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Once you're in a prison gang, you're in it for life. That's what Mason Harding thought until the boss accepted his resignation. After the State releases him on parole, a sexy divorcée behind the wheel of a car almost ends his life quicker than a shank. His chance encounter with Mia Eddison results in a night of passion, but her brother - his parole officer - catches them together and doesn't approve. Mia falls hard for the cocky ex-con, but not because of his chiseled body. She vows to break through his walls and discover his secrets, but never expects those secrets to threaten her life. When members of an organized crime ring kidnap Mia to force Mason's return to the gang, he goes up against an old friend to save the woman he loves. Will his sacrifice be enough or will everything fall apart in a blaze of gunfire?

I have it all...until he shows me more. I didn't intentionally spill wine all over the most beautiful guy in the room, and one look at those icy-blue eyes brings on a major lapse in coherent speech. Jordan Caldera tells me his secret and wants me to join him. This is where my journey into submission begins. So much about BDSM freaks me out, but at the same time, I can't help but be intrigued. When I imagine Jordan doing those things to me, I can't resist the adventure. Mind-blowing sex aside, my life is changing at an alarming rate and getting very complicated. Between balancing my career and my best friend's concerns, the secrets I'm keeping are killing me. What am I willing to risk for the new lifestyle I've embraced...and the man I love?

Timing is everything¿ Small-town veterinarian Hallie Scott loves all creatures great and small except for boa constrictors and Basil Outlaw, the man whose Christmas Eve rejection slammed the door on her last chance to have a baby of her own. Baz Outlaw doesn't believe in love or family but his life is empty without Hallie. A year later he shows up under her tree prepared to give her everything but he's too late. Motherhood is out, Hallie's started a new life and Baz is harboring a small secret that could break her heart all over again. Will their sizzling chemistry and Hallie's warm heart be enough to overcome the timing and make this Christmas all about love?

Avalee Preston tries to silence the demons from her past and takes a chance at love with Ty Jackson, a man twelve years her junior and the brother to her long-dead fiance. As if she needs another complication in her life, his parents resent her, and he has grown children. Is love really enough for them to build a life together or is she confusing it with a fairy tale? Just what is love anyway? Maybe love was never intended for her after all. Ty deserves better.

Starved for blood, vampire, Nicholai Peterhof is greatly relieved when two tourists decide to grace his restaurant, but one sip from the pretty brunette and his world is forever turned upside down. Juliette Staint-John is everything he could have asked for in a heartmate; pretty, smart, built with curves in all the right places...and totally unavailable. Juliette doesn't want anything to do with the handsome, young-looking Nicholai. As if their differences aren't enough, the acute grief over the loss of loved ones keeps her heart guarded. He may be her fantasy, but that's all he can ever be. To get past Juliette's defenses and in order to keep her safe, Nicholai must prove himself worthy of her love and trust. Unbeknownst to the couple, her personal demons are not the only ones threatening their relationship. Hiding virtually unseen by the vampires, Demon Royalty plots to destroy not only the couple but the entire vampire breed. Luckily, Nicholai will do anything for Juliette - even if it means sacrificing himself.

Baron Witherspoon, a disfigured WWI vet, now a beat cop in a small Kansas burg, is on a collision course with Jake Hickey, a volatile Chicago gangster. While Baron wants merely to provide residents with a safe place to live and escape the memory of the horrors of war, Jake is looking to recapture the glory of Prohibition. Forced to hide out in Arkansas City, Baron's town, Jake's impatient nature drives him to put together his own gang. The local crime outfit is wary of Jake's dealings and lack of cooperation. Baron has his own suspicions but can't prove anything. A mutual acquaintance from the past, a dead war hero, holds a secret that raises the stakes even higher. Baron has too much to lose, but the town's future is in the balance.

