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Hollywood disrupts Pigeon Hollow when a reality show arrives, unsettling Jared Gordon and drawing a deputy toward its associate producer. Another story follows baseball player Cole Ryan confronting the lasting consequences of a youthful encounter.

Army Staff Sergeant John Blake begins exchanging messages with romance novelist Maureen Mullen, who writes as Summer Winters. Their unexpected correspondence grows intimate across a deployment, raising questions about whether their connection can survive beyond email.

Three stories introduce Task Force Zeta operatives facing romantic distractions: Trey gets a pretend wife, Jack encounters a secretive farmhand during furlough, and Jimmy attracts a governor's daughter while posing as a waiter on assignment.

Task Force Zeta's men face new romantic challenges in three stories. Commander Hank Miller meets Lois Gordon, the imposing Bull attracts a much smaller woman, and communications specialist Matt Coleman reconsiders where he has been looking for love.

Marine Sergeant Ryan Pettit's anonymous deployment blog attracts London reporter Vicki Vanover to Afghanistan. Assigned to protect her, he wants her out of danger, but their growing attraction complicates his efforts to send her home.

Advertising executive Emily Price meets Army Staff Sergeant David Hawkins when he is ordered to model for a recruiting campaign. Their argumentative attraction develops into something deeper, complicated by separation and the dangers of his military work.

Former underwear model BB Dalton now keeps his identity hidden as a Navy SEAL. An order to appear in recruiting publicity interrupts his Christmas leave and pairs him with an older marketing executive whose skepticism challenges their attraction.