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This is the place you want to be if you’re looking for stories that are emotionally satisfying, character driven, with positive relationships. Second chances, workplace romance, forced proximity, take your pick!
Harper Quinn’s first love: playing hockey. Harper’s second love: Kai Larsen. Friends and teammates, young Harper thought Kai would be in her life forever, until one day, Kai moved on and left her behind without looking back.
NHL player Kai, fresh off an injury, is struggling to get his head back in the game he dedicated his life to. With only one season left on his contract to prove he still has what it takes, he reaches out to the one person who always brought the best out of him both on and off the ice.
Seventeen years after Kai ghosted Harper, now Coach Quinn, he walks back in her rink, asking for her help to rekindle his spark for the game. It was supposed to be one summer. It was supposed to be professional. She didn't date hockey players. And he didn't do relationships. The set up was perfect, as long as they both followed the rules.
But the rules of the game can change. Can’t they?
Twelve women. One bachelor.
For most of the women, the man is the prize. For Tess Benjamin, winning the reality dating show Singles Fix means convincing the bachelor—who happens to own the textile plant employing half her town—not to shut down operations, plunging the town into unemployment.
When Tess’s uncle convinces her to join the show’s cast as the secret “Hometown Hero” to get close to Xander, her adventurous nature can’t pass up the opportunity to save her friends and family’s futures. Her uncle promised it would be easy. Charm her way close to the bachelor. Convince him to confide in her. Get out with her heart and town intact.
For Xander Ahern, Singles Fix isn’t about finding a woman to love but finding publicity for his failing company. Xander only agreed to the ridiculous marketing stunt to appease his board of directors. Besides, no one said he had to actually fall in love, but no one told him he would meet someone like Tess, either.
Manipulation is the real name of the game as Tess and Xander navigate through unlikely alliances and overbearing producers to make it to the final episode without losing everything they’ve worked for in the process.
Tori Keller can be called many things, but coattail rider isn’t one of them. Kellers don’t quit. Kellers earn what they get. Valuable lessons her father made sure she learned at an early age. Being a woman candidate in the Chicago Fire Department isn’t an easy job. Being the daughter of the late Chief Keller, with the eyes of the whole department on her, is even harder.
Lieutenant Jon Nichols didn’t get a chance to thank his mentor for all he’d done for him before he died. So, when Chief Keller’s daughter is assigned to his command, Jon vows to train her to the best of his abilities, despite his growing admiration for the stubborn candidate and the strict non-fraternization regulations meant to protect them.
Faced with department politics and their own misgivings, Tori and Jon are drawn together even as they deny their growing bond. But as manipulations and regulations come between them, Tori relies on the lessons from her father to see her through. Because if she really wants the lieutenant, she’ll have to fight for him. Kellers earn what they get, after all.
Robbie Chin’s mother always told her not to make a scene and never draw attention. But where did that get Robbie? Packed in her car with all her meagre belongings after her perfect boyfriend of eight years—Dr. Nathan Tang—decided there was no more spark in her. That’s where.
Convinced all Nathan needs is a little time on his own to come to his senses, Robbie sets out on a road trip from New York to San Francisco to attend her parents’ anniversary party, certain Nathan will meet her there, if not sooner. If not, Robbie will be forced to admit to her mother that she managed to ruin everything her mother hoped for.
But when Robbie picks up The Brat, otherwise known as Ernie Wolfe, her best friend’s younger brother, he not only rides shotgun, but navigates Robbie into new territories. It isn’t long before Robbie finds herself veering further off the path she thought she belonged on with nothing but her heart to guide her.
Going home is supposed to be safe and familiar. Robbie never thought it would lead to the biggest adventure of her life.
Straight-laced accountant by day. Anonymous entertainment blogger by night. Pia Carboni has grown comfortable with her double life. That is, until a nameless blog commenter becomes a regular fixture in her inbox. What started as innocent banter soon causes Pia to question how satisfied she really is separating responsibility and passion.
When her digital confidant reveals himself to be her moody client, Ben Myles—whose favorite hobby is finding new ways to insult her, Pia's two worlds collide. With their online personas out in the open, can Pia and Ben figure out a way to unplug their digital relationship and bring it into the real world? Or are some connections better left wired?
Community Youth Center Director, Rachel Langford, wants nothing more than to live an uncomplicated life far away from her ex-husband Simon and his world of privilege and betrayal. But, three years after the divorce, her ex-father-in-law threatens her livelihood and that of the Youth Center that has been her second home since childhood, forcing Rachel to do the unthinkable and turn to Simon for help.
And help from Simon always comes at a hefty price and nothing but complications.
Faced with memories she'd rather forget and people who would rather forget her, Rachel is thrown back into the life she ran from. With Isabelle— Simon’s perfect new wife— trying to be her friend, and Finn Barton— the city’s most eligible bachelor— vying for her attention, will Rachel be able to keep up her end of the bargain to save her precious Center before old enemies and old wounds force her to run like last time?