For the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortage and The Book - a dog-eared notebook in which she and Bea have been exchanging poems since they were thirteen. The rule of The Book are simple: No lies, no secrets, and no punctuation. This is a never-ending poem, as epic and everlasting as their friendship. Nothing is too messy of too complex for The Book - not Mitra's convoluted feelings about her absent mother,...

Sebastian Villeda is over it. Over his rep. Over his bros. Over being "Bash the Flash," fastest sprinter in South Jersey. His dad is gone, his mom is dead, and his stepfather is clueless. Bash has no idea what he wants out of life. Until he meets Sandro. Sandro Miceli is too nice for his own good. The middle child in an always-growing, always-screaming Italian family, Sandro walks around on a broken foot to not bother his busy parents. All he wants...

"When Claire Howard and her best friend decided to camp across the Southwest, she is not prepared for the unexpected, nor the stranger who comes to her rescue. Trevor Brielle saved Claire from the frightening tumble, but can he save himself from his tumbling heart? And can Claire learn that she is worthy of her dreams?"--

"Jill Noodan's life changes when her best friend, Jack Dodd, appears in her life after many years. They had been inseparable until Jack's high school graduation when he moved on to education and a career in Los Angeles while Jill remained in Pacific Grove, not wanting to leave her father, abandoned by his wife. Being told how much she was like her mother, Jill has avoided relationships other than her deep friendship with Jack. His return now brings...

"Steffi Rosetti is assigned to cover the spring fashion collection in Milan, Italy, but her trip is complicated by a strange, unexpected letter from someone she has never met?her paternal grandmother. Curious and apprehensive, Steffi heads for Italy where she meets the new photographer for Mode, and as they explore the streets of Milan and the waterways of Venice, she makes her decision whether nor not to visit this woman she'd never known, unaware...

"When Spring Dalton's best friend excludes her as a bridesmaid because of her 'less than perfect' figure, she faces her life head-on. Thinking God may never answer her prayers, she accepts her cousin's offer and travels to Heidelberg, Germany with dreams of a becoming an artist, becoming thinner, and being swept away by Prince Charming. On the train from Frankfurt to Heidelberg, Matt Sherman literally falls into her lap and the two strangers embark...

"Falling in love can be wonderful, but for Sandy Fisher and Clay Burdett, it is more like a steep mountain climb. Sandy returns to her hometown concerned about her widowed mother?s health and to heal from her job loss and her broken engagement. Though discouraged, her attitude and determination never falter, and when her car acts up and the only mechanic in town gives her the runaround, she?s determined to win the battle. Clay, scarred by his childhood,...

"In her cabin in a Northern Michigan woods, Tess, a young widow of a cheating husband, heads outside to change the propane tank, but strange sounds get the best of her. Instead of a bear lumbering through the trees, Ryan Walsh appears, thinking he's stopped a break-in. When she learns that she knows Ryan's sister, she is pleased to have company. But Ryan is struggling to end a hopeless engagement and doesn't tell Tess. From their chance meeting in...

"To save her reputation, Lord Randolph Lansdowne, Duke of Elmsend proposes marriage to governess Abigail Carstens, but what begins as a courtesy soon changes as the couple's feelings take over."