Coming Home: The Winchesters of Legend is a collection of five big love stories set in a small town. Welcome to Legend, Tennessee, a heartwarming fictitious town nestled near the Great Smoky Mountains, where two generations find romance and second chances. No matter how far they've roamed from their small town roots, Legend—and love—calls them home.A Groovy Christmas (1968)In a year where women are burning bras and men are burning draft cards, straight-laced Kathleen Fields wants to do something about being a virgin before it's too late. When hippie Grant Winchester blows into town on his Harley, Kathleen decides he's the perfect solution to her problem. Yet they're from feuding families like the Hatfield's and the McCoy's. Can Kathleen and Grant reconcile their differences and find love in Legend, Tennessee?Not Quite Christmas (1969)Accountant Frank Smith doesn't want to go home for...

When champion bull rider Brody Caldera learns his stepfather has suffered a serious accident, he heads home to the ranch he'd left behind years before. Maybe the clean Montana air of the Six Buckles Ranch, near Yellowstone Park, will help him forget his cheating ex-girlfriend. But returning will also force him to confront another woman, the one he deserted when she needed him most.Ten years ago, Brody had chosen bucking bulls over booties and bottles, leaving ranch worker Stef Chambers to raise their daughter alone. She's done her best to cowboy up for the sake of her daughter and build a good life for them. She can't let Brody's return change that. Damn the man for breaking her heart once. It won't happen again. But Stef's hero-worshipping ten-year-old is enamored by the famous cowboy, and Stef's best intentions are side-tracked from day one.Is Brody ready to be the man Stef needs, or is he just taking her for a ride? Brody has troubles of his own, dealing with his...

Devoted homemaker and mother C.B Lyons hadn’t known she was living a lie, right up until the moment when she caught her husband cheating. Betrayed and then divorced, with her dreams of a big, happy family smashed to pieces, C.B. takes her toddler son to Heritage Springs, Kentucky, to be near family. Typing manuscripts for a famous romance author seems like the perfect job until she discovers the hidden truth about the reserved, reclusive writer.Madison Mallory is a best-selling romance author with a secret. “She” is a “he.” The original Madison is actually in a nursing home. Her son, Jamie Madison, is determined she’ll have the best care possible. Even if that means quitting his job and taking up his mother’s pen name to keep the romance—and the money needed for her care—flowing.Writing about romance is one thing. Making it work in real life is harder for Jamie. C.B. has good reasons to...

After losing his wife, Dr. Alexander Dominican is determined his infant daughter will not grow up motherless as he did. Offering sensible, kind kindergarten teacher Mary Adams a marriage of convenience seems like the perfect solution. The widow's husband left her with a mountain of debt. For Alex, paying it off is a small price to pay for his daughter's happiness. Until his sensible new wife begins to lose her mind.On the day of their marriage, Mary starts having frightening hallucinations of medieval England—visions that feel more like the memories of woman who lived centuries before. More terrifying, someone—or some thing—is stalking the new mistress of Marchbrook Manor. Could it be one of the sinister servants? Or Alex himself? Alex is reawakening hidden desires and longings in Mary, but until she can untangle the web of nightmares and secrets, she can trust no one. Not even Alex.Alex has no idea he's unleashing a destiny that's taken him...

DARBY: Thirty years ago, Darby Heston fled her family's Montana dude ranch. Now she must return to help her father. Would the boyfriend she'd abandoned still be there? Hank Slade has never stopped loving Darby, but is he willing to risk his heart again? Secrets tore them apart once. Given a second chance at love, will more shocking secrets from the past destroy their hopes for the future? SLADE: Slade Heston is spending the summer as a hired hand at his grandfather's dude ranch, trying to figure out life, not fall in love. Laurie Chastain is supposed to write promotions for the ranch, but she has a secret goal. What did a 1970s radical resistance group have to do with her grandfather? Laurie's only clue leads her to Ghost Mountain Ranch. Will their growing attraction be enough to protect Slade and Laurie from the ghosts of the past? KELSEY: Kelsey Heston's using the skills learned at her family's...

Professional bull rider Judd Romeo defies death for a living, but there's no escaping his grief when he returns home to settle his mother's estate after her death. She's the only one who encouraged him in his pursuit of his exhilarating but dangerous career. Going home means confronting his past, including the one woman he's never forgotten. Maybe it's time to extinguish the torch he's carried too long.Veterinarian Mandy Sullivan doesn't have room in her life for dangerous risk-takers. She's too busy being both mother and father to the daughter her sister abandoned. But it's impossible to ignore it when trouble shows up right next door in the all-too sexy shape of her former beau. She'd walked away from his piercing blue eyes and bad boy smile once. Can she do it again?Judd's high school sweetheart may still be as pretty as a perfect eight-second ride, but she hadn't been willing to stick it out in the past when the ride got rough. Mandy knows how to handle...

Schoolteacher Kelly Baron raised her child alone. Now that her daughter’s grown and married, Kelly can finally start her new life in North Carolina, responsible only for herself. She has just one more thing to do: help her mother. To do so, she must return to Heritage Springs, Kentucky, the place she’d fled years before. Back then she’d been nothing but a small-town girl from the wrong side of the tracks, hiding a secret that could have destroyed lives.Newly divorced lawyer Rob Scott seeks solace for his heartache in his small-town roots. Maybe being an incurable romantic isn’t smart for a lawyer who has to deal with hard facts. The last thing he’s looking for is a relationship. He’d made millions in Chicago, but in his heart he’s always kept a secret dream, a desire he’s never told anyone. Then he runs into Kelly, the girl who’d disappeared from his life years ago, leaving behind only hurt and unanswered...

