Can love grow…from ashes?When volunteer firefighter Aiden Billings gets stuck with a flat tire in rural Kentucky, he’s not happy to have to drag his young daughter to a tire shop for the afternoon. But when the pretty receptionist glances his way, a sliver of his heart cracks open—something he hasn’t felt since his wife died five years earlier.Nora Evans, however, has a past she’s not keen on sharing, and with good reason. She’s barely crested out of her li...

In finding each other, will they lose themselves?Paramedic Lance Patterson knows you can’t save everyone. Still, when he notices an injured dog limping along the outskirts of a car accident, he decides that maybe he can save just one more. A visit to the vet and a big bill later, Lance has another problem—the beautiful veterinary assistant that he can’t get out of his head. But even if he could get her to remember his name, he’s not sure that now is the time for lo...

Their case may be getting cold, but their feelings for each other are just warming up.When Macie Greene gets a job in the office at the police station, she never expects to be put on a case due to her hyper-observant eyes and ears. After all, she’s just a receptionist. But when she solves a case no one else can, she soon finds herself with a new job, and a new partner—the gorgeous, but standoffish, Tad Simmons.Tad isn’t thrilled to have his solo gig interru...

When there's an accident at Andy Putman's ATV park, he doesn't expect someone so beautiful to fall from the sky--in the form of flight medic, Madigan Jones.Unfortunately, Madigan is less than impressed with Andy, his business, and his happy-go-lucky way of life. After all, she's seen the way tragedy can follow an accident--sometimes painfully close to home.Now she keeps her life measured and careful.But how much can you live if you're afraid to die?

Is it possible to find love in a place that has only hurt you?When Gretchen Stephens inherits an old farmhouse from the grandmother she barely knew, she has one practical option: sell it. After all, there's no sentiment beyond a few fuzzy memories and no money without a sale.Her resolve only solidifies when the hot handyman, Jackson, shows up to help haul off the old refrigerator. Because even if she could make the old farmhouse into the fancy event venue o...

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Getting a 3:00 a.m. booty call from one of Scotland’s hottest footballers is every woman’s dream, right?No.It’s my worst nightmare.My sister’s marrying a billionaire. I’m a bridesmaid, and the groom’s Scottish cousin, Hamish, is a groomsman. We’re paired together in the ceremony, and the man is so full of himself, he’s bulging at the seams.Biceps bulging. Thigh muscles bulging. Everything bulging…Ove...

I didn’t expect to fall for a Scottish footballer so annoyingly sunny you need shades to be around him.I didn’t expect to say yes to his heart-felt, if loopy, proposal while he lay injured on the pitch, blathering on about banana pudding and sparkly unicorns.What I definitely didn’t expect?For our engagement to explode into a paparazzi circus, our mothers to turn into wedding bulldozers, and for our wedding protector's perfectly rea...

The best early strike o' ma life wasna on the pitch. It was in bed with Amy on our honeymoon.Dinna ken how we turned our elopement, honeymoon, and conception into a hat trick, but there ye go.One minute we're swimming in champagne and red satin sheets, the next we're staring at a due date that lands right when I'm supposed ta start my big sportscasting gig in London.Amy's glowing. She's also got that fire in her — the kind that makes her tell my bil...

There's no way the hot relative of a minor British royal is hitting on her. She's misreading everything, right?Except there's no mistaking that proposal.When 50something Ranney Martini (yes, Nessa’s mom!) finds herself being courted by the very English best man in a minor royal’s wedding she’s managing, she can’t help but laugh. He’s 17 years her junior, smoking hot, and an award-winning architect. The flirting is all in her imagin...

Who accidentally has a one-night stand with her yoga instructor?Yep. Me.How did I accidentally sleep with someone, right? I know what you’re thinking. Whoops! I slipped and inadvertently inserted Tab A into Slot B.That’s not quite how it went.But my yoga instructor is really, really skilled with Tab A, if you know what I mean.Slot B never had it so good.What am I supposed to do now, as I wal...

He’s the bad boy America loves to hate. She’s the widow who swore she’d never love again.Their fake relationship was just a cover story, until the sparks became too real to ignore. But beneath the chemistry and stolen kisses, a devastating secret threatens to destroy it all.Violet Markle enjoyed a successful life in New York City, until her husband’s sudden death shattered everything. When she’s forced to return to her small hometown in Main...