Johns Creek Second Chances Series by Jessica L. Degarmo

Johns Creek, New York, deep winter, and Amanda Pickett is all alone in her remote house when a violent storm erupts, devastating the neighborhood, and bringing a tree crashing down against her back door, leaving her in the freezing cold and complete darkness when the power supply is cut. As she becomes ever more frightened and isolated by her predicament, there is a knock at the door... moreJohns Creek, New York, deep winter, and Amanda Pickett is all alone in her remote house when a violent storm erupts, devastating the neighborhood, and bringing a tree crashing down against her back door, leaving her in the freezing cold and complete darkness when the power supply is cut. As she becomes ever more frightened and isolated by her predicament, there is a knock at the door. Amanda screams, but the visitor turns out to be Raif Weston, a very handsome off-duty fireman come to rescue her and the other residents of Johns Creek. They attempt to get to the shelter where the residents are being evacuated, but the storm is so fierce that they only get a short way down the road before they hit a tree and are forced to turn back, and so they both end up trapped in Amanda's house. "So, now that you have me here, what are you going to do with me?" Raif asks. …. and the storm begins for real. less

When recent divorcée Chloe Johns McClain decides to start her life all over again by moving from Iowa to upstate New York to take up her family inheritance, the ancestral home of the Johns family, she is not expecting to walk straight into a feud with a member of the other historic family of the town, Chase Landry. The origins for the enmity between the Johns family and the Landrys is obscure to Chloe, but her arrival sure kicks the glowing embers of rivalry back into a raging fire... moreWhen recent divorcée Chloe Johns McClain decides to start her life all over again by moving from Iowa to upstate New York to take up her family inheritance, the ancestral home of the Johns family, she is not expecting to walk straight into a feud with a member of the other historic family of the town, Chase Landry. The origins for the enmity between the Johns family and the Landrys is obscure to Chloe, but her arrival sure kicks the glowing embers of rivalry back into a raging fire. And just when it looks like they are slowly reaching an amicable solution, Chloe discovers something in the joint past of the two families that really pours gasoline onto the flames …. less