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-protective hero -high heat, all the feels -characters with strong moral compass -super steamy in all the right ways -small town romance Rough and Tumble I’ve played it safe my whole damn life. After one night with Abby, I have someone to fight for. A reason to risk it all. Rough Deal She needs me like I’ve never been needed before. My family doesn’t understand my love for her. My secret keeps me up at night. Something must give before it all breaks. Rough Waters For my birthday I’ve requested one thing — alone time. When I arrive at the family cabin, I find we have a new neighbor. A shirtless, muscular, and ridiculously handsome neighbor. Hey, maybe this will be the best birthday ever...

To hold onto his love, he must release his beast. Halle Shifters, Book 1. Once a Bear sets his mind on a mission, it's best to stay out of his way. Alexander "Bunny" Bunsun is that Bear. Something's not right with his cousin Chloe, and he's come to Halle, PA, to sort it out, turn his Harley around and head home to Oregon. Until an enticing scent lures him into the local tattoo shop. There she is. An inked, Southern-drawled she-Wolf with lime-green hair. His perfect mate. Tabitha Garwood's rotten day just got worse. Her Outcast status makes her a target for harassment with alarming regularity. And now, in the middle of a root touch-up, looking like a half-melted Skittle, she's met her destined mate. The only upside? She finally has a protector in the form of a huge, tattooed, shavedd-head Bear who vibrates with carefully restrained power. When Chloe is left for dead and Tabby is threatened, only Alex can keep his growing family safe. Giving Tabby the loving home she needs, though, could come at a price -- Alex must give up the control he's worked a lifetime to attain. Which means someone coudl die at the hands -- and claws -- of his beast. Warning: This novel contains explicit sex, graphic language, a hunky Bear named Bunny and ... Yes. I said a Bear named Bunny. I don't know about you, but I'm not brave enough to make fun of it.

When you play with fire, you're bound to get BURNED.. Katie: He is a very bad man. There is nothing good about him… Unless you count the things he does to me between the sheets. Those are good, very good. Everything else about him is bad to the core. One drunken night of bone-melting sex should have been the end of it—especially since I woke up alone. Until he shows up at my door complete with handcuffs. I hate him for what he’s doing. Too bad my body can’t resist him. Torch: She has a body that makes men beg. I had to have her. I didn’t realize one night with her would be a drug---one I’d crave over and over. Katie’s past brings me to her door. I should walk away. I can’t. My President asked me to do this job and technically, I am. I’m doing her against the wall, in the shower, on the counter, the table and occasionally even the bed. The heat between us is intense and white-hot like an open flame. I can’t walk away, even for my President, the man I swore to follow into hell. I warned her I am no one’s happily ever after. I’m too dark. I’m more of a nightmare. She chose to play with fire. I did too. It’s too late, now we’ll both be BURNED Book contains a HEA for the main characters inside. It is a continuation of Book 1 of the Devil's Blaze MC, Captured. It's a full length novel of over 74k in length.

Can a Case of Mistaken Identity end in True Love? A warrior who knows nothing about Christmas, Force to pay Santa...with disastrous results... A girl running from her past, who lands in a dead-end job as Santa's Helper Elf. Can Lisa keep herself from... Falling for Kindred Claus? It's a week before Christmas and Lisa James is stuck in a dead-end job, playing Santa's little Elf at the local mall. After fleeing her home to get away from an abusive drunk of a husband, she's trying to keep a low profile, so it's not exactly like she has her pick of career paths. Still, she can't help feeling like she's hit rock bottom...that is until the mysterious Kindred playing Santa at her mall shows up. Asher is part of the Kindred Elite Espionage Corps. Sometimes he serves as an assassin, other times a diplomat, but he's never been Santa before. And he's not supposed to be now. When he mistakes Lisa for his contact and she mistakes him for the Kindred who is scheduled to be Old Saint Nick, two hours of confusion and peeing, puking kids are the result. After all, who ever heard of a seven-foot-tall Santa with fangs? The kids are scared, Asher is frustrated, and Lisa loses her job. To make up for the confusion, Asher offers to take Lisa on his next diplomatic mission--a boring and safe affair where all they have to do is attend the coronation of an alien Potentate. But things go horribly wrong when there is an assassination attempt and Lisa and Asher are caught in the middle of it. Will the two of them escape with their lives? Will Asher listen to his heart, which tells him Lisa is his fated mate? And will Lisa be able keep herself from... Falling for Kindred Claus?

