Former rodeo queen, Pearl Robinson, made one little mistake with her life.

She married the wrong guy.

Now divorced, she is coming home. to work at the ranch of former town bad boy, Tim Wenger.

Rock Bottom Ranch is a ranch with a mission -- to help troubled teens through therapeutic riding.

It doesn't take Pearl long to fall in love with her new job, her new students… and possibly also with her new boss.

Together they will work to fight the town's opposition to what they are trying to do.

Will they also become a family along the way?

As a teen, Amy Callaghan survived a racially-motivated bombing. Now a famour photographer, Amy is home to take wedding photos for Jas -- the only other survivor. Amy doesn't expect to meet and fall for Zander while there. Zander was just a rookie cop when the bombing occurred, and he's followed Amy's career. He's about to discover she's even more compelling in person. 

When Monya's husband died, she had no choice to raise their daughter on her own. Now Nina has a daughter of her own, and together the three generations run Walking Walrus Cafe in the tiny Okanagan tourist town of Peachland. Brett is just in town on business, but when he tastes Monya's hospitality, he starts to wonder if maybe he should stay. 

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Auggie is the math whiz keeping Near and Far Magazine solvent while her partners and best friends gallivant around the world in search of the perfect stories for their winter edition. She's staying home for the Christmas season, but it turns out she won't be alone. A much needed advertising client has arrived in town -- and he thinks he's staying with Auggie.

There's nothing fiercer than the love of a woman. Heather Donnelly is proof of that. The love she gives to the animals she rescues is second to none. That's a kind of love Ethan Wolfe wants a taste of first hand. 

Officer Ian Roshan has been in love with Cassidy as long as he can remember. The pretty, Bohemian florist was raised by a cop, though, and has sworn never to date one.

Fortunately, Ian isn't one to give up easily. Not when the rest of his life is on the line. 

Abbie turns 15 and discovers Anna, badly beaten and floating in the lake. A killer is targeting Lakeland's  female realtors. Colleen barges into the middle of a domestic dispute and herself becomes a victim of assualt, leading Drew to arrest Frank Sampson, step-father to Dani -- Abbie's friend and goalie for her soccer team.

Abbie is working at Zara Vineyard. When one of the fruit pickers is discovered dead in the vines with an unknown stray dog guarding the corpse, Colleen's father has a heart attack and ends up in hospital. While Colleen plans a wedding, her brother, Mark, comes home to help take care of the vineyard while their father is healing, and romance flares between Mark and Lexie. 

The wedding is happening! At least, it will be if Colleen and Abbie don't go off the rails due to the series of breakins that keep happening in Lakeland. 

Meanwhile, Jocelyn has gone missing -- a serious problem considering the baby's due date is rapidly approaching. 

While the world around them goes crazy, Abbie has her first kiss, and it's a doozy. All of it has Colleen wondering what possessed her to plan a Christmas wedding?

When Mellie heads to Santa Cruz for a surf school Christmas holiday, things are not what she expected. Sunburns, face plants into the sand, and surfer dudes with skin like leather aren't all that. Worse, though, her ex and professional nemesis had the same vacation idea. Not the holiday Mellie had planned.