Kate Vale: 23 books

A short story that explores what happens when Anita Rayburn, preparing to retire, is introduced to Brian Skolnick, who not at all interested in making a new female friend. But she is lonely and he still grieves the death of his spouse. Brian inadvertently offends Anita and she feels guilty...

Nicole Vance is a tough, smart businesswoman with a successful real estate brokerage. When a national franchise threatens to snap up her life's work, Nicole is more than ready to fight them off. If only Realty World's representative, green-eyed Peter Dalton, weren't so attractive. Peter is...

Chris Lambert and Theodora Jameson have lots in common. He wants to concentrate on building houses and refurbishing furniture, a creative endeavor much like Teddy's love of carving and stained-glass artwork. They've been friends forever, but never connected romantically, something Teddy has dreamed...

High school counselor and middle daughter in the Lambert family, Debra Lambert discovers a student bleeding from an attempted suicide. She doesn't know what to think, when her boyfriend, a professor at Lambert-Knoll College, Sawyer Quinlan, is suspected of having been involved. Lawyer Todd...

A bundle of four single-title contemporary women's fiction stories with strong romantic elements. 

When Alexis McCord's abusive boyfriend is arrested, she seizes the opportunity to escape with her young son. Now she and 5-year-old Chance are building a life in the tiny, remote beach town of Sandy Reach, Washington. Lexi is even acting on her dream of becoming a baker with her own shop—if only...

Elaine Lambert, youngest daughter of Iona and Nathan Lambert, has always known her own mind and taken the lead with her boyfriends. But after her fiancé dumps her, she no longer trusts her own judgment when it comes to men. She embraces a no-dating mantra, and her recently adopted dog, Bandit,...

Melanie Holmes has her hands full when 15-year-old Keith and 13-year-old Anne react badly to Melanie's impending divorce from their father. Only four-year-old Jeffrey is his usual sunny self. Further complicating her life is Melanie's attraction to Sam Hudson, the detective who goes to her...

Dannilynn Kelly may have been date-raped, but she sets aside how badly her first year at college ended, eager to work at Joel Taylor's veterinary clinic on Cedar Island. There she meets Ben Edwards, a veterinary extern. His friendship becomes her key support when she discovers she's pregnant. Determined...

At Jane Collins' five-year high school reunion party in small town Evergreen, Washington, bad boy and law school wanna-be Chet Barton surprises Jane by rescuing her from a would-be rapist. Although she is intrigued by Chet, her guardian Bert doesn't trust the young man with the bad reputation. In...

Change is scary, and Suzanna Wallace knows she has to take the plunge after her husband's sudden death. Her grown daughter promises to take care of her, "just like Dad did," without realizing how chilling those words sound to her mother. Small changes—buying a dog, and getting a...

At sixteen years old, Isabella Campbell is forced to give up her newborn daughter, Destiny. For twenty-one years Bella ponders the fate of her daughter as the annual letters from the adoptive parents cease. She decides to take action, and Destiny gets the surprise of her life when her birth mother...

Gretchen Martindale, a former foster child, steps up when Laine, 12, and Nettie, 5, need a home after they run away from their foster dad whom Laine suspects is molesting Nettie. Gretchen's heart becomes entwined with the girls and she decides to adopt them, creating the family she thought she'd never...

Talented real estate broker Olivia Brown has a simple goal: find a family for her grandfather's spacious old home and move him into a more manageable place, even though her late father warned her never to represent a relative.  Architect and Southern charmer Beau James, is the last buyer Olivia...