Katie Mettner

Hiding in plain sight on the beautiful island of Maui, Leilani Iona knows her days are numbered. The past has caught up with her and she'll pay with her life. Niko Nikolaev has a complicated relationship with Maui, and his newly widowed mother. Drawn in by Lei's exotic beauty, Niko struggles to separate the man in him from the job at hand, finding the men responsible for her torment. Lei knows her determination and will-to-live won't be enough to get out of this deadly mess, and when bullets start flying she must rely on a man she barely knows. As Lei and Niko struggle to stay alive, she learns love runs deeper than blood, heroes exist, and Cupid's arrow always finds its mark.

Cinnamon Mabel Dalton always struggled to fit in. A musical savant at an early age, Cinn's life was anything but easy. After a failed marriage and broken heart, she worried she would never find someone who understood her devotion to her craft, and her family. Then her Grandma Mable passed away, she inherited a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, and her whole life changed. Dr. Foster Kern, the director of the Little Ivywood Humane Society, spent hours with Mable Dalton being regaled with stories about her granddaughter, Cinn. Suddenly face-to-face with the woman he had heard so much about, he realized Mabel didn't do her justice. Cinn's exotic looks and giant heart were exactly what he'd been searching for, but he truly believed a woman like Cinn would never be interested in a guy like him. Cinn and Foster team up to protect her grandmother's legacy, but neither of them could predict how quickly they would discover a mutual happiness they'd both been searching for. When fate unwittingly reveals Cinn's hidden truth, she has two choices; trust her heart to Foster or run away from a lifetime of love.

A book contract in hand from publishing house, The Written Page, Constance Barnes had finally found her place in the writing world. Her public persona said confidence and success, but behind closed doors, she was a lonely woman still reeling from a relationship gone bad. Mack Maiden, the owner of a lucrative pet store on the main street of Mill Lake, New Mexico, signaled into the fast lane of success at an early age. He should be happy with his life, but he was missing the one thing he yearned for most, the love of a woman. Constance and Mack were drawn together by their mutual loneliness, but when attraction turned to scorching hot kisses, Constance was convinced she had finally found the peace she'd been searching for. Her newfound happiness came to a screeching halt when bestselling authors bit the dust in a string of accidents, accidents Constance was convinced were anything but. Her suspicions confirmed, she found herself racing against time to unravel the deception of one friend, and the revenge of another, before she became the next victim.

Living and working on the beautiful island of Maui, Ellie Monroe is happy with her life as marketing director for Kupid Enterprises. Professionally she's satisfied, but her personal life is another story. Rejected too many times, she's afraid to take a chance on the one man who might heal her heart. Maltrand Kekoa, Mr. I. T. as his co-workers call him, has overcome a lifetime of obstacles to get where he is today. Professionally Mr. I. T.'s at the height of his game, but personally, he's crushing on a woman who doesn't seem to know he exists. All that changes when a new assignment requires Mally and Ellie to don a pair of wedding bands to catch a thief. Mr. I. T.'s job is simple; protect Ellie while she digs into the backgrounds of dangerous people. It's up to Mr. I. T. to use his wits and his heart to make Operation Me and Mr. I. T. more than a temporary arrangement.

Stuck on a beautiful Hawaiian island on Valentine's Day, Kate Kupid is sure of one thing; being single on a tropical island made for lovers is a giant waste of time. Until she has an encounter on the beach that will change her life. Eleven months later, back in the cold of Snowberry, Minnesota, the last person Kate expects to walk into her law firm is Mr. Hawaii Playboy himself. Dressed to the nines in an expensive Italian suit, Gideon Armstrong Jr. has come to reclaim what is rightfully his, Kate. Gideon didn't realize a dangerous adversary wasn't afraid to use Kate as a prize in his game of cat and mouse, and now she must trust Gideon to keep her safe. Back in the Islands of Love, Gideon wants a second chance to prove he can fix Kate's broken heart, but Kate wonders if her mashed up heart can handle the kind of love he has to offer. When bullets start flying on Kupid's Cove, Gideon grabs his chance to make Kate his, once and for all.

Nick S. Klaus is a patient man, but living next door to Mandy Alexander for five years has him running low this Christmas season. He wants nothing more than to make her his Mrs. Klaus, but she'd rather pretend he isn't real. Mandy Alexander is a single mom and full-time teacher. She doesn't have time to date or for the entanglements it can cause. Even if she did have time, getting involved with her next-door neighbor, and co-worker, Nick S. Klaus, had disaster written all over it. This Christmas, Nick's determined to teach Mandy that love doesn't have to be complicated, and he's got two of the cutest Christmas elves to help him get the job done. Will this be the year Santa finally gets his Mrs. Klaus under the mistletoe?

