"I can't sleep with a man who keeps secrets."Despite the warnings that he would break her heart, Jayne Hughes fell for the bad boy. And Conrad Hughes, casino magnate, did just that with his absences and lies. Now she’s ready to move on, but herhusband has other plans….Conrad’s undercover work for Interpol destroyed his marriage. When Jayne comes to Monte Carlo seeking a divorce, he launches an all-out assault. Seducing his wife back into his bed is child’s play;earning her trust is another matter. Yet Conrad knows the odds favor the house. And he has no intentions of losing. Views: 8
When security specialist Javier Cortez boards the Medina corporate jet, the last person he expects to see is his former lover, Victoria Palmer. Their relationship had been fiery and all-consuming…until one year ago when he had done the one thing she couldn’t forgive. So why was she here, now? How, after all these months, could the fire between them as hot as ever? Javier didn’t like surprises, but he realized that this was a perfect opportunity to get her alone…and to make her his. Forever. Views: 8
Lizzie McKettrick is coming home for Christmas. And Indian Rock's new schoolteacher has a surprise in store for her family--a special young man, Whitley Carson. He might seem a little too interested in the McKettrick money, but Lizzie's certain Whitley cares for her deep down.Yet fate has a surprise of its own for Lizzie: Dr. Morgan Shane. When their homebound train is halted by a massive avalanche, injuring and stranding its passengers, the handsome doctor takes charge--with Lizzie by his side.Despite their growing bond, Lizzie and Morgan know time is running out. With another avalanche looming and the train's food supply dwindling, it's going to be a bleak Christmas Eve. But with faith, hard work and a little extra help from a most unexpected source, they just might find their way home to celebrate a McKettrick family Christmas after all.... Views: 8
It was love at first fight... Broke, hungry, and desperate, Cassidy Parker just needs a job. She finds one at the local gym that seems like the answer to her problems. But when she locks eyes with fighter Craddock Flynn, his brutal strength awakens something deep in her that can’t be denied. One touch from Craddock can make her forget school, work, and everything else that matters. Craddock Flynn is used to ripping through his opponents to clear his path to becoming one of the nation’s elite professional MMA fighters. But when he meets Cassidy, all bets are off. Their attraction is volatile and instant and Craddock struggles to keep his jealousy under control. Especially when his enemy in the ring becomes his rival for Cassidy too. Views: 7
Product DescriptionRough-and-tumble rodeo cowboy Brody Creed likes life on the move. Until a chance encounter with his long-estranged twin brother brings him "home" for the first time in years. Suddenly Brody is in Creed territory—at thirty-three, he[HTML_REMOVED]s a restless bad boy among family with deep ties to the land and each other. And a secret past haunts him as he tries to make plans for his future.Carolyn Simmons is looking for Mr. Right in Lonesome Bend, as the ticktock of her biological clock gets ever louder. Then she falls for gorgeous Brody Creed, the opposite of everything she wants. Until lassoing his wild heart becomes everything both of them need. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Lonesome Bend, ColoradoRanching, Brody Creed thought, shifting in the saddle as he surveyed the sprawling range land from a high ridge. It can mend a broken heart, this life, and then shatter it all over again, in a million and one different ways and twice that many pieces.There were plenty of perils. Cattle starved or froze to death when a hard winter came around, which averaged once a year up there in the high country. Spring calves and colts fell prey to wolves and coyotes and sometimes bears, hungry after hibernating through the coldest months.It was now May, and all was well, but come summertime, wells might dry up for lack of rain, and turn the grass to tinder, ready to blaze up at the smallest spark. He[HTML_REMOVED]d seen wildfires consume hundreds of acres in a matter of hours, herds and houses and barns wiped out.Year round, good horses went lame and pickup trucks gave up the ghost, and every so often, somebody drowned in the river or one of the lakes.On the other hand, Brody reflected, the beauty of that land could heal, take a man by surprise, even though he[HTML_REMOVED]d called the place home all his life. That day, for instance, the sky was so blue it made Brody[HTML_REMOVED]s heart ache, and the aspens, cottonwoods and pines lining the landscape were shimmering splashes of green, a thousand hues of it, ranging from silvery to near-indigo. The river wound like a ribbon through the valley, clear as azure glass.After a few moments, Brody adjusted his hat and sighed before giving the gelding a light nudge with the heels of his boots. The buckskin, long-legged with a black mane and tail, picked his way cautiously down the steep slope that led to the water[HTML_REMOVED]s edge.Behind them and a hundred yards farther along the riverbank, in a westerly direction, hammers clacked and power saws screeched, and Brody glanced back, pleased, as always, to see the steel-and-lumber skeletons of his house and barn rising.Not so long ago, there had been a campground and RV park on the site, owned by Tricia McCall, now his sister-in-law and therefore a Creed. The picnic tables and the concrete fire pits were gone, along with the public showers and electrical hookups for trailers. Only the log building that had once served as the