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Untapped Pleasures


L.N. Pearl - 2016
    His love life will be the main focus of a brand new TV show, but there’s just one problem: he needs a wife to satisfy the producers and the audience. Trina stopped living a normal life when her mother got diagnosed. She used to have big dreams and ambition, but dropped everything to take care of the woman who loved her unconditionally after a painful divorce. However, medical bills keep accumulating and Trina finds herself struggling to make ends meet. So when the gorgeous Gunner offers her a million dollars to be his fake wife, she agrees despite her mother’s opposition. After all, it will be fake, right? But things are never that simple when it comes to love. And they will both pay the price. Note: this is the first book out of five in the series. Contains explicit language for a mature audience only.

Learning to Love Again


Jason Patrick - 2016
    Having Amanda planning an event guarantees success. If only she can work the same magic with her personal life. While smart, attractive, and successful, Amanda isn't able to make romance and relationships work in her life.Evan Worthington comes from a wealthy Boston family and has taken his fortune and built a business empire. He once knew happiness with a young wife and newborn son until his late wife died twelve years earlier. To cope with his loss, Evan threw himself into his work. No one suffers more than Evan's fifteen-year-old son Jacob, who wants to know an emotionally distant and unavailable father.What Amanda and Evan both want is standing directly in front of them. Can they admit how they feel and get past what is most holding them back? Does Amanda hold the key to Evan repairing the broken relationship with his son? It all hinges on Evan learning to love again.

Stormy With a Chance of Love


Dyanne Gordon Green - 2015
     Maggie Archer teaches at Freedom Christian University and is very active at her church. Though never married, Maggie, now approaching fifty, still longs for a relationship. One that is based on Biblical principles and filled with love and friendship. Frank Porter, 55, owns his own construction company, is quite successful and is a born again Christian, ready to share the gospel with anyone and everyone. Frank came close to marriage several years ago but it didn't work out. He finds nights and weekends are too quiet and too lonely but he has resigned himself to his solitary lifestyle. Maggie and Frank have a chance meeting at the large church they both attend and are very taken with each other. They meet again and find the attraction is mutual; however they both have secrets they aren’t sure they want to share now or ever. Is their faith and trust in God strong enough to overcome their past secrets or will they go their separate ways, never experiencing the joy they could have together?

Forever Autumn


Christina Jones - 2006
     After a heartbreaking deception, Stephanie Gibson decides to move to the south coast and work as a nanny for the large and scatty Matthews family. They’re friendly and eccentric and Stephanie soon settles in. However, when she finds herself falling in love again, spectres from the past loom up. Has Stephanie made another mistake, and will she ever be able to trust anyone again?

Holiday Spice & Everything Nice


Claudy ConnEver Coming - 2016
    Turn up the heat on those cold winter nights with 13 sweet and steamy contemporary holiday romances from some of your favorite New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Bestsellers! You'll make Santa's Naughty List when these Hot Alpha Males and Sexy Billionaires stuff your stockings!

Saving Sycamore Bay


Cami Checketts - 2017
    A southern belle in need. Can they rescue her home together? Harrison Jackson graduated from Auburn University with his master's in accounting and thought he was leaving the world of college football and adoring fans to crunch numbers and make money. Little did he know his boss has other plans for him--a beautiful southern belle and her family's mansion that are both in need of rescue and more than a little TLC. Grace Addison lost her mother and daddy within a year of each other, she is not going to lose the only home her family has known. Her ex-boyfriend and lawyer are trying to talk her into selling and she has no money to fight anyone, but she has her determination and her pride. When the most handsome and strong-looking man she's ever seen shows up on her doorstep, claiming he's been sent to help her, she thinks he's salvation and an angel combined. When she finds out he's an accountant, she laughs in his face. Someone is determined to take or burn Grace's home no matter how hard she and Harrison fight. Can she trust Harrison to protect her or should she give up her dreams? Books in the Destined for Love: Mansions Collection —Kiss Me in the Rain by Lindzee Armstrong —Roping His Heart by Jaclyn Hardy —The Princess and the Pizza Man by Cassie Mae —Mending Fences by Lorin Grace —Love Me at Sunset by Lucinda Whitney —Saving Her Plantation by Cami Checketts

Unlucky In Love


Carmen DeSousa - 2016
    Some lucky women focus on a career and make their own happily ever after. And then some women wake up after fifteen years of marriage and discover that their luck just ran out … right into the arms of another woman. Jana Embers isn’t one to sit back, though. The first thing Jana realizes she needs to do is empty the joint bank account, then she’s thinking she might take a tire iron to her soon-to-be-ex-husband’s truck. After that, she’s not sure what she’ll do … Maybe she’ll adopt a cat. WARNING: Although there are many adult situations in this novella, if say ... something crazy happened and a famous producer adapted this contemporary women's fiction into a movie, it would have a PG-13 rating. There are no erotic scenes, no graphic violence, and while there are a few allowed-on-TV curse words, there aren't a plethora of gratuitous foul words. Oh, and if you were looking for a cliffhanger, you won't find that here either. But, Unlucky In Love is only part one of Jana's story, and you might want to continue to the next part of her story in Some Lucky Woman, so please proceed at your own risk.

