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Demi Fedora yearns for freedom from all the rules and restrictions she’s lived with day to day. As the manager of Fulton House, a refuge for runaway street kids, heartaches, responsibilities, and pain pile on every day until she can’t see her way out of the stressful tunnel. When forced to sell or fight off the bigshot buyers, she decides to let others take on the battle. After losing the first and only man she’s let herself love, her spirit crumbles and the will to continue fades. That’s when she remembers the cabin her grandfather left her in Alaska. She packs up her few ...

It's Christmas in small town, Carlton Grove... In this holiday love story, Belinda Page, a single mom of a very intelligent four-year-old daughter, is at her wits end, trying to keep up with her baby genius. When the child throws herself into a lake to rescue a puppy, Belinda is frantic. Turning to the man who saves both babies, she seeks his support - until she finds out he’s one of those hated Carltons. After all, it was at their home where she’d gone to a party, been drugged, raped and left to deal with the consequences. Dr. Reed Carlton, an introvert who feels uncomfortable around ...

Special agent indeed, Kandice Warner is everyone’s best friend. Talk about a Barbie doll! This female might have the same pretty-girl looks but even though she has a tender heart, she also has the resilience needed for a very successful FBI hostage negotiator. Feelings of inadequacy constantly force her to prove that she’s tough, and she demonstrates her courage when dealing with a murderous bank robber, a desperate jumper, being stalked, kidnapped, and beaten.

Christmas in Hawaii! How lucky can a girl get? Except Leilani is bringing her mother’s ashes home to Waikiki and has an urgent plea of help from an aunt she’s never even met. After winning two free nights in prestigious Hotel Jordan, things take a turn she never expected. First, she is stuck in an elevator with the prickly, but luscious Mr. Jordan. Secondly, her aunt is a sick woman and only held on for one reason. She wants to pass on her most precious possession… her five-year-old grandchild. The same prickly little fellow that takes one look at Leilani, slaps his fist on his hips ...

Who the hell is he? Joseph Marcus? No way. He detests everything he’s been told about the loser. Except the doctors, his FBI co-workers, even his housekeeper all agree that, in fact, he is the same dirty cop. After surviving an accident, he returns to the living in the hospital with his face all torn up and his memories gone… so how can he argue? And yet everything inside his sentimental heart says they must be wrong. Hell, even the huge guard dog he supposedly beats regularly doesn’t show tendencies to eat him like they said happened in the past. Determined to show his superiors that...

Agent Walker drops his beloved goddaughter off at the same school where minutes later a shooter begins the devil’s work. Lori Page, an FBI profiler, spots a boy on a bus who’s acting strange. When he disembarks, she notices what appears to be a rifle in his backpack. Suspicions triggered and her instincts screaming, she follows him into his school where all hell breaks loose. Intrigued by the weird behavior of a mysterious beauty, Beau follows her into the building and they both find themselves at the same crime scene. He eventually pairs up with this fascinating woman to stop the ...

A virgin librarian with hot-chick potential, the conflicts in her story won’t let you put the book down. Be prepared for an all-nighter… Cassi watches the mob kill her twin and is too frozen with fear to stop them. How can she live with that cowardice eating away at her self-respect? Revenge claws at her sheltered existence until she can’t breathe. Though she’s naïve, she isn’t stupid. When she finds a stash of loot in her brother’s gym locker, she has the means. Now all she needs is the guts to make every one of those low-life gang members pay. People might think detectives ...

LAND OF THE FREE Escape… a new beginning. That’s what Demi Fedora yearns for. And so, she leaves everything and everyone she knows to move to her deceased grandfather’s derelict cabin in the wilds of Alaska, the one he left her in his will. Meeting Whittaker Hart isn’t in her plans. Though the ruggedly handsome gold prospector does everything to win her over, she keeps her distance until her need to survive a life totally foreign to her nature overcomes her desire to do everything herself. After rescuing a young drunk and taking on the tough life of a greenhorn, she realizes one ...

An introvert, Special Agent Francesca moves to Las Vegas to escape her powerful, domineering mother. On arrival, multiple obstacles challenge her. She needs to approach a father she’s never met, a man who doesn’t even know she exists. Then, she must play the role of a loving fiancée with a stranger. One who makes her question every unexpected emotion he provokes.

A short Bridge Story: Lisa will be at Aurora and Kai’s wedding and forced to spend the evening with Jeff Waters, a man whose very presence makes her feel about the same age as Noel, her three-year-old adopted nephew. Not only can’t she talk with the man around, she can’t think straight when his gorgeous grey eyes search hers as if he’s trying to figure her out. Jeff is intrigued with the long-legged, curly-haired beauty who tries so hard to ignore him. When they end up spending the night together, he knows he’s met the one and only. Now all he has to do is get her to acknowledge ...

