Publisher's Synopsis
I think my husband, Pastor Scottie Elster, is having an affair. My concern was piqued after Alison Varsi, an elderly woman died, and her family claimed some of her jewelry had been stolen. I just can't believe he's capable. However, more and more secrets ripple and as it seems, Scottie isn't the man I thought he was.
Hope Swain is living a life she couldn't even have dreamed of a few years ago. She's married to Robert an independently wealthy antique dealer who is every woman's dream man. Kind. Caring. Affectionate. Protective. Adoring. And she's pregnant with their first child. Life couldn't be better. Diane Carter, Hope's sister, a lonely heart, and lost soul, pining for a life like her sisters. Love always seems to evade her. When Lucas Thornton, Robert Swain's chauffeur shows a romantic interest in Diane, Hope and Robert start counting down the days until wedding bells ring. Except, as much of a prince charming as Lucas Thornton seems to be, he appears to be a man with a chequered past; seemingly his past has caught up with him. Peggy-Lee Cross, an esteemed Californian artist, her husband died a year ago, left with Lana, her unruly daughter. As her mother shuts herself off from love, romance takes a most unexpected turn come Christmas in Half Moon Bay. Sheriff Randall Bamford in between dealing with the Varsi's stolen treasure, and the acclaim of French nobility is missing his late wife, and worried about his daughter Mia, when he bumps right back into love with the woman he used to refer to as, "the love of his life."
