The three stories are all interconnected. SWEET SUNRISE: Sometimes life has a way of teaching lessons whether you’re ready to learn them or not… The last place on earth Will Layton wants to be is Indigo Bay, but his younger sister, Whitney, needs him. He’s never been able to say no to her. But she left out a few details… like their father staying with her and the girl who dumped him years ago is living right next door. The last person Dr. Ashley Harden thought she’d see in Indigo Bay is Will Layton, but he’s back in town and just as irresistible as when they were young. Seeing Will again is a complication that isn’t on her carefully mapped out life plan. In spite of Ashley’s best intentions, she starts falling for Will again, but nothing has changed. She’s still focused on getting the townspeople to accept her and see her as more than the girl from the wrong side of town, while Will is determined to guard his heart at any cost. Not the easiest road to true love… especially when secrets from the past are revealed and history threatens to repeat itself. SWEET HOLIDAY MEMORIES: (a short holiday story) Sometimes a surprise from the past changes the future forever… Meredith Snowden — who by some strange twist of fate has the nickname Merry — avoids everything to do with the holidays. Everything. Her best friend, Whitney, has given up trying to change Merry's ways. Except… This year Merry’s in charge of the holiday bake sale. Not the best way to avoid Christmas. Then Austin Sullivan returns to town and literally runs into Merry sprawled on the sidewalk among boxes of smashed cookies. Austin is all about Christmas and offers help with the baking and the sale. Merry’s carefully hidden memories of Christmas past begin to resurface. Will Austin’s love of the holidays and a single lost ornament bring the magic of Christmas back into Merry’s life? SWEET STARLIGHT: Sometimes worlds collide and sparks fly and things don’t turn out as planned... Whitney Layton doesn’t recognize the actor who comes into her shop and commissions a custom jewelry piece for his grandmother’s birthday gala. Rick Nichols doesn’t know if he’s upset or thankful that Whitney doesn’t recognize him. While he longs to become more well known so his family will finally think he’s made a success of himself, he enjoys hiding out anonymously and being just an everyday normal guy. As Rick’s best-laid plans for his grandmother’s party fall apart, Whitney steps in to help him. But as things heat up between them and the press catches wind of their relationship, their photo is splashed all over social media. Whitney wants nothing of the limelight nor does she believe Rick will ever be happy with a small-town businesswoman who wants nothing more than to live out her life in Indigo Bay. She doesn’t need to add one more name to the list of people she’s cared about who have left her.

     And guarding a secret isn't, either. But losing your heart to a girl who's clueless she owns it? Yeah. That's damn near unbearable. This is my story. The one told by a guy who doesn't get the girl. *To be read after you've experienced Liv.

    That was until my aunt Mildred needed me to help her at her Café. I didn’t plan to still have feelings for my old boyfriend that I broke up with his senior year of college. I wanted to avoid him, but he wasn’t having it.What do I do when my first love... my only love broke my heart but never mended it?OwenThe only woman I ever loved came back to me. Rania just doesn’t know it yet. Once upon a time, she was my everything, but she abandoned the love we shared. I won’t let her go a second time. She means the world to me. Rania is the owner of my heart.What do I do when I come face to face with my one true love?I grab on and never let go.

    When she discovers who snatched her single-bed cabin, it seems that fate has stepped in and booked her a one-way trip to a happily-ever-after. Josh wants nothing more than to spend two weeks fishing, ship watching and gazing at campfires. To his chagrin, the resort owners double booked his reservation with that of an oddly familiar woman he refuses to leave out in the rough waters without a raft. When destiny -- and the age-old problem of two people/one bed -- takes the wheel, Josh quickly realizes it's time to reach for his dreams with his fated-forever shipmate.

    It’s not really my fault. I’m a reporter. Digging up stories is my job. Never in a million years did I expect my latest piece to create an enemy out of the one woman I’d give anything to date. She’s tough, beautiful, and tied to my past in a way I didn’t imagine possible. The world should know that she’s also generous, the center of a big story on a large donation to the town festival in her dad’s name.But she’s not interested in the limelight or attention. She wants to take care of the animals in her care and give back any chance she can.I, on the other hand, want a chance at love. And there’s not much I won’t do to make that happen. She might be appeasing me to keep her story safe, but I’m on the hunt for far more than a headline. I need her now. Today. Tomorrow. Forever.

    Beautiful. Smart. Curves to die for.Just one look at those banging curves makes me crave her with raging lust. Now, I’ll just have to convince her. Oh, and believe me, I will. I always get what the F@ck I want. Yep. I’m used to coming out on top. What I didn’t count on? I just can’t get enough. She sends my animal instincts into a frenzy. She is my new obsession, my addiction.I took her body. But one moment can change everything. One moment and she steals my heart.

    So when I walked into his office one night offering him a business proposition I was sure he couldn’t refuse, I was surprised when he offered me one: Paige’s freedom in exchange for a date. Dinner was the easy part; it was an elevator ride that had us both falling… Going Down is book one of the Quickies Series: short, sexy stories you can read in one sitting!

