Chautona Havig

The course of true love sometimes flounders on choppy waters. Falling in love with Benjamin wasn’t in the plan, but Mallory finds she’s all but lost her head and her heart after two and a half years of banter, memories, and now shared books.

He loved her then. Will she love him now? When Mallory Barrows finds an old diary in a box of books, the story she finds within sends her on the hunt for the owner–and maybe more. Theirs is a story ripped from a country song. A wedding, a former love presumed dead, her new love stepping aside.

All they wanted was a happily-never-after. When Richard Danforth inherits the family estate on Merriweather Island, he doesn’t have time to deal with it — especially not from halfway across the globe.

When a hurricane rips through Hooper Island, a tidal wave of TV crews follows and upsets the locals.

One man’s last Christmas wish might change two lives forever. Mallory Barrows has one last Christmas with her uncle. She’s determined to make it the best one he’s ever had. She knows when she asks what he wants as his final gift, it won’t be a tie or a new mug.

If it ain’t broke, why’s she so intent on fixing it? Tessa Booker hates romance. For 25 years, Tessa Booker has insisted that romance is something Hollywood cooked up to sell books and movies. Yes, she knows the word existed before movies. She doesn’t care.

Two believers and one skeptic walk into a Christian bookstore. Words ensue—including cross ones. CrossWords has thrived for over fifty years, and Shiloh Scott runs it with equal parts Scripture, encouragement, and wholehearted hugs.

Protecting her without her knowledge might get them both killed. Grief has held Eve “Kensi” Kensington captive long enough. Determined to move on after the death of her fiancé six years ago, Kensi moves to St. Alyn to help Ezra with the new boat book business.

Protecting her without her knowledge might get them both killed. Grief has held Eve “Kensi” Kensington captive long enough. Determined to move on after the death of her fiancé six years ago, Kensi moves to St. Alyn to help Ezra with the new boat book business.

Smith Abingdon needs The Agency’s protection—or he’s a dead man. Thief. Arms dealer. Assassin. The list of what Smith Abingdon will do is far longer than what he won’t.

With a month to get from Orange County, California to Delaware for his next corporate challenge, Milton Coleridge decides to spend a week at Joshua Tree National Park. He never expected to find a floundering bookstore in need of his particular business skills.

Noel: where cookies & ornaments collide. Books and cookies--a match made in heaven? Not hardly. Josh Hart just wants his fledgling bookstore to have a chance, and with every car in the tiny town of Noel parking in front of his store, you'd think he had a good one. Again, not hardly.

Christmas is supposed to be about “peace on earth” and “goodwill toward men.” Glyn Darrow bought that lie for the first three decades of her life, but whoever said that (it was one of God’s angels, wasn’t it?) clearly hadn’t met Glyn’s new neighbor.

Mark created The Agency to shield the innocent—but now an unknown foe fights to assume command. As shadowy threats tighten around Mark and his team, danger erupts on every front: terrorists at sea, betrayal within their ranks, and an enemy who always seems one step ahead.

When Henri Tupuola returned to Suamalie to open his mental health clinic, he had no idea what he was getting into. After ten years in Australia getting his degree, the locals had all but forgotten the quiet “boy” who had always made them feel like he could see right through them.

After a lifetime of being her father's right-hand girl, Ezra gets a small taste of freedom during her friend's honeymoon visit to the Suamalie islands and decides enough is enough. All she needs is to find a replacement secretary, teacher, project manager, accountant... et cetera.

My name is Kaye and I'm a de-cluttering junkie. It's been three minutes since I tossed something. Kaye has had it–utterly fed up with the constant junk that clutters her life.

Christmas in a castle shouldn't involve booby traps and impending death. Can you build a catapult from rakes and flowerpots? When Beryl finds her aunt dead, she flees before the cops blame her. Unfortunately, the killers are after her.

When no one takes a threat seriously, Flynne does the only thing she can think of. With money she has no authorization to use, a gun she’s never fired in her hip pocket, and more zip-ties than any agent should be allowed to carry, Flynne takes on protective detail for an unwilling client.

After years of running, one woman is finally safe and comfortable--or she was until a new guy moved to her tiny village. Relocated to a small, all-American New England town, one traitor tries to keep his family safe while his successor launches an attack on the American people.