Brendan O'Rourke hasn't had a decent night's sleep since he arrived back at the family home in St. John's, Newfoundland. The famed Celtic fiddler's being haunted by the ghost of his great-grandfather, Charlie, who's bent on keeping Brendan from ruining his life with the same selfish choice he made between music and the woman he loved. Grace Dawe was finished with Brendan O'Rourke eight years ago when he chose music over their relationship. So why can't she look at him now without going weak in the knees? And why, when he offers everything she's ever wanted, is she considering his welfare above her own? Not until a beautiful old tune shows them the true meaning of love will they find a way to play their own song.

Firefighter Ashton Blaise is brave, handsome, kind, and can cook both on the stove and in the bedroom. He routinely saves animals from the flames. Women want him, all except Leah Allain, new director of the local animal shelter, not even after he saves a kitten found in her burning house. Her resistance intrigues him as does the fact that her home was intentionally set afire. Not totally immune to Ash's charms, Leah is determined not to get involved with another guy out of her league like the married man who took advantage of her. Responsible for her senile grandmother, this time she cannot pull up roots and run. Though she picks on Ash's few faults to drive him away, he keeps finding excuses to be part of her life. Can Ash start a fire in Leah's heart and keep it blazing?

Milo Everhart is waiting out the rain in a pub when she is captivated by the handsome man next to her. Blocking the road to romance are two mysterious corpses who turn up in the tower of her Torpedo Factory Art Center. As if that weren't enough, a second crisis erupts-a proposal to gut her beloved art center. Tristram Brodie, hard-driving lawyer and former Marine, is focused on his plan to convert the Torpedo Factory into a box store. He is drawn to the beautiful Milo, but their mutual attraction will be frustrated by both the murders and his intentions. As they edge closer to love, they must find a way to overcome not only their differences but also the still-fresh memory of her late husband.

Vampire Metta Blautsauger is known as the family airhead and she works hard to keep up the façade. It's the perfect cover as she goes from dispensing her own brand of justice as a vigilante to an agent for Orcus, the Nosferatu shadow agency. Captured, tortured, and left for dead, she is forced to leave both the agency and Lucas O'Cuinn, the mentor she's grown to love. For the last century she's struggled with regret and boredom. Then her life is given new meaning when four mortal ministers ask her help in stopping a human trafficking ring. If Orcus discovers her unsanctioned involvement, they will brand her as a rogue. The penalty is death. It's only a matter of time before Lucas arrives-stake in hand. Lucas O'Cuinn has waited ninety-eight years for Metta's return and he's run out of patience. It's time she remembers she belongs to him.

Since infancy, Michael McLaren has been the target of his paternal grandfather's anger. So when the patriarch sends an invitation to heal the rift, McLaren travels to Scotland, eager to meet and finally end the feud. But the welcome never happens. If Grandfather hadn't invited him, who had? And why? In Edinburgh, a man standing beside McLaren in a bus queue is killed in a hit-and-run accident. After an attack leaves McLaren for dead on a wintry moor, he's convinced someone from his past is trying to murder him. As McLaren trails the hit-and-run driver from the medieval 'underground city' of Edinburgh to the Boar's Rock, the MacLaren Clan's ancestral meeting place, the assaults intensify, and he's plunged into a very personal hunt for a World War II treasure. The puzzle is fascinating; he just has to stay alive to solve it.

Evil lurks in the shadows, just a dream away... Due to a tragedy in his past, Night Warrior denies his calling as a great shaman for his people. As a DreamWalker, he knows better than most that power can easily be misused. But his life changes after he's injured in battle and brought back from death by the hauntingly sad eyes and lilting voice of a woman he's never met. Kangee's world is turned upside down following an attack on her SpiritWalker family. Her mother has disappeared, and her father has left her in a strange village to care for her younger sisters. When her nights are troubled by nightmares of an evil entity holding her mother captive, she turns to the wounded warrior who enters her dreams. Together, Night Warrior and Kangee embark upon a dangerous quest to save not only her mother, but the world, from the Father of Evil. As they explore the dream world in search for answers, they discover their destinies lie both in themselves and in each other.

