Devin Sloane – författare

She's guarded. He's smitten.If she won't risk her heart, she'll break his. RebeccaI want my life back.After losing my soulmate, I claimed grief as my closest companion. For seven years I lived only for sleep and the sweetness of dreams that carried me back to all I lost.Now I'm waking up.Before I know it, I'm making bucket lists and checking items off one by one including the one thing I never thought I could: renovating my country home that I had once hoped to fill with children.And selling it.Then Rhys Griffin saunters through my front door, a toolbelt slung low on his lean hips, and my fragile heart thuds in my chest.Straight-talking, compassionate, and oh so freaking easy on the eyes, Rhys challenges me to imagine more.But I watched my whole world crumble once.And I can't risk a repeat performance. RhysRebecca Cleaver is the second chance I never expected.She's a firecracker but the sadness in her eyes rips me apart. Of all the women I've met since I lost my wife, why does my heart settle on the one I may not be able to hold?I understand her suffering.Intimately.If she lets me in, I'll take us both out of the dark.

Happily Ever After isn't supposed to come with an expiration date.NadineBarely a couple before becoming a family, Aaron and I built a beautiful life together.Before I can blink, our children are grown and gone, Aaron's rarely home, and I wander around our big, empty house like a lost soul.I don't know who I am anymore.Or where we go from here.And I can't shake the niggling doubt that if we hadn't gotten pregnant, Aaron wouldn't have chosen me.AaronWhen the pregnancy test came back positive, I vowed not to let it steal Nadine's dreams. We chased this life down and wrangled it into submission.But now our beautiful life feels more like a prison than a prize.And I'm afraid the woman I've loved since I was a teenager will no longer want what I have to offer.If she had to choose again, would she still choose us?Would I?

First love. Second Chance.And a secret that can derail everything.Betrayed and brokenhearted, Maggie Raynor fled the small town of Moose Lake with the tender consequence of her fierce love for Baxter Martin.Isolated from her family and all she knows, Maggie raises her sweet son away from the one man intent on harming everyone connected to her baby's father.Eleven long years later, it's safe to go home.And long past time to introduce Baxter to his son.The last thing Baxter Martin expects when he returns to win back the love of his life is a ten-year-old son.Baxter doesn't have the first clue how to be a father.But he knows how it is to be cast aside and abandoned.He knows there's no future worth having without Maggie.And he knows he has to stop running.The past is catching up.This time, he's not facing it alone.

The only thing worse than the lie that tore them apart is the truth.Cursed with soft eyes and steep curves, Jenny Davis spent her teens dodging her mother's bad-news boyfriends, her twenties battling small-town whispers, and the past eleven years nursing the heart Deacon Raine shattered when he left.Bent but not broken, Jenny builds a sweet life around her bakery: safe, steady, and hers.Then tall, dark, and deadly returns from the military.He wants a second chance. But he's hardened beyond recognition. And she'd rather be alone than repeat her mother's mistakes.Ten years of service couldn't purge Jenny Davis from Deacon's veins, but it taught him to see people through a different lens. Despite his father's warnings, his mother's pleas, and the never-ending rumours, he's looking at the girl he left behind.This time, he's determined to be her shield. But when the truth comes to light, will he guard her heart? Or break it?

She craves peace. He longs for forgiveness. Things are about to get complicated.BridgetSage Ridge was supposed to be a rest stop on my way to rebuild my lost dream.Instead, I find sisterhood, family, and healing.Then contractor Kian Matthews moves to our small town. I'm drawn to his sweet warmth, steady calm, and kindness.But Kian's life is complicated, and I need peace.He's a single dad, and I'm not cut out to be a mother.Do I stay and build a different life or dust off my dream and move on?KianI've failed everyone I've ever loved.So, when the most beautiful woman makes her interest plain, I do her a favor and set her firmly in the friend zone.I overestimated my ability to keep her there.Though her eyes hold a world of pain, she lavishes care over me and my young son. She makes falling in love easy.Now she's running scared.And I don't know if I have what it takes to hold her.

It was only supposed to last until Christmas. But I didn't count on Eden Michailidis.AngeloEden is all grown up now, but entirely off-limits. First, I'm her boss. Second, she's my sister's best friend.Third, she's 13 years too young.Fourth… I can't remember and that's a problem because I want her.Desperately. And I'm used to going after what I want.EdenTo escape my unhinged ex-husband, I pack up my six-year-old daughter and head home to small-town Willowvale. I even get my old job at Angel's Diner back. But instead of my old boss, I get Angelo freaking Loukas. By now I should know better than to trust any man. But Angelo Loukas, my teenage crush turned full-grown temptation, isn't just any man. My daughter wants him to be her daddy, and I wouldn't mind having him for mine.But something tells me my ex isn't finished with me yet.Christmas is coming, and Santa's ready to deliver.But if I can't leave the past behind, how can I hope for a future?