Janice MacDonald

Zoe McCann doesn't care much for doctors

Especially eminent neurosurgeons who are too busy to attend to their patients. Like Dr. Phillip Barry, who wasn't available the night Jenny, the daughter of Zoe's best friend, was brought to the E.R.

So Zoe marches into Phillip's office. She hasn't spoken to him since they played together as children; she was the daughter of his parents' housekeeper. But the man she confronts isn't the unfeeling, egocentric individual she thought she'd find. He's a single father and a dedicated physician who can't hide the pain he feels at the tragedy of that night.

As Zoe's feelings for Phillip grow, she learns that doctors don't have all the answers. Not even where their own children are concerned.

Hannah Riley's life revolves around her daughter, Faith.

They live with Hannah's mother, who refers to the family home as the henhouse. We're like a bunch of hens clucking around our chick, she explains. Especially true when Hannah's sister and two aunts come to stay. Little Faith is the centre of everyone's attention.

But now Liam Tully, the man Hannah never stopped loving, is back in town. And he's demanding answers about Faith the daughter nobody told him about.

Life in the henhouse is about to change forever.

"Happy birthday. Meet your new mother."

Suffice to say, Daisy's childhood had been less than idyllic. It hadn't been easy growing up the daughter of the great Frank Truman; a respected and prolific painter who was not what he'd appeared. Even fifteen years after his death, Daisy is still trying to deal with her mixed feelings, not helped one bit by the arrival of a persistent biographer.

Nicholas Wynne wants to write the definitive account of the artist's life, not stir up old ghosts for Truman's daughter. He'd certainly never intended to fall in love. So what's he going to do with his newfound revelations about Daisy's secret and traumatic past?

He was the man she thought she'd left behind...

Dr. Sarah Benedict had tried but failed to forget Matt. Even after marrying another man and moving to Central America, she couldn't shake the memories of her childhood friend. She'd grown to realize she loved Dr. Matthew Cameron deeply.... Yet to him, she was only the best buddy a guy could ever have.

But now Sarah's moving back to Port Hamilton a widow. And Matt's divorced....

Can the two best friends get past their polar opposite approaches to medicine not to mention Matt's interfering teenage daughter to find love...fifteen years late?

Home sweet home!

Award–winning journalist Edie Robinson has come home to help out. But she's back for only a month. Much as she loves her family, that's all she can take of small–town life and her elderly mothers constant complaints: ?Why can't you be like yourmarried sister? Why did you buy the single–ply toilet paper? When are you going to settle down? No wonder you're forty and still don't have a husband.?

When Edie meets the new school principal, Peter Darling, she's determined to fight the instant attraction she feels. After all, her stay in Little Hills, Missouri, is only temporary, while Peter and his four young daughters are happy with their new home.

But love has a way of changing perspectives. Now Edie's beginning to see her home, her family and her future through new eyes.

Three months ago, Sam and Diana Lynsky boarded their twenty–six–foot yacht and set out for a sail to mark their fortieth anniversary. Diana never returned. Sam told the sheriff that he'd retired to the cabin for a nap, and when he awoke, Diana had vanished

Journalist Scott Campbell is fascinated by Catalina Island's biggest story. Had Diana fallen overboard? Had she been unhappy enough to swim away from the yacht, or, even worse, had she decided to end her life? And finally the most chilling scenario of all. Had Dr. Sam Lynsky an impatient, difficult man somehow gotten rid of his wife?

Much as Ava Lynsky wants to know what happened to her mother, she's afraid of what Scott may find out. Unlike her twin, who has no reservations about digging up family skeletons.

Finally Ava accepts the fact that nothing in her past is exactly the way she remembers. But her future with Scott promises to be everything she's dreamed of.