The plan was simple: pretend to be in love. Do not actually fall in love.When I kiss a stranger in the middle of Hunter’s Creek, it seems like the perfect solution to a temporary problem. Now Christopher Young—city guy, expensive suit, and completely out of place in my small town—is pretending to be my boyfriend, and the entire town is completely invested in our relationship.Which would be fine, except for a few things:He’s only in Hunter’s Creek ...

Charlotte had just undergone a mastectomy. Marriage was the last thing on her mind.But to honor her grandfather's dying wish, she agreed to marry the second grandson of New York's most powerful mafia family.It was supposed to be cold. Strategic. Loveless.Until the veil lifted at the altar—and it wasn't her fiancé standing there.It was Cassian Moretti. Her fiancé's older brother. The man she kissed once to escape danger. The man who never for...

Duster Raines has demons. Some visit him in his dreams, reminding him of the choices he made in combat to survive. Others visit him while he's awake, demanding he pay penance for those sins. But lately, he's started seeing an alternate version of reality where he leads a life of importance, wealth, and power. Visions so vivid they seem more real than the life he lives as a PI, scrounging the gutters of Los Angeles for an easy buck. It's enough to drive anyone insane. Pulled into a missing ...

She walked out after one final argument with her arranged husband, not knowing it would be the last time she'd walk free.Charlotte thought marrying Cassian was the price she had to pay to honor her grandfather's dying wish. What she didn't expect was a husband who mocked her scars, chained her body, and turned her vows into a prison. Until she finally had enough and left.But before she could start over, her father found her first. He had her quietly committ...

In the late ’90s and early 2000s, the Portland Trail Blazers were one of the hottest teams in the NBA. For almost a decade, they won 60 percent of their games while making it to the Western Conference Finals twice. However, what happened off-court was just as unforgettable as what they did on the court.When someone asked Blazers general manager Bob Whitsitt about his team’s chemistry, he replied that he’d “never studied chemistry in college.” And with that, the “Jail Blazers” were ...

Deep-cutting spiritual poems addressing the deepest human feelings.

Deep-cutting spiritual poems addressing the deepest human feelings.

For more than fifty years, Bette Midler has been at the center of the entertainment world as a uniquely talented singer, actress, and comedienne. Starting in the unlikely venue of a gay bathhouse in New York City--where she developed her Divine Miss M persona--this book takes a deep dive into her successes, from movies to million-selling records, from sell-out concert tours to her memorable farewell to Johnny Carson as his last guest on The Tonight Show.On Bette Midler...

Imagine the people that mean the most to you suddenly died. Would you dream about them, and could you remember those dreams? Joshua has been capturing dreams of his late mother and brother for the past 22 years. He was born in 1979 and conceived through a sexual assault. His mother, Kathy, raised him as a single parent in the New York City area. Joshua’s brother, Matthew, was 11 years older and primarily resided with his father in New England. Kathy and Matthew were everything and made up ...

More than a decade after returning home from Afghanistan, Jake Freeman is still tormented by the emotional consequences of war. Desperate for a better life, he enlists the help of a VA doctor who prescribes a motorcycle tour of the Western States. Jake hopes an adventure like this can quiet the chaos in his mind, so he leaves his familiar world behind and rides his Harley north toward Bend, Oregon. On his journey, he realizes it may take more than fishing in majestic rivers and dancing at ...

Moscow Nights Return, book one of the Moscow Nights Series, is a gripping spy suspense/thriller that brings alive flawed characters and interweaves their lives in a high-speed chase through Moscow, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Amsterdam, the UK, and the USA. When veteran intelligence operative Elda Ainsworth is called out of retirement to extract a trusted friend from Moscow, she knows she's stepping back into a world where trust is deadly and every move is being watched. As Russian operatives...

**A celebrity fitness instructor faces off against a jaded journalist in this sizzling, slowburn romantic comedy."Charming, witty, and tender." ―Abby Jimenez, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the Summer**Jo De La Cruz should be on top of the world. As one of spin’s hottest instructors, her workouts stream into thousands of living rooms, her waiting list is harder to access than Area 51, and even her hair has its own social media page. But J...