In return, once they became the most powerful Cartel leaders in Mexico, they repaid the favor a thousand times, giving me the life, the power and protection to run my own successful business, along with my American, Gringo brother, Dan. When he tells me he’s coming to visit with his daughter, I can’t wait. It’s been too long since we all caught up. But once I see the beautiful, curvy young woman his daughter’s all grown up into, I feel myself falling. Hard. What? Dan’s not coming for a few more days? It’s just you and me? It’s Instant love. Like nothing I’ve ever felt before, and I just know that Jade is feeling exactly the same as I do. * * * A college intern exchange takes me to Mexico, Dad’s held up for a day or two. Maybe more, but it’s cool. His best buddy Carlos will look after me, show me a good time, but a safe time. Dad trusts him like a brother, and from what I remember, he’s one hot hunk of a man, that’s for sure. In the flesh, after all those years, Carlos is making me wet just by looking at me. I know what he wants, and now I do too. More need than want. Crazy. Truly. Madly. Deeply. But what about dad? My internship? It all goes south, far across the border and straight into the arms of the manliest man I’ve ever seen. Knowing I’m safe with him and that he’ll put a baby in me. Knowing we’ll make a family together, the one he never had growing up, makes it all worthwhile in the end. Age isn’t just a number, it’s a badge of honor, and Carlos wears his like a man, a real man. The only man who’ll ever claim me, the only man I’ll call my own. *Dad’s Cartel Best Friend is a SHORT insta-everything standalone instalove romance with an HEA, no cheating, and no cliffhanger.

    So what if her dream to be accepted as more than an internet chef is on the line. So what if the hit TV show can take her new charity from start-up to household name. Sophie can work with that. She can work with him...As long as she doesn't fall in love with him first. The Island Patriot  is a stand-alone romance complete with a happily ever after and the eighth book in the sweet and wholesome Heathcliff Family Romances series.Read all of the Heathcliff Family Romances by Julia Keanini!1. His to Save2. His to Marry3. His to Protect4. Her Favorite Risk5. Her Forever Love6. Her Perfect Mistake7. Their Second First Kiss8. The Island Patriot9. Their White Christmas

    Or does it?I’ve been keeping a secret. One that could change a lot of lives, including my own. I came to Cross Creek to find my father. He’s the difference between life and death for me. During my search, I found love, only sexy builder Ethan Lockhart isn’t having any of it. I’ve done my best to make him mine, but he’s more slippery than a fish in a brook. I built my life here on a lie, but my feelings for this man are true. Will the secrets I keep destroy what Ethan and I creating?I’m not the guy anyone picks first, so when Angie Sutton started flirting with my brother, I wasn’t surprised—that is until I found out she was doing it to get my attention. But this time, I’m determined not to give my heart away—not until I know who she really is. Letting someone get too close too fast is a blueprint for disaster. No matter how deeply I’m drawn to her, I know she’s hiding something, and until she can be honest with me, we don’t have a future.Find out if the truth can really set you free in Guarded Hart, book three in the Cross Creek Series.