Flip side of yesterday : When Chloe MacDaniel is called in as geological consultant on the Rye Beach Complex, she assumes she'll have no trouble winning over the town's residents to the ecological point of view -- they already distrust the project deeply. She's prepared for a little professional rivalry from the developers, the Hanson Corporation, but what she isn't prepared for is Ross Stephenson: president of the firm, but more importantly, the man who swept Chloe off her feet over a decade previously.

Lilac awakening : She was a widow, too young and beautiful to be alone. But Anne Boulton was determined to spend a week in the isolated Vermont cabin. As a storm raged without and a snug fire burned within, it was perfect -- until he burst into her life.