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When car trouble sends Lise Kimball into the sweaty, sultry Mississippi south, she wants nothing more than a new tire and a place to spend the night before continuing her trip to New Orleans. What she doesn’t want is to find herself stranded in the company of Donovan True, a man as controlling as the one who drove her from Atlanta.

Thomas "Blue" Miller is expecting a visit from the marketing executive whose radio station is featuring his Christmas tree farm in a holiday promotion. What he's not expecting is the marketing executive to be his first love, the woman who at eighteen turned down his marriage proposal and left September, Texas, never to be heard from again.

Priscilla Reddy has returned to Hope Springs following a breakup she should've seen coming. The small Texas Hill Country town is where she wants to raise her child. But on her first day back, she runs into the reason she left: the man whose life she ruined. Cary Browning was a geek in high school and remains a geek today. His work as a comic book creator gives children hope—and a survivor to cheer them on. But now that Cilla's back, he can't escape memories of his own damaged past… or what he did to protect Cilla's.

Electrician Sophie North felt as if she’d touched a live wire the first time she laid eyes on Tyler Barnes. He had a heartbreaking grin, an incredible body, and a thousand watts of cowboy charm. Half the single women in Brodie, Texas, were out to snag him now that he’d returned to West Texas to set up his veterinary practice. But Sophie was just passing through.

Erin Thatcher figures there's no reason she can't have a hot fling with the wrong kind of guy while she waits for the right one, should he ever cross her path. So when she spies a magazine article about Men To Do before saying "I do," her imagination goes wild! Her sexy but reclusive neighbor is part of her nightly fantasies. Now it's time to see what he's like in the flesh....

Six months ago, Sara Wade wasn't ready to say yes to her boyfriend Jax’s proposal. Now she's determined to convince the hunk she wants it all, starting with a steamy fantasy weekend in sultry Puerto Vallarta. But this time, will Jax be the one to turn the tables?

"Call me." How could two little words scribbled on a business card drive a normally sane woman to be so... impulsive? It wasn't Harley Golden's style to call a perfect stranger. But here she was, after one brief airport encounter, having phone sex with the obviously unforgettable Gardner Barnes. What next? Letting him fly her off to Texas in his jet? Falling in love with a man who was already married to a ranch? Getting pregnant...?

Psychologist Dr. Tess Autrey would much rather spend a weekend interviewing the hands on the Triple RC Ranch for a newspaper article on buckle bunnies than endure another of her matchmaking society mother's setups. And it doesn't hurt a bit that the ranch owner is Wyatt Crowe, a wickedly sexy former bull-riding champion intent on convincing her that there's nothing crazy about the sparks flying between them from the moment they meet.

Brooke Bailey might be thirty-one years old but she still believes in Santa Claus. And since she won't be going home for her favorite holiday this year, she's determined to include the residents of her small apartment house in her celebration—even those who aren't fans of the jolly red-suited guy or reindeer games.

Claire's an expert on image—at least when it comes to her corporate clients. But her family's every move had her working to fit in instead of discovering her true self. Even now, she focuses on the expectations of others rather than on her own desires.

Most people come to Comfort Bay, Oregon, in search of a quiet respite. But that's not on the agenda for undercover operative Ezra Moore. He has ten days to unload a shipment of illegal weapons and take down Spectra IT, the international crime syndicate he's infiltrated. Spectra's man, Warren Aceveda, is playing dirty pool. To beat him and stay alive, Ezra has to play dirtier. However, even the best-laid crimes can go sideways, and Ezra's about to find out how far....

Stopping at a roadside diner usually means bad chili, not a hostage situation. But Smithson Group operative Harry van Zandt finds himself in the middle of just that when armed men burst through the door. They're after the woman in the nearby booth, and their message is clear: She's got 72 hours to come up with a valuable document or her brother dies. Harry, too, if he doesn't see that she delivers. Harry's on his own mission involving the same document, so he doesn't mind helping treasure hunter Georgia McLain. She's smart, tough, sexy...and she's desperate.

Avery was the cheerleader everybody loved. David was the geek nobody noticed...until he stepped between her and their high school's biggest bully and earned a rep as a badass and a suspension for his trouble. Fifteen years later, David has returned and is living on the third floor of the converted Victorian belonging to Avery's widowed mother. Avery lives beneath him on the second. The staircase between makes for a tight fit when they pass, and the shared address for a lot of circling, avoiding, retreating, and hiding, at least on Avery's part.

Milla Page needs a date - three dates, actually - for work. She reviews restaurants and clubs for a hot dating website but can hardly judge the up-close-and-personal potential of a place if she goes it alone. Rather than call on one of her usual suspects when her plans fall through, she dips into the glass vase of business cards left in her office building's ladies' room lounge for this very purpose. The note on the back of the card says the man it belongs to is hell on wheels...in bed.

Shandi Fossey is mixing cocktails at the bar in Hush, the hottest hotel in Manhattan. The place oozes fantasy of the hottest sort, but for Shandi, it's a temp gig until she lands her dream job...and it's a lot better than pulling beers at the Thirsty Rattler back home. Then music producer Quentin Marks walks in and offers to buy her a drink. He's got the connections she needs and can open a lot of doors. So why is the only door she wants to open the one to his room upstairs? And why in the world is she putting a man ahead of her future?

Ben Tannen was the undisputed leader of his high school band known as the Deck. He was the Ace. Heidi Malone was the Joker and the only female among the five. All four men were half in love with her - Ben maybe more than half. Still, there had always been a certain tension between the Golden Boy and Heidi-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks. And his offer of money for her college tuition didn't go over so well. She lashed out with her pride - and a bicycle chain. Fifteen years later, Heidi still owes Ben an apology, and he still holds her IOU.

Eli McKenzie’s tough exterior has been cracked. His latest mission had him in Mexico, deep inside a Spectra IT sex slavery ring gathering intel. Holding back when he wanted to blow the joint sky-high was bad enough, but turns out someone in the camp was poisoning him, too. The torture of being unable to act, along with the physical toll of his illness, sent him to Hank Smithson’s headquarters to put himself back together.

As Stephanie Monroe, she reached the age of 19 without a care in the world...until the night her workplace was the scene of a massacre and she was left for dead. The only survivor. The only witness to the crime. As Jamie Danby, she's lived the past 10 years looking over her shoulder. She doesn't remember much of that night, but Texas Ranger Kellen Harding hopes to change that through forensic hypnosis. He's determined to close the cold case once and for all. He's also determined to keep Jamie safe for reasons that go above and beyond the job.

These days, PI Logan Burke does a lot of grunt work by choice. So when he's offered a surveillance case tied to industrial espionage, he's not too sure...until he sees the zeroes on the check. All he has to do to earn them is watch Hannah Evans and find out how she's leaking valuable research secrets. Simple enough...or is it? Yeah. Logan's screwed. It's not enough to watch Hannah across a crowded restaurant. He wants to get close. And maybe, just maybe, find a way to move on after a past case left him with PTSD.

Teri Stokes arrives in Crow Hill, Texas, to help her parents pack up in advance of an approaching wildfire, only to find the one person she never wanted to see again, Navy SEAL Shane Gregor, in charge of the firefighting volunteers.