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Chances & Choices
Helen Karol - 2013
to her new job as senior feature writer at Choices L.A., but most of all to the security and comfort of her best friend Julian West. To her, he’s the nice guy she can turn to for advice and comfort – the uncomplicated friend she can count on. Only he no longer feels that way. For months before she went to New York, he fooled her, playing the platonic friend when in fact he wants nothing more than to take her as his lover – and more, much more. But he can’t do that – he can’t let those emotions overtake him – not again. But on her first night home he blows his cover. And suddenly Claire sees him in a whole new light.
Trinity
Elizabeth Nelson - 2013
Even after a one-night-stand with her sexy boss, she resists his attempts to further their personal and business relationship.Billionaire CEO Laszlo Csatary is used to getting what he wants - and he wants the future with Trinity that she keeps denying him. When Trinity reveals she's pregnant with his child, and a dangerous threat targets her and the baby, Laszlo discovers just how far he's willing to go to protect the future and family he can't live without.
Jake
Rian Kelley - 2013
Red-Hot and Ready!Ivy has been too good for too long,so when wickedly hot, but by-the-bookMarine Lieutenant Jake findsher stranded on the side of theroad, she decides giving into temptationis exactly what she needs.But will they burn as brightly outsidethe bedroom?
Reckless
Saskia Walker - 2008
When she subsequently finds herself at the center of a struggle for power and dominance between two brothers, she welcomes the darkly erotic charge the situation brings.Katrina's job is to value a collection of art objects for auction in the Catalonia villa of the Teodoro family, where Sergio Teodoro rules. Sergio is a dominant master who compels her attention. Nicolas, his younger brother - a disinherited artisan - also seeks her out. One brother will win her heart, but danger awaits Katrina in the shadows of the Teodoro villa. As she uncovers the subterfuge surrounding the collection, she finds that there is more to Nicolas and Sergio’s battle than meets the eye, and more to her growing allegiances than may be good for her.
Hot Mess
Emily Goodwin - 2017
Forget about dating--nobody's got time for that. Even if love hadn't left me jaded, I'm not settling for anything less than perfect this time around.Lucky for me, the perfect man just happens to work in my office. But there's just one small problem: he's my boss, and is totally off limits. But hey, if it's meant to be, it'll find a way, right?Then a night out with friends turns into a night in with the walking-talking bad boy cliche of a bartender. It's just one night. No harm, no foul, right?Except when the hot bartender turns out to be my boss's trouble-making brother, who wants more than just one night with me. The more I resist the spark between us, the more I find myself wanting him too. Which puts me in the middle of what could be the biggest sibling rivalry of the century.Life is messy.And love?Well, love is even messier.
Unlovable
Cynthia St. Aubin - 2014
It isn’t every day a sexy demigod throws a pissed-off Cupid onto psychologist Matilda Schmidt’s couch and informs her the fate of the world depends on her ability to get him off his diapered ass and back to helping people fall in love.Just when Matilda convinces herself she’s not hallucinating, in walks a Vegas hit man with a big gun and a bigger threat: pay back the million dollars she owes a notorious casino mogul, or wind up as fish food in Lake Mead.Rocketing across country with a gun to her head, Matilda has a dysfunctional love-god in her laptop bag, a million dollar debt she has no knowledge of, and must convince the seductive hit man he’s snatched the wrong woman before he convinces her he might be the right man—for a night.Can Matilda stay alive long enough to keep love from becoming history?
Billionaire's Apprentice (Billionaire Romantic Thriller, #1)
Chase Carroway - 2013
On the day Tori Winters arrives at the estate of the world's richest man, she is a struggling young woman just trying to pay for her final semester at school. Her car barely makes it up the driveway, her credit cards are beyond maxed out, and she's wearing her best pair of flats, straight off of Payless's discount rack. From the moment Miss Chen looks down on Tori, the red soles of her unmistakable Christian Louboutin shoes peeking over the edges of the mansion's marble staircase, it's clear she isn't impressed. But a mysterious phone call instructs Miss Chen to hire Tori on the spot, an event that will change this young woman's life immeasurably. Readers are in for a wild ride with Billionaire's Apprentice, the first in a series of romantic thrillers featuring the dashing and mysterious Dorian Atticus. Filled with intrigue, suspense, and wonderful descriptions of what life can truly be if you have no limits, as long as you are willing to seize the moment when opportunity arrives.