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They once were lovers.... After 10 years of keeping his distance to the one woman he's always loved, Fire Chief Deke Reynolds is finally ready to set aside his grief and confess his guilt to Elizabeth "Libby" Wilson about his part in her brother's death. Libby's own guilty secret has kept her from sharing her life with the man who stole her heart as a teen and awakened her body as a young woman. Danger has forced them together again.... A fire and their odd connection to a new teenager at the local half-way house have this couple finally sharing their secrets with each other.

After facing death as an undercover narcotics cop, Gage Justice has come home to heal. His recuperation is cut short by his father's unexpected diagnosis of cancer and subsequent death. Now he's honoring one of his father's last wishes by taking over as the sheriff of his boyhood home, Westen, Ohio. Biding time until his father's term is finished, he fights boredom more than crime in the sleepy little town - that is until one sexy little teacher-turned-Private-Investigator literally falls into his arms.

Emma Lewis has a lot on her plate. A single mother of precocious twin boys, the last thing Emma needs is a man in her life, especially a doctor. So when the town's doctor goes on vacation and his handsome nephew takes over, Emma is shocked to find him accusing her of being a neglectful parent. Clint also needed a sense of peace and calm to try to find his passion for medicine burned out by long shifts in an urban hospital's ER. Angered to find two boys in his clinic with broken wrists, sans parent, he's determined to confront their mother, who dispels his belief that she's neglectful.

During a statewide blizzard, Westen sheriff's deputy Daniel Löwe finds a little girl named Lexie abandoned, freezing and terrified. He takes her to the only available place in the small town, the Westen House for at-risk teens. Daniel enjoys spending more and more time at Westen House with Lexie and the four teen boys who live there. But it's the new housemother, Melissa Davis that drives his heart faster.

FBI Agent Jake Carlisle is in deep trouble. While undercover he's been shot, but he's not sure if it's the crooks or local cops behind it. Worse, if he can't get help fast, two lives will be lost - his and that of the young witness, a boy whom he's sworn to protect. On the run from both the police and the Russian Mafia, Jake will do anything to save the child at his side, even something illegal. In desperation he kidnaps a nurse from a hospital parking lot.

For weeks, attorney Chloe Roberts senses someone following her. Always in her periphery, she's been unable to catch them. Then the phone calls and hang-ups start. The only reprieve was when she was in Westen for her sister's wedding. Now, whoever it was, they've progressed to text messages...more and more threatening ones. Six years ago, Wes Strong wandered into the small town of Westen. A lone wolf, he's looking to find a place to put an end to the guilt he carried in his soul over the loss of most of his dark ops team during an extraction of a hostage in the jungle.

In one fiery explosion Katie Myers' witness protection cover is blown. Unable to trust the Marshals who've been responsible for her safety, she's on the run from the cult leader she put on death row. In desperation she forces a near stranger at gunpoint to help her hide. By-the-book patrolman Matt Edgars is shocked when the woman he's come to rescue points a gun at him and demands he help her leave a crime scene. The stark terror in Katie's beautiful eyes has him breaking rules for the first time in his career.

Dylan Roberts was orphaned as a child . . . Her parents died on a rural highway in a drunk-driving accident. If only she'd been able to do something. Dylan grew up with one all-consuming goal—to save others. Training hard to become a trauma surgeon, only to have her dearest friend die in a jungle, far from medical aid, once again Dylan is left feeling as useless as she did after her parents' death.

Three years ago, Brianna Matthews became a victim at the hand of powerful men and barely escaped with her life. From that moment on, she lived her life trying to pay the favor forward by working in a women's shelter for abuse victims. When her coworker and a former resident in the shelter doesn't show up for work, Brianna must find her. Enlisting the help of Homicide Detective Aaron Jeffers to go with her, little does she know they would end up walking in the underworld of Cleveland's homeless community.

Five years earlier Luke Edgars and Abigail Whitson met at FLETC, the training center for government agents. It was instant dislike. She thought him an arrogant, showoff flirt, he thought it would be safer for everyone if she stayed behind her analyst's desk. She's in trouble....

US Marshal Frank Castello is on medical leave and feeling restless. While at his friends' wedding, he finds himself attracted to Sydney Peele. Problem is, the cute, sassy blonde is the photographer for the wedding. Frank hates photographers. They're a hazard to his profession, especially when he's on witness protection duty. Sydney Peele is intrigued by the grumpy Marshal at her friend's wedding, even when the big, sexy man begrudgingly offers to take her home afterwards. Her pleasure is short lived when her home and life is literally going up in flames.

They hit a rocky patch Dave and Judy Edgars have always loved each other - they've been married 10 years and have three kids. But ever since Dave, a SWAT team member, was shot on duty Judy can't control the intense fear that grips her every time he heads out to work. It puts a strain on their relationship. Dave knows she's scared, but damn it she knew he was a cop the day they met. His patience is wearing thin. Until the tables are turned....

In her law enforcement family, Zoe Edgars has always been the outlier. Working for a secretive agency to take down dangerous criminals and on the trail of a ghost from her past, she's attacked on a remote Virginia mountain highway and left for dead. Connor Davis, a search and rescue dog trainer, finds an injured and unconscious woman on a mountain ledge in his holler. Strangers are nothing but trouble, however with a blizzard predicted for the entire Appalachia region, he has no choice but to carry her down the mountain to his cabin.