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Attorney Caine MacGregor had a reputation for being a demon in and out of the courtroom. The dashing young attorney rarely met a case - or a woman - he couldn't win. But Diana Blade was no ordinary lady. Caine yearned to break down her icy wall of control and release the passionate woman within. He might be able to convince Diana to form a business partnership, but could he entice her to risk everything for the love of a MacGregor?

Though she wiles away hours immersed in the pages of romance novels, shy and anxious Felicity Goode has vowed never to become a bride. How can she share a life - not to mention a bed - with a man if she can’t bring herself to share a simple conversation without trembling and stuttering? Once news of her obscene inheritance circulates through the ton, she is barraged not only by a slew of suitors, but also several distressing threats against her life. What she needs is a bodyguard.

Seventeen-year-old Clocker Saira Elian is back on the run.… And being hunted by Mongers. The Descendants of War are amassing power in the 21st century, bent on controlling all the Immortal Descendants. Their attempt to kidnap Saira, a rare Descendant of Time and Nature, reveals just how brazen they’ve become. Archer, the Descendant of Death who has loved Saira for over a century, is willing to risk everything to protect her.

They've teased each other mercilessly since childhood, but Whittaker Cole, Earl of Thurston, and Miss Mirabelle Browning are about to discover that trading kisses is much more enjoyable than trading barbs.

In Tempting Fate by Jane Green, Gabby and Elliott have been happily married for 18 years. They have two teenaged daughters; they have built a life together. So why does 43-year-old Gabby feel like she has only three more minutes left of youth? Why do her friends so desperately try to hang on to their attractiveness? And why does she ever even look at the handsome guy - 10 years younger - at the other end of the bar one night? Gabby is the last person to have an affair - a physical one, at least.

Kelly Taylor's career as an investigative journalist was derailed by a news story that resulted in tragedy. But she may get another shot at the brass ring. After vanishing 25 years ago, the long-lost son of a powerful state senator has turned up in her Arizona town. With few memories of his childhood, Logan McCord grew up to become a trained killer who fights terrorism. A twist of fate reunites the Special Ops agent with his family, but the homecoming isn't what he expected.

He’s not ready to be a father. She wasn’t expecting a baby daddy. Billie Beaumont never let anything hold her back from going for what she wanted. She wants a baby before her biological clock chimed twelve and her eggs turned back into pumpkin seeds. The time is ten thirty-seven and ticking towards midnight. Making the decision to take matters into her own hands isn’t an easy one. Being a single mom will be hard but also extraordinary. Sam SuMartra is one royal who isn’t ready to be tamed. That changed the day he found out he was going to be a father. Being raised by a single mother...

Harlow-Rose Robinson has never had to struggle. Raised by wealthy, supportive parents, she had an Ivy League education and now owns a successful winery. The one thing she lacks is “the one.” She thought she met him two years ago, but their lives were on different paths that couldn’t cross. When her family’s business burns to the ground, she comes face to face with the man she never forgot.

Hailey Firestone's world shatters when she becomes ensnared in a treacherous love triangle in the crime-ridden streets of Fairview City. First, there’s Ash Blackthorn, the dashing heir to a notorious crime syndicate, whose dangerous allure pulls Hailey into a thrilling but perilous game. His roguish charm hides a world of violence that she finds hard to resist. Then there’s Kai Clearwater, rumored to be the estranged son of Ash's family’s fiercest rivals. His intentions are cloaked in mystery—will he be her savior or her downfall?

What happens when true love is torn apart? Anne-Marie Johnston has always had one true love. She lived through high school because of Damon Williams Jr., but every day since his parents tore him away from her, she spends her time surviving. Hoping he will breathe life back into her. Damon Williams Jr., preaches from his father's pulpit now, but every time he sees the woman he loved so long ago, he can't stop his heart's desire to hold her again. With the perfect preacher's wife and his first baby on the way, Damon does his damnedest to resist Anne-Marie's pull. But hearts that have known ...

