Katherine Center

Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she’s worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner....

As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, Cassie Hanwell is excellent at dealing with other people's tragedies. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to uproot her life and move to Boston, it's an emergency Cassie never anticipated.....

Samantha Casey is a school librarian who loves her job, the kids, and her school family with passion and joy for living. But she wasn’t always that way. Duncan Carpenter is the new school principal who lives by rules and regulations, guided by the knowledge that bad things can happen....

Very pregnant and not quite married, Jenny Harris doesn’t mind that she and her live-in fiancé, Dean, accidentally started their family a little earlier than planned....

In this exuberant novel, a thirtysomething-year-old woman embarks on a wilderness survival course and discovers that sometimes you have to leave things behind in order to find yourself....

Lanie Coates has piled everything she owns into a U-Haul and driven with her husband, Peter, and their three little boys from their cozy Texas home to a walkup in the Northeast....

Sarah Harper’s whole world revolved around her job at a New York advertising agency before an email snafu got her fired....

After her husband died, Libby Moran moved in with her hypercritical mother. But then Libby gets a letter from her eccentic aunt, offering her a job and a place to live in the Texas Hill Country....

In The Bodyguard, New York Times best-selling author Katherine Center delivers a warm and witty novel about the chances we take in life and love.... 

Maggie Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her, with a handsome boyfriend and a promising career, until an accident on what should be one of the happiest days of her life takes it all away....