This anthology will benefit Caring Community Foundation, located in Raleigh, NC where the 2017 Authors in the City book signing will be held. Authors in the City is hosted by: Stephanie's Book ReportsChristmas Once Again - Samantha ChaseLike Christmas - Ashlee TaylorUgly sweater - Elizabeth HayesA change of heart - Shari J. RyanChristmas break - Misha ElliottJoyful Temptations - Janine Infante BoscoDancing Snowflakes - Madison StreetThe Lovers of Vale - CS PatraChristmas Interference - Jennifer L. AllenRewrite - Stephanie RoseAll I Want for Christmas - Savanna Grey

    James USA Today bestselling author M. H. Soars Award-Winning author Jenna Bayley-Burke D.K. Combs Sylvie Fox Alexis Alvarez Award-Winning author Katalina LeonAward-Winning author Holly Dodd Ashelyn DrakeKacey SheaLena BourneDeliaria Davis Award-Winning author Marie Long Kristen Luciani

    You tumble farther than you ever imagined falling…And when the sun goes black and your heart feels empty, starting over seems like an impossible feat…You’re not alone.Twenty-Two Authors have joined together in this collection of short stories about fresh starts and second chances to help illustrate that even when life takes away everything, and when hope is a horizon you think you’ll never catch, it is possible to Begin Again.*All Proceeds will be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and NAMI*Featuring short stories by:A.M. JohnsonStephanie RoseJ.A. DeRouenGinger ScottAnne JolinAriadne WayneEmery JacobsM. AndrewsK.P. HaighKay ReneeMaria MacDonaldFaith AndrewsK.K. AllenMara WhiteAutumn GreyJosephine BrierleyAmanda RichardsonStephie WallsJaci WheelerStephanie AlbaL.A. TaylorForeword by Rebecca Yarros

    Bad enough I struggle to keep my rundown auto shop afloat and carry everyone in town after my family’s tragedy, now I’m carrying Olivia to safety after she makes a fool of herself in front of everyone.
 By morning, a fancy car picks her up and she’s out of my town and my life. Or so I think. Next thing I know she’s back again. She’s here to apologize for what happened the first time - but now that I’ve set my sights on her, I don’t want her to take off again.
 I’m know I’m just a dirty mechanic, but when these rough hands touch Olivia’s soft, perfect skin, sparks fly. Even if I come to realize that her real intentions in my town may cost me everything I own and love.

 OLIVIA: If I knew the real story behind the town and the garage I wouldn’t have gotten myself into this mess. I’m the good girl, ‘the princess’, the face of an empire that’s been built on lies and deception. I just want to find something good in my life - and after someone close to me passes away, I feel lost.
 I feel empty.
 I feel alone.
 When I wake up on the couch in a house somewhere out in the country, I should be worried. But then a really good looking stranger hands me a cup of coffee and smiles. Before I can catch my breath, I’m whisked into his gritty, small town life. 
When we talk, we instantly flirt. When we touch, I forget who I am. He knows nothing about me and I want to know everything about him. 
There’s one small problem… okay, two. 
First, the more I’m near him, the more I fall for him.
 Second, I’m being paid to ruin his town, his business, and his life.

    She’s also a hopeless romantic, in love with the idea of love. Then she finds her soulmate, a fellow teacher, and he becomes the star in her fantasies of forever. Kyle hates Starbucks, sees things in black and white, and prefers to go with the flow. He knew Penelope was meant to be his the second he met her and has gladly consumed at least a thousand of the sugary coffees just to be close to her. The problem? They’ve unintentionally friend-zoned each other. Will these two finally admit what their hearts want? Or will a bunch of preteens need to school their teachers? *** Warning*** This is a sweet, sexy short, about two teachers. This book is intended for those 18 years of age an older.

