Cedar Ridge

A year ago, I told a lie...now, it's haunting me. Ronan Caldwell is my grumpy, too-handsome-for-his-own-good neighbor. He's the town's brooding sheriff...and my fake boyfriend. I've been lying to my family about dating him for the past year, convinced no one would ever know. But then they dropped a bomb-they're coming to visit. Desperate to keep my story straight, I beg Ronan to play along. He agrees, but as the line between fake and real starts to blur, I keep reminding myself it's all just for show. Right? Everything changes the night my house is broken into, and Ronan insists I stay with him. Suddenly, we're sharing more than just a lie, and the sparks between us feel anything but pretend. With my family in town, our relationship feels fragile, uncertain, like walking a tightrope between reality and make-believe. And just when I think we might be finding our footing, my stepsister overhears a conversation that shatters our carefully constructed lie. Panicked, I do what I do best-I run. But Ronan isn't the kind of man who gives up easily. He finds me, and when he does, there's no more pretending. This time, we'll find out if what we've been playing at was real all along.

Three months ago, four words changed my life forever. My life was perfect. Late nights at the office, a penthouse on the Upper East Side, a new woman in my bed every night. Then I got a knock at the door, and everything changed. And all it took was four words: you have a daughter. In a whirlwind, we moved back to my hometown. I needed to be surrounded by family, by people who could help me cope with the fact I was now a single father to a grief-stricken twelve-year-old. All I wanted was help. I never expected to fall in love with my sister's best friend. Our relationship was built in secret, in late-night texts and in lingering glances. But when my past catches up to me in the form of a disgruntled colleague, I almost lose everything and everyone I've come to love.

A terrible tragedy nearly broke him. Can love put him back together again? Widowed history teacher Neil Hamilton has lost his way, at work, with people and even with his faith. But Neil's shut-down existence is disrupted when a small toddler and his would-be foster mother, vibrantly pretty Maggie Byrne, come crashing into Neil's yard and his life. Can this absentminded teacher find himself again...and take a chance on love, too?