CamilleLiving in a small town was never part of my plan. I was born to live in a big city and take over the publishing world. I’ve always marched to the beat of my own drum. When my mother told me I was fat and needed to lose weight, I proclaimed that I was perfect just the way I am. I set my sights on the top magazine in New York which was run by men high on testosterone and low on sense. After introducing my knee to the nuts of a man who didn’t know how to respect women, I found ...

RevaI inherited my mother’s eyes and her bad luck with men. The lacerations from my first heartbreak at seventeen went deep, and the end of my eleven-year marriage was an ocean of salt in a wound I couldn’t seem to heal. Now here comes the first love, Noah Solomon, with his intense gray eyes filled with lies and a mouth full of promises I know he can’t keep. He said he’d love me forever, and then he’d left me for another woman. Although he was forced to leave me, it did little to te...

TibiAfter ending a five-year relationship, two weeks in a quaint cabin in Key West while the Florida sun dried my tears, was just what I needed. However, my oasis was soon invaded by a man with dark secrets in his eyes expecting his sister, and not some strange woman in his childhood home. A summer storm and flooded roads meant neither of us could leave. We had to make the best of it, and what was the worst that could happen in a few days trapped in a cabin with a ...

Samson SassoI return to the haunting shores of Sorrow Bay, South Carolina, a man of contradictions with my terminally ill mother, who wants to die in her childhood home. With the weight of my family's scandalous legacy looming over me, I want to get in and get out, though I'd stay forever to keep my mother alive.My desperate need to flee vanishes when I visit a quaint shop in search of holistic remedies to ease my mother's transition. There, I encounter Winsome Munroe, a wom...

NovaNo woman likes being dumped, especially by the only man she’d ever loved. After it happened to me, I swore I’d never give my heart to another man. I would use them because I’d been used. Charlie was supposed to be just another one to scratch my itch, and then I’d go about my day until I met my next victim. The problem was I couldn’t forget about Charlie. He wasn’t just a patient or a good time. I wanted more, but was I brave enough to ask for it?CharlieThey called...

RONAN SMIRNOVAs the ruthless head of the Russian mafia in the South, I know the good I've done in the world doesn't outweigh the bad. The thing I was most proud of was my three-decade love affair with the mother of my four girls. When she and one of my daughters are taken from me, the only thing I want is to destroy Antonio Medici and anyone else who stands in my way of revenge. The weight of their retribution weighs heavily on me, and even the strongest man in the world sometimes ...

Jericho JonesI'm the kind of man your mother warned you about, and I make no apologies for it. You know what you will get with me: a good time and nothing else. Any woman who becomes greedy will get dumped on her sweet backside. I have one rule: never let a woman into my heart. I've never been tempted to give a woman more until I met Ivy Greene. Determined to shield myself from emotional entanglements, I warn Ivy to stay away from me. Still, her siren gaze and nurturing arms lull me...

Noah BovaTessa Claremont was everything I never wanted. She was a chubby wallflower I didn't take much notice of until the night we both ended up at the lake in our small town seeking comfort from our pain. Over a handful of summer days, Tessa ignited my body and soul and became the only thing I craved. I ignored my vow to never fall for a woman and expressed my feelings to Tessa in a letter, which she never acknowledged. She left town for college, leaving me with nothing except th...

CiderIt's bad when your dog is a nicer human being than you are.Zaiden Sano was at the wrong place at the wrong time the day he walked into Bumble Books and met me. Big and bad and with the manners of a mongrel, he thought he could bend me to his will. Too bad for him, I wasn't the cowering type anymore. Leaving my abusive husband and creating a better life for my son had given me a backbone and I wasn't about to bend for anyone, not even the hot hermit who made my heart fo...

There's something in the waters of Melancholia Cove, Mississippi, where the wind whispers of heartbreak and the moon whispers of blood. Lurking beneath the murky depths of a seemingly tranquil river, a beautiful darkness waits…For justice,For revenge,For love,For Sinclair.Sinclair Addo, affectionately called Sin, felt that she was woman enough at nineteen to defy her mother's wishes that she never visit Melancholia Cove. The island was home to things th...

ZemiHe was the invisible boy in high school who became my world; a world he shattered when he left me at a time when I needed him most. Twelve years later, still reeling from the loss of the babies we never wanted, I run into Kofi at a bar and all the pain comes rushing back, but so does the love. How can I still want him after what he did to me, and why does it matter when I'm weeks away from marrying another man? Then my life falls apart again and Kofi is there for me. This time ...

SoulaHis name was Mecca Malone, and he was a lethal combination of American, Jamaican, and African, with deep roots in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. He came to me on a balmy summer night in Jamaica with French and Patois on his tongue, mingled with sweetness and secrets. Some secrets I was willing to keep, like how much we desired each other, despite my being thirteen years older.It was supposed to be only a few nights. He was supposed to be a little something for myself while ...