Barbara Bretton

They weren't looking for love.... It's 7:08 on the morning of Maggy O'Brien's 35th birthday, and she's driving carpool in her pajamas and bunny slippers. She can't remember the last time she shaved her legs. She hasn't slept past dawn since her kids were born and one of them is now a teenager...

A heartwarming new Rocky Hill Holiday novella from best-selling author Barbara Bretton. Everyone knows Christmas is a time for family, but not for Harry Barnes. If he had his way, he would close his eyes and not open them again until January 2, when all the fuss was over. Once upon a time, he...

All Molly Chamberlain had ever wanted was a home of her own. Ten years into her marriage and pregnant, Molly is eager to embrace the future she'd always dreamed of. But it takes two to build a future, and Molly's husband has his own dreams, and they don't include Molly or their baby....

It's June 1943. From New York to California, families gather to send their sons and husbands, friends and lovers off to war....

Beautiful young Alexandra Glenn has been sent across the ocean to East Hampton to help restore the early paintings of renowned American Impressionist Andrew Lowell....

Kate O'Callaghan was the girl next door. Tony Marino was the boy who wanted to see the world. Their teenage marriage didn't stand a chance....

Two sisters, one unforgettable family legacy... They were the daughters of music legends, the unforgettable Mark and Mimi Doyle, whose love story had been played out in the pages of Rolling Stone complete with quotes from Dylan and Baez. Folk rock’s forever couple. Who would have guessed...

Flynn knew that loving him and being loved by him would be an all-consuming passion. There would be no room for reason; there would be no halfway measures. He would demand everything from the woman he wanted, heart and soul and body....

Who knew finding the love of your life would be the easy part? Three weeks to the day after Maddy Bainbridge announced her engagement to Aidan O'Malley, she found herself stripped and held hostage in the bridal department of the Short Hills Saks in front of her family, her future in-laws, and a...

Just try to keep a secret in Shelter Rock Cove... In the grand scheme of things, it really wasn't such a terrible mistake. People slept with the wrong people every day of the week and somehow the world managed to keep on turning. Ellen and Hall had been good friends and co-workers before last...

There's nothing more dangerous to a woman's heart than a man who is single, straight, loves his kid, and doesn't kiss and tell....

Single mother Samantha Dean doesn't have time for Christmas. Or romance, for that matter....

They were sworn enemies by day - and passionate lovers by night....

With PAX, the password is danger. Falling in love was easy…staying alive?...

Christmas used to be the happiest time of the year in the big house on the hill....

Riley McKendrick is a famous efficiency expert who once whipped the White House into shape....

Megan McLean had never seen a man like Jake Lockwood before. Everything about the tall, dark Aussie stranger screamed danger from his chestnut hair streaked by the sun to his powerful shoulders and the wickedly sensual grin that made her bones melt. He was her dark knight in shining armor, the...

Because love can happen anywhere...even in New Jersey! It's a beautiful morning in early spring. What could possibly go wrong? Just returned from a buying trip in England, Kate French was jet-lagged and exhausted and running on fumes. She was already running late for an appointment, but a wave...

Dakota Wylie is a wisecracking, unemployed, overweight psychic librarian from Princeton. Patrick Devane is an angry, hard-headed spy with a daughter who hears voices....

He is a Revolutionary War patriot. She is an independent modern woman....