Lori is a beautiful nurse who is never seen without perfect hair and makeup. But nobody has ever fallen in love with her, and she's starting to worry that nobody ever will. She is powerfully affected by a young girl's death in the ER one night. It's time, she realizes, to stop waiting around for a man to change her life and to instead embrace her life as a single woman.Her first step will be to buy herself a house. Enter the gorgeous but seemingly shallow real estate agent, Jake, who has the nerve to hit her up for business even as she's caring for his injury in the ER.Their attraction is undeniable, but Lori is determined to avoid getting entangled with the wrong sort. So is Jake. Soon, but not soon enough, she learns how badly she has misjudged him. By the time she realizes the truth, it's too late. Is their love and passion strong enough to overcome hurt feelings and misunderstandings?

Catarina has chosen solitude over risking her heart again. She finds satisfaction in running the business her parents left to her when they retired to the old country. But Catarina's pride in her independence sometimes clashes with her complicated feelings about her Romany ancestry. Remy finds his accounting job boring, so he's opening a gourmet ice cream parlor just down the street from Catarina's shop. He's immediately struck by her exotic beauty and she can't shake the feeling that they belong together, especially after she tells his fortune just for fun.But when she believes Remy has hidden something important from her, she retreats to her old ways and rejects the magical way he made her feel. It will take more than a few tea leaves to convince her to risk her heart again.

Julie Simmons is exhausted. Between studying to become a certified midwife and attending births, she's constantly on the go. Add to that, she's helping her jilted sister care for four children.Nick Hoffman is the brother of one of Julie's clients. She writes him off as a jerk after he questions her professionalism during his sister's delivery. But a few days later, he calls her in a panic. His sister has been rushed back to the hospital, and he's left caring for her newborn and toddler, when he doesn't have a clue how to do so. Julie comes to help and they bond over a night of caring for two sleepless little ones.Nick loves kids and can’t wait to settle down and have some of his own. Julie has decided she’d rather stick to helping other women have babies than have any of her own. What happens when you want each other, but you don’t want the same future?*NOTE* As a side note, I also write for Curvicality.com, a new online magazine that stresses body positivity, so I wanted to tell a story about a curvy girl. Julie worries what Nick will think of her body. Actually, she spends way too much time worrying about what everybody will think about her body. Her fitness-crazy neighbor Lila doesn't help matters at all, always 'encouraging' Julie that if she just lost some weight she'd be pretty. I probably don't need to tell you that Nick likes Julie's body just fine as it is, and that he has a few insecurities of his own. I love this subplot, and I think any woman who has ever carried a few extra pounds will identify with Julie's journey.

Molly Miller's early failed marriage killed her dreams of a publishing career in New York. But she's making the best of things, running her hometown library while raising her three children herself.Things get complicated when a sexy stranger walks into the library. David Conrad has come to town to take possession of the old ancestral house and solve the long-ago murders of some of his family members, and he doesn't care if he turns the whole town upside down to do it. When David convinces Molly to help him with research, the passion they both feel is undeniable. What David and Molly don't know is that solving a murder that happened before they were even born could put them in danger–and tear them apart.