office remained; Brody had been baching in it since last Thanksgiving, when he[HTML_REMOVED]d moved out of the main ranch house.The peace between him and twin brother, Conner, could be a fragile one at times, and they both benefited by a little distance.Now, ready to get moving, Brody clucked his tongue and gave the gelding, Moonshine, another tap with his heels."Come on, now," he told the buckskin, his tone reasonable. "The water[HTML_REMOVED]s shallow here, and it[HTML_REMOVED]s real calm. If we[HTML_REMOVED]re going to be working livestock on both sides of this river, then you[HTML_REMOVED]ve got to learn how to cross it."Moonshine, recently acquired at an auction in Denver, was young, and Brody hadn[HTML_REMOVED]t had a chance to train him in the ways of a cow pony.No time like the present, he figured.Brody was about to get down out of the saddle and lead the horse into the water, which lapped gently at the stony shore that used to be a swimming beach, back when the River[HTML_REMOVED]s Bend Campground was a going concern, when Moonshine suddenly decided he was willing to get wet after all.He plunged into the water, up to his chest, making a mighty splash in the process. Brody, gripping the barrel of that horse hard between his knees, just to stay in the saddle, laughed out loud before giving a whoop of pure delight.His boots filled, and within moments his jeans were soaked to the tops of his thighs, but he didn[HTML_REMOVED]t care. Moonshine swam that river like he had Olympic aspirations, his powerful legs pumping, his head high and his ears pricked up."Good boy," Brody told the horse, with gruff appreciation. "You[HTML_REMOVED]re doing just fine."Reaching the other side, Moonshine bunched his haunches for the effort and bunny-hopped up the steepest part of the bank, water pouring off him in sheets. Once he[HTML_REMOVED]d gained level ground, the animal shook himself like a dog and Brody laughed again, for no other reason than that life was good.He was home.And, for the most part, he was happy to be there. Drenched, he got down from the saddle to pull off his boots, empty them and yank them back on over his sodden socks. When he got to the main house, he[HTML_REMOVED]d swap his wet duds for dry ones from Conner[HTML_REMOVED]s closet.Having an identical twin brother had its advantages, and one of them was access to a whole other wardrobe.There[HTML_REMOVED]d been a time when Conner would have groused about Brody[HTML_REMOVED]s tendency to borrow his stuff, but last New Year[HTML_REMOVED]s Eve, Brody[HTML_REMOVED]s "little brother," born a couple of minutes after he was, had taken a wife. Conner was happy with Tricia, and these days it took more than a missing shirt or pair of jeans to get under his hide.They were on a perpetual honeymoon, Conner and Tricia, and now, with a baby due in three months, they glowed, the both of them, as if they were lit from within.Brody mounted up again and reined Moonshine toward the home-place, feeling a mixture of things as he considered his twin[HTML_REMOVED]s good fortune.Sure, he was glad things were working out so well for Conner, but he was a little envious, too.Not that he[HTML_REMOVED]d have admitted it to anybody.Tricia was beautiful, smart and funny, and she[HTML_REMOVED]d taken to ranch life with surprising ease, for a city girl. Essentially a greenhorn, she[HTML_REMOVED]d gone horseback riding almost every day since the wedding, when the weather allowed, anyway—until her pregnancy was confirmed. Then Conner had put a stop to the pursuit.No more trail rides until after the baby[HTML_REMOVED]s arrival.Period, end of discussion.Brody grinned, recalling how adamant his brother had been. For the most part, the marriage appeared to be an equal partnership, but this time, Conner had laid down the law. And Tricia, normally the independent type, had capitulated.That was just common sense, to Brody[HTML_REMOVED]s mind, though a lot of country women continued to ride when they were expecting a baby, herding cattle, rounding up strays, checking fence lines. Conner[HTML_REMOVED]s strong opposition was a no-brainer—Rachel Creed, Conner and Brody[HTML_REMOVED]s mother, had continued to enter barrel-racing events long after she learned she was carrying twins. There hadn[HTML_REMOVED]t been a specific incident, but soon after giving birth to Brody and Conner, Rachel[HTML_REMOVED]s health had begun to go downhill.She[HTML_REMOVED]d died when her infant sons were less than a month old.Blue Creed, their father, hadn[HTML_REMOVED]t lasted much longer. Overwhelmed by the responsibility, he[HTML_REMOVED]d brought the babies home to the ranch, right around their first birthday, and handed them over to his brother, Davis, and Davis[HTML_REMOVED]s wife, Kim. Soon afterward, Blue himself had been thrown from a horse and broken his neck. He[HTML_REMOVED]d been in a coma for six weeks, and then died.Now, crossing the range between the river and the two-story house Conner and Tricia had been sharing since they got hitched, the grass rippling around him like a green sea, Brody did his best to ignore the clammy chill of wet denim clinging to his legs—and the old, deep-seated sorrow rooted in his soul. He did take some consolation from seeing the cattle grazing all around, most of them Herefords, with a few Black Anguses to break the red-brown monotony. Two dozen broncos, specially bred for the rodeo, and six Brahma bulls completed the menagerie.Clint and Juan and a couple of the other ranch hands wove in and out among the different critters on horseback, mainly keeping the peace. Brody touched his hat-brim to the other men as he passed, and those who were looking his way returned the