From the crystal waters of the Caribbean to the sunny shores of Hawaii, the historic coast of Melbourne or a fishing village in Maine, these beachfront books will deliver the joys of summer loving any time of year! Island Pursuits: Former U.S. Marine Adrian Mendez returns to his homeland of Trinidad and Tobago only to run into a feisty island goddess with one flaw - she has no love of anything military. Caribbean Melody: Their dancing duo was an overnight sensation at the posh Martinique hotel, but is Kristen just Leon's ticket to stardom or something more? Surge: University transfer student Marcus sets out to earn fellow student Lara's friendship, but a secret could jeopardize everything he's worked for his entire life. As the heat rises, he must choose between love and his dreams. Doubts of the Heart: Recent breast cancer survivor Nica Dobson is trying to regain her spirit and accept the changes in her body and mind. Now an old flame and ancient secrets challenge her to embrace love, too. Naturally Enchanted: As a struggling journalist, Owen Cooper has to make a name for himself, and a tip that a real-life witch is living on Mango Cove may just lead to the big story he needs. Undercover as a shipwrecked tourist, he worms his way into Ezra's family and their secrets, but can he get her out of his heart? Seducing Phoebe: Phoebe Fitzgerald is about to marry wonderful Marco Petronelli - until her ex turns up and declares his undying love for her. Confused about her feelings, she calls off her wedding. Can Marco convince her their relationship is worth saving? His Hawaiian Christmas: When Clara O'Fallen gets a promotion to paradise, she can't help feeling homesick for her Wisconsin winters. But smiling surfer Kai Schmitt might just show this scrooge how to hang loose and catch the spirit of the season - the aloha spirit! Paradise Point: Inheriting half ownership in Paradise Point marina is a break Liv Barnette embraces with open arms. The sexy downside? Sharing her windfall with Army Ranger Adam Lark, who wants her gone . . . or so he thinks. California Sunset: Annie Gerhard is struggling to keep her Silicon Valley techie job during a recession, while John Johnson is trying to make a go of his bookstore. Neither has time for romance, but fate is taking care of business. Five of Hearts: As lead singer for the boy band Five of Hearts, Dean learned that women only want him for his money and fame. So he has a good reason for hiding his alter ego from his neighbor, Shannon, and everyone else in Scallop Shores. But the closer he gets to Shannon and her children, the more he realizes he may have made a mistake. Sensuality Level: Sensual

    She spends most of her job traveling from city to city, training staff members on how to use the company system. She’s great at her job, but she’s struggling to find a balance between work and home life. Determined to create a more stable environment, through email she asks her boss to cut down her traveling, but he refuses. She’s never met the man, but already she can’t stand him. It’s at a conference not long after that she ends up in bed with a handsome stranger, only to find out that it was her boss. What happens when you’ve slept with the enemy? Find out in this steamy employee, billionaire boss romance by Alicia Beckton of BWWM Love.

    When a patch member calls from the station after being arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, Moves is shaken by the fact that someone is setting them up. He knows he is going to stop at nothing until he finds the truth and makes sure that the Outlaw Souls get to walk free, but nothing could’ve prepared him from running into a beautiful woman that would change his life.That woman is Lacey, a prosecuting attorney for the DA’s office who Moves hasn’t figured out why she’d been sniffing around their stomping ground, but he’s determined to find out. The two of them cannot deny that they have a spark, and it makes things rather complicated while they try to unravel this mystery from two different sides. They realize that they belonged to two different worlds, but they’re going to come together because they have the common goal of wanting to put the real criminals behind bars.When they learn the truth about who had been framing the Outlaw Souls, both Moves and Lacey begin to question everything they’ve come to know, and they’re stuck trying to figure out what to do.Though, they’re not going to stop until the real criminals pay for what they’ve done, and that will lead to a shocking discovery that might give the Outlaw Souls their freedom or be the end of them as they know it. Will Lacey help Moves to uncover the truth? Or will she be the reason the Outlaw Souls never get the freedom they so desperately seek?BUTCH (Outlaw Souls Book 8)Butch wasn’t the man I was meant to be with...My whole life had been planned out for me. I accepted it a long time ago as the result of being the last in line of a powerful political dynasty. I had certain expectations to fulfill. That meant stuffy dinner parties and photo ops. And love? That wasn’t even a consideration when my parents planned my marriage to a man that was determined to make it to the white house someday. I was suffocating under the pressure, so I did something completely out of character. A biker bar, a wild night with a man from a completely different world, and my first walk of shame. That should have been the end of it, but it wasn’t.He showed up in my life, carving out a place for himself, even though I was supposed to marry another man. A man I didn’t love. Butch introduced me to freedom and fun, and the longer we sneaked around, the more I fell for him. Who would have thought that a tough biker could open my eyes to all the possibilities in life, if I were just brave enough to seize them? I have to make a choice. The life that I’m supposed to live or the man that cares about so much more than my lineage? Will it be my obligation to my family or the love of an outlaw biker?

