A story from Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday AnthologyALWAYS HAVE, ALWAYS WILLby AMELIA MANNJay thinks official commitments aren't necessary in a relationship. For the last fourteen years, he has loved waking up beside Gabriel, watching their two adopted kids grow up—even enjoyed painting the fence once in a while and paying his part of the mortgage on their New Jersey home. To Jay, that's a family. No papers or ceremonies will make their relationship better than it a...

Beaten Track authors present fourteen short summer reads filled with friendship, romance and, of course, enough heat to make your ice lolly dribble.Summer Bigger Than Others takes you away to your own private island of diverse stories that will make your summer days sweet, sizzling and sexy.From relaxing on a sandy beach or hiking in the great outdoors, to nights at the opera or days at the strawberry farm, an adrenaline-shooting roller coaster rush awaits.Make this...

Not everyone spends their summers on sandy beaches or in luxurious resorts. World-famous opera singer Philip Jameson has arrived in Munich to perform at the Opera Summer Festival after making the biggest mistake of his life. For years he has been secretly in love with his best friend, Andrew, and believes the shield he has built is bulletproof: Andrew was never to know. But at a boisterous party in London following the most successful live TV broadcast of his career, whatever walls Philip ...

What happens when you get everything you've worked for, only to discover it's not what you really want?Dan O'Leary worked night and day to finish law school, join a top firm, and make partner all before the age of thirty-five. He's found a man who swept him off his feet, and his best friend of twenty years has his back.His growing discontent with his job has Dan considering a change, but a series of betrayals, professional and personal, lead Dan to reconsider his whole life...

A sense of duty brings a soldier home… but a passionate cowboy makes him want to stay. Love can heal the deepest wounds in this M/M cowboy and military enemies-to-lovers romance.After his brother’s tragic death, Tripp has to leave the army and return to New Mexico to take care of his mother while his father is in prison for arson. Seeking work at the J-Bar Ranch, Tripp is immediately drawn to injured cowboy Lucho Reyes, whose foot was accidentally crushed by a resc...

On the surface, Ben seems to have it all: money, influence, good looks. He smiles and jokes in all the right places, but it’s all a façade. Inside he’s a wreck, and it’s only getting worse. With his Congressman father using Ben’s recent kidnapping for his own political agenda, and Ben still struggling to get over the only guy he’s ever loved, he feels like he’s losing his grip on reality and he’s quickly spiraling out of control.Then he meets Dante, an enigma of a man with as much ...

It's all fun and games until someone puts his heart out....After being outed to his hockey team and then changing schools, Jock figures he’s due for something good—like the sex he missed out on in the closet. Toby, the hot grad student he meets at a frat party, seems like a great place to start, and their night together is an awesome introduction to the fine art of hooking up.Toby’s heart takes a bruising after the near-perfect experience with Jock leads to . . . n...

A former Marine with a past buried in blood. A forest ranger with questions that could get him killed. When the hunt begins, survival means striking first.Former Marine Recon Mackenzie "Mac" Jackson has spent years burying his past—missions erased, ghosts locked away, secrets never to be spoken. But when his old Fire Team is targeted for elimination, the past refuses to stay dead.A dangerous shift in political alliances has made one mission a liability—one ...

Reese and Julia have never liked each other. From the moment they met, they clashed. She thinks he's a man-whore, and he believes she's an entitled bitch with her head always stuck in a book. One night, one argument, too many drinks, and those views change. Instead of being annoyed by her, Reese just wants to fuck her—and one time is never enough.After just passing high school, and failing college, Julia is trying to pass classes at night courses, but she's failing that, too. Comin...

Book one in New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub's YA series, Lily Dale.Calla thought that her boyfriend breaking up with her in a text message was the worst thing that could ever happen to her. But just two weeks later, her mother died in a freak accident, and life as she knew it was completely over. With her father heading to California for a new job, they decide that Calla should spend a few weeks with the grandmother she barely knows whi...

A forty-year-old woman risks her new career for a secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback in this "deliciously good time" of a novel (Nicola Kraus, author of The Nanny Diaries). Now a Netflix film starring Gabrielle Union.Jenna Jones, former It-girl fashion editor, is forty, broke and desperate for a second chance. When she’s dumped by her longtime fiancé and fired from Darling magazine, she begs for a job from her arch n...

The New York Times Bestseller, Beyond Me, captured reader's hearts. Now the stunning story of Quinn and James continues...It was supposed to be a love story.... I knew she was out of my league but I didn’t care. Looking back, I wonder if I hadn’t pursued her, would things have turned out differently? Is it Fate that determines our choices in life? Free will? Or just plain old innate selfishness?I got her, of course. There hadn’t been a girl I wasn’t able to seduce. Problem ...