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When his life is taken over by a purple-haired tornado of a woman named Eve Brown, B&B owner Jacob Wayne tries to fight his attraction to this sunny, chaotic woman who is his natural-born enemy.

"Maeve Binchy, "the grand story teller,"* returns with a cast of characters you will never forget when they all spend a winter week together on holiday at Stone House, a restful inn by the sea... Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky decides to take an old decaying mansion, Stone House, and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, the town thinks she is crazy. She is helped...

When a guest is found dead by Melanie's dog during the grand opening of the Merry Ghost Inn, Melanie, her grandmother Liza, and their resident ghost work to find the killer and save their reputation.

In the charming rural town of Trail Stop, Idaho, accessible to the outside world by only a single road, young widow Cate Nightingale lives peacefully with her four-year-old twin boys, running a bed-and-breakfast. Though the overnight guests are few and far between--occasional hunters and lake fishermen--Cate always manages to make ends meet with the help of the local jack-of-all-trades, Calvin Harris, who can handle everything from carpentry to plumbing....

"Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she's been fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is to her parents' summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene's Harbor, Michigan. Kate's plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory. Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his...

When Rachel Wood, Los Angeles mural artist, discovers a relative has bequeathed her a bed-and-breakfast in Alaska, she immediately heads north to check it out, commandeering her best friend's brother, Kel, for support. The B and B is deserted and unwelcoming, and weirdness appears to be the order of the day. The tour guide can't find his way, the cook produces inedible messes, and voices and thuds are heard in the supposedly empty inn. When Rachel...

Joy Preston misses her beloved late grandmother dearly. But when she learns the terms of Nana's will, she's shocked - and more than a little irked. Joy moved to Colorado years ago and is now CEO of a successful nail polish company. Her life and career are in Denver. How can Nana have expected her to give that up, even temporarily, to take over a bed and breakfast in North Carolina for six months? Yet there's no denying Heart and Soul's charm, especially...

Judith McMonigle Flynn is shocked when one of her guests at Hillside Manor is murdered, and even more surprised to learn he was actually "Legs" Benedict, a hit man for the mob, and when the FBI moves in, more intent on nabbing a Nazi than a mobster murderer, Judith, her cop husband Joe, and cousin Renie must sort out which of Benedict's many enemies killed him.