Sophia Giambelli has never worried about the competition. For three generations, the Giambelli wines have been renowned for their quality -- from Napa Valley and throughout the world. But things are about to change at Villa Giambelli. Tereza, the matriarch, has announced a merger with he MacMillan Family's winery - and Sophia will be assuming a new role. As a savvy businesswoman, she knows she must be prepared for anything...but she isn't prepared for Tyler MacMillan. They've been ordered to work together very closely, to facilitate the merger. As they toil together, both in and out of the fields, Sophia is turn between a powerful attraction and a professional rivalry. At the end of the season, the course of thecompany's future -- and the legacy of the villa -- may take an entirely new direction. And when acts of sabotage threaten boththe family business and the family itself, Sophia's quest will be not only for dominance, for also for survival.
Declan has been obsessed with Manet Hall ever since he first saw it, but as he renovates it room by room he starts seeing visions and feeling terrible grief and terror, someone else's. Only Angelina distracts him from the mystery, and she has her own suprising connections to the Hall.
Lunacy, Alaska - population 506 - is Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he had watched his partner die - and the guilt still haunts him. Maybe serving as Chief of Police in this tiny, remote town, where darkness falls by mid-afternoon and temperatures fall to below zero, will bring some kind of solace.Nate's first weeks on the job are relatively quiet. But as he wonders whether this was all a big mistake, an unexpected kiss from feisty bush pilot Meg Galloway under the brilliant Northern Lights of the Alaska sky lifts his spirit - and convinces him to stay just a little longer... Born and raised in Lunacy, Meg has learned to be independent. But there's something about Nate's sad eyes that gets under her skin, and warms her frozen heart. However, when two climbers find a corpse on the mountain, Nate discovers that Lunacy isn't quite the sleeply little backwater he imagined...
Blue Smoke Reena Hale's destiny was shaped in the destructive—yet fascinatingly beautiful—fire that leveled her family's pizzeria when she was young. Now an arson investigator, she finds herstrength and wits constantly tested—although sometimes the job seems like a snap compared to her love life. But she can't always blame the men. Afterall, a soot-caked woman barking orders and smelling of smoke isn't the biggest turn-on in the world. Then she meets Bo Goodnight, who seems different. He'sbeen trying to find Reena ever since the long-ago night when he glimpsed her from afar. And now that she's close enough to touch, he has no intention ofletting go. Nor does the man who has begun to haunt Reena's life—with taunting phone calls and a string of horrifying crimes. And as Reena tries desperately to trace the origins—of the calls, the fires, the hatred aimed in her direction—she will step into theworst inferno she has ever faced...
Reece Gilmore has come a long way to see the stunning view below her. As the sole survivor of a brutal crime back East, she has been on the run, desperately fighting the nightmares and panic attacks that haunt her. Reece settles in Angel's Fist, Wyoming—temporarily, at least—and takes a job at a local diner. And now she's hiked this mountain all by herself. It was glorious, she thought, as she peered through her binoculars at the Snake River churning below. Then Reece saw the man and woman on the opposite bank. Arguing. Fighting. And suddenly, the man was on top of the woman, his hands around her throat
Enjoying a moment of solitude a bit farther down the trail is a gruff loner named Brody. But by the time Reece reaches him and brings him to the scene, the pair has vanished. When authorities comb the area where she saw the attack, they find nothing. No signs of struggle. No freshly turned earth. Not even a tire track. And no one in Angel's Fist seems to believe her. After all, she's a newcomer in town, with a reputation for being jumpy and jittery—maybe even a little fragile. Maybe it's timeto run again, tomove on . . . Reece Gilmore knows there's a killer in Angel's Fist, even if Brody, despite his seeming impatience and desire to keep her at arm's length, is the only one willing to believe her. When a series of menacing events makes it clear that someone wants her out of theway, Reece must put her trust in Brody—and herself—to find out if there is a killer in Angel's Fist before it's too late.