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She's Having a Baby
Suzanne Jenkins - 2019
During a graduation party, Mike and Aisling were beachcombing for treasure. “So who is this Saint Dwynwen?” he asked, looking up from the medal they'd found in the sand.Her eyes glistened in the moonlight, taking Mike’s breath away. “She’s the saint of lovers,” Aisling whispered.The worst fire season in California history would ultimately test their love.
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A Matter of Trust
Kat Faitour - 2015
But did she also steal his fortune? British financier Bennett Sterling steers his world with iron control and cold determination. Burned by a lover long ago, he guards his heart and business with wary resolve. Devon Sinclair is a brilliant economist, poised for sure success. Intent on making her own way, she tells no one of her complicated past and grifter family. Passions explode when Devon meets Bennett and neither can deny their fiery attraction. But when corporate accounts are stolen, the evidence points to her and the stakes climb higher. Will Bennett see beyond the lies to trust the woman he loves? Or will Devon condemn them both by doubting his loyalty? In the powerful world of London finance, it turns out trust is the most valuable commodity of all.
Finding You
Leah Busboom - 2020
One caring and nurturing small town.Will Hailey and Quinn find their happily ever after in Connor’s Grove?Hailey Summerville is in debt up to her eyeballs, unemployed, and homeless. She’s looking for a fresh start in tiny Connor’s Grove and maybe a romance she’s never had time for before.Quinn Connor fled back to his hometown, injured in a car accident and disillusioned with big-city corporate law. His fiancée broke up with him, making him swear off women forever.Through simple acts of kindness, the quirky people of Connor’s Grove show Hailey and Quinn what it means to belong in a community where people care about each other, know everyone’s business and believe in matchmaking. Theirs is a story about finding love and a new purpose in life.Book 1 in the new Connor Brothers series. You can enjoy it as a stand-alone novel, but you’ll want to find out what happens next in this series of small-town, clean and wholesome romances.
When the Stars Align
Isabel Jolie - 2019
I can’t stand the place. But when an offer to move to NYC includes a fast track to partner at a well-respected law firm, there’s no way I can decline. My move to the city goes exactly according to plan, everything falling perfectly into place…until the elevator door in my new apartment building opens, and I come face to face with my past. Four years ago we parted ways, neither of us willing to change our future career plans. We were too stubborn, too ambitious, and refused to make sacrifices. To add salt to the wound, she ended the year dating my roommate. But right now, staring at her beautiful face after all this time, I can still feel it. The attraction, the desire—it’s palpable. Four years ago, I wanted forever with Anna. Now, I’m a different man. A relationship isn’t in the cards. She threw that chance away. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun…right?
Finding Love in Florence
Shanna Delaney - 2019
She's going to study all the sculptures in Florence… as soon as she stops getting distracted by the sculpted jaw of her hosts' son.Edo has come home after six years, summoned to take the reins of the family's bed & breakfast—a fate he's dreaded most of his life. He's not even home a day before his mother is pushing him to play tour guide for their current guest, a pretty girl who seems different from the tourists Edo remembers.As Samantha lets Florence open her heart, Edo lets her open his eyes to the city and home he'd forgotten how to love—but Samantha only has ten days in the country; will that be enough for them to build a future on?
The Southern Billionaire Romance Series Collection
Michelle Pennington - 2018
These are complete stories, not samples. The Trouble with Billionaires Charlotte has just moved to the perfect small town to build a new life with her son, Taylor. She wants him to grow up to be a better man than his father, whose rich lifestyle brought her nothing but pain during their marriage. When Taylor's handsome new t-ball coach, Nate Haverton, turns out to be a billionaire, she knows she has to keep him at a distance. But Nate is determined to change her mind. The Truth about Billionaires Jill is determined to prove she deserves her position at her father’s consulting firm, so the last thing she has time for is dating. Since her only experience with love ended in heartbreak, she isn’t tempted to break her own rule—until she meets Blake McDaniel. When she’s asked to take a job working with Blake, it’s a great step in her career, but the more time she spends around the attractive, determined billionaire, the harder it is to remember why she wants to stay single. The Trust of a Billionaire Hannah is determined to keep her beachfront property, even though she can’t afford to. But it’s her childhood home and she can’t bear to see it plowed down by Carter Ellis, the billionaire investor who keeps raising his offer to buy it. When Carter hires her to be his daughter’s nanny—providing her the income she needs to reject his offer—the irony is not lost on her. However, seeing him as a loving, worried father makes it difficult to enjoy her secret revenge—and even more impossible not to fall for him. A Tree for the Billionaire Getting hired as the personal assistant to the intelligent and attractive billionaire Christopher Warren seemed like a fairytale come true for Kate Ryan, but two years later, she hands in her two-weeks notice just before Christmas. How can she keep working for him day after day when she's in love with him? Not even the most beautiful and fascinating women in the world hold his interest, so there’s clearly no chance for her. Unfortunately, Mr. Warren seems determined to change her mind.
