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.

    Fate, however, seems to be summoning him to the jury pool for entirely different reasons when a fellow juror half his age buddies up to him and refuses to leave him alone.Nobody has ever stuck up for Wren before, who's been on her own since she was a teen. When the grouchy rancher, Sam, acts on his protective instincts on her behalf, Wren is sure beyond a reasonable doubt that he's meant to be hers for life.Intended for adults ages 18 and up due to graphic sexual content.Also contains:One grouchy rancherOne vegan pixie sirenAge gapForced proximityJengaHEANO cheatingNO cliffhangers

    Beautiful. Smart. Curves to die for.Just one look at those banging curves makes me crave her with raging lust. Now, I’ll just have to convince her. Oh, and believe me, I will. I always get what the F@ck I want. Yep. I’m used to coming out on top. What I didn’t count on? I just can’t get enough. She sends my animal instincts into a frenzy. She is my new obsession, my addiction.I took her body. But one moment can change everything. One moment and she steals my heart.

    I might be a Prince, but I’m not the Royal Wedding type. Not until some grad student finds a centuries-old Treaty. Now I’ve got two weeks to find a virgin wife! The clock is ticking. I’m about to lose my fortune, my titles, my kingdom, my everything. And I don’t even care. There’s only one thing on my mind: Amanda Sparks. Sweet, innocent, pure. And the girl I’m about to make my wife. She just doesn’t know it yet. Her father’s business is about to go bankrupt, but I can save it. $25 million dollars, tax free. All I ask for is a year. And a night to be her first… His Sword is a standalone romance with extra steamy bonus content included! Holly Hart always gives you a Happy Ever After, she hates cheating with a passion, and cliffhangers just as much as you do!

    Insta-love meets insta-disaster in these laugh-out-loud Valentine’s day novellas.Animal Attraction - By Evie AlexanderOverworked, underpaid, and perpetually single, Laurie is stuck in a rut. A birthday on Valentine’s day is bad enough, but when her insensitive colleagues drag her to a secret Safari dining experience, her day hits rock bottom - she’s terrified of animals.Workaholic Ben has just swapped the States for Somerset. He’s on track to fulfil a childhood dream, and the only date he wants on Valentine’s day is a business one. But when his fantasy woman approaches with an offer he can’t refuse, his priorities start to change.Laurie and Ben have an instant connection and their chemistry is wild. Unfortunately so are the animals. When the menagerie goes into meltdown they’re thrown into a Darwinian Hunger Games, fighting for their lives as well as love. Can Businessman Ben unleash his inner Tarzan and save Laurie? Or has this survival of the fittest reached the point of no return?Stupid Cupid - by Kelly KayResourceful Sabrina always puts others' needs first. She never thought she’d be abandoning a blind date to run off with a stranger. But now she’s got the chance to face her demons and choose happiness – even if it’s just for one night.Charmer Patrick can make any situation work in his favor. But snark and humor won’t be enough to win Sabrina’s heart. He’s got to dig deep, open up, and take on fate as well as New York City.Armed with a fire extinguisher, a cobbler’s hammer, and an EpiPen, can Patrick and Sabrina survive the worst-best date of their lives and find true love? Or will they lose each other as well as the plot?Perfect for fans of Kayley Loring, Tara Sivec, Lyssa K Adams, Talia Hibbert, Annika Martin, Vi Keeland, Lucy Score, Pippa Grant and Heather M. Orgeron.COMING UP IN 2022:Cookout Carnage, featuring 'Up in Smoke' & 'Off with a Bang'Cute farm boy Jonathan clings to a love ideal, blissfully ignoring what the universe has planned, while keeping track of a pig... Posh Brit Tristan follows his heart into the American Midwest in search of the bottom half of his digital dream love.Christmas Chaos, featuring 'No Way in a Manger' & 'No Crib and No Bed'From Highland and Hollywood Games; Zoe and Rory attempt to have a civilized and respectable rite of passage. But straightforward is not their style. From Over The Bus & Under The Bus; Bax and Tabi attempt to throw a meaningful Christmas celebration. But there are too many people involved and it’s nothing like they expect.

