When you've lost nearly everything, can you trust enough to put your heart on the line? As a fly fishing guide, Sam Halvorsen is a woman in a man's world and she's heard enough bad jokes about rods to last a lifetime. When she takes Graham Evans out on the water, her goal is to get her payday and deposit the handsome librarian back on dry land. Yet not only does Graham have an adorable dog, he respects her skills and knowledge. Sam finds herself confiding in him about her grief and fear of abandonment following the death of the grandmother who raised her. Even more surprising, she finds herself giving into the attraction and passion between them. Sam never expected to find the love of a man who sees her for exactly who she is. But just as she's starting to trust her feelings for Graham, a letter arrives, bringing with it a torrent of family secrets and lies that could ruin everything.

Love isn't just in the air: it's contagious. Kathleen Fitzgerald has never been the leading lady. In her stage roles, she's always the second banana or the sidekick. And in love she's forever the bridesmaid, never the bride. So, showing up to support her best friend at her weekend wedding by the sea is a well-rehearsed role. Until one look from handsome fellow wedding guest Russell King makes her feel like a star.Law professor Russell was raised to be the consummate gentleman, and after a failed marriage, he's doubly hesitant about getting involved with women. Except Kathleen is a knockout: creative, irreverent, and unconventional, making him seriously consider stepping off his carefully-trodden life path to trip the light fantastic with the quicksilver actress.The scene is set for a weekend fling but when the curtain comes down there just might be potential for an encore that leads to love.

The stage is set for the play of a lifetime: but it's the romantic drama backstage that has everyone applauding.Paul and Cath are the perfect creative team. He's an up-and-coming theater director and she's his unflappable, rock-steady stage manager. If Cath's had to bury her unrequited affection for Paul for ten long years to keep things professional, it's just the price she pays for a career she loves, working with her best friend by her side. Until he hires her old nemesis as the leading lady for a new play that's their chance to make it big.Handling temperamental actors is one thing, but watching this diva throw herself at Paul makes Cath miserable. It's another complication when the leading man shows his attraction to her. Suddenly, an unexpected new job offer seems like a good idea.But then Paul upends her world by declaring his love and sparking a passionate encounter.It's both a dream come true and a nightmare as Cath is...

Sometimes true love can be right around the corner. Give Kari Halvorsen a spreadsheet and she'll have it mastered by noon. Give her a broken sink in her brand-new home and, well, that's a different story. Turns out her lifelong dream of owning her own house is very different from the reality—and it's terrifying. Enter the guy next door. Rob Fox has serious do-it-yourself skills and he's more than happy to put them to work for his pretty neighbor. But that's as far as it can go. He's always been a disaster with women—just ask his ex-wife—and he doesn't need an enemy in his backyard. He'll fix Kari's sink, and that's it. But attraction has other plans for these two. And it's not long before they're exploring more than the paint aisle at the local home improvement store. Now, it's a question of whether or not they can overcome decades of going it alone and build a foundation together.

In this fun, fast-paced romantic comedy, a bookish firefighter who knows his Jane Austen suggests a little fake dating to fend off an ex. What's a feminist English professor to do—except say yes... You can't fake heat like this...To an observer, hauling a baby grand piano onto a college quad to publicly serenade an ex might seem like a romantic gesture. To literature professor Eva Campbell, it's the latest manipulative move by a cheating jerk who won't take a hint. Plus, she never liked that song anyway.Setting the piano on fire might be an overreaction, but Eva's at the end of her rope, at least until hot young firefighter Sean Hannigan talks her down. And that's not all Sean does. Soon he's offering to be Eva's fake boyfriend to get her creepy ex off her back. Unexpected, maybe, but there's something about Sean—beyond the angelic face and take-me-now body—that makes Eva say yes.Sean battles infernos for...

You are cordially invited to...a hot mess. "Ice Queen" Tove Nilsen has it all: a successful career as a political consultant, beauty, a wonderful daughter who's about to be married...and a gaslighting, selfish disaster of an ex-husband who's just RSVP'd "yes" to the wedding. On top of that, he's bringing wife number six with him—a woman who's a mere 5 years older than their daughter. Oh, and she's a literal supermodel. Tove's always handled everything on her own, but now she's out of her depth until she decides to hire a man to pose as her date for the weekend-long event. Enter Patrick Mercer, retired escort. His easy confidence soothes Tove's ragged nerves and enables her to face her ex with her head high. Even better, he infuriates the other man, who can't make Tove the target for his usual taunts about her single status. Everything's going according to plan as the events surrounding the wedding...

All the world's a stage until your heart is on the line. All Alicia Johnson has ever wanted is to be able to slip into someone else's life, clothing, and makeup to become a murderess, a socialite, a mother, or a nurse for an episode or a season. And she's good at it.Being an actress comes with a healthy dose of financial insecurity and a willingness to live out of two jammed suitcases, ready to go wherever the next director wants her. Up until now, it's been worth it for the creative escape and the thrill of applause.All Colin St. Cyr has ever wanted is to win, going all-in to get Congress to see things his clients' way. Despite being a Brit in Washington, D.C., he is well off, well connected...and well on his way to becoming a boring bachelor forevermore after a heinous breakup.Especially as he's just made an arse of himself with the first woman who has knocked him sideways in years. It won't matter how much...

Parting may be such sweet sorrow, but second chances are so much sweeter.An intense summer fling with handsome, protective actor James Martin opened up self-effacing Frederica Alves' horizons. Then their potential for love met a swift end when he followed his dreams and left New York for Hollywood.Two years later, James is back, his talent now matched by his rising fame, and that spark is still there. But the shy Freddie he knew has become a confident woman and their passionate reconnection speedily turns into equally passionate conflict.That Freddie was still single was both unexpected and welcome after two years apart. But as James learns how much she's grown into herself, he realizes he'd walked away from the best thing that ever happened to him.Trouble is, one thing has stayed the same: Freddie hates cameras and attention and they're about to face a lot of both.Can a publicity-shy woman and a...