2013 Christy Award winner!
2013 Carol Award finalist (ACFW)
To everyone who knows her, Annalise Decker is a model wife and mother. She's a permanent member of the PTA, never misses her kids' sporting events, and is constantly campaigning for her husband's mayoral race.
No one knows that Annalise was once Deidre O'Reilly, a troubled young woman whose testimony put a dangerous criminal behind bars. Relocated through the Witness Security...

2012 Christy Award finalist, Contemporary romance category.
Unknown to her tiny town of Deep Haven, Isadora Presley spends her nights as Miss Foolish Heart, the star host of a syndicated talk radio show. Millions tune in to hear her advice on dating and falling in love, unaware that she's never really done either. Issy's ratings soar when it seems she's falling in love on-air with a caller. A caller she doesn't realize lives right next...

"Former soldier Veronica 'Ronnie' Morales isn't going to let her kid brother, Tiago, get pulled into the gangs of Minneapolis, so, seeking safety and a fresh start, she heads to sleepy Deep Haven on the north shore of Minnesota. She's hoping to put down roots as the paramedic for the new Crisis Response Team, but it's not easy to be the town outsider. Fire Chief Peter Dahlquist is a peacemaker--he has to be. After he's related to both of the Deep...

He just wants to erase his past. She can't seem to escape hers. But facing it might put their future in jeopardy. The day Jack Stewart walked out of jail, he vowed to keep his conviction a secret. The whole thing was just a terrible mistake, and he did his time. Now he wants a new life in a sleepy town where no one knows his name. Deep Haven is the perfect place to start over as a chef. The last thing the former pararescue jumper wants is to get involved....

2004 Christy Award finalist!
God has answered Mona Reynolds's prayers and given her the opportunity of a lifetime: she is about to open her own bookstore-coffee shop, the Footstep of Heaven. Now Mona has no time for love and no hope that a man can ever be the hero of her dreams. But when she hires mysterious drifter Joe Michaels to be her handyman, she discovers that it isn't only in fairy tales that people live "happily ever after."

"Oliver Fox never thought he'd step foot in Deep Haven again. But when the custody battle for his daughter hinges on his ability to face his past, he returns home and dives back into the fray of his mistakes--starting with the girl next door. Veterinarian Lena Larson has her hands full with the town's pets, including a shelter for lost animals. The last thing she needs is the arrival of the man who once shattered her heart. But when her shelter is...

Sometimes the sweetest moments in life are made from the most familiar and ordinary ingredients. Robin Fox is living out her dreams working in a gourmet bakery in Paris. But when her dream job crumbles, she finds herself back home in Deep Haven, Minnesota, caring for her grandparents' rundown bakery while they're away. She vows that when they return in six weeks, she'll trade this ordinary life for the one she left behind. Sammy Johnson can't get...