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After several decades of looking for true love and never finding it, aging model and lingerie designer, Alexa Ranger, has finally given up the search. A couple of years ago, she got tired of the game completely and just stopped dating. Now friends and family keep her mostly content, so it's shocking at 50 years old to find herself suddenly wanting a sex life again. It's even more shocking to be attracted to a much younger man this time. She definitely thinks Casey Carter is sexy, but not handling her own age well, Alexa just can't get passed their 12 year age difference to even consider a fling.

Freshly divorced at 40 yrs old, Chloe Zanders has few illusions left about her ability to make her dreams come true. She is never going to be thin, never going to be a famous singer, and never going to be sexy enough to keep a man like her handsome ex-football player husband from cheating. While the first two dreams might continue to flicker hopefully inside her, Chloe now accepts the last one had been doomed from the start.

For dating expert Dr. Mariah Bates, nothing in the world feels better than finding her clients the perfect date. Finding one for herself might be nice, but creative bill paying is not for accomplished doctors in their forties. Satisfied customers keep the electricity on. Everything in her life was fine until she quit her celebrity radio job to start a dating business. Two years, a cheating ex, and a very ugly divorce later, she’s back to living with her mother. Not that her mom isn’t great, but come on.

After divorcing her cheating ex-husband years ago, 42 year old Lauren McCarthy is pleased with herself for finding ways to be happy that don't involve dating and men. Who needs that kind of headache or heartache anyway? Her best friends call her a saint for choosing a celibate life over a man in her bed, but Lauren considers it just self-preservation.

Being the best in her field doesn't seem to help famously successful sex therapist, Dr. Regina Logan, who manages to fix everyone’s love life but her own. Men won't date her. Her brutal honesty about physical matters intimidates most males. It also doesn’t help her love life that the press publishes every dating move she makes.

If asked, 30-year-old Seth Carter could not have recounted a single moment since he'd met her that he had not loved the stubborn, self-centered, and admittedly spoiled Jenna Ranger. Even with all her faults, Jenna thinks no woman in her right mind would willing choose to spend all her free time with a man who so obviously loves his cell phone and work more than he does her.

My formal name is Aran of the Dagda. I rue the day I became Aran Derringer, but soon I'll be changing it back to plain old Aran O'Malley. Most days it’s not so bad being a 40-year-old witch from the lineage of the Tuatha de Danann. The last seven years weren't the best, but I don't have time to be regretting the past.

Ania Looren would have chosen death over becoming a demon host, if she'd had a choice. But her mate Liam is master of the Demon of Synar, and made that decision for her in order to save her life. Her spirit now grieves for what she has become Ania fears the great harm she can cause using the demon's power. Unfortunately, Liam's reluctant embrace of being the demon's master, along with his refusal to discuss Malachi with her, leaves Ania facing her destiny alone.

Being captain of his own rescue ship is the life Liam Synar has always dreamed of living. Being master of a hereditary demon is not. Coveting Malachi's power, his exiled evil brother hunts him to capture the demon that Liam's life mate unknowingly hosts. Putting Malachi inside Ania two years ago had been an act to save her when she almost died saving him. If only the demon hadn't killed again.

After she survives the bachelor auction, Sabine vows she is never doing another favor for a friend. This is especially true for favors that involve spending large sums of money and buying men whose last names she doesn't even know. In 20 bachelors, Sabine maybe expected to find several Davids, Mikes, or Johns. But what were the odds of two Todds? And now what is she going to do on a date with the wrong one?

With her Siren mate and his mother captured by black market slave traders, Commander Gwen Jet is willing to do anything it takes to get them back, even if it means suffering through meditation and having more visions of herself as a slave. Being a trained warrior, Gwen doubts that using intuition can guide her to more answers than her stunner against Zade's captor's throats could. But she ends up using her energy gifts to locate the Sirens after all.