    So there was this chick name Mercedes. Her life was mad shady…15 and pregnant with a baby. She wanted to be grown. but didn’t know sh*t about being a lady.The streets claimed her, couldn’t tame her, blame her mother though... She didn’t come from a stable home, she was in this all alone. Shorty just wanted to be grown. Looking for love and affection, she started flexing…and messing around, all around town…These streets and these freaks were her medication shorty was in a bad situation.Trading one needle from another to another...She prayed and prayed that she would never be like her mother! No self respect or no class...Life gone, what a straight waste. In revenge she started to give the world a taste... Bitter sweet, never did she once look like she weak! Not to mention..that butt was a walking death sentence! Sexually transmitted, if you know her you better run straight to the clinic. Let me tell you how all this started… Before we go do you know it's Aids awareness month? Do right and know your status. Because YOUR life matters!

    Being a natural born hustler with a winning streak on the track has put him on a pedestal. Fast cars, money and beautiful women are just some of the things that comes easy. However, an unintentional wrong turn leads to a three-year prison stint and puts his entire life on pause for a while. Cashmere Lux is Jabari’s ride or die girlfriend that holds him down throughout his bid. She’s not slow when it comes to getting what she wants and plays that card to her advantage while her man is away. When Jabari returns home, he finds that everything is the same, but his feelings have suddenly changed. Is Cashmere really the woman he thought she was? Tiana Thomas is someone Jabari has crushed on since his high school days. With a life of her own, she can barely find time for herself. However, after exchanging numbers, and a few by chance encounters, she finds herself becoming more and more attracted to the bad boy. Knowing he has a woman that’s with all the drama and nonsense, will Tiana be able to slip out of Jabari’s tangled web? Or, will she apprehensively find herself Fallin’ In Love With The Greatest Of All Time?

    

    She is beautiful, intelligent and has a bright future ahead. She should be enjoying her last semester of college, but she recently found out her boyfriend of three years, Eric Thomas, hasn’t been faithful. Kennedy is emotionally drained from dealing with Eric and thinks that she will never find the love she’s always dreamed of. When she meets the notorious Jaheim King, Kennedy feels like he is out of her league, but she is drawn to him immediately. Jaheim King is a boss in every sense. From a young age, he was groomed to be a killer. Jaheim worked alongside his father and uncle as paid assassins for some of the most powerful crime organizations in the country and he has more money than he could ever spend. The only thing that is missing from his life is someone special, but when he meets Kennedy his world is turned upside down. They are from different worlds but the chemistry between them is undeniable. He is everything she’s ever wanted and after one brief encounter she feels like has known him all her life, but will falling in love distract her from chasing her dreams? Will she be able to handle dating the boss she feels like she was created for? Join Kennedy and Jaheim as they embark on an unforgettable journey.

