Three teenage boys decide to break into an abandoned, haunted mansion and come face-to-face with a demonic apparition. Terrified, they run as far as they can, as fast as they can.Years have passed. As adults, two of the friends, Frank and Chris have embraced this formative experience. They spend their nights investigating disturbances for public access TV as an amateur ghost hunting team called "Spooked." The third friend, Liam, does everything he can to forget what had happened an...

Darcie Claiborne spent several years of her young life living with a monster, always fearing what he would do next. Clasping onto her last ounce of hope, Darcie releases a scream. It’s her final attempt to live; to survive the villain of her reality. Sweeping her up in his arms, Darcie’s knight in shining armor rescues her from the hell she’s been living; from the stepfather she's feared for all those years.Reggie Evans has been forced to grow up before he’s ready when his mother d...

A Short Holiday Story by New York Times Bestselling Author H.M. WardThere’s no such thing as second chances, and Brooke would know. This Christmas will be spent alone and uncelebrated, same as the last. It doesn’t matter that she’s a disgruntled mall elf, standing next to a chimney-scented Santa with the most annoying co-worker ever. It doesn’t make Christmas more magical. It’s just another day to endure, and the holiday can’t pass fast enough. That is, un...

From USA Today Best-Selling Author Chelsea Camaron and Jessie Lane...She’s an investment banker.He’s an outlaw biker.A little bit of heaven is about to meet a whole lot of hell.Morgan Powell was raised to be perfect, to set an example for her sisters to follow. Her life has been dedicated to making something of her career, so she wouldn’t know what to do with a man even if you gave her an instruction manual.Brett ‘Ice...

One date with the sexier-than-sin Detective Drake Nash. Simple.Until you take into account that my brother finally proposed to his girlfriend, so Nonna is on a warpath—and the crazy old bat has Cupid by the balls.The upcoming mayoral elections has everyone running on full speed, and while I couldn't give any less craps about the corrupt Holly Woods mayor's office, a dead body in the middle of a campaign speech has me thrown right into the middle of it. The victim is close to ...

Leah has been trying for years to get rid of her competition, and all her crazy scheming has finally paid off—or so she thinks. Now that YaYa is out of the picture, she's ready to step into her shoes and have the life she always dreamed of. The scars that she earned in the fire almost seem worth it if they mean she'll finally be able to have all the money, the family, and most importantly, to have Indie's love to herself.There's only one problem. Disaya Morgan isn't dead. She survi...

They call me Everest ‘cause I’m a mountain of man. A man who wants it all.I refuse to choose. Not between my bike, my club, my badge, and the women in my bed.There’s no room in my life for this hot mess of a girl who fell onto my laps.

Sarah-Jane Quinn has many secret dreams: to own the bed-and-breakfast inn where she stayed as a child; to finally capture the elusive Coleridge "Collie" Tate, on whom she has an enormous crush; and most importantly, to be someone's top priority for once in her life.But Collie is a single father with a potential custody battle on his hands, and Sarah ranks roughly Number 917 on his list of concerns. So when Gus Haldemann, the sophisticated director of Human Resources, shows a marked...

"Startlingly talented . . . he survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice all his own." -Janet Maslin, The New York TimesIn this novel rich in character, Junior Thibodeau grows up in rural Maine in a time of Atari, baseball cards, pop Catholicism, and cocaine. He also knows something no one else knows-neither his exalted parents, nor his baseball-savant brother, nor the love of his life (she doesn't bel...

Malaria is nothing a good dose of quinine can't handle.At least that's what software training specialist Frannie Freeman thinks when her vile office manager Malia — aka Malaria — unexpectedly marries their boss Sam, with whom Frannie has been in love for years. Certain it's only a matter of time before Sam comes to his senses, she hides her heartbreak behind sarcastic humor and copious amounts of tequila.Exceptional at everything except romantic relationships, Frannie is st...

Murder is no laughing matterEx-professional baseball player Jake Longly adamantly refuses to work for his father, wanting no part of Ray's PI world. He prefers to hang out at his beachfront bar and chase bikinis along the sugary beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama. But Ray can be persuasive, so Jake finds himself staking out the home of wealthy Barbara Plummer, a suspected adulteress. The mission seems simple enough—hang around, take a few pictures, sip a little bourbon...

One night I was out with my girls enjoying a much needed ladies night while wondering if one more dirty martini would push me over the edge. The next thing I knew, I was in the club’s bathroom listening to a woman screaming, “No,” and a man’s voice growling, “I know you want it.”That asshole picked the wrong restroom, in the wrong club, at the wrong time.Little did I know the asshole was Cade’s VP, and although we saved that woman from his clutches that night, she’d be foun...