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She’s supposed to be teaching him about healthy cooking, but instead, he’s going to learn about love… After Rob nearly dies from a heart attack, his daughters give him an ultimatum: get healthy or else. To help him along, they hire a personal chef to teach him how to cook and change his diet. Renee specializes in heart-healthy vegetarian food, but her new student is a little stubborn. The grumpy military veteran doesn’t want to replace his bacon with tofu, and he really doesn’t want to give up his fast food habit. But she’s got a few tricks up her sleeve and she’s not giving ...

If you found a cougar lounging in your living room, would you run? Or would you hang out with it peacefully? The way you answer this question may be the difference between being generally happy or generally miserable. How do you find happiness in your current life? It’s a choice, and it starts with you. You taking care of yourself. You doing the work. You trying something and if what you try doesn’t work, trying something else. Self-care isn’t selfish, it’s essential. Forget trite self-help advice about bubble baths and smiling, this is self-care for the real world. “What to Do If...

It’s never too late to find romance, especially when your true love turns up at your office. The holidays are coming and the employees at the Fitzgerald accounting firm are falling in love. It’s a good thing there’s not a “no fraternization” policy, because everyone from the boss to the cleaning lady is realizing that sometimes love is right where you least expect it – at work. “Good with Numbers” is a collection of five great holiday romances featuring couples in their forties. Expect strong independent women, alpha males, meddling coworkers, workplace flirting, and a ...

You never forget your first love, but what if, when you meet again, you’re both totally different people? After twenty years away, Penny moves back to the tiny coastal town of Diamond Bay to make a new life for her and her daughter. She’s surprised to learn that Mitch, her high school boyfriend, is also back – and now he’s the Sheriff. Mitch wants to rekindle their romance, but the easygoing boy Penny dated is now a Navy veteran with a bossy streak – just the kind of guy she promised herself to avoid at all costs. With circumstances – and a matchmaker daughter – throwing them ...

His daughter’s medical emergency will lead to love… When his teenage daughter winds up in the Emergency Room, Ed is worried sick, but not too worried to notice how beautiful the E.R. doctor is. He’s never believed in love at first sight, but even after he butts heads with the stubborn doctor, he can’t get her out of his mind. Joy is content with her single life, but there’s something about her patient’s father that makes her long for more. When her friend schemes to get her out on a date with Ed, she realizes that despite their apparent differences, she and the grumpy contractor...

Opposites attract – or they repel. Retired from the military, Red O’Brian is starting a new chapter in his life by opening a tattoo shop on the Oregon coast. He figures his small business will be a perfect fit for the quirky beach town of Diamond Bay. But there’s one obstacle in his way – Daisy Hunnicutt. The conservative Town Services Manager is sure that a tattoo shop will bring nothing but crime and trouble to the small town she loves. When Daisy denies Red’s business permit, Red goes to battle – for his business and his heart. Daisy has no interest in dating an alpha male, ...

The hunky baseball player has his eye on her, but she knows better than to trust an athlete! Agnes always promised herself to avoid athletes at all costs. The daughter of a hockey player as famous for his philandering ways as his skill on the ice, she learned the hard way that men can’t be trusted. So when she meets a hot younger man who happens to be a Triple A team pitcher, she’s ready to run the other way. Nolan loves three things: baseball, his mama, and the PR executive who’s working with him to bring more publicity to his baseball team. Sure, she’s a little older than him, a ...

Her psychic skills must be on the fritz again…there’s no way that she’s about to fall in love with a wolf! Meri’s family has always been a little bit different. The daughter of a witch and a psychic, she frequently has visions of the future. Unfortunately, they’re seldom very helpful. Want to know if something bad will happen tomorrow? Don’t ask her. But if you’re looking for your lost keys, Meri’s your girl. Most of her visions don’t come true, so when she sees herself curled up with a hot older guy who likes to howl at the moon, she figures it’s just another useless ...

The love spell worked…on the wrong sister! When her sister begs her to do a love spell to attract her true mate, Cami is hesitant. Her magic is glitchy on a good day. But what’s the harm of trying? To everyone’s shock, the spell manifests exactly the man they hoped for, except for one problem…he’s in love with Cami, not her sister. Shapeshifter Stephen doesn’t believe in magic, but he does believe in fate. His wolf knows the truth: Cami is his true mate, the one he’s destined to be together with forever. If only Cami could forget about the spell and listen to her heart… “...

