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It was supposed to be sunshine, rum cocktails, and absolutely no time travel. Madison Carter was supposed to be celebrating her 23rd birthday with sunshine, rum cocktails, and zero responsibilities. When she visits an old sugar plantation turned historical museum, she finds herself drawn to a sealed-off part of the estate. An overgrown stone garden rumored to be haunted. When she touches a carved stone etched with strange symbols, she’s flung back to the late 17th century. Brodie MacLeod has survived betrayal, captivity, and life aboard a ruthless French privateer. Hardened and haunted, ...

In Time After Time, Mildred Merriweather wasn’t always the cranky spinster aunt. She used to be carefree and full of life…until one fateful summer changed everything, long before the Merriweather Sisters came to live with her sister. Sit down and curl up with the prim and proper Merriweather Aunt and find out what heart-wrenching secret she’s been hiding…

What happens when you mail love letters to your exes for fun? Chaos. Obviously. Harper thought it would be funny. After one too many margaritas, she actually mailed the cringey, unsent love letters from high school to all her exes. Call it closure. Call it cathartic. Call it a joke. But now the exes are back—in person. There’s the one who ghosted her. The one who proposed. The one-night stand she’d rather erase. And bad boy Ben Langston—the first love she never got over, back in town after years away, broader, more mellow, and impossible to ignore. Suddenly Harper’s quiet seaside ...

Travel through time to Ancient Greece? Check. A glittering diamond with a dangerous past? Check. A handsome general who’s definitely not the boring society heir she left behind? Double check. Beware a love that curses your descendants… Bebe Merriweather is the restless darling of the Roaring 20s, more interested in freedom than in the drearily respectable fiancé her family insists she marry. When Alistair Winthrop IV proposes with a dazzling diamond called Helen’s Tear, she agrees—though panic simmers beneath her polished smile. But when a storm strikes their glittering Gold Coast ...

Chloe Penelope Merriweather has decided, once and for all, to give up her belief in fairy tales. She's spending the summer before college traipsing around England, visiting the sights she's heard so much about. But a tiny part of her wishes, with all her heart, that she too could travel through time, have a grand adventure, and meet her own knight in shining armor.

Lily James scrimped and saved, working two jobs so she'd have enough money to take her dream trip. An entire summer in England with her best friend. Once summer was over, she’d return home and join the workforce. Who cared if it wasn't what she wanted? At least it was a steady job.

‘Twas THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS… Pull up a chair by the fire, throw a cozy crochet blanket over your lap, pour some tea and catch up with all of your favorite characters from the series as they celebrate the holiday.

All Violet Wallingford ever wanted was to prove to her parents she's got what it takes to make it big in the world of fashion. With two weeks to submit her best designs, there’s no time to spare for a guy who fell from the sky in the middle of a hurricane, especially one who thinks he’s from medieval Scotland. Violet takes him in during the storm. But once it’s over? This hot Scot is on his way back to wherever or whenever he came from. So what if Duncan McTavish is charming, handsome, and kind?

A dig on the border of Scotland sends a free-spirited damsel tumbling through time to medieval England. Jennifer Wilson was happy spending the summer on a dig and putting off finding a job. When the earth swallows her during a terrible storm, she finds herself looking at a bustling Somerforth Castle not the ruins she’d been painting. Medieval England is full of interesting sights…and knights. Perhaps, she could stay a week or two, it would be the adventure of a lifetime.

Melinda Merriweather's sister vanished on a trip to England. When someone tries to kill Melinda Merriweather, she knows there's more to the story of her missing sister. Determined to find out what happened, Melinda lands in England, only to get more than she bargained for.

Instead of spending the next phase of her life traveling around the world with her husband, Tara finds herself alone and starting over. Welcome to Blueberry Hill. Tara Singleton was perfectly happy with her life, right up until the moment she cut the cake at her birthday party. As everyone cheered, her husband sheepishly admitted he'd lost everything, they were flat broke. And he was leaving her for his pregnant mistress, a personal trainer young enough to be his daughter. Thank goodness their three children are grown with lives of their own. Instead of looking forward to traveling and ...

Jane Randall questioned for the hundredth time as the rickety bus bumped over what looked like little more than a cow path, why she’d taken the job as an assistant for the most spoiled actress in Hollywood? Oh right, the money and glamor. A chance to spend Christmas in London.

A runaway bride in all but name. A seaside town that wears kindness like armor. One broken beginning that becomes a life. Hazel Morrison thought she was starting fresh. Instead, her husband left her in a Cracker Barrel parking lot with a suitcase, two hundred dollars, and a future that vanished before the biscuits cooled. What she planned next was survival. What she found instead was Magnolia Beach. A town of bright-painted porches, cinnamon-roll mornings, and strangers who step in before you’re brave enough to ask. People like Margaret, who drives her toward the ocean instead of the past...

Big city. Big lights. Big changes. Amanda Smith doesn't have time for marriage. She loves her career in the city, the excitement, and the opportunities for advancement. So what if she never has time to date, she's perfectly happy without a man in her life. But when her grandmother passes away, her only remaining family in all the world, the news turns Amanda's world upside down. Not to mention the little bit in the will where gram has the last word. Amanda has one month to marry or she won't inherit.

All Emily wanted was to enjoy a long dreamt about vacation to Scotland with her best friend... To forget her jerk of an ex-boyfriend and have a bit of fun before going back to her quiet, safe life. But when Colin, a sexy immortal highlander, runs into her, he turns her ordered world upside down. So many secrets... The secrets Colin keeps could be Emily’s undoing. He needs her to save his immortal soul but if he’s not careful he may unleash the end of the world as we know it. Is the passion he offers worth her life? If she’s not careful Emily might doom them both.

Katherine Hope Jones is a seemingly normal woman with a well-paying job. The horror of her childhood carefully hidden away. But after she witnesses an act of animal cruelty, her tightly constructed world comes crashing down as past and present collide.

Rose Collier refused to let them see her crumble as she sprinted across the lobby, the big white dress billowing out of the convertible as she fled. In a daze, she left the city behind, only stopping for necessities, until she found herself staring at the ocean, inhaling deep lungfuls of clean salty sea air. The vintage car sputtered and died as she coasted into Magnolia Beach.

When the town golden boy falls in love with a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, sparks fly. Liam was the perfect son, always going along with what his parents wanted, even when it cost him his first love. Olivia never stopped loving Liam, even after he smashed her heart to bits. Now after eight long years, Liam is back, and wanting a divorce so he can marry someone else, but when he finds out what Olivia’s been hiding, it changes everything.

Gilmore Girls meets The Home Edit, at the beach, with a revenge glow-up, an estranged daughter, and one flannel-wearing contractor who knows his way around a power drill. Melissa Radford has made a career out of staying in control. But when her perfectly curated Manhattan life implodes, she heads to Beachwood Bay to flip her late grandmother’s crumbling cottage and fast. Her plan? Renovate, sell, and get back to the city before the salt air ruins her blowout. The locals have other plans. Especially Dawson Evans, the grumpy, gorgeous contractor with calloused hands and zero time for high-...

Kidnapped on her way home from work, Maggie is thrown into a terrifying world of shadow. Narrowly escaping death, she flees her kidnappers only to come face to face with her greatest fear. Helping a dying stranger, Maggie unleashes a terrible curse when she saves Robert. Now with only a week to break the curse, time is running out as they are locked in a deadly fight with forces that will stop at nothing to destroy them.