No one messed with Georgia Mae Collins unless they wanted to deal with Nicholas Santiano. For sixteen years he protected her as if she was family. But the day he no longer saw her as a skinny girl was the day he faced his biggest fight¿his growing feelings for the woman he should not desire. As far as petite Georgia was concerned, she did not possess the qualities Nicholas looked for in a woman - she was definitely not his type and she knew it, so she never considered him to be anything more than a friend. But when her father is viciously attacked and Nicholas's sister is also hospitalized, Georgia and Nicholas are forced to turn to each other for comfort and discover the attraction is stronger than either one of them had imagined. But can their parents accept this new relationship?

Jack Reeves has loved Kinley Adams since the day he rescued her computer from a fatal blue screen. In the two years since, the computer programmer has fantasized about a life with her. Kinley, an Engineering Assistant, has come to think of Jack as more than just a friend. One night, just when each had finally decided to reveal their feelings are deeper than friendship, a terrible automobile accident puts their confessions on hold. Doctors have no choice but to rebuild Jack's face, and the result changes everything. Can Jack and Kinley overcome his transformation from geek to chic, a secret double life, and a horde of willing women who have discovered the new Jack Reeves? Will the frog ever become the prince and ride off with his princess to live happily ever after?

Party-girl and bayou babe Camilla Lind treats life like a game. After sleeping with her sister's fiancé, she's struggling to change, but karmic payback is a bitch. When the actions of her past crash into the present, they stand to ruin her future...and destroy any chance of love with the only man she's ever wanted. Rancher Jared Richardson guards his heart carefully after suffering the pain of infidelity. He never expected to fall for a woman like Camilla Lind, nor did he think he'd follow her across the country to beg for a second chance at love. As Hurricane Katrina bears down on them, can they weather the storm and put aside past hurts to embrace their future together?

Smokejumper Dave Knight lives by two simple rules-play hard, work harder. Heartache taught him love and commitment don't mix with his high-intensity lifestyle. That hot kiss with the classy Olivia Benedetti-Harper was a mistake, but he walked away in time. Too bad he can't run from the memories. Then a plane crash shatters his future, forcing him to face the ashes of his past, the woman he can't forget, and the toughest challenge of his life: Stop running. The right man broke her heart. How could the wrong man heal it? Obedient daughter and dutiful wife, Olivia always followed the rules-only to be abandoned by her unfaithful husband. As she rebuilds her life, bad-boy Dave is a sizzling temptation she can't afford. However, breaking the rules with the wrong man might be the best mistake this good girl's ever made for love.

Hope Monahan owns an earth to table restaurant in quiet Addington, Mass. A young widow, Hope has rebuilt her life. It's quiet and slow paced, but she likes it that way. International playboy superstar chef Lucien Durand is in Addington to open a new branch of his string of Cajun restaurants, L'Enfer. He means to stay only until he gets L'Enfer Addington off the ground. When Hope and Lucien compete with each other for the title of Addington's best restaurant, will they create a full course of true love? Or will it be a recipe for disaster?

One year ago, Marta Hughes won a purse-choking sum of money at a local casino. She never returned home. Her body was discovered in a ditch twelve miles from her home; her car was back in her driveway. Linnet Isherwood cannot let her friend's unsolved murder rest. She convinces ex-cop Michael McLaren to return to the work he loves. He sifts through a confusing web of lies, misconceptions and veiled motives. Are anonymous late-night phone calls, a vanished hitchhiker, and a stalker wielding empty beer bottles somehow related to the case? Or maybe the woman he broke off with is seeking revenge.

Widowed following a marriage of convenience, Jeannie MacWherter has fled lowland Dumfries, Scotland, for the highland cottage bequeathed to her late husband by his brother-in-arms, laird of the glen. Though she's never met the laird, local rumor labels him both murderer and seducer-a wicked, dangerous man who Jeannie learns is determined to chase her from his land. Finnan MacAllister has come home to Glen Mhor in order to right past wrongs. He doesn't care that Rowan Cottage is the beautiful Widow MacWherter's only refuge. He's convinced she's a wanton who deliberately broke the heart of his best friend, Geordie, and he's vowed to get even with her: seduction is his weapon of choice. But will his own heart betray him?

