Sixteen-year-old Luke Samuels just can't fake it anymore. He's ready to hang up his pathetic existence and start over in a place where he'll no longer have to outrun his nightmares. His plan to slip away during the teen retreat at Hope Lodge campground is flawless. Camp counselor Andy Wooten has already abandoned his past. Packed in the excess baggage he left behind are the ghosts of his ex-wife and former business partners. The confident accountant calculates his life's ambitions as well as he does his customers' balance sheets, and judges his new reputation is far superior to the one he...

He's everything she ever wanted. She'll do whatever it takes to keep him. But when her masquerade unravels, is she willing to pay the price of her deception? When Diane Cooper, invites her best friend, Gina Brandt, to her Venezuelan wedding, little does Gina know that her maid of honor duties include duping the groom. Diane's timing couldn't be worse. Gina celebrates the close of a miserable chapter in her life and the onset of what promises to be a better narrative, but in the midst of Diane's sham, Gina struggles to safeguard her integrity and newfound faith. When a chunk of Diane's veneer...

The rock star. Before Nate Fowler fled from the spotlight, his fans saw the soul of an honorable man. It's been three years. Where did he go? Does he really think he can make a comeback without spilling his secret? The writer. Samantha Hill is desperate to get the scoop. But what makes her think she has any hope of interviewing the reclusive musician? After all, she's been hiding too. When Sammi imposes herself on her target, she ventures far enough to glimpse Nate's burdens: he's human; he's vulnerable. And she's temptation. If Sammi wants to pen a story, she has to expose her past and...

Maybe Zach Hoyt's expectations were overly optimistic; the business he inherited from his father wasn't exactly booming. He might also concede that he was a tad naive to imagine that his past would remain buried, along with his sullied reputation. Now what? Juanita Hoyt wants a do-over. She shouldn't have yielded to her husband's unrelenting pleas to move to this ghastly community. Now Zach has hatched a harebrained scheme to save the business and, once again, he hasn't heeded her objections. Stan Benton collects trouble like a magnet picks up stray nails, and he reaps disorder as often as he...