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Billionaire Boss
Scarlet West - 2019
Dating my best friend's little sister...Why not?I'm the boss.Cassidy wasn't what I remembered from twenty years ago.But we were just kids then.I guess we've both changed.But she's working for me now.And as much as I want to dominate her...She probably still sees me as a jerk.The situation screams do not touch.But I've always been the one to break rules.
Callum
Kate Tilney - 2020
A curvy journalist. These enemies to lovers find instalove romance in the Pacific Northwest.RoseAfter years of paying my dues as a low-level reporter, I finally have my own features beat in beautiful Seattle. And now, I get my first big story: a series on the Jade Mountain Search & Rescue team. Only, the crew's gruff, but super handsome, chief is anything but helpful. After days of back and forth, we finally form a truce, and something more.As sparks fly between us, I'm increasingly more intrigued by the man than the story.CallumI don't like reporters. Plain and simple. And I have my reasons. So I don't like it when the most gorgeous woman in the world comes sniffing around my crew and me looking for a big story. But soon, Rose wears me down and earns my trust.Could Rose be the missing piece in my life? Or is she just a distraction?Jade Mountain Search & Rescue is a series of standalone short, sweet, and steamy romances filled with action, adventure, and a happily ever after. Read CALLUM if you enjoy first responder mountain men and BBW women finding true love. No cheating! No cliffhangers!
Fighting Love for the Cowboy
Anne-Marie Meyer - 2018
Despite less than supportive parents, he's decided that becoming a lawyer just isn't for him. He's a rancher — through and through. When he discovers that his grandfather's ranch is getting audited, he'll do just about anything to keep it safe. Even if it means fighting the growing attraction he has for the auditor. Christine Jordan is moments away from getting fired as an IRS auditor. Her boss told her to either succeed at this field audit or don't bother coming back at all. So when she shows up at Sean Petty's ranch and he's as stubborn as a mule, she knows she can't let his rugged good looks or surprisingly caring manner distract her. With a little meddling help from Emma and Austin, they soon discover just how similar they really are. But when facts come to light and Christine's boss interferes, they must decide if the moments they've had can triumph over the truth. Fighting Love for the Cowboy is a novella based in the fictional town of Moose Falls, Montana. It's a spin-off story from Marrying a Cowboy.
Awakened Alpha
Amelia Wilson - 2019
Life seems simpler in this town, until a bloodied and battered man is left behind at her bar. There’s something about him that Adeline can’t get enough of. Is it his charm? Or the fact that he’s longing to taste every part of her? As tensions and passions align, Adeline discovers a secret world, and the secret connection she shares with it that’s yearning to be unleashed.
Cowboy's Christmas Rodeo
Mary Sue Jackson - 2020
The rodeo is a tough life and this cowboy is ready to settle back home, buy the old family ranch, and live quietly without the wildness of his past. All he has to do is win the Pride River Christmas Rodeo, but to do that he’s got to stay out of trouble. Trouble he very nearly finds by getting into yet another bar fight, stopped just in time by Belle Manning, his childhood friend. She always kept him out of hot water when he was a kid, with her calm support and friendly smile, and though it’s been years since he’s seen her, Axel’s never forgotten the first girl he kissed. And never forgotten how her daddy warned him to stay away from her. Troublemakers like him just aren’t good enough for someone like her…
Belle never forgot the sexy cowboy who stole her heart when they were kids. So when he approaches her with a proposition, she’s ready to listen. Axel wants her by his side so she can keep him out of trouble until the Christmas rodeo. In exchange, he’ll give her a plot of land so she can build her occupational therapy clinic. It’s a stunning proposal and one Belle can’t refuse. Her dream of using horses to help people heal is finally coming true. And, bonus, running around town with Axel will keep her matchmaking mother off her back. She’ll think about a relationship after her practice is up and running. Once Axel wins the rodeo, they can go on their merry ways. But it doesn’t take long before their fake relationship takes an unexpected turn toward real, throwing Belle off kilter. Is it possible Axel could turn into the Christmas present she didn’t know she wanted all along?Mary Sue Jackson and USA Today Bestseller Leslie North invite you to indulge in a heart-warming small-town western romance with a smoking hot cowboy and the woman who tames him...
Playing with Fire
J.S. Cooper - 2019
I wasn't meant to meet a handsome alpha billionaire like Grant Slate. I wasn't meant to work the bachelor party. I wasn't even a dancer, but I couldn't tell my best friend no. She said I wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do. And there was no way I was going to be giving any private dancers. But when a man like Grant Slate asks you for a dance, you can't really say no. He's cocky, arrogant, dark, but he's also the most gorgeous charismatic man I've ever met. I didn't know the dance would lead to him whisking me off to his private mansion. He wanted one night of passion and I couldn't resist. I figured that one night was just one night. Only I had no idea what I was getting herself into. Grant Slate was not the man he'd appeared to be at the club. He wanted more from me than one night of passion. He wanted more from me than I could have ever imagined. Who could have known that one night would lead me into the depths of fire? Playing with Fire is a completely rewritten and revised version of Alpha Billionaire by Helen Cooper.
