The All American Boy

My best friend, Tate, and I have plans. Big plans. 1. Get the hell out of Merlot, California. 2. Ride trains around the world. Though I have a secret third entry on the list of things I want to do.... 3. Tate Lemieux. But when my family gets a life-changing diagnosis just as I'm about to graduate, all my plans look like they’ll go up in smoke.

I was warned about the town’s bad boy when I was in high school, and I should have listened. Loving Saxon Dayton should have been easy, but it wasn’t. Especially when the entire town hated him. But he made it worth it. The love he gave me was consuming, earth shattering…perfect.

I ran into Derek while trying to escape the neighbor from hell. Instantly, we hit it off. Since he’s only here for three months and the microbrewery leaves me little time for commitments, it’s the perfect setup for a fling. He’s adventurous, challenges me, and he just gets me from the inside out.

If Dr. Hope Hernandez were any more exhausted, she'd be the one on the gurney. Her drive for perfection leaves her scrambling to juggle an insane ER schedule, studying for boards, and her boyfriend—whoops! Ex-boyfriend. Hope buries her pain in work. The truth is she’d get more affection from a dog, with less risk to her heart. The second she sees the forlorn, retired military K9, Hope falls hard: He's sad and alone, just like her. They head to Colorado, aiming for a fresh start. Yet when a scorching hot veteran shows up to lay claim to her dog, he disrupts her careful plan.

Photographer Tricia Carlisle inherits her beloved grandmother’s orchard and leaves Chicago for her Texas roots, steeling herself to be immune to the charms of the small town—and those of Travis Walker, who stood her up on prom night seven years ago. Worse, she arrives only to find Nana’s place is in foreclosure. To have any hope of saving it, Tricia has no choice but to sell down assets—including her grandfather's crop duster. Travis Walker loses his last true friend when Nana Carlisle passes. Will his handshake deal to buy her crop duster survive now that Tricia's taking over?

For Jonah Thomas, life is wake up, eat breakfast, go to work at his family’s restaurant Ahoy Matey’s. Lather, rinse, repeat. Next! His hometown, the sleepy little Stoney Brook, Maine, doesn’t offer much for someone like Jonah. He’s not really living and has no clear path in front of him. Jonah merely…exists. Party boy, Micah Hannigan is determined to enjoy the summer before his final year of college. Stoney Brooke, Maine is not on his bucket list. Two weeks there with his family is a life sentence, especially when his friends are living it up on the beaches of Florida where he should be.

It's true what they say. Possessing a pretty face has its perks, especially one I've relied on since I began modeling at seventeen. It's paid for my college education and sent me around the world—all without taking a single dime from dad. But it never got me what I truly wanted: his approval. That's the reason I'm in Stoney Brook, Maine. To make a difference and prove to my dad I've changed. What I don't expect in this lobster fishing town is to catch feelings for a certain lobsterman. But Mason Proctor reeled me in, hook, line, and sinker.

For Devin McKay, music has been his lover, his drug, and his best friend for as long as he can remember, but there was always something he denied himself while he pursued it. Now that his band has broken up and he’s returned to his hometown of Stoney Brook, he’s settled into a new, somewhat drunken routine, while he tries to get accustomed to this new phase in his life. The last thing he expected was an old friend to send a troubled young musician his way.