Maddie Price is at the end of her rope, and the clock is ticking. With only a few hours left to catch up with the handsome con man who left her at the altar and ran off with her life savings, she's stranded on Cape Cod in a killer rain storm with a flat tire and a vicious dog threatening to rip out her throat. When the dog's owner comes to her rescue, she reluctantly takes refuge at his mansion, but is still determined to reach the scoundrel who jilted her, and retrieve what's hers. Famous playwright Robert Kendall's life on Cape Cod is anything but calm and uneventful. His Chinese live-in...

Samantha McCall might look like a hot and spicy romance author, but she writes murder mysteries as 'Sam' McCall. She dreads agreeing to appear last-minute on a popular nighttime TV talk show, knowing the host's reputation. Acid-tongued talk-show host Tony Garrett hates the mystery genre and despises the writers even more. Before seeing the author about to appear on stage with him, he maligns 'Mr.' McCall as a hack. When Samantha makes her entrance, she slaps him square on the jaw and storms off-stage. Their nationally televised feud skyrockets the show's ratings. Tony Garrett's heart is...

At the highly publicized funeral of her famous pianist husband, Joanna Reed Dalton unexpectedly sees her former lover, Nick Jordan, and is overwhelmed with yearning and unanswered questions. Joanna's father, Boston physician Dr. Carlton Reed, hated Nick, a common construction worker, and tried to keep him from Joanna. Nick disappeared, seeming to give up on Joanna when she foolishly agreed to marry her Julliard piano instructor, Steven Dalton. During the entire three years of her loveless marriage to Steven, Joanna has longed for Nick - and now he's back in her life. But will he stay when...