Aaron Shedlock
Thea Landry has always known her place in modern-day society. It's somewhere just above the trash can her mother dumped her in as a newborn but below the class where much comes easy. With her tattered shoes and bargain-bin clothes, her life has never been full of glamour.
So when a rich and charismatic man walks into her bar, she doesn't fool herself into thinking their encounter is anything more than a one-night stand. Months later, she's
...A woman trying to rebuild her life.
Kennedy is doing all she can to escape, to prove that she's not the monster her father was. A simple life of peace and service is all she needs.
A man haunted by a past he can't forget.
Cain has buried his demons under layers of control and success. All he needs is his company and his solitude. Certainly not a woman with captivating green eyes filled with
...She's hiding secrets.
For Anna, keeping her deepest scars hidden from the world has always been a necessity—from the bruises of her childhood to the mistake that nearly cost her everything. To keep herself safe, she must keep everyone around her at a distance—especially the man who has tempted her since the moment they met.
His demons are taunting him.
Mason has done his best to
...The newest barista at the Busy Bean is about to steam the place up...
Former Marine Mason Rye can make a cappuccino with military precision, but he finds it much harder to serve up a smile. It's not that he doesn't like people. But he knows from experience that once you let someone in, it hurts like hell when you lose them. And Mason's lost too many people already.
So it's pretty damn inconvenient when his old Marine
She's on the run...
Tessa has finally found a safe haven in Sutter Lake, hiding in plain sight—just as long as no one asks too many questions.
He can't escape...
Liam knows better than anyone how one wrong word, a single whisper can ruin a life. After seeing the darker side of fame, he's desperate to retreat and find his voice again.
Two people from opposite worlds, brought together
...She's always been his safe place to land.
Jensen has shared a special bond with Tuck for as long as she can remember, their friendship a language that never needed words. But as life threw her one curveball after another, that secret language turned to stony silence.
He's always been her protector.
Tuck has looked out for Jensen since the day she was born. As his best friend's little sister,
...A woman who's lost everything. A man battling the ghosts of his past.
Taylor is looking for peace and quiet, away from the memories of all she's lost. A small mountain town where no one knows her seems like the perfect escape.
Walker loves his life just the way it is. His town, his family, his brothers in blue. Everything simple and easy, until a chance encounter changes it all.
When Taylor's solitude is interrupted by
Willa Doon has always been shy. Her quiet demeanor was something she's always embraced. That is, until Jackson Page moves to town. The one man she desperately wants to take notice struggles to remember her name.
Year after year, Willa stands by, watching as the bartender slash playboy drowns his demons in beer and sex. Then one night, he shows up at her door, suddenly aware that the girl he's seen around Lark Cove is now a beautiful woman.
Except
...Xavier and Clara kissing in a tree...
When your best friend growing up is a girl, that's the song your classmates taunt you with over and over again. But it was never like that... until now.
It's always been Clara and me. She's the only one who truly knows me. After I was drafted into the NFL and ended up the starting quarterback for the San Francisco Kingsmen, I begged her to come with me. But she had her own life and responsibilities
...From USA Today best-selling author of The Highland Fling comes a brand new romantic comedy about a desperate billionaire seeking to find a fiancée. This modern day take on Pretty Woman is brilliantly clever and hilariously pause-resisting.
How did you two meet?
The quintessential question asked to every couple. And the answer is usually some bubbly, lovey dovey tale of being struck in the bum by Cupid's arrow.
My
...16) Fortunate Son
Ry Archer and Bowe Keller are as different as night and day. But that doesn't stop the childhood frenemies from reconnecting whenever one of them needs some help tackling any of life's major puzzles, like figuring out why getting what you always thought you wanted isn't living up to all the hype. They might constantly rub each other the wrong way (except for the times when they rub each other the really-really right way), but there is no denying
...After being abandoned as a child, Ada has learned to choose her friends and lovers wisely. And then a nuclear winter froze the world, taking everything she fought so hard to keep. When she inexplicably wakes years later in a new world full of magic, and where humans are the enemy, all she wants is to find her two best friends... if they're even alive.
Jasper knows he is someone damaged and dangerous, the scars on his body prove it. But
...