He smirks and steps closer, his cologne invading my nostrils.

His shirt is soaked through, giving me a front-row seat to his perfectly sculpted abs.

Taking the hose away from me, he leans in to whisper in my ear.

“If you want to see my body, you don’t need to spray me. You can just ask.”

Needing a fresh start, Haley takes a job cleaning villas in a small town. But her solace is turned upside down when she gets a new coworker, a sexy asshole by the name of Axel. She despises the smug, arrogant prick. So why can’t she stop thinking about him?

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Age Rating: 18+

Sophie has never stayed long enough to call anywhere home, always drifting before roots can take hold. Returning to her small hometown in Texas feels like stepping into a life she once left behind, full of familiar roads and watchful eyes. There, she meets two very different cowboys—one bold and charming, the kind who sweeps her into a whirlwind, and another quiet and steady, seeing her in ways no one else ever has. In a town where whispers travel fast and loyalties run deep, Sophie finds herself caught between attention, comfort, and the pull of something more meaningful. As she begins to settle, she must decide what belonging truly means—and who makes it feel real.

Brea moves to a new town, dreaming of a fresh start, only to discover her neighborhood is completely run by an MC. The members are friendly, but her next-door neighbor Gage is cold, brooding, and everything she expected—maybe worse. Sparks fly between them in a fiery clash of personalities, and Brea soon realizes there’s more to the man than meets the eye. With ex troubles, secrets, and danger lurking, their connection walks a fine line between love and hate. Can they fight for a chance at something real, or will their pasts leave them both in pieces?

It's the summer before her senior year, and Hazel Young is skeptical of love. But there's a new guy in town, a mysterious stranger with a troubled past. As temperatures rise, Hazel will have to confront her own misgivings: is this just a summer fling, or is it the real deal?

Isobel Wright didn’t come to Wears Valley looking for trouble. She came to help her best friend with a spooked mare and maybe breathe a little Tennessee air. She didn’t expect the horse whisperer — the one with rope burns on his hands, a slow-burn smile, and hazel eyes that made her knees forget their job.

Ryder Callahan looks like he was born in the saddle. And he was. What no one around here knows is that he also owns half of Manhattan.

He keeps those two worlds airtight. Always has.

But Isobel makes him want to stop.

One small town. Two people hiding more than they say. And a pull between them that’s harder to outrun than a two-thousand-pound bull.

Some secrets are worth keeping. Some are worth blowing wide open.

She arrives in a quiet town carrying heartbreak, hoping a fresh start will steady her world. What she doesn’t expect is a sweet, curious little girl who clings to her like sunshine… or the guarded man who tries to hide his loneliness behind silence and routine. As days unfold, she finds friendship, comfort, and a gentle sense of home she thought she lost forever. He discovers warmth he never believed he deserved. Their pull is instant, their fears run deep, and their hope grows slowly. Can two people with pasts that still ache dare to believe in something new?

Carrie Matthews builds a life from the ashes of heartbreak after losing her husband in a tragic plane crash, his body never found. Once shattered by grief, she slowly finds her footing again with the help of a close friend and the art gallery she and her husband dreamed of together. Just as she begins to feel like herself again, the past refuses to stay buried. Memories of young love, stolen moments, and promises made in high school linger, blending with the life she’s carefully rebuilt. When the impossible becomes real, Carrie is faced with emotions she thought she had laid to rest. In a story woven with first love and second chances, she must navigate a heart that remembers everything.

Miriam returns to her late grandmother’s hilltop property in an Italian village to inspect a shuttered restaurant—only to learn the relaunch is already underway. Agnese, her grandmother’s formidable friend, has hired a chef with his own key: Manny, the blunt stranger from the market. With eight weeks to recreate Lucia’s legendary Sunday ragu, Miriam’s careful plans collide with Manny’s instinctive cooking—and the town’s secrets, memories, and appetites start pulling them both in.

It’s just a summer fling…right?

Practical and reliable, Bekah Matthews is tired of her good-girl image. After her boyfriend dumps her, she decides to throw caution to the wind.

So what better way to let her hair down than to have a no-strings-attached fling while living on the paradise that is Hazel Island?

