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A new CEO is battling corporate sabotage while a mysterious secret admirer uses his extensive power and resources to protect her. Alora Maddox has been named successor CEO to her family’s multi-billion-dollar company. As the threats against her mount, and one brother in particular guns for her job, she puts a few stop measures in place to secure her position, never dreaming how quickly trouble will strike. Rhys Calcagni, Chief Operating Officer of her biggest rival firm, has secretly been in love with her for years. However, a bitter feud between their families has made any hope of a ...

A private investigator asks a hotheaded cowboy deputy to pose as her boyfriend during an unusually challenging case. Deputy Wheeler Remington always closes his cases, but his reputation for pushing the boundaries sometimes gets him in trouble. His willingness to color outside the lines, however, makes him exactly the kind of guy P.I. Dyoni Whitaker wants to team up with to investigate a dangerous gambling ring. Even though Wheeler also happens to be the renowned heartbreaker her brother has warned her to stay away from, she asks him to pose as her boyfriend to give him the perfect excuse ...

A waitress is keeping a huge secret to protect two people she loves — a task that would be a lot harder if the bachelor sheriff she's crushing on wasn’t forever lending her a hand. Tiva Nez's life has been a hot mess since the day she was born, so it’s just her misfortune to find herself posing as a single mom to protect her sister and nephew. No, Christmas is NOT the most wonderful time of the year. She would rather skip it altogether. Everyone knows Police Chief Adriel Montana is married to his job. He lives to serve his tribe on the reservation, including his favorite waitress who ...

A woman returns to her hometown to unite two rival high schools under one roof. It’s her dream job…with one very big hitch. The cowboy who broke her heart is the same man who's been hired to protect her. As the new head principal of Heart Lake High, Hope Remington oversees the task of busing students from the tornado-devastated farming communities to the uptown business district. For the first time, the students of the longtime feuding Remington and Hawling families are housed on the same campus. There's an immediate uptick in fighting and student gang activity. But that’s not the ...

A renowned archeologist rarely visits her cozy hometown, because she’s secretly crushing on the sheriff. But a string of danger brings them together to unravel a century-old mystery involving a missing heiress. Bliss Hawling has been in love with Sheriff Gil Remington since their silly first kiss in high school. Someone dares him to do it, so it’s mostly a joke — to everyone but her. A few years later, he marries someone else. Now he’s a widower. After the funeral, she plans to leave town again and never return. However, Gil arm twists her into coming back for one last visit. The ...

A damaged hero, a grieving widow, and a prison release sponsorship that delivers a second chance at love just in time for the holidays… The horse ranch Arabella Weston and her late husband built from scratch has been a haven for countless men in need of a second chance. After becoming widowed, however, she’s debating closing their work release program and selling her struggling ranch. Until her best friend guilts her into accepting one last parolee on Christmas Eve… Former motorcycle gang leader Victor Cross works around the clock, as if being chased by demons, and soon has ...

A newly elected mayor wants to ensure every child in storm-torn Heart Lake receives a gift for Christmas, no matter how hard one very grumpy rancher tries to derail her plans. Mayor Heavenly Remington doesn’t care how much budget finagling and last-minute fundraising it takes to purchase a Santa-sized pile of toys. Her hometown desperately needs a dose of holiday spirit. Weary of town officials making promises they can’t keep, single dad Wes Hawling taunts his fellow citizens into flooding the mayor’s suggestion box with prank requests for the forthcoming gifts — each one more ...

A policeman exclusively works the night shift to hide his scars, while an undercover detective investigates a cold case in search of the justice she feels he deserves. The trail of clues leads to an unexpected complication. Newly promoted Police Sergeant Luke Hawling is determined to eliminate the growing drug problem in his hometown, even if it means going toe-to-toe with a dangerous motorcycle gang. The house fire they set a few years earlier left one side of his face permanently disfigured. A chance meeting with a gang member brings him closer to making an arrest — a job that would be ...

Don’t kiss a friend. No workplace romance. Never date a cowboy. And whatever you do, don’t fall for a guy in a uniform! Prim Midraven has been following her mother’s dating advice for years. You should be able to trust a professional matchmaker, right? Which doesn’t explain why Prim is still painfully single. When her best friend, Deputy Shep Whitaker, organizes a volunteer K-9 search and rescue team at the poverty-stricken reservation where she works, she ignores her mother’s advice (for once) and signs up as his first volunteer. His only volunteer, as it turns out, which is why ...

