An unlikely childhood romance between a poor boy and a wealthy girl began the day Jesse decided to do the impossible and cross the creek. A love was born, one that would become their shelter, protecting them from the storms of their lives, until the day Jesse witnessed his mother’s murder, forcing him to leave his childhood home…and first love. Ten years later, life has finally gotten better for Jesse. He has a loving family, a charming pet shop to run, and one semester left before graduating with a degree in architecture. Everything is great, until the day fate intervenes and his long-lost love walks into his shop and back into his life.Sarah, engaged to a budding attorney, is struggling to keep everything together. Her father, diagnosed with terminal cancer, is running out of time. Sarah races to build their dream business while planning her wedding in time for her father to walk her down the aisle.Their brief encounter starts a series of events that neither Jesse nor Sarah expects. After a decade of running, Jesse is now forced to face the demons from his past, while Sarah has to choose between her handsome attorney and her first love. Just when they think love has given them a second chance, Jesse is faced with an impossible decision, one that will change their lives forever.Across the Creek is the first in a 2-book series. Beneath the Willow is the second.

    Until Serena McGregor finally walked away from undercover FBI agent Nick Demarco. Six months later, her elusive scent still haunting him, Nick is ready to risk his career to prove Serena is innocent of a five million dollar heist.As an archivist, Serena likes tidy things, filed away in an orderly fashion. Too bad the only category Nick falls under is a heartache waiting to happen. He’s too much. Too passionate, too beautiful, and he definitely won’t stick around after he discovers all her secrets. But as a suspect in the robbery of the century, Serena can’t refuse his help. That’s not all she can’t refuse. Will this mismatched couple discover they have more in common than they imagine?

     Jackson Walker hasn't had the best family life. Growing up in the foster system in Australia, it wasn’t until he met his college football coach that he understood what a normal family looked like. When he gets the call that Coach has passed away, he returns to California for the funeral and to find a place to honor the man. Hailey Montgomery threw herself into real estate soon after breaking up with her boyfriend nearly five years ago. She’s been working to build a name for herself and when the chance to make partner at her firm becomes available, she jumps at the chance. But the only way to achieve that distinction is to find a commercial property for the guy she’s nicknamed ‘Golden Boy’ from all the stories her father told about him. As spending time together brings them closer, the trust between them is called into question. Can they work through what’s happened in their individual pasts to create a relationship that will last?

    But following a stroke and a recent fall, Addison is forced to hire a caregiver for her estranged mother, Lee Ann; a job Addison chooses not to take on, despite her financial freedom to do so. She hires an agency to fill the position, and to her surprise, they send a man for the job. Logan has somehow managed to keep his act together despite a past that is slowly catching up with him. If he can make enough money over the next couple of months by tending to Lee Ann Burke, he should be able to flee the country before his world comes crashing down around him. But when Lee Ann’s beautiful daughter, Addison, begins to awaken feelings in him that he thought died long ago, he begins to question whether or not fleeing from the past is worth leaving Addison forever. Will Addison let down her guard for love and renew her relationship with her mother? Can Logan face his past, come out unscathed, and act on his feelings for Addison? And why is Lee Ann selling everything she owns on Ebay and Craig’s List?

    It is being brought under the Sara Hazel brand in preparation for Sara's upcoming release of the third book in the series.  Just letting you know in case you got it back when it first came out. I hope those of you who are new to the series will love it as much as I love writing them. --SaraAriaI might be innocent,but I'm looking for somethingrough and real.  Dylan Wolf seems like the manwho can give it to me.But I'm not sure if I should trustthe man who is holding me down.DylanI need Aria Valance at any cost.  Her thick curves were meantfor me to sink into.  She's stubbornand not easily won,but I like a challenge.But she has to know that I always win.  --Billionaire Romance--Older Alpha Man Younger Curvy Woman--Dark Romance--High Heat

    When the one you want …Is the one you can’t seem to have…Can love conquer all?Download link sent to newsletter subscribers

    He’s tough, fair, has a good sense of humor and loves his work. But for eighteen months, he’s avoided a member of his crew, Firefighter Rachel Wellington, despite his knife-sharp attraction to her. She is also drawn to him but is equally determined to keep things professional between them--until they’re trapped in a basement for a day, thinking they’ll never be rescued. Then, their feelings for each other explode like the building around them.

    Everyone is questioning when it’ll finally be Kate’s turn to walk down the aisle, but she can’t even manage to hang on to a boyfriend! She does have several options, though. There’s Chris, the smooth, sexy photographer. And then there’s Max, the boy next door “friend with benefits…” Kate can't help but wonder - is it possible to date one of your guy friends? How about two? At the same time? Which one of the guys will she choose?

