Landstad Series

Anderson has no idea he is the star of every romance novel Ruth has written. Quiet and shy, Ruth Kennedy liked to think it was her professionalism that prevented her from pursuing her boss. In reality, it was because he simply didn't see her. As his employee, she was basically invisible to him for anything other than business-related matters. She knew whirlwind romances didn't play out in real life like they did in the books she wrote in her free time. Even so, she couldn't help but fantasize about Anderson, her boss, looking at her with love in his eyes as tender words slipped from his lips. All that changes when the two run into each other in the middle of a North Dakota blizzard. For the first time, he truly sees her... and the two are irresistibly drawn to one another. He's from the big city. She's a small-town girl at heart. Can she let him in, knowing what's between them could be fleeting? Or will their chance at happiness melt with the piled up snow?

She is temptation in a skirt.   He resisted as long as possible.   But it wasn't long enough.   Why is Mathias Nordskov unable to stop thinking about Tess Thorn, the new bank president? He wanted to think it was because she destroyed his dream by turning down a loan, but it wasn't thoughts about money that kept him up at night. It was her gray eyes and her amazing body.   But Mathias isn't falling for another woman who is out of place and unhappy living in the country. And he knows Tess wasn't just raised in the city, but one hours away from his tiny hometown of Landstad. She is nothing like who he should be attracted to. Or was he not seeing the real woman behind the polished façade. Because she wasn't talking about her past, not to him, not to anyone.   From her fancy clothes to her annoying confidence, he didn't like her. Except every time they are together the temptation is to high and he wanted to touch. He would be able to resist her if she wasn't touching him back.   Now all that touching is catching up with them, because the bank president is having his baby.

The wedding is starting,   Everything is perfect,   Too bad the bride is going to miss it.   Natalie Beckett's over planned wedding is falling apart, or maybe she is. Minutes before it's set to start, her gut tells her she can't. There are too many missing pieces. Least of all her love of the groom. Out the window into the pouring rain, she rushes across the muddy parking lot right into the arms of her former high school teacher, sexy Sam Sullivan.   Sam didn't want to go to a wedding, or maybe it was this particular wedding. Which is why he is late and the one catching the rain soaked bride in the church parking lot. Not knowing what to do with her, he takes her home. She is his best friend's daughter and needs someone. He was going to be that someone.   With a vexed groom and only a small town to hide in, Natalie needs out of Landstad. It's a perfect time to meet the woman who gave her up for adoption. But she can't do it alone, and after some shameless begging Sam agrees to go with her.   Suddenly she finds herself having feelings for Sam only days after she was supposed to marry another man. Can she trust her emotions now, when they have steered her wrong so many times. Will their shared past get in the way of a future together?

Hazel stopped living for herself at seventeen, instead she lives the dreams of her lost siblings. Until a chance encounter at a party changes everything. Years ago Hazel May had turned away from the music she loved to farm alongside her grandparents. Contently she had raised her son, and didn't make waves. Except for once a month, when a band from the city let her be a musician again, two songs at a time. Which is how she found herself in the middle of a crowd of drunk college students and one possibly not drunk preacher. Not just any preacher, her preacher handsome Ruston Abbott, the one she saw every week. How could she resist dancing with him? Talking to him? Being alone with him? Which was how he blew her boots off, literarily and figuratively, forcing her to drive home barefoot. Now she has to watch him week after week and think about him in a way she shouldn't. Because Hazel wasn't the sort of woman he needed in his life. After she had a fatherless son and the reputation to match. And she couldn't forgive his god for taking her family from her. Or leaving her behind. Except their future is torn out of her control as gossip swirls around town. Is she marrying him to save his job or for more selfish reasons? Is it possible she can make a future from the ashes of her past? Can she dream for herself for once?

There is no harm in a little outrageous flirting, But carma always had a way of biting Kit in the butt. Which was how the man Kit had flirted with Friday afternoon ended up in her hometown that night. At a wedding she didn't want to be at. Flirting right back at her. Thomas Harstad was a ladies man. Everyone in the school break room where they both worked knew that. For months Kit has tried to stay out of his line of sight, because she wasn't the kind of woman he would change his ways for. After all, he doesn't date women with kids, and she has a handful. Not that it matters, Kit was done with men. After two failed marriages and raising five kids herself, she didn't even have time for a man. Despite her abysmal track record with men she hated to admit, she liked Thomas's attention. Even if Thomas could look past her faults, all five of them she knew there was no future for them. Thomas spent little time with one woman and she couldn't lose anymore of her heart to a man who doesn't stay. So why was she still hoping for happily ever after?

"I don't make people just strip naked, Hue. I always offer them a gown," Amanda knew she wouldn't offer him one if he ever darkened her clinic's door, because the sexy cop was the only person the nurse practitioner wanted to see naked in their small town. Not that she would ever admit to that, because she wasn't his type. After a bitter divorce and an ill-fated affair, she returned to her small hometown, done with love, relationships and babies. Or will be once she loses the baby she's carrying, past experience says she will lose this one too. That's the reason she isn't telling anyone, not her friends or family. Leaving her torn between excitement for the time she has with her unborn baby and depression that it will be over all too soon leaving her no room for her growing feelings for Hue. Any day, anytime Hue would happily strip naked for his neighbor Amanda if only she would ask. Instead, he made excuse after excuse to spend time with his best friend's sister, sadly always fully dressed. She had friend zoned him years ago, and he had yet to find a way to change that. Hue wants more than friendship from the outgoing, bossy, hot blonde next door. He wants her. Now he just has to figure out how to get her to notice him, because he's tired of being just her friend.

Mia knows what is happening in town, and she controls the entire narrative. But there is one thing that she can't control. Rafferty Brooks is the man she loves to hate and hates to love, and is making it impossible to keep her secrets to herself. After all, he's known for making the town's tongues wag. And they are having a lot of interesting encounters she can't have the town talking about. From steamy nights that she can't remember to a Vegas wedding that nobody can know about. After living Landstad her entire life, Mia is nearly thirty, still single and has had enough of the little town and everyone knowing her business. The outside world is beckoning. Rafferty knows Landstad wouldn't be the same without Mia at her cafe But convincing her of that will not be easy. After all, she had yet to forgive him for a small misstep that happened in high school. Now he has only a few months to convince her to stay in the small town where they both belong. Not that she would listen to him, she couldn't be in the same room and is convinced he was sleeping with any woman who was near him. Because she not only listened to the gossip, she creates it. In this small town Mia can't keep far enough from Rafferty, and the rumors are getting closer and closer to the truth. The secrets she holds closest to her are starting to spill out