Lisa never breaks promises. So when her old partner, Aurora, makes her promise to find out who has kidnapped Jeff Waters and to save him from being killed, she agrees. No one knows that he’s burrowed a path into her soft heart after their illicit night in his luxurious apartment. Just imagining him being in danger is enough to terrify the Las Vegas detective into taking chances she wouldn’t normally now that she’s responsible for her precocious three-year-old nephew. Jeff hates knowing that the one person who comes to his rescue is the only woman he’s ever wanted to marry, a woman ...

Aurora loves her mommy role and is fascinated by her little angel, Lily. When babies start to disappear in Vegas, not once did Aurora ever imagine that Lily would be one of the kidnap victims. So when the unthinkable happens, it forces Aurora to once again partner with Lily’s daddy, Kai, who’d previously walked out on her. This time, her heart will be kept firmly in lock-down where it’s safely resided since he disappeared and left her high and dry. Almost a year later, still heartbroken over having lost Aurora, Kai learns he’s become a daddy. When a crazy lunatic kidnaps his baby ...

Left high and dry, Aurora battles against her love for Kai. She eventually fights her way out of the pain of abandonment when she learns that Kai unknowingly left her with a part of himself she can love. Of course, she’s also forced to take on another partner. A ditzy gal who gets under her collar at first, but whose chatty cheerfulness and incredible skills soon win her a place on Aurora’s best-friend list. Then there’s the good-looking devil, Jeff Waters, who’s the owner of the fantastic new casino in town. He makes up his mind he desires Aurora. She’s his type of woman, and ...

Rylee couldn’t believe her rotten luck...Being chosen as one of the agents to play bodyguard to a spoiled billionaire while sailing on a Caribbean cruise depresses her...a lot. The dude - so important to the government that they’re willing to provide the best to protect him - won’t even know they’re in place. The big question - why her? She prefers work that matters, the dirty jobs, on the streets, in the trenches, and her boss knows it.

When attractive Las Vegas detective, Aurora Morelli, makes a friend, she takes the relationship very seriously. And if someone hurts that person, they’re going down. Slim and dainty, she has the heart of a lion, and when angry, the manners of a she-cat. Therefore the sicko who attacked her partner has become her prime target and nothing or no one will stand in her way. Except maybe her new partner who arrives in town full of vengeance for the same culprit. Kai Lawson, a Bruce Willis look-alike, annoys her, and almost from the beginning, things go wrong. She questions whether they should ...

Identical twins but different men--she loves both! In this electrifying romantic suspense set in the steamy streets of New Orleans, Lieutenant Commander Nik Baudin accidently meets up with an identical twin he never knew existed. When his brother Max goes missing, Nik assumes his identity as Special Agent Maximilian. This gives him access to FBI files, making it easier to arrest the gangsters who attacked his brother and to stop their trafficking of underage girls. Being that Nik has specialized commando training, he’s the perfect man for the job.

When Sloan Booker’s father dies tragically, he has no other option but to give up his job as an FBI agent and take over his family’s vehicle restoration business in Oahu, Hawaii. Giving up his badge is difficult but having Homeland Security and his old boss request the use of his house in a stakeout, spying on his Muslim neighbors who they suspect are terrorists, is just too damn much for a man already frazzled. It makes no difference that they’ve offered him a partner to be in charge of the surveillance...until he meets the gorgeous divorcee.

If love for his father makes a man weak, what’ll happen when he gives his heart to a woman? When Special Agent Finnegan O'Reilly gets shot, and the news brings on his father’s heart attack, he decides to take leave from further undercover assignments. The O'Reilly has suffered enough, and Finn can’t be the cause of more distress for this beloved old rascal. Unexpectedly, his boss forces one more case on him - to take place in their own pub.

Dive into the party streets of Nashville where Agent Lucifer is undercover as a country singer, navigating a whirlwind of dysfunction to root out the deadly drugs ravaging the community. His devilish, withdrawn personality suits his name and maintaining a facade of friendliness towards tourists strains his resolve. Thanks to an old friend, a guitar wiz who has his back, he soldiers on until the gorgeous, mysterious Honey Bolder stumbles into his world, stirring up trouble with her probing inquiries. Working as a high school teacher, Honey has put in her time in dealing with insolent teens ...

Agent Anastacia has always been protective of her personal space. Her co-workers respect her wishes and her world proceeds in the secure way that makes her happy. Until she’s asked to step out of her comfy zone and take her war-stricken, newly orphaned, Ukrainian cousin under her wing. Fifteen-year-old Hanna needs a lot of understanding, comforting… love. Not particularly something Ana feels she’s capable of providing. Now Nash Ralph, a life-loving, carefree, firefighting hotshot who they meet on their journey to the lake area, has those traits and lives them without feeling his ...