Returning home to his family's California winery, Professor Julian Vos, on sabbatical from his Ivy League job, finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is aburst of color in his gray-scale life.

A group of students visits Ms. Crawford's fourth grade class in order to learn what it is like to be a teacher.

"Luellen O'Connell is stunned when her husband of just one month tells her he is leaving-- and his reason devastates her. Deeply wounded by this betrayal, Luellen decides to follow her dream to become a teacher, a desire she had set aside when she married. But can she truly hide her past? Or will it destroy her ambitions forever?"-- p. [4] of cover.

"Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At 28, he's focused only on walking a straight line - getting his teaching degree, working out at the gym religiously, and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his earlier life. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when Maria Sanchez crosses paths with him on a rainswept night in North Carolina, his plans are upended in a way that will rattle...

"Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can't be trusted and soon realizes she's...

"After being the center of nasty gossip in her last hometown, all Julie Donovan wants in Saint Jo, Texas, is a quiet, uneventful life for her and her daughter. Devoted single dad Griffin Luckadeau will do anything to protect his own. When he thinks Julie is scheming to steal his ranch out from under him to benefit her own daughter, sparks really begin to fly. Julie and Griffin can't seem to cross paths without a scuffle. But when the dust settles,...

Annalise Haverford, Shauna Myer, and Meghan Banks have little in common, and even some bad blood, but when life's complications threaten to drown them, they'll have to rely on each other to stay afloat.

Miles Foster is a newly minted teacher who dreams of getting ateaching job in the highly respected and financially stable Portland,Oregon school system where everything is available, and where heand his wife call home. But the only opening for his talents is in aremote lumber mill town in central Oregon, two hundred miles away.It is a poor school with forty students, and is controlled by a jealoussuperintendent and school board who tolerate no thinking...

Buffalo Valley, North Dakota. A second-chance town! Like many small towns, Buffalo Valley is dying. Stores are boarded up, sidewalks are cracked, houses are in need of a coat of paint. But despite all that, there's a spirit of hope here, of defiance. The few people still left here are fighting for their town. Lindsay Snyder is a newcomer. She's an outsider, even though she spent childhood vacations here. Now she returns to see the family house...

When their teacher has to go away for a week, the kids in room 207 plan to "really act up."