Winifred Papadopoulos, Freddie to her few friends, has a reputation in Snowberry, Minnesota. Behind her back, and occasionally to her face, she's known as Wicked Winifred. Freddie uses her sharp tongue as a defense mechanism to keep people at bay. The truth is, her heart was broken beyond repair at sixteen, and she doesn't intend to get close to anyone ever again. She didn't foresee a two-minute conversation at speed dating as the catalyst to turn her life upside down. Flynn Steele didn't like dating. He liked speed dating even less. When his business partner insisted, he reluctantly agreed, sure it would be a waste of time, until he met the Wicked Witch of the West. He might not like dating, but the woman behind the green makeup intrigued him.

My name is Willow Erwin, and I hate summer. My mother always said hate is a strong word, but in this case, it's the right one. I haven't found one good thing about the season. Most people tell me since I'm a teacher that reason alone should make it my favorite season, but that couldn't be further from the truth. For me, summer brings everything I abhor; bugs, heat, sweating, and painful memories of a woman I will never see again. Then, in the wink of one very beautiful blue eye, all of that changed. This is the story of Summer and how she taught me to love her. It's about her quiet, and sometimes fearful, way of teaching me to embrace the moment, and to live recklessly. It's about how both of us learned to forgive, to hope, to pray, and to love, even after summer ends. Inclusions: Rheumatoid arthritis, dwarfism

Phoenix Korby is a woman scorned. Her high school love drove out of town the day after graduation and never looked back. When she makes a desperate call to the police for help, she never expects the man who tortures her in her dreams to be the one to answer it. Adam Erwin is a haunted man. He ran from his hometown, and the girl he loved, to avoid the ghosts of his past. When he gets a call about a missing woman, he never expects to come face-to-face with the sad brown eyes of the girl he left six years ago. Thrown together by circumstance, they must find Winter before she disappears forever. Only then can they resurrect a forgotten love from the ashes of their past.

Main Street is bustling in Snowberry, Minnesota, and nobody knows that better than the owner of the iconic bakery, the Liberty Belle. Handed the key to her namesake at barely twenty-one, Liberty has worked day and night to keep her parents' legacy alive. Now, three years later, she's a hotter mess than the batch of pies baking in her industrial-sized oven. Photographer Bram Alexander has had his viewfinder focused on the heart of one woman since returning to Snowberry. For the last three years she's kept him at arm's length, but all bets are off when he finds her injured and alone on the bakery floor. Liberty found falling in love with Bram easy, but convincing her tattered heart to trust him was much harder. Armed with small town determination and a heart of gold, Bram shows Liberty frame-by-frame how learning to trust him is as easy as pie.

April Melody loved her job as bookkeeper and hostess of Kiss's Caf in Snowberry, Minnesota. What she didn't love was having to hide who she was on the inside, because of what people saw on the outside. April may not be able to hear them, but she could read the lies on their lips. Martin Crow owns Crow's Hair and Nails, an upscale salon in the middle of bustling Snowberry. Crow hid from the world in the tiny town, and focused on helping women find their inner goddess. What he wasn't expecting to find was one of Snowberry's goddesses standing outside his apartment door. Drawn together by their love of music, April and Crow discover guilt and hatred will steal their future. Together they learn to let love and forgiveness be the melody and harmony in their hearts.

Winter Cheyne was a child bride sold for the price of a gambling debt. After years of abuse, she knew breaking free of him could be deadly, but it was a chance she had to take. Doctor Jedidiah Raintree had spent the last twenty years looking for his childhood friend, Winter. Where he didn't expect to find her was huddled in his cabin, injured and afraid. Hidden inside her were the secrets she was being hunted for. Hidden inside him was the strength she would need to find them and be free. Hidden in their past was the key to their destiny. First, they had to survive the next three days.

Noel Kiss is a successful businessman, but adrift in his personal life. After he reconnects with his twin sister, Noel realizes he's bored, lonely, and searching for a change. That change might be waiting for him in Snowberry, Minnesota. Savannah Hart is known in Snowberry as 'the smile maker' in Snowberry, Minnesota. She has poured blood, sweat, and tears into her flower emporium and loves spreading cheer throughout the community. She uses those colorful petals to hide her secrets from the people of Snowberry, but there's one man who can see right through them. On December twenty-fourth, life changes for both Noel and Savannah. He finds a reason for change, and she finds the answer to a prayer. Desperate for relief, Savannah accepts Noel's crazy proposal, telling herself it will be easy to say goodbye when the time comes, but she's fooling no one. Noel has until Valentine's Day to convince Savannah his arms are the shelter she's been yearning for. If he can't, the only thing he'll be holding on February 14th is a broken heart.

