And insta-love? Nah. That's the real trick. Now, if you ask me about insta-lust? Well then… I might say give me a double slice of that with a whipped cream topping.He's that kind of crazy gorgeous. Deep brown eyes, muscles for days and long thick…everything.When the tall, bearded and broad-shouldered Marine walks into my diner Halloween night I stay firm to my no-man rules, but he's armed with a sweet treat kind of offer—one weekend, no strings, and pumpkin pie.It's hard to say no to the beast of a man now that the nights are getting cooler and the fireplace beckons.And the worst thing? His wicked tongue knows how to get me to agree to just about anything.But a forever? It has to be a trick, but he's promising me only sweet, autumn nights as long as he can have all the Kandy he can eat.Author's naughty note: Pumpkin pie, fireplace snuggles and all the whipped cream you can handle await you inside. He's the Marine and she's the sweet virgin treat welcoming him home. As always with a Penelope Wylde book, you'll get the filthy, naughty bits you crave with the perfect happily ever after you love.The leaves are falling from the trees, the nights are growing darker — and love is in the chilly autumn air! Join thirteen authors for Hunky Halloween, a sexy-spooky contemporary romance series. Get ready for magical meet-cutes, costumed crushes, and all the over-the-top love you can handle because these stories are bringing the Halloween heat!

    I couldn't help but look, stare even. How could I not? He looked like he knew his way around the female body and I was aching to find out exactly how much he knew. Landon- If she keeps looking at me like that I'll have her in every room, every way, all night AND all day. I'll show her my world of pleasure and dominance. I'll make her feel things she never thought possible. I'll make her scream so loud the neighbors will know my name. Well, they already do. I was the former town playboy after all. If you like your heroines smart and sexy and your heroes gorgeous, growly and delicious, then this is JUST for you. Halloween with the Hunk is packed full of all the kinky, smutty, dirty fun you're used to with safe BDSM themes and enough steamy, juicy, O’s to melt your panties. Of course, this is a complete story with a sweet HEA, no cheating, and no cliffhangers. And is just the first book in my new holiday series, “Holiday Studs”.

    She has a wonderful son and a business she loves. Though challenged to make ends meet, she’s come a long way from the tough times she endured as a teenage mom. With the busy Christmas season ahead, things are looking up, until Scrooge himself arrives intent on putting a huge resort next to her inn—a resort destined to put her out of business. Wealthy business developer Rob McKenna is coming back home to the tiny town of Pinetop, Colorado to tie up loose ends. After the death of his mother, he’s inherited her Victorian home, her dog, and hundreds of acres of land he plans to develop into a resort and sell. It all seems so simple until he runs into Celia Roberts. In high school, she was the “it” girl, and he was nobody. She dated the bully, and he was the target. Now he’s back, and she’s single, and as beautiful as ever. However, she’s the only thing standing between him and his plan to get in, get rich, and get out of town. He wants to move the small town into the future. She wants to preserve the past. Can the magic of Christmas leave them both with full hearts and bright futures or will one of them end up with nothing under the tree?

     Join the authors of Flirt Club with The Fireworks Series of stories that celebrate summertime, bbqs, and all things that end with a bang! Where will you be when the fireworks go off? #flirtclub #fireworksseries #bighotbang He's too hot to handle... almost. Poppy Blaze After discovering my almost-fiancé had not one, but two "other women" with engagement rings on their fingers, I have decided to give the whole romance thing a break and spend the summer with my granny. Getting back in touch with my childhood summers full of small-town memories—bonfires at the lake, ice cream on Mainstreet, and of course, the biggest fireworks show in the state—sounds like the perfect way to disconnect and reset. That is, until I meet Roman Chandler, one of the newest residents of this tiny town who is about as hot in his uniform as his name suggests. Too bad I've sworn off anything with a wick, right? #ohboy #holdmeback #toohottohandle

    If you love dirty-talking protective alphas, curvy heroines, and guaranteed happily ever afters, this series is for you!xo,Kate

    It’s why I don’t date. I don’t need complications. When Zoe crashes her car, she needs help. She’s quirky, independent, hot as sin, and wants to be friends. For the first time in my life, I want more, but when I realize she’s my neighbor...well, that’s one hell of a complication! ZOE CURTISJaxon Parker is huge, he’s hot, and he’s out of my league. His nickname is the Beast and with his fame and talent, he could easily be an a$$hole. Except he isn’t. He’s helpful, kind, fun, and wants to be more than just friends, but I can’t get involved with a man who can leave anytime. When he asks me to be his date for a work function, a Halloween Ball, I can’t refuse the favor. One week in a lakeside resort with my friend will be fun, and nothing has to change. After all, he’s booked two separate rooms, how hard can it be? This October, twenty-four of your favorite contemporary romance authors are bringing you a month filled with sexy-spooky Halloween steam. Get ready for over-the-top love stories sure to set your spine — and other parts *wink* — tingling. Brew some cider, grab your favorite blanket, and snuggle up with these hot shorts. The Halloween Steam series is sure keep you warm and cozy all autumn long.

    He was a marine and now he is a widow who keeps the town safe with his security business--and his heart safe by locking out any chance of romance.Hanna Potter scares him good, though. From the day he meets her, he is afraid of what she makes him feel. Afraid of the wicked things she makes him want. And terrified his broken heart will scare her away.This October, twenty-four of your favorite contemporary romance authors are bringing you a month filled with sexy-spooky Halloween steam. Get ready for over-the-top love stories sure to set your spine — and other parts *wink* — tingling. Brew some cider, grab your favorite blanket, and snuggle up with these hot shorts. The Halloween Steam series is sure keep you warm and cozy all autumn long.

