Finnoula O’Grady had never had a home…

Growing up in foster care, Finn had spent her childhood longing for a little house with a white picket fence. Years later her dreams came true when she inherited the rundown March Winds. But someone else was in love with her house—young Emma, the lonely niece of her next-door neighbor Cade McDaniel.

Fame, fortune and true love…Emma McDaniel thought she had it all.

But stardom came at great personal cost—a painful divorce from her childhood sweetheart and the shattering of all her dreams. Fleeing the press and her own despair, Emma heads to Scotland for the role of a lifetime.

Deirdre McDaniel will never forgive herself for leaving her daughter on her brother’s doorstep, believing it would give Emma a better life. Determined to make up for lost time with Emma, while struggling to overcome the demons of her own past, Deirdre discovers a letter that could destroy her entire family. With no other choice, she turns to the last person she wants to deal with: the rugged private investigator who brought grim news on the eve of her brother’s wedding…

SHE'S GOT A KNACK FOR TROUBLE—AND IMPOSSIBLE DREAMS…

At twenty-seven, free-spirited Rowena Brown has never fit in anywhere not with her ambitious family, not at veterinary school and certainly not in any relationship she's ever had. But surely the good people of Whitewater, Illinois, will welcome a pet-store owner whose talent is finding the perfect home for "problem" animals, even if they do have names like Destroyer.