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Jade and Max share a deep love, though revelations from his past have recently shaken their marriage. And Jade is completely smitten with Max’s little son, Asa, whom she is now raising as her own. Their blended family brings her a joy she’s never known. But there is one more secret to be uncovered. One that will impact them all.

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Happily married and owner of two successful boutiques, Jade longs to begin a family with her husband, Max. But when she discovers that Max has an illegitimate son—who he wants her to help raise—Jade’s life is turned upside down. She flees to her childhood home, a rambling Iowa farmhouse, with enough room to breathe. There—while her mother’s health grows fragile, and the tug of her first love grows stronger—Jade begins to question everything she thought she knew about family, love, and motherhood.

It begins with a little red envelope...the one Jade doesn't want to send. The envelope that invites her mother, Beryl, to her wedding—and opens up more of her past than she cares to deal with. Jade has worked so hard to put her hard-scrabble childhood behind her. And she's found everything she wanted in the beautiful green hills of Whisper Hollow, Tennessee. A thriving vintage shop all her own. A lovely one-eyed shepherd dog named Roscoe. And Max, the almost-too-good-to-be-true man she plans to marry in just a few weeks.

Azria is free for the first time in thousands of years. Though she is not bound to the mountain being punished by Aetos or watching her lover Prometheus suffer, she instead finds herself in yet another crisis. This isn't exactly what she pictured freedom to be, fused to a man named Kyros. Together with making the person named Asylia, they work to free the city from the Rogue tallents that disrupt the city.

Carlie's boyfriend has just dumped her...for another woman. Broken hearted, she sets out on a road trip to lick her wounds and winds up at a lonely hilltop just before dark. Once there, however, she meets an equally broken-hearted man who is setting his telescope to look at the stars...They two engage in conversation and before long they realize that the phrase star-crossed lovers was created for a reason.