Note to self: never ever lose your pants while at the town’s lookout point… I’m a former bad boy turned one of the newest cops in Crescent Cove. No matter what, I’m determined to earn the respect of my fellow cops—and my law enforcement family, including my older brother Brady—as the new guy. My new next door neighbor is also my new sister-in-law. She’s smoking hot, but her personality is as combustible as the blowtorch I use to create my ice sculptures. I should stay far, far away. But she’s gorgeous, funny and smart. Plus, she’s just about the only one in this town as wild as me. We dared each other to do something crazy. Naked crazy. And after an unexpected night that nearly got us cited for public lewdness, now she’s having my baby…
Up-and-coming artist, Tony Moretti, has been in love with his sister’s best friend most of his life. Creatively blocked and his passion lost, he looks to Krissy to ignite that spark inside of him again. Giving into their growing desires is inevitable. But when someone continues to terrorize Krissy, and she relies on Tony to comfort her, their relationship goes deeper than the heated chemistry between them. When Tony’s passion returns, and Krissy’s enemy is revealed, their love will be tested, but will love be enough to set them free?
Once upon a time there was a beautiful college student… Erin cleans Mr. Morris’s house twice a week to pay her tuition. The reclusive ex-soldier intimidates her, but she can’t help but feel sympathy for him. Then she walks in on him touching himself, and she has much darker, much more sensual feelings.
I may not survive my first semester spying on three ruthless cartel brothers—especially when it turns out they’re bullies in more ways than one. With my money-laundering father caught stealing from my mafia boss uncle, I’m given one chance to save my little sister and me from being forced to work off his debt in the brothels: Enroll at Silver Hills University, seduce the three cartel brothers, and uncover the truth behind their presence in the States…without getting caught and flayed alive. But when getting close to them requires my complete and total submission to dark desires that threaten my “good girl” image, I soon find my heart’s at risk of falling for not just one of them…but all three.
It’s not easy being the sole werewolf surrounded by a gang of derisive bloodsuckers, yet somehow Kayla Hart manages. Barely. But when a traitor is uncovered in the Lexington coven of Amherst by its lowly werewolf ambassador, Kayla is forced to act outside her diplomatic station, propelled by the forbidden attraction she harbors. However, summoning the coven leader, Monica Juarez, to inform her of her findings doesn’t quite go as planned. Cynical Monica enjoys playing with her pet wolf far more than Kayla can stand. Antagonistic tension simmers between the women and all unwritten rules about fraternizing with the enemy threatens to be tossed out of the window. Kayla wants to prove she’s a force to be reckoned with, not a mindless pup.
My teammates called me Grumpy Old Man. I understood the grumpy part. It wasn’t as if I was the life of the party. But I wasn’t old. Geez, I was only thirty-two. Despite the only partly correct nickname, there’s two things you needed to know about me. The first, I loved my dog and would do anything for that crazy mutt. The second thing, well, it involved my teammates’ sister. The woman he told me to stay away from. What nobody knew was I have had a crush on her for years. Why was I telling you that? My dog was in an accident and the only one who could save him? You guessed it. My secret crush was the local veterinarian. What did I do to thank her? I got her fired. Now my secret crush thought I was a grumpy jerk too.
Have you ever been in a stalemate with the head of the mob? Me neither, until Sebastian Romano waltzed into my life. I probably should have held my tongue that first night, but I’m used to alpha males and Sebastian is nothing I can’t handle. He runs this city and gets everything he wants, but I would rather die than give him my art gallery. It’s not just that it’s all I have left of my gran. The gallery is proof of my independence – a corner of this big city that’s all mine. Problem is, negotiating real estate with a gangster isn’t exactly…fair. I can ignore the intimidation, the deadlines, the threats. But when Sebastian starts poking into my private life, that’s one line too far. So how come when my world is imploding—again—Sebastian is all I want to cling to? And why do I feel safest with the deadliest man in town?
Evelyn Lewis’ secret dream of marrying her brother’s best friend is shattered when he leaves their home town to seek his fortune elsewhere. For six long years, she’s waited and wondered if he would return. After the shocking murder of her parents, her brother is the only family she has left. Refusing to accept a betrothal to a man she doesn’t love, she decides to take control of her destiny and confront her parents’ killer.
Sydney can’t remember a time when Chas wasn’t part of her life—from childhood playmates, to high-school sweethearts, to long-distance friends. Now, after twelve long years, Chas is leaving the Marines and coming home. Sydney’s thrilled to have him back on American soil, safe and sound, even if his return is doing funny things to her heart.
Two broken souls collide in an electrifying dance of desire and denial in this contemporary billionaire romance. Tobias Stone’s guarded heart is an impenetrable fortress in the high-stakes world of power and money. He uses his wealth as armor, his detachment as a shield. Savannah Page isn’t searching for love, but for survival and stability. Having fled an abusive marriage, the fiercely independent single mother has only her grit and her six-year-old son, Jacob, to her name. Their worlds collide when Savannah is hired at Tobias’s company.