She points the lens of the camera. The artist turns his head slightly. The light catches his brow and his silver-white hair. She snaps. He is lit like a Vermeer.Ireland. County Wexford, 1951. A father and son go swimming in the sea. The waves crash. The wind rises. Only one comes back—Colin, aged six. His mother, Eileen, runs to seek help, but this is a tragedy that will haunt them forever. Colin won’t speak a word. He is mute and struggling to cope. But Eileen can see he ...

Like a moth to the flame…The lives Maximillian, Baron of Sutton, has saved are never enough to atone for those he destroyed.Now a retired spy, he can’t avoid the woman he hurt the most. She not only works for him, she haunts his dreams and sets his body on fire. She’s the woman he desires most……and she has no idea he killed her husband.Colleen Bonner’s scandalous new job as manager for a bawdyhouse provides security and independence...

In the games men play, love is the riskiest roll of the dice…Ever since John, Earl of Summerset, retired as a spy, his life has suffered from nothing but boredom. He has no plots to uncover, no foes to vanquish…until his brother gambles away the source of the Summerset fortune. Determined to save his earldom, John devises a plot guaranteed to recover his property. All he needs is a proper young miss to assist him…Netta isn’t averse to a racket or t...

"In an age that values faster and faster travel, Lane's river memoir affirms the great value of floating and observing."— BooklistThree months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventazón, John Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle to the sea.Like Huck Finn, Lane sees a river journey as a portal to change, but un...

The last thing I need while trying to make a success of my outdoor adventure company is a beautiful distraction. It takes all my focus to fight off the demons that remain from the injury that ended my career as a Royal Marine and deal with the clients that make me want to climb the nearest mountain and never come down.But Parker Lawrence walks into our office, takes over a phone call, and changes everything. My desperate desire to keep her close has nothing to do with the fact that...

As a Royal Marine, I've taken on countless missions, but navigating life as a civilian might be the biggest challenge of all. I need to stay focused and figure out what the hell I'm doing with this early retirement.Then she crosses my path. A stranger on a train, she instantly captures my imagination. A beautiful, vibrant distraction I didn't know I needed. And maybe something more...When my charming companion faces unwanted advances, I step in, pretending to be he...

Brooke Chapman-Powell takes her position as the Earl of Englefield’s personal secretary very seriously. This job is what keeps her sister in the university for the deaf and the town from completely shutting down. But the earl is dying, and they have only one hope: an American, from some place called Salvation, Virginia.Now she will have to teach the in-all-likelihood-uncouth-and-lazy half American how to be a proper earl if they hope to save the village. God help them all.N...

With all my best mates settled down, I'm the last single man standing. Of course, the one woman to spark my interest is the only one in Scotland who seems immune to my charm. Dr. Saoirse MacGregor is brilliant, beautiful, and decided she hated me at first sight.When her friend goes missing on a research expedition, Saoirse turns to us at Out of Bound Scotland for help. With my military training, I'm the best tracker we've got, so she agrees to an uneasy alliance—as long as I take h...

I should never have touched her. I didn't know she's my best friend's little sister. When I found out... well... My life went off the rails, and we didn't see each other again.Now three years later, we're in the same small town, and she hates my guts. But when her ex won't take no for an answer, it's me she improbably reaches out to for help.Sure we can fake a relationship to keep him off her back. We've done it before. Exc...

Landon Black. Zodiac Tactical code name: Libra.Charismatic, intelligent, charming—the one with the easy smile.Zodiac Tactical has been the biggest part of his life for the past three years. They guard, protect, rescue...eliminate the threat when nobody else can. And he's always been at the front lines—first to help in whatever way was needed.Until he took a bullet to the chest.Now everybody’s worried about him. So he's sent on what’s suppose...

Landon Black. Zodiac Tactical code name: Libra.Charismatic, intelligent, charming—the one with the easy smile.Zodiac Tactical has been the biggest part of his life for the past three years. They guard, protect, rescue...eliminate the threat when nobody else can. And he's always been at the front lines—first to help in whatever way was needed.Until he took a bullet to the chest.Now everybody’s worried about him. So he's sent on what’s suppose...

Four hundred years is a long time to wait for your fated mates only to have two of them cruelly ripped away.Suddenly finding ourselves in the hands of the nefarious Facility — run by my final mate's father — was enough to make my claws twitch under my skin. The only reason I hadn't reduced these humans to ribbons of severed flesh was that there was information to uncover, and a swan shifter to find...hopefully alive.I suppose I'll behave. Even if we were to...