San Francisco, 1971: hippies in the streets, music and revolution in the air. The evening Marek Sumner opened his door to the wild-looking Felicity Powers, he knew nothing would ever be the same again. But even love and passion couldn't keep them together. Forty-three years later, having lived in the world's most dangerous places as a foreign aid worker, Felicity is back, still offering him love, passion, and adventure. But why would Marek risk having his heart broken a second time? Now a well-known author, he loves his calm, solitary life in an isolated farmhouse. He and Felicity are just too different; their relationship could never work. But Felicity is just as fascinating and joyful as ever, and that wonderful sexy magic is still there too. As for love, perhaps it's even deeper and more delightful the second time around.

Branson Cudahy is as southern as it gets, a cyber crime investigator from happily-landlocked Lexington, Kentucky. He has been chasing a hacker for three years, and now the trail has led him to Lobster Cove, Maine...which is a real problem for a guy with a shellfish allergy. Jenna Sanborn waits tables to pay the bills, but she dreams of opening a quilt shop in the heart of town. She'd never even think of leaving Lobster Cove, but the handsome newcomer is tempting beyond her wildest imaginings. Bran and Jenna never expect the whirlwind romance that comes out of their meeting. As hard as they fight to control their feelings, their hearts are fighting to push them over that dizzying lover's leap. Will love win out, or will the hacker-and their dreams-slip the net?

Mystery, suspense and romance flourish against a backdrop of Civil War turmoil and ancestral strife--where immortality infiltrates the ancient air breathed by all who inhabit Overhome Estate. Ashby Overton has everything to look forward to, including a promising writing career and her wedding at summer's end. But, Overhome, her beloved historic family estate in Southern Virginia, is in financial peril and it is up to Ashby to find a solution. Interfering with Ashby's plans is a dark paranormal force that thwarts her every effort to save Overhome. Supernatural attacks emanate from an old stone cottage on the property rumored to be a slave overseer's abode, prior to the Civil War. As the violence escalates, Ashby begins to fear for her life. Who is this angry spirit and why is his fury focused on her?

The psychic detective team of Crystal & Hale, former Atlanta police detective Jack Hale and his bride "Crystal Ball Kate," is on a two-week transatlantic cruise. They are called in to investigate the threat to a high-profile European Union banking conference aboard ship and to calm the fears of the superstitious crew, who think the ship is cursed. Before long they realize they also need to catch an art thief and find a murderer. Assisting them, posing as husband and wife at Kate and Jack's insistence, are Juliette Spencer, Kate's mother, and Graysville Police Chief Will Bradley, a debonair widower. Juliette just wants to enjoy the cruise and her daughter's company, but given Chief Bradley's unrelenting amorous advances in close quarters she may have to either jump ship or throw him overboard.

Murders just didn't happen in the little village of Cole Harbor, Maine. New York investigative reporter Laura Friday returns to Cole Harbor to recuperate from a near-fatal gunshot wound. When she and her aunt go picnicking on a nearby island, the ground gives way beneath her and Laura falls into a shallow grave, landing on a woman's skeletal remains. Now someone is leaving white rosebuds on Laura's doorstep. Park Ranger Bryan Cole makes no secret of his attraction to Laura. Riddled with guilt that she's to blame for her best friend's death, Laura lets Bryan know she is not interested in anything beyond a platonic relationship, and he realizes he has his work cut out for him if he wants to win her heart. A psychotic killer lurks in the town. The voices inside his head tell him Laura is the perfect woman. If she screams when he tries to love her, will there be another grave to fill?

