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Motorcycle racer Teo Alexiou is challenged by his grandmother to come to her birthday party with a real girlfriend. He has plenty of party girls, and he fears getting roped into marriage so he hires an actress to play the part.

Amber Myers is book smart and people stupid, and she’s tired of being invisible and dateless. Luckily her sister is a hairdresser and works at a beauty salon - in Sapphire Falls. Chad Powers would rather look into a microscope than approach the only woman he’s ever crushed on. He follows her to Sapphire Falls, and his farm boy cousins turn him into a hunk in time for the Summer Festival.

To protect those he loves, Cade is forced to play dirty with one exception: on the playing field. Meanwhile, Andie is drawn deeper into the manipulations of a coworker who doesn't have her best interests at heart. Andie's mother appears on the scene to help while Cade's mother suffers a horrible relapse. A shocking twist upends everything Cade believed and forces Andie to reconsider whether she'd been too trusting of the man who'd wormed his way into her heart.

Juliette Martin does not ever want to celebrate Christmas again, not when it means reliving the last one after her six-year-old son, Jeremiah, passed away on Christmas Eve. She and husband, Gabe, find themselves snowed in at a mountain cabin with a pair of strays. Juliette desperately needs a miracle to save her marriage and restore her faith in God. Can a stray dog and an orphan boy help her believe in the magic of Christmas and the power of love?

An epic love story, full of adventure and drama. --- She lost it all in one agonizing moment… Princess Michal is used to getting everything she wants, and she has her heart set on the young hero David. But their passionate love affair is destroyed by her father’s murderous rage. Will David's departing promises be enough? David the King is no longer the charming harpist she gave her heart to. The most powerful man in Israel, he falls into the arms of the beautiful Bathsheba. Temptation comes in the form of a dashing Philistine warrior. Michal vows to be the only woman in David’s heart,...

When ordinary you and the Son of the Kitchen God are all that stand between a playboy apocalypse and innocent hearts yearning for love. Sapphire Sing is in desperate need of her grandmother’s matchmaking skills. She’s stuck on a not-so-merry-go-round of secondhand men while wedding bells ring for her snooty half-sisters. Sapphire sets out to discover her grandmother’s secrets but runs afoul of Johnny Wok, the Kitchen God’s son. When Sapphire’s friends steal the magic wok, one reputed to cast love spells, she is hurled into an ancient conflict between love and evil. What’s a girl...

April Fu fumes when she finds a stolen dog in her apartment. What trouble has her best friend’s brother gotten into now? Dog walker Jex Wise has nowhere to turn. His sister is going through a messy divorce and wants to hide her soon-to-be ex’s pampered prizewinning Yorkshire terrier. Complications ensue when April and Jex go on an April Fool’s date pretending to be lovers. They win a stinky taco contest and the dog’s owner recognizes Jex as his dog walker—not April’s. Will April’s heart survive when she suspects Jex’s prank is one big April Fool’s joke? ~~~ Not Mine, a ...

If you love sweet romances (PG-rating), look no further than Rachelle Ayala's Have a Hart series. The Harts are a family of San Francisco firefighters. Their family motto is: Heart comes first. Can a woman looking for Mr. Perfect settle for a happy-go-lucky Mr. Wrong? Dr. Vanessa Ransom has high standards and she's on the hunt for the perfect man. With limited time for a social life, she hires college dropout Dale Hart to walk her dogs and clean her house. Just for kicks, she decides to motivate him to succeed, only to find herself falling in love with him. Can Dale show Vanessa that love ...

The cute barista is a wannabe writer, and Gina Griffin doesn’t date wannabe writers. She’s a bestselling women’s fiction author and doesn’t need to take a clueless beginner under her wing, especially a handsome one who’s so awkward with words that she finds endearing. But Henry Archer is no ordinary barista. He’s a tech billionaire in disguise and the mastermind behind an AI chatbot designed to write like humans. Henry is captivated by Gina’s talent and determined to learn from her. What Gina doesn’t know is that he’s also using her word choices to fine-tune the very ...

The last time wedding planner Ava Sinclair saw her first love, Cruz Montalvo, he left her standing at a bus stop with a broken heart. Twenty years later, she is hired by Cruz’s ex-wife to orchestrate a lavish destination wedding at a secluded Caribbean resort, Unexpected Paradise. Cruz’s arrival on the island as a guest at his ex-wife’s wedding blows a hole in Ava’s carefully guarded heart. A ruggedly handsome security specialist, he’s strong, confident, and determined to rekindle a forever romance with Ava. While Ava strives to maintain a professional posture, Cruz oozes charm ...

Talented video game designer Safire Chu is gun-shy when it comes to dating real men, especially since she spends all her time shooting at their avatars. Football legend, Matt Swanson is nothing but trouble on season and off. He wants to cheat on an online video game, so he asks Safire to a New Year’s Eve party while his publicist hacks into the game database through her computer. A bit of champagne and the countdown to the ball drop loosens Safire’s inhibitions. When her company’s newest secret game is pirated, Safire wonders if the man she’s fallen for at first blush is not all he ...

