For makeup artist Grace Barrett, Hollywood isn't the land of golden opportunity.It's the land of difficult divas, cheating boyfriends and unemployment. So when her great-aunt offers her a free place to stay in Jackson Hole, Grace thinks she'll spend a little time in the sticks to figure out her life, and then move somewhere exciting to live out her dreams. But it turns out that there are a few more thrills in this small town than Grace was expecting….Cole Rawlins is a rugged Wyoming cowboy born and bred. Yet he can't help but be drawn to the fascinating big-city girl who moves in across from him. He wants to get close enough to Grace to see past her tough facade, but if he does, she might see the real Cole.The one with a Hollywood history gone bad. As they discover a sizzling attraction, it becomes harder for him to keep his demons at bay–and those fires from long ago may burn them both. They'll need more than scorching-hot passion to make this opposites-attract affair work. But if they can learn to trust one another enough to reveal their secrets, they just might have a chance at forever.
Andie Cochran thought she had at last escaped the clutches of her ruthless, power-mad ex-husband–but then he abducted the child she loved more than life itself.And now, alone in a foreign country, she had no one to turn to but another very dangerous man–a man who awakened passions she had thought long dead…. Jeff Markum had come to this place in search of revenge, not caring that death could easily be the price he had to pay.But now, against his will, a woman was making him care about something more than vengeance–a woman who had once belonged to the very man he meant to destroy….
Josie Fitzgerald Scott was athletic, competitive and stubborn as sin–until an accident changed her life. Now she simply sought closure with unforgettable Del Scott–the man she'd once lovingly wed, passionately bedded, then contrarily fled…. Amazingly, Del didn't recognize Josie's reconstructed contours. Yet her sexy ex-husband seemed oddly, instantly drawn to this soft, delicate «stranger,» despite her new curves.Which gave Josie–as «Rose»–a second chance: to woo and win back Del's fierce male passion. But would limping, less than honestly, down memory lane unleash a landslide of trouble? Or–miraculously–lead Josie home to love?
Sassy hairdresser Nora Darby had a chip on her shoulder the size of Texas.Abandoned by her dad and betrayed by her fiancé, she was anti-man, anti-marriage and mouthy about it to boot. All of which suited Stephen Remington, M.D., to a tee. Though the townsfolk considered him the ideal candidate to scale Nora's defenses and soften her heart, the sexy widower had vowed never to love–and lose–again.But their public battle of the sexes led to a night of shocking, private passion…and an unexpected pregnancy…leaving no-strings Nora and love-shy Stephen staring straight down the shotgun of motherhood and–shudder!–matrimony….
Logan Phillips didn't expect to like his nurse, let alone find himself attracted to her.But Melissa VanFleet's gentle humor and sweet spirit soothes the architect's frustration at his temporary blindness. He finds she's tempting him down a road he's sworn never again to travel. But a little TLC can go a long way. Melissa realizes immediately that she would never fit into Logan's exclusive world.So when she finds herself falling for her patient, she knows she's in trouble. Once his vision is restored, she's certain he won't look twice at a plain Jane like her…but she'd love to be wrong!
Self-defense instructor D.J. Monroe would do anything to be the best. Even if it meant asking super-sexy military expert Quinn Reynolds to demonstrate some of his finest moves…on and off the mat! Normally, D.J. didn't date, didn't trust, didn't let anyone in. But when she found herself falling for Quinn, could she let go of her past and embrace a future with him?
Carly Barnett’s lifelong dream was to be a journalist— tracking down leads, interviewing important people, making a difference.A job offer at Portland’s Oregonian Times seemed like an ideal place to start, until she learned exactly what she’d be doing. Writing an advice column for lonely hearts wasn’t quite what she’d envisioned, but it was a beginning. Mark Holbrook did nothing to disguise his disdain for the new staff reporter—if you could call Carly’s column “reporting.”Still, he couldn’t deny his attraction to her. But that didn’t mean he’d take her advice—not even if she held the key to his own lonely heart.“Ms. Miller brilliantly taps into all our deepest fantasies, creating pure reading magic for romance fans in search of the extraordinary.” —Romantic Times
If you build it, love will come… to Hope’s Crossing.Alexandra McKnight prefers a life of long workdays and short-term relationships, and she’s found it in Hope’s Crossing. A sous chef at the local ski resort, she’s just been offered her dream job at an exclusive new restaurant being built in town. But when it comes to designing the kitchen, Alex finds herself getting up close and personal with construction foreman Sam Delgado….At first glance, Sam seems perfect for Alex. He’s big, tough, gorgeous—and only in town for a few weeks. But when Sam suddenly moves into a house down the road, Alex suspects that the devoted single father of a six-year-old boy wants more from her than she’s willing to give.Now it’s up to Sam to help Alex see that, no matter what happened in her past, together they can build something more meaningful in Hope's Crossing."Small-town sensibilities drive this very sweet romance in which two people learn that everything that makes them good friends makes them easy to love." –Library Journal on Blackberry Summer
Wretched be the woman of wealth and fortune who fails to produce a suitable heir. . . And wretched is what Duchess Camille feels living with the cruel and debauched duke. But that soon turns to desperation when she learns her lecherous husband is plotting to have her killed to make way for a more nubile and fertile companion. Knowing she cannot sit idly by and wait for death, she flees into the night, taking with her her own young lover—the stable hand Henri—and her most loyal servants.With a mind to finding refuge with Maxime, her first love who years ago ignited her sexuality, Camille and her servants take cover in brothels along the way and succumb to the physical delights on offer, sating their longings and fueling jealousies with one another.But the duke's men are not far behind, and Camille knows they must press on, hoping against hope that the man who has every reason to turn her away will remember the fervent passion that once coursed between them. . . .
Personal trainer Gabby likes to be the strong one in the gym and the bedroom.She know what she wants and she wants Michael, a new client whose aura of dark energy and predatory look promises an intense erotic encounter.But Michael has an aggressive streak of his own, and makes it clear that he'll be the one in charge – especially when he reveals a secret about Gabby that she never expected