Regan Malloy is a dedicated homicide detective married to her job. A tough woman who holds her own when it comes to the opposite sex, she is nevertheless resigned to lonely nights with fantasy men. When a serial killer targets wealthy submissive men from an upscale BDSM club, Regan is convinced the killer is a woman and goes undercover. Kyle Ramsey is a topnotch litigator juggling life as a divorced father and a workaholic. Raised to be strong and to always take charge, he has trouble trusting that anyone else can get the job done. When he finds his good friend murdered, he mounts his own investigation despite Regan's warning not to interfere. Regan is furious to find the sexy lawyer at the club but can't deny her attraction or her need to dominate him. Kyle discovers more than clues as, to keep from blowing their cover, the fiery cop demands obedience. Together they embark on a journey to explore this new world of hidden desires, but the road could take a dangerous turn when they cross paths with the killer.

Dean Billodeaux, son of legendary Sinners quarterback Joe Billodeaux, strives to be his father on the football field but not off of it. Often accused of being "no fun", he possesses a stainless reputation. The only person who believes he isn't perfect is Stacy Polasky, an orphan raised by his parents. Stacy has maintained a bickering relationship with Dean calling him a big lout. He retaliates by dubbing her the Princess. When Dean's sister sees though their antagonism and realizes they are attracted to each other, she suggests Stacy stop being so independent and allow Dean to rescue her a few times. They set up several situations in which he can be Stacy's hero, but one goes badly awry and descends into real danger. Dean learns of Stacy's ploy and feels like a complete fool. Can she regain his love and trust before another woman steps in and takes the prize from the Princess?

With an ill father and an insane brother, heiress Lucie Gregory's options are limited. When a handsome duke proposes a marriage of convenience, she must accept. After all, Willowbrook Manor and her family's reputation are at stake.

Tessa Caldwell's carefully structured world is thrown into chaos when the handsome stranger she had an uncharacteristic fling with reappears in her life. Ben not only gets the promotion she thought was hers, but is also intent on resuming their physical relationship. Although Tessa's rational mind insists on a professional association, both her heart and her traitorous body have other ideas. Can her sensible nature possibly win against such temptation? Memories of the petite blonde with large, blue eyes have haunted Ben Dunham for months. When he transfers to her branch, he anticipates picking up where they left off. Reality doesn't match memory when the cool and collected lady wants no part of him. If he intends to pursue Tessa, he has to earn her trust. The problem is, Ben carries a dark and dangerous secret. How does he get Tessa to trust him when he can't trust himself?

Veterinarian Dr. Madison Todd is a woman on a crusade to shut down her town's major industry-a pulp and paper mill. She believes emissions from it killed her father and no one is going to stop her...not even a handsome blue-eyed cowboy who's the embodiment of all of her romantic fantasies. Alberta ranch foreman Clay Archer, who has recently inherited the mill, is just as determined to keep it open. He plans to use the profits to build a state-of-the-art rehab center in his mother's memory for her sacrifice in marrying the miserly former mill owner to provide a better life for Clay. Both antagonists have vowed to accomplish their goals-they're resolved nothing will stop them. But they didn't count on what happens when a blue-eyed cowboy meets a green-eyed crusader and a wild attraction erupts between this pair of sworn enemies.

Clara Allen needs a husband in order to keep a roof over the heads of her assorted dependents, a roof her nasty grandfather will re-appropriate unless she is married by her 21st birthday, only a few days away. Strong-minded, unwilling to take orders from any man, she decides to solve her problem by raising a murdered prisoner from the dead and marrying him. She expects an empty-headed puppet; she certainly never dreams he'll be so devastatingly handsome. Liam McMahon doesn't recall much about his life before his hanging in the prison yard, other than being Irish. He does remember the kiss Clara bestowed as she brought him back to life. Every time he looks at her, his desire gets out of hand. But his former life is chasing him down like a steam engine, and when a couple of mad geniuses decide he'd make a fine experiment, he wonders if he'll live long enough to claim Clara's heart or if he'll die all over again.