Don Mcbrearty
The Fabric of Christmas
HDLiam, a fireman, and Amy, a quilting teacher, team up to make a Christmas quilt for Liam’s sister’s wedding, but their burgeoning romance is threatened by Liam’s intention to travel to South America after the wedding. As they navigate their feelings for each other and their aspirations, they must decide what is truly important in time for the holiday season.
Christmas at the Drive-In
HDSadie Walker is starting over in her hometown of Chesterfield, New York, following a series of major life disruptions that include leaving her law practice after losing her biggest case and no longer being engaged.
Accidental Friendship
HDA rough history leads Yvonne homeless with her two pets as her only friends.
The Wild Girl
HDNed Giles, an aspiring news photographer, joins the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on the search for a young boy, the son of a wealthy Mexican land owner who was kidnapped by wild Apaches. Ned finds himself on an unexpected and peri...
An Old Fashioned Christmas
HDThe story of An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving continues. Isabella and Tilly pay a visit to Ireland, hoping Isabella's long-ago suitor, the Earl of Shannon, can assist Tilly in getting her writing published.
The Interrogation of Michael Crowe
HDThe lives of Escondido, California residents Cheryl and Stephen Crowe change one morning when they find their twelve year old daughter Stephanie Crowe stabbed to death in her bedroom. As procedure dictates, the police take each member of the household away individually to be questioned, and the remaining children - fourteen year old Michael Crowe and adolescent Shannon Crowe - are taken into protective custody until Cheryl and Stephen can be cleared. The police end up placing much of their focus on the sullen Michael, who they question without counsel and without discussion with his parents. The tone of the police questioning is that they believe Michael did kill his sister, the police lying, harassing and coercing in the process. Under the barrage of questioning, Michael eventually confesses, as do two of his friends, both questioned under the same threatening tone. Cheryl and Stephen, who are finally made aware of the questioning and the confessions, enlist the help of sympathetic attorney, Dorothy Sorenson, to clear Michael and his friends while trying to find the real killer, who they believe is a transient named Richard Tuite.
Valentine Ever After
HDWhen socialites Julia and Sydney (early 30's) leave their cushy - if stagnant - lives in Chicago to embark on a road-trip, they end up on the wrong side of the law in a tiny town in Wyoming. Forced to serve 30 days community service, Sydney discovers there's more to life than can be purchased with a gold card and Julia learns that her "perfect" life back home might be a sham and what she thought she wanted isn't what she wants at all.
Pride, Prejudice, and Mistletoe
HDDarcy (Chabert) started her own company, rather than work with her father. Returning to her hometown for Christmas, Darcy reconnects with an old rival from high school, tavern owner Luke (Penny).Darcy's mother has them plan a charity event together. As Darcy and Luke plan the event, she is trying to find what age wants in life. Based on the book of the same title by Melissa de la Cruz.
Christmas in Love
HDEllie Hartman (D'Orsay) is an aspiring crafter working in her small town's bakery making famous Christmas Kringles. When the new big-city CEO Nick Carlingson (Lissing) visits the bakery, he arrives filled with modernization ideas destined to lay off many employees. During his visit, Ellie is to teach Nick how to make a Kringle and she's determined to show him it's the people who make the business a success, not machines. Nick meets more of the employees and townspeople, visits the food bank, and begins to see all the kindness that is shared, and he begins to soften, though he's not convinced yet that automation isn't better. Struggling with chasing her own entrepreneurial dreams, Ellie begins to fall for Nick, but not before feeling betrayed when she inadvertently sees Nick's laptop filled with automation plans. When Nick finally tells the employees his future ideas for the company, Ellie must decide if she should trust him, but more importantly, whether to take a leap of faith in making her own dreams come true.
Deadly Secrets by the Lake
HDBased on an original idea co-developed by LMN and Harlequin, this whodunit murder mystery uncovers the secrets kept by the idyllic lakeside town of Thornwood Heights.
Magical Christmas Ornaments
HD"After a bad breakup, former Christmas lover Marie (Lowndes) loses her Christmas spirit. Trying to restore it, her mother sends Marie Christmas ornaments from her childhood, and a coincidental blessing follows each one. Marie's Christmas spirit gets another boost when she meets her handsome neighbor, Nate (Penny), and feels a spark with him while celebrating the season. When Marie's boss assigns her to edit the book of the man who caused her holiday heartache, however, the task resurfaces doubts from the past and even causes her to push Nate away. Feeling lost both at work and in love, Marie looks for a Christmas miracle to give her the confidence to pursue her work goals and to try to win Nate back. As Christmas approaches, Marie must follow her heart's passion - both at work and in love - and hope for one more blessing from her magical Christmas ornaments."