Enter: Elliot Parker and Bekah’s high school crush.

Luckily for Bekah, Elliot is just as dreamy as he was a decade ago, and he’s not looking for commitment.

This playboy isn’t about to turn down a gorgeous woman like Bekah for some steamy loving, either.

Yet with their hearts now on the line, can this fling turn into a love for all seasons?

She's his enemy, his downfall—and his one last chance at love.

After Adam Danvers lost his wife in a tragic accident, he stopped believing in love. Instead, Adam has focused solely on running his family’s struggling vineyard in the small town of Heron’s Landing.

When Joy McGuire, a beautiful and clever journalist, moves to the sleepy town, suddenly Adam can’t control his intense attraction to her. She’s witty; she pushes his buttons. He wants to shake her as much as he wants to kiss her.

But Joy is a journalist, and Adam hates them all on principle. He saw firsthand how a journalist’s lies destroyed his late wife. Yet as Joy proves that she’s nothing like the writers he’s known, Adam can’t help but give in to exquisite temptation.

Soon a conflagration ignites between Adam and Joy. Yet as secrets unfold, Adam must trust in love or lose the woman who’s awakened his slumbering heart.

The smell of baked salmon and disappointment hung in the air. Celine was cutting into dead flesh. Literally. The fish on her plate had been cooked at the precise temperature where hope and flavor evaporated—and in the Ravel household, hope evaporated daily. Serena, her mother, quietly sipped from a glass of white wine, wearing the dull look of a woman who knew no decision was hers anymore. She had once been alive—now she was a fragile presence in beige dresses and measured gestures. Whatever was left of her dreams dissolved night after night into cold Chilean wine and fractured conversation. A

After a painful breakup, Alice escapes the chaos of city life to flip a rundown cottage in a sleepy countryside village. The project is supposed to be her fresh start—but between peeling paint and tangled weeds, she finds herself more lost than ever. Then she meets the man she hires to restore the garden: gruff, quiet, and far too good at keeping his distance. He’s the kind of mystery that tempts her to dig deeper. As the days pass and the garden slowly blooms, so does something between them—gentle, unexpected, and healing in ways neither imagined. Because sometimes, the most beautiful things take root when you stop running.

"Love doesn’t just heal the past—it builds a future you never thought possible."

After losing her husband, Morgan returns home to Summersville, hoping only to start over—not to fall again. But life has a funny way of rewriting your plans. Enter Greg, the town’s charming PE teacher with a messy past and zero intention of getting attached. When sparks fly between lesson plans and laughter, both find themselves wondering if second chances might be real after all. With a dash of small-town gossip, a sprinkle of hope, and a whole lot of heart, Morgan and Greg discover that love doesn’t just mend what’s broken—it builds something brand new.

Fall in love on Hazel Island with the start of a brand-new, small-town romance series from USA Today bestselling author Iris Morland.

They’re just friends…until one kiss changes everything.

After a messy divorce, Gwen Parker retreats to idyllic Hazel Island to start a new life. She has no time for relationships now, not when she has a bed and breakfast to run.

No matter that her friend, the gruff and ruggedly handsome Jack Benson, makes her yearn for more.

Yet Gwen knows that she’s too broken from her first marriage to risk heartbreak a second time.

Jack Benson prefers to live a solitary life. As a fisherman, he’s well-aware that relationships, like the tides, come and go.

Gwen is special, though. She makes him want a different life, one that he never thought he’d want.

But Jack can never act on his attraction to Gwen and risk ruining their friendship.

When temptation proves to be too much, Jack and Gwen can no longer ignore the heat between them.

As the past rears its ugly head, can these two friends let go of old heartbreaks to embrace a newfound love?

Danny arrives at Wild Horse Ranch ready to grab her payout and disappear before her past catches up. She keeps her walls high, her secrets close and her exit route planned. But everything shifts when Liam, the sharp-eyed jockey next door, gets a text that leaves him asking who’s suddenly riding into his life with Ben. Used to having every answer, he finds only questions when Danny steps close. Sparks flare where neither of them wants them, and every glance feels like trouble. At a ranch where no one truly outruns their past, Danny and Liam learn that one unexpected spark can burn down the life they know… or light the way home.