contemporary romance

Disfigured, Ava Sinclair hides behind flawless performance, refusing to be defined by a small-town scandal or the face she barely recognizes in the mirror. Success might buy redemption, but healing from shame is a far harder journey.

AEverything seems straightforward enough when agreement is reached for Dream Cafe to hold tennis club social events while the nearby clubhouse is being rebuilt.

Fake it till you fall in love… Shy and reserved Lord Henry Foxbrooke is the reluctant heir to his eccentric father’s estate. His outrageous family want him back in Somerset and settling down, but he wants a stress-free life in London. Facing a weekend of celebrations for his thirtieth birthday, he needs a fake girlfriend to get them all off his back.

Never again. That's what Chloe Swartz swore to herself after the loss of her husband three years ago: Never again would she let herself fall in love. Especially with men who run into burning buildings for a living. But that promise is put to the test when she finds herself on her knees for a man who reignites the flames of desire inside of her. With Holden, she finds a refuge from her grief as he lavishes pain and pleasure on her in equal measure.

Long winters, hard work, and gorgeous scenery. Joy Bennett is prepared for anything and everything when she moves from her comfortable home in the city to the middle of nowhere Maine. Everything except Raymond Reddington. A real, honest-to-goodness mountain man. She wasn't prepared for his gruff voice or his short temper. Or for the way her heart beats faster and her core tightens with need whenever he's around. And she certainly wasn't prepared to enjoy going over his knee so he could redden her bottom the second she steps out of line.

Except, now he can't get those eyes out of his mind. And when he learns her brush with death wasn't of her own doing, he vows to keep her safe until the real threat is eliminated. His fascination with her only increases when he gets her over his knee, with her beautiful body practically begging for more of his strict dominance. Hidden away from the world, it seems as though the two of them have everything they could ever need in each other.

After suffering horrific abuse as a child, Allen Williamson struggled his entire life to fit in. Finding acceptance in an elite team of Green Berets, his life and his career were on the right track until a call from home derailed everything. The sudden loss of his mother brings him back to Mountlake Terrace and puts him directly in the path of her colleague, Freddie, whose keen observation leaves Allen both annoyed and intrigued. Despite his broken heart, he finds himself unable to ignore her allure.

When Fatima Ali was taken by terrorists, she thought her life was over. When they took her mother away too, she lost all hope, until she saw the tall man with warm amber eyes. Sgt. Marcus DuBose, codename: Skyscraper, never allowed himself to grow attached to hostages. His job was to get in, rescue, and return them home with the greatest efficiency. The deadliest of his Spec Ops team, Skyscraper is cold and calculating, but beneath the icy surface beats the heart of a musician, and oddly enough, a man who believes he’s unworthy of love.

For Sergeant First Class Jason Lee Gordon, codename Doc, a Green Beret medic in a tight-knit special operations group, life happened, and he rolled with it. The easy-going charmer only ever had to flash his dimples and women lined up outside his door, already half in love with the caring Doc. But casual hookups were growing old after seeing his friend and team leader, Outlaw, fall in love. He’d begun to think he’d never find his special someone until a sniper ambush brings him to a quiet, troubled nurse.

A weekend in London leads to kidnapping after one hot night with a sexy Green Beret. For political journalist Emma Jane Lewis, Captain Nathan James Oliver, code name, Outlaw, represents exactly the kind of man she never wanted to date. Too stubborn, too muscled, and too much of an alpha male for her taste. But his touch sends tingles throughout her entire body. His nearness makes her hot and bothered, and despite her better judgement, she wants him. It was one night. What could be the harm? When Nate meets Emma, the attraction is instant.

Chicago wedding planner Ivy Rhodes is blindsided when a reality TV crew shows up at one of her weddings. They’re an intrusion ...and a complication, since the sexy cameraman’s a relentless flirt. Ivy follows his easygoing charm straight into the bedroom. Dealing with bridezillas was not what Bennet Westcott expected when a scandal cost him his career as a news videographer. But the gorgeous wedding planner on his latest assignment has him saying “I Do”... to a one-night stand.When he discovers Ivy’s a forever kind of girl, he walks away, breaking her heart.

Throwing down the gauntlet has never been so wild. Just ask Hadley Beckett. Marriage. That word drives my nuptial-phobic boyfriend of three years, Finn Wilder, who is Richmond’s sexy, golden boy daredevil sportscaster, to the brink of madness. While the daredevil thrives on adrenaline and danger and eagerly professes his love for me, he’ll walk on the wild side and not down the aisle. Furthermore, Finn Wilder is single, according to his coworkers and viewers—Finnatics. I don’t exist.

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Sweet, charming, and full of Christmas magic. It'll warm your heart for the holidays. Seventeen-year-old Evelyn Hart is a broken shell of her former self. She can't even talk to the boy-band-cute barista in the mall without having a panic attack afterward. As she heads to the Cayman Islands for a pre-Christmas trip with her family, she dives into her art, hoping to forget her troubles.

Will her heart remember when her mind cannot?

In a country fraught with danger, adversity, and cultural differences, can Thomas and Rochelle cross the divides and overcome the simple truths to find their forever love? Having worked in Doctors without Borders, Rochelle Le Roux has seen the best and the worst of humankind and now she just wants to live a quiet life in South Africa. But when her path crosses that of the only man she’s ever loved she is forced to consider that maybe fate has brought her back for a reason.

In this Best Book Award-Winning Novel, thirty-year old Kate Grace is a successful lifestyle writer for a popular magazine in New York City. She has everything she could ever want -- a loving family, friends, and the man of her dreams. But when several unforeseen events threaten to upend her world, a friend comes to the rescue, offering Kate respite to mend her broken heart in the ancient, magic paradise that is Hanalei, Kauai. On the beautiful beaches of Hawaii, she ends up finding more than she bargained for - new life, new love, and synchronicities sent from beyond.

A unique novel, a romance that blows romantic conventions sky-high - as much literary fiction as romance . . . A full and sprawling epic, yet taut and organized, wired tightly with logic, intelligence, and unpredictability, flowing with primal energy and blood.

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Surfer and Seattle E.R. doctor Lorna Jacobs is pulled into a dangerous journey to find her estranged mother, who is dying from a mysterious illness. Lorna finally finds her, deep in Mexico, but Alex is more concerned with rekindling their mutual love of surfing than preparing for her last days. The secret big wave she plans to share with Lorna could bond them forever, or destroy them.