Jack knew better than to get involved with elegant Miss Abigail Pierce. For their marriage was only a pretense, wasn't it? The kisses they shared didn't mean anything; the fact that his icy heart was beginning to thaw didn't matter. Except that he wished Abby would stop being his temporary wife…and become his permanent soul mate.

THEY STRUCK A BARGAIN FOR MARRIAGE...
Olivia DeAngelis needed a husband! According to her father's will, she had to marry within the next six months to keep her family's homestead, Stone's End. Would a handsom stranger be her salvation?

BUT THEY HADN'T BARGAINED ON LOVE.
Five years ago, Drew Pierce made a costly mistake that had sent him to prison. Now this former playboy wanted to redeem himself by reopening his family's sawmill. The timber available at Stone's End would help him succeed, so he agreed to Olivia's marriage of convenience. But would passion threaten a deal that was supposed to be business only?

A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
The bride: Jessie Carlisle, twenty-three and never been kissed The groom: Bad boy Ben Harding The wedding: A sham...or was it?

Ben knew that Jessie Carlisle would do anything to save her beloved Stone's End farm - even marry a man who didn't believe in love. But Jessie's sweetly innocent ways were driving him crazy. He knew he should hit the road before someone got hurt. Except that his virginal wife's charms were suddenly too hard to resist....

AN ACCIDENTAL BRIDE?
Though she'd spent a lifetime in her flamboyant twin's shadow, Rachel Hale adored selflessly, single-handedly raising her late sister's son. But with no time for dating, Rachel couldn't give her beloved nephew the daddy he deserved. Until a granite-eyed man from Maine discovered little Dylan was his...

Strong, honorable and stubborn, Jared Carlisle would stop at nothing to claim his kin. Still, knowing how much a boy needed a mother, he proposed making Rachel his bride. In a twinkling, Rachel was sharing a home and a family with Jared. But would she - or only Dylan and her twin - ever share Jared's love?