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Lucas Gallagher is the geek who bought the land Michaela "Mike" Marconi wanted for her dream house. She thinks he's infuriating, annoying and totally rude. Yet, he gets to her more than any other man ever has. But though Lucas may be a scientist, he's the rock star of scientists. His inventions have made him millions, his research is reshaping the study of medicine and he holds patents for numerous technological marvels. But now, when it means everything, he's failed. His younger brother, the family's 'golden child' is dying of cancer and Lucas, despite his brilliance, can't help him. In Chandler, he tries to hide from the world he knows. Mike tried running away from her problems when she was a kid. When her mother lay dying, Mike ran. When her world crumbled, Mike hid. And she's learned that the only way to win is to stand your ground and keep trying. She doesn't understand what Lucas is talking about half the time, but she knows exactly what he's feeling. And while criticizing his complete lack of architectural ability, and remaking the house he's trying to build, Mike finds herself slipping into Lucas Gallagher's life. She wakes him up and he shakes her up: the two of them are complete opposites, and nothing can keep them apart. Until Lucas's brother Justin comes home to die.

Prepared to hate the man who has bought her family's ranch, Gina O'Neil instead finds herself powerfully drawn to archaeologist Mateo Mecate when he needs her help in destroying a centuries old evil he unwittingly released while researching her family's past.

Returning home to run her family's small-town newspaper, Cherise Newberry becomes the boss of her high school crush and former brother-in-law J.J. DeCourcy and tries to keep things between them strictly professional until an explosive news story brings them together.

If you're wondering where high-powered, work-a-holic public relations consultants go to find true love, Stacey St. Cyr is not the girl to ask. Ever since her fiance left her for another woman, she has avoided relationships and buried her loneliness in her work. That is until fate conspires to turn her sour-stomached collie into a matchmaker at the veterinary hospital where she meets the handsome, the sexy, the once-again single, Michael Halliday. As Mike works his magic on her pooch, Stacey herself falls under his recuperative spell and calls on all of her professional and personal resources to address her fears of commitment, win over Mike's two protective daughters, and forge the loving relationship she'd always hoped for but never believed she'd find.