"Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she's been fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is to her parents' summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene's Harbor, Michigan. Kate's plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory. Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his...

Hank Mallone knows he's in trouble when Maggie Toone agrees to pretend to be his wife in order to improve his rogue's reputation. Will his harebrained scheme to get a bank loan for his business backfire once Maggie arrives in his small Vermont town and lets the gossips take a look? Maggie never expected her employer to be drop-dead handsome, but she's too intrigued by his offer to say no . . . and too eager to escape a life that made her feel trapped....

Accident-prone Berry Knudsen, owner of a pizza shop, climbs a tree to rescue a stranded kitten while out for a delivery. When she tumbles to the ground, she meets teacher Jake Sawyer, who seems to be the solution to any disaster she could create for herself.

An updated and revised edition of the long out-of-print romance novel originally published under the pseudonym of Steffie Hall offers a zany tale of love at first sight and of one woman's struggle to cope with the loss of her job to a chicken.