Vaughn Shaughnessy. Hot model about to go nuclear, dangerously sexy flirt whose perceptive green eyes promise he’s more than just a pretty face. He’s the kind of walking, talking temptation I should avoid, but that’s impossible because he also happens to be my extremely lickable—I mean likeable—neighbor.He’s turning me into a hot mess.Thing is, I can’t handle more messes in my life. I’m still trying to come to terms with the monumental ones in my past, and getting involved with Vaughn—even for temporary summer fun—is guaranteed to get messy. I don’t dare risk it, but I’m not sure I can resist…

    A research scientist, she lives to search for cures that will save lives. And if she doesn’t have much of a life herself? Well, that’s par for the course for the introvert who prefers the company of dogs to people. Her life is just fine, albeit a little predictable, until it quite literally blows up in her face. Ford Allen is a chameleon. He can be whatever a situation calls for, which makes him great at his work. Charming and outgoing are in his bag of tricks, but deep down, he’s a brooding man of few words who knows things always run smoother when he’s in charge. When Ford ends up protecting Sarina from danger, they both realize she’s not such a wallflower after all. The fireworks between them are all verbal until one night, they explode into a physical connection neither of them have felt before. But if Ford can’t save Sarina from the people hunting her, he’ll lose the only woman he’s ever truly revealed himself to.

     But when her boss, Rafe Garrett, hooks her up with a gorgeous new apartment with a dream kitchen and a handsome chef to give her cooking lessons, it looks like three of them are sorted pretty neatly. Claire’s not sure she can trust it—everything is happening so fast. It’s a big leap from single girl heating up cans of soup and eating takeout to … whatever this is that she’s doing with Mason Brody, celebrity chef and star of Knives Out, the cutthroat cooking show. Mason doesn't want to take her out; he just wants to take her. And Claire’s about to learn that sure, eating out is great—but eating in can be pretty mind-blowing, too. It's the New Year! Time to ring your bell with some hot and hunky resolutions! Join 15 of your favorite romance authors as their stories get off... on the right foot this year. Champagne corks aren't the only things popping!

    Only my baby son keeps me going. Until the sweet assed cake maker moves to town. Now I’m watching Zoe’s every move. Her bakery, her car, the sway of her hips. She’s a suspect and off limits. I’ve got to focus ‘cause she’s the case. I want to spread her legs. But I won't. Because what I want to do to her... is criminal. *** A steamy STANDALONE contemporary full-length romance with no cliffhanger, no cheating, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.***

    Can be read as a stand alone novel or as a companion to The Art of D/s Trilogy.Warning: Contains detailed sexual encounters, BDSM themes, oral, anal, ménage, F/F, breath play and profanity. Not for the closed-minded, prudish, sexually inhibited, easily offended, or fainthearted.Reliable, trustworthy, loyal to a fault - Sawyer is the kind of man other men want to be. But behind the facade of his tough exterior and deadly silence hides a strong, tortured man with dark secrets. Always having been content to be in the shadows, now is the time of his sexual awakening. When Sawyer realizes that there are women who unabashedly want to be dominated and controlled, and that there is a world that embraces such things as domination and submission - everything seems to fall into place. Tired of pretending to be someone he isn't and suppressing his dominant tendencies, he takes the leap into the world of BDSM under the guidance of his friend and mentor, never to look back.But his dark past and heinous actions are hard to forget, and even more difficult to leave behind. Will he be able to move forward and become the man he yearns to be? This is Sawyer's journey into becoming Dominant, Master, Sir.

    Wealth. Respect. The members of the Boardroom share these things—and more—in this new erotic romance series from Lynda Aicher, author of the bestselling Wicked Play books In the Boardroom, exhilarating pleasures happen after-hours. At night, behind the closed doors of the Boardroom, it's members only. Stripped of their inhibitions, Bay Area moguls are free to indulge their most extreme fantasies, and business becomes pleasure. Never in his dirtiest dreams did CEO Trevor James expect to see Danielle Stables on the guest list. There'd always been something unspoken between them—a spark yet to ignite. An inscrutable and defiant player in the firm, Danielle exudes power and secrets. Tonight she is going to surrender. No strings. No judgments. No boundaries. By dawn, the games between them will have only just begun. And don't miss After Hours, the first full-length novel in Lynda Aicher's new Boardroom series, coming January 2018 from Carina Press This book is approximately 10,000 words "The Wicked Play series always offers a quality story centered on hot sex, burgeoning romance, and BDSM." —RT Book Reviews

    But in order for that plan to become a reality, I must do everything my father asks, including marrying a man I barely know. Enter Maxton Colter, a walking contradiction and not the man my father chose for me. He’s infuriatingly arrogant… yet charming. He’s inappropriate… yet intriguing. He’s a playboy… yet focuses all his attention on me. He’s doing everything he can to unravel my goal to one day take over the firm. Question is… will I fall prey to the undeniable chemistry between us and allow him to destroy my dream?

