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Kathryn Hawthorne, local Chicago celebrity, thinks everything in her life is just fine. She has friends, money, a job - everything she needs to survive. Except, of course, love, which, after getting her heart broken, she avoids like the plague. Pam Phillips, on the other hand, just buried the love of her life - her husband of 21 years. The last thing she wants is a new friend, let alone a new love interest. When the two women meet and swap witty banter, things start to change.

Army National Guard Colonel Sawyer Kincaid has served her time dueling with death in the deserts of Africa. Now that she's home, the only sand she wants to see is on the beach in South Florida. Too bad Tropical Storm Leo, swiftly gaining strength out over the Atlantic, is about to draw her in to another life or death war, this time on home soil. Dr. Dara Sims has too many critical patients in the intensive care units at Miami Memorial to consider evacuation, no matter how determined the battle-hardened colonel is to make her. As far as Dara is concerned, evacuate is just another word for abandon. When a state of emergency becomes a state of siege waged by Leo, all she can do is hope the rising waters relent before she loses everyone, herself included. 

Federal prosecutor Bianca Cruz has spent her life balancing motherhood with the call of her career. As she draws closer to making the case against the notorious Vargas brothers, danger casts dark shadows over her family. When her case leads her to a gorgeous horsewoman with a mysterious background, will she take a chance at love even if it means risking everything she's worked her entire life to protect?   

Olivia Dawson is in a personal and creative rut when her interior design team nets a contract that could change everything. Olivia grabs the chance to reignite her passion, to step outside her comfort zone, and to achieve national exposure if she delivers everything the client expects. Savannah Quinn fled a broken heart and started fresh in a new city, at a new job, without any of her past in the rearview. Her new position as corporate liaison to Olivia and her team is exactly the distraction she's looking for. She doesn't have to settle into her empty apartment if she's never there.

DEA agent Dale Nelson paid the ultimate price for her service when her wife was killed by drug dealers. Now she's assigned to a task force investigating the suspects, and she doesn't need the distraction of the beautiful but infuriating reporter, Lindsey Ryan.  

Desperate to see his sons settle down, especially after he’s been given six months to a year to live, elderly hotel magnate and family patriarch Jonah E. Belmont, III, gives his sons a bucket-list challenge. They each must wed - or at least be in a stable, loving relationship before he passes on in order to keep their respective inheritance in the prestigious Belmont Hotels & Resorts legacy. Only his sons are not too convinced about getting married for any reason and vow to remain single...and safe from heartbreak. 

When law school sweethearts Tanner Cohen and Sydney Braswell witness their perfect plans for career and family fall apart, they vow never to look back. Now, years later, they're both assigned to the same federal task force - Tanner as an FBI agent, and Sydney as a special prosecutor - and they must work together if they want justice to be served. The obstacles that forced them apart still exist, but their strong connection cannot be denied. Will they embrace their second chance to be soul mates, or will their dedication to duty deny them happiness forever?

When you love someone, there's suddenly a whole lot more to consider, to risk, to fight for. Mackenzie "Mouse" James's life is all about firefighting. Being a firefighter fills her waking hours, leaving her too tired to think, to socialize, or to put herself out there. A large part of Sarah Macarthur's success as a doctor is due to the structure and control that she has established to help her cope when all the elements are thrown her way.

Diana Mallory lost everything when her five husbands were taken from her on the other side of the galaxy. Back on the Milky Way side of the black hole, she’s deep into the war for Mars Station. Diana will do anything for her family, but every day is a living hell without the loves of her life. She assumes she’ll never see them again. But Damian, Sterling, Cash, Lewis, and Judge are on their way to her. When they find her they won’t let war, allegiance, or time differentials keep them from reclaiming their love.

A witness to a murder has gone missing.... Duncan Crane vanished without a trace. He left his bank account, his credit cards, and his phone behind. But there's no body, no blood, and no signs of a break-in or struggle. His disappearance could be foul play. After all, Crane witnessed a gangster kill a man in cold blood outside a strip joint, but without a crime scene, the police department isn't willing to open an investigation.

