The Sweetest Heart

Now a Hallmark Channel Original Movie! Café owner Maddie Strong is finally ready to take her burgeoning cupcake business to the next level. With the help of handsome businessman Alex Perkins, her future’s all mapped out. Until her first love comes home. At seventeen, Maddie adored Nate Barzonni with her whole heart and soul. But when he asked her to elope, she said no—she couldn’t let him throw away his dream of becoming a doctor. Then he vanished from her life for eleven years. Now the cardiac surgeon has returned to Indian Lake asking for a second chance, and Maddie has to choose between her new life…and the man she never stopped loving.

Cafe owner Maddie Strong is finally ready to take her burgeoning business to the next level. With the help of handsome businessman Alex Perkins, her future's all mapped out. Until her first love comes home.

Tully Morgan hasnÍt been back to Marietta for more than a few brief visits since the night of the 1996 senior prom eighteen years ago, when the chance exposure of a long-held family secret sent her running to her uncle in California in shock. She stood up her date Ren Fletcher that night, and she hasnÍt seen him since. Now sheÍs here for an extended stay, to help take care of her seriously ill mother. ItÍs an edgy reconciliation, the first time that Tully, Patty and Sugar Morgan have been together since that long ago prom night. Tully has had so much anger toward Sugarƒ can she ever forgive her? And Sugar still has one more secret that needs to be dealt with, one that needs Ren FletcherÍs help. Has he forgiven Tully for leaving him in the lurch on prom night? And is there any chance that he and Tully can rekindle what they might once have had, when heÍs still tied to someone else?

When he’d first popped through the shrubbery, nurse Kirby McKaslin had found her new neighbor brazen and obnoxious. So she was more than surprised to find Sam Gardner volunteering to pilot an early-morning medical emergency flight…and fixing her fence, making her cocoa when she couldn’t sleep, even cooking dinner. But when Sam took Kirby’s hand in his, she wasn’t surprised to find herself falling for him…. Then he gently removed his hand, and closed his wounded heart to her. After he’d shown her that faith and kindness could exist in a man, could Kirby convince him that despite his past, love wasn’t gone for him—forever?

In Sweetest Heart, Mary Engelbreit gathers her charming illustrations together to pay homage to the most powerful of human emotions-love. With its soft-pink slipcase, a personal valentine in its own envelope at the front of the book, and special gatefold insert, Sweetest Heart is a wonderful keepsake.