    I surrendered, letting him bind me, letting him tie me.I submitted. And he left me with a hunger to be dominated,...a baby growing inside me...…and a devastating choice to make. AngelinaI've worked for six long years, gritting my teeth and making it on my own. I've learned how to be a single mommy to my baby girl. And we don't need anyone now. Neither of us can survive another broken heart.So I earned my degree and landed one hell of a job. Our luck is turning around, and I can finally give Violet the life she deserves. I've put the past behind me… Except I can't forget the night Will introduced me to the dark, seductive pleasures of how it feels to give up control.Tall and powerful, with a confidence that seeps into my veins, he promised to take care of me… And he did. High school prom night… and sweet satin ropes... He bound me to him in ways I'd never imagined, and he was all I ever wanted.Will created a need inside me only he can satisfy… but all I have left is his memory.My friend Mattie wants to celebrate graduation with a decadent night at her favorite club… the whole idea scares the hell out of me. But it may be my last chance to relive the past, to feel the sweet freedom of giving up my power. So I screw up my courage… and I put on my mask…I go to The Underground, where the only secret you can keep is your identity. Everything else gets exposed. Absolutely everything. Your body, your desires, your secrets… and your darkest sins.Maybe, just maybe… if I give in one last time, I'll be able to put my Will and my cravings behind me for good.WillAngelina was my turning point. My delicate angel. She holds her control so close to her heart… but I taught her the pleasures of surrender… From the first time I held her, I knew she was not just mine to pleasure, mine to savor… but mine to protect.After she ran, it took me six f**king years to find her again. But I did.My angel, masked at a BDSM club, and wearing sweet pink satin tied around her luscious breasts. It told me everything I needed to know: that she'd never forgotten.Now she's ready to be dominated one last time. I'll make her remember, because I never forgot.But she trusts no one, and the kind of pleasure I give demands total surrender. Somehow, I have to find a way to reach her… I will own her body…...because she already owns my soul.

    Could either forget or was it enough to invade their souls and become a part of them?Franco: I had no idea when I decided to thank the chef for a delish meal that I’d lose my heart to the most beautiful woman that ever existed. Our brief encounter was cut short, but I promised I’d return. I was normally a man of my word. However, fate had taken it out of my hands and taken me away from the woman I could never forget.Two years. Two long, painful turns around the sun and a day and she still lived within my soul. Slowly I allowed the depression to set in until the choice to hide was taken away from me. She’d come to me and the beast that lives in this castle is afraid that he’ll never let his Belle go.Isabelle: One time. It’s all it took for my heart to belong to Franco Fiore, my boss’s brother. Who knew that I’d fall head over heels for a man with one short meeting only to have my heart ripped from my chest with his accident? Days turned into months, and now after years, he and I will finally meet. Will he push me away? Does he even remember me? Sadly, I could never forget him, and today, I may have my heart broken for good if he does.

    Then I saw him. What started out as a sexy flirtation turned into a night of red-hot passion. When I woke the next morning next to a naked man whose name I couldn’t remember, I did the only thing I could — I ran. When the beautiful, curvy blonde laid one on me, I couldn’t stop with one kiss. Before I knew it, we’d spent a mind-blowing night together. When I woke up alone, I did everything I could to find her, but the trail ran cold. Two years later, we are unexpectedly reunited, and I discover the secret she’s kept from me. I refuse to let her get away again. Not when she’s the mother of my child. **** Please note: The Navy SEAL's Secret Baby is a standalone novella length story at approximately 16K words ***** ******** BONUS MATERIAL INCLUDES THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH NOVEL IN THE SECRETS SERIES, SECRETS OF SUBMISSION ******** Secrets of Submission is a HEA book in the Secrets series.

    Serving her country as an ambassador’s Arabic speaking attaché in Iraq, she works hard and travels the world. Until a car bombing kills her employer and leaves her fighting for her life in a country where the customs and traditions treat women radically different. Now, Pandora has information to help bring down a member of ISIS in exchange for passage back home, and the only person who can help her is a ghost from the past. Cameron “Phantom” Caffee is CIA, an undercover operative stationed in Iraq. His goal—bring down the terrorist organization responsible for destroying his life, and ending his career as an Army Delta Force soldier. When he gets the chance to exchange asylum for valuable intel on ISIS bases, he jumps at the opportunity to finally have his revenge. But when Cam discovers his asset is a woman he thought long dead, the game changes. He joins forces with a deadly Delta Force team to rescue the woman he never stopped loving, and try to get them out of the country before ISIS can destroy them all.

