After the sudden death of his best friend, Steven Creed becomes the adoptive father of his friend's five-year-old boy, and this development is a deal-breaker for his long-term girlfriend. Steven and his new son pack up and move to Stone Creek, Arizona, looking for a fresh start. What he absolutely isn't looking for is someone like fiery prosecutor Melissa O'Ballivan, a woman with plenty of demons of her own, to fall for.

"Two high-school sweethearts, a wedding reenactment, and one absent-minded preacher. Is it a recipe for disaster or a chance for a new beginning? Shay Brandenberger is a survivor. She's lived through a crazy childhood, a failed marriage, and single parenthood-with her confidence intact. But not for long. Because when Shay participates in her town's Founder's Day wedding reenactment, she finds herself face-to-face with the one man who takes her breath...

In "Natural Born Lawman, " deputy Justin Adams meets single mother Patsy Longhorn when she tries to steal some medicine for her sick son; and in "The Unclaimed Baby, " Sharon Adams and Cord Branson dream of a family while caring for an abandoned baby.

"Cord Hollister is a true cowboy at heart. As a man who has devoted his life to training horses under the big skies of Montana, he thrives on the stability of ranch life. But when a girl arrives in Painted Pony Creek with a shocking secret, Cord's orderly life is upended. She's the spitting image of the first woman who broke his heart - a woman he hasn't seen in years - and he'll do whatever he can to help her. He just can't do it alone. Shallie Fletcher...

When he picks up a pretty hitchhiker, cowboy Brady Talmadge finds himself saddled with the infuriating Princess Annabella of Monesta who is on the run from an arranged marriage.

Meet Scratch Morton and Bo Creel, two amiable drifters and old pals. Veterans of cowboying, cattle drives, drunken brawls, and a couple of shoot-outs, Scratch and Bo are mostly honest and don't go looking for trouble--it's usually there when they wake up in the morning. Now, in remote Arizona Territory, they're caught up in a battle between two stagecoach lines. The owner of one, a beautiful widow, has gotten both Scratch and Bo hot and bothered,...

"Yancy Grey is slowly putting his life back together after serving time for petty theft. As he rebuilds an old house, he finally has a sense of stability, but he can't stop thinking of himself as just an ex-con. Until one night, he finds a mysterious dark-haired beauty hiding in his loft. But who is she, and what secret is she protecting? The art gallery Parker Lacey manages is her life -- she has no time for friends, and certainly not lovers. But...

"World champion rodeo star Austin McKettrick finally got bested by an angry bull. His career over, his love life a mess, the lone maverick has nowhere to go when the hospital releases him. Except back home to Blue River and the Silver Spur ranch. But his overachieving brothers won't allow this cowboy to brood in peace. They've even hired a nurse to speed his recovery. Paige Remington's bossy brand of TLC is driving him crazy. As is her beautiful face,...