“A powerful and thought-provoking novel that will both break your heart and fill you with hope." —International bestselling author Diane Chamberlain With nothing but brains, ambition and sheer nerve, Charlotte Hale built a career as a tough, do-anything-to-succeed real-estate developer. She’s at the top of that mountain…but her life is empty. Her friends are as grasping and insincere as she has become. Far worse, she's alienated her family so completely that she's never held or spoken to her only granddaughter.One terrifying day, facing her own mortality, she realizes that her ambition has almost destroyed her chance at happiness. So Charlotte vows to make amends, not simply with her considerable wealth, but by offering a hand instead of a handout. Putting in hours and energy instead of putting in an appearance.Opening her home and heart instead of her wallet. With each wrenching, exhilarating decision, Charlotte finds that climbing a new mountain—one built on friendship, love and forgiveness—will teach her what it truly means to build a legacy."This is truly a marvelous piece of work.” —New York Times bestselling author Catherine Anderson"Haunts me as few other books have.” New York Times bestselling author Sandra Dallas
Part of the Mills & Boon 100th Birthday CollectionEllie Carmichael was an heiress when she married, but her husband drank and gambled away her money. Now he is dead, and all Ellie has is their three-year-old daughter and her reputation. But when a handsome stranger turns up on her door on a perilously cold night, Ellie must put her virtue on the line…
Former vampire hunter Cass Lanier didn't think vampires could become ghosts. . . until the shade of Malachi James comes to her, arousing her with his erotic touch.Malachi was the last vampire she killed—an act she always regretted. Now Cass is his only hope of being brought back to life. Then Cass discovers Malachi isn't the only one following her. Other hunters have learned she can resurrect the vampires she put to death, and they want to kill her first.Will Cass survive long enough to save Malachi and finally experience her phantom lover's caresses as pleasures of the flesh?
Want more than Fifty Shades? Mills & Boon have the answer with 12 Shades of Surrender! All 12 stories promise unforgettable romances with a sinful edge – surrender to pure reading pleasure… After Emma is dumped by her boyfriend, her friends decide she needs to let her inner tigress loose. They ask Emma to write down three sexual fantasies, put them in an envelope slipped under their door, and they'll make them happen!Emma's fantasies are about to come true in a way that will leave her feeling so sexy, so powerful, and so deliciously used…
Annora knows a lot about her best friend, Singh—including the fact that he is a lion shapeshifter and has a notoriously wicked way with women.She secretly longs to experience that passion herself, but doesn't dare risk their friendship. Then Sin's usual flirting becomes way more intimate. Suddenly, neither of them can resist their desire—even though according to pride rules, their union is forbidden. . . .
What could possibly be hotter than hell?For Jadyn, trapped between life and death in the underworld, it's her dark and sexy guide, Gage. Though physical contact between guides and their charges is forbidden, Jadyn and Gage's passion is too powerful to resist.But as their connection grows stronger, do Jadyn and Gage dare risk their souls and defy the devil himself to be together?
Bosom buddies since childhood, Carinna and Jack have long harbored secret lustful fantasies for one another, but hesitated to act on them for fear of ruining their cherished friendship.When a family tragedy leaves Carinna in need of comfort, she surrenders to temptation and seduces her best friend. Jack’s a fireman, and used to putting out blazes, but this is one conflagration he can’t quench. As their passions explode with pent-up need, they fearlessly explore their deepest desires with an intimacy they’ve never realized with any other lover.But once the genie is out of the bottle, how will they ever be able to go back to being just friends?
From first time she met Mikhail Sommerville, actress Lydia Castle could feel the explosive chemistry with her new costar. Cast as lovers in a steamy historical film, Lydia and Mikhail don't need to pretend to be in lust with one another. . . both on and off the set. But with the paparazzi and tabloids watching, there is only one way for Lydia and Mikhail to release their sexual tension and keep their privacy: by acting out their passion in the most intense sex scene of their lives. . .
On a sultry night in the French Quarter, alone in a room thick with desire, she is able to channel the wanton mating of the couple down the hall–each kiss, each sensation, each stroke is as real to her as if she were the one being ravished. In her desperate arousal, she unconsciously calls out to him, until he is at her door, in her bed, knowing fully what she wants and how to satisfy her completely. . .
Brand suffered for decades in Hell after his best friend managed to escape the underworld and left him behind. So when Lucifer offers him a chance at revenge by seducing his friend's mortal daughter and marking her for Hell, Brand eagerly accepts. But Kaylea is a rare pure soul and awakens long-forgotten feelings in Brand—as well as his desire.She may be the key to Brand's salvation. . . if their passion doesn't doom her first. . .