Автор: Joan Kilby

All right. So Jack Thatcher has experienced deep, personal tragedy. Dr. Sienna Maxwell gets that. But how can the man drop out of life the way he has, pretending to be happy hosting fabulous dinner parties and puttering in his back shed? That’s something she will never be able to understand. Because he is only pretending, right? Sienna’s a shoot-from-the-hip high achiever, who demands no less from everyone around her. Driven and determined to make her new medical practice – and everything she touches – a success, she wants a whole lot more from Jack than charmand kisses. She…

A place called Hope Hayley Sorenson uses horses to help people heal. But when neighbor Adam Banks asks for her expertise with his teenage daughter, she says no. How can she get involved when all she sees is their past? And the attraction Hayley feels for Adam makes her anything but objective!Yet Adam isn’t deterred, and in getting to know the woman they call the horse whisperer, he realizes that she’s dealing with her own pain. As Hayley etches a place in Adam’s heart, all he wants is to give her the home she truly…

A mother for Alice Ann His little girl thinks Melissa should be her nanny. After all, she’s kind, pretty and she smells nice. Gregory isn’t entirely convinced that those are the best qualifications to care for his precious daughter, but he’s prepared to give Melissa a chance. Alice Ann is so sweet and her father is so helpless that Melissa’s heart melts. It doesn’t hurt that Gregory is a very attractive man…But Melissa is looking for Something Big that will change her life. She won’t discover it while she’s looking after Gregory and his little girl – will…

Ally Cummings may be the only «normal» one in her family, but her love life is anything but. No sooner does she find a stable, secure, predictable guy than she wants out. She’s through with romance until she can figure out what kind of man is right for her.Certainly not her new tenant, Ben Gillard, who is the exact opposite of everything Ally’s looking for. Suits him just fine. He’s sworn off a social life so he can be a full-time dad to his twelve-year-old-son, Danny. And he doesn’t need any more women «organizing» his life, especially not the uptight and prim…

From darkness to light…Marc Wilde once prided himself on living up to his last name. He was a respected foreign war correspondent and former champion snowboarder, but his life took a brutal twist when a bomb blast in the Middle East landed him in a wheelchair with only a tentative chance of recovery.Frustrated and back at home in Whistler, Marc finds himself turning to drink to obliterate his shattered reality. That is until Fiona Gordon–living with tragedy and responsibilities of her own–helps him understand his future is wide open, full of light…and even love.As hard as he tries,…

The return of the runaway bride…Ten years ago Nate Wilde’s wife, Angela, left and never came back. Nate is now quite happy to spend his days on the rugged trails of Whistler, British Columbia. But when Angela returns to the resort town, the same old attraction flares to life between them.Nate realizes he never stopped loving Angela and hopes to change her mind about filing for divorce. They’ve both done a lot of growing up over the years and changed in ways neither expected. Will Nate be able to convince his wife to stay for good this…

You’re being audited. That’s hardly his most winning opening line, but Rafe Ellersley isn’t here to make friends. He’d promised himself – and his boss – that this audit would be different. This time, he would be the consummate Australian Tax Office investigator. Cool, detached, professional. He’d bring Lexie Thatcher, tax-dodging artisan, to justice with ruthless efficiency. No more bending the rules. It’s the only way to save his job.But Lexie proves a far greater challenge than he’s been prepped for. Her world is a crazy canvas of chaos and…

Renita Thatcher never imagined she’d see Brett O’Connor in town again – let alone in her office.Over the years, Renita has only caught glimpses of her old crush in the tabloids as Brett jet-set his way to football superstardom.Oh, who’s she trying to kid? She’d followed his career religiously. And his marriage to the gorgeous, high-profile trophy wife. Ex -wife.Now Renita, the only loans officer in Summerside Bay, has something Brett wants. Just like in high school, she’s in a position of power over him, but this time, she doesn’t want to mess it up. Her…

What does it take to become a family?Nina Kennerly has a full life, but she’ s always regretted giving her daughter up for adoption and losing Reid Robertson, her first love. Now her grown daughter has found her–with her own baby girl in tow!–and Nina must face Reid again.Nina and Reid are determined to be there for their new family. But spending so much time together brings back a lot of complicated feelings. And complicated is not something Reid, a widower with another daughter, needs. Are Nina and Reid just dredging up the past…or are they actually making a…

He Wants a SonMax Walker loves his daughters with a ferocity and depth that constantly surprise him. But in the deepest corner of his heart, in a place not even his wife knows about, he’s always wanted a son.She Wants a LifeKelly Walker adores her children–and she adores her husband of thirteen years. But recently she’s developed interests outside the home.They each get what they want…in unexpected…

