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What do a Marine who received a “Dear John” letter and a journalist who dumped her cheating fiancé have in common? Nothing, outside of being heartbroken over lost love. But when they accidentally end up next to each other jetting to a Caribbean paradise, they do share one thing: mutual attraction.

Griff Montgomery is the headline-making, heart-breaking star quarterback of the Kings - a 6’4”, 33 year old womanizer. Lauren Farraday is a beautiful young interior designer, bitterly scarred by divorce, whose life is falling apart. Though they violently oppose one another in court over her beloved pug (she thinks he’s arrogant and conceited, and he thinks she’s a bitch on wheels), something happens....

Called “the Odd Couple” in high school, brainy Liz and athletic Nick hit it off. From tutor and pupil to lovers, they formed a tight bond - until college. Heading off in different directions, they agreed to cut their ties with no regrets. That was the last time they saw each other. Haunted by feelings of inferiority, the former lovers never pursued each other after college. Would a surprise meeting, 10 years later, give them a second chance or would it be too late?

Harry "Deke" Edwardss is a Hartford Husky defenseman known to be tricky, fast, and unbreakable. An amazing defensive lunge in a playoff game ends in a life-threatening injury. But Harry’d bounce back. He always did, didn’t he? Kitty, his wife, runs a successful art gallery in Washington, DC. Over the last three years, the couple agreed to live in different cities and be together whenever they can. Harry swears they make it work. Unwilling to face the truth about the damage he suffered, Harry hides his secret.

What would you do if the hottest new female country music singer asked you to come up to her place? Nat Owen, formerly nobody from nowhere, now World Series MVP, followed his instincts. The star first baseman fell under the spell of the singer the minute she batted her eyelashes at him. What about Nicki? Were they only friends, or about to become more? The female pro softball catcher and the first baseman had chemistry. Just as Nat made his move on Nicki, Lucy strutted into his life, offering stardom, glitter, and a lifestyle he could only dream about. What’s a man to do?

Blown apart by a heart-rending tragedy, Matt and Perri Jessup went their separate ways - he to Afghanistan and she to New York City. With loss and heartbreak coming between them, was there any reason to stay together? Would a chance meeting five years later bring back old recriminations or a renewal of past love, instead? Could they build a bridge between them or was the gulf to wide to cross?

After 10 years of working, saving, and investing, Grey Andrews finally achieved a level of wealth that allows him to do what he wants with his life. He needs a woman to share it with, but not any woman. The perfect woman. The mate he’s seeking will have the three essential qualities on his marriage list. After three years of searching, he isn’t any closer than he was when he started out.

Meet the men of the Connecticut Kings football team. Share their anguish and their triumphs as they strive for success in the game of football and the game of love. American football romance. This is a compilation of the first chapters of all nine books in the football romance series, First & Ten.

Harley Brennan and Shyla Hollings agreed to part company to follow their careers. It was a mutual decision. The star running back had no problem getting dates, but never the right dates. After one year spent trying to replace the only woman he’d ever loved, he declared defeat. Until the reality TV show Marriage Minded approached him.

Stress over making the playoffs at holiday time can’t compete with the tensions in the homes of the star players on the Connecticut Kings. From Trunk Mahoney’s shattered dream of a Currier & Ives Christmas to the secret Lauren is keeping from Griff, surprises abound in this last tale of the team. As the men and their women celebrate the holidays, bad news rivals good as accidents, breakups, and unexpected reunions strain love to the breaking point. Who will get their Christmas wish and who will not?

When Miranda Bradford’s dog knocked down real estate tycoon Penn Roberts in Central Park, their mutual attraction was instantaneous. Like a flash fire setting them aflame – unexpected and undeniable --and neither of them would ever be the same…. Was it fate they met – or fatal? Would Penn, aka Mr. Hottie, prove to be her best friend and most sizzling lover or the architect of her greatest betrayal? Compassionate like his late mother – or ruthless like his father? Would he adore her beyond her wildest dreams or rip her heart to shreds? Devastated and confused, she turns to her ...

