Right. I’m ready for Mr. Right Now and Ian is everything I’ve ever wanted in a first time. He’s kind, funny, confident, and has a legendary…stick.Seriously, his stick has its own page of search results, complete with gray sweatpants shots hot enough to make even a clueless virgin drool.And yes, my brother will murder us if he finds out, but we’re both grownups.We can keep a secret. We have to since I just landed an art therapy job working with his troubled team.All we’re doing is a little practice. (Or…ehem...big practice.)Too bad my heart didn’t get the memo.

    I don't do these kinds of things.But I would never have a chance to date him otherwise and the money is nice.Our contract says our relationship is strictly platonic.But the kisses feel so real.And deep down I wish it was something more...LoganEveryone thinks I'm a rebel, a bad boy, a guy who can't keep it in his pants...The tabloids make all their money off the disaster that is my personal life.If only they knew the real me.There's only one thing to do to get the public back on my side : put on a show.But things get too real when Riley turns out to be everything I want in a woman.She's smart, sexy, and she loves hockey.But this is all for show... right?I'm willing to risk it all to find out.

    

     Option Two: Till Death Do Us Part. Grace has only ever believed in Option One. But James makes her question that belief from the moment she meets him. James has only ever believed in Option Two. But Grace goes out of her way to shake his belief from the moment he meets her. He’ll move heaven and earth to convince her she’s the only option he wants for the rest their forever.

    My non-profit has been wildly successful with the kids, but now I'm forty mentors short for the Christmas season. It didn't look like we would be able to find enough help, until Jim Adelson got involved. He may have solved my mentor problem, but he's created another: I can't concentrate with this panty melting God around. Jim: The community has been good to me. I'd built my successful security business with hard work and determination, and when I got approached to help Kate Monroe's non-profit, it seemed a fitting way to give back. I'd offer to spend time with some kids, but it’s Kate that I find myself wanting to spend time with. With beauty obvious to everyone, and a compassionate heart she wears on her sleeve, she has me reevaluating my priorities. When the children's Christmas gifts go missing, Jim and Kate are forced together in the hunt. Can true love fight through the drama to find a happy ending? Gifted is the first book in the holiday series Clear Security Holidays. This is a standalone holiday romance suspense novel, but characters from the Venture Capital series and from Tech Billionaires can be known to make appearances.

    I'm the woman who has almost everythingBut he’s going to give me the one thing money can’t buy…Naomi:I'm a businesswoman, a CEO, and a billionaire.In business, I’m at the top of my gameBut in love?… the numbers don’t always add up.So when smoldering-hot firefighter Ace gives me the eyeI figure it’s high time for a hard-earned night offAnd one night is all I planned, but it all went up in smoke…How do I handle having a baby?Ace:She’s a firecrackerThe belle of the board roomAnd a freak in the bedSmart, stubborn, gorgeous NaomiShe’s been fighting so long, she doesn’t even see that she needs rescuingI'm gonna break down her wallsI'm gonna give her my baby

    

    Hiring a personal assistant seems like the best idea, especially when one comes highly recommended. But as soon as I lay eyes on Asha Jordan's beautiful face and sexy body, it's going to be impossible to keep my hands to myself, especially since we're going to be together all week in New Orleans. She's the consummate professional, and I try to be too...until I just can't help myself any longer and toss up a Hail Mary... Asha When my actress client gets sidelined with an injury, she asks me to do her a favor: babysit Logan Sinclair, the Wolves' star quarterback, during the week before the Super Bowl. He's hot, and everyone wants a piece––so I'm told. I expect a cocky, disrespectful pain in my rear, but what I get is actually...a sweet guy. It doesn't hurt he's the most gorgeous man I've ever seen in my life, but I don't mix business with pleasure. Even when that pleasure promises to be so, so good... DEEP PASS: Hard Chargers Book 1 is an insta-love, happily-ever-after, STEAMY romance. No cliffhangers, no cheating. This is a standalone story part of the Hard Chargers series.

    Or is it just lust? Yea, it's probably just lust. Ari & Logan don't know each other. Yet. They're thrown together at the singles table by the sheer misfortune of not having a plus one and quickly discover that champagne and tequila shots are just the excuse they needed to find themselves on the brink of the best – or worst – idea ever. Logan's a running back for the North Carolina Hogs and isn't looking for a relationship. Ari totally agrees as she doesn't have time to integrate his busy schedule with her own. F*ck buddies it is. Simple and easy – no strings. Sounds perfect, right? Or is it too good to be true?

