but she would if he wouldn'tSara Simmons had decided that, for her, marriage and happily ever after wasn't meant to be. Still, she wasn't averse to having a fling with sexy Gavin Blake. But Gavin wanted more, and his new motto was "Why buy the bull if you can get the beef free?" It was driving Sara crazy, trying to keep her hands off him while he played virgin to her Don Juan...."The Cinderella Solution" / Cathy YardleyThe woman of his dreams was right under his nose...When Charlotte Taylor's best friend, Gabe Donofrio, agreed with her that she wasn't the type of woman men fall in love with, she bet him a thousand dollars she'd have a marriage proposal in three months. Then she turned her tomboy self into a sexy siren, The World's Most Eligible Bachelor moved in next door... and Gabe realized he'd made a big mistake!

    But when they land dream opportunities on opposite ends of the country following graduation, they are forced to make a heart-wrenching pact. In the hope of one day restarting their love story, they set a date to reunite in five years at their favorite restaurant.Restaurant owner Gianna Hayden is thirty-seven, single, and one bad date away from giving up on finding the right guy when she meets Peter Clark on a dating website. Attractive, kind, and driven, he is exactly what she thought she was looking for. But as the day of Charli and Jack's reservation approaches, Gianna finds herself reflecting on the kind of passionate love her former customers once had and begins to question her bond with Peter.These two riveting stories converge on the night of the fateful reunion. Gianna, Charli, and Jack are all forced to make difficult choices as they struggle to follow their hearts, and ultimately each must decide where their true feelings lie before time runs out.Waiting at Hayden's is the first book to be published in the new reading experience format shopfiction™, which Costello coined and branded. The digital version of this book contains links to watch key scenes unfold and to shop the characters' clothes. The print versions contain web addresses to do the same.

    He'll ruin Caroline's family by buying out their company and throwing them out of their mansion...unless she agrees to give him the wedding night she denied him five years ago....

    The only daughter of local grocers, Sally and Mike Nolan, she's grown up in a home of total love and security. The one thing her heart desires is that Jack Hanson might ask her to marry him, and when he does eventually propose, Lucy is prepared to give up everything to be with him - even though it means leaving her beloved parents to live abroad where Jack has been offered an exciting business opportunity.But then, almost on the eve of the marriage itself, tragedy strikes. And for the first time in her life, Lucy is forced to realise that Fate, which has been so kind to her, can also be just as cruel.

    He was leaving Chicago in a few short weeks. He didn't do commitment--ever. But everything about this night, this girl, was so good. So right. Until at 11:59 p.m. she got out of his bed, got dressed and left!What had he done? Things had hardly started and she was off! Yet he was bored with simpering women he couldn't get rid of. Elise was a breath of fresh air. How was he going to find her...and get her back in his bed--for the whole night this time? It seemed Mr. Levi-and-Leave-Them might have found the one woman to leave him begging for more....

    Randi had no sooner married, when she met the young, handsome love of her life.Love With Honor is a zesty romance of poverty and wealth, youth and age, in which Randi's dilemma is resolved with heartbreak, excitement, courage and lasting love.

    But when a rough-and-rugged stranger suddenly pushed her into a hilly cave and pulled her out into the twentieth century, Angela was plenty scared....The present: Texas Ranger Dallas Masterson had a heart full of bitterness, and there was no room in it to care about a smart-mouthed, sassy woman claiming she was from another century! But Angela soon had Dallas discovering that, though his past was history, the future was theirs to make -- together!***Her past was a mysteryAngela Taylor owes her life ot the Texas Ranger who rescued her from a band of no-good renegades. The problem is that he'd pulled her out of danger—and straight into the twentieth century. Now Angela's as far from Texas, 1864, as she could be, stuck wiht a disbelieving man too handsome for her own good.But was her future his to claim?She's either a woman out of time...or completely out of her mind. Dallas Masterson isn't sure what to believele From her crazy clothes to her feisty ways, he's almost convinced that this sassy, smart-mouthed woman fought Comanches, buried her fiancé, ran from the law and stole to survive...especially when she steals his horse to try and get back to the cave where he found her.Now, both Angela and Dallas are discovering that when it comes to things like the past— and falling in love—there's no place to go but the future.

