Subject: Air Force Pararescue Jumper Mark RhodesMission: To be the man she needs…and wants!It's taken Amy Benton eighteen months to move on after her SEAL husband's death. Now she's nearly realized her dream of breeding and training military war dogs. Unfortunately, no one sees her as anything other than «the grieving widow.» Her ambitions, determination, even her longing for a man's touch are invisible to everyone…except the man she can't have.Pararescue Jumper Mark Rhodes has always been there for his best friend's widow. But lately, there's been a growing awareness between them… And when he comes home to help open her training facility, the heat between them is impossible to resist. But is Amy willing to risk her heart on another soldier who may never come home?
Lusting after the enemyFormer SEAL Jackson Duchane has spent almost a decade hunting down the wreck of the Chimera, a Civil Warera ship rumored to be filled with gold. Now he's agonizingly close to the biggest discovery of his life. With a rival diving team hot on his tail, Jackson is determined to get there first, but he didn't bargain on a sexy distraction…Heading up a diving team is Loralei Lancaster's nautical nightmare. Fortunately, nothing distracts a girl from her water phobia like a gloriously ripped surf god. And Jackson is hot enough to make Loralei forget everything – including the fact that he's an arrogant jerk! And when heated words lead to steamy nights, Loralei finds herself caught between the devil and the deep blue sea!
Love hurts…Leveled by a broken heartOrlando Frederick has spent so long running from a real connection with another person that he can’t remember what love even feels like. The fear of being hurt by someone leaving is almost overwhelming and he can’t get past it.Leveled by a broken bodyDominic Voss was a cop, first and foremost, until a life-threatening injury put his career on the back-burner. Unable to face the prospect that he might never go back to his old normal, he’s ready to try anything to feel alive again.Leveled by loveAs Lando and Dom try to find a way to be together, they must find a way to be themselves first.
A merry-go-round horse and an armed guard in his front yard–along with half the town–is not what Bobby Spencer expects to wake up to. So with his quiet Sunday morning ruined, he isn't feeling very kindly toward the woman responsible.But Jenna Pennington Kennedy is desperate. She needs to capture Bobby's attention so he'll hire her to plan the town's new riverfront development. It's just the sort of thing that could prove to her father she's a responsible woman, not the reckless kid of old.The last thing Bobby wants in his life is a sexy single mom with grand ambitions. And Jenna doesn't need any more roller-coaster romances. But in Trinity Harbor, love has a way of defying expectations–ask anyone.
Phoenix Cahill is experiencing the Awakening, transforming from an asexual tantric vampire nestling to an adult who feeds on the orgasmic energy of her partners. Though any man will do, the only one she craves is her mysterious new neighbor.But feeding from the same man too many times could kill him, and Phoenix won’t be satisfied by just one night….Getting close to Phoenix was only supposed to be part of vampire enforcer Ivar LeBlanc’s mission to find her father and bring him to justice. But the plan becomes complicated when he rescues Phoenix from an attack—and gives in to his own desire for her. Now, he must choose between the woman he loves, and the clan lord to whom he owes his life…
TORN BETWEEN PEACE AND PASSION . . .Former serf Daniel had journeyed to Tanis in search of harmony between humans and vampires. Though the citadel's façade promised peace, it wasn’t difficult to find the danger lurking in the shadows. Yet it was the Bloodlady known as Isis, an ancient, beautiful vampire, who proved the biggest threat to Daniels’s heart.No human had ever excited Isis the way Daniel did. Though she desired him like no other, she knew he had been damaged, body and soul, by her own kind. Would his past forever stand between them? Or, worse, would the malicious forces who made Tanis their home destroy them both before they could explore their deepest hungers?
A witch's spell…a warrior's curseIf not for her protective wards, witch Melissa Carter would be dead at the hand of her enemy, shadow breed Hunter Galen. Now he's her prisoner. Though she tortures the powerful warrior with spells, he torments her with dark fantasies, inciting a forbidden lust too strong to deny.Hunter must escape to complete his mission–destroy his father who vowed revenge on him and his beautiful captor. But a warrior mates for life and now Hunter must protect Melissa–his mortal enemy and unlikely love. But doing so means descending into the underground world of the Darkken, a place so evil they might not come out alive…
Home, heart and family. Sherryl Woods knows what truly matters Shanna Carlyle loves working in her little bookshop on Main Street; it’s a new start and, for a jaded city girl, it’s nice to be at the heart of such a welcoming community. When Kevin O’Brien walks into her shop Shanna immediately recognises him as a wounded soul. She’s had far too much experience with the type.Although her head tells her she should leave him to his own problems, her heart reaches out as she sees him struggle with his role as a newly single father. Everyone knows the O’Brien family can’t help but meddle and matchmake at every turn! Then, just as the barriers are falling, someone from Shanna’s past appears.Confronted with a threat to their hard-won serenity, Kevin and Shanna face their toughest challenge yet – learning to trust again.Healing families, healing hearts. In Chesapeake second chances happen in the most unexpected ways.