"Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life-- boating, swimming, and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies-- he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite his attempts to be neighborly, the appealing redhead seems...

An ambitious smalltown girl, unlucky in love, is called back home from New York City upon inheriting her eccentric aunt's estate, but the will is fraught with off-the-wall clauses involving work, family, and having to find a husband by next year.

"Martin Nightingale returns to Cape Light to fulfill the unusual terms of his grandfather's will--to spread joy throughout the town with anonymous gifts. Martin's grandfather, Walter was a toy-making genius, but a terrible businessman. But, as Martin discovers, his grandfather's greatest legacy is a priceless lesson about giving from the heart"--

Daphne Ballinger has learned to accept her deceased, eccentric aunt's strange request that she marry in order to inherit her estate, along with taking over her aunt's hometown paper's advice column. But knowing and accepting that God's will be done becomes harder when a new neighbor, a divorced socialite, learns of Daphne's predicament and takes on the task of finding her the perfect man, even if it includes speed dating. When God does open Daphne's...

"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ..." With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford has decided to cut off her two children without a penny . . . and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an invalid who has only weeks to live. Among Lady Playford's visitors...

"On the one-year anniversary of their grandmother's death, four cousins converge on beautiful Colorado Springs to fulfill the terms of her will, piecing together a quilt--and their fractured family, too. After growing up in poverty, Carla has returned to the scene of her childhood, where all was well. And the man who loves her back home fears she may never return. Zoe dumped her high school sweetheart on her way out of town. So it's poetic justice...

Growing up in their aunt's small Vermont community after losing their father in childhood, close sisters Rose and Emily are torn apart by a tragedy and reunited by the loss of their mother, whose will requires them to live in neighboring homes for a summer.

When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. The will is so odd and...