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I shouldn't have even looked at her, and I sure as f*** shouldn't have kissed her. That's when things started to get messy. Her father hated me and believed I was out to screw over his club, but I wasn't. I had no loyalty to the person who left me for dead and soon enough Zane would have to see that. I wasn't just Zane's prisoner anymore, I became one to Sydney's heart. It didn't matter how much her father took his rage out on me, I wasn't going to stop caring for her.

Waking up in complete darkness, I find myself naked, scared, and alone. I thought my past was as bad as it could get, but I was wrong. My nightmares are child's play compared to the place they've stashed me. The people who took me are planning something horrible. Thinking about it makes my skin crawl.

Being a single dad was never part of the playbook, but one look at my son and everything changed. Now football and fatherhood are my whole world—a world that gets turned upside down when my nanny quits two weeks before training camp. Sloane Peterson runs interference by stepping in to help. She's sweet, dependable, and the one woman I shouldn't want. Not when our lives are so entwined. But every time she smiles at my son—or me—it gets harder to remember that our little arrangement is only temporary.

Only a Christmas miracle could make them work together again. Gretchen and Levi were good together once, romantically and professionally. But competition isn't always good for the soul. Now, years later, Gretchen is determined to beat Levi in the holiday baking competition that will put her in front of a global audience. But when a rival bakery tries to sabotage the competition, Gretchen and Levi will have to work together to salvage their creations, and their reputations--and maybe their past.

Alora Church, scientist extraordinaire, is used to being valued for her mind, not her womb. She barely leaves her lab long enough to see the effects of the aliens that have invaded Earth. When her best friend is summoned to become an Axxeon breeder, Alora is prepared to help her run. Until two huge Axxeon warriors show and take Alora captive instead. She thinks there’s nothing worse than being taken as an alien incubator... but she’s wrong. Very wrong.

In my line of business, every day dawns with the smell of death in the air. But it’s not a bullet that’s going to slay me. It’s Sabella, the woman who was promised to me—the woman who betrayed me. We’re heading down a path of destruction, but there’s no turning back. At the first chance she gets, she’ll stab me in the back again. She’s a dangerous risk and a threat to my family. If I were wise, I’d eliminate that risk and leave her funeral to the sharks. I must be an idiot, because I’m going to finish what I started, no matter the cost.

Lizzie Maynes’s torn ACL threatens more than her career as an international Latin ballroom champion. During her lengthy recovery, her longtime professional partner, Dima Turgenev, has been dancing at the Chelsea District’s most notorious burlesque, Club Devant. More than just dancing, he’s been experimenting with shocking new moves that make her want to pull him off stage and get back on tour as soon as possible—the better to keep their successful friendship safe.

Blakely Donelson, a professor of psychology, never expected to get dumped by her colleague…and she certainly didn’t anticipate crossing paths with a hunky mixed martial arts fighter. Blakely finds herself in the uncomfortable spot of being the last of her friends who have yet to find a significant other. While she tells herself that she’s perfectly happy being single, her heart has other ideas.

Former Special Forces operative Aiden McDane has every reason to hate bombs expert Tara Northpoint. Problem is, he can’t remember a single one, and not just because of the way she looks up at him with those big eyes and lush lips.

I’ve been in love with Penny Fox from the moment our eyes first met across the hall in high school. But she’s always been out of reach. That’s okay because I’ve waited for her. I’ve followed her.

Cindy Crews is everything I never even knew I dreamed of. Winning the championship used to be my number one goal in life, but one look into Cindy's pretty golden eyes, and I see my future. But Cindy is a feisty little thing who's fighting me every step of the way. I know she feels this electric current zinging between us, but she's put up walls so thick it's going to take a bulldozer to knock them down.

Baseball is my life. Not only am I good at it, but I’m determined not to end up like my father. That’s why I don’t allow myself to get too close to any woman. But that all changes the day I see Brandy Lancaster. I’m drawn to her like a magnet, and there’s no stopping the pull she has over me. One look and I’m already in too deep, but for the first time in forever, I’m not scared of drowning.

After I whistle at four brawny construction workers, they show me just how good they are with their tools.

Robin is far too engrossed in running her business to have time for men. She made her living off other people’s happy-ever-afters, but that didn’t mean she believed in them for herself. But after bumping into the sexy man that had her knees failing, she figured she’d have a good time and enjoy herself. She hadn’t planned on the relationship jeopardizing everything she held dear.

Rose jumps at the chance to be the architect of a big project in the only town she’s ever dreamed of living in. She thinks this could be her chance at happiness, until she realizes that the Jordans have put Jacob in charge of the project. Why did the man infuriate her? It couldn’t be the fact that she’s been secretly crushing on him all her life.

Kara has put everything on the line to make other people's wedding dreams come true. Watching all of the happy couples is truly the best job ever. Yet somehow, her luck in men was narrowed to only dating jerks. What does a woman have to do to find the man of her dreams?

Kara is eager to show her father that she’s capable of running the family’s ranch in Wyoming. When her dad and stepmother head out on a three month European tour, she eagerly takes the reins. Her only problem? Her annoying neighbor has decided that he’s more fit for the job.

Perpetual bachelor Aiden is back in Pride to fill in for his father at the station after an accident. Aiden had no real plans for sticking around town, but after running into Suzie Jordan, he figured at least he wouldn’t be bored. He knew better than to mess with the Jordan clan, but there was just something about her that made him want to put down roots.

Sam and Stella are closer than most brothers and sisters. Born only minutes apart, they're both best friends and lifelong adversaries. Sam's not worried about who's living the better life. So what if his law degree isn't getting much use, his last relationship was a failure, and he spends most weekends hungover. Despite Stella's nagging mockery, Sam is happy.

The moment Julie laid eyes on Damion five years ago, she’d fallen hard for him. Unfortunately, it was obvious to her that he’d put her in the friend zone. But after a spontaneous weekend sail turns their relationship into something more, the fight for the life that they want together may just turn deadly.