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Teach Me To Love Again


Toye Lawson Brown - 2014
    Young, ambitious, full of life and very single. Meet Kyle Lombardi. Breanna's new boss at Perks Coffee Distributors. He's handsome, successful, single and fighting internal demons that have taken him over. Already butting heads at the office after their first meeting, Breanna is determined to keep her dream job despite Kyle's crass behavior towards her. She learns he has not always been this way. A bad divorce caused him to alienate himself from everyone and hate everything. Breanna throws caution to the wind as well as the dire warnings from her colleagues to keep her distance from him. It's hard for her to do that considering she has to work with him. Stuck in an elevator for hours will be a test for Breanna, who believes there is good in everyone including Kyle.

Forgiveness


Chiah Wilder - 2019
    A career-driven woman. Eyes locking, hearts pounding ... then everything changes.Flux once wore the Insurgents MC patch and his territory was Colorado. Now his bottom rocker reads Nomad.The open road is Flux's therapy and facing a 1,500-pound bull in the rodeo ring is the way he blocks out the memories. One-night stands, booze and plenty of weed have done a damn good job at keeping his heart locked up.Until he meets a sassy barrel rider.The golden hair vixen runs rings around him faster than she rides her horse in the arena, and he can't keep away from her. For the first time since the unspeakable tragedy happened, something stirs inside him.Flux keeps his guilt close to him so he never forgets what happened that fateful night. His inner demons keep clawing, wanting to break free, and when they do ... they don't play nice. He is nothing but a shell of who he once was.Maggie Haves hasn't known anything except the discipline of practice. Touted as one of the best barrel riders to hit the rodeo circuit, Maggie doesn't have time for anything that will veer her off the pro rodeo trail.Rugged, tatted and muscular Flux is a very big distraction. Not to mention complicated beyond belief.Flux has lived on the wild side most of his life, whereas Maggie has always played it safe. She knows the biker is danger in leather, but she's drawn to him like a moth to a flame. Something about him keeps luring her, and she's willing to take a chance on love with this imperfect man even if it destroys her.Will Maggie be the one to show Flux that he deserves to live again ... and forgive himself, or will his demons devour her before he throws her away?Can two unlikely people find love in the midst of so much darkness?The Nomad Biker series are standalone romance novels. This is Flux's story. This book contains violence, abuse, strong language, and steamy/graphic sexual scenes. HEA. No cliffhangers. The book is intended for readers over the age of 18.

The One Place


Laurel Ulen Curtis - 2013
    She’s been waiting for a way out of the dark cloud that’s suffocating her for a year when the perfect opportunity comes.She finds herself settling in a small town based on a feeling of rightness, and as she learns about the people around her they start to fill the holes she didn’t know there were in her heart.Tucker Cody is a quick-witted, playful, and hard-loving twenty-nine year old, but for the past 5 years he’s set that all aside and focused on work as a way to escape. Abandoned by his whole family in one way or another, he’s kept people at a distance ever since. Until one girl.Will they find a way to heal each other and move on from their pasts? Or will their pasts find a way to hold onto them?The One Place is the first book in The One Series.Warning: Some explicit language and sexual content.

Legal Seduction


Sharon C. Cooper - 2014
    Yet around her new client's guardian, she loses all composure. Atlanta club owner Nash Dupree is an infamous playboy who could compromise Iris's heart as well as her case. For once, she feels like a curvy goddess instead of a straitlaced lawyer—even if the evidence suggests what he's looking for is strictly short-term. No matter what the tabloids claim, Nash has made his teenage niece his first priority, and without Iris's help he'll lose guardianship. What began as seduction, a sweet thrill, has turned into something more—now he wants Iris forever. But proving his intentions means winning her trust before his reputation drives away the only woman who has ever captivated him, body and soul….

A Touch of Summer


Evie Hunter - 2013
    and serve Bodyguard Flynn Grant has problems keeping his hands of his latest client - wayward airline heiress Summer O'Sullivan. She's already tried to seduce him, but he doesn't mix business with pleasure. After spending a week with her in a remote Scottish safe house, Flynn is in danger of changing his mind. He's already chopped enough wood for several winters and he badly needs to let off some steam before the sizzling sexual chemistry between them catches fire. An injured team-mate provides the solution. Flynn and Summer are invited to attend some very special highland games. Just how much trouble can Summer get into, surrounded by the most elite operatives in the body-guarding world? Flynn is about to find out, when they embark on a highland fling