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Twenty-two-year-old Lara is dedicated to her studies as a law student at Melbourne University. She has no interest in love or relationships, and instead spends her free time hanging out with friends, visiting her grandmother in the nearby seaside town of Anglesea, and hitting the waves on her surfboard. But when a mysterious new student arrives at Lara's school, everything changes. Try as she might, she just can't fight the instant attraction she feels towards this gorgeous, slightly older man.Transfer student Marcus likes Lara immediately and sets out to earn her friendship - and only her friendship. Because Marcus has a secret that no one at school knows - a secret that, if revealed, could jeopardize not only his relationship with Lara, but everything he's worked for his entire life. But when their mutual attraction rises to a point that can no longer be ignored, Marcus must choose between giving into his feelings for Lara, despite the fact that he's lying to her, and walking away forever.Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors

Edie Rowan is passionate about workers' rights, wanting her Sixties protester grandparents to be proud of her. But championing the little guy gets her in trouble with sexy CEO Everett Kirk. Kirk is Mr. Ultra-Executive with his expensive hand-tailored suits and his eyes the steel blue of a finely tempered sword - but for the intriguing contradictions of his neat ponytail and square workman's hands.Edie's latest disaster, a teambuilding exercise gone facepalm wrong, leads to a knockdown drag-out with rival manager Bethany "The B" - or add the "Itch" - Blondelle. The incident is the last straw for Kirk. He sends Edie to management camp and to her shock, announces he will drive her there himself. She wonders why he would want eighteen hours of enforced intimacy with her, even as she's dazzled by his sparkling white smile and killer dimple.Everett walks away from the confrontation with a headache. For years he has protected Edie from the fallout of her righteous crusading, but this may be the last time. A corporate backstabber is trying to eject Everett from his job. Even so, he's looking forward to spending time on the drive with Edie, attracted to her sunny red curls, fiery personality, and fine dark eyes.Then a snowstorm forces them to seek shelter in an empty mountain cabin. Edie thinks she will take the lead in wilderness survival but Kirk proves more durable than his Italian loafers and silk sweater would suggest. The extended stay rubs them together in all sorts of ways, kindling emotional and physical flames. But when their corporate shells burn away, what secrets will be revealed?Sensuality Level: Sensual

Deep in the muggy swamps where there is but one rule, kill or be killed, a new species has emerged - born not from nature but spawned from evil.Octavia wasn't stupid. Those unfortunate souls who have crossed paths with her didn't just become swamp creatures, they became the least deadly of them. She hadn't counted on the strong spirits of those she'd cursed.From those murky swamp depths, a hero emerged. The type from which legends are born.Moss, whose sensual iridescent tattoos are in fact thanks to his reptilian side, still struggles to come to terms with his fate and wants nothing more than to be left alone. Beth's life becomes upturned when she reluctantly agrees to accompany her idiotic brother on a hunt for the Bog Man. When she becomes separated from the others she comes face to face with the legend himself . . . only no one ever mentioned how damn sexy he was.The swamp's dark history tests the duo on their survival skills as well as luring them deeper into the magic of the swamp.Sensuality Level: Sensual

Shauna Marino left Cottage Grove, California an innocent teenager, gangly, wild, and with no fashion sense, always diving headfirst into whatever feelings ruled the moment. Now, she's back to fix her mistakes. She's gained a respectable job, set a plan in motion to benefit the town, and all that's left is to prove to Grayson Schyler she's changed. Maybe this time, he won't tell her no when she shows up naked and asks him to make her a woman.Grayson Schyler, former Wimbledon champion, would've recognized Shauna anywhere. She's made his life sweeter one moment - and hell the next. As someone in the public eye, he'd gone to great strains not to allow the media to misread their relationship, which wasn't always easy when Shauna was around. Now she's back, asking for his help, and all he can think about is if she came back to make him pay for what he'd done.Sensuality Level: Sensual

