Kate Taylor hasn’t had a good night’s sleep since her husband David died. It doesn’t help that David’s dog, Socrates, watches her constantly as if he expects her to bring his master back; that her personal life is a series of telephone conversations with her evasive adult daughter and her demanding mother; that working as a family counselor she regularly faces a client named Rachel, a narcissistic woman who evokes Kate’s most painful memories. Kate is exhausted: tired of coping, tired of listening, tired of life. Then one night on an icy road, she goes into a treacherous skid. A razor’s edge from death, she realizes she wants to live. She makes plans. She sets goals. She takes a lover. She copes with her daughter’s newest crisis and her mother’s financial foolishness. Then Kate discovers something about Rachel that throws her into an ethical nightmare. Her career could be destroyed. So could her life.

She needs his help to find her son – no matter what the cost! When Seattle surgeon Emma Garrett’s son disappears on an adventurous kayaking trip, Emma desperately needs the help of an expert who knows the territory. Nobody knows the Pacific Ocean’s north coast wilderness like Gray McKenzie, but when Emma arrives on Gray’s remote doorstep unannounced and determined to enlist his aid in the search for her son, she soon realizes that reawakening her past may cost far more than she’d imagined. Together, they will journey through the wilderness that Emma finds so frightening, desperate to find Emma’s missing son. – but can a city surgeon dedicated to rebuilding damaged children’s bodies, and a man who lives and breathes wilderness, ever build a life together that includes both their worlds?

“Ms. Grant creates a masterpiece … romance at its best.” (Rendezvous review) Jamie Ferguson – artistic, impulsive, and unreliable – gets under Alex’s skin from the moment he first sees her. With her riot of red curls and flashing emerald eyes, Jamie is the very picture of a restless spirit – the kind of woman he knows all too well Alex craves order, efficiency, and sensible women, but he’s about to stumble into a storm of love and learn that life has depths he never dreamed. Jamie finds Dr. Alexander Kent domineering and strangely gruff. But when she begins painting his portrait in gold and rose hues, she discovers that his scowl hides a well of tenderness. It’s up to her to show him that the growing love they share is not only red-hot, but also enduring, timeless, and simply meant to be.

Momentary Passion… Arizona astronomer Claire Welland is anything but starry-eyed when it comes to romance. She knows her home on an isolated mountaintop observatory makes marriage to most men impossible, but that doesn’t mean she can’t have a little romantic fun. The last thing she expects when she comes home to Port Townsend, Washington, for her high school reunion is to be swept off her feet by Blake McKenzie. Forever Love… Once the town bad boy, Blake is now a prominent shipbuilder dedicated to helping local teens. When he asks Claire to talk to one of his boys about astronomy, he’s only thinking she might give direction to a troubled kid. He certainly never dreamed she’d inspire him – to fall in love. Now Blake is determined to show Claire that their future together is in the stars … if she’ll only open her eyes.

It had taken him eleven years to find her... Years ago, Abby had fallen into Ryan's arms seeking comfort in her grief. Then she walked out on him and she's been living a lie ever since. Now, Ryan Marsdon is back and he wants her. If Abby doesn't protect herself from this man, she could lose her family, her reality, and her daughter.

The last thing successful businesswoman Samantha Jones envisions is her beloved grandmother in a nursing home – and having to fly to remote Gabriola Island to care for her orphaned infant niece. But family is as important to Samantha as her job with Cal Tremaine, and she’s determined not to let instant motherhood interrupt her career … until headstrong Cal offers something more tempting.Cal’s rapidly growing software empire owes a lot to Samantha’s skills, and Cal isn’t about to let her get away. Yet when Cal gets his first look at Samantha outside the office, he realizes that he wants her to see him as a man – instead of as her boss. Suddenly he’s offering a marriage that will satisfy the judge in gaining custody of her niece, but what he wants is Samantha as his true wife … in every sense of the word.

Julie Charters loves everything about her family’s Gabriola Island summer home, but she’s neglected it for the last eight years. Now she’s back for a hit-and-run trip – clean the house, get it ready for sale, and leave. But everything changes when Julie crashes into David McNaughton’s truck. The impact of David’s truck is nothing compared to the shock when Julie discovers that David is now a widower. When Julie was thirteen she proposed to David with humiliating results, and the and the last thing she wants is to discover how devastatingly attractive, and available, David’s grown. But she knows better than to fall for a man who always thought of her as second best.

She knows the gift will come with complications ... but she doesn't expect love. When Molly accepts her father's gift of a log cabin on a beautiful island, she knows there will probably be strings attached. She's prepared to stumble over the problems her artist father inevitably leaves in his wake, she certainly doesn't expect to fall in love with neighbor Patrick McNaughton while she's busy finishing illustrations for a children's book and dealing with her father's abandoned cat. Patrick is the man of her dreams, but just when she begins to dream of future with him, her father's abandoned problems come calling on her door and she realizes that she's the last woman a man like Patrick can afford to love.