That's all it can ever be." But Larenzo Cavelli lied. One blissful wintery night in his bed changed Emma Leighton's life forever. By dawn she knew two things: Larenzo would spend the rest of his life behind bars, and he would never see the baby their union had made. Two years later, Larenzo's name is cleared and he will get his life back…starting with Emma. It was deception that imprisoned the self-made Sicilian, so what will he do when he discovers Emma has a Christmas secret he might never be able to forgive? A passionate read for Christmas nights!

    Just. He had introduced her to his fascinating theater world. He treated her as his sister--the only family she had.If only she and James could reveal that they were brother and sister. But until then, everyone must think they lived together as lovers.Everyone included the handsome, irresistible movie producer Damien Savage. If Kate could live with James, Damien reasoned, she could live with him. But that was the last thing Kate wanted.

    The ornery, reclusive cattleman claimed he wanted to learn how to court a lady, and the genteel Miss Bush was the only one equal to the job. Who else would undertake the sentimental education of a confirmed bachelor who slurped his coffee, ate peas on his knife, and regularly indulged in barroom brawls? No other woman dared approach him. And even Mandelyn soon began to wonder whether a few lessons in manners could ever make a gentleman of an outlaw like Carson Wayne.

    She was the only woman to tempt him beyond his steely control...the only woman strictly forbidden to him. Years later, Nic s sole focus is business the boy who grew up under a cloud of shame now has the world at his feet. Until tragedy brings Rowan back into his life and his façade begins to crack.In the seclusion of the Marcussen mansion in the Mediterranean their deeply buried secrets surface and they are forced to confront their darkest desires!

    Cold, calculating Prince Alexandros Karedes masterfully beds Maria, thinking she's only sleeping with him to save her business.So when Alexandros discovers Maria is pregnant, he assumes it's on purpose. She'll never be a suitable wife--but she's perfect mistress material. What will it take for this billionaire prince to realize he's falling for his pregnant mistress?

    And at first she'd been too besotted with him to realize that his passion burned for his mistress, Miranda, not for his virgin bride.Then Sapphire had discovered Blake's secret love letters and the reason he'd been unable to bring himself to share his wife's bed. Painfully disillusioned, she'd run away and divorced him.Now four years later she was considering remarrying Blake--temporarily--to ease her dying father's mind. After all, Blake hadn't desired her before, so what would he want with her now?

    After all, this reluctant bride is a mere pawn in her father’s dangerous game.But when coolly brilliant Christo interrupts her getaway, Thea meets her electrifying match. Pairing her resilient spirit with his unwavering strength, her new husband unleashes an unexpected fire within her. Thea feared she was trading one jailer for another. But what if Christo is the man to finally set this caged bird free?

    But she isn't prepared when he touches emotions in her that she had carefully hidden away. Can she allow herself to open up her heart -- and her bed -- to him? Or is Gabriel interested in only a fleeting affair?

    She owes him a wedding night...and he will collect!Billionaire Dio Ruiz's convenient union was meant to secure two things: vengeance and the enticing Lucy Bishop.But from their wedding night onwards Dio's found his marriage bed inconveniently empty.Two years later, his virgin bride wants a divorce.But freedom has a price...Hurt and humiliated to learn their vows were just a business transaction to Dio,Lucy has played the perfect wife in public, while their cold war waged in private.She wants to walk away--not bow to his command!Can she pay Dio's price and survive ten days as true husband and wife?

    Little does she know that fleeing from royal scrutiny will place her under the devastatingly searing gaze of notorious billionaire Rafe Carter. Having resisted his cook for days, a secret midnight swim sends Rafe's senses into overdrive and he can't resist a taste of the forbidden. But the press descend when Sophie's identity is shockingly revealed, and Rafe is duty-bound to rescue the beautiful princess…with a convenient vow.

    Not a bodyguard, not a lover, but a private investigator hired to track her down.She'd been running for nine months, attempting to elude him. Sooner or later she'd have to stop.And on that day she would be forced to surrender to Mike Carridine--and allow him to return her to the vicious relatives and unwanted fortune she'd so desperately tried to escape....

    So, after two years, she's not surprised by the steamy dreams telling her it might be time to start moving on. But she didn't expect her friend Justin to have the starring role. Justin McCormick has loved Claire since the moment he first saw her, but his best friend got there first. Now that Claire is ready to move on with her life, Justin is finding it harder than ever to hide his true feelings. And when they both get caught up in the holiday spirits at a party, their simmering mutual attraction boils over into a night neither of them can forget...20,000 words

    Then she discovered his secret life and her dreams of a happy--ever--after crumbled into dust at the realisation that he's her family's greatest enemy... Brokenhearted, Jill disappeared.Now Vitt has returned--to claim the tiny son Jill carried in secret and has sworn to protect! But to stay with her child, she must travel to Sicily and put Vitt's ring on her finger. Yet what kind of marriage can they have when it's based on secrets and a heat impossible to resist?From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.

    But when she sees Ryan to hash out a settlement, her body tells her one thing hasn't changed--he's still the only man who really does it for her. With all other guys guaranteed to be totally meh, she's in last-chance saloon: it's either an X-rated fling with her ex, or straight to chastitybelts.com!

    Isobel James, the last single girl (or so it seems!), can't believe she's come to Greece on her own, but she had to escape the wedding fever that's gripped her best friends.When reclusive tycoon Lukas Andreadis finds Isobel washed up on his private beach, he thinks she's another journalist acting the "damsel in distress." He whisks her to his villa, where interrogation leads to seduction.Now Isobel's struck down by something much more dangerous than wedding fever--a powerful infatuation with the legendary Greek....