After breaking up with a longtime boyfriend, thirty five year old Natalie agrees to go on twenty six consecutive dates, with each activity starting with a different letter of the alphabet, with her friend Tom, who is positive he can make her fall in love with him.

Bella Shaughnessay helps her father run a small chain of beauty salons in Marshbury, Massachusetts, after swearing off all men, until a handsome entrepreneur comes along.

Annie Blakemore, an aspiring opera singer who is married with two children and Will Huston, a so called priest have a chance encounter on a subway. This brief meeting leads to a romantic crossing of paths and soon it seems their futures lie in each other.

Veterinarian Travis Parker is very content with his good job, loyal friends, and waterfront home in North Carolina, so he is not looking for love, especially not with his testy new neighbor Gabby Holland, but he cannot seem to keep from trying to ingratiate himself with her, even though he knows she has a longtime boyfriend, and it is not long before they find themselves facing an important choice.

As Winnie Lundy recovers from the injuries she sustained when her brother's barn burned down, she renews her friendship with Samuel Miller, who left the Amish community to attend college, and as their feelings for one another grow stronger, Winnie and Sam find themselves torn over their very different ways of life.

New to San Francisco, nineteen-year-old Tommy is turned into a vampire by his sarcastic and sexy girlfriend, Jody, and the pair are hunted by Elijah, the elder who turned Jody, and the Animals, the stock boys with whom Tommy used to hang, who have deemed themselves vampire hunters.

American graduate student Eloise Kelly, continuing her research on Napoleonic-era espionage, while fighting her attraction to Colin Selwick, the descendant of her spy subjects, uncovers the story of Mary Alsworthy, a raven-haired beauty who agrees to help Lord Vaughn infiltrate the ranks of the French spy, the Black Tulip, and finds she has captured not only the spy's attentions, but also that of her boss, Lord Vaughn.

In 1766 Scotland, Laird Angus McTern falls in love with Edilean Talbot, who rejects Angus's advances and humiliates him in front of his clan, but when Edilean asks for Angus to help her reclaim her father's gold, Angus must put aside his wounded pride and accompany her to America, where they are drawn together as they face unexpected obstacles and danger.

Amish widow Sadie Fisher has a good life in Lancaster County even though she longs for a husband and family, so she is happy when Englisher Kade Saunders rents her guest cottage for the winter months, but she finds herself in a dilemma when she comes to love Kade's autistic son, Tyler, and her feelings begin to extend to the father.