Romance
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 The First Time at Firelight Falls Single mom Eden Harwood has a lively daughter, a blooming business--and a juicy secret she's hung on to for ten years. She doesn't mind a bit that there's no room for romance in her whirlwind life . . . until six-foot-infinity, bass-voiced Gabe Caldera reminds her of what she might be missing. The principal of Hellcat Elementary is usually knee-deep in fawning PTA moms, but Gabe only has eyes for the fiery, funny, skittish redhead who barely knows he's alive. But this ex-Navy SEAL never fails to get what he wants. The passion is explosive, and the tenderness has them thinking about forever. But when Eden's past waltzes into town for a reckoning, her secret blows them apart. Still, Gabe will never back down from a fight, especially when the prize is Eden’s heart. |
 Beyond Control When Victoria Bradford got engaged, she told herself to give love a chance. Six months later, she's on the run from her angry, abusive ex-fiancé with her four-year-old daughter and nowhere to go. Seventy miles north of Dallas, the Iron River Ranch is pretty much nowhere. That's what its new owner, Josh Cain, wanted when he came back from Afghanistan. One look tells Josh the pretty redhead with the adorable little girl will give him trouble of the most personal kind. But he's seen trouble before, and he doesn't scare easy. Not when "accidents" start happening around the ranch. Not when Tory's best friend back in Phoenix is abducted and brutalized. Not even when it looks like their current problems are only the tip of the iceberg. But if he gets too close to fierce, determined Tory, Josh knows his nights are going to be anything but quiet. And that's one possibility no amount of training can prepare him for. |
 I Am Justice Justice Parish was rescued from a brutal childhood and adopted into a loving family. But the scars from her past cannot be forgotten, and she vows to protect and avenge others who haven't escaped the cruel hands of injustice. She becomes a skilled assassin, a vigilante. Her next target: a sex-trafficking ring in the war-torn Middle East. She just needs the perfect cover to get close and take them down. After years of witnessing the destructive nature of war, Sandesh Ross leaves the Special Forces and puts his heart and soul into founding a humanitarian group. When Justice walks through his door, claiming to be a PR agent who can help with donors, he thinks his prayers are answered. They're both too busy saving the world to get involved with each other. But they might not be able to help themselves. |
 The Prince Libby Shaw refuses to accept society's dictates. She's determined to become a member of Edinburgh's all-male Royal College of Surgeons. Disguising herself as a man, she attends the surgical theater and fools everyone--except the one man who has never forgotten the shape of her exquisitely sensual lips. Forced to leave his home as a boy, famed portraitist Ziyaeddin is secretly the exiled prince of a distant realm. When he first met Libby, he memorized every detail of her face and drew her. But her perfect lips gave him trouble--the same lips he now longs to kiss. When Libby asks his help to hide her feminine identity from the world, Ziyaeddin agrees on one condition: she must sit for him to paint--as a woman. But what begins as a daring scheme could send them both hurtling toward danger...and an unparalleled love. |
 The Other Lady Vanishes Adelaide Blake is determined not to let her past hold her back, and a job at a Burning Cove, California tea shop seems like the right place to start her future. Mixing with the vacationing Hollywood movers and shakers who frequent the shop is Jack Truett, a widower taking the rest cure. But no one in Burning Cove is really who they seem. After a local medium falls prey to her own prediction and is killed, Jack and Adelaide are drawn into a murky world of grifters, con artists, drug dealers—and connections to the woman Adelaide used to be. In a town where nothing is real, only one thing is certain: the killer will strike again. |
 Wicked and the Wallflower When a mysterious stranger finds his way into her bedchamber and offers his help in landing a duke, Lady Felicity Faircloth agrees--on one condition. She's seen enough of the world to believe in passion, and won't accept a marriage without it. Bastard son of a duke and king of London's dark streets, Devil has spent a lifetime wielding power and seizing opportunity, and the spinster wallflower is everything he needs to exact a revenge years in the making. All he must do is turn the plain little mouse into an irresistible temptress, set his trap, and destroy his enemy. But there's nothing plain about Felicity Faircloth, who quickly decides she'd rather have Devil than another. Soon, Devil's carefully laid plans are in chaos and he must choose between everything he's ever wanted . . . and the only thing he's ever desired. |
 I Flipping Love You Rian Sutter is just getting back on her feet financially after her parents lost everything years ago. By buying up prime real estate and selling it to the rich and famous, she and her sister finally made enough capital to flip Hamptons beachfront property. But a sexy stranger always seems to snap up the best properties from under her. Pierce Whitfield has hit a rough patch in his law career and has agreed to help out his brother by fixing up some homes in the Hamptons—the very places Rian is trying to buy. But when they meet, the attraction is undeniable. But can love overcome a brutal real estate bidding war? |
 The Kiss Quotient Stella Lane’s genius for math has turned her into a wealthy woman, but all work and no play means she’s a thirty-year old with almost zero dating experience. It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. The solution? Lots of practice, which is where Michael Phan comes in. Stella hires the escort to work through her checklist of experiences, from kissing to beyond missionary position. Before long, Stella’s craving everything that she’s feeling for Michael, and their no-nonsense partnership starts to make a sort of sense. But will their relationship lead to love? |
 Unmasked by the Marquess Robert Selby is determined to see his sister make an advantageous match. But he has two problems: the Selbys have no connections or money and Robert is really a housemaid named Charity Church. She's enjoyed every minute of her masquerade over the past six years, but she knows her pretense is nearing an end. Charity needs to see her beloved friend married well and then Robert Selby will disappear forever. Alistair, Marquess of Pembroke, has spent years repairing the estate ruined by his wastrel father, and nothing is more important than protecting his fortune and name. He shouldn't be so beguiled by the charming young man who shows up on his doorstep asking for favors. And he certainly shouldn't be thinking of all the disreputable things he'd like to do to the impertinent scamp. When Charity's true nature is revealed, Alistair knows he can't marry a scandalous woman in breeches, and Charity isn't about to lace herself into a corset and play a respectable miss. Can these stubborn souls learn to sacrifice what they've always wanted for a love that is more than they could have imagined? |