Grace Baron had always been the good wife, in spite of a marriage based on a careless indiscretion, and sustained not by love, but by old-fashioned morality. She’d raised her daughter, bit her tongue, and silently lived with her guilt. Now that she’s a widow, she can’t help being glad for her sudden freedom. She’d never live her life like that again. Without a sense of control. Without deliberately making a choice about her future. And that future would never involve getting married again.Small town lawyer Howard Scott has buried two wives. His steadfast belief that it’s never too late to find true love keeps him open to whatever joy life has to offer. He doesn’t want another socialite wife. This time he wants a hometown girl. Someone stable, maybe a little naïve, but feisty enough to keep him on his toes. Someone like Grace Baron.Howard’s gentle, old-fashioned courting makes Grace feel alive again. Would marrying...

Sarah Colby believes in fairy tales and wants to find her Prince Charming. Encouraged by her girlfriends and a matchmaking aunt, Sarah sets out to catch eligible bachelor Lane Williams, a guy with an aversion to settling down.A Bluegrass restaurateur and chef, Lane can't be bothered with romance. He's spent his youth taking care of and providing for his younger siblings. Clearly, the sexy, young woman, who wants only marriage and commitment, is trouble for Lane and his new freedom. As the two work together to pull off a Kentucky Derby party for charity, Lane finds himself susceptible to Sarah's charms...and much, much more.

Horse trainer Melody O'Shea is returning to Royalty Farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky. Her father has built it into the greatest American Saddlebred show stable in the country, but now he needs her help. Mel's homecoming is bittersweet because the farm is also home to the secret daughter she gave up for adoption. Her pride had kept her from telling the father about the child. She never expected he'd come back as well.Popular American Saddlebred horse trainer Jake Hendricks has come to take charge of Royalty Farm, but when the main barn goes up in flames, Jake finds the farm is in more trouble than he expected. He's always been married to his work, but with the return of the one woman he never stopped loving, his heart could be in trouble, too.As they prepare for the World's Champion Horse Show, Mel grapples with the mistakes of her past. She's fallen off a lot of horses in her life. The trick is to get back on and try again. Does she have the courage to try again...

It's good to be in love, whatever age.Producer and scriptwriter Chaz Kingston is burned out by the ruthlessly competitive world of Hollywood. He's tired of the empty celebrity lifestyle of his ex-wife and her daughters who are only famous for being famous. He's tired of a life chasing the next hot trend, the next hot script. And he's mourning the senseless death of his brother. Then he's offered the chance to write a script based on a real life feel-good family novel about a dude ranch in Montana. Maybe blue skies and open spaces are what this silver fox needs. But he never dreamed his R-and-R would include a beautiful widow.Since her husband's tragic death in a riding accident, Liz Dawson has done all she can to keep the Six Buckles Guest Ranch running. When a handsome stranger arrives at the ranch, she fears her daughter-in-law is playing matchmaker. Liz has already been married to two different men—one wonderful and one not so much. She doesn't need another man...

When champion bull rider Brody Caldera learns his stepfather has suffered a serious accident, he heads home to the ranch he'd left behind years before. Maybe the clean Montana air of the Six Buckles Ranch, near Yellowstone Park, will help him forget his cheating ex-girlfriend. But returning will also force him to confront another woman, the one he deserted when she needed him most. Ten years ago, Brody had chosen bucking bulls over booties and bottles, leaving ranch worker Stef Chambers to raise their daughter alone. She's done her best to cowboy up for the sake of her daughter and build a good life for them. She can't let Brody's return change that. Damn the man for breaking her heart once. It won't happen again. But Stef's hero-worshipping ten-year-old is enamored by the famous cowboy, and Stef's best intentions are side-tracked from day one. Is Brody ready to be the man Stef needs, or is he just taking her for a ride? Brody has troubles of his own, dealing with his injured...

Regina Ward, granddaughter of Corbin Ward, breeder of multiple stakes winners, had blood as blue as anyone in Kentucky. But what her grandfather had built, her father had gambled away. He'd already lost four prized horses to an arrogant, infuriating Brit. Reggie isn't about to lose her heart to him as well.Caretaker to his family's thoroughbred racing empire, Parker Stuart has zero tolerance for anyone who slights him or his blue-blooded British family. Reggie may have considered their brief, torrid affair no more than a spring fling, but she'd run off with Parker's heart when she'd dumped him. Now it's time to settle the score.It's up to Reggie to save what's left of her family homestead and her proud Kentucky heritage. But when Parker shows up to collect his horses, all bets are off. Reggie's never been a gambler and Parker despises losing. But when Kentucky blue blood tangles with British blue blood, are they willing to take a gamble on love?Bluegrass...

Drake must cowboy up.The sudden death of Mercer Dawson's beloved father hit her hard. Everyone at Six Buckles Ranch grieved, but bright spots are appearing in the blue Montana skies. The tragedy brought Mercer's stepbrother home and now wedding bells are ringing. The best man is a sexy cowboy and Mercer's teenage crush. Will he notice her now that she's all grown up?Professional bull rider Drake Hawkins is more than a two-bit, washed up cowboy. He's had some hard luck, but maybe things are looking up. His best friend's little sister has grown into a beauty, and she's in charge of getting him to the church on time. Drake's party-boy reputation isn't the only thing against him. If Mercer ever learned Drake's terrible secret, it could ruin his chance with her.Can joy and true love grow from the shadows of guilt and grief?

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