A YOUNG MAN'S FANCYDavid – M. TasiaDumped and depressed, David flees town to work on remodeling a lake house for the summer without telling his best friend, Jacob. But best friends don't leave each other hanging, and Jacob's been missing David. Uninvited, but welcome at the lake house, Jacob engineers a hat-trick of surprises that just might change both their futures.No Bunny Like You – Susan Mac NicolColin's neighbor is so freakin' delicious, he positions h...

WINTER BREAKOliver – M. TasiaWill doesn't want to be tutored, even though he knows he needs it. He has to maintain his grades to keep his scholarship to USC. He's so not feeling the condescension coming from his tutor, Oliver, but he has to admit, the dude's into what he's doing and he's smart. What Will didn't expect was to be into Oliver.Family Ties – Emily MimsTexas A&M is huge and the chance Brody would run into Lemar next semester are slim to none. They s...

EVERYTHING REVEALEDTwelve years ago Amanda Lane fled her small town, and the man she loved. She changed her life in Chicago, and found a new family with Burlesque A La Mode. Now on tour, the troupe is performing near her former home, and her past walks in looking better than he ever did.Mike Nichols never understood why Amanda left him, and his heart has never recovered since she ran away. Now, watching her take off her clothes in his crowded club, he wants to drag her off ...

THIS IS A STANDALONE NOVELDANCING WITH DESIREBrigette O'Hare - photographer and graphic designer by day, burlesque performer by night - is in New Orleans to dance with a local burlesque troupe. Touring the city, she has an incredibly sensual encounter in a voodoo shop with the mysterious Henri Dauphine.Henri defines everything Bridgette doesn't trust she deserves: wildly sexy, old money, his own man, and crazy about her.She can't wrap her mind around why he ...

AN UNTAMED HEARTOlive Meeks is anything but. Quiet – yes. Shy – sort of. Yet underneath beats a heart filled with hope and promise.Which is why she accepts the challenge and applies for one of the open positions with Burlesque A La Mode. No surprise she's really good at it and becomes a darling burlesque baby.But...Vic Thornton is the owner of the Speakeasy, where the troupe performs, and weeks before, she literally crashed into him. Well, her bicycle hit the truck ...

ORIGIN STORY REVEALEDEli's childhood trauma was no garden-variety nightmare. His is a story no one should have to live through. And while his sister keeps reaching out, he can't find it in him to make a solid connection. He's broken, and probably beyond repair.Chris has found his home at Burlesque A La Mode, and it becomes his solace after leaving a long-term relationship. When he meets Eli, something permanent is the last thing he's after, but he's never met someone so ali...

DEFINE FAMILYFor a man who'd spent his Navy SEAL career as a sniper, Gunner finds himself overwhelmed with emotion.When his sister dies and names him as her son, Ben's, legal guardian, Gunner has to leave the SEALs to became a dad to a five-year-old boy.Never having pictured himself as anything but alone, and anywhere but in the Navy, he moves to Fire Lake where Gunner's former team leader and his retired SEALs team live and work.If all that upheaval wasn't ...

BONUS FEATURENORSE CODETalk about preconceived notions. NYPD Detective Anders Nilsen is sure Trey Stoneham is the scum of the earth: a tell-all journalist with a sketchy PI background. But truth is stranger than fiction, and it turns out Trey is a hero twice over.When a serial killer Trey helped put away escapes prison, Anders has to stick to Trey like glue, which happens to be a job he'd gladly take on for a lifetime.The road to falling in love is fraught w...

DIVINE RETRIBUTIONEveryone has secrets. Especially a Navy SEAL. But Spencer has found the one man who seems to be hiding more than him. And that just doesn't fly.Rick reinvented his life fifteen years ago, and has no intention of revealing why. But, in the back of his mind he's been waiting for the other shoe to fall, and now it has.Certain he has to get far, far away from the former Navy SEALS who make up LH Investigations, Rick learns they take loyalty and friends...

'Tis The SeasonSome had waited years to find "the one," while others had given up on love and had closed themselves off from feeling anything. But each of these men have found the person that makes them whole, gives them hope and strength to face whatever life throws at them, and to show them what love really means. Welcome to the holidays in Brighton, Texas. Sit down and stay a spell. We invite you to soak up the joy of the season with your favorite lovers.

THIS IS A STANDALONE NOVELART IMITATES LIFESeven feet tall, Carlos Fernandez is a famous artist who's been in self-imposed exile. His size, and the scar around his neck from a garrote attempt, has him looking so scary people stare, make rude remarks, or challenge him to fights.He decides to move to LA to live near his brother at whose wedding he meets Clay Everett, an LAPD officer with hyper-protective instincts.What starts as a shaky friendship turns into s...

STRADDLING THE LAWIn the not what he expected column, Brad Williams is shocked when LAPD Captain Eric Meyers shows an interest. Tempting…but, no. While Brad might be working at The Gates, and seems all law-abiding, in his former life he was a cat-burglar, and Eric knows it. There's no point in starting something that won't go anywhere, especially since Brad's sure all the captain's feeling is residual gratitude that Brad took a bullet for him. Yet, what they learn about each other ...