To Have Series

Stella Stella's lost, but attempting to remain steady on her feet after her husband walks out on her. With the help of her family and best friend, she's keeping her head above water. A true workaholic, Stella throws herself full force into her career as a small town newspaper editor and reporter only coming up to breathe when her coffee cup is empty. The last thing she expected was her childhood love to reappear after more than twenty years and shake up her entire life by refilling her mug and keeping her stocked in scones. Brian They were only nine the last time he saw her in person, but the pull to be back in the community he called home nearly a lifetime ago is too strong to ignore. Packing up his life and dragging his best friend with him, Brian sets out on a path of ownership — of his life, his dream of having a business, and finding the girl he never wanted to leave. Stella stole his heart as a child, and now he's back to see if hers is available. He didn't expect to find her broken. He didn't expect her to need him as much as he needs her. Neither of them expected their pasts to collide with their future, proving that words spoken to them as children were as true as the stars in the sky.

Secrets. Everyone has them. Some are little. Some are big. Some are harder to hide than others. Stephanie Barbieri had no problem keeping things hidden from the time she was a teenager. An emotionally abusive boyfriend. The popular girl who moonlighted as a bully. The whirlwind romance that landed her in the hospital. For Stephanie, burying secrets was the only option until she was forced to face her fears. And him. Eventually she had to face him. The hero. Her savior. The maximum dose of reality. Max Wyatt has spent the better part of his time as the new cop in a new community keeping his own secrets. He shares very little information about his past, even with those closest to him, because the past taunts him, keeping him up at night until he works himself into an emotional frenzy. It's filled with a darkness he's been fighting for years. It's a past that simultaneously haunts and motivates him. A past that convinces him it's time to stop avoiding her. The girl he saved. The one who has the ability to help him put his ghosts to rest.

Jacelyn Crocker is new in town, or so a handful of people in the small community of Brockport, NY, think she is. A decade ago, Jacey uprooted herself and headed west to the California coast where she attended art school and built a life surrounded by people she thought she could rely on. Rarely coming home, she lost touch more and more with the one person she could call her best friend, Sutton. When Jacey's brother needs help with the family business, she comes back — only to find her friend has moved, leaving behind a web of lies and shattered hearts. Tommy Stratford is a family man. Loyal, determined, and a hopeless romantic, he took a leap of faith when he was told he was going to build a family of his own. Jumping into the unknown was nothing new for him. But everything changed when Tommy's dream became more of a nightmare — one that connects him with Jacey in ways they didn't realize. Forging a friendship, Jacey and Tommy find they can be whole without the person they thought completed each of them. Friendships are tricky, though, and there are a lot of grey areas. Judgments get clouded when intimacy is added to the equation, and they find themselves asking, "Is friendship enough?"

When Emily Long agrees to be in her friend's wedding, she doesn't plan on backing out a few weeks before the ceremony and merely going as a guest. Being charmed into a one-night stand with a flirty groomsman also wasn't on her list of things to do. But the morning after the wedding, she finds herself hung over and wrapped up in Brian Stratford's bedsheets. Several weeks, a positive pregnancy test, and an ultrasound later, Emily finds herself on Brian's doorstep questioning how her life ended up where it is. As the new couple processes how to co-parent without loving one another, Emily's fate takes a turn for the worst. It isn't until years later when Brian finds out what happened … and that Emily left letters behind for the people she loves most.