Chocolate-Box

A disillusioned widow longing for a change. A hard-working truck driver looking for love. Will Emily and Joe find their happily-ever-after in a forgotten summer breeze? Widow Emily Varon doesn't believe in love anymore, and she isn't wasting her time trying to find it. At her age, she's learned that life is a daily routine. Rinse and repeat. Safe and secure. And she's not about to change her ways now. With her hard-won affluence, succumbing to a truck-driver's invitation to spend a summer weekend together means only one thing. Friendship. Widower Joe Vertucci has never met any difficulties he couldn't overcome, and work is all he's ever known. But when the chance for romance with Emily beckons in a little seaside town, will a dilapidated cottage wind up becoming a refuge for their hearts? The waft of a summer breeze can bring summer rain. Or create new memories. Sometimes you have to leave what's familiar in order to discover where home truly is. Because for love, anything is possible.

He's been all over the world. She's a home-town girl. Can a holiday wish bridge the gap? In Cora Carpenter's small California hometown, Christmas is tailor-made for couples. Unfortunately, Cora is a party of one, thanks to a con man who stole her heart, then bilked her out of thousands of dollars. What's on her Christmas wish list this year? Nothing whimsical. She'll take a new vacuum cleaner, thanks-and no dating for the foreseeable future. But when she meets a stranger with a broken-down car, his warm smile and perilously blue eyes almost make her want to tweak that list. If only she could get over the pain and humiliation of her past. A double whammy of betrayal and a broken heart sent anchorman Patrick Gervez thousands of miles west looking for a fresh start. But the pretty child care provider's unforgettable amber eyes and deft hand with a set of jumper cables does funny things to his heart-and makes him wonder if she's a forgotten dream come true. Except she's as skittish as a piece of tinsel in a windstorm. And the only way to help her forget her heartbreak, is to convince her to forgive. Especially herself.

A woman who wanted more. A man who wanted her. Can they rediscover their love in the seaside town where it all began? From USA Today bestselling author, Josie Riviera, comes a Sweet and Wholesome contemporary romance in the beloved Chocolate-Box series! Colum O' Brien, a professional ballet dancer, is still hurt from a break-up four decades earlier. All this time, his heart has gravitated toward the woman who left him behind. Sure, he's moved on with his life, but he's never forgotten his childhood sweetheart, Keira Murphy. That is, until he meets her again. Because his father is marrying her mother. Keira was a famous runway model who moved away from her seaside Irish town with dreams of becoming a superstar. She left everything behind, including Colum. With her skills as a seamstress, she's now determined to return and open her own shop. Only she never expected to see Colum again-or to be instantly connected to him, just like when they were next-door neighbors and childhood sweethearts. But when the pressures of demanding work schedules and living miles apart prevail, will it make their second chance at love impossible? Or will their individual journeys lead them right back to where it all began?