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Shaw Hollander is desperate. Broke, unemployed, and determined to help his ailing mother, he falls on the good graces of a wealthy benefactor who is willing to give Shaw a job at his mansion in order to pay off his mother’s debts. Suddenly finding himself surrounded by lavish riches, he has no idea what his duties truly entail until he’s sent to the rose garden and meets the tragically mutilated Isobel.

I have a confession to make: I have hated all things tinsel-related for years. Yeah, I know, most people have a right to hate things, but I don't. I'm Nick Kristoff, CEO of the biggest department store chain that specializes in the holidays. Hating a holiday I plan to promote all year long is kind of like living in hell. But that all changed the moment a bundle of sparkly energy hits me. And by hits me, I mean she rams into me, knocks me over, then lands on top of me. In that one moment, my life changed. The second I look into her hazel eyes, I know she's the woman for me.

This ballerina will dance just for me. I am my own man and I won’t end up like my brother - tamed and chained to one woman forever. But I like a good challenge. A challenge like her. Sara may embody the pure and innocent swan on stage, but this blue-eyed doll can’t hide the little nymph she really is. I've never seen a naked ballerina before, and I crave the lithe body of this one.

After the fall of the Mayan civilization, Kane, an immortal Night Walker, has taken refuge in France for over 800 years. The modern world holds little interest for him until the night he meets the Golden Thief, and is robbed of much more than his pocket watch.

Brody Cassidy. Navy SEAL. Southern boy. A guy's guy. He likes beer and barbecue and the occasional visit to the strip club just off base. What Brody doesn't know is that his future is about to be changed by a woman from his past. She was his first love. His first for everything. And he's never gotten over her.

Gio: I used to be a man people feared. When I stepped into a man’s space, he knew what was coming, but after an injury almost took my life, I vowed to change. Instead of being hated, I became less unpleasant. Then, a job forced me to open my eyes. Love and happily-ever-after weren’t in my game plan. Would my cold heart warm to accept or give respect to her when she deserved better? I refused to let her go, so I had no choice but to try.

Tony Russo thought he had it all figured out. Fresh out of prison and leading his crew of skilled bank robbers, Tony's plans to start over in Tampa seemed airtight. But after a series of high-stakes heists, their latest job goes disastrously wrong, leaving Tony and his crew on the run, hunted by the cops and facing a city closing in around them. In an ironic twist of fate, Tony finds himself in the middle of an amateur robbery at a Tampa dive bar. When the situation turns violent, Tony steps in to stop the chaos and protect an innocent bystander.

Kane Jackson, the ruler of the fantasy section of Club X, has always been different from his brothers. The bastard son of Cassian March III, he grew up without the money and privilege Cassian and Stefan enjoyed from the March name, instead knowing his father only as the man who abandoned him and seeing himself as unloved and unwanted. He let love in once and, like everything else in his life, all that came from it was pain.

Cassian March finally found a reason to give up his player ways. Crazy in love, he and Olivia are ready to take the next step and make it official, but just when life is perfect is exactly when everything can slip away.

What do you do when your cheating business partner/boyfriend (bad, bad idea) announces he’s selling your software company on Thursday to fund his new life with his other girlfriend? You hurry back to stop him, of course. He’s not getting rich on my dime! Or that would be the plan, but I’m currently lost in the Klamath Mountains, access to my car cut off by a California wildfire, and there’s no way I make it back in time.

My son, Logan, wants to have birthday parties, make friends, play at the park - all the normal things that seven-year-olds want to do. All the things I want to do with him. I've put up walls around our life to shield us from danger. Giant barriers to ward off possible threats. Cora Chapman crashes through them like a wrecking ball. She's intelligent and hilarious, with soft curves and a spark that ignites a flame deep inside of me. There's only one problem - she's Logan's teacher.

When a BBW realizes that her neighbor saw her naked, she feels like Chris would never want to meet her 'in the flesh'. He surprises her by showing up on the doorstep and after inviting him in she realizes that she could easily fall in love with him. What she's unsure about is how he'll take the news which happens a few weeks later.

Peepolykus (pronounced 'people-like-us') has toured its irreverent brand of comic theatre in more than 100 towns across four continents. Now the group has taken to the airwaves, hijacking the great works of fiction to hilarious effect. Assuming the roles of minor characters in major works, they derail the plots through their own hapless buffoonery, and from Madame Bovary to Macbeth, familiar stories take an unexpected turn.

I’m a romance novelist who no longer believes in love. My agent keeps calling it writer’s block, but I think what I have is more permanent. If I no longer believe in love, how can I continue to write books about it? Still, I take her suggestion to figure something out and find myself in Whiskey Valley at a ranch to get some firsthand knowledge of what cowboys really do. I am not prepared for the level of male hotness that greets me. Griffin is rough and tough and growly, but I catch glimpses of his tender underbelly that has even my iced-over heart melting a little.

Wrong side of the tracks - that's where Kayla's life has been. Her only saving grace was her sister, Braylin. When Braylin dies, Kayla goes on a mission to avenge her death. Nick is the mysterious stranger with the alluring devil's eyes. He is attractive, powerful, and dangerous. If not for her obsession for revenge, Kayla would never dare go near him. To lure Nick into her trap, she has to become what he needs while trying to fight against her growing desires. On a destructive path, Kayla enters a secret world of underground crime.

She's supposed to be the enemy - too bad the voices in his head claim otherwise. Kennet Baghadur, the oldest living son of Camulos - the God of War and a minor Serenity Faerie - hides his pain behind his laughter. Cursed by an angry demoness, the two parts of him, the faerie and God, are split. The result - the inside of his head is a constant battleground. To protect himself and those around him, he shows the world his Faerie side all the while hiding the dark passions he's inherited for his mighty father never wanting to cause a woman to go through what his own mother went through.

The moment I laid eyes on Penny, her innocent, submissive nature called to my dominant side. I volunteered to guide her exploration into my dark and decadent world. I'm also playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with an obsessed psychopath whose goal is to destroy me. When my worlds collide, I'm forced to call it quits between us. Soon, I discover I'm too late, and she's caught in the crossfire. Now, I'll do anything to protect the woman I'm falling for.

Can they break down each other's walls, and find the peace they seek with each other; can they take on all of the temptations and obstacles that come their way?This is the first book in the Temptation Series.

She's coming to his rescue. He's about to rock her world. Captain Avawain Morro understands one thing about earthlings - they are new to deep space travel and about as backward as they can be when it comes to intergalactic customs. When she's ordered to rescue the crew of a space station, she's surprised to discover the commander of the mission is as hot as hell and sends her mating hormones into the stratosphere. Commander Christian Anderson needs a woman. Years of being stuck in space have made him sex-crazed.

Declan Donnelly has spent years escaping his family’s wild reputation. He’s now a respectable businessman in Lost Coast Harbor—but the mild-mannered bookstore owner is hiding devilish desires. When he discovers the town's delicious baker is using him to get to his family, the devil comes out to play... Annabel Johnson doesn't always think things through, and her last bad decision led to a new name, a new home, and a new job laundering money for the most dangerous man in town. Years later, she’s almost free of that burden. All she needs to do is seduce the man she’s desired for years.