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Catching Lana


Kat Mizera - 2018
    Marine Corps Major Mark Garrison turns heads when he's not trying to be invisible. He's handsome, muscular and looking to try something new when he heads off to Montana to meet with the Brotherhood Protectors. Things look even better when the sexy redhead he's been lusting after practically falls into his lap. At six-foot-one, Lana Callahan has always felt awkward around men. Her job as a sports and entertainment publicist puts her around hot celebrities on a regular basis, but she shies away from good-looking men. A new assignment from her boss takes her to Montana and she finds herself face-to-face with the one guy who makes her long for more than casual sex. Lana’s wary of getting too close to the gorgeous Marine she’s been fantasizing about for two years, but he isn’t about to give up now that he’s found her again. Just as things heat up between them, her client’s past catches up to him, putting Lana in the crosshairs. Mark’s first assignment with the brotherhood could very well be his last, and this time Lana might slip through his fingers for good.

One More Bad Boy


Nora Flite - 2018
    Arrogant. Reckless playboy.I've been called worse, and I've never cared about anything but myself.Until the day my father died. I'm the sole inheritor of his record company. His legacy means the world to me, but in just a few months I've managed to lose every artist on his label.I'm screwed, but then I see her videos on Instagram.Amina Richards' voice is the answer to all my troubles. One quick contract later, and we're in business. Except... I can't focus on working with her because I'm busy fantasizing about how soft her lips feel.Sleeping with her is the only way to cleanse her from my system.I get my wish. And it turns out I'm wrong.One night together and I'm addicted to this woman. Mixing business with pleasure is fine with me, but Amina is terrified of wrecking her new career.She says she's had enough bad boys like me in her life.All I have to say to that is...What's one more?

Dirty Little Quickies


Shanora Williams - 2018
    Sweet & sassy women. Romance stories that don't hold back on the heat.Dirty Little Quickies is the first volume of The Nora Heat Collection. Each book is a steamy, quick standalone, so it won't take all day to devour these hot insta-lust stories. The featured books are Crave, Caress, Dirty Little Secret, and an exclusive story, Bad For Me.Fair warning: this collection is so hot that you probably shouldn't read it in public.No, seriously.Don't say I didn't warn you.

Crossing the Line: The Complete Series


Lauren Landish - 2018
    This set includes 2 complete interconnected standalones. Off Limits - Dane’s a man with a horrendous past, and the moment he steps foot out of that medium security shithole, he’s sworn he’ll stay out of trouble. But when he meets Abby Rawlings, all bets are off. She’s daddy’s little girl, but he’ll make her a rebel. No Limits - Rafe’s a ruthless perfectionist who’s never needed love. Until he meets Shawnie. His Angel. She’s scarred and broken, running from a past that haunts her. But her wings aren’t broken like she thinks. Her past hasn’t destroyed her, and Rafe can show her what she’s worth. Available for only a limited time. One click while you can!

Change of Plans: Bonus Novella (The Billionaire's Muse, #5)


M.S. Parker - 2018
    To their wedding. Except fate seems determined to throw stumbling blocks in front of them and their friends. Will their friends be able to band together to give Jace and Savannah the day they deserve, or will it end up a disaster too difficult to overcome?

Daddy's Day


Gage Grayson - 2018
    The one that got away. The one who held my heart. And the one I want back.

Coming in Handy


Emilia Beaumont - 2018
    The plan was already in place, fix it up then re-sell it. All so I would have enough money to move out west to be with my little girl. But then a last-minute bid stole it from under me. My new neighbor is infuriating. Georgie’s mouthy, full of sass, has legs for days. She’s very good at driving me insane. She knows exactly what buttons to press, as if she took a class in how I operate. I suspect it’s her version of a defense mechanism, but now I’m left with a shattered dream… and a raging hard-on.I want her. I need her.I also kinda hate her.As much as I try to, I can’t keep away. Georgie’s inexperience of handling power tools is going to bring the house down around her. The least I can do is give her a hand. Show her how it’s done. Flip her over and nail her to the wall. And once I get a taste, I’m hooked. Snagged on her jagged soul.Now I’m torn between starting a new life with my daughter or mending Georgie’s bruised heart.

Wild In The Windy City: The Anthology Volume 2


Ryan MicheleJenna Galicki - 2018
    All proceeds from sales of this anthology benefit The Cute Syndrome Foundation. Meet all the authors at Wild and Windy in the City, September 2018!