    He’s not the forever kind of guy. All he needs is his work and his lifelong friends, who are more family than anything after all these years.But when his buddy double dog dares him to hit on Gratitude Peaks' new Science teacher on Halloween night, Law gets hit with a titanic-sized curveball that cracks his exterior. One look is all it takes for him to start melting, losing his heart faster than you can say ‘Beam me up, Scotty.’Law isn’t a man to shy away from something he wants. Marigold Jimenez has him melting fast and furious, and he’s ready for a forever with her. Nothing is going to hold him back from doing everything he can to claim Mari as his own.All he needs is one chance. And Law is ready to lay it on thick. Anything to butter Mari up into giving him a chance at forever.The temps are dropping, and the season is changing. Join us for the Friendsgiving Chronicles as this group of life-long friends fall in love. Guaranteed to be jam packed with autumn vibes, HEAs, smoking-hot, dirty-talkin’ men and the sassy women they lose their hearts to. What a great time to be grateful, thankful & blessed!

    But when that door swung wide, I never expected the sinfully sexy flower that was hiding behind it. I met her on a day I thought I’d want to forget, but she changed everything. The moment our eyes connected, my heart knew it was the beginning of something unexpected. But something I’d been waiting for, just the same. It’s not the best timing, and she thinks I’m using her as a distraction from my grim reality, but she couldn’t be more wrong. The only thing I want is her, and I’ll do anything to make sure that happens. There’s no chance I’ll let her go. Not now. She needs to accept that this is the beginning of a blossoming love story. Our story. Roses are redViolets are blueFlirt Club has a sexy new collaboration just for you! Join twelve of the Flirt Club authors in this hot and steamy spring collection where our May Flowers bloom faster than a hothouse rose under the touch of our sexy heroes.

    I’ve got a secret Halloween suitor, courting me from afar with letters and poetry and the perfect gifts, and warming me from the inside out in all the ways I've been craving.I’ve got a choice to make — the sweet guy I never thought I wanted anything more than friendship with, or the mystery man that’s filling my autumn days with magic.But what if I choose wrong?Her Spooky Secret Suitor is an over-the-top second chance contemporary small town romance that’s pumpkin-spiced with the magic of the Halloween season. Come for the cozy signs of fall, stay for the adorable, steamy love story.

    I know, I know, they’re not real! But it doesn’t stop the whole, what if scenario from rolling around in my head. I mean, what if the zombie apocalypse actually happened?That’s why, when I’m invited to an exclusive party in a creepy castle for Halloween, I end up losing my ever-loving mind. Because it’s not just any old Halloween party I’m invited to, it’s a Zombie-themed party—a trick played on me by comedian of a brother. Yeah...not funny.Desperate to get out there, I do the only thing I can think to do in that situation, I hyperventilate and cry. Normally, this would be hideously embarrassing, but when fellow zombie hater, Devlon Cross, comes to my aid, it might just turn out to be the best Halloween party yet...

    It didn't take long for me to realize giving up Noelle was the worst mistake I'd ever made. When I find out my parents are about to lose their Christmas tree farm, I know I have to go home and help. I haven't been back since the day I said goodbye to everything I knew and I'm not sure everyone in my little hometown will be happy to see me. Especially not Noelle. This Christmas, I may come back to save my family's farm, but I'm not leaving without making Noelle my bride. She might think we're ancient history, but I'm going to show her all we need to reignite our love is a little magic under the mistletoe.

    Like, glass shards on top of sandpaper rough. She managed to get out of an abusive relationship only to have her ex kidnap their 4-year-old son just days before the custody hearing. Lily has become so difficult to be around that her best friend, Alexa, has finally given up hope and abandoned her in Shorty’s Pub.Gerrit Rousseau is an oasis of calm in a stormy world, downplaying his smoldering good looks as he tends bar and keeps his head down. His emotions are not easily stirred, but the brazen, tattooed Lily is lighting a fire. There’s something about her, something beyond her looks, that gets his blood pumping to all the right places.Sexual fireworks are inevitable with these two, especially during Mardi Gras—but things in New Orleans are never as simple as they seem. When a man turns up dead and Lily admits to Gerrit that she was directly involved, all hell breaks loose in the Crescent City. Gerrit is compelled to get to the bottom of the twin mysteries of the death and the missing child, but first he must figure out where the mysterious Dani Weeks and her son Riley fit in.

    Join the authors of Flirt Club in The Fireworks Series of stories that celebrate summertime, BBQs, and all things that end with a bang! Where will you be when the fireworks go off? Serena Nothing like being the only one standing at the altar to make you want to move somewhere new and start all over. That also means no more men - I'm going to be all business, all the time. The perfect opportunity comes to me via a friend - I love my Spar Island girls - and I end up going for a dream and buying my own bakery in Milltown, Colorado, just in time for the town's big fireworks celebration. And everything is great until he walks in. Nate I thought the fireworks show and the various fires were the hottest things I had to deal with after coming home to Milltown. That is until I met Serena, who just bought the bakery that's right down the street from the firehouse where I'm working. Calling her a distraction is an understatement. And her buttercream frosting isn't the only thing that melts in my mouth. It won't take much to light this fuse. #flirtclub #fireworksseries #Bighotbang #toohottohandle #HEA

    And he’s never wanted anything as much as he wants Silver.When she shows up at the bar in a shamelessly short costume on Halloween night, he can barely remember his name. Now they’re accidentally trapped, completely alone, and Cole finally makes his move. He is making Silver his, forever.But secrets linger in the shadows that threaten to tear them apart for good.