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A woman on the run from her stalker lands in a Christmas wonderland with the only man who can save her. As the lead dog handler for an elite search and rescue group in the Alaskan mountains, Hunt Cason knows stress. And he’s ready for a short breather from it all by spending the holiday season in a remote cabin. Being alone on Christmas might sound depressing, except he’s got everything he needs from firewood to his best friend and K-9 partner, German Shepherd Aries. But all too soon his peace is shattered when a half-frozen and beautiful woman knocks on his door. What can he do but ...

Boone Wynton is one of the top bodyguards on the WEST Protection team and in the country. So taking a job to protect the wife of a billionaire oil tycoon seems like a breeze—until he learns he can’t get near the possessive man’s wife unless he’s married. His only option? A coworker who hates him. Maybe she is kind of pretty, and her lips drive him crazy—as long as she isn’t speaking.

They call her the Ice Queen…but he’s determined to thaw her. Bodyguard Mathias Trace is more comfortable on the back of a horse than guarding people. But when his next job involves a brainy woman on a hunt for treasure, he’s as frustrated as he is turned on. Her pretty, delicate features and tight curves might threaten to give him whiplash, but her chilly disposition is enough to freeze any man in his tracks. All Madeline asks for is a smart, savvy bodyguard. What she gets is a man who walks with a permanent swagger and only takes the name of his horse seriously. But she must be the ...

TV food show host Tabbart Tracy works hard to give viewers her best recipes. But while her fans are legion, her personal life is colder than a meat locker. Most men just want her to serve up some pie - in the nude. One glance at her assistant's sexy brother, though, and her body skips straight from low simmer to rolling boil. Especially when she tracks him down at a stud ranch. Where he's the stud.

The mafia, a smuggling ring and the wilds of Alaska are no match for this special operative. But a brazen redhead might be. Elias Gasper’s known as the do-it-all guy. From HALO jumps to calming hostages, he’s on it. When he stumbles across a woman in hiding, he meets a new challenge in getting her to talk. While he’s willing to add breaking through her silence to his list of skills, fighting his attraction still needs work. Ruby Ryan is an alias, but doing anything it takes to save herself is real. She’s used to switching sides, so cozying up to a hunky military man proves easy…...

Louisiana nights can be hot, sticky, and in this case, potentially deadly… Brainiac Dylan Knight may be a nerd, but that doesn’t mean he can’t split a hair with open sights at twenty paces. So, when the special ops team needs someone to help bring down a terrorist cell, he’s the perfect man for the job. He just never thought the job would lead him to a boutique owner who is as innocent—and enticing—as she is in deep, dark trouble… Athena Mohamed is no criminal. So, when the government breaks down her door and a stern, insanely sexy special ops guy whisks her away to a safe ...

Growing up, he was her tormentor. Now he’s her only hope. Landon Trace, cofounder of WEST Protection, is minding his own business at a family wedding when a woman from his past literally jumps into his arms. His best friend’s little sister sure has grown up in the fifteen years since he’s seen her, but the way she catches his eye isn’t the real issue. She’s in danger—and he’s her only hope. In their youth, Elliot—aka Ells—Watson couldn’t stand Landon’s company. He spent every spare second teasing her, pulling her braids and making fun of her name. Now she has to put ...

He has scars and a dream. She has love and a determination to prove herself. Corporal Wydell Jackson, aka Hard-Ass, is back in his hometown of Los Vista, Texas after serving years on the battlefield. Trouble is, the town is worse than a war zone after a storm ripped through it. Wydell and his platoon buddies are determined to rebuild and bring the people back to town, but how? Since Anya Carter inherited millions and a lush estate from her grandparents, her phone is always ringing with requests to “invest” in people’s dreams. But this time her money manager has found something worth ...

She can run, but she can’t hide. Not from him… Quaide Livingston doesn’t regret leaving the FBI for his new undercover job with Sentry. He does, however, miss his former assistant. She ran away, taking her sexy curves and secretary glasses with her. But he will find her. And when he does, he’ll show her exactly who’s boss… Dove Priester loved her former job. But staying wasn’t an option. Not when she was harboring a criminal. And especially not when she kept falling into bed with the hot boss who noticed far too much. Now all she has to do is figure out how to forget him…and...

Cracking codes is easy, but deciphering this hot special operative might be worth her time… Sean Knight is second in command of Knight Ops, a task force that’s quickly gaining notoriety as a top special ops force. While Sean enjoys showing off his tactical skills on life-threatening missions, he also loves coming home to Louisiana to relax and do some catfishin’… and hunting for sexy females to warm his bed. Known as one of the best in her field, Elise is recruited to help locate a missing nuclear warhead. Showing off her skills is just as stimulating as putting the special ...