    Whether or not it was intentional, only they know. With the police and Katie’s family desperately demanding answers, Hannah’s world is torn apart as she has to decide what to do next and whether that involves doing the right thing. Hannah’s choice is made more difficult due to her new closeness with Katie’s older brother, Josh. Katie’s traumatic death unearths secrets best left untold, but to leave them untold would put another life at risk of abuse. Longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Writing Competition.Please note this book addresses sensitive content such as childhood abuse.

    All three books in the series are included in this set. Han isn't known as the most upstanding citizen in the were bear community. He's been assigned to watch Penelope's every move. Penelope resents him at first but over time an attraction starts to develop.1. Rival Love2. Strong Love3. Magic Love

    

    Passion. Deceit. Drama. Nubia has it all; bangin’ body, beautiful face, a thriving haircare business and a slew of celebrity clients that fly her around the globe for her innovative styling techniques. The one thing that she doesn’t have is a faithful husband and child of her own. Her cheating husband is betraying her in the worst way possible and she has no clue. When she eventually finds out her husband's dirty secrets, many more bones fall out of her family’s closet that threatens to devastate her entire life. That is until she has a chance encounter with the sexy, alpha Hill Cooper. Hill is a sexy single dad with one foot in the streets and the other in a law firm. Determined to build a better life for his young daughter he is transitioning out of the street life to practice law full time. As he attempts to go legit his baby mother and old acquaintances try to hold him back. When Hill and Nubia’s lives cross paths neither of them can resist each other. But with their lives in an upheaval of drama can they make time for what matters? This is twisty urban drama is filled with boiling passion and dark secrets. Are you ready to get sucked into this saga?

    Gone are his peaceful trading relationships with the Crow Indians as he must fight to stay alive using every skill he possesses to best his opponents.This new Mountain Man adventure is set in Texas and takes the readers on an adventure they won’t quickly forget.

    John could not wait to get to the Rocky Mountains. He liked solitude, and he wanted to learn how to survive in the harsh winter conditions in the mountains. The big man knew he could be a mountain man and had to learn quickly. He dealt with frequent snow storms, frozen rivers and arctic conditions. His cave became his home. John welcomed an old Indian chief who came to the high elevations to spend the last days of his life. He later rescued the daughter of the Indian chief and life took on a new meaning for Mountain Man John.Grab your copy today and ride boldly with Turney and his new Western frontier adventure!

    Even as a child, Vanity’s beauty is unmatched. In the suburbs of Houston, Texas, six year old Vanity is enjoying what she and her parents believe to be a safe and normal life, soaking up the summer, along with her playful best friend, Larenz. While she shouldn’t have to be on alert, her naivety and desire to keep up with Larenz leave her vulnerable, causing her to be ripped from her mother and father’s loving arms in an instant, never to be seen as a child again. Larenz grows up with a hole in his heart for the friend that was stolen from him, and the driving force in his life has been using his position as an officer to reunite Vanity with not only himself, but her family, but what he finds is only the shell of the little girl he once knew. Vanity is now an adult, and her life no longer makes sense. After being used and abused by different men, her life seems to have no purpose. Even with love all around her from her family and best friend, she still can’t see how truly captivating she is inside and out, but Larenz is determined to help restore her faith in herself and inhumanity if it’s the last thing he does. Larenz’s girlfriend, Pryncess believes he’s obsessed with helping Vanity, and his need to “fix” her could cost him his relationship. What Pryncess doesn’t realize is Larenz doesn’t want to change Vanity, he seeks to save her from the street life she can’t let go of to settle back into society. Tensions run high when Pryncess becomes consumed with making Vanity the problem in what she considers to be a perfect relationship between her and Larenz, and Larenz’s choice to keep Vanity in his life could be detrimental. In Sha Jones’ latest love story, there’s no deeper love than love of self and the understanding of love received.

    Until a head injury causes her brain to start losing new memories.Determined to fight it, Abby sets out to prove her diagnosis wrong by grabbing life with both hands. She’ll save her memory by embarking on a list of experiences that will be simply unforgettable.All seems to be working well - until a trip of a lifetime to New York City, where she bumps into a friendly stranger called Finn.But is he a stranger at all?