forced proximity

A dragon destroyed Rilla’s family and her home. So, how did anyone convince her to willingly sacrifice herself to the monster?Or a monster—since the dragon who comes out of the mountain to claim her is definitely not the monster who attacked her farm. This one is sinuous and black, with shockingly green eyes that mesmerize…

For the first time since the world ended, Ellen feels at home.

Ellen has survived the end of the world by keeping her head down and her heart locked tight.

Shadowed by masks and etched with scars, can love bloom b

Harriet Blackthorn has never been the kind of woman to accept the place society has chosen for her. But in Victorian England, independence is a dangerous ambition. Widowed at just twenty, Harriet loses everything. Without fortune, family or protection, she is cast into a world where a woman's survival depends upon the goodwill of others-and where trust can prove as dangerous as poverty itself. 

Emerson and John meet on the boardwalk as the moonlight dances off the Chesapeake Bay. She thinks he’s gorgeous and comes down with a case of instalove. He thinks she’s a panhandler and gives her five dollars. The embarrassment is enough to send tattoo-sleeved and turpentine-stained antiques restorer Em running for a life makeover. The only problem is, she’s spent the last decade looking after everyone else in her little town and now she’s totally forgotten how to self-care. Adding to that garbage heap of a situation is tonight’s blind date.