A trip to Ireland is just what Van and Sugar need to start a new chapter in their lives. It's been a dream of Van's to introduce Sugar to his past life, but the last thing he expects to learn is how much of that life was a lie. Stumbling through the deception of his early life, Van waltzes dangerously close to losing the one thing that matters to him. Thousands of miles from home, Sugar is facing an illness alone, but what's worse is that she no longer recognizes the man she married. When the chips are down, Sugar loses faith that Van can be the man she needs. Van has a choice to make; let the ghosts of his past ruin his future or trust in the blue eyes of his forever love.

It's nearly Christmas in Snowberry Minnesota, but Jay Alexander is feeling anything but jolly. Stuck in the middle of town square with a flat tire on his worn out wheelchair leaves him feeling grinchy. December Kiss has only been in Snowberry for a few months when she happens upon this broken down boy next door. His sandy brown hair and quirky smile has her hoisting his wheelchair into the back of her four horse Cherokee. When a December romance blooms, Jay wants to give December just one thing for Christmas, her brother. Will Jay get his December Kiss under the mistletoe Christmas Eve?

Autumn Hanson has given up on love. Her busy life as a doctor and single mom leaves her with no time for anything else. At least that's what she tells herself late at night when the loneliness is unrelenting. Kade Franco hasn't given up on love. As the city's most eligible bachelor, he could have any woman he wants, but he's waiting for his Lois Lane. Where he doesn't expect to find her is in the beautiful hazel eyes of the new doctor in town. A surprise visit, a service dog, and a seven-year-old boy will bring them together, but it will be up to Kade to break through Autumn's heart of steel and prove to her that love never fails.

Grant Harris spent the last fifteen years hopping from one woman's bed to the next. That was the way he liked it, until it wasn't. His heart was filled with aching loneliness he either had to outrun or fix. He chose to run, all the way to Duluth, Minnesota, where the air was as cold as the lifeless heart inside his chest. Carla Coffer spent the last fifteen years running from her ghosts. Now a successful businesswoman in Duluth, Minnesota, she told herself she would lay those ghosts to rest once and for all, but they weren't cooperating. The day Grant walked through the doors of Carla's Kinky Caf , the world shifted on its axis for both of them. Grant's cold dead heart thumped against his ribcage for the first time in a lifetime. Carla's heart wondered if he'd bring her the one thing she'd always wanted, unconditional love. A cup of coffee, a car, and a confession will bring them together. It will be up to them to decide if their pasts will tear them apart or be their catalyst for redemption.

Autumn has returned to the shores of Lake Superior, and Tula "Sugar" Walsh's lodge is bright with new love. She's finally found happiness and is looking forward to a new life as a wife, aunt, and sister. When Van unknowingly begins a rumba that will lead her back through the darkness of her past, she has two choices-dance it or sit it out. Determined to dance, Sugar, Van, and her 'angels among us' step onto the dance floor for the most important three minutes of their lives. For Sugar, it's a chance to show her lost loved ones how she now lives for them. For Van, it's a chance to show his new wife that he lives for her. When the music fades, and the lights come up, will Sugar finally be ready to waltz into the light of a new life filled with unexpected promise?

Trapped in an elevator with a handsome stranger was the perfect meet-cute, but Dr. Snow Daze wasn't interested in being the heroine of any romance novel. A serious researcher at Providence Hospital in Snowberry, Minnesota, Snow doesn't have time for a personal life, which was exactly the way she liked it. Dully Alexander hated elevators, until he was stuck in one with a beautiful snow angel. Intrigued by her gorgeous white hair, and her figure-hugging wheelchair, he knows he'll do anything to be her hero. When a good old-fashioned Minnesota blizzard traps them at her apartment, he takes advantage of the crackling fire, whispered secrets on the couch, and stolen kisses in the night. Dully will stop at nothing to convince Snow she deserves her own happily ever after.

As the New Year breaks over the shores of Lake Superior, Sugar and Van celebrate their new life together. Wrapped in the arms of her soulmate, Sugar has never been happier, but she has no idea her picture-perfect life is about to shatter. Lillie Walsh, Van's adopted daughter, arrives at Sugar's lodge for the wedding, and she brings along an uninvited guest. A man gone mad. He's convinced Lillie is to blame for all his problems, and he's determined to cleanse her of her sins. Sugar and Van must once again call upon their family to dance with a madman, and no one is exempt from the pain he inflicts. Will the power of love and the hope of a new life, save Lillie before she's delivered to her father by evil?