Imagine yourself shapeshifted not into a wolf or a giant eagle but into a 1959 MG Roadster convertible, all while the guy you’re crushing on is driving his date through your hometown. ~~~Christmas Creek’s favorite son, Nick Jolly, and its beautiful wallflower, Hayley Brockman, are so far in the friend zone that she’s picking his dates for him. When Hayley selects three social media mavens to help Nick promote Christmas Creek, everything backfires, including the antique convertible Nick picks up to drive them around. Unbeknownst to Hayley and Nick, they are being watched over by their ...

Leanna Rivera never told her friends where she went junior year in high school. Her family sent her back to Mexico to give birth and keep it a secret. They told her to forget about Carmelita, her brown-eyed baby girl, who died shortly after her adoption was final, leaving her with a box of ashes. Fourteen years later, Leanna receives a frantic phone call. Her daughter is alive and has run away to cross the US-Mexico border. With little to go on, Leanna hires a bodyguard to help her search for Carmelita. Axe Salvadori hides his secrets well. He also hides his attraction to Leanna, preferring...

Breast cancer cost Nutmeg Brown her fiancé, her job, and her cleavage, but not her love for Christmas. She’s had enough pity from family and old friends, so she travels to Christmas Creek to celebrate anonymously. Army specialist Craig Brockman has lost more than a foot and an eye. He’s lost his pride and can’t face his family—least of all for Christmas. When his friend, Nutmeg’s brother, asks him to anonymously deliver an old toy to his sister, he comes face to face with a wish he’d lost long ago. Nutmeg wakes up the next morning and finds a flesh and blood soldier in her bed....

Roni Reindl was kidnapped by the cartel and rose to second-in-command. Jason Boyd was a firefighter before becoming a quadriplegic. When Jason’s ex-girlfriend hires Roni to kill him, will Roni kill her heart or her past? * * * Note: This is a short romance tying together two characters introduced in previous Bad Boys for Hire adventures. Jason Boyd is the “other man” for Carol in Bad Boys for Hire: Nick Roni is Boss Veronica, an antagonist of Axe and Leanna in Bad Boys for Hire: Axe Jason’s home health aide, Marisa Monroe, has her Irish adventure in Bad Boys for Hire: Liam The ...

Tina Lee is fresh out of jail and trying her level best to make it on her own. Returning home late from work, Tina discovers an abandoned puppy, skin and bones and blind. Timmy Li is the Rattlers’ star young pitcher and he’s wary of women making moves on his billionaire father who’s newly single. When he discovers Tina palling around with his dad, he’s determined to derail her—by dating her. When Timmy rescues Tina from a gang of abusive men, he has a hard time hating her—especially since she has a soft spot for Donut, the blind double dappled dachshund puppy. Besides, she’s ...

Welcome to Laguna Beach, California ... Dog walker Tally Tallahan has tried out for every reality show on the planet, but she’s never made the cut. She visits a former client, reality star Amy Suzuki, to ask her to pull some strings. Lucky Lenigan is lucky in everything except love. The shy scriptwriter writes for reality shows, but he is tongue-tied when it comes to romance. He bumps into Tally when she’s buying a lottery ticket with his lucky numbers. Tally recognizes Lucky as the genius behind a number of high-profile reality shows and gets close to him so she could land a role. When...

All Merry Jolly wants is to make Dr. Colton Dale smile. All his daughter, Dottie, wants is a dog. Will Christmas wishes come true for three lonely hearts? ~~~ Mail carrier Merry Jolly has the Christmas blues. She’s friendly, kind, and helpful, but unlike her three sisters, she’s never brought a date home for Christmas. One day, while dutifully delivering the Christmas Creek mail, Merry finds a little girl lost near the frozen creek. Dr. Colton Dale knows how to set a broken bone, but he has no clue how to stitch up his broken life. He and his daughter, Dottie, moved to Christmas Creek ...

Evie Sanchez is recovering from heartbreak by waitressing at her parents’ restaurant when in walks Romeo Garcia, the boy she left behind. Only now, he’s a hot movie star surrounded by gorgeous actresses and adoring fans. Bad boy Romeo Garcia never understood why Evie stood him up at the prom. When he rescues her from a flying coconut in the dumpster, he is determined to dig into her heart for the reason and show her what she’ll miss the rest of her life if she walks away again. Evie lands a part as Romeo’s co-star and falls into her role, totally in love. He plays his part, too, ...

She’s pregnant and running for her life. Remi Bruckner paid a debt with her body. She’s pregnant by her captor, Congressman Gavin Greasley, and he doesn’t want her to have his baby. He’s a survivalist prepared for Armageddon. Reclusive bounty hunter Heath Ruger has everything he needs—guns, ammo, and food—stashed away in a remote mountain stronghold. The last thing he wants is company. When Remi turns to him for help, he agrees on one condition: she will never leave his property. Gavin isn’t going to let Remi go. He’s not easy man to spite. He wants his property back, and ...