    Patient. Rebel. Miles Heart took on too much too quickly. In order to keep his family together, he traded a full ride scholarship to be an apprentice in a tattoo shop in his hometown of Bleak, Minnesota. Once he was fully licensed, he started on his own shop and brought his family on. Finally, he started living for himself again. Can seventeen years of celibacy just be erased by the beautiful mess in his chair? Whore. Trailer Trash. Homewrecker. Jacquie Sherwood has been no stranger to this kind of pettiness since she was a teenager. The broken mess the death of her husband left behind ripped her suddenly charmed life right back to the trailer park in Road to Nowhere, Illinois. When her daughter suddenly heads to Moosehead, to help her grandfather, everything in her tells her to go along. Can two broken hearts be mended by the gentle lull of his tattoo machine? Ink Me is a standalone short story in the Queen of Hearts Ink Series.

    Felt the things she does to me, imagined the things I’d do to her.But today’s the day. I’ve made up my mind.I have to tell her, I have to make her mine.Slight problem.My building’s being swarmed by the feds. I know it’s a setup, I’ve seen this coming for weeks, my own firm partner finally driving in the last nail as he tries to overthrow me.Do I stand and fight for my innocence, or do I go to her, staking my claim over hers?JASMINEMaddox Mapleton. I could sit and stare at him all day… in fact, I pretty much do.He’s my screen saver, his portrait’s in the foyer. He’s on the news, a lot…And he’s always on my mind.I’ll probably never even meet him, let alone fulfill my older guy, younger curvy gal fantasy, but who cares?It’s not work if I’m getting paid for it and I get to feel his eyes on me all day.I wonder what would happen, just say… if something happened so that our paths crossed.If he came down from the top floor… all the way down here to floor fifteen…Right here to my desk. In the flesh.*Her Innocent CEO is an insta-everything OTT, crazy standalone instalove romance with a HEA, no cheating, and no cliffhanger.

    NO cliffhangers. NO cheating. Book 1 of the Hot for Heroes SeriesHonorI’m mortified when I ugly-cry in front of a big, strong and hunky man at my cousin’s wedding.A man that doesn’t run away from a sobbing woman is a keeper in my book.I haven’t dated much in the past three years, but I say 'Yes' when Kane asks me out.I’m horrified when I find out he’s a marine because I only have one dating rule.No Marines. Ever!KaneThe curvy beauty I meet at my sister’s wedding captures my heart and soul the moment I see her.She makes me want to have a family, a dream I gave up when I joined the Marine Corps.But when her past threatens to break us apart, she has a choice to make- me or her past?

    I proved them all wrong by becoming a professor at one of the top ranked universities in the country. But even now, they look at me, judge me, making me feel like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I did everything I could to escape my seedy past and it felt likeI was successful until the day she walked into my class. I could tell right away that she was different from the rest, but what I didn’t know was that she was rooted in the world I’d worked so desperately to escape from.Like the great mind Jung said about physics, “what you resist, persists,” and I was about to learn that the past always finds a way of catching up with you.

    Paddy’s Day, she’s suddenly found herself just desperate enough to take a stranger up on his offer for a warm bed. She didn’t anticipate weathering the storm at O’Malley’s Bed & Breakfast, and it isn’t just liquid courage shooting through her veins every time Lucky O’Malley’s devilish gaze catches hers across the crowded bar. But after one night together, he’s made up his mind. And his mind is set on her. She’s never found luck in love but fate may have just delivered her forever with a thick brogue and a mouth filthy enough to make an Irishman blush. Lucky’s one hot Irish import that’s determined to keep his precious lucky charm forever.

    Noah Osbourne, emergency physician.By night, I'm Doctor O, medical romance author,and master of the O-Zone chat room where fans confess their darkest fantasies.If the medical board knew about my side gig, I'd lose my license.But no one knows what I do... until Steffi finds out.She's my best friend's little sister and my mentor's daughter.And seven years ago when I left town, she was a lanky tomboy with a ponytail.Now she's all grown up, with all the curves to prove it.One look at her and something deep inside me says Yes! when I should be saying No.I fight our attraction even though we’re sharing a house.Even as she works with me while I run her parents' medical practice.Right up until she asks for help with this little problem she has.Steffi has never had an O.She needs a helping hand... or more... but if I oblige, will I lose not only my job but also my heart?Doctor McDreamy is in the house. Trust me, you're going to adore him. His bedside manner! His skills! His knowledge of anatomy. Lucky Steffi. Doctor O is a ful-length novel, and for a short time, I've added another novel to keep the steam level on your reading device at an appropriate level. Enjoy.