    When a person’s been so broken by the corrupt system of the world, can you really blame them if they mistake murder for an act of love?

    A romantic thriller set in present-day New Zealand, In the Shadow of Trees covers a period of several weeks in the life of Regan, a nationally acclaimed sculptor, who is renowned for her work in wood.Fleeing a disastrous relationship with a much younger man, Jason Sullivan, Regan retreats to an isolated house on the Sullivan estate in the remote forests of Northland to prepare a series of sculptures for a major new exhibition.

    

    Boy must put his best face forward. Brady Jones doesn’t know where he came from. He knows nothing about his family. He doesn’t know what he is, or how it’s possible to do the amazing things he can do. He does know loneliness and survival, both from a life in the foster care system. He knows that he’s comfortable being alone on a Friday night. Despite the fact they’re so very different, he’d like to get to know Lily Ferguson better. Maybe even call her a friend. Brady knows he’s a shapeshifter. He can change his body to look like nearly anything he can imagine. An object, an animal, even other people. What he doesn’t know is how far the powers-that-be in the world will go to meet him, control him. He’s about to find out.

     Forget that he's a rock star. Forget that the day I meet him, he's shirtless and running down the middle of the street. Forget that the tattoos and muscles that graze his glistening skin make remember what it's like to be alive again. Can I have a future with Crosby -- especially when our pasts are marked with tragedy? He can stay in this small town and be loved by me -- or he can get back to living his rock star dream. All we have is the time in between that. The problem? Time's running out... and we both want more.This is a full length 90,000+ word slow burn romance novel with a guitar play, a painter, an unspoken summer romance past, a present they never saw coming, and a complete HEA, no cliffhanger ending that will make you fall in love with Crosby and Josie. Thanks for taking a chance on me and this novel.

    Interviewing for a multi-million dollar company, she’s surprised to find out that the position is for an assistant to three handsome executives that make her want to drool. Being a mother is hard, but trying to juggle three dominant men? That’s a job in itself. For the first time in years, Jenny experiences happiness and the family she has always yearned for but when her past reappears, she will have to make a decision that could change their lives forever. Will love conquer? Or will Jenny be forced to let go of those that mean the most to her?

    Joseph Long, known locally as Bear, is a farmer ridiculed by neighbors for his strangeness. Lonely nearly to the point of madness and so desperate for human touch, he leans against the hands of the barber giving him a haircut.Katherine Renault is a successful career woman, wondering why, if she has the perfect job and the perfect fiance, does she feel so hollow inside -- even before the illness, the disfiguring surgery.They should have nothing in common -- though he has a magical touch with animals, he considers them property, while she can't tolerate their mistreatment. She's a sophisticated city dweller who can't abide violence, and he's never traveled beyond the local town and has blood on his hands. But love is crazy, and soon they are rescuing the injured of the world just as they rescue each other. Enduring violence and loss, they live in a domestic bliss wide and deep enough to dilute most of life's dramas, until fate tests them again.Funny, erotic, emotionally powerful, yet surprisingly unsentimental about our relationships with each other and with animals in our care, "Crazy Love" will heal broken hearts.

    Stalked by an ex-boyfriend, Tori Slater escapes to the family’s homestead cabin in Wyoming where she meets the property’s caretaker. An ex-cop, Logan McNeely wants a solitary life so he can forget his past, but finds he’s now protecting this intriguing woman. To save Tori, he has to save himself first before they can have a future together. THE BAD BOY NEXT DOOR by Mindy Neff A light-hearted contemporary romance from an award-winning, bestselling author.... Hallie Fortune wanted to marry a safe, boy-next-door type of man. Her real neighbor, bad boy, ex-Marine, single-parent, Cody Brock, would never do. But suddenly, every time she had a date, Cody was there--at her house, at the restaurant, even at the grocery store! If Hallie didn't know better, she'd think Cody was sabotaging her husband hunt. And bringing his baby daughter along as an accomplice. THAT WILDER MAN by Gillian Doyle Second chance at first love... As high school sweethearts, Max "Wildman" Wilder and Liza Jane had raised their share of hell. Then she married with his best friend. Now a millionaire lottery winner, Max returns to his flooded Midwest hometown to bring relief supplies. But when he meets her teenage son, Max is convinced he is the father and may never forgive her for the ultimate betrayal. THE RELUCTANT NERD by Sandra Paul Concerned about nerdy Simon Primes' total lack of confidence, scientist Ernestine St. Bennett is determined to enhance his masculinity--and thus his social ease--by applying the principles used in her studies of fish. Little does Ernie know Simon is really ex-copy Sam Pierce, a private investigator in disguise...and that no enhancement is needed! WORTH THE RISK by Lyn O'Farrell Children's librarian Amanda Lloyd values privacy above all else… until she meets a sexy single dad with a scandalous past. Ex-racer Mitch Delaney’s life has been plastered across the tabloids more than once. But he believes that anything worth doing is worth a risk, and he wants Amanda in his life. Can he convince her to take a chance on love?