favor.By then, Moonshine was restless, trying to work the bit between his teeth, so Brody gave him his head. That cayuse might be skittish when it came to crossing rivers, but he sure did like to run.Brody bent low over the buckskin[HTML_REMOVED]s neck, holding his hat in place with one hand and keeping a loose grip on the reins with the other.And that horse ate up ground like a jet taxiing along a runway before takeoff.Brody was enjoying the ride so much that the corral fence sprang up in front of them as suddenly as a line of magic beanstalks.Moonshine soared over that top rail as if he[HTML_REMOVED]d sprouted wings, practically stretched out flat, and came in for a magnificent landing about one foot short of the place where Conner stood, looking like he[HTML_REMOVED]d had rusty nails for breakfast instead of bacon and eggs.Brody gazed down into a face so like his own that the sight of it even took him aback sometimes, and he was used to being pretty much an exact duplicate of his brother.Conner was scowling up at him, through swirls of settling dust, and he looked as though he[HTML_REMOVED]d like to grab hold of Brody, haul him off that horse and beat the holy bejesus out of him. So much for personality improvements resulting from wedded bliss!"Oops," Brody said cheerfully, because he knew that would piss off Conner and he still enjoyed doing that now and again, even though they[HTML_REMOVED]d been getting along well for a respectable length of time. "Sorry."He swung down and faced Conner, who was taut with annoyance, his shoulders squared, his fists clenched and his attitude contentious."Damn it, Brody," he growled, "am I having one of my invisible days, or are you going blind? You darn near ran me down, and it[HTML_REMOVED]ll take me the better part of the morning to get this mare calm enough to work with again!"Prior to the leap, Brody hadn[HTML_REMOVED]t noticed his brother or the pinto mare, now nickering and tossing her head over on the far side of the corral, but he didn[HTML_REMOVED]t think it would be smart to say as much. Instead, he decided to come from a place of helpfulness."You starting horses yourself these days, instead of letting one of the wranglers do it?" he asked, bending to pick up the lightweight saddle the mare must have tossed when he and Moonshine came over the fence.Conner grabbed the saddle and jerked it ou... Views: 7
COLORADO TRUST SERIESTrust makes all the difference when love and danger collide.TRUST BY DESIGN, book 2Cinderella and Prince Charming...brought together by chance, or design?Interior Designer Gina Allen is flat broke thanks to a shady assistant who didn't pay the taxes. Now she has no choice but to accept a job from the very rich, very handsome CEO Dean Daley—even though he's accused her of conspiring to steal his software designs.Keep your friends close and your enemies closer—that's why Dean hires his rival's ex-girlfriend. If he can use her to prove Jack is behind the spiraling downfall of his company, he might be able to turn things around before losing everything.Dean, however, doesn't count on Gina being everything he never expected, or his heart being in more danger than his business. Will the trust they've built be enough to keep them together—or will an unexpected betrayal tear them apart...and possibly cost them their lives?"Sizzling, sensual, spicy, sweet—Ms. Netzel... Views: 7
When Daisy Budd and her slightly dysfunctional sisters decide to turn a mortuary into a fashionable wedding boutique, they expect some opposition. After all, towns like Mayville don't care much for change. But when a body shows up in the mortuary's fountain, Daisy knows it's time to leave the bridezillas behind and solve the mystery. Nick Bowman, disinherited son of the town's leading family, is back after a seven-year estrangement. He's determined to protect his late grandfather's reputation by locating some loot supposedly hidden in the mortuary's cellar. But Nick's quest is complicated by the new owner. Daisy doesn't trust his motives and she's uncomfortable with the sparks the two of them generate, especially since Nick used to date her sister. When a second body shows up at the mortuary, Nick and Daisy need to work together to find the truth--but what happens when their inconvenient sparks become flames? Views: 7
The third installment of the Only series. Must be read in order.Grayson and Emma. First love. True love. And...they have a daughter. Abandonment is his curse. He left his woman, survived his team, and missed the moments most precious to a father. Until now.I didn't know you were killing yourself with work. I didn't know you're raising our daughter. So help me God, had I known, there is no military force on earth that would've kept me from you.Love needs to heal all, or they won't survive the collision of their separate lives. Emma must reach deep into her heart that is barely hanging on and find forgiveness. Grayson, wrecked with PTSD-filled nightmares, must prove that he's here to stay and able to rebuild his family against all odds.I need to say I love you. But what I mean is I love you—in a way that defies definition and exists only in a world that you and I are in. Views: 7
World champion rodeo star Austin McKettrick finally got bested by an angry bull. His career over, his love life a mess, the lone maverick has nowhere to go when the hospital releases him. Except back home to Blue River and the Silver Spur ranch. But his overachieving brothers won't allow this cowboy to brood in peace. They've even hired a nurse to speed his recovery. Paige Remington's bossy brand of TLC is driving him crazy. As is her beautiful face, sexy figure and silky black hair.
