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Rancher Joel has a problem. He and his best friend, Oakley, are both hot for the same woman, sexy local bartender, Sadie. And while she’s admitted an attraction to them as well, she refuses to choose between them, so…they’re friend zoned. Until a little too much champagne at a wedding reception leads to an unexpected sizzling encounter between the three of them, kicking off a no-strings affair. However, things get complicated when it becomes clear there’s nothing casual about their feelings. Add in a sensual, accidental touch between Joel and Oakley, and the threesome gives new ...

What if love can’t heal all wounds? After too many years of secretly loving her roommate and best friend, Zoey decide it’s time to take action. This New Year’s Eve she’s going to tell Rob the truth about her feelings for him. Her plan is derailed when she discovers a lump in her breast—and it’s not “nothing to worry about”. How can she ask Rob to take a chance on love when her future is so uncertain? Rob has spent his entire life chasing his dream, but the moment he hears Zoey’s upset voice on the phone, he realizes he’s been running the wrong race. Without a second ...

Pro-quarterback Tucker’s romance with Lela was a force of nature – steamy, unstoppable, and tempestuous. Until a family tragedy made him run, leaving her behind. When Tucker gets a call that his old coach needs help, he doesn’t hesitate to return home. And when he sees Lela, he realizes the more things change, the more they stay the same. Like she’s still his, and right or wrong, he’s reclaiming the woman he foolishly walked away from all those years ago.

Following her dad’s heart attack, Lorelie put her own life on hold. However, as his health improves, she struggles to find her way back to life as normal. Her girlfriends insist the answer is simple. Get laid. Enter Glen Rodgers, the sexy country singer she met briefly at a party where he sang her a song. When Glen returns to town several months later, intent on taking a break from his own screwed up life, he decides Lorelie is just the cure for his blues. Flirtation turns to seduction…the two lovers swept up in something neither of them is prepared for. Unfortunately, reality rears its...

The Stingrays call goalie Coulton Moore their gentle giant. The tall, imposing man is the team’s rock, their steadying influence on and off the ice. However, that mild disposition disappears completely when the beautiful bartender he’s been lusting after from across a crowded bar is attacked. Then, it’s all bets off as he steps in to defend her, protect her, and claim her as his.

Three friends. One bed. Aiden and Bryson have long suspected Dani is hiding something. When she leaves Nashville without a word, they follow. How can they not? What they feel for her…what they want from her… won't allow them to let Dani face her demons alone. Something so wrong, never felt so right. Dani was seventeen when she ran from New Orleans, certain of just one thing—she'd never again step foot in the Big Easy. But she can't enjoy any kind of future while constantly looking over her shoulder, waiting for the past to catch up. Aiden and Bryson won’t let Dani face her demons ...

Safety in numbers? Depends on what you mean by safe… Bridget Wilder’s life is shot to hell—literally—when she witnesses the murder of her best friend, Lyle. Protective custody? What a joke. Time after time, someone has leaked her whereabouts, forcing her to run from one safe house to the next. Tired of cold, lonely beds and living in fear, Bridget convinces her guardian cop she’s safer off the grid, following Lyle’s trail of clues to a missing flash drive that could put the killer behind bars. It doesn’t take twins Mark and Matt James long to figure out two things. Bridget’s...

Jess has one goal in life—protect her son. But when an overcrowded shelter puts her and Jasper out on the street in the dead of winter, she fears she's going to fail that mission. Help comes in the form of confirmed bachelors, Tony Moretti and Dr. Rhys Beaumont. Tony and Rhys share the same motto—work hard, play harder. But when fate drops a homeless waitress and her young son on their doorstep, their wild and free lifestyle takes a sharp turn. Their desire to help her is only surpassed by their desire to claim her, share her, make her theirs.

Kellan James is unwinding at Score when he spots the last person he'd ever expect to find in his favorite bar. Sara Connelly—ER nurse, do-gooder, charitable crusader, and frequent pain in his ass. Both grew up privileged in swanky Southampton, but that's where the similarities end. Kellan's made it his mission to seek out life's pleasures; Sara gains pleasure from lecturing him on his lifestyle. Kellan would never date someone like her. Ever. But when Kellan discovers Sara's been stood-up by an online date, something fierce and protective awakens inside of him.