    A group of gargoyles who wanted to turn her into a weapon against Luc and Lily, the leaders of a war raging against humans. A group of angels who also wanted to use her gifts as a weapon to save not just the humans, but all the supernatural beings caught up in the war. She even survived a battle waged on her own home turf. Now, two years later, Dylan will have to face her darkest nightmare: the loss of her soulmate. Wyatt and Dylan have a difficult history. She was never sure if she could trust him and he was never sure of her abilities. But they fought side by side and drew strength from one another. With Wyatt at her side, Dylan was able to defeat Luc and Lily. But she failed to make the choice she was told was hers, and hers alone. Dylan was supposed to make a choice between allowing the humans to survive, or to allow for the annihilation of the human race in favor of her own race of human/angel hybrids. Stiles returns to tell Dylan that the time has come for her to make that choice. The place to start, is by solving the riddle of why Wyatt’s aunt, Rachel, appeared in their time as a five year old girl when she died thirty years before at the age of eleven. But on the journey to find answers from Rachel, Wyatt is murdered by Dylan’s former foe, Luc, in revenge for Lily’s death on the battlefield. Wyatt was a source of strength to Dylan. Will she be able to continue without him? Will she be able to see the truth, to make a choice, without Wyatt’s support? Will she even want to?

    The League has become her life. Gone is the frail, naive girl who had her heart broken, replaced by the strong woman in a world of men who make it their mission to protect the Town. Now, Margaret finds herself face to face with the most difficult task yet: spy on the man suspected of murder, the same man who once broke her heart.HE RETURNS WITH A SECRET...Cole Devitt left Wickhurst an angry, vengeful man. He left not merely the friend who caused his sister's death, but also the sister of that same whom he had long ago vowed to marry. Now, he returns as the new Head of the Men of Courts of Wickhurst to continue an unfinished work, one that reeks of conspiracy. But being in Wickhurst means an encounter or two with the woman he once chose to leave for hate.ONCE LOVERS...Will their individual mission bring them together at last, or will it merely prove to them that their love is really never meant to be?Still set in the fictional place of the Town, this third story of the Everard Family Series follows the journey of a strong woman and her quest to find a killer and perhaps, the closure to a love never forgotten.

    Could his searing kisses convince her that her destiny lay with the best bad boy of the bayou?

    Now they are happily married, and Emily has never been with another man. A little shy, very traditional, and with a strict upbringing, she’s never even thought about another man. To grow their marriage they create a bucket list of experiences to share. Justin seeds the list with a few risqué ideas he hopes will add some spice to their staid physical relationship. Will the bucket list backfire, or introduce Emily to hidden desires? Follow Emily and Justin on their amazing journey, from a fantasy that is at first inconceivable, along a remarkably believable step by step path as Emily slowly realizes who she is, to a destination of utter transformation with a whole new world of realities. Realities with men other than her husband. Book One of a three part series.

    And for two Marines, Lives--and love-- are on the line.Racing against time to save victims in a ravaged, burning city, golden boy Lieutenant Wes James discovered an angel in disguise: plain-Jane rescue worker Lieutenant Callie Evans, who defied death to dig survivors from the rubble. Amid the hellish wreckage, her blue eyes shone with inspiring hope. Her innocence and valor moved the unshakable Marine, and she blossomed into a beauty beneath his protective gaze. Still, past pain kept Wes from surrendering his closely guarded heart. But he ached to make Callie more than his comrade-in-arms. He ached to make her his...

    

    Six months later they find themselves consumed by the proverbial once-in-a-lifetime kind of love. Bored with their mundane daily routine, their adventurous streak makes them decide, one day, to escape the present and begin a new reality somewhere far, far away. Just that the day they are supposed to meet and escape, Yahvi doesn't turn up. Then she doesn't respond to Garv's phone calls or messages. And mysteriously Yahvi vanishes altogether.Days later, as a grieving Garv stumbles upon her Instagram profile, which he didn't know existed, he is shocked to realize that her every post is probably a clue to the truth behind her disappearance. Except, the more he unearths the meandering truth, the more he learns about a certain side of Yahvi which changes the way he saw her. And the way he understood love. Cross Your Heart, Take My Name is a beguiling tale about urban loneliness, fickle relationships and our need for companionship as depicted by the twisted journey of two individuals, caught up in their own emotional plight, blurring the lines between crime and sin.

    My name is Dominic DeLuca—you might know my name from the news. My family runs Angel City’s Italian mafia—and I work as their enforcer. Any woman who wants to be my girlfriend will only get herself hurt. That’s why I have a strict “f*ck ‘em and forget ‘em rule.” But then I see curvy Lexi Wilson slinging shots and holding court behind her bar—and I have to know what it would be like to be with her. One taste and I’m addicted. But now it’s not just her feelings I have to worry about…because I put Lexi on the radar of the Russian mob. And they’re coming for her. Becoming the Mob Queen is a hot and sexy read that’s strictly for adults. Read it on its own or as part of the Angel City Mafia series.