Cathy Lamb Books in Order

Three elf approved holiday romances offer comfort for hectic Decembers. A burned out rock band manager returns to snowy Montana and the ex she never stopped loving, an injured shop owner roams her seaside town as an invisible spirit, and an overworked innkeeper juggles a Christmas concert, unruly kids, and the cowboy who refuses to leave her heart alone.

Two previously published novellas share a theme of messy hearts and fresh starts. In The Apple Orchard, Allie Pelletier retreats to her late father's farm only to collide with the doctor she once pushed away. In June's Lace, an Oregon Coast wedding dress designer in a miserable divorce is knocked off her feet by a songwriter who makes her believe in love again.

In the summer of 1979 on Deauville Drive in Huntington Beach, five O'Brien kids reeling from their parents' split meet the five Rossi children next door, plus an aunt who believes she is a mermaid. Decades later, Jesse O'Brien looks back on that wild season of Slip N Slides, heartbreak, and unexpected family when a frightening phone call pulls the past into the present.

Seventy year old widow Ruthie Deschutes O'Hara loves books, her eccentric tequila making family, and her unruly menagerie of pets. Faced with a serious problem, she hatches a scandalous plan, join a seniors reality dating show called Marry Me. Ruthie swears she is not there for romance, but the show, and the people on it, might have other ideas.

As a child, Evie Lindsay was rattled by eerie premonitions; now she runs a bookstore on a quirky San Juan Islands community. When a family DNA test shatters everything she believed about her heritage, Evie must untangle old secrets and finally trust her own gift.

After a car accident leaves Natalie Shelton in a coma, she can hear every word around her, including her husband's guilty whispers and strange phone calls. Waking with a damaged memory, she must untangle Zack's secret past before it destroys the life they built.

Back in her Montana hometown to protect the two girls she is close to adopting, Olivia Martindale discovers a singed, handwritten cookbook filled with recipes and mementos. As she recreates each dish on camera, she uncovers generations of family secrets and a possible second chance with her estranged husband.

Crime reporter Toni Kozlovsky lives on a yellow tugboat in Portland and still hears her sisters' voices in her head. When a long buried family secret from their escape out of Communist Russia starts to surface, the three sisters must protect their chaotic restaurant clan and decide how much truth they can bear.

In a snowy Montana town, practical Meredith Ghirlandaio runs a bed and breakfast and is suddenly raising her runaway sister's two kids. Drafted to chair the town Christmas concert and constantly crossing paths with confident rancher Logan Taylor, she has to decide whether she can trust love as much as her guests trust her holiday hospitality.

Reclusive time travel romance novelist Charlotte Mackintosh leaves her island hideaway to return to her Scottish village, sell the family cottage, and find her missing childhood friend, Bridget. Faced with an overgrown garden, village gossip, and Bridget's magnetic brother, she is pulled into old loyalties, buried pain, and an unexpected chance at love.

Artist Grenadine Scotch Wild barely remembers the night her parents told her to run, but their disappearance still shadows her. When her smooth investor husband is arrested for fraud and tries to drag her down with him, she escapes to a small Oregon town, building a new life even as danger and the truth about her past close in.

After her husband's death, documentary filmmaker Meggie O'Rourke returns to Portland to help rescue her family's struggling lingerie company. Filming women as they share the stories behind their first bras and favorite slips, she uncovers painful and funny confessions that force her to confront grief, family rifts, and the possibility of love.

Hospice nurse Jaden Bruxelle has devoted her life to caring for Tate, the nephew she has raised since birth and fiercely shielded because of his unusual, medically fragile head. Now seventeen, brilliant, and desperate to play varsity basketball, Tate pushes for independence, forcing Jaden to face her fears, her past, and what it means to truly let someone live.

Life coach Madeline O'Shea makes a living telling other women how to reinvent themselves, but her own life is built on secrets. When a reporter revisits the notorious crime that sent her mother to prison and a blackmailer surfaces, Madeline must finally face the violence in her childhood, the lies in her family, and the chance to start over for real.

After a heart attack and drastic weight loss surgery, Stevie Barrett is half her former size but still carrying years of shame and fear. Between her stressful job, a humiliating side gig in a chicken costume, and her secret talent for carving whimsical chairs, Stevie has to decide whether she'll keep hiding or risk trusting neighbors, friends, and love.

A four story Christmas anthology where snowstorms, small towns, and second chances draw people home. From a Colorado ski resort and a Montana town to a Maui escape and Florida's Cedar Key, each novella follows a woman cautiously opening her heart to love during the holidays.

When their difficult, larger than life mother needs open heart surgery, the three Bommarito sisters are summoned home to run the family bakery and care for their gentle brother Henry and their unpredictable grandmother. Surrounded by cupcakes, old grudges, and small town gossip, they must confront a chaotic childhood and decide whether this fractured family can be put back together.

This collection gathers four novellas about people returning to the place they once called home. From Cathy Lamb's Whale Island inn to Judy Duarte's high school reunion in Queen of Hearts, each story follows characters facing old loves and long avoided truths as they rediscover what home really means.

After a spectacular public breakdown and an extremely creative act of revenge on her cheating ex, advertising whiz Jeanne Stewart flees Chicago for a riverside town in Oregon. There she buys a ramshackle house, joins a court ordered anger management group, makes unlikely friends, and slowly pieces together a life that actually fits who she is.

Julia Bennett bolts from her wedding, hangs her gown in a dead North Dakota tree, and drives to the safety of her Aunt Lydia's outrageous pink farmhouse in Oregon. Among ceramic pigs, psychic parties, and three wounded new friends, Julia learns to heal from an abusive past, dream up a chocolate business, and decide whether she can risk love again.