Two couples, one unforgettable summer.

Charlotte and Ethan – Fate brought them together as children, and phone calls and letters solidified their bond. When tragedy struck, they were torn apart until one fateful summer morning when they met again. Will they be able to acknowledge the love that fate decreed, or will they let the opportunity of a lifetime slip through their fingers?

Francesca and Jackson – They met as children and became a couple as teens. At twenty, she must let her one true love follow his conscience into war. Can their relationship stand the test of time and bring them to the happily ever after they’ve always dreamed of, or will their perfect world be shattered?

Join two amazing young couples as they learn to live, laugh, and love while working at The Heart of Alaska Lodge in the summer of ’69.

Nurse Mari Mannon put her life on hold for Firefighter/Paramedic Graham Blake one too many times. He's out of her life for good now that he has decided never to love again. She decides to start fresh, with a new attitude. First objective: Seduce a stranger on her family's annual vacation - this year, a cruise to Alaska. With no prospects for a man in her life, she has this pesky problem called virginity that she really needs to get rid of. 

Matchmaking Mamas Charlotte Mannon and her best friend, Eleanor Blake, want their kids to be together. Mari and Graham always loved each other; they just didn't have the sense to keep life from getting in their way. A surprise meet-up on the Sunset Destiny cruise ship is the plan, and it goes off without a hitch. 

Mari is upset that she might have to ditch 'the seduction' until she realizes that seducing Graham would be even better than seducing a stranger. She wants one night, but with the help of two matchmaking old women and Graham's daughter, Sarah, who really wants Mari to be her mommy - she just might get a lifetime of happiness.

Will they rediscover the love they once had while exploring a passion they've never known, or will they end things for good this time? 

Olivia Mannon had a perfect life. She'd made sure of it. Hard work and perseverance had her climbing the ladder of success, and she was only a few years away from meeting her ultimate goal. A new house on the golf course or maybe overlooking the lake was next in her sights, and nothing would stop her from getting it. Her sacrifices for a sense of stability and peace of mind were many, including true happiness and Alex, the love of her life.

Alex Paige had a 'great' life. Best of all, he didn't have to be locked up in an office or a storefront all day. He truly felt free flying float planes through the Alaskan wilderness and running the tour business his uncle had left him. There was only one thing missing, the one thing he could never have, the love of his life, Olivia.

Matchmaking Mama Charlotte Mannon was determined to help her daughter find true happiness and give up her warped sense of what life should be. And she knew only one man could accomplish the near impossible task.

Alex and Olivia will meet 

again during the family's vacation on the Sunset Destiny cruise ship. Will she be able to merge her "suite at a five-star resort" lifestyle with Alex's "camp outdoors" way of life? Or will they lose each other all over again...this time for good.

Abigail Mannon has been through the unthinkable. The victim of a life-changing trauma, she shuts herself away from her friends, her family, and the outside world. Her work becomes her safe haven, and she likes it that way.

Marketing intern Sam West was hired as her assistant and, through the years, became her source of strength, her window to the outside world. But even then, she couldn't completely let him in.

Amateur matchmaker Charlotte Mannon misses the woman her daughter once was and has decided it's time to help Abigail live again. All she has to do is get her onto the Sunset Destiny cruise ship for their family vacation, with Sam in tow. Not an easy task to arrange, but she manages to pull it off without a hitch.

Forced into close quarters, Sam begins to teach Abigail about the joys of living. She might deny it, but she has fallen in love with her younger, very handsome assistant. 

Sam doesn't deny anything; he has loved his boss since the day he first saw her, all bruised and battered. Unbeknownst to anyone, his tragic past is irrevocably entwined with hers. When they find out, will their past tragedies bind them together or tear them apart?

Teacher Vanessa Mannon and Military man Thomas Paulson have a tumultuous past that began in elementary school and peaked in her parents' pool house in their late teens. 

Years of misunderstandings, anger, and stubborn denial make it impossible to act on their truest desires. When Thomas nearly loses his life in the war in Afghanistan, they both realize they need to pursue what matters most - their love for each other.

Vanessa's matchmaking mama, Charlotte, knows the pair will find their way together, eventually. But while she's helping her other kids with their love lives, she figures she might as well give the couple a little extra push. One quick phone call leads the two to meet again on the Sunset Destiny Cruise ship bound for Alaska - The Mannons' family vacation.

Vanessa's past wild child ways and years-old betrayal of Thomas's trust, combined with his PTSD flashbacks, physical injuries, and memory loss, might just be too much for the young couple to overcome. Or, it may just teach them an important life lesson. A lesson in forgiveness and redemption.

This is a STAND-ALONE series, and can be read in any order. However, this final novel in the series does take place after the others in the series. 

Jackson Mannon and Deborah Sharpe were always a couple with big plans for the future, even if they were only teenagers. 

Fearing for her life, Deborah vanished without a trace shortly after her sixteenth birthday. 

Jackson’s life plan changed in the blink of an eye, but eight years later, he learns she’s still alive and that she gave birth to his son.

A matchmaker has been hard at work, playing detective to find the girl her son never forgot. Now Jackson is a man on a mission – to reunite Deborah with her dying mother and to bring her and their son home. But there is so much they must overcome to be together again: guilt, death, and the ultimate deception. Is their past strong enough to allow a future? Can they revive the love they once shared to become a family again?