having failed at so many things already in life, Patience is determined to find a way to survive and thrive. When wealthy rancher, Spencer Wolcott, proposes a marriage of convenience, Patience accepts the arrangement. In exchange for a new home, she agrees to become the mother to Spencer’s precocious...

The Christmas family: Contractor Brady Buchanon can't wait to surprise single mom Abby Webster with his company's Christmas home-makeover prize. The struggling waitress doesn’t want to accept charity, but when her dilapidated porch almost injures her daughter, Abby agrees to Brady's offer. As Brady works on the house, he starts falling for Abby and her little girl. And with the holidays in sight, he wonders if his own Christmas wish could come true. Her...

Santiago "Saint" Vega and Lola Leon were high school sweethearts--in secret, that is--but their different backgrounds, with the Vega family a pillar of Humboldt Park and Lola's father engaged in less-than-legal activities, made it tough for them to envision a future together. They both left town after high school, Saint enlisting in the military and Lola cutting ties with her family for her own safety, and the former sweethearts haven't crossed paths...

Ruby Beiler has always felt plain and drab, so unlike the red gemstone she’s named after. Unmarried, she delights in spending her time caring for other people’s children, but she wonders if marriage and children of her own will ever be in her future. When a health crisis takes Ruby to live with her beloved Aenti Leah, she finds herself often thrown into company with Daniel Fisher, the handsome young widower next door, who lost his wife, Sadie,...

Working as a nanny for the world's grumpiest single dad should be simple...except she can't keep her eyes off him. And he can't keep his hands off her. Cade Eaton is thirteen years older than Willa Grant, and he barely looks her way, even though she's living in his house for the summer. That is, until she gets him into the hot tub one night for a game of truth or dare. Then, all bets are off-and so are their clothes. Cade is gruff, a little rough...