You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose. But you can't pick your family.  

Nathaniel Hendricks lived alone in his lakehouse on Lake Michigan spending his days remebering the young son he tracgically lost and the wife who left him when he needed her the most. The only thing that kept him remotely happy was the lake he lived by boating and fishing. He already failed as a father and a husband so why would God give him another chance?

Eden Wilson spent most of her life running from abuse and now as a young adult she finds herself running from an obsessive abusive ex-boyfriend. Not wanting the child she's carrying to be in danger she spends most of her pregancy running until she tries to get in contact with her uncle for help. Eden finds herself with her uncle's friend a lonely handsome man Nathaniel who gives her shelter in a snowstorm. 

Little did either of them know how close the baby would bring them together or how much this little bundle of joy would help them learn about secound chances.

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Willow Carter is a plus-sized girl with lots of attitude and very low self-esteem. When her mother and oler sister force her to jog to slim down for her sister's wedding, she is attacked by a madman and rescued by a savior. But just because a man saves your life doesn't mean you should trust him. Soon she throws herself into a thrilling game of cat and mouse that brings more pain than pleasure and puts everyone she loves in harm's way.

When Wilhelmina "Mina" Porter comes back into thier lives after ten years; Wide reciever Reid Stone finds himself questioning who Blake McCarthy is as a person again. Mina was Reid's best friend and maybe even more. Blake was also his best friend, teammate and almost like a brother to him. However one secret that Mina has been harboring for the past decade could very well force Reid to pick one friend over the other.

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Thirty-seven-year-old Sugar Wallace used her bitter divorce as a sweet inspiration to pursue her lifelong dream of opening a trendy dessert and wine restaurant called Sugar Mama. Her friends and family want her to dive back into the dating game, but Sugar refuses to open her heart to another. Not when the man she gave her heart to for eighteen years of marriage crushed it after cheating on her with a young Instagram model. She's perfectly content with a busy life of running a successful business. Then one night, she witnesses a forty-six-year-old beaten man get pushed from a car and everything changes.

Daphne Gregory is on the run. She's looking for a place to lay low until things calm down back home. When she lands in Oklahoma, the last thing she expects to find is a friend in resident playboy Landon Phelps.

Rachel didn’t set out to be rescued.  In fact, she didn’t think she needed to be rescued.  But a chance meeting with a trucker after her car breaks down may offer her the new start she needs in more ways than one. 

Wallflower Abby Kensington is ready to start living her best life!  This road trip is the first of many exciting steps she is taking.  However, on her journey she meets a man who has a different plan in store for her...