Lucinda Race Livres

After Kate McKenna's dream job slips through her fingers and the man she loves breaks her heart, she comes back to Loudon. Not knowing where else to turn, Kate returns to her childhood home and begins to work for her mother at What's Perkin'. With a bandage on both her ego and her heart, Kate's life starts down a new path, that is, until Donovan Price rolls into town. Will Kate's heart be shattered again, or will she find the courage to embrace her future?

Where do you go to heal your heart? You make the journey home... Abby Stevens's life fell apart when her sister and brother in law died in a car crash. Since her parents recently died as well, all she has left is her toddler nephew Devin, whom her sister left in her custody. In search of a fresh start, she makes the decision to move back from Boston to her childhood home in a small town. What she doesn't expect is to reconnect with her old friends-the McKenna family. Ever since Shane McKenna's father died when he was a boy, he's buttoned his feelings down. His mother's heartbreak when her husband died has made him scared to jump into a relationship, so he has always kept his flirtations casual. When he sees Abby again, though, he is rocked by the intensity of his feelings for both her and little Devin. Can he overcome his fears, and find a new freedom in loving Abby?

A widowed school teacher and the airline pilot whose little girl is determined to bring her daddy and the lady from the ice cream shop together for a second chance at love. Although her husband died a year ago, first grade school teacher Lisa Peck is keeping one tradition she shared with him: sundaes every Sunday at their special place, Seaside Scoops. It's there that she meets a precocious five-year-old, Allie, and her handsome, dark-haired father, Hunter. Airline pilot Hunter Adams has been a single dad since his wife died when Allie was a baby. He has his life perfectly arranged. Allie stays with her grandparents during the week while he flies, then he spends weekends with his daughter, including taking her for sweet treats at Seaside Scoops. But Allie has never before been drawn to someone as quickly as she's drawn to Lisa. Is it just a little girl interested in a pretty woman, or is it fate pulling Lisa and Hunter together? Lisa is cautious, but maybe it's time to move on from the past and take a second chance on love. Everyone is encouraging Hunter to do the same, but will Lisa think he's just trying to find a mother for his child? Maybe Allie is wiser than the adults in her life. Will their sundaes on Sunday lead to true love every day of the week?

Sweet second chances Liza Bradford never dreamed she'd be a widow, raising two boys and starting a business as an event planner. It wasn't part of her life plan, but neither was crushing on the handsome Drew Cameron. Besides being on the board of her family's winery and running the kids around for summer activities she doesn't have one spare minute to date. Besides she's better at planning weddings for other couples than finding her own happily ever after. After all she thought, you only get one chance at true love. Drew Cameron is good looking and rich and he fell hard for Liza the first time he laid eyes on her. He's been patiently waiting until she was ready to date. She almost knocked him over when she asked him out on their first date. He liked a woman who knew what she wanted and went after it even if that means they move at her turtle pace. But he's worried about her finances and he has the means to make her life effortless. As a bonus, her boys fill a void in his life he hadn't realized was there growing up as an only child.Is Liza ready to move forward with her life and embrace love or will Drew's wanting to take care of her and the boys turn the sweet bouquet of their future to vinegar.

Heartfelt wishes and holiday kisses?When social media director Vera Davis loses her job in the city, she takes her adorable, goofy rescue pup and heads home for the holidays, to her sweet hometown of Dickens. She's hoping to move in with her mom and start a new business. But her drive is when she rescues a handsome, snowbound stranger stranded by side of the road.Newspaper reporter Tony Barbee may be a stranger to Vera, but Dickens is his hometown, too. He's come to spend Christmas with the uncle who raised him. But Vera and Tony are in for a surprise when they find her mother and his uncle living together. Aren't they moving too fast?Tony and Vera share something besides relatives in a blossoming romance: a tradition that when they see the Christmas tree in the gazebo on the village green-a scene right out of a Norman Rockwell painting-they should make a Christmas wish. Though they resist their own growing attraction to one another, Christmas is a time of surprises and gifts, and the unexpected answer to a heartfelt holiday wish may bring Vera and Tony the greatest gift of all?

After a cryptic letter appears in her mailbox and flowers are delivered anonymously Dani Michael¿s secret past threatens to collided with her future. Will Dani finally confess the danger she¿s in to her friends before it¿s too late?With her best friend, Ellie McKenna, by her side, Dani also finds help from Loudon¿s finest, namely Ellie¿s fiancé, Pad Stone, and his partner, Paul Greene. But, as Dani falls further into danger, can Ellie and their men in blue save her? Will the sparks that began smoldering between Dani and Officer Greene finally ignite?

Kate McKenna Price is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Her in-laws announced their retirement with the expectation that Don would return to the family business, a winery located three hours due west of Kate and Don's home in Loudon. To make matters worse, her in-laws offered Kate her own restaurant as a bribe. Ever loyal to her mother, she is holding fast to her roots at What's Perkin'. Kate devises a plan for Don to work from home and drive to the winery every few weeks. But as time passes, the couple's struggle to have a baby adds pressure to their strained living arrangements. A wedge is being driven into the very heart of their marriage. Will the ghost of Kate's father be able to reach his headstrong daughter to offer guidance before all she holds dear slips away? Meanwhile, Peyton Brien, a childhood friend to the entire Price family, now works for Crystal Lake Winery, and she is keeping a secret. Determined to discover what she is hiding, Don asks Kate to befriend the young mother to see what she can unearth. Will Peyton's secret shatter what is left of Kate and Don's marriage?

Tric Ryan has spent the majority of his adult life jumping out of airplanes and into infernos. That is until a fateful jump nearly ends his career as a smoke jumper. Badly in need of a change, he drives to Last Chance Beach to recover. A short respite at Shamrock Cottage promises him the solitude he needs to recoup, or to figure out how he’ll face a future without the dangerous job he loves.Kelly O’Malley moved to Last Chance Beach after a broken heart. She’s living in her uncle’s rental, Shamrock Cottage, after a fire destroys her home. Brandishing a skillet she’s ready to defend her safe haven from the battered and bruised man in her living room. A quick call to her uncle confirms the mix-up, and that he’s accidentally rented the cottage to both Tric and her for an open-ended stay. When they both agree they can share the spacious vacation home, sparks are sure to fly.Kelly helps Tric recover with easy walks on the beach and friendship. Will the magic of Last Chance Beach,with a dash of luck from the Irish, heal the heartaches Kelly and Tric carry and help them find the love and a future they both deserve? After all Shamrocks are a girl’s best friend.