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Perpetual do-gooder July Johnson's latest cause was no straggly ally cat but six feet of pure male. And though the stranger was surely hiding secrets, something told July that beneath Tucker's gruff exterior was a soul longing to be loved. Undercover lawman Tucker Haynes had chosen July's apartment as his hideout. But cozying up with the exasperating July had the cool cop seeing stars. For his feisty housemate had him dreaming of a future that could never be.

When Samantha said “I do” to Luca Ginelli, she knew she’d found a reliable soulmate—a strong, sexy man who’d stand beside her through thick and thin. And so she’d started her wedding day filled with joyful expectation, only to have her dreams shattered when the man she married years before shocking, unexpectedly, reappears, insisting she was still his wife!

Roan Sullivan is the answer to Jazzy Walker’s prayers. The doting single dad is also fresh off his win on a popular cooking show and a whiz at campfire cooking, so who better to help her win this year’s annual cookie bake-off? With his help, Jazzy is sure she can finally take first prize right out the grasping hands of Andi Browning, the gal who stole her fiancé right from under her nose.

It was an inheritance neither sister expected—a lighthouse in Moonglow Cove, left to them by a grandmother they never knew! Harper and Flannery weren’t exactly best friends either. For years, Flannery had held down the home front, taking care of their sick mother and raising a daughter, while Harper sent nothing but checks. And after their mother’s funeral the two sisters had an argument that left them not speaking for six years—why, Harper didn’t even know she has a niece! But life has a way of changing when you least expect it.

The moment for "I do" has arrived, and all eyes are on the bride - until she turns heel, hijacks a Ducati, and speeds out of town! Now everyone entangled in the wedding that wasn't takes off on an unexpected adventure of the heart: a down-on-her-luck B&B owner who needs a little help finding her own bluebird of happiness. A big city cop with small-town roots who pulls over the girl he could never have.

When bodyguard Ryder Southerland sees his best friend's sister, Katie, at an LA Christmas party, he mistakes the slinky blonde for a celebrity stalker and tackles her. Then they tackle each other at his place. The next morning Katie's gone, and Ryder tells himself it's for the best. It isn't. Now, one Christmas later, Ryder's falling for the woman he's been missing in the town he hasn't missed at all.

With major league good looks and talent, Dallas Gunslingers relief pitcher Axel Richmond was living the good life. Even if the roar of the crowd could never distract him from the loss of his young son. But now with an injured shoulder and his career on the line, Axel is stuck recuperating at a ranch in Stardust, Texas...striking out only with his gorgeous physical therapist.

Erin Weber insists she's not meant for Trent Barrett! He's one Hometown Heartthrob she's going to avoid, but not if Leigh, his matchmaking sister, has anything to say about it. Sure enough, there's soon a mysterious case of puppy love goin' on, tailor-made for one pretty pet shop owner and one handsome devil of a sheriff to solve - with marriage, perhaps?

Jared Kendrick knows in his cowboy gut that Leigh is the one for him. All he has to do is convince her. Ha! She wants to celebrate her singleness and not get hog-tied to a relationship. Though Jared has her older, loving yet revenge-seeking, matchmaking brothers on his side, he's still going to have to dodge a lot of barrels to catch this Barrett!

Hollywood honey Elizabeth Destiny is staying at ex-fiance and billionaire Kurt McNally's ranch in Rascal, Texas. Are wedding bells finally ringing for the starlet and the cowboy? Or is McNally just being a kind host after Elizabeth's unfortunate run-in with a two-by-four?

Pretend to love, honor, and obey that infuriating Nick Nickerson? Impossible! But policewoman Michele Mallory was stuck with the assignment - and a hunky new "husband".... Disguised as newlyweds, Nick and Michele set out to investigate the Triple Fork Ranch in Rascal, Texas. Acting the loving couple by day, they attempt to ignore their nightly temptation. And wonder what will happen once "Assignment: Marriage" is over.

Kelsey James always played by the rules, and look where it got her - dumped and half-drunk in a poofy white dress, her Christmas wedding ruined. Then her best friend talks her into going on her “honeymoon” anyway, daring her to a “Christmas of Yes”. It’s about time she lets loose a little, so Kelsey agrees to say “yes” to fun, to romance, and to adventure! And adventure leads her right smack into the arms of sexy Noah MacGregor.

Wedding planner Aria Alzate has one goal: to give her best friend a perfect day. But after a bump on the head, she’s under doctor’s orders not to travel on her own. So she’s stuck on the road to Twilight with upright, uptight Remington Lockhart in the driver’s seat. True, Remy is one long, tall, Texas male, but the ex-military man never saw a rule he didn’t like - making this one long road trip.... Then a sudden snowstorm strikes, and these opposites come together in a night of unexpected passion.

Wearing a too-tight “Santa Baby” costume held in by a double pair of Spanx, Paige MacGregor runs headlong into a gorgeous, grey-eyed hunk of a long, tall cowboy. And not just any cowboy, but country-Western star Cash Colton, visiting Twilight to perform in a charity concert. Most women would melt at his feet, but Paige knows all too much about self-assured men with cocky attitudes, so she tells him to get lost. Cash is in town, nursing his own broken heart, but Paige has knocked him off his feet. He’s convinced she’s perfect.

It’s impossible! Naomi Luther was standing face-to-face with the man she’d dreamed about more than a year ago. Was it the magic of kismet Christmas cookies that brought him to her? Or is there an even greater force at work? All Naomi knows is she is falling, hard and fast, for the one man all good sense says she should not have.

In the Gulf of Mexico, near South Padre, sits a private island with a bit of a magic about it: the colors are brighter, the food tastes better, and turtles and cranes find sanctuary there. The billionaire heiress who built the thriving resort on Hobby Island exclusively for crafters, Eloisa Hobby, is as much a mystery as she is a mentor.

Noelle Curry has returned to Twilight to plan the most spectacular double wedding the town has ever seen—and do it on national television. But the woman known as “The Wedding Whisperer” is knocked speechless when she notices her teenage crush, Gil Thomas, is about to plunge into icy cold water wearing nothing more than a pair of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer swim trunks. He is the sexiest guy participating in the annual polar bear plunge and seeing him pushes all thoughts of white lace and rose blossoms right out of her mind.