Unlocking Christmas
HDJust before Christmas, independently minded Dr. Kate Stafford has started her latest one year orthopedic fellowship, this one at the small town Cedar Park Hospital. Long having been without family, Kate has frequently moved around and has never made an effort to make any place where she's lived at any given time feel like home in the difficulty, if she did, not if but when she ultimately makes the choice to leave. She does believe that Chicago is where she would ultimately like to end up in it being the last happy memory of family when she was a child. This Christmas is the first back to Cedar Falls in six years for native son Kevin Matthews, the son of Kate's real estate agent Maggie Matthews, Kevin who has just been decommissioned from the Air Force. While there is unspoken pressure from his father Arnold Matthews to take over the family hardware store, Kevin, equally independently minded as Kate, is trying to find his own way in civilian life, that path which he has yet no idea. Kate and Kevin's first chance meetings are antagonistic ones in each displaying her/his independent streak. But they are brought together when some anonymous person is sending them on a joint Christmas mission in the form of rhyming couplet Christmas riddles and followup tasks, they both intrigued by the riddles and the identity of the anonymous sender. As they embark on this mission, they start to fall for each other, which makes them both consider settling in Cedar Falls, something furthest from their minds when they first arrived. Their individual professional paths may factor into if there is a possible happily-ever-after for them.
Very, Very, Valentine
HDHelen Russell owns and operates her own floral shop in New York City. What she loves about her work is the love associated with many of her orders, especially now during the Valentine's season. She hopes one day to have that sort of magical love, what she envisioned was like that of her now deceased parents where they just knew they were meant for each other. She thinks she may have found that love when her best friend since college, Henry Hart, invites her to a masquerade ball being held at the botanical gardens where he works as the chief botanist. At the ball, she meets a masked man with who she connects in that emotional, romantic sense. The problem ends up being is that by the time they abruptly part company at the end of the night, neither knows anything about the other, including the other's name. The only clue that Helen has to follow is the boutonniere he was wearing and accidentally dropped when he rushed off, one that was ordered from her shop using what is arguably the best rose she's ever hybridized, one that she is only calling the mystery rose until she names it and that Henry has encouraged her to enter into a prestigious flower competition. Helen, Henry and the other shop staff - her maternal Aunt Carol, and a new employee named Beth - go on a quest to find Helen's mystery man to match the mystery rose. Through the process, Helen wants those magical signs to tell her that the risks she is taking will end up with this mystery man being her true love. What Helen may find is that the signs are a little more subtle and may point somewhere closer to home.
Cooking Up Love
HDZoey rents a food truck to enter a reality TV competition. Sparks fly between her and the founder of a restaurant, who is also a judge in the contest. Zoey's wants to win, but she suspects he might be after her sauce recipe, not her heart.Plot summaryAdd synopsis
The Perfect Pairing
HDWhen a tough as nails food critic slips and loses her memory while touring a winter winery, she discovers her true heart's desires and new romance with a local Winemaker and his family but could lose it all when her true identity comes to light.
Boyfriends of Christmas Past
HDIt's the Christmas season, which marketing executive Lauren Kim usually spends happily with her divorced father Leo and her stepmother Yung, her mother largely out of the picture after she abandoned the family just before Christmas years ago to travel the world unencumbered as was her want. Who has a standing invitation to spend Christmas with them is Lauren's BFF Nate Sagar, a social worker who went into the profession to pay it forward in having been brought up in the foster care system. Nate accepts the invitation whenever he and Lauren are not in respective relationships, this year being the case in neither having been in such for over a year. Nate has temporarily taken himself off the dating market in focusing on setting up a community center, which he has completed just in time for the foster kids to celebrate Christmas there this year. Late one night as Lauren dozes off working on a last minute work project due in one week on Christmas Eve, she is visited by who she finally comes to understand is the spirit of her first ever boyfriend, a forever fifteen year old Tyler Mirsky, who informs her that she in turn will be visited over the next week by the spirits of three other past boyfriends hoping to show her the errors in her pattern of behavior. While those three boyfriends - Jake, Henry and Logan - are able to show Lauren some of those errors, most specifically her seeming fear of commitment, and the constant of Nate always in the picture, she may not fully realize all the patterns and the consequences of her behavior until she sees the result of both in her and Nate's future.
Jingle Bell Princess
HDThrough a series of mishaps, sophisticated Princess Amelia is stranded in the small town of Tucker, Maine. There she becomes an "ordinary" guest of the unsuspecting Cutler family.Plot summaryAdd synopsis