Bleu - L.P. MaxaOver the past few months Bleu and Maykin have become best friends. They hang out all the time, especially after Bleu punches a guy for trash-talking Maykin, and gets sentenced to community service at an animal shelter. Cuddling puppies leads to finally giving in to the attraction they've been avoiding. And becoming dog parents seals the deal. Forever.Burnover - Diane BenefielAfter a horrible year, including getting dumped days before her wedding, Eva d...

INVESTING IT ALLFamily law attorney Maddie Prescott is driven to succeed. A pawn in her parents' messy divorce, she devoted her career to representing children in court, and when her husband's early death makes it seem like she can't have it all, she's ready to beat the odds by going to a sperm bank. One advantage to single parenthood is that her child will never be a pawn. That, and she'll never have to deal with sarcastic ladies' men or liars.Jack Worth promised to look o...

Another ChanceClaire Walsh had it all: a good job, wonderful parents and a fiancé who seemed to be too good to be true. And he was. Fifty feet from the altar, Claire learns the groom of her dreams is a no-show, and everything she believes about love and herself goes straight out the window. Determined to give herself space and time, she takes her honeymoon alone, and finds herself drawn to a man with a heart in worse shape than hers.For the past five years Mac Stone has bee...

SHOOTINGFOR THE STARSWhen it comes to relationships, Tess Callahan is gun-shy. An ambitious Atlanta divorce attorney, she's seen the aftermath of relationships gone bad, which is why she has no time in her life for any man except for Nick Russo. Handsome and exciting, he's the perfect choice to give her all she desires—including the fact he's never around long enough for things to get complicated. Until suddenly they do.Nick Russo has the world. His job as a photogra...

Take one tea shop-owning divorcee, add a new-to-town attorney and two meddling grandmothers and the result is a romantic brew that will make everyone's dreams come true.

He fights hard to hide his biggest secret.Ryan Kidd isn't sure what is worse: the injury that ended his Major League Baseball pitching career or being "volunteered" to be the Barefoot Bay Bucks' contestant in a charity dance competition. Things get complicated when his heart throws him a curve ball and he falls under the spell of his teacher, Amara Perez. They are supposed to dance the tango, but Ryan finds himself wanting to waltz into her heart instead. However, ...

Looking at her potential client, Atlanta image consultant Victoria Sharpe is convinced the job will be a cross between What Not to Wear and Man vs. Wild. She'd love to turn down the offer, but refusing it—not to mention the referrals it could generate—just might break the bank. Yet, agreeing to make over this man's image might also break her heart. Again.Max Brown will tolerate anything to gain access to his trust fund. Returning to work in the family business, even submitting to h...

A woman whose touch can heal. A man who doesn't want to believe.Family woes bring Jillian Logan home to Mimosa Key, but she faces more trouble in her new job as a massage therapist at the Casa Blanca Resort in Barefoot Bay. Right away she's given a special assignment: a wounded soldier who is a good-looking player with sex appeal and who threatens to throw her delicately balanced life off-kilter. Sam Hartman, AKA Hart Throb, views the beach as just another...

The Last Take-AwaySubstituting for her ailing mother in their family restaurant, Maggie Sullivan and Drew Paxton start an unusual phone relationship during a series of called-in take-out orders. While neither is looking for love, it finds them, and they have to decide to dare to take the plunge.SweetheartMarried for barely a year, police behaviorist, Ashe MacAvoy learns she's pregnant just as her new sister-in-law is kidnapped by a madman. For Detective Chase Weber,...

A Michelin two-star chef at twenty-eight, Violette Lenoir could handle anything, including a cocky burglar who broke into her restaurant in the middle of the night.Or so she thought.Elite counterterrorist operative Chase “Smith” had been through things that made Hell Week look easy. But nothing had prepared him for a leather-clad blonde who held him at bay at knifepoint and dared him to take her on.Now if only saving the world didn’t require he ruin her life.

Tea and crumpets and murder...Location scout and Jane Austen aficionado, Kate Sharp, is thrilled when the company she works for lands the job of finding locations for a new film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, but then her boss, Kevin, fails to return from a scouting trip to England. Afraid that Kevin has slipped back into some destructive personal habits he struggles with, Kate travels to England to salvage Kevin’s and the company’s reputation before w...

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