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Xyla Turner - 2015
She is trying to make moves and figure out her life while raising her brother. Ryan is a police officer in Harlem and while on a case, he notices D'asia and couldn't really get her out of his system. After D'asia's brother is arrested by none other than Officer Ryan McFadden, D'asia finds that the Harlem cop is more than meets the eye. But it's against the unspoken rules: The Trap and cops don't mix.
Maybe It's You
Lydia Reeves - 2020
Sam, on the other hand, has built a home, a business and a community in his comfortable small town. When fate (with a little help from a summer rainstorm and a car that’s seen better days) brings the two together, the connection between them is undeniable. But can Ellen settle her restless spirit long enough to find something meaningful? And can Sam break free of past hurts and embrace his future?Maybe.Maybe, for Ellen and Sam, it’s going to be romance. Maybe it’s happy-ever-after. Maybe it’s love.Maybe It’s You.Maybe It’s You is the first book of the Fairfield Novellas series, a four-part romance set in the sleepy, sweet (sometimes sexy!) town of Fairfield, Indiana.
Highland Song
L.B. Keen - 2017
Yet, nothing can compare to finding herself in an entirely different time period thanks to a wily experiment gone wrong. Along with her sister, she finds herself under the reluctant care of Laird MacIver, whose silent penetrating gaze causes emotions to rise that she had thought long buried after her divorce from her husband. Gavin MacIver had no intention of letting his heart get captured by anyone. Let alone some odd lass, who can't keep her story straight on how and why she was found on Aberdeen land. Yet, her calming spirit and lovely eyes draw him like a moth to a flame. Still, he won't allow the weakness of his heart to bring harm to his clan like his father did. Two people cast together by time and accident. A darkness that neither expected shall come to test the love the two wish to ignore. Will they give into the passion that's boiling under the surface? Or will they allow the betrayals of the past to keep their hearts from singing the Highland's Song?
Jax's Holiday: An Interracial Romance
Renee Lindemann - 2017
As the creator of the program, she wears multiple hats to provide her patients with top notch care at the end of life. There is zero time for love or dating. Jax Pierce is the devastatingly handsome son of terminally ill Emma Pierce. He visits his, Me-Me everyday, much to the delight of the female facility staff members. He is polite, gentle, and brooding. His dark blue eyes conceal a painful past but that pales in comparison to losing his beloved Me-Me. Emma Pierce is dying. The cancer is robbing her body but her brain remains sharp. She can see the attraction between her nurse, Holiday and her son, Jax. She wants nothing more than to have the unlikely duo confront their fledgling feelings before she takes her last breath. Jax arrived late into her life but he is a most treasured son. She won’t be around to help him fight the demons. However, Holiday’s strength and love could help her son process his grief while keeping the demons at bay. Can Holiday remain professional in spite of her growing need and desire for Jax? Can Jax grieve for his mother and allow his feelings for Holiday to blossom into something wonderful? Will the demons allow him the love of a good woman? Or will moral obligations and a haunted past ruin their chances at love?
Changing Brides
V.C. Taylor - 2017
Everything is either right or wrong in his view, so it’s no surprise that he reprimands his younger brother for fighting over one of the saloon ladies. He is incensed that his sibling would do something so stupid—until he sees the beautiful Celeste Lebeau for himself. He’s instantly smitten with dislike tempered with a lot of lust. He wants her out of town and fast. Most of all, he wants to make sure she stays away from his brother. His jealousy makes no sense, especially since he’s an engaged man, but he feels what he feels and soon becomes involved with the woman bold enough to challenge him in front of the whole town. How in the world is he going to get his life back on track when he’s promised to one woman but falling fast and hard for another?
