Contemporary

When Lori Collins accepts an invitation to join a few old college friends for a Christmas Eve reunion, she doesn't think her former lover will be joining the group. Chance Murdock is not only handsome, he's wealthy, reckless, and has no regard for authority--and he answers to no one--especially a woman who wants to change him. Three years have passed since Lori broke up with Chance, but seeing him again quickly stirs her emotions and ignites her passions. Can she stifle her feelings and make it through the reunion? Or will she give in to the barrage of rising desires and let Chance coax her back into his arms?

What happens when a forty-something actress must perform with her recent and pompous ex-husband in a production of Noel Coward's divorce comedy, Private Lives? Will the attentions of her much younger, irresistibly attractive director move her forward as the leading lady in a sizzling May-December romance?

Commitment – A near tragedy forces a woman to realize what's really important. Changes – A woman fears that her much younger partner will leave her for a younger woman. A Touch – After a vicious disfiguring attack, will a young woman dare to come out of the shadows? The Warden – Who will be the warden's next chosen one?

Christmas in Key Largo, Florida--palm trees, bright blue waters, tropical temperatures and two people feeling the sting of a bad break-up. When Tom McCoy fled there to forget his latest romantic debacle, the last person he expected to meet was beautiful Brooke Devlin, who is trying to heal from a mishap of her own. Their mutual attraction is strong, but is it real or just rebound? Will their holiday affair last beyond checkout time, or become the stuff Spring breaks are made of?

Since Dylan has found a home in Flint and the perfect man to share it with, life should be great. However, as the holidays approach, he finds himself being haunted by his past more than ever. Cut off from the rest of his family, this will be the first Christmas away from them and while it was they who shoved him away, Dylan continues to miss his parents. While he still has his brother, Lucas, things between the two have become more stressful than ever as they fight to come to terms with their past issues. Then Dylan gets the news that he will be having to work on Christmas and he sinks further in his holiday induced pity party. While he loves his job as a paramedic, the last thing he wants to be doing is spending the holiday away from his boyfriend, Kaleb. Kaleb can see that Dylan is struggling with a bad case of Christmas blues. He wants nothing more than to make his man happy again, but everything Kaleb does only seems to make things worse. Kaleb knows something has to change and quick though, before Dylan pulls completely away. Will Kaleb be able to turn things around in time or will he forever lose Dylan?

Christmas is not the joyful time it is supposed to be for Carrie Summers. Her marital problems have escalated to the point where three days before Christmas she storms out of the house and goes for a drive to think. The drive calms her down and she makes up her mind to tell Ryan she’s sorry. On the way home, a broadsiding pickup truck steals her chance to make up with him and tell him her big secret. When Carrie wakes she finds herself on the other side facing an angel named Jon who tells her of her erring ways. It is too late to make amends, there is no way now…or is there?

When Chase Harper and Trey Thomas opened their law firm, they never envisioned racketeering businessman, Markus Fitzgerald, being their client—or that Trey’s gambling addiction would land the firm in Fitzgerald’s debt. Can Chase dig up enough dirt in Fitzgerald’s past to counter his blackmail scheme? Or is Trey destined to work off his losses in Fitzgerald’s secret club?

Snow Job Cindy is living with Al, a man she no longer feels attracted to and jumps at a chance to get a real Christmas tree by going with Jeremy when he announces his intention to cut down his own tree. She is aware he has a relationship with Tanya, but is unsure how close they are. During their trip to get the trees, Cindy flirts with Jeremy and that leads to an intimate situation. When they return with their Christmas trees, Cindy wants to confess to Al what happened, but before she can, he surprises her. Christmas Lights Tracie is a girl who inspires blonde jokes and finds herself in a desperate situation when her soldier boyfriend is coming home for Christmas with a surprise for her. Needing to quickly put together decorations and a tree, she calls her friend Julie for help and all goes well…until they open the box containing the artificial tree, which is missing most of the parts. A few glasses of wine later, Julie has an inspired thought.

Derek left his small town in Ontario, Canada five years ago to become a big New York City editor. He also left Sterling, a man he loved but couldn’t commit to. Derek decides it’s time to go home for Christmas, to reconnect with his sister and nephew, and his parents, who are getting older. Sterling is still there, running the magazine they started together, in a house that they were supposed to share. And, still treated like a member of Derek’s family. Sterling is coming for Christmas.

