Katrina Thomas Bücher

Laina Danvers was just a child when her parents died, and she was taken in by her father's kindly foster mother, Gram. Though the rest of her adoptive family scorned her as an outsider, Gram and her grandson Ian always loved Laina like she was one of their own. Now Laina is all grown up and a foster parent in her own right, to a little girl named Jada whose upcoming adoption by strangers is sure to break Laina's heart. But Laina faces the prospect of another devastating loss when Gram's health begins to fail. As she has so many times before, Laina turns to Ian for advice, only to find that her feelings for her handsome, warm-hearted friend have changed, deepening into a love that could transform her life...or ruin her dearest friendship. When Laina and Ian come together at the family summer home on the windswept shores of Hatteras Island, the sparks igniting between them cannot be ignored. But with stakes as high as these, can they overcome their fear of heartbreak to claim the promise of love?

When Isabelle Weston takes leave from work to help her brother, Finn, overcome the depression he's been in since losing his legs, Isabelle's mother convinces her that spending time at the family's lake lodge in the Adirondacks is just the thing Finn needs to regain perspective and start over. She also believes that the surest way to keep him there is to invite along his best friend, Mateo Elizondo. The trouble is that Mateo is also Isabelle's former fiancé... Isabelle resolves to ignore Mateo's magnetic presence and focus her attention on Finn. But she soon discovers that Mateo's young niece, Rima, is plotting to get them together--and that Mateo himself has his own plans of winning back the love he lost. But will they be able to move on from past heartbreak and rekindle the passion they once knew?

Andres Nunez is shocked to learn that he has a two-year-old child. Parenthood is not part of his plan as he pursues the challenging career of an investigative journalist in various unsettled regions around the world, but he is curious about his daughter and the young nurse and mother his ex-wife appointed as the child's guardian. Eve Bennett has a big problem. The father of her adopted daughter is not dead, as she had believed for some time. Not only is Andres Nunez alive, but he is also determined to interrupt her quiet, relaxing summer vacation on Hatteras Island in North Carolina. Despite her reservations, she allows him to spend time participating in family activities with her daughter and son. When Andres rents the house next door to hers, Eve doesn't know what she's going to do because she's becoming far too comfortable with the presence of this charming, reckless man in her life. While Andres wrestles with whether or not he can be more than just an absentee father, Eve is forced to adjust to the idea of having her daughter's handsome father as a permanent member of her family. Both of them must deal with the undeniable attraction that is growing between them and complicating everything.