Her Country Star Fake Fiancé (Christmas Romance Series)


Sarah Gay - 2018
    Only one thing stands in her way of her happily ever after, and that is the guy she’s had a crush on since the sixth grade, her brother’s best friend and country music superstar, Cash Jackson. When she attends Cash’s concert to gain closure, destiny is not kind when she finds herself accidentally fake-engaged to her childhood crush. Cash Jackson’s country music tour has come to an end, as will his career if he can’t resurrect his dead muse. His label has given him until the first of the year to come up with new material. When his best friend’s kid sister, Gracie Sawyer, shows up at his last concert in Asheville, North Carolina, they share a passionate kiss, which may just be the inspiration he needs. The only problem is she’s engaged to another man.

Taking Natasha


Terence Mitford - 2017
    An offer too good to refuse. And consequences beyond her control. Gritty, dark, and disturbing. The Story of Natasha, tricked and trafficked to London, and trapped in a ruthless, criminal underworld. Introducing Mason Cooper, a tough detective quitting the force to save his failing marriage. Their worlds collide as he drives his daughter home from school. This novella introduces the hard-hitting Mason Cooper thriller series with "awesome characters" and a style of its own. Fans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Jon Mills' Jack Winchester Mark Dawson's John Milton, Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, and many more strong leading male and female characters should read Terence Mitford's new Mason Cooper thrillers. WARNING: Due to the theme, this book contains scenes that some readers may find disturbing.

Suddenly Love


Carly Phillips - 2011
    Ten years have passed but neither has really moved on from their passionate teenage affair or the heartbreak that followed. What starts out as business quickly moves into the bedroom and they discover the sparks between them burn brighter than ever. This reunion can be their second chance, if Trevor can accept everything about Lissa, including her daughter. *This title has been previously published as Kismet**]Dear Readers:Welcome to Carly Classics, books I wrote earlier in my career that have been modernized for your reading enjoyment. These stories hold a very special place in my heart and I'm thrilled to be able to share them with you now.All the best,Carly

Must Love Santa


Nina Bruhns - 2012
    He just needs to close this one last big case first, by shutting down a human trafficking ring run by a scummy veterinarian. Which is why he’s out on the street street corner dressed as Santa Claus, ringing a damn bell and taking covert photos of the vet’s customers, hoping one of them might be the link he needs to put the vicious bastard out of business.But his irrepressible Airedale terrier has very different ideas. K-9 Zenon has lasered his sights on a cute little perfumed fluff ball trotting his way...along with the adorably sexy lady holding her leash and teetering on a pair of too-tall stiletto heels. When the pretty lady tumbles to the pavement, well, what’s a gentleman—canine or Santa—to do? Why run to the rescue, of course!

The Arrangement: The Ferro Family


H.M. Ward - 2013
    Just when she doesn't think things could get any worse, they do. When her car stalls out at a busy intersection and she gets out to check under the hood, a guy steals her car. Armed with a dress and a pair of Chucks, Avery runs after the thief. When a hot stranger offers to help, she can't say no. That's how Avery meets Sean Ferro, the totally sexy, totally damaged guy with more secrets than she has time for.Avery doesn't have time for anything anymore. Her is life falling apart and it's not just the car. It's everything, and it doesn't matter how tightly she tries to hold on, there's nothing left to hold on to. With the sudden death of her parents, it's only a matter of months until Avery's shot at college is gone, and she's living in a cardboard box. Other students have their families to rely on when things get bad. Avery has no one. But there's one option, one incredibly sexy, morally devoid, option. If Avery takes a job as a call girl, one guy could save her. One client. One time. She just has to say yes.

Stilettos & Stubble


Amanda Egan - 2012
    Criticised by her outwardly perfect mother, dearly loved by her father, she’s the ‘Queen of Low Self-Esteem’. Finding herself suddenly immersed in a world of glitz and glamour, where nothing is quite as it seems, will she finally realise ... ... ‘It’s what’s inside that counts’?

Unfinished Dreams


Amanda McIntyre - 2013
    When fate give Tess Graham a second chance at finding happiness after an abusive relationship, will it come unknowingly at the expense of the handsome cowboy she’s hired to do a few repairs on the farmhouse she’s renting? Gabe Russell knows the perky city girl isn’t going to last long living the country life, but he doesn’t expect that while he’s helping make her dreams a reality, that he’ll finding himself wanting more than getting his house back.

Meg’s Best Man


Cynthia Bruner - 2014
    Includes questions for a mother/daughter book club.Meg Park’s plans to spend the weekend with her family and a good book fly out the camper window when she steps in as a backup bridesmaid at her cousin’s mountain wedding. She’s happy to be on the bride’s team, but groomsman Gage seems to think she needs him as her companion for more than just a short trip down the aisle. He’s tall, funny, and suspiciously Texan. He also has a knack for breaking things. Meg’s certain Gage is hiding something, but he doesn’t open up, even after he stumbles upon her own secret. Meg needs to fess up. And she needs to find out the truth about Gage so one of the things Gage breaks isn’t her heart.