Ink my Soul: A Queen of Hearts Ink Short Story


ChaShiree M. - 2018
     My biggest fear was that I would never find my ‘little dove’. The other half of me. The woman that would complete the secret part of me. She would be my biggest glory. The one I protect, cherish and place above all others and in return she will surrender all she is to me. I just never expected my dove to be HER. Elizabeth I have been searching for love and acceptance my whole life. My family has never cared. They just throw money at me and go about their way. In order to feel important, I became the town Bitch and I am not proud of it. Searching my soul, I discovered I needed something more and went in search of it. I want to reinvent myself. Become someone I can be proud of. I found him at a time in my life when I never thought I could be happy. I ran from him, then I ran to him. Then I begged him…… To INK my Soul You hated her in Marry Grinchmas and began to question who she really was in A Rose for Max. Now it is time to hear her story and learn why even SHE deserves love. This is Elizabeth and Chips story. It is a bit of a departure from Moosehead and Inked because not all love is conventional and sweet. Some is unorthodox and dark maybe a little messy. All that matters is that you find that someone that completes you. Hope you love it as much as I do!!!!

Blind Devotion


S. Nelson - 2018
    But in order for that plan to become a reality, I must do everything my father asks, including marrying a man I barely know. Enter Maxton Colter, a walking contradiction and not the man my father chose for me. He’s infuriatingly arrogant… yet charming. He’s inappropriate… yet intriguing. He’s a playboy… yet focuses all his attention on me. He’s doing everything he can to unravel my goal to one day take over the firm. Question is… will I fall prey to the undeniable chemistry between us and allow him to destroy my dream?

Claiming Mia


B.J. Wane - 2018
    His arrogance gets under her skin, but it’s her body’s instant reaction every time he levels that cobalt gaze upon her or hints at giving her what he keeps insisting she wants that really gets to her. After her husband’s betrayal, she’s sworn off getting involved with anyone, and certainly isn’t going to trust her fragile heart with the town’s reformed bad boy. Nolan wants Mia and refuses to let her prickly stubbornness stand in his way. Once he entices her into an affair and shows her the benefits of submitting to him, her off-the-charts responses prove he was right all along – she is the one for him. When his investigation into an illegal drug ring implicates Mia’s business, he never stops believing in her innocence. When the Feds go around him, Mia refuses to believe he hadn’t been with her just to keep an eye on her and her nursery for proof the drugs were coming in on the trucks carrying her landscaping orders. Mia’s reluctance to trust Nolan completely lands her in trouble with a drug trafficker and it isn’t until she is kidnapped that she realizes what her insecurities and refusal to let go of the past might have cost her… Publisher’s Note: This steamy contemporary romance contains elements of power exchange.

Eye Contact


Stacey Grice - 2018
    Andie Fine lives, eats, and breathes her job as a trauma surgeon. Another day, another surgery, another life saved. That is, until the night a certain car accident victim lands on her operating room table. The strange connection she feels with this particular patient impacts her in every way. Vaughn Bennett is a brilliant artist whose life has been defined by a specific pair of eyes for over twenty-years. The only piece of a girl he could remember from an experience he could never forget. Countless sketches and thousands of hours trying to capture her likeness have haunted him. Waking up from a coma in a hospital room is not how he thought he’d finally find her. With one look, he knew. Andie is a career-focused, medical professional. Falling for a patient is out of the question, but Vaughn is determined to win her over. He elicits something in her that she’s never realized she was missing. No matter how hard she tries to fight it, he won’t stop until she’s his. Until fate has a way of complicating things.

Daddy's World


Ava Sinclair - 2018
    She's tough. Maybe too tough. She's never known real laughter. She's never let herself cry.I intend to change that. I am Senator Roman Daley, and I started the colony of Paternas to reform women like Kit. Here, I plan to give her what she needs: the firm guidance of the daddy she never had. I want to give her the childhood she never knows. That will mean love and nurturing. It will also mean taking her over my knee and spanking her until she begs for mercy. My goal is to make her my mate. But there's another reason I'm doing this. The utopian world of New Bethel isn't as perfect as it seems. I'll need Kit's help to change it, but first I have to earn her obedience.

The Fight


Alice Ward - 2018
    Too tempting. Even though I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, I built my own successful R&D company from scratch. I’m always looking for talent. That’s how I meet Cherry Bomb — underground MMA fighting princess. After watching one match, I’m hooked and sign her on as my newest investment. Sweet, tart, and fresh, I want to do more than spar with her. I want her. And that’s a problem. We have different priorities. Hers, to take care of her family, while I need to find mine. But I’m quickly becoming addicted to her. It’s an addiction I need to kick. If she doesn’t KO me first. *** This is a full length novel with a happily ever after, no cliffhanger, no cheating, and plenty of steam. ***

Hard Hand


Sierra Cartwright - 2018
     Masked in mystery and draped in decadence, Avery Fisher has the courage to be with a man as dangerous and sexy as him. Cole would know the seductive and vulnerable Avery no matter how clever her disguise. But he will demand she reveal everything, not just her identity, but her true nature and the need for his dominance. She will learn Cole is not open to compromise...