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Did their empty nest expose an empty marriage? Heather Winstead is gutted. All she ever wanted was to raise a family, so after her youngest child leaves for college, she's bereft. One morning, she eyes her workaholic husband across the breakfast table and realizes she doesn't even know him anymore. When he comes home late one night smelling of perfume, she grabs her excuse to leave and heads for the school where her three children attend. Rick Winstead feels blindsided. After twenty years of providing for Heather and the kids, his wife has abandoned him. She says she’s sad and confused.

Nikki Setzer thought she knew what she wanted and transformed herself to get it. Now she’s having a do that again, to escape. Micah Allen is in a new town starting his own law firm on a shoestring. The last thing he wants to do is harm some woman he keeps running into, nearly literally. But they do keep running into each other, and this woman definitely has some secrets. Can Nikki allow Micah to get close? How much danger is he in if she does? But this place is beginning to feel like a home with friends. Does she dare let down her guard?

All her life, Jade Church has dreamed of owning her own starship and flying the space lanes as a courier. Being paid to see the galaxy. that’s the life she’s always wanted... Her first job was supposed to be easy. Just deliver a small case to a small, non-descript, colony planet, they said. Nobody told her she was carrying a priceless cargo. Or that this small case had been stolen. Or she’d have to deal with ruthless soldiers, assassins, implacable AIs, and massive alien carnivores.

A year has gone by and Nina is filled with rage and grief for her many losses. Only one thing remains the same: her hate for the Savages and the desire for their death. More bitter and broken than she’s ever been before, she wonders if she can ever find her way back to the light again. But Shooter hasn’t given up on her yet, and neither have the rest of the Devil’s Highwayme

Her world in turmoil, quiet Celeste flees to the solitude of the desert, where a gruff and burly carpenter dares her to live again. Celeste Waterbury is shattered. Defeated by workplace trauma and her husband’s indifference, the sixty-something blue blood escapes to the desert, determined to put her sad, failing marriage behind her. When she hires Sedona’s top contractor to remodel her house, she’s unnerved by her attraction to the ruggedly handsome gun nut.

Tired of grieving, Sue Weston is excited when her estranged sister promises to leave her the family homestead in Sedona, Arizona. Is this her chance to emerge from sorrow and start living again? With Roseanne, it's never that simple. Rafael Palacios has been given the chance of a lifetime. His dying friend, Roseanne, has promised to leave him her property, a priceless red rock mesa with a killer view. He will sell it to the highest bidder and buy himself the security he’s been seeking all his life.