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What do you get when you add up one guardian angel with ADD, one human who's texting when she should be watching where she's walking, and one open manhole in the middle of the street? You get a cracked skull with 16 stitches and a guilt-ridden guardian angel. The guardian angel, Zing, comes to earth in human form to make it up to her charge, Nell Parker. What doesn't add up is the Internet romance Nell is having. Something (cat)fishy is happening, and now Zing feels obligated to protect Nell's heart.

Claudia Montgomery is the best-selling author of the Nosy Parker mystery series. Her life was everything she had dreamed it would be, but it all came crashing to a halt when her parents died. As a result, she has an acute case of writer’s block. After several months, she goes to a Bed & Breakfast on the coast to relax and regenerate. Kate is a a successful archaeologist. She loved traveling the world and studying matriarchal societies. However, her work and life were upended when her sister was arrested and sent to prison.

Crazy Little Thing...called love. A new lesbian romantic comedy from the best-selling authors who brought you More Than a Kiss! Ollie and Claire fell head over heels in love, drove to Iowa and got married. One year later they realized they’d made a big mistake. But in order to get divorced they have to drive back to Iowa and live together for three months before the judge will grant them a divorce. Can Ollie and Claire fall back in love? Can their love survive a divorce?

Carole Day is a scrooge. She hates Christmas. She hates people. She hates everything except making money. She is the publisher of Chic, one of the world’s leading fashion magazines. She is at the zenith of her career when she realizes that she has everything she ever wanted...except for one thing. The woman who got away. Carole is visited by the three ghosts of Past, Present, and Future. They show her the error of her ways.

Joy and Carol are complete opposites in almost everything. They couldn’t be more opposite if Neil Simon had written their life stories. The only thing they have in common is the apartment they rented together. It didn’t take them long to realize that the old saying was true: Opposites attract. But is this a rebound type of attraction, or is it the real thing?

All Sarah ever wanted was a good career, a good woman to love, and a good life. She thought she had it all - until her lover threw her out for a younger woman. Now, Sarah is hunting for a new place to live. A place where she can start over. When she finds the perfect house, she has no idea she is about to meet the woman of her dreams. Kristen fell off a ladder while remodeling her Victorian house and died instantly. She had a lot of unfinished business in life and is destined to roam the rooms of her house, all alone. When Sarah moves in, Kristen is overjoyed for the company.

Chase Banter thought her life couldn't get any weirder. Her mother has taken up private investigating, her writers' group's helpful suggestions have led to severe writer's block, and her girlfriend's family is nuts. Growing up isn't high on her list of priorities. What grip Chase has on her life is severely challenged when her girlfriend tells her about the little oops at the gynecologist. Seems the doctor mixed up the rooms, and now Gitana is pregnant. The reality of Gitana's radiant glow - and growing waistline - finally convinces Chase to accept that she's about to become a parent.

One minute Jordan March was falling out a window and the next she was falling in love - with the emergency room doctor! It looked as if nothing could stand in the way of Jordan and Dr. Amy Stewart finding true love together...except a banana peel, a psycho stalker, a lesbian poetess, an extreme chef, a KGB spy, and a sex toy inventor.

Amy and Parker are overjoyed when they find out they're pregnant. There's only one thing that puts a damper on this good news: they aren't married yet. They've been planning the wedding for over a year and now they need a little help from their friends to make it a reality. In the middle of all the wedding and baby shower drama is Ruth and Tamika. Ruth is a single mother who has known more than her fair share of heartache. Her ex left as soon as the parenting got tough. Now Ruth is torn between her blossoming love for Tamika and her daughter's ravaged heart.

Dr. Susan Everett is living her dream. She has the perfect girlfriend, the perfect job, and lives in a perfect town. She is surrounded by wonderful friends and couldn't be happier...until Carrie St. Clair, her ex-fiancee, comes back to town. Susan's perfect life takes a wrong turn as Carrie tries to win her back. Tess Donnelly has never believed in happily ever after - until she meets Susan. Tess opens her heart, her arms, and her home for the woman she loves. Then Carrie St. Clair threatens to destroy everything she loves.

Steph Rizzo loves three things: her career as a firefighter; her girlfriend, Rosa; and cooking. Not necessarily in that order. The only thing lacking in her life is trying to get her girlfriend to marry her. They have lived together for 11 years, but still Rosa can't quite bring herself to say I do. After Rosa's parents died in a car accident, she grew up in a state home. Now, she has everything she's ever wanted: a lover, a home, and a career. Until the night she is shot while on duty.

Who says you can't go home again? Amy's fast paced New York City life is interrupted by her mother's illness. She returns home to Fenton, Missouri after many years to find her childhood home on fire and her aging mother in need of long-term care. It's more than she can handle, but with the help of her new found friends, she finds a life -- and love -- she wasn't expecting.

They got out of Oklahoma alive. With a baby on the way, Lee Hammond and Vivian Baxter have settled down to uncomplicated domesticity - until Lee finds bugs in the smoke detectors. The electronic kind. It seems that there are a few details about her past that Vivian has neglected to share with Lee, and the men with the big guns are back. They want what Vivian took from them: the 30 million dollar Devil's Diamond.

Lee Hammond's girlfriend has moved on to other women. Deciding she's done the last of her now ex's laundry, Lee hops on the Harley, ripe for adventure. One thunderstorm, a brief stint as a funeral crasher, two ruined shoes, and several cheerleaders later, she's still planning to run away. Better yet, she's got one of the cheerleaders along for the ride.

Cora is reunited with her true love, Janice, in a most unexpected way.

MJ loves Patty. When Patty's husband puts her in the hospital, MJ delivers her own brand of justice.

When Penny Nickels walks into the eclectic hair beauty salon and meets Luann, she gets more than a new hair-do.

Samantha discovers that you can find love in the oddest of places—even in a tattoo studio.

Lizbeth's relationship with Donna was stuck in a rut—until she rekindled the fires of desire.

Sharon breaks up with her girlfriend and moves into a house that she soon discovers is haunted by a beautiful woman who has been dead for 100 years. Is it possible to give your heart and soul to a ghost?