Two weeks before leaving Afghanistan and retirement, Master Chief Fabian Marrone got news that froze his heart with fear. His two-year-old daughter Caelynn had been taken by his drug addicted ex-wife, and she was on the run with their child. With no family, he'd left his daughter with the only person he could trust with his life, his best friend Taryn Nevin. She was the one to meet him at the airport when they let him go home ahead of schedule. And Taryn never faltered every step of the wa...

First Lieutenant David Cutter was on his way home to surprise his children. He'd lost his wife to a tragic accident leaving him a single father to twins. He had to raise his children and that coupled with being a marine was sometimes a hard task. His mother was their care provider but he wanted to do something special for his kids. They both spoke of their teacher Ms. Noelle Cherise often and with his mother's help he contacted her with help for his plan. Who knew that their teacher was su...

One fateful night, she was sent away in a carriage from Duchess Carrington's house. Not because of something she did, but because she was coveted by the duke, who took women to his bed at every turn. The duchess sent her off to protect her from a man whose appetites would use her up until there was nothing left. She'd been taken from the West Indies as a child, and that house was the only home she knew. Now Kaila Badaeu would be the ward of Lord Garrick Hadley, and he would ensure her safe...

Maxwell Kincaid had worked in the NYPD long enough that most things didn't surprise him anymore. The detective, who preferred to work alone, admitted to himself long ago that he was jaded. So when he was called out to a hostage situation at a women's shelter in the middle of the night it was another job that kept him out of his warm bed. He heard the sobs behind the maniacal screaming of the hostage taker and the woman begging for help pleading for the life of her unborn child that fell on...

Kayla was made an offer, one that made her bite her lip and her panties wet with yearning. A threesome with two of the hottest cowboys in January, Montana . Sam McGee and Travis Delhome were rough and tumble cowboys through and through. Strong, muscular with crooked grins, when they walked by in town most women had to stop and stare. They were also best friends who both wanted to date her and then came upon the plan to share her. Oh what is a girl supposed to do? Say yes of course! In the ...

In the eyes of his friends--his team--he was dead. But Stavros escaped the explosion they thought claimed his life, just barely. The scars on his face and body told of the horror and pain he has faced since then. He was always told a wounded tiger walks out into the wild to die. He did that, not wanting his friends to see him slowly waste away. She wouldn't let him. Amari Montgomery took care of him and protected him even from himself. She didn't blink an eye at his scars and pushed him to...

Nia learned the truth about her boss and now lover Casey Johnson on Halloween night. She walked in his office and after the shock of learning he was a shifter and lovemaking that made her blood boil, she was now a team member of the elusive Army Beast Unit and Casey's fiancée. She was happy, and everything was perfect. That alone should have told her that a wrench would be thrown into the delicate relationship they were trying to build. Trouble came in the form of his mother who wore diamo...

Lies made Gunny Sergeant Aidan Brooks turn away from the connection he made with Cherish Walker. Their one nightstand that was filled ecstasy and need like he never knew ended with his friend ruining it all. It seemed that it culminated in something else as well because when Cherish finally reached him, she was three months pregnant. When the truth finally came out, Aidan rushed home just in time to see the birth of his son and the betrayal in Cherish's eyes. Dealing with bombs, insurgents...

Ciji Fay never had a problem with taking the difficult assignments, so when her job at the UN sent her to Saudi Arabia to audit a charity foundation, she fully intended to immerse herself in the culture and the history of the amazing country. She never thought she would be in the midst of danger and running for her life. The numbers were wrong, and some very important people now wanted her dead. When she was pulled into a shop in the middle of the marketplace, Ciji looked into the eyes of ...

Lacey Dae ran the biggest, baddest bar in the Georgia swampland near Fort Gordon Army Base. It was her daddy's bar for thirty years, and when he passed, she had no problem literally packing up her life in DC to head home. Gator Row had a reputation for good drinks, great music, and pretty waitresses. It was no wonder that each year the newest army ranger recruits who made it through used it for the annual rush weekend. Three days of fun before they got down to the serious training it took ...

Captain Simon Brevard loved the Air Force and flying fighter jets, until his world was turned upside down. His sister and her husband were killed in a car accident, and now he was the guardian to his one year old niece, Emma. Without a question, he accepted the role to being her father and changed his life completely. While dealing with the grief of losing the only family he had, he was determined to make sure that Emma would lack for nothing, including love. So now he was living on a smal...

Luke Carrington and Jade Phillips danced around each other like prize fighters armed with primal need, but never took it to the next level. His boundaries not hers, Luke held on to the thought that it would be disrespectful to his best friend, her brother. And this is what always made kept him at bay. She could see the desire in his blues eyes that were like a caress on her ebony skin. Yet he stayed away even when Jade was blatant in letting him know how much she wanted him. And that she w...