    Last-Name-Unknown—and his dig at my job as a social media influencer.But forgetting his words, or more importantly, the attraction we shared pre-insult seems nearly impossible. Especially when I end up stuck in an elevator with him in NYC. And he's infuriatingly gorgeous—wearing a suit that looks like it was made specifically for him. It probably was.Sparks definitely fly—only it isn’t just anger. The attraction we felt in Sin City still sizzles between us. And his abs of steel and killer smile are definitely affecting my lady parts.I probably shouldn’t forgive him. Besides, I’m leaving in a few days… Yet, the silver-tongued lawyer manages to work his way back into my good graces…and into my bed.So, can what happened in Vegas lead to forever in New York?

    Keeping his Tiger a secret was no longer an option. Every day was a struggle for Tiger Shifter, Devlin Kerr. Booted from one Police Department due to his ‘questionable attitude,’ he’d landed in Sylvan City determined to give the career another go. What was an Alpha to do? Three weeks of even more bull and inside politics was already souring him on law enforcement all together when his Captain suckers him into working extra security at a society event. A society event that ends in gunfire and blood. And smack dab in the middle of the crosshairs? His mate. Secrets be damned, Devlin did what it took to save her and suddenly danger is coming at them from everywhere. Death, he could handle. Mayhem? Sure, just another walk in the park. People going after his mate? That wasn’t going to fly. He was going to do whatever it took to keep her safe from danger… …but who was going to keep Paige Lundin safe from him? Less than a day after they’d met, she was The Tiger’s Innocent Bride. *This is Book 1 of the Sylvan City Alphas Series. As the series goes on you'll meet Alphas of a number of different species who will find their mates amongst the citizens of this city, complete with lush woods and fields as well as a concrete jungle. These hard-edged heroes and their lusciously-curvy mates are turning this island into a shifter paradise filled with Happy Ever Afters. *

    No cheating and a satisfying happily ever after! This is a full-length novel, about 250 pages, with one additional full-length story and one sample.

    I never wanted to return to Newburgh. This place never felt like home. But now, looking at Casey? I’m feeling ready to settle down wherever she is. She’s already got me obsessed, but the red hot curvy goddess is as cold as ice. She tells me she doesn’t date, and I can see she means it. Good. That means she’ll be mine to break and mine to claim, forever and for always. Casey Smith Henry isn’t the kind of guy you usually find around town, despite his name. He’s a beast of a man. With arms covered in tattoos, he sticks out like a sore thumb. And he says he wants me, and he doesn't care how far he has to chase me. He’ll have a hell of a sprint then. I have my rules. I don’t date. Ever. So why do I want to give in to his bad-boy charms? I should be running for the hills. Because I’m afraid if he catches me, he’ll never let go. Breaking Her Curves is a sweet, steamy, short romance standalone, with just a little hint of something dark! You might want to have some privacy for this one! This dominant, tattooed, totally obsessed alpha is lewd, crude, and not just rough around the edges. Overflowing with over-the-top instalove, there are no cliffhangers, no cheating, and a guaranteed happily ever after between an alpha male and the curvaceous woman he simply had to claim.

