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Maren doesn’t have anyone to spend Christmas with this year, yet she is counting her blessings. Raised in foster care, she has succeeded at so many of the goals she had for her life; a great job, a good place to live, and a possible love match in the form of her downstairs neighbor. If only Noah weren’t the saddest, most introverted around Christmas, he might himself see the potential of a match.

Declan lives in the shadows helping deliver people out of the worst moments of their lives. After his military career ended, he joined a team in a foreign land putting the most lethal skills in his toolbox to best use, all the while watching over his only family from afar. He wants his sister, Morgan, to enjoy all the best in life, free from the confines of the knowledge of what he does and the evil that threatens their world daily.

Hadley is an eternal optimist, despite her pint-sized stature. She is loved and adored by everyone, full of joy and kindheartedness. Until the day, Logan Reems takes it upon himself to become her designated, albeit it reluctant knight in shining armor and rescue her from the mud. She has never come up against anyone so haughty and mean spirited. Her determination to avoid contact with him is derailed when she finds out his two boys will be in her kindergarten class.

Katja truly adored all her foster siblings, but Lincoln holds a special place in her heart. He had already been with Mama Jean when they had taken her in, straight from the hospital; and through the pain of physical and emotional healing, they had become best friends, a friendship that endured through their childhood and into adulthood. The two of them are the glue that holds all of the others together.

Emily is doing everything she can to protect her two young children, including a late night bus trip to parts unknown where her ex can't find her. She just needs a little time to heal from the last physical encounter and figure out her next move. She is determined to find a way to make more of herself and provide a different life for her children than the one she had as a child. She is determined to do it on her own, as the only men she has ever allowed close have crushed her spirit and body.

On the verge of graduation from college and acceptance into the Medical School program, she has long since put the mysteries of her birth in the rearview mirror. However, she is tethered to the past by one tiny flaw; she sees, feels, and hears things that aren't real. Her visions have always been a part of her, and learning to cope with them over the years as therapists, medical trials, and even untraditional treatments failed, was just part of life as she knew it. Unfortunately, what was once just a nuisance to her mental state is escalating as each episode becomes more violent, and the visions threaten everything she has worked to accomplish.

Eryn spent years putting her hometown in the rearview mirror, never wanting to revisit the events that drove her from the only home she had known. She has become a successful businesswoman with a heart of stone, moving from one critical assignment to another never in one place too long. Now on the verge of attaining that final all important promotion, she is given the final test in a project so big it will be the feather in her cap or her undoing. The only obstacle is that it is the new sports complex in her hometown.

Talia and Scarlett are the perfect opposites of each other except for the fact that they are identical twins. Talia is focused and brainy and finds interacting with people strenuous. Scarlett lives life with her arms wide open to each new experience and is the life of every party. They are the perfect foils for each other, weak where the other is strong and vice versa. Unfortunately one of them is fighting a losing battle, and when she makes a request for one final hurrah to finish her bucket list, her sister can't refuse her.

Hannah's brother Brady was burned by a woman once, and now his only goal is taking care of his mother and sister as he deems appropriate. He is not about to let an irresponsible single mother like Dana derail the plans he has for his family. Unfortunately, this hurt unfeeling man might be the only thing able to stand up to the past when it blows into town demanding steep dues. The consequences for these two damaged hearts will hang in the balance.

Cassie doesn't have time for a man, dating, or any relationship not revolving around her children. Her hodgepodge family takes every ounce of strength and organizational capacity she has each day. They may have come to her in the darkest moment of her life through circumstances she would give anything to change, but now they are her entire world.

Ryan, Beth, and Grace had been the best of friends from kindergarten through high school graduation. The trio considered one another family, and every significant moment of one of their lives was chronicled in the minds of the other friends. On graduation night the crossroads between high school and the rest of their lives took a major detour and hurtled them in directions no one could have imagined.

Detective Arizona Tume has been bidding her time and waiting for just the right moment to make her move. Her cover is now blown, or so she believes after helping Alaric escape out of the task force. When some hard questions are brought to bear, she is on edge but still not fully cleared to leave the job she has been entrusted to for all these years. When Levi makes a move, she is not certain to believe her old partner, but the case she has been asked to advise on is too hot not to throw in with everyone trying to solve it.

On the tail of finding out Alaric, Levi, and Nate’s secret, the women of Virtuous Sin are spiraling. Finding that everything they thought about reality was a façade in a bigger game of cat and mouse than anyone ever knew could be the end of the road for these three; at the very least, the men they had trusted are on the outs with them for certain. As they find a way back in, a new evil lurks. Being called from the darkness, he seeks to claim a secret that will change all dynamics of this war for good.

When they all got out of the military, Liam and five others started executive protection, kidnapping, and ransom freelancing. They are the best in the business and have a track record of second to none. These guys are closer than blood and would die for each other, their country, and their families. The toughest cases are sent their way when either the richest of the rich need a favor done outside of normal law enforcement expertise or sometimes even governments.

With Levi’s life in the balance, Atara will stop at nothing to hunt down those who are holding him. It will take all the sisters to get to Levi in time. Unfortunately, the group holding him has lived in the shadows for years and boasts some of the world’s most powerful men as clients for the pure women they offer to the highest bidder. They are led by a smart, maniacal man who has everything riding on staying under the radar and offering the women a swap for their silence. Don’t blink - because nothing is as it seems in the underbelly of this city.

Nora survived a parent’s worst nightmare but now lives in a small compressed world keeping people at bay. Her mother has provided her a job that allows her to make a living cut off from the world in general, making only tiny roads with the women around her for companionship. A small child with a similar story walks in and refuses to leave her alone until the day. Learning to put her own feelings aside to help Anabeth regain her independence and happiness again allows Nora to focus on something outside her own pain for the first time.

Savannah Greane is a good mother in a terrible situation, on the brink of losing her son due to injuries sustained in another attack by her ex-husband. She has run for years, limited personal friends for fear others could get hurt, and lived in shelters, but he found her and now his parents are suing for custody, saying she is unable to care for her son. When a tall man walks into her room and offers her a solution, it seems too good to be true, but she doesn't have any other option.

When their parents died in a plane crash, Nick and his identical twin, Nate, end up bouncing around foster care, always trying to find a way back together. No one wants two teenage boys, until the night Mama Jean made them a deal they couldn't refuse. Now he has finished college, and is the new baseball coach and teacher at his old high school. Excited to have landed a job so close to his home and responsibilities on the Farm, he arrives ready to help the teenagers he surrounds himself with daily. The last thing he expects is to run into Hope, the girl that had left Mama Jean's program without any explanation years before.

Before her death, Mama Jean, as she was fondly known by the foster children she took in, set in motion the plans for the Hertzel-Mendall Family Farm, a community established to offer homes to families that fostered children. The "farm" offers therapeutic, recreational and many other services all in one place to achieve the best outcomes for children in the foster care system. "Mama" Jean Hertzel fostered teenagers who had run out of options - teens who were considered unadoptable mostly due to their ages but sometimes for other reasons.

Gabe Lundin has it all: a wonderful girlfriend, a growing business, and an extended tight-knit family. But he misses his best friend. He and Camille grew up together, and she is in every memory and milestone in his life up until two years ago. Time and several bad choices have driven a wedge between them, and they have taken different paths.