They bond emotionally and sensually, despite being housed in separate cells, as they endure interrogations, torture, and the constant threat of death. When fate unexpectedly liberates them from the prison compound, their dash for freedom includes the seductive culmination of weeks of emotional foreplay. But once they flee the country, David doubts Emma’s certainty that she is in love with him. He fears that she feels only gratitude.

    She’s had a rough year. After what Ellie has been through, the last thing she needs is a man, especially a bad boy who happens to be both the sheriff and tavern owner. Sheriff Cutter Beaumont can't take his eyes off Ellie Parks, his usual charm and suggestive banter are falling flat. Cutter knows there is more to Ellie, if he can figure out how to get past the wall she is putting up. Could this be more than a spring fling?

    But once he’d turned her inside out with ecstasy, Susan started running scared. She’d struggled so hard to make it on her own, but once he’d branded her his, could Ross make her see she had nowhere to run but into his arms?

    — When he'd first kissed Gwen, she'd responded like a fairy princess awakened from a spell, but she usually treated her brother-in-law like a kid, never daring to admit how much she wanted him. When they were both called to mediate a nasty family fight at a mountain cottage, Dave decided it was time to raise the stakes -- to flirt, tease, and tantalize Gwen until she pleaded for his touch!HOLDING OUT FOR A HEROProvoked by his humor, excited by his intensity, Gwen surrendered her inhibitions and revealed her secrets when Dave commanded her, wooed her, and taught her a yearning only he could quench -- but how could this much younger man want to share her future? Once he'd claimed her with thrilling hunger, Dave vowed he'd love her forever, one day at a time -- but was she brave enough to insist on a stronger bond?

    When Val Santisi, the handsome bad boy from her childhood, appears in her darkened apartment, Nicki Sharman is certain that he is an intruder, until the lights go on and Nicki's heart is revealed.

    Walking into that fight gym was the hardest thing Maureen Bryant had ever done, but the painful memories of the father she barely knew vanished the instant she beheld the fighter in the ring. All sculpted muscles and sun-bronzed skin, Jack Ryan was the most gorgeous man she'd ever seen, a sleek Adonis whose powerful physique left her weak. But she knew better than to surrender her heart to another man who'd give her up without a second thought. She Was A Woman Worth Fighting For ... One look at the gym's new owner and Jack Ryan almost went down for the count. Yet he knew that beneath her elegant exterior, Sully's long-lost daughter couldn't have a heart. Sully had been the father Jack had always needed, the only person who could have turned a troubled youth around. Now Jack was ready to do anything--even climb back into the ring for the biggest challenge of his life--to save Sully's gym from the woman who would let it die. But even as he put on the gloves, something told him that the real fight would be in letting Maureen go ...

    — He wasn't at all the kind of man she expected to apply for the job! Rex Dakeland had bedroom eyes, a great physique, and a pirate's grin -- why did he want to play butler to a single mom's delightfully chaotic household? Drew Laughlin suspected his motives, but she hated housework and cooking more than she let herself wonder about Rex's private agenda. The White-Hot Lightning of Desire Rex had promised an old friend to check up on Drew and her children, but keeping his secret felt too much like spying. Mesmerized by Drew's sweet fire, tempted by need that burned deep inside, he yearned to comfort her, to protect her -- and to make Drew his forever. Once unexpected love ensnared them both, could he win her trust and be her one and only?

    — When he saw the curvy redhead tumbling out of the sky, Dennis Jorden knew that Fate had sent the lady just for him! Even when the sultry spitfire blamed him for her torn parachute, he wasn't a bit discouraged -- not when trying to pay for the damage won him a chance to see her again! Roxy Harris admitted she enjoyed his sizzling kisses but insisted she had no time to tangle with temptation.A Hero to the RescueDennis admired Roxy's loyalty to the women in her shelter and offered to help in any way he could -- but getting her to trade a lifetime of caution for reckless abandon in his arms meant being persistent... and charming Roxy's socks off! Could he make her see she'd have so much more to give once she shared her life with a man who'd catch her when she fell and never let her go?

    Peering beneath the facade of invented madness, Hank finds himself enticed and bewitched by Sally's wounded soul and free spirit. Hank's somewhat unintentional crusade to coax her out from behind the cloak of invented madness takes him on Sally's personal roller coaster of goofy antics and web of disinformation, the heights sometimes so dizzying that love and passion between them are all that keep Hank from losing Sally to her personal demons."

    — Gray McCall remembered the pretty high school student who'd had such a crush on him, she'd nearly flunked his biology class -- but now Elissa Emory was a knockout, all delectable curves and irresistibly tempting! He hadn't felt like teasing or flirting with a woman in... more » ages, but she was bewitching, a sizzling challenge whose lips made him hunger to kiss her until she melted in his arms.He Dared to Stake a ClaimElissa adored the intimate, sexy promises Gray made with his body, responded to his seductive embraces with all her heart; but he fought against sharing the sorrow that haunted him, and insisted he couldn't give her what she needed... what she deserved. Could she teach a man who refused to believe in forever that the healing power of her love could make him happy?

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    She'd worked so hard for everything she had, while he'd never had to fight for what he wanted... until now. Calico insisted that they were worlds apart, that he was tuxedos and champagne while she was blue jeans and beer. Pierce urged her to put her pride aside, to let him help her reach the goals she'd set, but Calico believed she'd lose all she'd fought for if she didn't do it herself. Could he show his stubborn enchantress that love changed everything, that forever was a place where their dearest hopes could meet?