Magical love stories, no murder
THE PARADISE PROPOSAL: Kate Cooper comes home to Cypress Grove broke, uninsured, and running out of time. A chronic condition requires expensive medication she can’t afford. Her solution? A quiet life tending bar at her mom’s tiki hut, making herbal remedies, and hoping the healthcare system fixes itself. Then Damien Hastings walks into her bar. The firefighter who defended her in high school. The boy she never got over. The man who proposes marriage so she can access his health insurance. It’s practical. Logical. Completely platonic. Except the more time they spend together, the harder it gets to remember this is supposed to be fake.
But Damien’s leaving for California soon to fight wildfires. Kate’s afraid to trust that anyone would choose her for real. Can a marriage that started with paperwork become the kind of love that lasts forever?
THE PARADISE FLING: Lauren Sinclair lives her life in motion: new places, new faces, no attachments. So when a destination wedding brings her to Cypress Grove, she expects nothing more than sunshine, celebration, and a brief escape from real life. What she doesn’t expect is the charm of Max Hastings. Or the pull of the blue springs. Or the way the air seems charged with something just shy of magic. The town has a way of blurring lines — between visitors and locals, flings and feelings, coincidence and fate.
And as the days unfold beneath glowing sunsets and moonlit water, Lauren begins to wonder if some connections are meant to linger longer than planned. Because in a place where magic quietly hums beneath the surface, even a temporary stay can change everything.
THE PARADISE SECRET: Princess Isabella has exactly three things on her agenda: escape her royal obligations, avoid the scandal-prone prince she refuses to marry, and lay low in a sleepy, magical Florida town no one’s ever heard of. Simple enough, until she’s arrested for an incident involving an alligator, and the most annoyingly handsome lawyer in Cypress Grove shows up to bail her out. Tate Hastings isn’t looking for scandal. He’s looking for a quiet life and to start a family. He’s definitely not seeking a woman who won’t tell him her last name. But Bella is funny, fierce, and unlike anyone he’s ever met. And Cypress Grove, with its enchanted springs and its uncanny way of revealing secrets, isn’t exactly known for letting people hide.
Some secrets are meant to be kept. And some are just waiting for the right person to find them.
THE PARADISE CATCH: Leilani Kostas has spent her whole life in the water. As a Weeki Wachee mermaid, she knows exactly how to perform a happily-ever-after, even when her real life is falling apart. So when an unexpected inheritance gives her a way out, she packs up her tail, leaves the bad-news boyfriend behind, and points her old truck toward a magical Florida town. A fresh start. A mermaid bar of her own. A future that finally feels like hers. What she doesn’t expect is Remy Hastings: fisherman, charmer, and the kind of man who’s never been caught by anything in his life. She doesn’t expect the way the springs seem to recognize her. Or the way the women of the local coven keep wandering into Mermosa with knowing smiles and small, thoughtful gifts.
Cypress Grove has a way of working on a person. Of turning fresh starts into something deeper. Of making temporary look an awful lot like forever. And as Mermosa prepares for its grand opening, Leilani begins to wonder if some women don’t just run away from old lives — they’re called toward new ones.
THE PARADISE WISH: Natalia is the only single Hastings sibling in Cypress Grove — the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World — and she’d like everyone to stop making a big deal about it. Designing one-of-a-kind necklaces, helping her brother Max run the Magnolia Grande, and dodging dating app weirdos is more than enough. Then the Visitors Bureau pairs her with Matthew Mancini, a charming, divorced single dad and brand-new helicopter pilot in town, for a photo shoot at the springs. By sunset, the camera has captured something neither of them was planning to let anyone see: attraction. It might be the easiest love story in Cypress Grove history.
Until Matthew’s family arrives in town for the weekend, and Natalia recognizes a face she’s spent fifteen years pretending she doesn’t remember. Now she’s forced to make a choice between her past and present, and she’s not sure if all the magic in Cypress Grove will help.