    But with his move to a new city and a failing hockey team, he realizes it might not be as easy as he thought to start over. Especially not when he meets her, the girl who flips his entire universe upside down.Octavia Layton is the girl you love to know, that is if you can actually get that far. Ava is burdened by a dark past and memories she likes to keep tightly locked away. It's not very often she lets people into her life, not with everything she's been through. But when she gets dragged into meeting the overly-confident new hockey star in town, it seems like things might just be about to change.

    One of the top goalies in the league, the French Canadian strives for more, still haunted by his troubled childhood. Amy Callahan was a freelance professional organizer until an ambitious, domineering boyfriend took over her life and cleaned out her bank account. Once indispensable to the stars, Amy now finds herself with no money, no house, no phone, and nowhere to go. When Emile finds Amy literally kicked to the curb, he seizes his latest chance to rescue a damsel in distress—only Amy doesn’t want to play that game. In fact, she’s determined to put men on ice in her life permanently. Can they find a way to let love win? Sensuality Level: Sensual

    He gets to fulfill his dream playing professional hockey, has a loving family, and a tight group of friends. But the one thing missing in his life is a partner to come home to. He knows exactly who he wants to fill that position– the only woman he has ever loved. The one who got away, who constantly consumes his every thought. What it would take to get her to Just Say Yes to a second chance? Becca Phillips is an independent woman who has made her career as an ER nurse a priority in her life. She has a loving family and a best friend by her side, but she can’t seem to get over her first love, Scott. Insecurities led her to break up with him years ago when he started climbing the ranks in professional hockey and, for eight years, Becca has avoided Scott when he returns home each summer. Can she overcome her fears and allow love back into her life? All she has to do is Just Say Yes to the one and only man she has ever loved.

     In his struggle for redemption, he falls for the only woman who wants nothing to do with him. Paige is his last chance to survive. But will helping him mean losing herself? When pro hockey's bad boy, thirty-two-year-old Beckett Miller, is caught supplying the drugs that nearly kill his latest one-night-stand, the dominoes of his high-octane celebrity life tumble. Beckett becomes the sport's pariah and braces for the fight of his life armed with only a yearning for another chance and one lifeline: Paige Anderson, the reluctant real estate agent Beckett coaxes to sell what's left after the fallout. Paige has a big heart and a husband with a secret but is in peril of losing both as she forges an unexpected bond with Beckett--a bond that bares the man concealed beneath the bad boy bluster.

    In this steamy holiday romance, can an MMA, ex-Navy SEAL, single dad find love again? Can a brokenhearted young woman believe happily ever afters don't only exist in books?Blurb:LORENZOI had it all.A wonderful family with a loving wife who was my world and a beautiful baby girl.I didn’t need anything more to be rich in my eyes.Then one day, everything changed and my world was ripped apart.My wife, my everything, was taken from me, and I was left alone to raise our baby girl.I was forced from late night sessions at the gym to changing diapers all by myself.Thank God for the help I received from my parents and siblings or I would have been lost.I accepted my fate of being alone with my baby girl and living life with just us two…Until the day I met her, and she became everything worth fighting for.CARISSALife was so perfect.A loving fiancé, wonderful friends and family, and a job I adored.Until one day, my world was turned upside down and the man I loved threw the promise of forever down the drain and walked out of my life.The day he walked out of my door, I knew that everything I had ever grown up to believe in was a lie.Love is unconditional but love sure as hell doesn’t last forever.The vow to love me for the rest of our lives ended quickly as he pulled away from me, and buried himself in the arms of his ex.I was left alone, cursing the male species and everyone who had found their happily ever after.My sister and my best friend were the only ones there for me…Until the day I met him, and he became everything worth fighting for.

    The second chance she's not sure if she wants. Emmitt Brown’s demons are even bigger than he is, and as a defensive lineman for the San Antonio Rebels, that’s something. When DJ Madden tasks his defensive line to go home for Christmas and get rid of their biggest past regret, Emmit finds himself returning to the small town he grew up in to find the woman he never should have left. Too bad she hates him and tells him to go away. Mia Carter can’t believe Emmitt Brown is back in town. She does not need this right now. Especially since he’s been the ghost who won’t leave her conscience alone for the past five years and especially since she recently lost her husband. But when the pro football player steps up and offers to help her son fight cancer, she finds herself reluctantly agreeing. Now they have to make a choice; dig into the past and let the truth bring them together, or lose the Christmas miracle right in front of them.