Holden
Lana Dash - 2020
Practically strangers but now husband and wife, they moved to America. Even with all the ups and downs they faced, an epic love grew. Too often, people mistake attraction and desire for love. I’m looking for something deeper and more lasting.HOLDENThree years ago, I walked away from everything. My tech company. My lavish lifestyle. And my cheating fiancée. But even after everything that happened to me, there was one thing I could never let go of—the desire to share my life with someone. The world thinks they know me, but there is more to me than what can be found on gossip websites. I want to find that person who can look past their preconceived notions and see the real me.A mountain man in search of a bride. A curvy heroine in search of adventure. One week to find out if their love is a true match.MOUNTAIN MEN MATCHMAKER is a series of short, sweet, and steamy romances about curvy women finding love and adventure with rugged mountain men. Read HOLDEN if you like solitary billionaire, action-adventure, with a happily ever after. No cheating. No cliffhangers.
Guarding Salvation
Maddie Wade - 2022
Yet the deference and rules he has lived by his entire life feel like a straitjacket compared to the wild feeling in his heart that seeks freedom and the cool bite of purpose. When an incident with his family ends in his arrest, he feels his life is over—until a mysterious man offers him hope and a future he yearns for. With ten years of military service under his belt, he retires from the Army and takes his place in the Shadow Elite. With his life everything he ever wanted it to be he can’t understand the nagging doubt in his heart until he meets the wild Irish Mafia Princess who could be his destruction.Aoife Doyle grew up as the princess of her father’s Irish Mafia reign but when he offers her hand in marriage to a man she hates, to forge the bonds that will stabilise his power, she runs. Fleeing her life and everything she knows Aoife finds herself in a tiny Welsh town with no money or food. Taking a job at a local pub she begins to put her life back together and regain some of her hard-won control. When a sexy man with a deep brogue and eyes she could drown in walks into her pub, she knows she’s in trouble, their chemistry is off the charts and the heart wants what the heart wants.Just as Bram and Aoife are making a path for themselves the worst happens and the happiness they’d found is destroyed in a bloody carnage. Bram must now fight like never before to save the woman who makes him whole and holds his heart in her hands, but outside forces want only his death.Will they survive the fallout, and will the prince finally get his princess?
Beauty Loves the Beast
Robyn Peterman - 2019
After too many tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, I’d checked out—on everyone and everything—on life. Ex-navy SEAL. Totally broken man. I’d hit rock bottom so many times, I was sure I was about to fall straight to hell. It would be a welcome reprieve. Then she found me. Beautiful, insane and more broken than I was. She needed my help. I needed her humanity. How she found me was anyone’s guess. But she had. She needed rescuing. She needed a hero. I was none of those things. But for the first time in many years, I wanted to be. I wanted to be her hero.
Georgia
Becoming an undercover agent for the CIA had been my dream until everything went wrong—wildly wrong. Trapped in a cage with nothing to do but anticipate more torture from the ones I was supposed to trust, I had no choice but to escape—again. This time I’d succeed or die trying. They’d turned me into a beast and it was time to show them exactly what I could do. Finding the beautiful man who could help me end my pain was something I’d never expected—or wanted. It was a complication for normal people. I wasn’t normal. I would never be normal. Could two broken pieces make a whole? Could we truly disappear with the government hunting us down like animals? He was Beauty and I was the Beast. Happily ever afters didn’t happen for people like us. Or did they?
Forever Blue (The Weight of the Badge, #2)
Kaylee Rose - 2021
In her, he sees someone who understands his law enforcement career and is strong enough to accept all that comes with it. But the universe has other ideas and throws the good and bad when least expected, turning Lance’s world upside down. Kellie Bryant always believed in the happily-ever-after. All that changed the day Lance Malloy left town, taking her hopes and dreams with him. Falling in love with a man she barely knew wasn’t planned but ruled by her heart, she gambled her future, and that of her niece, Rory.With her world spun on its axis, Kellie can’t afford to hold on to a man who isn't able to love her back.**Forever Blue is the second book in The Weight of the Badge series and is meant to be read in order.
Helsing Academy (Overcity Chronicles #1)
Savannah Skye - 2019
A place for the elite. Where the smartest, fastest, and strongest go to train in preparation to defend the world from the scourge of vampires that have taken over. But the Administration is getting desperate, and apparently “kind of smart, a little fast, and somewhat strong” is good enough, because guess who just got the invite? This girl. Now I have to face off against an instructor with a massive chip on his shoulder, a bunch of catty chicks who think they’re better than me (spoiler alert: they are) and a boy who treats me like the gum on the bottom of his shoe. Oh yeah, and did I mention the whole “fighting bloodthirsty monsters” thing? It’s gonna be a long year… Helsing Academy is an action-packed YA/Young Adult paranormal fantasy adventure series with romantic elements.
The War Against Miss Winter
Kathryn Miller Haines - 2007
But for aspiring actress Rosie Winter, the war feels as if it were right in New York City—what with food rationing and frequent blackouts . . . and a boyfriend she hasn't heard word one from since he enlisted in the navy. Now her rent is coming due and she hasn't been cast in anything for six months. The factories are desperate for women workers, but Rosie the Thespian isn't about to become Rosie the Riveter, so she grabs a part-time job at a seamy, lowbrow detective agency instead.However, there's more to the Big City gumshoe game than chasing lowlife cheating spouses. When her boss turns up dead, Rosie finds herself caught up in a ticklish high society mystery, mingling with mobsters and searching for a notorious missing script. Maybe she has no crime-fighting experience—but Rosie certainly knows how to act the role. No matter how the war against Miss Winter turns out, it's not going to end with her surrender!Evocative, entertaining, and wonderfully original, Kathryn Miller Haines's War Against Miss Winter introduces not only an unforgettable new sleuth but also an exciting new voice in the mystery genre, with a fast-paced tale of murder and deception that brings the World War II era vividly to life.
Midsummer Fling
Abby Knox - 2020
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.