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Devon Wright's young daughter, Brianna, is the most important person in his life. After his last relationship, Devon isn't looking to get involved with another woman anytime soon. But all that changes when his friend introduces him to Cassandra--and Devon wonders if he might actually have a chance at love.

Professional basketball's Brooklyn Monarchs' PR rep Troy Marshall is having a tough time keeping the behavior of the team captain and a troublemaking co-owner in check--a job made even harder when he goes head-to-head with beautiful sports writer Andrea Benson.

Four powerful women vie for total control of the Memphis hood, and they aren't about to let past loyalties get in their way. While Lucifer is hitting the streets to get her revenge for a deadly shooting, Essence is hitting the sheets--with her best friend's man. And Yolanda knows her path to power lies with her baby's hustler father, but Queen G Leshelle is dead set on keeping this game all to herself.

Preacher, Smoke, and Matt Jensen are reunited in a clash of cultures and a brutal all-out fight for justice.

They are strangers in a strange land--a band of German immigrants trespassing across the Jensen family spread. Led by a baron fleeing a dark past in Germany and accompanied by a woman beautiful enough to dazzle young Matt Jensen, the pilgrims, as they have come to be known, are being pursued by a pack of brutal outlaws hungry for blood, money, and just about anything else. The Jensens are willing to help them get to the promised land of Wyoming, but they're doing so without knowing the whole story about their new friends.

Luke Jensen brings a body to Rio Rojo. After all, it's his job, and he's going to get paid. But before he can collect the bounty for killing a killer, two notorious criminals hit the Rio Rojo bank. Now Luke can't get paid unless he catches professional bandit Gunner Kelly and his Apache sidekick Dog Eater. Unfortunately, a would-be man hunter is after the money-toting outlaws, too, and young Hobie McCullough is mostly a menace to himself.

During the Civil War, Smoke Jensens's long lost brother, Confederate soldier Luke Jensen, is ordered to smuggle gold out of the city--but he ends up robbed and shot. Taken in by a Georgia farmer, Luke slowly recovers. Though he plans to rejoin Smoke, a budding romance with the farmer's daughter delays his departure--until a tragic event changes everything.

Betsy Miller has plenty of suitors vying for her hand. But her father says she cannot marry until her older sister Cate does. Betsy's prayers are answered when Peter Treger arrives in town, allowing her to concoct a scheme to get Cate to the altar.

Twenty-seven-year-old Amish woman Joanna Kurtz has been a bridesmaid plenty of times, but never a bride. And despite having a secret romance with responsible young Amishman Eben Troyer, their relationship can only go so far because the two are always kept apart. Will Joanna ever know the joys of marriage?

Morgan Spencer is shattered in the wake of his wife's death. After two years of mourning on his brother's ranch, Morgan meets Quinn Riley, and hope blossoms that he could love again. But Quinn is fleeing a dangerous man bent on revenge, and she won't risk the Spencer family's safety by sticking around. If Morgan is going to win Quinn's heart, he'll first have to keep her safe.