Everybody thinks sexy movie star, Deke Walsh, has it all. Everybody except Deke. When Thanksgiving rolls around, he finds out exactly what he’s missing – a family. When the glitter of stardom fades, Deke realizes there’s no place like home. An unexpected visit from childhood acquaintance, Rachel, pulls him back into the real world. Facing the emptiness of his life and the rapid decline of his beloved grandfather, can Deke rebuild his life or is it too late?

When a hot career and a hot romance collide in this sensuous story, Brooke Felsen’s life goes up in flames and her visions of corporate glory turn to ashes. She’s worked her gorgeous tush off in a Madison Avenue advertising agency 24/7, winning fame, fortune, and the steamy passion of her sexy, single boss. Until he suddenly dumps her -- and her carefully constructed existence crumbles like day old bread. Desperate to put her life back together like Humpty Dumpty, Brooke turns to her girlfriends at The Monday Night Dinner Club, all pug owners, and to her grandmother, her “rock” ...

Can the newest professor at Kensington State escape his previous life as a killer? Leaving the Army didn't mean the war left him. Scars to his body, heart, and soul haunt him. Capt. Danny Maine seeks a normal life. He struggles to free himself from crippling war memories and dangerous men, hoping that love and a new Glock will bring him peace. Eliza Baines, widowed dean at the university, finally has life exactly the way she wants it, doesn’t she? When Danny Maine blows into town, he fires up her hunger for love and affection. Can she throw aside convention to build a life with a much ...

An enemies-to-lovers romance. If Dr. Hack is really engaged, why is he drooling all over Rory? He’s never wanted a woman the way he wants tempting, sexy, alluring Rory– even though she hates him. Stuck in a fake engagement, all he can do is fantasize about the woman. Forced by the Court to spend time with smug Hack Roberts, sharp-witted, Rory loves to torture him with sarcastic comments and low-cut necklines. Revenge is best served cold -- until it isn't. A funny, sarcastic, heart-warming, enemies-to-lovers tale you won’t be able to put down.

What’s she doing here? Single dad, lumberjack Cal Morrison, stares out his window at the moving van across the street. A widower, he lives with his young son, Bobby. I don’t need her. Neither does Bobby. Why doesn’t she go back to Europe and leave me alone? Still nursing a broken heart, he wants to turn away and forget Giselle Davenport. But he can’t. He’s drawn to her like a moth to a flame. When she faces his house, her hands on her hips, she hesitates. Does she feel it, too? Cal has his son and a good job, he doesn’t need a woman. Especially that woman. At least that’s what...

Get rid of the house and sell the land. Bulldozing the broken-down mansion billionaire Stryker Alexander West inherited solves an annoying problem. Busy launching a new venture, he doesn’t have time to waste on sentiment. Taking down the historic building should be a slam-dunk. But Stryker comes up against a stone wall in the form of Landmark chair, Jess Lennox. Supporting her brother and juggling a hard life, Jess refuses to approve a permit to demolish the old house. No way will she let arrogant, wealthy Mr. West destroy her dream. Unwilling to accept defeat, Stryker’s confident he ...

Gorgeous, marriage-phobic, Whitfield Bass tries every sexy play he knows to seduce the sexy baker across the hall. Bess tempts him beyond endurance, but still, she resists. How far will a man go to satisfy his lust?

Fleeing from the altar three times brands Flint McKay as “a serial proposer.” He swears each proposal is genuine and real. Yet, when it comes time to tie the knot, his heart isn’t in it. What drives him away from marriage? He has no clue. No, the answer doesn’t lie with Cassandra Wells, star of stage and screen. Or at least that’s what Flint tells himself. After sixteen years setting records at the box office, winning Tony Awards, and rising like the brightest star in the sky, stardom no longer appeals to Cassandra Wells. At 32, she wants to trade in her greasepaint for a new life...

Two love stories, side-by-side. Tunney Nichols is so lonely he lets Kit, a houseless married woman, live in his mother’s place while he renovates it. His guarded heart is safe because he never fools around with married women. Or is it? How come all the male clothes in the closet are brand new and in different sizes? What’s she hiding? Kit’s life comes to a halt when her husband slaps her with a divorce. Finding herself without a place to live, she takes Tunney’s offer of cheap rent. Telling a lie she soon regrets, she’s drawn to the sexy man plastering and painting his way into ...