    Spending his days fighting flames in Nashville, TN, his best nights are spent at home with his favorite girl—his daughter, Livie. With no time for distractions, he has no room in his life for other females—not even a sassy blonde-haired beauty and the first woman to spark his interest in years. Ezra doesn’t have the time to get involved. So, he walks away without getting her name, or giving his… HANNA HAS NO INTEREST IN SETTLING DOWN. She can’t even commit to a hair color, an address to call home, or a man. Too busy with her career as a traveling nurse, a relationship is the last thing she needs or wants. So, it’s inconvenient when she falls—literally—for the one person as uninterested in love as she is. At least that’s what she’ll keep telling herself. Will a spark turn into a wildfire, or will their love go down in flames?Burning Love can be read as a standalone, has steamy scenes and an HEA.

    The trauma of the attack has haunted her for years, making it hard to live a “normal” life. Her favorite coping mechanism is to escape into research books and romance novels about medieval Scotland, the subject of her graduate studies, but she pours every moment of her free time into running a support group for survivors of sexual assault. The work is rewarding, but it’s made her enemies—predators who don’t want their victims to receive help. Still troubled by the car accident that claimed his mother’s life, Nate Patterson has devoted his life to saving people. He finds his work as a firefighter and EMT rewarding, but he feels emotionally distant from the people he saves…until he pulls Lauren Grant out of a burning building. There’s an instant connection between them—one that only grows—but the fire was no accident. Someone’s out to destroy Lauren, and he may be the only one who can help her unmask them. Lauren can tell Nate’s her modern-day Highlander, noble and protective, but the danger she’s in seems impossible to surmount. Can two wounded people defeat the odds and find a real-life happily ever after? Trigger Warning: Rape in heroine's past

    Seems like fun right? Yeah, not so much...When my boss asked me to write an article about online dating and more specifically the do’s and don’ts of first dates, I expected it to be a mess. I hadn’t expected it to be a complete and utter disaster, though. How was I to know that I’d be paired up with arrogant, cocky, and too ‘handsome for his own good’, Nolan Montgomery? Nolan had always treated me as his little sister’s annoying best friend and I couldn’t stand his bossy ways. The last thing I needed was him following me around with a video-camera and lecturing me on all the things I was doing wrong. I certainly didn’t need him showing me how I could improve; even if his lips and hands were recurring images in my dreams. He may have been my first kiss, but there was no way I was going to let him get his hands on me again.

    He had everything - dominance, thirst, power, control... It was perfect! Except... That he left me scarred, damaged, flawed (and pregnant). I meet him today, only to discover that he's gotten HOTTER with the years. And that big, rugged body? That's made for sin. Those icy blue eyes scorch me with feelings so intense that make me want to forget my imperfect past. Suddenly, getting lost in the mountains seems like the most beautiful thing ever. And when we play the game of truth or dare, I choose dare. And guess what? He dares me not to fall for him again! Just that he doesn't know my deepest, darkest secret. A secret that could destroy both of us - forever!

    Suddenly her once-promising future doesn’t look so bright. Caroline tries to make the pictures disappear, hoping time will bury her shame. Then a guy she barely knows rises to her defense and punches her ex to the ground.West Leavitt is the last person Caroline needs in her life. Everyone knows he’s shady. Still, Caroline is drawn to his confidence and swagger—even after promising her dad she’ll keep her distance. On late, sleepless nights, Caroline starts wandering into the bakery where West works.They hang out, they talk, they listen. Though Caroline and West tell each other they’re “just friends,” their feelings intensify until it becomes impossible to pretend. The more complicated her relationship with West gets, the harder Caroline has to struggle to discover what she wants for herself—and the easier it becomes to find the courage she needs to fight back against the people who would judge her.When all seems lost, sometimes the only place to go is deeper.

    The place I had dreamed of building a life, until it all fell apart. Too many bad dates to count. A broken engagement. A job I don’t love.And how do I celebrate? Being stood up by a blind date. And then he showed up. The hot stranger that rescued my night. I’d take his pity, and so much more. Declan Erikson is all that’s on my mind, but everything I don’t need. Tall, dark, handsome and rich with a heart of gold. I thought I had made up my mind, But I’m finding it growing harder to make the right decision. Especially, when he’s promised to give it all to me. One Last Time is a standalone billionaire romance and is Book 4 of The Ironwood Billionaire Series.

    They're right.I like my sex dirty. It takes a hell of a lot to tilt my moral compass, and I always follow when it's pointing at something I want. That goes double when it points straight at the one girl in all of Chicago who's not dying for a piece of me.She's all I can think about, and that's a problem, because she wants nothing to do with me. But I've seen her deepest secrets, her darkest fantasies, and they match mine to a fucking T.I want her. Bad.Now I need to show her how good it can feel...to be shameless.

    . . Boy and girl are childhood best friends. Boy moves away and devastates girl. Years later, two strangers meet on the internet and one of them has a secret.Or two. When Ally Honeycutt rushes home to her small town of Pickerton Grove she never expected to find her once best friend working at his family’s business. No longer the small little boy she once chased lightning bugs with, Drew Collins would give any sinful rock star a run for his money. With soulful dark brown eyes and hair that slips easily through her fingers, she’s less worried about what he keeps trying to tell her and more interested in the way his lips feel on hers. Drew Collins has made a lot of mistakes in his life, the last one landing him behind bars. He never dreamed a single dare would find him back in contact with the first girl he ever loved. Ally Honeycutt is everything good in the world, and his mistakes make him the bad boy every fictional girl dreams of. Now if he could only stop falling in love long enough to tell her the secrets that could ruin it all. They say you can’t go home again but what happens when home is in the heart of your best friend?