Brynn Williams is out of prison, no thanks to Sergeant Kat Vander, who arrested her four years earlier. But something happens on the way home, testing not only Brynn's core as a human being, but her loyalty to her family as well. Sergeant Kat Vander is one hell of a cop. So when she and her partner are ambushed and shot, the department is up in arms. But more surprising is who helped them after the attack. Brynn Williams belongs to the town's most troubled family. She helped Kat, but now she's on the run. Can Kat find her, and more importantly, fight her feelings for a known criminal?

Three years ago, Summer Morrison’s happy, normal life was thrown into upheaval. Forced to discover before she was ready that she was half-wolf shifter and mated to the pack’s enforcer has left Summer moody, shaken, and resentful. When tragedy strikes her family, Summer is forced to come back to the world of the Westervelt Wolves...and into the arms of Cullen Murphy.

Has this feisty female detective met her match? After three months undercover, Detective Liv DeMarco isn't any closer to closing her case. Her target, Axel Kincaid, is smart and ruthless. His forte - stealing cars. His temperament- violent. And his legitimate business keeps half the judges and city officials entertained, so collecting enough evidence to put him behind bars is nearly impossible. But when a parking attendant is murdered and two exotic sports cars are stolen, all bets are off. There's just one problem.

When one man can't steal her heart, she gives it to five of them. Restless and uncertain, Diana Mallory has no idea what path in life she wants to take. Unable to choose between marriage, pursuing a career, or spending her life praying with the sisters of the universe, Diana struggles with the course of her future. But when she's thrown through a black hole, her choices all vanish. Suddenly, her only focus is surviving life on the ice planet. Life on a strange planet isn't as it seems. With five men vying for her heart and body, Diana grapples with her feelings for each of them.

Kate Medina had been working as a forensic psychologist and loving every minute, until a violent attack left her shaken to the core. She’s retreated to her hometown where it’s safe, accepting a job where the prospect of violence is slim to none. As a high school psychologist, Kate tends to the emotional needs of the youth. It’s not the career she envisioned.

Desperate to see his sons settle down, especially after he’s been given six months to a year to live, elderly hotel magnate and family patriarch Jonah E. Belmont, III gives his sons a bucket list challenge. They each must wed - or at least be in a stable, loving relationship before he passes on and in order to keep their respective inheritance in the prestigious Belmont Hotels & Resorts legacy. Only his sons are not too convinced about getting married for any reason and vow to remain single…and safe from heartbreak. 

Tall, dark, and handsome security systems mogul, Brandon Knight considers himself too emotionally damaged to be in a long-term relationship. His ex-girlfriend betrayed him in a bad way and slept with his rival. Now he finds out that he’s really the son of hotel magnate Jonah Belmont III, and to top it off...Jonah is urging all his sons to settle down soon before he passes on to receive the Belmont family blessing. Brandon has no plans to settle down ever and fulfilling that dying wish, until...a lovely professional organizer by the name of Faith Johnson stumbles into his life.

Notorious playboy and hotel heir, Chase Belmont, needs to get away from it all - gold-digging women, a sex tape scandal, and unwanted media attention. Now, he’s in a dilemma surrounding the grave illness of his father, patriarch Jonah E. Belmont, III, who urges him to marry soon or find true love before the elder passes on. After Chase is summoned to the scenic waterfront Belmont Valley Ranch & Spa for an emergency, he decides to go undercover as Chad, a maintenance worker, but his emotions are anything but undercover when he meets the new, lovely housekeeper....

Listen to the first three books in the series: The Billionaire's Second-Chance Bride, A Bride for the Billionaire Bad Boy, and The Playboy Billionaire. 

Pamela Alvarado, the Romero family's loyal press secretary, finally plucks up the courage to tell her deliciously gorgeous eligible boss, Troy Romero, how she truly feels about him. But when she goes to share her feelings with him one evening, she bumbles into a humiliating and heartbreaking situation when she learns that he's...getting married!