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Tadgh O’Reilly followed the racehorse he fell in love with across the ocean and to the barren fields of North Dakota. Content to live with his young daughter in his small, caretaker’s cottage as long as he gets to see his beloved Thoroughbred every day, he never dreams that his life is missing something very important.

Lark Stryker, a compassionate veterinarian with a heart full of hope, can't forget the man who broke her teenage heart. She has built a fulfilling life centered around caring for others. But beneath her selfless exterior lies a lingering longing for the man who shattered her heart years ago. As she tends to her animal patients and nurtures the teenage girls in her shelter, Lark wonders if God has a greater love in store for her.

Mertie Jardine came home because of her parents’ death, but she has secrets of her own. On a dark night, long ago, she gave away something precious, and the only person who knows lives in Raspberry Ridge. She can’t stay long or the public life she’s built for herself as a Christian speaker and conference leader could come crashing down. Garnet Irving remembers that dark night well. He remembers the scared, hurting girl even better. She’s somewhere under the cool and collected exterior of the woman who’s back in town and he’d like to find her. He never stopped wishing she could be his.

After working beside her sisters for years on their Iowa farm, Meg McCartney finds herself alone, trying to do the work of three people. She’s never been one to mope around, but she’s lonely and tired and at the end of her rope—desperate enough to give serious thought to an offer that has come in for the farm…and for her.

After losing her husband in the line of duty, Annie Brooks moves in with her mother in Sweet Water, North Dakota with her two small children to try to put the pieces of her life back together.

When Karna comes to help her brother on his dude ranch, she runs into her childhood archenemy Miller. Only he's gone from being a skinny dork to a handsome and appealing man. Not that she would ever admit it. Her new mission in life is to avoid him at all costs.

Vera Miller, a talented garden designer, comes to Raspberry Ridge with a heavy heart, planning a garden in memory of her son. Dominic, her estranged husband, joins her to help. Working together, they reminisce about their youth spent by Lake Michigan's shores.

Angela Davis had been the sedate good daddy’s girl all her life, doing whatever her parents wanted, even trying to trap a man into marriage to help them get out of debt. Mack knew of her past and didn’t trust her, but he needed someone to help him with his nieces, and she needed someone to help her put on the best Christmas festival Sweet Water had ever seen.

A simple cowboy in love with a surgeon. A decade of unrequited love. A hopeless, one-sided romance. Except sometimes, if you’re patient, God writes your love story.

Ezra Clyborne, a man of principles and routine, never expected Alaska, a woman embroiled in a world of trouble, and her children to turn his world upside down. His offer of marriage was meant to be a safe haven, a simple solution to her troubles, but it becomes the foundation of a bond that deepens with each challenge they face. Yet, as they confront the threats lurking around them, Ezra and Alaska discover that love often thrives in the most unexpected places.

Sally Curtis is all about numbers, details, and the crisp pages of accounting ledgers at the inn. She isn’t interested in messy human interactions or anything that doesn’t compute in a spreadsheet. But when Peter Slessing, the farmer with a contagious laugh, requires her skills, she's thrust into a world where calculations meet chaos.

Dakota Estenben’s life took a turn she never expected after a heartbreak and a whirlwind of bad decisions led her away from her one true love. Now divorced, she’s back in the picturesque town of Strawberry Sands, seeking a fresh start as she reopens the souvenir shop she inherited from her grandmother and struggles with the challenges of single motherhood.

Two enemies who always wanted to be friends. A load of piglets. One crowded church service. Could Claudia Clyborne and Beau Hanson use the things life throws at them to look past their differences and forge a strong, forever relationship? And if they do, will one of them have to give up their lifetime dream?

Asher Clyborne's unspoken love for Sondra has lingered in the shadows, veiled by loyalty to his brother. But when Asher takes her to his mountain cabin after her fiance breaks up with her, a freak accident leaves Sondra as the only person who can save his life. Sondra, a city girl at heart, struggles to adjust to the harsh, technology-free environment. Yet, when Asher is injured, she must turn to God to conquer her fears and save the man who's always been her silent guardian. Slowly, Sondra learns to rely on God to calm her anxieties and Asher gets a little stronger each day.

Jake, the town’s most eligible bachelor, volunteers to help set up the massive Christmas tree in the town square, but a misplaced ornament sends the whole thing crashing down—right on top of him. Stuck and unable to move, he calls out for help, and the last person he expects to see is shy librarian Tessa. As Tessa helps him out from under the branches, they bond over their mutual love for the holidays. Could this Christmas tree disaster turn into the best thing that’s happened to them both?

When Amber is hired to decorate the mansion of a high-profile client for Christmas, she’s determined to impress. But when the mountain of tinsel she's to use arrives in a hopelessly tangled mess, she’s in over her head. Enter her client’s charming yet mischievous brother, Daniel, who offers to help her out of the holiday jam.

He's never set a toe off the straight and narrow. She doesn't know where the straight and narrow even is. But she'd like to find it. Her life is a wreck, and she couldn't possibly say yes to Tobias's request. Except a billion dollars will make a girl do a lot of things she hadn't planned on. Even fall in love. Can these two opposites build a life and create a home for their new family?

Famous pro baseball player Dwight Eckenrode never thought he’d need the services of a group of small-town matchmakers. But nothing he does seems to catch the eye of Orchid Baldwin, and he’s just desperate enough to go along with his best friend’s suggestion–hire the Piece Makers. Except the Piece Makers don’t want him. So now what?

Serious and quiet, Silas hardly seems like the kind of man who would be out drag racing in the wee hours of the night. Unwilling heir of her family’s multimillion-dollar ranching operation, Gladys Lefrak is a daredevil who vows to never settle down. And she loves drag racing–with Silas beside her. But her 25th birthday is fast approaching, and the conditions of her inheritance state that she must be married by that date.

Sadie Powers has crushed on her brother’s best friend for years, but when the Piece Makers, Sweet Water’s own quilting and matchmaking group, ask her to help them match him up with the new single mom in town, she just wants the man she’s loved for years to be happy, even if that’s with someone else. When rancher and livestock auction owner Colman Baldwin is asked to give riding lessons to the son of the new single mom in town, he doesn’t hesitate to make time in his schedule to help out. That’s what small towns are for. He doesn’t realize he’s being set up.