I will live by the code of conduct…but rules are meant to be broken. Speed junkie and bodyguard Lars Ivanov steps in to guard a famous race car driver just in time to rescue a beautiful French-American press agent from a bullet too. Guarding Lillian with his body is the easy part, but discovering who is out for her blood is another story. Personally, he thinks someone is just trying to shut the irritating woman up…and who knew that’s as easy as kissing her? Lillian Delphine is only doing her job when she finds herself in the line of fire. Now she’s got a big, grumpy-looking ...

She's stranded. On a mountain. On Valentine's Day. He's the only one who can find her. As usual, the minute Zayden Moon sets foot in his small hometown, trouble comes knocking. Bad memories, a funeral and a failing ranch are just a few of the things he’s facing. Now the townspeople are looking to him to go up the mountain and rescue a woman stranded in a snowstorm. All he can say is she better be worth it. Esme believes a mountain getaway with her boyfriend will mean wedding bells in her future. Instead, she’s abandoned and left to make her own way down the jagged terrain. When a sexy ...

They’re enemies—with benefits. But what happens when their secret is revealed? On the surface, ex-bounty hunter Asher Moon’s got it all together. But as soon as he sets foot on the family ranch, he’s thrown back into his role as his dysfunctional family’s glue, and now he’s got his own ugly past to cover up too. Just when he thinks he can't handle any more drama, in walks the one woman who can make him groan—in every possible way. Asher isn’t the kind of guy Kinsey Reynolds can take home to meet Daddy. But no matter how hard she tries, she can’t seem to keep the sexy man ...

Maya Ray’s just been dumped. Noah Wynton’s just been dumped too. So while their exes bask in their new relationship, what do Maya Ray and Noah do? Hatch a plan, of course.

Jenna has a better likelihood of surviving a grizzly attack than military man Lipton. Special Operative and second-in-command for the Xtreme Ops team, Harris Lipton, aka Lip, finds himself sidelined after an accident. Then he’s saddled with a free-spirited hippie park ranger set on nursing him—and driving him crazy with a cute factor he never saw coming. Pain-in-the-neck Lipton is demanding and bossy with monumental ideas about nabbing the park bomber…but he does have enough fire in him to warm her through the coldest of Alaskan nights. While they band together with the Xtreme Ops ...

When the new ranch hand the Daltons hire asks Cash for assistance, he's all in - until he learns it involves a Mexican daughter and a marriage license. His first instinct is to run the other direction. But he figures he needs a wife, and she needs help, so it's a damn good bargain. Maya Perez is desperate to get out of her home city and into the States, where she can make a better life. When her only living family member, her father, sends for her to come to Texas, she's met by a gorgeous cowboy and an offer of marriage.

Shelby has pulled up roots - again - and taken her funds from her latest divorce settlement to open a candy shop in Vixen, Texas. She wants better for her son than new men parading through his life because his mom can't get herself together. The small town is the perfect place to avoid male interest - mainly because there aren't many available. When Witt spies the curvaceous new candy shop owner, he suddenly has a sweet tooth. Trouble is, so does every other man in the vicinity, including his brother Kade.

Opposites don’t only attract—they combust… Retired pilot Michael Modeen is happy to be part of the WEST Protection security team. Usually, anyway. But his current mission has him grounded—and working with a snarky and very sexy woman who happens to be his boss’s little sister. She’s totally off limits. And knowing that doesn’t make it any easier to keep his mind—or his hands—off her. Corrine Wynton would rather be raising barrel-racing horses than overseeing security on an archaeological dig. But here she is, fighting fossil hunters and her irritating, overprotective ...

Sexual dysfunction. The words make Sibyll cringe, but after one too many failed relationships, she has to face reality. Her O-button is broken big time. Sick of sitting on the sexual sidelines, she books a week at Boot Knockers Ranch. If a passel of rugged cowboys vying to bring her bliss can't get her off, nothing will. Hugh had planned to sit out this week's rotation of sexual therapy, but when he spots sultry Sibyll, he pulls rank.

"Hot as blazes!"--5 Stars "This promises to be a wild and rowdy new series, with fantastic characters, heart-stopping action and danger, and all the feels."--5 Stars This special operative knows how to woo the ladies…but only one ever captured his heart. Ben Knight has held a lot of titles during his career in the military, but his best-known gig of Louisiana playboy is up when he’s approached to head a new special ops unit to fight terrorism on US soil. As captain, he’s bound to run into some snags, especially in the Louisiana bayou. But Ben didn’t expect a second chance with a ...