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Investment in Love Calvin Barnard is a hard-working New York stockbroker, focused entirely on his job. His life is simple until the day he gets a call from the lawyer of his late Great-Aunt Loretta. The great-aunt he barely knew has left him $10 million and a house in the tiny backwoods Oregon town of Carterville-but there's one condition. Before Calvin can get the money, he has three months to marry a girl from that same rural town. Suddenly, everything is complicated, as Calvin tries to figure out how his reclusive great-aunt had millions of dollars, what he's going to do with her old dusty mansion, and which small-town girl will be willing to marry him on short notice. Interior designer Ellie Parker looks like the perfect solution to his problems: She's beautiful, single, and available to fix up the old house. But when Calvin starts to feel more than sympathy for sweet Ellie, he'll have to decide between the inheritance of a lifetime or the love of the most enchanting woman he's ever met. Christmas Embrace Hamilton Clouse is the eldest son of billionaire businessman Roger Clouse, and an executive at Clouse Industries. Lately, Hamilton and his more troubled younger brother Ryan have been the topic of many tabloid stories. This Christmas, Roger, his wife, and both sons are heading to the family compound to relax and spend some much needed time away from the tabloids. Sarah Armstrong, an ambitious journalist working for Pulse magazine, gets a chance for promotion when her boss sends her to the Clouse mansion to get pictures of the family. On her way there, Hamilton's car hits Sarah's. He brings her to his family home to warm up and get checked for injuries. Sarah and Hamilton hit it off, and the family invites Sarah to stay a couple days while her car is getting fixed. Ryan has brought home a girlfriend, Eva, and when they get engaged, Sarah is ecstatic at having the scoop on the latest Clouse family gossip. As Sarah's feelings for Hamilton a