Mark Barnes is certain no woman can really love a man blinded by a land mine during peacekeeping operations in Bosnia. What looks like love must be pity, he concludes. That's certainly the message he got from his ex-fiancee when he returned from his military service and became a government lawyer. So, he focusses on his job and works out. When he accidentally sits on a beautiful ex-jock blonde, Mark initially backs off, but he is intrigued by this woman who seems to accept him as simply a ...

For her thirtieth birthday, Nicole d'Angre is expecting a nice present from her dominant husband--maybe a night on the town or a bit more passion and less pain than usual. Instead, he brings in an co-ed to replace her, tells her she's too old (at 30) for a male like him, and dumps her. Nicole dropped out of college to serve her master and doesn't have a clue how to create a life of her own--the only path she sees is to scheme her way back into her husband's good graces. First, though, she ...

When her aunt dies, Mindy Russell heads to the ranch in west Texas that was her aunt's final home. Aunt Lucy had been a character--once married to a Texas millionaire, she had tweeked social conventions, enjoyed life to the fullest, and, according to family legend, kept a gigolo. Mindy hopes that there's enough in the inheritance to pay her way through teaching school. When she arrives, though, she finds that the ranch manager has his own plans for the ranch, and they don't include Mindy t...

Everyone tells him he's a hero, but Russell Lyons can't remember anything. Since he lost his memory to a roadside bomb in Iraq, Russell has struggled with amnesia. Now that he's returned to Shermann, Missouri, Russell intends to retrieve his memory, to get back everything he once had. But when he falls for the woman he hires to help him find his past, he wonders if there's a better future.

Billionaire businessman Tyler Atwood knows how to solve problems--when his father left his family with nothing but debts, Tyler had to develop his business and problem-solving skills. Now he's parlayed those skills into a successful steel business, but Harvey, a golden retriever mix, is beyond his capabilities. The dog is destructive and has gone through five different trainers. Desperate, when Tyler hears about pet psychologist, Courtney Zane, he resolves to do whatever it takes to persua...

Rick Engle had seen Jennifer Hollman, she'd been the rich girl dumping him for someone from her own background. He'd thought he had put her behind her but when he saw her working in that low-rent department store, the attraction still sizzled. When he gets her fired from her job and kicked out of her apartment, he has to take her in. Not that he minds too much.Jennifer still hurts from the way Rick had left her years before. She knows he'll laugh when he discovers her father lost h...

Troy Garrett is back from the wars. When his ex-wife died, leaving Troy with their 4-year-old daughter, Annie, ex-mercenary Troy hangs up his guns and heads to California to become a full time daddy. He's bought the perfect house on the cliffs of Malibu, and hopes that somehow he can get though Annie's anger and become the part of his daughter's life he's always wanted to be. He has given up on women for the duration--raising a girl is complicated enough, but then again, he doesn't expect ...

With her strict no-dating-within-the-department rule, Firefighter Lina Standish has a nickname in the Salem Hills Fire Department: Lina 'Standoffish'. And she likes it that way. Things on the job could get too complicated too fast when co-workers dated. So she embraced her nickname and kept everyone at arms' length.But Firefighter Kevin Daly has had his eye on Standoffish ever since a locker room incident nearly a year earlier, and now he plans to break all her rules. With the help...

Ashley Torrington never cared much about Christmas before. But this year she’s having a particularly blue holiday because Marine Special Operations Team member, Nick Turner got under her skin just before he was deployed to Afghanistan. With her neighbors’ precocious daughter Bella volunteering Ashley for a special project at school, and a mysterious white-haired stranger named Estelle in town buying gifts from Ashley’s shop, not to mention the odd assortment of presents Ashley’s been recei...

Lance Corporal Kyle Phillips’s life has been blown apart by an IED explosion. All the work he put in at boot camp is worthless. Now he feels he’s half the man he was before, with nothing to offer. His life fell apart in one brief moment and everything he worked for was gone. Better men than him died that day, and now he must come to terms with being chosen to live.Staci Pence volunteers at a Veterans Affairs hospital in hopes that she could do something good. She had seen what the ...

Hailey Baker was a normal teenager- friends, the occasional party and a great boyfriend. But that all changes one night when an accident kills her parents and leaves Hailey with a serious back injury.Seven months after the accident, Hailey has struggled to learn to walk again and is now about to start at a new school after moving in with her uncle. Determined to live a normal life, she doesn't let her injury slow her down. When she meets Blake Adams, her life changes once again- thi...

John Palmer hasn’t felt like a real man since he was injured during combat in Iraq. Though not content with his new life, he is adapting, just like the other vets at the Lost and Found Investigative Service. When Shannon Murphy is hired on as the new office manager, life suddenly gets a lot more interesting. Before long, John finds himself wondering if he could ever be the kind of man Shannon needs.Shannon Murphy wasn’t really looking for love when she hired on at LNF, but finds he...