The sign in the window says closed at six. The lights are still on.Evie Lang is twenty-six, late for a warehouse party, and holding a dress that already lost.Grant Pell owns the shop. Forty-one. Cedar, old bulbs, a yellow tape on a hook.He locks North Street out and builds the costume on her body: ears, laces, the three-way glass that does not flatter.The bolt turns from her side. She can walk. She does not.What starts as a measurement turns into a fittin...

Granddaughter of a renowned courtesan, Maybelle Maitenon has no interest in her grandmother's school in London where gentlemen receive instruction--in the art of seduction. Her only desire in life is to remain independent and free from men and their overbearing expectations. But when Maybelle lays eyes on the Duke of Rutherford, who is well-known for his gentlemanly ways, she can't resist. Neither she or the duke are prepared for what their attraction is about to do not only to their sanit...

Sloane Merritt is twenty-five, a cultural geography student, and the one Eastmoor sent to guide a visiting historian through New England peak week.Professor Rhys Calder is forty-seven, distinguished, and already taking notes before he looks at her.The inn is full. The rooms adjoin. The walls were not built for secrets.Copper maples. A dirt cut after a red barn. A legal pull-off with a view the county sold as pretty.He will not dress this up as mentorship. Sh...

Taryn Briggs is twenty-nine and back in Maple Hollow for one job: run the town hayride and get out before the festival turns her into a local again.The driver is Reid Holcomb. Thirty-two. Fire chief. The same mouth she wanted to hit in eleventh grade.The last family steps off at the green. The wagon should turn east for the barn. Reid takes the dark edge of the lawn instead.Hay on the boards. Lantern gold on his jacket. A service lane with no clipboard left to hide ...

Isabeau Willcox is just the temp at the front desk, so when the mysterious, sexy and notoriously ill-tempered CEO, Chase Drake asks her to be his executive assistant, she's sure there's been some sort of mistake. However, Mr. Drake wants her, and Mr. Drake always gets what he wants.When she enters his employ, she agrees to be at his beck and call, to be his, but what exactly does that entail? When he punishes her for breaking his rules by bending her over his desk, she realizes she...

After a charged encounter ignites something ancient in her blood, Sarai Davis becomes entangled in a world of hidden magic where pleasure and danger are inseparable.A shocking prophecy shatters her reality: Sarai is a Half Kasst, descended from an erased bloodline and born to stand against a secret network of aristocratic vampires.Now hunted, Sarai must reclaim a legacy meant to be wiped from history, and embrace her power before the forces hunting her finish what they bega...

This is the first book in the best-selling series, The Billionaire's Beck and Call, by Delilah Fawkes!Isabeau Willcox is just the temp at the front desk, so when the mysterious, sexy and notoriously ill-tempered CEO, Chase Drake asks her to be his executive assistant, she's sure there's been some sort of mistake. However, Mr. Drake wants her, and Mr. Drake always gets what he wants.When she enters his employ, she agrees to be at his beck and call, to be his...

Piper Bennett is twenty-six and one bad grid from losing her autumn sponsor. Mercer Patch still charges by the pound and does not care about her camera.Cal Mercer is forty. He is short a hired hand and he does not want a caption. He will let her film the honest work if she lifts what he tells her to lift from sunup to close.The lot stays full of families until it does not. Dirt. Split stems. A barn wall the parking lot cannot see.He names the rest of the payment in pla...

Brooke Callahan inherits a failing orchard and a neighbor who already tried to buy it. Garrett Pike brings a crew, a clipboard, and a harvest partnership she signs too fast. The packing shed smells like dust, old wood, and apples that will rot if nobody picks. The rows are heavy. The diner down the hill is hanging festival posters like the town has time to be pretty. The contract has a clause she should have read twice. Enemies first. Hands after. Maple Hollow Book 1. Explicit consensual r...

Blood. Truth. Everything.Some truths destroy you. Others leave you reborn.INDIA & ENGLAND • 1833Jemdanee Kumar has survived a lifetime of believing she knew exactly who she was. The closer she comes to the truth of her mother's past, the more the foundations of her own life begin to crumble. Long buried secrets, forgotten loyalties, and a legacy she never imagined force her to question everything she thought she understood about herself.Only...

Maren Cole came to North Branch Pass for the leaves, not the man who delivered the wood.The listing promised a stove and a cord. What it did not mention was Holt Grady, year-round on the same road, big enough to make the doorway look like a suggestion. Then the radio named an early frost, the spur turned to glass, and the only way down the mountain closed.One cabin. One bed. Stacked flannel on a peg. Heat off iron and cold off the pane.She can wait out the weather i...

He believes in destiny. She just wants to survive it...At forty, Lady Cecilia Evangeline Stone thinks she has everything a woman could ever want. A title, a fortune, and four children who make her proud. After a marriage of convenience that was anything but convenient, she has no desire to complicate her life by including a man in it again. When her eldest son announces his engagement to a Russian actress in Saint Petersburg, Cecilia sets out to do what any good mo...