Xander left his hometown right after high school graduation, driven to big city life by his lofty ambitions. Returning home for a New Year’s Eve wedding, he’s blindsided by his immediate and overpowering attraction to the maid of honor, who happens to be one of his little brother’s best friends. Gia Sparks is all grown up, and the way she’s looking at him makes him think she might enjoy it if he pushed the beautiful—younger—woman facedown over his bed, spanked her, and demanded she call him Daddy. Gia has had a crush on Xander Carter for more years than she cares to count, the ...

Hometown hockey hero, Blake has life completely figured out. He’s footloose and fancy free with the world’s coolest job and an endless parade of puck bunnies ready to help him celebrate his victories. The status quo is working for him, so why does he agree to co-parent a stray puppy with his too-serious, workaholic neighbor, Erika? And why is he so annoyed when she suddenly starts dating some tool named Doug? And why can’t he stop finding excuses to see her and touch her and kiss her and… She’s not his girlfriend, right?

Penny is tired of being seen as the gamer, the crazy cat lady, the mom-jeans-wearing, YouTube-bingeing, quirky IT girl. She’s barreling toward 29 and ready to make some changes…in her appearance and her nonexistent love life. But she’s smart enough to know she needs help—and who she needs it from. Her billionaire playboy boss, Gage Russo.

Gio is blessed with a big family and lots of friends. Unfortunately, there’s an unspoken code amongst his buddies…one where sisters are off-limits. That wouldn’t be a problem if he and his best friend, Rafe, could stop thinking about Kayden’s vivacious, fun-loving little sister, Keeley. They have always been stand-up guys, but Keeley is so tempting, so sexy, that they’re in danger of breaking all the rules.

What’s that old saying? Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder? It's hate at first sight when hot cop Jarod gives cynical bartender Stephanie a ticket. So when Jarod finds himself in her bar that same evening working undercover, things go south quickly. An impromptu kiss--to keep Steph from blowing his cover--turns into a sizzling one-night stand. She’s convinced she has no time for anything deeper than sex… But Jarod begs to differ. Steph’s more than willing to party naked with the him, but she’s adamant they’re driven by lust, not love. He’s prepared to prove otherwise, even...

Liza knows that cocky billionaire Matt Russo is the wrong man for her. She could make a long list of reasons why she’d be smart to stay away, including his tenacious ex-girlfriend, the fact he’s trying to destroy her family, and, oh yeah, did she mention he’s a cold, distant bastard? However, after their tempestuous one-night stand, she’s finding it hard to hang on to their well-established nemesis routine.

Kayden and Aldo’s protector instincts rise to the surface after they spot a shivering redhead standing alone at the scene of a fire. Discovering everything she owned was destroyed, the sexy cop and charming firefighter offer her a place to stay. None of them is able to resist their instant, scorching attraction to each other. The three give new meaning to the term “hot and heavy". Aldo and Kayden want more...hell, they want it all. But Hazel is in too deep, and as her lies begin to unravel, she’s caught between a rock and a hard place.

If Matt’s past has taught him anything, it’s that true love doesn’t exist. Then he spies Liza—the only threat to his simple existence—across the hotel ballroom. A slow dance leads to a heated embrace that ends in his hotel room. And for the first time ever, he imagines a very different future for himself.

Life has dealt Kasi one blow after another. Following her mother’s untimely death, her family implodes, leaving her alone to run the farm. Fatigue and stress have become her new best friends, every day passing in a blur of work, work, and more work. When Levi Storm, her lifelong crush, keeps her from face-planting due to exhaustion, she’s mortified…and more than a little bit turned on.

Sean loves Lauren. Chad loves Sean. Lauren loves Sean and Chad. Sean is happy working at the family pub and sharing a house with the woman of his dreams. He and Lauren are equals in every way, including in bed, where they burn the sheets. Life is good. Even if he must hide a couple of secrets to keep it that way. Lauren is madly in love with Sean. They share everything—almost. She can’t deny sensing…something. A certain feeling when she, Sean, and their best friend Chad are all together. But she doesn’t press. How can she when she’s not being completely forthright herself? Chad is...

She knows exactly what she wants. One night…with both of them. Lily intends to rewrite the past at her high school reunion. When she was younger, she was too shy to act on her feelings for her best friends, but she’s all grown up now, and armed with a proposal that might shock even her oversexed friends. The three of them, one night, multiple positions. Soldiers Justin and Killian are blown away when quiet Lily proposes a night too tempting, too hot to resist. The plain Jane they remember is now a stunning woman—who wants to have sex with both of them. Who are they to deny her? As the...