    She loves her family, but on the heels of a divorce and her ex’s new engagement, an evening of togetherness is the last thing she wants. Long-time friend, Sam MacLane has been in love with Cassie for years, and he isn’t about to let her have her pity party. There’s a blizzard on the way, and Sam shows up on her doorstep—bearing gifts....

    When the rising band’s problems threaten to derail the tour and Jonas slips and reveals their relationship, the lead singer demands that Rhiannon choose between music and love.When Rhiannon is hired as a back-up singer for Killer Valentine, the hottest breakout rock band on the planet, her contract includes an iron-clad no-fraternization clause. However, it doesn’t take her long to figure out that Killer Valentine is falling apart from the stresses of touring and promotion. The band’s manager Jonas Rees, a green-eyed starmaker, is frantically trying to prevent them from self-destructing during their grueling tour and right before their first major-label record deal, but neither Jonas nor Rhiannon can deny the attraction that flares between them.When the band’s problems threaten to derail the tour and Jonas slips and reveals their relationship, the lead singer demands that Rhiannon choose between music and love.

    She keeps to herself and there isn’t much known about her around the hospital except that she is good at what she does. She is a beautiful woman with brunette hair and alluring gunmetal grey eyes but beneath those eyes are darkness and multiple scars on her body. Elle joined the army as a nurse on her eighteenth birthday with the hope of helping people. She spent almost five years in an active war zone patching up civilians and soldiers. Her stint in the army has left her scared both physically and mentally.Derek Hawkins has been at Tampa Medical Hospital his whole medical career and is renowned in the cardiovascular world. People come from all over the East Coast to see him. He has also made a name for himself in the bedroom department. With his short dirty-blond hair and blue eyes that make any woman swoon, he is a ladies’ man famous for no-commitment relationships with various doctors and nurses. He enjoys the finer things in life and he is not interested in settling down just yet.Many women clamor to sleep with him regardless of him not looking for anything more than just some fun. Derek has his eyes on Elle but his intellectual and physical charm have no effect on Elle at all. When Elle is placed on Derek’s service for a week, she is in for a whole new ride.

    By a USA Today Bestselling Author.Tough and uncompromising undercover sheriff Asia Powers Bancroft had one goal--to bring crime extraordinaire Carlos Saint Magna to justice for tearing her town apart with criminal activity. This goal led her to choices that condensed to one thing--her family and her ability to protect them from the consequences of her job. But she hadn't known that choosing to bring Saint Magna down would alter her life irreversibly.
Now left for dead, she discovers that, through faith in Jesus, some new beginnings start with "The End".Sharon Parson had asked for more than she could handle when she showed up to teach a Christian career counseling class for a Youth Reading Club in a dangerous part of town, unaccompanied, for the second time. Caught in a shootout late at night, she never expected her on-and-off boyfriend, Ash Carter, to rescue her again--or for their love to bloom anew.
With Sharon hesitating over a relationship because of his lack of faith in God, and Ash eager for something permanent like marriage, will she have the love she dreamed of or will it come crashing at her feet before it begins?Get your copy now.

     In a matter of eight hours, she was upgraded in my mind from a beautiful, lovely young woman to the sole object of every single last one of my desires. Her name is Hailey Penn. She came to stay with me for two weeks. It took two minutes for me to save her from drowning. Two hours to watch a Hitchcock movie together. And two weeks to explore our summer crush. But it’s not just a crush - I knew in an instant that she was the one. And I won’t stop fighting until she’s mine. Summer Crush is an HEA romance novella. High steam, light, and fun. xx, Lauren

    Not that she cares, though. This holiday season, like all the ones before it, she plans to spend curled up with her laptop, visions of pound signs dancing through her head. When a blizzard traps Janna in the country with handsome Alistair Randall, CEO of the UK's biggest Christmas tree supplier, Janna must either embrace the holiday spirit or risk losing her PR firm's biggest client. Can Janna muster up some Christmas cheer, or will her bah humbug attitude cost her dearly?

    Dark and deceptive...AnnieSo, I'm a small-town girl, but I can still dream big.Maybe I'm naive, but I'm in the audition of a lifetime.One that could launch my acting career into stardom.If I can navigate the director's couch.But sex and starlets are what drive men like Vicktor Rossen.He’ll say and do anything to get what he wants.Like so many other women, I saw it, and now I'm out for revenge.And my gay best friend, Daveed knows exactly what to do. But my world is shattered when a phone call from home changes everything.. .