Peace Officer Raylie McPherson's mission in life is to protect animals from abuse, and if that means throwing the abusers in jail, so be it. So when the report of two downed horses comes in - from renowned Starstruck Stables, nonetheless - Raylie assumes she can make a quick headline arrest. Despite having to face her horror from the last time she rode, making her relive her fiancé's death every time she sets foot in a stable, she is determined to do her job. Her coworker swears the owner is innocent, but Raylie's experience tells her he simply can't be. But the suspect is anguished, grieving, and too rich to need the insurance money.Ashton Lyre is devastated over the loss of his two favorite horses-a money maker and a brat. So he's surprised that the pretty Peace Officer accuses him of the foul deed-for money, no less. She fears his horses, which intrigues him, for she's obviously ridden before. However, he knows he must be cautious, for he just discovered his very empire was built on shaky ground. Should the pretty cop learn of his fraudulent start, he fears everything he owns could be forfeited, and every case that dips into his past dredges up his fears.Sensuality Level: Sensual

Louis and Bishou are together at last! Bishou has left America behind, and is ready to make a new life on the island and give her beloved Louis the normal, ordinary life he has missed. Louis longs to be a husband and a father.On Reunion Island in 1969, Louis Dessant, now a convicted felon, struggles to return to a respectable place in island society, and atone for his past sins. Bishou Howard, deeply in love with Louis, diligently works her way into the all-male bastion of the University as its first female professor. Together, with the faithful Campards at their backs, they face down parish priests, college deans, and local witch-women in their quest for happiness.Bishou's brothers - her twin, Bat (Jean-Baptiste) Howard, the Viet vet, with younger brothers Andre and Gerard Howard - travel to Ile de la Reunion for an exotic, joyful wedding. However, one woman has not forgotten that Louis was affianced once before, to her little sister Celie - who was betrayed and killed on her way to marry him. Adrienne Bourjois has neither forgiven nor forgotten that Louis fell in love with the wrong woman, and killed a man to protect the impostor from justice. Now Adrienne is on her way to Reunion Island with a gun in her hand, and cold murder in her heart.But times have changed. Adrienne has not reckoned with the sincerity of Louis, the determination of Bishou, or the strength of Bat Howard to vanquish her bitter loneliness.Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors

Cahal Wallace is the perfect man: handsome, athletic, and famously successful - and he is also the first man Lila ever loved.While being the wife of a professional hockey player may seem like a dream, for Lila it became a nightmare of betrayal and infidelity. Now, just as she's about to finalize her divorce from the superstar goaltender, he's been traded to their hometown of Toronto and suddenly the entire city's attention is on the man who could bring home the championship.But Cahal's also brought a stalker with him and he and Lila find themselves thrown back together as he tries to protect her. How can Lila ever trust the man who destroyed her dreams of a hockey happy ever after?Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors

Deputy DA Margo Keyes is looking forward to this trip with as much enthusiasm as she'd have for a root canal. There's the Philly summer heat, the high school reunion she'd rather avoid, and the speech she'd be giving as a last-minute stand-in for her boss. Mostly there's facing high school crush Tony Alessandro. When she'd last seen the Philly cop, he'd danced her out of his sister's wedding reception to a dark room where he'd kissed her senseless. If his nephew hadn't interrupted they'd have . . . well, who knows?Tony had disappeared on some family errand. She went home to Portland, Oregon the next day. She hadn't heard from him since.However, her homecoming turns out better than expected. The reunion and the speech work out. Even better, when she and Tony pick up where they left off in that dark room, the only heat that's unbearable is what they generate in bed.Margo returns to Portland wondering if she and Tony have started something she might not be ready for, relieved she's put a whole continent between them to give her breathing room to sort it. Then his work with a federal task force investigating industrial espionage brings him to Portland. And an accidental swap of messenger bags on her flight home puts her in the middle of the investigation.Tony wants her out of the way of the bad guys and focused on him. She wants to use a secret from her past to wrap up the case. And maybe avoid having to think about what's happening between them.They can't both win. Or can they?Sensuality Level: Hot