    The sunshine that warmed me and made me smile. We had one summer. One perfect summer, until the day it ended. Years later, she walked back into my life. Older. Sadder. More beautiful than ever. How can I prove to her that summer was real?How do I make her see that boy that loved her then, still loves her now?How do we get back to the summer when we were us?Amy Briggs - The InheritanceA Port Henry NovellaRiley Maxwell spends her days working from her New York City apartment, designing websites and copywriting for clients around the world. Most of her exposure to people outside of her home base is her visits to the local Chinese takeout place down the street. Satisfied with her life of solitude, Riley’s summer gets turned upside-down when a wealthy client passes away, leaving her a beach house in Port Henry, New York, one of the wealthiest shore towns on the East Coast.When the Great Dane, Scrappy, who—surprise!—she also inherited, gets sick, she takes him to the nearest veterinarian, where she meets Donovan Hunter. A ridiculously good-looking playboy, Donovan immediately gets under Riley’s skin, and she can’t wait to be rid of the house, the dog, and Port Henry. Dr. Hunter, on the other hand, can’t get enough of Riley’s sass and how different she is from the usual summer crowd. As the summer passes and Dr. Hunter runs out of made-up reasons to get Riley and Scrappy back into the office, he cooks up a new plan to catch her attention, setting a plan in motion to get the girl, and the dog. Caisey Quinn - Summer Seduction Emersyn Tyler is having one rough summer. When her mom’s violent temper and recent diagnosis send her dad packing, she’s left to take care of her little brother alone.Forget basking in the sunshine, she’s busy working full-time and taking summer classes at the local college so she can graduate high school. Until her friend drags her to a carnival where she runs smack into him.The blue-eyed Adonis from her art history class. Aiden Singleton isn’t looking for anything more than a meaningless hook-up. Finishing his graduate degree so that he can teach history and coach hockey in the fall, he’s got plenty on his plate without any added complications. But when a blond-haired beauty needs his help, all he can say is yes.Aiden knows he and Emersyn share something special. What he doesn’t know is that they also share a secret, one that could fracture both of their futures forever.Heidi McLaughlin - By The SeasideDr. Danny Weatherly never had planned to take over his dad’s practice but when everything changedafter one awful day, the summer before college, he really didn’t think about much of anything at all — because his life was over. His true love hated him. . . and for good reason. Kelly Taft is moving back to her hometown, Gray, North Carolina. Back to her family, back to her friends — back to some good memories and back to some memories that were not so good. In fact, she’s never gotten over that one horrible day that sent her running in the first place.Danielle Pearl - Love’s a BeachSummer Souls SeriesLiza Farrell is a townie and she has no qualms about it. It’s her quasi-boyfriend who has issues with the “summer people” and at this point she wishes he wasn’t her boyfriend at all.With college looming just a couple of months away, she couldn’t be more eager to begin the next stage of her life. That is, until Noah Reed returns to town, shaking up both her present, and her future.Absent for the past couple of years, Noah has grown into pure perfection. All man now, just his presence makes it clear that Liza’s current situation simply isn’t what she wants. When Liza and Noah reconnect, they have more between them than either could have predicted, but when their pasts rear up in a frightening, violent crash, will they find a future together, or just accept that love is a… beach?Katy Regnery - Single in SitkaA single Dad. A personal ad. What could possibly go wrong?When Seattle journalist, Amanda McKendrick, pitches a new story about the increase of bear attacks in Sitka, her newspaper sends her north for two weeks. While there, she answers the personal ad of single dad, Luke Kingston, looking for a little no-strings-attached fun to pass the time.But the sweet, widowered father of three—who just happens to be a smokin’ hot state trooper—turns out to be a lot more than Amanda bargained for. As the days go by, she wonders if it’ll be possible to return to Seattle without leaving her heart behind.Shari J. Ryan - The Secret at SunsetWhen a girls’ weekend getaway turns into more than Alexa Cale bargained for, she sets off alone on a sunset stroll, seeking a small cove nestled in the ocean’s inlet of Cabos San Lucas. No one warned Alexa that the high tide will swallow the hiking path. Stranded on rocks between the beach and ocean, Alexa finds herself thankful for Lincoln Holt, an attractive survivalist who purposely loses track of the tide’s time.

    Why would I, when every woman in my life, starting with my own mother, always walked out and never looked back. I liked my strict Army life—all I needed after my deployment was a vacation and time with my dad. Then it all changed… One beautiful songwriter. One chance meeting. One last first kiss. One smile. Her smile. That was all it took to captivate me and send my world spinning on its axis. After that, I knew I’d never be the same.