He’s raised one child who might not be his own. Does he have it in his heart to do it again?Fire chief Nick Dalton has a lot on his plate. He’s had to move to a small town in Washington to get his twelve-going-on-twenty-year-old daughter away from the rough crowd she was hanging out with in Los Angeles. He’s also struggling with the knowledge his late wife imparted on her deathbed–their child might not be his biologically.Erin Hanson has returned to the small town she grew up in to come to grips with a failed romance, and Nick is just the kind of man to make her quickly…

Ski patroller Aidan Wilde doesn’t get too festive during the holiday season. Not since his wife, Charmaine, fell to her death off Whistler Mountain on Christmas Eve six years ago.Though the whole town had gossiped about his failure to save Charmaine, Aidan has been able to hide the horrifying circumstances of that day from his daughter, Emily. Until Charmaine’s cousin, Nicola, returns home.While digging up the truth and finding some unexpected answers, Nicola works her way into Emily’s heart and unexpectedly wins over Aidan, too. Might this single dad really be ready to let…

Enjoy the dreams, explore the emotions, experience the relationships.Two determined children, two single parents…and a spark! She’d left town twelve years ago, but she hadn’t left alone. Jane Linden had taken away a lasting reminder of her first love…her daughter. Now Jane is back in Australia in order to sell her inherited property. To do so, she’ll have to spend time with Cole Roberts, once the love of her life and still her little girl’s father.Cole is also dealing with the challenges of being a single parent. Neither Jane nor he intend to rekindle their relationship. But it…

Some loves can’t be deniedA lot has changed since for musical prodigy Finn Farrell since he spent his summers practicing with his piano teacher—and falling for her socialite niece, Carly Maxwell. After blowing his audition for Julliard, Finn turned his back on performing, his romance with Carly collateral damage.When their paths cross a decade later, it’s impossible to ignore much how they’ve grown apart. But what hasn’t changed is how comfortably they fit, or their heart-pounding attraction. Now a high-powered executive, Carly has a life a world away from songwriter Finn’s, but…

Paula Drummond is finally back on a police force. And with so much at stake–she’s a single mom atoning for an almost career-ending mistake–she’s not risking anything but stellar performance. That means, regardless of whatever attraction is brewing between her and her partner, Officer Riley Henning, she will not get involved.Still, working side by side with a man as hot as Riley and not giving in to temptation isn’t easy. Especially when he goes above and beyond to help keep her son safe. With all that evidence piling up, it seems as though her partner on the job is…

What do you do when your dreams for tomorrow happen today? John Forster’s plans to eventually be a father hit high gear when he’s granted custody of his little girl. Although he does his best, it’s soon clear she needs help adjusting to this small Australian town.Fortunately, there’s one person with the right skills to assist–Katie Henning. Too bad she’s his ex-fiancée.Seeing Katie with his daughter resurrects John’s dreams about having a family together. And the simmering attraction that still sparks when he’s with Katie makes him think, maybe.…

Promises, promises…Maeve Arden had promised to love forever, but the marriage failed. Now, five years later, Maeve has finally found peace–peace she’s promised herself to keep. The last thing she wants is a new man in her life. Her joy comes from her work–designing landscape gardens.Will Beaumont hires Maeve to design his garden. He, too, isn’t looking to have anyone else in his life–no matterhow much she attracts him. He’s just agreed to a platonic marriage with another woman–and it’s a promise he intends to keep.But circumstances conspire to remind Will of…

She has it all worked outSarah Templestowe figures she’ll take two weeks off work, fly to Australia and buy out the other owner of the outback cattle station her father left her. Then she’ll return to Seattle, give the station to her mother as a retirement present and pick up big-city life where she left off.He has other plansBut Luke Sampson is not about to let go of his dream of owning a cattle station. He’s not about to let go of Sarah Templestowe, either. Warm, caring and frank, she stirs him the way no other woman has in years. Luke, though, is a man of few words, and…

Falling in love was easy for Chloe. She met Evan, a handsome Australian doctor, and felt sure he was the man for her. But Chloe’s whirlwind romance ended abruptly when Evan left to work overseas. For comfort Chloe turned to her new friend Daniel Bennett. When she discovered she was pregnant, Daniel married her, despite Chloe’s feelings for Evan.More than twenty years later «twenty good years» Chloe finds herself once again torn between the two men. Daniel, with whom she’s raised a daughter and shared the everyday problems and triumphs of life. And Evan, the man who–she…

A LITTLE SECRETThe first time he left without telling herThe second time she asked him to go…Meg McKenzie, a marine biology student with a passion for killer whales, is shocked to discover that Spencer Valiella is her thesis supervisor. Spencer is an old flame–the love of her life, actually, and, although he doesn’t know it, the father of her son. They met and fell in love one summer while Meg was an undergraduate student…but then Spencer left.To the surprise of neither Meg nor Spencer, the intense feelings they had for each ofhter still exist, and when Spencer learns Meg had his…