Once upon a time, a girl saved my life. I was p*ss-drunk, high as a kite, and about to jump from a bridge. She stopped me. I told her to f*ck off. Exactly how all great love stories start. A year later, I met her again. Sober this time, after yet another stint in rehab. She’s still pretty, still a spitfire, still lights up a room when she walks in. And she doesn’t realize I’m the guy from the bridge. Frankie doesn’t know anything about me or my past. She doesn’t know I’m a former rock star or an ex-junkie. She doesn’t know that two years ago, someone died and it was my fault. She doesn’t need to know. She’s got problems of her own, and they’re what keep her coming back to see me time and again, even when we both know she shouldn’t. I should be staying far, far away from this girl, but it’s like telling water to flow uphill. Can’t be done. Frankie and I may be going down in flames, but we’ll be going down together. Ever After is a full-length, standalone novel.

In a world where women are seen as a commodity to barter, Alaska promised a sanctuary. But to stay, I have to enter the wife lottery. Six men, one wife . And I have no say in who those men will be. It's more than a game of chance--it's my life falling into the hands of strangers. But the men who win my hand are ruggedly handsome and promise to protect me until death do us part. Fallon and his strong will. Giles and his protective streak. Salinger and his easy smile. Banks and his intellect. Emerson and his faith. Huxley and his charm. I want them all, each for a different reason. My body is awake, my heart beats wild. But I'm also a woman running from a past that's catching up. Fast. My father is coming for me and he'll make my husbands pay--and that's not a gamble. That's a guarantee. *The Wife Lottery is book one of a six book series. Passion and suspense fill the pages of this dystopian romance. The world as we know it may be over, but Tia and her six men of Alaska aren't giving up without a fight.

Romance author Elizabeth Russell lives alone, works alone, and that’s that way she likes it. No ties, no relationships, no complications. But when her apartment is broken into and it looks more personal than per-chance, she finds herself running to the only person who can protect her—too bad he also has the most potential to crush her world. Former Marine turned securities expert, Zach Steele doesn’t do regret or second chances. So when a sexy heartbreak from his past shows up on his doorstep, desperate for a safe place to crash, his first reaction is, Hell no. But with a stalker quickly closing in and the only woman he’s ever loved looking up at him like he’s still “that” guy, Zach offers up his protection. Working together to bring her stalker down brings them closer than ever, and Zach realizes that it’s not just Elizabeth’s life that’s in danger...but also his guarded heart.

Is Emma ready for a bite? Emma Carter has been in love with Max Cannon since high school, but he barely knew she existed. Now she runs her own unique curio shop, and she’s finally come out her shell and into her own. When Max returns to his small home town to take up his duties as the Halle Pride’s Alpha, he finds that shy little Emma has grown up. That small spark of something he’d always felt around the teenager has blossomed into something more—his mate! Taking her “out for a bite” ensures that the luscious Emma will be permanently his. But Max’s ex has plans of her own. Plans that don’t include Emma being around to interfere. To keep her Alpha, Emma must prove to the Pride that she has what it takes to be Max’s mate.

A young woman discovers a bottle at sea...<br><br>The story of a life-changing moment in a young Russian girl's life as she takes a step into the unknown French landscape. Encountering obstacles and surpassing them with the help of an unlikely cast of characters, we are let in to the secret that the biggest of journeys are made up of the smallest of occurrences.

Get healthy on their own—or stay sick together? At Recovery and Relief, a treatment center for girls with eating disorders, the first thing Shoshana Winnick does is attach herself to vibrant but troubled Rowan Parish. Shoshana—a cheerleader on a hit reality TV show—was admitted for starving herself to ensure her growth spurt didn’t ruin her infamous tumbling skills. Rowan, on the other hand, has known anorexia her entire life, thanks to her mother’s “chew and spit” guidance. Through the drudgery and drama of treatment life, Shoshana and Rowan develop a fierce intimacy—and for Rowan, a budding infatuation, that neither girl expects. As “Gray Girls,” patients in the center’s Gray plan, Shoshana and Rowan are constantly under the nurses’ watchful eyes. They dream of being Blue, when they will enjoy more freedom and the knowledge that their days at the center are numbered. But going home means separating and returning to all the challenges they left behind. The closer Shoshana and Rowan become, the more they cling to each other—and their destructive patterns. Ultimately, the girls will have to choose: their recovery or their relationship