A Place to Return To
Completed · 15 chapters · Warm
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June returns to Cedar Lake for the summer and finds the man who kept his distance ready to let her close.
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Before the Last Bell
Completed · 20 chapters · Steamy
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Lavinia wants the man whose temporary vows keep him out of reach. She will not be his secret or the reason he leaves the life he loves.
The Garden After Dark
Completed · 18 chapters · Steamy
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Blythe wants the man whose moving light cannot mingle with her glass garden. Keeping him outside is becoming harder.
The Months Between Us
Completed · 15 chapters · Steamy
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Anouk wants Orson, his kisses and his kitchen. She also wants the life that takes her away when summer ends.
Where the River Narrows
Completed · 18 chapters · Steamy
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Veda, 46, loves her fishing boat. She also wants the man campaigning to close the estuary grounds that keep it working.
What We Keep for Ourselves
Completed · 18 chapters · Steamy
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At sixty-two, Tressa wants a life that includes desire. The man she wants is her adult son's trusted friend.
The Other Half of the Dance
Completed · 18 chapters · Steamy
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Coralia helped exclude the man who opened a rival dance night. One dance with him makes loyalty a much less tidy affair.
The Empty Place Beside Me
Completed · 18 chapters · Steamy
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Adela promised her best friend to keep Oswin out. Three years after her friend's death, he arrives for supper with a chair.
Before We Call It Love
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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For eleven years Felix has answered Nina's calls. Now he wants her to choose him before she leaves for Copenhagen.
The Court We Choose
Completed · 19 chapters · Warm
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Saskia wants her tennis partner after the match. An injury stops her playing just as Mara is offered a place beside someone else.
Notes Toward a Second Language
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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Two translators, divorced, are left a dead friend's last novel on one condition: they finish it together, in one room, in six months.
After the War, Tea
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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A retired battle-mage runs the village tea-house. The general she defeated moves in across the lane; the treaty forbids private dealings.