Debbie Macomber

Valerie rushes home to Orchard Valley, Oregon, when her father, David, suffers a heart attack. She and her two younger sisters, Stephanie and Norah, are gathering at his side, praying he'll live, fearing he'll die. At a time like this, falling in love with her father's heart surgeon is the last thing on Valerie's mind. Meanwhile Stephanie has other worries besides her father's health. She'd fled Orchard Valley three years earlier after her humiliating...

When her Russian biochemist's visa extension is denied, Julia Conrad and Aleksandr Berinksi enter into a marriage of convenience; and when Alaskan Chase Goodwin advertises for a bride on a billboard, Lesley Campbell responds.

High school sweethearts Katie and Jason haven't seen each other in ten years, and now she's walked back into his life. With one look, the love they shared comes flooding back, only now the odds seem stacked against them. But when something's meant to be, all bets are off.

Cameron hates the sweater that his grandmother knit for his birthday, until she visits and tells him the special meaning behind its design. Includes instructions for knitting a similar sweater.

Jury of his peers: Caroline Lomax is on jury duty and, by sheer coincidence, so is Ted Thomasson. She'd known him when she was twelve and he was fifteen. Back then, she thought he was obnoxious--and she hasn't changed her mind. But other things have changed. Ted's become very attractive, for one. And he certainly knows how to kiss. Now Ted wants Caroline to see him as more than a boy from her past. He wants her to see him as the man she'll marry. Any...

Ellen moves with her mother and her Yorkie named Baxter to a new neighborhood where before too long Ellen is pleased to feel right at home with some unexpected help from Baxter.

Thanksgiving prayer: "Before Claudia Masters even meets Seth Lessinger, she leaves him a message from the Psalms: "May the Lord give you the desire of your heart." She knows there's something different about this man. Something special. And meeting him only confirms it. For his part, Seth, who is a new Christian, immediately recognizes that Claudia is the woman for him--the woman he wants to marry and take back to Alaska. But Claudia is torn between...

That unflattering article by Kramer Adams started the whole thing. The subject was "debutante" Maryanne Simpson, columnist at a rival Seattle paper, which her father happened to own. Despite her anger at Kramer's opinions, Maryanne decided the streetwise newsman was right about one thing: her life had been too easy. She wanted to earn her own way. She wanted to earn Kramer's respect. Maryanne quit her job, left her luxury apartment, and gave up her...