Pet groomer Rina Fiore has a problem: she’s in love with her boss. Cameron is kind, loves animals and children, and he’s sexy, too. Unfortunately, he sees Rina as nothing more than an employee and part-time nanny to his precocious daughter. If Rina confesses her feelings, she could lose them both forever… but if she doesn’t, she might be doomed to spend another Christmas alone.

Cameron McKenzie doesn’t need romance. His veterinary practice in Fool’s Gold fulfills him at work, and his daughter keeps him from getting lonely at home. His life is very… okay. Why, then, has he suddenly begun to notice that Rina’s eyes are as blue as the December sky? And why does he keep thinking of new spots to hang mistletoe?

Dakota Hendrix should be happy. She has a job she loves in a hometown she adores. But Dakota has a secret that’s breaking her heart, a secret buried so deep that even her identical triplet sisters don’t know what’s causing the pain in her eyes. If screening contestants for a reality dating show doesn’t shake her out of the blues, maybe the arrival of stern and sexy Finn Anderson will.

After years of moving from one job to the next, Montana Hendrix has finally found the perfect career for her – training therapy dogs. Now she’s ready for life’s next step – marriage and kids. But the last man she would be intrigued by is dangerously sexy Dr. Simon Bradley. He may be brilliant, but Montana wants nothing to do with a man who can’t find humor in the antics of a clumsy mutt. Except… Simon is unbelievably gentle with his pediatric patients, and his nimble fingers, trained for surgery, can do amazing things to her body. Maybe, just maybe, a bad first impression can turn into a lifetime of romance.

Pediatric burn specialist Simon Bradley has traveled the world saving lives, but he’s never been anyplace like Fool’s Gold. The friendly town pulls out all the stops to convince him to stick around, including sending alluring Montana Hendrix to be his personal tour guide. Simon learned long ago that he could find safety in the number one, but Montana’s sweet kisses and caring nature might convince the vagabond surgeon that making a home is worth risking the heart.

With both of her triplet sisters happily engaged and no romantic prospects on the horizon, engineer Nevada Hendrix puts all of her attention on her career. She’s determined to prove herself away from the family business. Unfortunately for her, she discovers that her new boss is none other than the first man who ever saw her naked… and the first man who broke her heart. Could she survive losing Tucker a second time around?

In Fool’s Gold to build a fabulous casino resort, Tucker Janack will never again allow love to consume him. Instead, he intends to focus on expanding his multimillion dollar construction empire. That means hiring the best woman for the job, even if she inspires fantasies that have nothing to do with work.

Meet Charity Jones, an accomplished City Planner who’s not nearly as good at planning her own future. She bounced around from town to town during her childhood, a pattern she was determined not to repeat as an adult. And yet, since college she’s moved several times, always chasing the perfect job, the perfect life.

When the city of Fool’s Gold comes calling, Charity is thrilled. She’s convinced that Fool’s Gold is the perfect place for her to settle down… except for one pesky detail: In this small town, she can’t get through a single day without running into sexy athlete Josh Golden, a man who plays havoc with her peace of mind. Josh is all wrong for her. He dates movie stars and models, lives life in the fast lane. So why do his kisses feel so… perfect?

When bestselling mystery author Liz Sutton was a teenager growing up in Fool’s Gold, she fell in love with Ethan Hendrix, one of the hottest guys in town. And he loved her, even though her family was poor and not exactly respectable! At least, she thought he loved her, until she heard him deny their secret relationship to his friends. Wounded and pregnant, she ran away, with no intention of ever returning to her hometown. Until her phone rings years later, and a small voice on the other end of the line says, “Aunt Liz? We need you.”

Liz can’t resist the cry for help from her young nieces, even if it means seeing Ethan again and introducing him to the son she thought he never wanted to know.

Ethan Hendrix always regretted hurting Liz. He’d been young and weak and tried to protect his family’s strong ties in the community. Over the years, he has cheered Liz’s success as an author from afar, despite the fact that she keeps killing a character who looks suspiciously like him in every single book. So when Liz returns to Fool’s Gold, he’s thrilled to see her. Until she introduces him to the son he never knew, the son she kept from him for ten years.

Somewhere between graduating MIT and becoming a multimillionaire, software developer Jackson Kent left his nerd days far behind. He has no trouble getting his own dates and only agrees to escort Katie during the wedding weekend as a favor to his mother. But when he lays his eyes on Katie for the first time since they were kids, he has a feeling he’ll owe his mother a big thank you instead of the other way around.

As the Fool’s Gold event planner, Pia O’Brian is a pro at multi-tasking, but this is taking things a little too far. Pia’s best friend has left her with not one, not two, but three frozen embryos. Pia wants to honor her friend’s final wish but is overwhelmed at the thought of being a single mother to triplets. She can’t even keep a plant alive! This is no time to meet a man who makes her stomach do flips.

Former professional quarterback Raoul Moreno grew up in the inner city and has moved to Fool’s Gold to open a camp to give other city kids a taste of nature. Stung by love in the past, Raoul has no interest in settling down, now or ever. But how can he resist a woman like Pia, who’s so honorable that she’s willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of her late best friend? Loyalty like that doesn’t come along every day… especially not wrapped in a package as sexy as Pia!