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Have you ever loved something so much you'd do anything to protect it?Keep it safe, no matter the expense to yourself?No matter how miserable it makes you?All it takes is one little health scare, and I'm ready to take back my life so I can be the dad my little girl needs.It's time to shed the excess baggage that made this dad bod and become the smokin' hot father figure I was meant to be.So I do it alright.I sign up with a trainer at the gym....

From USA Today bestselling authors SR Jones and Silla Webb comes a twisted, dark mafia, age-gap romance filled with hatred and desire.NicoShe shouldn't have stumbled into my dark world. But now that she has, I'll never let her go.Naïve, innocent, and almost broken, Cindy needs a protector. But she got me, brutal and ruthless, a man hellbent on his own pleasure.I'll take her for my own, and I'll kill to keep her safe...

From USA Today bestselling authors SR Jones and Silla Webb comes a twisted enemies-to-lovers, forbidden, dark mafia romance.MatteoShe was the one who got away.Renata Andretti. Daughter of our enemies and the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen.We ended before we began.Then she crashed back into my life years later, completely unexpected. Singing a song in a dive bar with her smoky voice. Everyone watched, enth...

I thought I wanted freedom, but I was wrong. I just needed a different kind of prison.JamesI found her locked in a tower. The girl who wrote a plea for help in her own blood.Her note called to something dark in me, and so I returned for her and took her as mine.Now, she seems to think I'm her angel.She says we can be something beautiful.I've warned her that beauty is deceitful, but she's nothing if not a beli...

WinterI hate Christmas.Every single strand of tinsel and twinkling light and the jolly jingles too.But going home to the small town of Whispering Peaks, North Carolina is tradition, even if I'll spend the holiday alone.At least, that's the plan until my childhood enemy, Nick Frost, forces his way into my small cabin, calling a truce to our lifelong rivalry with a kiss beneath the mistletoe.NickI haven't seen ...

I need a favor, and there’s only one guy I’d dare ask.Conner Birch.Boston Buck’s right winger.Not only is he my best friend, he’s my brother-in-law…and the man I’ve always loved.The problem is, he never loved me back.What I want might make things more awkward, and I can’t risk our friendship, but…after losing my husband—Conner’s brother—this is my only chance at the life I’ve dreamed of.Everything about our arrangement is risky, and when thin...

He was my high school crush—the guy who had no clue I existed. Sure, we shared a fleeting moment in the country club closet, but he thought I was someone else. After that night, I went to college, moved to Boston to find myself, and pushed him out of my thoughts.It worked—until he saw me performing at a local community theater. My character is bold, daring, and vivacious—everything I’m not—which makes him believe, again, that I’m someone else.He likes what he sees, and whil...

Maeve Carter, the Boston Bucks’ team physiotherapist, is the definition of beautiful.As a former model, her stunning looks have defined her—just ask the paparazzi or the stalker who made her life miserable.But I see more. Want more. And she can never know that.You see, she’s my oldest teammate's daughter, and I can’t touch that with a ten-foot hockey stick. Until a single mistake puts her in my bed, turning everything upside down.You know what they say about...

Have you ever met an alpha-hole?Well, let me introduce you to the ultimate Ash-hole: Ash Wheeler, star defenseman for the Boston Bucks.He’s got it all—hockey skills, women, fame, looks, and swagger. A real Ash-hole.I don’t want to be attracted to him. Seriously, I don’t. But every time I’m around him, my body ignites.I’ve been burned by a guy like him before, and I swear I’ll never go down that road again.Until I do.As a single mother who see...

Sharing a house—and a Jack-and-Jill bathroom—with my brother’s best friend is a special kind of torture. Especially when that man is the one I’ve secretly wanted for years.But pretending to be his girlfriend at a family gathering? That’s a whole new level of agony. The stolen glances, the whispered questions, the charade—it’s all to get his parents off his back.It’s fun and games… until I have to share his bed. Close enough to feel his heat, yet miles from what I truly want...

After I won a TV singing competition and my ex publicly humiliated me to get ahead, I needed to escape reality.Sure, breaking into an old friend’s beachside cottage wasn’t my best idea, but what’s a girl to do?When the NHL’s biggest player—on and off the ice—finds me in his bed, I expect him to kick me out. When he doesn’t, a fragile truce is born.Soon enough, we’re living in our own fairy tale bubble, talking and sharing everything—just not the truth.As the...