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     These 18 sexy, sweet men will go to the ends of the Earth to win their ladies’ hearts, but will these lovers emerge unbroken? From first kisses to dangerous encounters and second chances at love, we've gathered all 18 wonderful stories in one big box. This heart-pounding collection is filled with confident, sexy, and sweet men you'll fall madly in love with. Click now to get this special box set of best-selling books before it’s gone forever! Milly Taiden -Their Second Chance -Nick lost the woman he loved to the heartbreak of infertility. One locked door will either leave them broken forever or back together. Deanna Roy-Forever Sheltered-A doctor with a secret falls for the unorthodox art therapist at the hospital where he works, sparking a love affair that could destroy both their careers. V. M. Black-Kiss of Memory-Will has spent his adult life locked in a Victorian sanitarium because he suffers from seizures, but a mysterious baroness offers him a bargain he can't refuse. Cora Seton-The Cowgirl Ropes a Billionaire-Bella needs money fast, so she enters the reality show, Can You Beat a Billionaire. If she loses, she’ll have to marry him. Blair Babylon-What A Girl Wants: Rhiannon- Brand-new back-up singer in the rock band Killer Valentine, cannot fall in love with any of the band members. Really. She must not. Really. Zoe York-Beyond Love and Hate-Tall, dark, handsome, and totally infuriating. Beth can't stop thinking about her new colleague. But Finn isn't the guy for her, and they both know it. Olivia Rigal-Ripped-Lyv wants a life far from her dysfunctional family and their diner. What she gets is an absent rock-star baby daddy and one helluva choice to make. Daisy Prescott-Ready to Fall-Falling in love is the last thing on John's mind when Diane, a beautiful brunette with her own messy past, moves next door. Lacey Silks-My First, My Last-Pierced, tattooed and hot as hell, Adrian steps back into Mia's life after 20 years. Mature. More experienced. Intent on reclaiming his first love. Chrystalla Thoma-Azure-On vacation in Greece, Olivia meets sexy and enigmatic Kai, but Kai belongs to the sea, and the sea won’t let him go, unless Olivia breaks the curse before it’s too late. Holly Hood-Wicked Little Sins-The more wicked the sin, the deadlier it can be. Home for the funeral of their mother, four siblings unearth more than they bargained for. Danielle Bourdon-The Royal Elite- Ahsan-Sheikh Ahsan Afshar, an arrogant, seductive rogue, falls for a woman whose deadly secrets could tear them apart. Olivia Hardin-All for Hope-Brennan didn’t want to be the love of Hope's life. He wasn’t the man she needed. But sometimes the safest distance between two hearts is none at all. S.J. Mayer-High Risk Love-Risking it all for the one who could shatter her heart completely? Bad idea. Yet Jasmine can't stay away from Jet any more than he can from her.

    Right. She’s tried it all—fix ups, speed dating, online profiles and even a popular phone app, all with no success. She’s sure her dream man is out there, but she’s done trying to find him herself. She figure's when it’s meant to be; fate will find a way. Ryan Walters is a workaholic who’s not looking for Mrs. Right. He’s not even looking for Mrs. Right Now. Instead, he spends his days focused on what he cares about most— amassing a fortune. Aside from his sister and her children, Ryan has no time for entanglements of any kind. What happens when one confirmed bachelor meets the sweetest girl in the world? Happily ever after, of course!

    That’s not the truth. He left me. But making me out to be the villain sells more magazines. I need to get away from it all. My assistant suggests a small lodge in the Adirondacks. I register under Scarlett O’Hara and we arrive in the dead of night. When I finally venture out of my room days later, I see him across the lodge, and a run-in with the gruff and grumbling bearded mountain man tells me everything I need to know. But soon, he’s changing and I can’t stop my attraction to the burly and surly man. Hollywood is calling me back and I can’t give up on my career--it's my dream. But maybe he’s seducing me with a new dream. Holden Money is the root of not all evil, just most of it. I should know, I was the heir to a fortune, but one night, the one I got this scar on my face, I saw what it could do to people and turned away from it all. I’m minding my own business when Ms. Pretty Princess waltz’s in like she owns my idyllic hideaway lodge. I’m going to teach her that nobody owns me or what I’ve earned by hard work. But soon, I witness a different side of her. She hides it well, but she’s not the diva she pretends to be—it’s just another act in her life. I’ll be damned if I’m letting her walk away from me now that I know what we can be. She’s mine and the seduction isn’t temporary. This is forever. Seduced by the Mountain Man is the second story in the multi-author I'm Yours series from some of your favorite authors. This is a sweet, steamy, short story romance. No cliffhangers and no cheating. If you enjoy reading short romances with steamy sex scenes and a sweet love story, then you'll love this book.