All the female cheerleaders and the basketball team called him Great Dane. And they weren’t referring to his prowess on the court. Jennifer Martin didn’t care about his playboy reputation. On her eighteenth birthday, she gave her love and virginity to Dane Derrick Davidson. After a summer of hot sex, he broke her heart, leaving without even saying goodbye. Ten years later, he’s back for her birthday. When he was twenty-five, Dane knew he had no right to seduce his best friend’s younger sister. But he selfishly wanted her first time to be with him. He knew he had to leave her, let her grow up and decide from a more mature perspective whether he was more than a teenage crush. Now he’s back, determined to rekindle her love for him—even if he has to tie her to his bed and feed her all her favorite fruits to convince her. Does he want another summer of sex? Or this time will he stay forever?

WARNING: This book contains a ménage scene and light BDSM. It’s 1969. Max has been home from Viet Nam for a year now and he takes another trip. Last year he went across the country to California and back, meeting fascinating women every place he stopped. This year he travels the Old South and meets even more women that are fascinating. You decide whether 1969 is better than 1968 was.

Madeline ‘Eden’ Jenning’s life is in upheaval. Growing older is perilous for her career. Aging gracefully does nothing for her if it means losing out on all she’s worked for. Plastic surgery becomes her obsession— finding the fountain of youth, a way to hold onto the persona she’s emulated for three decades. Desperation makes her beg her dearest friend for the best surgeon known in their area. She doesn’t expect him to be someone from her past. Tanner James Thornton, a well-known plastic surgeon, takes only the worst of all cases, those needing his skilled hands to give them a semblance of normalcy once again. When he promises a friend he’ll assess a new client, immediately he knows being her surgeon won’t work. Not only is he attracted to her, but he remembers who she was before the glam. He has the answers she needs that don’t revolve around Hollywood’s superficial reasons for body augmentation.

What is business casual dress anyway? A low cut dress? A suit with no tie? A black mini with a white silk top and—no undies? Four couples are about to find out—the hard way!

An old mystery. With a new answer. Things aren’t always as they seem. Lina Christopher has lived her life by that motto. When Lina unearths a cache of incredibly rare antiques in a tumbledown shed on her great-great-grandfather’s property, it proves itself all too painfully true, but she has no idea the excitement it will ignite. Or the passion. Because someone else claims ownership of those antiques. A man she knows very, very well. And he'll do anything to get them back. Van Rodgers, the richest man in town, the man she’s loved since the day he staged an auto accident just so he could meet her, has been withholding something from her. He’s been keeping secrets that make her discovery that much more valuable, that much more dangerous, and apt to drive them apart forever. Because Van Rodgers is not what he appears.

Beautiful Interior Designer Cara Phillips is on the island of St. Thomas to rest and regain her health, but how can she relax when handsome architect Gabe Collins makes her acquaintance? He oozes sex appeal, and Cara is no prude where sex is concerned. Together, their lusty passion explodes amid the warm tropical nights and sun-filled days of the island resort.

There’s nothing more appealing then a good-looking man, and one that feels mutual attraction, and is ready to jump into bed at a moment’s notice – is delicious! When Cassie Michaels travels to Texas to inspect the ranch she has just inherited, she finds such a man – Hawk Downs, a wealthy Texas rancher with his ancestral Indian’s name, a bad boy’s sensuality, and a ravenous sexual appetite. Together they set the Texas landscape sizzling with their lusty explorations and carnal needs. But when Cassie learns there’s oil on the property she now owns – and Hawk knows of it - she thinks the Texas hunk is only having sex with her in order to get her ranch.

Silvia’s husband spends too much time tending his business ventures and not enough time tending her sexual needs so when he refuses to go on vacation with her, she boldly decides to go alone. Sunning herself on the beach, she is distracted by her own thoughts and suddenly finds herself being abducted by two men. All attempts to thwart the mishap go unnoticed and soon she finds herself far from her hotel, tied down and naked, and being ravished by two very virile males.

When Captain Tammy Albright learns Sergeants Wayne Murphy and Lyle Collins are coming to the Army base to train helicopter pilots, she thinks the two soldiers will only be there for a few months before being discharged and she will have little contact with them. But things don't always go as planned by the military--especially when two sexy men set their sights on a beautiful female officer. Tammy has old-fashioned values--but so do Wayne and Lyle--and neither man finds anything unorthodox about the coupling of two men with one woman. Will Tammy ignore her well-guarded ethics and have a relationship with the men? Has she gone too long without male companionship to pass up what they are offering her? How hard can it be for two virile solders to convince one petite woman that they have her back?

Kent Solomon succeeds at whatever he sets his mind to and the moment he lays eyes on beautiful April Malloy, he decides he wants her. He begins a strategic plan to get her into his bed, and finds April is not only captivated by his good looks and disarming ways, but capable of manifesting a few ideas of her own.

Kate Bentley has never forgotten her first love—Kent Albertson, the boy next door. Ten years have passed and Kate returns home for the holidays only to find Kent has done the same. One little faux pas brings Kent to her house—and one little innocent kiss lands him in her bed.