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Orphaned sisters Maggie and Fiona O’Keefe are on their own in a new country. In Wabash, Indiana, the nineteen-year-old Maggie struggles to balance her business – a bakery specializing in Irish pastries – with caring for her three-year-old sister. One day, Fiona disappears. Wabash sheriff Simon Masters, assuming Maggie to be a careless young mother, soon joins the search. Simon has a particular distaste for negligent parents and informs Maggie that he questions returning Fiona to her custody when – and if – the child is found. As the two butt heads, they find they have more in common than the disagreement between them.

At six feet tall, Shelby West has given up on men and settled for the corporate world until her great-uncle leaves her a charter yacht business and a sizeable amount of money. The only catch is that she has to sail one of the yachts around Cape Horn before six months is up. Jesse Titus needs to rent a boat for a race around Cape Horn. Though she is terrified of water, Shelby faces her fear and forces Jesse to take her along on the trip. As she learns to face her fears, Shelby learns to accept herself as God made her and to accept the love Jesse offers.

The Wedding Quilt Bride is one of Coble’s early novellas. Faith Cole makes a visit to her great-grandmother to Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1889. Convinced her disability will keep her from ever marrying, Faith shuns the hope in her mother’s wedding trunk. But the threat from a dangerous dam brings her out of her shyness, and she finds God has other plans.

When gold fever sweeps 1849 America, folks rush westward with dreams of new lives and instant wealth. Alexandria has lost everything but a steamboat named the Dawson Belle. It’s her only hope of providing for her brother. Captain Philip Monroe has other plans for the steamboat, but he can’t deny the woman draws him like no other he’s met. Dawson is wild and dangerous, and it will take them working together to make a success of their venture. Will nearly losing it all open their eyes to the love they both crave?

In this novella, an invitation to a reunion of the storm chasing team arrives for Randi Walker. She hasn’t seen her ex-fiancé since he mysteriously disappeared without a word their senior year of college. Randi is determined to find out why Brock Parker left two weeks before the wedding. Can he tell her the truth about his illness?

Miranda Leyton has just been dismissed as governess by an unreasonable mistress when she receives an amazing letter from her brother containing money for her passage to Australia. There’s also a cryptic message about being careful with some documents he’s sent. The gruff ship’s doctor Philip Jackson gets her back up immediately, but when he asks for help in the infirmary, she agrees. When a wealthy gentleman begins to show his interest in Miranda, she’s flattered, but she finds herself watching the doctor more than she intends. But which man actually sees and cares about the real woman? And which one is after the precious treasure she carries?

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Eden is sure she’ll never have children of her own, but her heart yearns for them. She has plenty of room in the big old Victorian house she owns, so she decides to become a foster mom. One little girl tugs at her heart, so she adopts Katie. The adoption is final when Katie’s uncle, Josh Leland, shows up and demands her back. He was working overseas and didn’t receive word of his sister’s death. Eden is determined not to give up the child she loves so much, but something about Josh tugs at her heart too. Will the two find the safe harbor their hearts have been searching for?

When Liliana takes a trip with her grandmother to beautiful, romantic Maui, she expects the best accommodations and treatment. She has learned to expect preferential treatment to make up for the lack of love in her family. When she meets stern Barnabas, part owner of the resort, she is determined to show him the meaning of fun, especially since he disapproves of her. The two are so different that it will take a miracle for them to admit there are feelings between them.

Belinda owns a Victorian salvage yard and is struggling to care for her young daughter, Andi. The bills are piling up, and she’s at her wit’s end when a new contractor, Rick Storm, shows up to buy up some of her stock. He seems the answer to her prayers In more ways than one. But when Belinda’s mother-in-law catches wind of the budding romance, she threatens to sell the business out from under Belinda unless she stops seeing Rick. Will Belinda have the courage to take this second chance at love?

As a successful interior designer, Callie’s tired of men who pursue her for her money…so she’s said good-bye to love. But Grandma insists she go on just one date with a particular architect – after all, he doesn’t like “hard-headed” businesswomen! Will love unexpectedly enter their plans? A sweet novella you’ll love.