The Connector
Aubrey Parker - 2016
Fortunately, it can buy everything else. A week ago, I didn’t know who Nathan Turner was. That’s because he doesn’t own deals; he makes them instead. He’s the man behind the curtain — more powerful even than the man in front of it. He’s a multi-billion-dollar networker. A connector, in his own words. Nathan’s job is to pull strings. And when I butted my way into his office, he told me he planned to pull my strings, too. I thought I could make my own deal with Nathan, but now I’m in over my head. What he’s connecting now isn’t a takeover or a buyout. I think he’s forming a secret society instead: a Syndicate of billionaires who want to pool their assets into a trillion-dollar pool, then rule the world. I’m not up to this. I’m just an 18-year-old girl. But there’s no way Nathan will let me out now. The Connector is the first book in the Trillionaire Boys’ Club series by Aubrey Parker. Each book tells the story of another of the Club’s powerful members … and you’re going to want to collect them all.
Falling for the Foe
Milla Holt - 2019
Now, they have to work together.
Nia has devoted her career to fighting for life-saving medicines for Ugandans with HIV. But when first-line treatments begin to fail, she must find a pharma company willing to supply her clinics with affordable medicines before patients start to die.Too bad her firebrand activism just led her into a highly-visible online clash with the head of the pharma company that owns a new and powerful anti-HIV drug.Magnus is poised to market a game-changing treatment for HIV, but an avalanche of bad PR threatens to destroy his company's reputation and kill his bottom line. When he travels to Uganda in a bid to boost his social justice credentials, he's not expecting to feel such a deep attraction to the woman whose viral blog post led to all his troubles.To get what they want, their only solution is to work together. He's out to rescue his business, and she's trying to save lives. Neither ever dreamed it would be their hearts on the line.
Dipping Into Sin
D.J. Parker - 2015
Although he was engaged to marry another woman, he couldn't fathom the idea of letting her go. Immediately drawn to her, Andriano's world is turned upside down, and suddenly his obligations become a blurry vision the moment he starts to fall for her. She was only supposed to be a temporary sexual fling, which was guaranteed to end after he grew bored. But he never got bored... Simone worked hard to earn a full scholarship to attend the prestigious university in New York City in order to escape the life she had. Despite the many warnings to stray clear of the sexy Andriano Balducci, Simone took a chance and found love. As things unravel, and pieces of the puzzle come together, Simone realizes that she doesn't know just whom she fell in love with.
Becoming Me
Staci Stallings - 2018
Just ask her. She’ll tell you. After all, he is her sister’s best friend, “royalty” in her high school, a senior, and so talented he would never notice a nobody like her. So Paige resorts to pouring her non-existent feelings for Nelson into a very special notebook, a notebook of the words that cascade through her without her knowing how or where they come from. She’s always been like that, writing words that are poetic, ephemeral, and too precious to share with anyone else. But what happens when she loses the notebook that contains the words that are such a part of her? Worse, when Nelson starts to want to hang out, can she play it cool or will he learn all the secrets she’s been keeping from everyone, even herself? Nelson Samuels knows he’s always been a little weird. For as long as he can remember, he’s done his best to keep just how weird a secret from those closest to him. Yes, they know he writes music. What they don’t know is that he hears music in haunting melodies all the time. Having learned to capture some of them into notes on a page, he struggles to share just enough of his talent without risking anyone knowing all of it. It’s only when Nelson starts to notice his best friend’s younger sister that life is about to dare him to open the deepest secrets he holds about himself to someone else. Will he be brave enough to share the imagination side of him, or will he forever stay trapped in knowing he has this amazing gift but being too afraid to share it with anyone? “Becoming Me” begins The Imagination Series by USA Today Best-Selling Christian author Staci Stallings. This set of stories begins in the very real world and takes the reader on a journey to learn that we all have gifts and talents, and those were placed inside of us by a God Who loves us and wants us to learn to use them—for ourselves, for our friends and family, for the world, and for His Kingdom. Come along on this journey that dares to ask what would happen if we all stopped judging our differences and started celebrating them instead.