When Jeremy Hill seeks sanctuary in his twin brother’s home, he finds an armed man already inside and Meredith, a gorgeous tenant caught in the crossfire.Jeremy has no room for emotions, but what Meredith stirs within him may complicate this unexpected mission to the point of no return…
Dawn Gardner had left behind her life in tiny Haven, Oklahoma, for the greener pastures of New York City years ago – or so she thought. But something kept pulling her back. Could that something be handsome horse breeder Cal Logan? Dawn thought they were through – but since her last visit, two months ago, had left her with a little more than memories, it looked as if her life and Cal's were going to be tied together even more permanently….Which was fine with Cal – because it was clear to him from the start that he and Dawn were made for each other. Still, could he convince the stubborn but sexy «big-city» girl that home was where the heart was? His heart. Her heart. And their unborn baby's…
She'd walked away betrayed, brokenhearted…and pregnant. A year later, desperate to protect her infant son, frightened senseless by the bullets lodged in her bedroom wall, Nikki Walker was back in Joe Galtero's life. Back in his house. And hell-bent on staying out of his bed. It was a scandal that still dominated headlines: murder, embezzlement and a missing executive – Joe's prime suspect and Nikki's father.Torn between duty and honor, Joe had lost Nikki, his badge…and three months with a son he didn't know he had. Now, with the threats against Nikki increasing, Officer Galtero raised the stakes. He would settle for nothing less than family – even if it meant losing his badge and his heart all over again.
Flirting with danger.Years ago, hoodlum Nathan Beliveau made a deal with the devil to reinvent himself. Now a legitimate multimillionaire, he stood to lose everything unless he settled his debt to the shadowy Payback organization by righting a past wrong. But the jaded operative's daring mission to bring Stephan Volski down hit a snag when he met the gangster's hauntingly beautiful girlfriend…Feeling the walls closing in, Kelly Jennings had to escape her former lover's clutches and disappear with her son. But as she lured Volski's sexy «business associate» into her web of deception, Kelly's traitorous heart ached for Nathan's soul-shattering kiss. Could she bring herself to double-cross the man she hopelessly loved to save her son?
No words could terrify Julia Stewart more.After two years of hiding, of dreaming about darkly sensual police detective Cord Hunter and the life she'd left behind, Cord had found her. And he'd brought their orphaned goddaughter – a child in danger…. Julia's career as a child protection officer had ended after a near tragedy.But she couldn't turn away from the little girl she'd sworn to protect, even though it meant working side by side with the man she still loved with furious passion. Even though it meant exposing the secrets she'd driven Cord away to keep…
HE LOOKED BIG, BAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOWBut Ngaire Two Feathers McKay had little to lose to a heartbreaker like Kel. Couldn't she allow herself today – in his arms, his bed – when she might not have tomorrow? He'd known her for trouble the first time he saw her.What he hadn't known was how hard it would be to lie to this woman, to keep his cover…to not protect her with his life as danger threatened hers. He had to remember she was a Hapkido master, capable of defending herself, and he had a job to do – one that didn't involve falling for his target.
The Alaskan tundra – a land whose pristine beauty was overshadowed by the darkness of winter, the danger of corruption.Her career hung in the balance, her life was on the line, and, after one reckless moment in a stranger's embrace, Lauren Fotheringay's heart was, too . He was a tribal cop working undercover as an oil rig roughneck to catch a corporate thief and win back his FBI job. But Seth Adams hadn't counted on murder. Hadn't been prepared to fall for his prime suspect.Instinct, however, told him the beautiful geologist was innocent, a mere pawn in a deadly plan. And as the danger around them escalated, the passion between them intensified as they raced against time to survive.
After coming home and finding her father unconscious and her mother mysteriously missing, homicide cop Savannah Tallfeather teamed up with the one person she knew she could trust.Riley Frazier had faced a similar situation nearly two years ago and his quest for the truth was both honorable and heartbreaking. But when their investigation uncovered more questions than answers, Savannah found herself turning to Riley for much more…intimate reasons.Time and again Riley's comforting embrace, the penetrating blue depths of his eyes, allowed Savannah to momentarily forget why they were working together in the first place. Until evidence was found, linking their pasts and forever uniting their futures….
The beautiful Philadelphia socialite with the drop-dead attitude wasn't exactly the kind of murder suspect Fox Whittington was used to.He couldn't figure out whether he should haul her off to jail – or just take her in his arms and kiss her senseless…. Tara Cole had to find out who wanted her most precious family heirloom badly enough to kill for it.Just one thing stood in her way – a disturbingly handsome policeman with a soft Southern drawl and a steel-trap mind. And the trouble was, she couldn't keep her mind – or her hands – off him….
Known as a cool seductress with a taste for couture, chic superspy Casmir Balasi had played her role too well this time – getting love-struck master criminal Yuri Petrov to propose on bended knee…and fall into her trap.But it wasn't long before Yuri caught on – and when he escaped prison, he vowed to enforce «'til death do us part.» Now Casmir was saddled with an arrogant if irresistible bodyguard, sent by an agency that didn't have her best interests at heart.Would her protector's secret agenda place her in the hands of her worst enemy? Or would she fall into her defender's arms instead? One thing was certain – surviving this deadly game required the performance of a lifetime…