Paige has lost count of how many times Austin has tried to fire her. She's not going anywhere till he's healed--body and heart.
And by then her place in his life just might become permanent... Views: 7
Conner Creed knows exactly who he is: a hardworking rancher carrying on his uncle's legacy in Lonesome Bend, Colorado. Maybe a small-town cowboy's life isn't his dream, but he owes the man who took him in as a kid. Until the identical twin brother he's been estranged from for years reenters his life.Conner struggles with identity issues as he gets to know his wilder brother. And then he meets Tricia McCall, a beautiful woman who knows a thing or two about living someone else's dreams. Together, they just might find their own dreams right here in Lonesome Bend.... Views: 7
Sexy Alphas in a New Military Romance and Romantic Suspense Series Including: 1 on Amazon’s Romantic Suspense Bestsellers ListTop 100 Bestsellers list for Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, iTunes, and All Romance The Titan Series, books 1-5: Winters Heat, Garrison’s Creed, Westin’s Chase, Gambled, & Chased WINTERS HEAT After putting her life on the line to protect classified intelligence, military psychologist Mia Kensington is on a cross-country road trip from hell with an intrusive save-the-day hero. She’d rather take her chances without the ruggedly handsome, cold-blooded operative who boasts an alpha complex and too many guns. Colby Winters, an elite member of The Titan Group, has a single objective on his black ops mission: recover a document important to national security. It was supposed to be an easy in-and-out operation. But now, by any means necessary becomes a survival mantra when he faces off with a stunning woman he can’t leave behind. When Titan’s safe houses are compromised, Colby stashes Mia at his home, exposing his secret—he’s the adoptive father of an orphaned baby girl. Too soon, danger arrives and Mia lands in the hands of a sadistic cartel king with a taste for torture. As hours bleed into fear-drenched days, Colby races across the globe and through a firestorm of bullets to save the woman he can’t live without. GARRISON'S CREED Nicola is an injured CIA agent on the run from a failed undercover operation. Her escape plan shatters when she slams into the man who buried her a decade ago. Cash Garrison. Her first and only love. Now, sexier than her best memory and cradling a sniper’s rifle, he has questions she can’t answer. Why was she alive? And armed? Cash is an elite member of a black ops organization, The Titan Group. He thought Nicola died his senior year of college and swore off love to focus on a decade of military missions. But when she shows up behind enemy lines, bleeding out and wielding a weapon, his heart and mind are unsure how to proceed. Titan and the CIA join forces to uncover a mole hidden in a network of international terrorists and homegrown mobsters, teaming Cash and Nicola againWhen disaster strikes, Nicola’s hidden past makes her the hunted target and Cash’s best kill shot may not be enough to save them. WESTIN'S CHASE Jared Westin knows his reputation and likes it. He gets the job done. No emotion. No baggage. That’s why his elite ops company, The Titan Group, is better than the best. They complete projects classified as mission impossible. And then, in walks a woman as tough as she is sexy. His counterpart in every way, should he choose to admit it. Ousted undercover ATF agent Lilly Chase only answers to “Sugar.” Jared is the only man who can see past her leather-and-lipstick demeanor, and that revelation is terrifying. She was fired for helping Titan on a questionable arrest she should’ve ignored, then partnered with Jared’s rival on an assignment in Afghanistan. Saving Sugar isn’t a normal rescue operation. It pits Titan against its rival, Jared against his nemesis. Chasing Sugar’s heart isn’t a simple task, either. She fights him, fights them, always ready to run. Jared must risk his life to save her—the woman whose bravado and surprising sweetness has given him the one thing he never had. Love. GAMBLED Brock Gamble’s epic fall from the Titan Group labeled him a traitor, then his wife walks out the door. Can the couple survive if the only chance of redemption is a fall further into a world of guns and kidnappings? CHASED Jenny Chase and Asher McIntyre: can two hearts on opposite career paths survive while Asher’s enemy seeks to destroy them both? Views: 7