New York Times best-selling author Carla Neggers delivers spellbinding tales brimming with mystery and romance. In Tempting Fate, successful entrepreneur Dani Pembrooke joins forces with security expert Zeke Cutler to discover the truth about her mom’s disappearance 25 years ago. But Dani doesn’t know that Zeke has his own motive for this search—or that they’re on a collision course with a killer who will stop at nothing to keep the secret buried.

Justice Manning is talked into a lingerie modeling job...and forgets her inhibitions after meeting the sinfully gorgeous photographer, Black Savoy. When the photo shoot turns hot and heavy, the last thing she pictures is that lust might turn to love.

Life was far from perfect after my mother's sudden death, but it was one I'd grown to love. And now, it's a life I'll never know again. Not after she and her two cruel sons entered our lives. My father swore he'd never love again, but just as suddenly as Merelda arrived, she became the very center of his world . . . and just as quickly, I was all but forgotten. Still, I did not complain . . . if only for my father's sake. Not even when cruel words turned into even crueler punishments at my new step family's hands.

One warning, two cautions, and a note: WARNING: In deference to a truth universally acknowledged that men do not behave the same when no women are present as they do in mixed company, this vagary does have occasional uses of profanity. The men in my life would consider it amusing but naïve to afford the same semantics of conversation for wholly different circumstances such as these, or they would should one of them choose to read it. This vagary proposes an alternate telling of the original Pride and Prejudice and considers what may have happened should the characters have been afforded a ...

A soul lost in a world of darkness that wants nothing more than to devour me. To claim me as its own before I have a chance to escape. Before I have a chance to remember who I am...and how I came to be here. Before I remember him. But even then, the Underworld has no intention of letting me go. Not unless I can win them to my side.

Anne-Marie opens her heart to love another man. It’s with Adam Vincent that she finds healing and begins to move forward in her life. But when Damon asks her to do something that could ruin the peace she has found, she has to make a tough choice. Will his request pull her into his embrace once again or will she have the strength to continue on the road to doing the right thing? Damon Williams’ heart is still torn asunder between two women, and he doesn’t want to let either go. His wife hates Anne-Marie for the place she holds in her husband’s heart. She hates Damon for changing her ...

Kelly Taylor's career as an investigative journalist was derailed by a news story that resulted in tragedy. Now, she's back in Sedona lying low as a local reporter for her grandfather's paper. But she may get another shot at the brass ring. After vanishing twenty-five years ago, the long-lost son of a powerful state senator has turned up in her Arizona town.

Death was all he deserved . . . until it wasn't. No sooner than I step out of sight of Death, and what our deal has wrought, do I regret the words I've spoken. My heart aches from the harshness of my tongue, and I wonder if I have made a grave mistake. And yet, I do not turn back. No. Instead, I harden my heart against these thoughts. Against my feelings. Sealing my fate with yet another mistake borne of disobedience . . . not only to my mother's dying wish, but to the true desires of my soul. A fate that will force me to my very knees to save the ones I love. To save him. To save . . . us.

For 11 years I’d lived in hell, fought temptation, and faced the devil I’d been forced to marry. So when the chance came to run, I hadn’t looked back. I’d fled to the only place I’d ever felt safe. Barrett’s Bay. My plan was simple, hide out until the dust settled, keep to myself, and stay safe. I hadn’t planned on getting in an accident, or on my teenage crush still living in the town he’d always planned to leave behind.

Across Crystal Canyon, the women are starting to figure out just how much power they really have. Some are eager to take advantage. Others are skeptical. It seems impossible to believe every male in the city is truly susceptible to female control. As the women in every household struggle with their new choices and freedom to take power, four wives meet to decide what they’re going to do. Sabrina, Elizabeth, Mary, and Joslin all love their husbands, but they might be tempted to take advantage. It’s Sabrina who first makes one point very clear: they need to respect the men in their lives....