FOR HER SON'S SAKEMallory Brenner's life was in a tailspin. Her son, Nick, had been diagnosed with a fatal disease and his best hope of survival was Dr. Kent Berger, the one man Mallory never expected–or wanted–to see again. For more than ten years Mallory had kept Nick's paternity a secret and now, to save her son, Mallory would continue to keep it. Still, the more time the two males spent together, the harder Nick fell for his n ...
Trisha August is determined to be independent and will do anything–well, almost anything–for enough money to set up her own business. She can't believe her luck when hotshot Lassiter Dragan promises to give her a loan….But there's a catch–she has to become his temporary «wife» for the Christmas holidays!Lassiter has sworn that he'll never make himself vulnerable through love. So a convenient, temporary wife seems the perfect solut ...
Falling for the rebel… After being jilted by her boyfriend, Marnie was determined never to stay in one place too long. But from the moment she arrived in Texas and clashed with sexy Jericho Bravo, she was finding all sorts of reasons to stay put. Too bad the rugged loner couldn’t say the same. Or could he?Jericho was making Marnie believe in second chances. Was the proud, wary rebel willing to risk his heart? Because he already owned hers… ...
Iced-in at the airport, cradling the kicking, squealing infant daughter he'd only just discovered, Jackson Powers was fresh out of patience. And now he'd hooked up with fellow strandee Hetty Reynolds, a woman who didn't fit into any of his neat pigeonholes. A woman who spoke softly and sang husky off-key lullabies to a stranger's crying baby…with eyes the color of rainwater and a body created for love. He needed a survival gu ...
The higher your walls…Lexi Preston has gone from the courtroom to the barroom–as the world's worst waitress at Brevia's hot spot Riley's Bar. Lexi's back in town to right old wrongs, not to fall in love–but she's finding it awfully hard to avoid her impossibly gorgeous new boss.The harder you fallFormer U.S. marshal Scott Callahan is still grieving his partner's death–and recovering from one drunken night w ...
Travis Bravo was sick of his meddling mother and her matchmaking ways. So what better way to stop her than to bring a fiancee home for the holidays? One catch–he wasn't even dating anyone. But that was where his rough-and-tumble oil-rig friend, Samantha Jaworski, came in.An unpolished tomboy, Sam was game for anything for a good friend. But after her girlfriend-ready makeover, she fell easily into the role of Travis's loving partner–an ...
INTEROFFICE MEMOFROM: MATTHEW HARDING, CEO, HARDING HOTELSREGARDING: STEPHANIE ROSSI, MY PERSONAL ASSISTANTWhen Stephanie Rossi was promoted from our operations department to be my right-hand woman, I was skeptical at first. But her amazing efficiency and plainspoken Brooklyn smarts*#151;not to mention the gorgeous looks she keeps under wraps at work– soon won me over. After Stephanie's amazing performance–both personal and professional–dur ...
One Hard-Luck Baby Had the Whole Town Abuzz…When Liam McAllister, Lord Roderick, returned from England after twenty years, he landed on Dr. Allie Lockwood's doorstep–with an abandoned baby boy! The townfolk knew the score: the playboy aristocrat had become a devoted widowed dad yearning for a son–and their dedicated, divorced hometown doc hungered for the children she couldn't have.Sure, their vying intentions to singlehandedly adopt t ...