Can you believe my daughter at twenty thinks I'm the naive one about men? And my mother agrees with her! Conn warning me every three seconds about my stagnant libido doesn’t help either. What difference does it make to them if I'm dating or not? Turning forty didn’t make me extra picky, but people need to stop judging me for saying no. Colonel Benson is happily married, and I turned down the sexy elf Conn dangled in front of me on principle. I don’t have time to deal with ancient winged creatures, eccentric fairy folk, or back-stabbing demons playing matchmaker.

Life is easier when you’re younger. My new bestie that I never wanted is in crisis. Rasmus left weeks ago and hasn’t returned, so I’m in crisis. I put a demon compulsion on my ex to make him forget he was evil, so my daughter is in crisis. All Conn seems capable of doing is laughing at me and my pain. We’ll see who gets the last laugh, though. Mulan thinks dating him violates everything in her life and negates the reason she was given her powers.

What's a witch to do? She has no power to fight the sexy alien and can’t fight his power over her. Topper didn’t always like being responsible, but as the head witch in the town of Magic, she has to do the right thing. That means no more chasing adventure fantasies for a while. It means no out-of-country safaris or whitewater river rafting until Magic's latest witchery fiasco is over. Who knew opening a travel portal between Earth and Glacier would get so complicated? Nothing on either planet explains why the allegedly mature Glacieran male steps from the portal completely naked. Topper...

Lt. Boca Ador remembers well being tortured, mutilated, and made a sexual slave on Lotharius. But returning there to help rescue the High Ambassador's daughter is still her choice to make. Neither her work as a healer nor her growing attraction to Doctor Chiang is going to keep her from walking the warrior's path. She doesn't care if the insistent Greggor is her mate and her destiny. Love will just have to wait.

What's on Dasher Sleigh’s list for the holidays? Fixing his blunder with Vixen Dunder. His son isn't the only one who should be writing a heartfelt letter to Santa. Single dad and widower, Dasher Sleigh, is hoping for a much better Christmas this year. He'd have one too if he could just talk Vixen and her daughter into spending it with him and Nicky. Playing Bad Santa to Vixen's Sexy Elf is a lot of fun. Next, he'd like to see Vixen in his lap and both their children playing under his tree. But Vixen says there's no elfing way she's going to let him break her heart a second time. Dash is ...

Singer, Natalie Bright, sings for her supper, and for her grandmother’s supper too. With bills to pay and her grandmother’s illness to fight, life takes all the energy she has and then some. Love is something she tried once in her twenties and it didn’t work out. Natalie’s never stopped believing in miracles, but she’s not very hopeful when it comes to finding love. Several years ago Dr. Jet Rahman lost the love of his life who was also his best friend

Her Marine training hadn’t quite prepared her for saving St. Nick. Like most of her childhood bad deeds, a grown-up Megan Lynx regretted her nickname for Nicolas North, her brother's best friend from college. The too-nice guy she openly admired and secretly desired was determined to play Santa in the local Christmas parade even though a crazed shooter stalked him. Megan promised her brother she would guard the man they both cared deeply about. But who was going to guard Megan's heart against the temptation to explore a childhood crush that had never gone away? She couldn’t let a passion...

Dating's one thing, but what’s love got to do with it? Nothing. At least not for Ann Lynx. She’s fifty-three for goodness sake. She’s had love. All she’s in the market for these days is some fun companionship—no strings attached. Right? Wrong. Thanks to her pain-in-the-rear-end best friend, Georgia, she’s now back on the dating scene. Add Georgia’s matchmaking daughter Mariah to the mix and Ann is officially in a world of trouble—or dates—to be more accurate. All that would be kind of doable, but her handyman’s sexy too-young-for-her son is making her feel like a silly young girl.

She wanted a naked dancing Santa. What she got was her best friend falling in love with her. Radio talk show host, Eve Kingston, would have said her neighbor down the street was one of her best friends in the world. After a simple kiss under the mistletoe, Sam wants to sleep with her. Eve thinks maybe she wants to see Sam dancing naked in a Santa hat. Madness has obviously taken over both of them. Will either of them get their crazy wish for Christmas? AUTHOR NOTE: This funny and heartwarming Christmas story about second chances features two widowed characters both over 40. Smiles, laughter...