In 1814 Regency England, a widowed governess inherits a cursed estate that must be preserved by marriage before year end or lose it to the ruthless rake who wants her ruined.
Search-and-rescue diver Nessa Ahlgren is good at pulling strangers from a freezing northern lake, until a hunted federal witness lands in her floatplane and hiding Isaak Sayer on a storm-locked island costs her the mentor who made her and the truth she has refused to face.
To keep her brother safe and pay for her mother's care, Romilly Draycott signs a one-year marriage into the sealed Withergrave family, where the cold Keeper who enforces the house's unforgivable rules is hiding the secret that could destroy them both.
Across Saffron Street, rival bakers Tilda Quimby and Cyrus Ashby have feuded for a year, until a harvest festival forces them to share one pie pavilion. She needs the crowd to save her bakery; he needs to prove he belongs. To win, they must bake together, and risk the shops they love.
In 1888 New York, a newspaper heiress inherits her father's failing daily and must save it from a rival who wants her ruined, allying with the union organizer she was raised to despise. The alliance may save her paper, but it will cost her family, her name, and her heart.
A struggling artist inherits a glass factory in Venice and must choose between her career and the enigmatic master craftsman who challenges everything she believes about love.
FBI profiler Elena Marsh and master con artist Julian Vane share the same alibi for a murder neither of them committed—but each names the other. As they circle each other through a web of lies, the only truth neither expected is the way they make each other real.