She’s always wanted an adventure, and she’s going to get it, even if she has to pretend to be someone else! All her life, Michelle has longed for the kind of adventures that she reads about in books. Instead, the forty-year-old cafe manager has a boring life, a boring job, a boring apartment, and a cat who hates her. Nothing exciting ever happens to her. Until she meets Derrick… The handsome but grouchy detective thinks that she’s his FBI contact. When he crashes into the café where she works, demanding that she go with him to find their target, she figures she might as well go for...

Emily Langdon thought she’d put her traumatic past behind her…until a letter from the adoption agency changes everything. Single and child-free, Emily has spent most of her life focused on her career, resigned to never having a family. But now the baby Emily put up for adoption twenty-one years ago wants to meet her, which means telling her daughter the painful truth about what happened in college. Brian McKenna is like another father to his niece Jane, so when he learns that she’s found her birth mother, he’s determined to keep her from getting hurt. As he gets to know Emily, he ...

Twenty-five years ago their friendship ended over a misunderstanding, but now that they’ve found each other again, he wants more than friendship. But can they forget their painful past? Lainie Halverson always had a crush on her super-hot friend Mark Barone, but she knew that he didn’t see her as more than a friend. When Mark invited her to the prom after she was humiliated by another guy, she assumed it was a pity invite. Little did she know her refusal would lead to an ugly fight and the end of their friendship. Mark Barone has just realized that he made a big mistake all those years ...

Growing up as the only lion in a family of bears, Bowie always felt a little bit different. A lion with distinctive bear traits, Bowie has the kind of personality that helps him get along with everyone. It’s an asset in his work as a police officer, but it hasn’t helped him find his true love. His siblings have all found their mates, but so far no female has piqued his lion’s interest. Just when he’s resigned himself to a life of bachelorhood, he gets a job offer that will change his life… After Becca’s father was murdered by hunters, her family was plunged into poverty. It took...

Just when she’d given up on finding her fated mate, he turns up in her kitchen. Pepper Rosewater is known around town as the “mate magnet”. Everyone in the magical town of Greysden seems to find their true love when they’re with Pepper. Shifters, demons, witches…she helps them all, whether she means to or not. Now she’s decided to focus on her newly restored witchcraft and do something she’s always longed to do – learn how to cook. Charles is a magical mutt. He’s part demon, part wolf, part vampire, and one hundred percent grumpy about it. Ever since he turned forty his ...

Falling in love with the boss is the ultimate cliché, but before the ball drops this New Year's Eve, this tough as nails FBI agent is going to have to face her feelings. All it took was one little kidnapping for her boss to bench her. When Michelle Lewis demands to be sent back out into the field, Supervisory Special Agent Gary Fencik agrees on one condition: she only works with him. Gary's got a big plan to protect Michelle from danger. He's still reeling from realizing that he almost lost her on their last big case. But as they work together to prevent a New Year's Eve terrorist attack ...

This book was previously published as “The Marriage Solution” by Rose Bak. She needs a husband. He needs money for his mother’s medical treatments. What could go wrong? Liz Baseball was in my blood. I’d grown up in the Seagulls stadium, learning all the ins and outs of running a minor league franchise. As the Chief Administrative Officer, everyone assumed that I’d take over for my father when he retires. Everyone except my mother. She convinces my father and the investors that as a single, forty-five year old woman, I didn’t have the maturity to run this team. With the fate of ...

Who would have thought emergency planning would be such a disaster? The small town of Lawson is out of compliance with a state requirement to create a disaster preparedness plan. Not wanting the town to be left unprepared for a major event, the governor sends in his top expert in emergency planning, Stephanie Holly. Steph has spent her entire career in a field that’s dominated by men. She’s clawed her way to the top and she’s not going to let a small-town mayor like Christopher Lawson ruin her perfect track record. She’s going to get him to create a plan if she has to trap him under...

She’s a single mom on the wrong side of forty. He’s a single dad with a mission: convince the love of his life that they won’t turn into pumpkins when the ball drops at midnight! Lillian My kids are away for the weekend, so my best friend convinces me to come to Houston for a New Year’s Eve party. I’m a blue-collar worker busy raising three boys not some cartoon princess, but with a makeover and a new dress, I sure feel like one! There’s even a handsome prince, but when the sun rises on New Year’s Day, I realize he isn’t who he said he was. Martin When I wake up alone after ...

Sometimes you need a bump on the head to help you see what's important. Claire and Jonathon have been engaged for two years, but she has been hesitant to actually set a date for the wedding. When she’s involved in a freak accident, Claire decides that it is finally time to stop dragging her feet and plan the romantic beach wedding they've always dreamed about. She’s ready to spend the rest of her life married to the man she loves, but Claire soon learns that life doesn't always turn out like it’s planned. Beach Wedding is a sweet and unconventional story about second chances, loss, ...