A C Cockerill: 6 books

In 2045, robotics engineer Ainsley Skye is determined to shorten her temporary assignment to the west coast of Scotland. Then she meets architect Niall Morar and learns there are two ways to fall in love.

Behind an android's eyes, who is watching you? In post-war 2041 Dallas, a widow seeks independence from her late husband's family, but does she have enough courage to find a new love with the Scottish entrepreneur she meets over a glass of white sangria?

After the one-two punch of a 2030 divorce and layoff, Tessa Beaufort leaves Texas for the mountains of Vermont and trades in her sous-chef apron to start up an online business and food-critic blog. When she stumbles into struggling restaurant owner and cook, John Hancock, she discovers marinara isn’t all that’s simmering in her kitchen.

Pub owner and homeowners' association president Travis Williams drives home to tackle the annual dispute over his north Dallas neighborhood's Christmas tree decorations only to find one of his pub's waiters has been murdered. Then Travis hires Sarah O'Meara, a gorgeous and unusual woman, who's hiding more than one secret of her own.

On a whim, a former trophy wife traveling cross-country decides to spend her first night in a quaint Blue Ridge Mountains inn. When she meets the innkeeper's brother, a wounded warrior rebuilding his life, she must choose whether to continue her autumn road trip or risk her heart for love.

~~In 2054, a jewelry designer gets drawn into her village’s participation in a national weight-loss challenge and, in a raffle, wins a celebrity chef and restaurant owner as her challenge mentor. As their lessons progress and they grow closer, they discover that not everyone in Lilac Harbor wants their village to win.