Can a message in a bottle lead to a happily ever after? Best-selling thriller author Jenny Hanford never expects anything to happen the night she whimsically throws her requirements for true love into the ocean. Thirteen months later, however, she hears back from the man who found her bottle. Exchanging carefree emails and texts with Dare makes Jenny smile and fills her days with anticipation. She doesn't know much about him, but his humor and kindness keep her replying.

 Six women receive invitations from Dawson Yates, owner of Perfect Match, a brand-new online matchmaking travel agency for a free week-long vacation to the island of her choice...This is Bree’s story...She’s traveled the world. He’s never left Nebraska. They say opposites attract. But that was before these two were matched up.

Maia Donovan watched her friends find true love, and dreamed of her own happily-ever-after, but wishes and reality don’t always match up. Maia doesn’t realize the biggest obstacle to her happily-ever-after may be herself, and the memories she’s hiding in her heart—that part of her heart that still belongs to her first true love. If Maia can’t resolve her fears and give up those old feelings, then finding her happily-ever-after may become an impossible dream.

It’s a risky move that’s out of character for her, but her thirties are passing quickly—she feels like she's closing in on forty fast—plus she’s got a hole in her roof and no AC. The big payday she’s been promised for this short-term assignment will fix a lot of what’s wrong in her life. The job is at the beach in North Carolina, in a place called Emerald Isle at the end of the Outer Banks. She’s never seen the ocean before and she’d like to, but what's the catch?

Carly Bishop doesn't want to come home for Christmas. Hood Hamlet is filled with nothing but heartbreaking reminders of the fiance and brother she lost six years ago. But her family needs her, so Carly must dig deep to unearth her Christmas spirit so she can give her niece and nephew the best holiday ever. Mountain rescuer Jake Porter believes he could have saved his two friends that fateful day and kept the Bishop family from experiencing such a heart-wrenching loss.