The Texas Hotline search and rescue experts are only a phone call away! From former military heroes to law enforcement heroes to medical heroes, these first responders and their K-9 partners rush to the rescue when disaster strikes. Book #1: The Plus One Rescue Despite the center's no PDA rule, an instant attraction simmers between an expert search and rescue instructor and a broody firefighter during summer training. Book #2: The Secret Baby Rescue A Marine is trying to right an old wrong, and a celebrity actress is struggling to prove herself in the world of search and rescue operations ...

Best friends go on a double date to raise money for charity and spark an accidental attraction in this sweet and swoony billionaire romance. It’s complicated. That’s the only way to describe how Priscilla Cardale ever ended up becoming besties with one of the hottest bachelors in Anchorage — a billionaire, no less. He invites her to attend a charity ball with him, and she agrees on one condition. Make it a double date so no one gets the wrong idea about their relationship. All it takes is one dance, however, to make her realize that their friendship she’s been so fiercely protecting...

Two corporate executives agree to a temporary marriage — strictly for business purposes — while hiding secret crushes and plotting to make their marriage permanent. Architect Greyson Maddox designs a self-sustaining, futuristic house for a luxury homebuilder. When the man’s daughter begs him to turn down the project, claiming it's just another one of her father’s doomed-to-fail schemes, Greyson invites her on a dinner date to debate the merits of the investment. For him, it’s love at first sight, but he doesn’t want to move too quickly and scare her away with his genius-level ...

A former bull riding champion and an uptown clothing boutique owner (who don't get along) get elected to serve on Heart Lake’s town council together. Decker Kingston is always looking for ways to give back to his community, so he eagerly throws his Stetson into the ring to fill one of the two vacancies on the town council. Fashion boutique owner Chanel Remington is excited about continuing the Remington legacy of always having a family member on the town council. Unfortunately, her ideas for running Heart Lake are the polar opposite of Decker’s ideas. Their heated bickering during ...

A successful rodeo owner doesn't believe in love at first sight, but there’s nothing he won’t do to help his tribe — even proposing a marriage of convenience to a single mother who’s fallen on hard times. Wayne Whitaker (or Chief Lighthorse, as his fellow Comanches prefer to call him) is constantly putting out fires on their poverty-stricken, crime-ridden reservation. The old-timers on his squabbling tribal council claim it’s because he’s too young, too inexperienced, and too single to run both the tribe and his family’s rodeo business. What they don't understand is that he ...

True love is priceless! That's why a jet-setting billionaire is determined to prove to a small-town doctor that he's searched the world for a love like theirs. The tabloids are calling Kellan Maddox a wealthy heartbreaker-turned-philanthropist, which is better than some of the things they've called him in the past. And it's true. He's turned over a new leaf by becoming the CEO of his family's world-renowned charity foundation. After accepting an invitation from a friend to visit storm-torn Heart Lake, he's working around the clock to assess the rebuilding needs of the local homes, ranches, ...

A federal investigator is sent undercover to the small-town restaurant his ex-girlfriend runs — a steakhouse slotted for the next big meeting of a dangerous criminal ring. Agent Marco Perez has secrets. Keeping them is part of his job. His rules for dating while working undercover are simple: Don’t get too close. Don’t care too much. Don’t let it last too long. Never break the first three rules. He's always lived by these rules, right up to the point when his ex-girlfriend plants a kiss on him. Though it’s part of his assignment to cross paths with her again, she’s more than a ...

Despite the center's no PDA rule, an instant attraction simmers between an expert search and rescue instructor and a broody firefighter during summer training. Axel Hammerstone returns from overseas with a Purple Heart. As tribute to his battle buddies who never made it home, he's determined to devote the rest of his career to search and rescue operations. Kristi Kimiko is living her dream as an expert search and rescue instructor at the Texas Hotline Training Center. Unfortunately, it leaves her little time for dating. When the hunky Axel half-limps and half-swaggers into her renowned dog ...

A billionaire CEO hires the rebel youngest daughter of his family’s biggest corporate rival to serve as his personal assistant…and sparks an unwanted attraction in this sweet & swoony office romance! Luca Calcagni isn’t sure why Jacey applied for a job at Genesis & Sons in the first place. However, he can’t tell her no without creating a PR nightmare for his multi-billion-dollar company. Instead, he hands her a punishing schedule, hoping to send her packing pretty quickly. A man known as a cobra in the boardroom can’t afford for anyone to find out he's secretly crushing on the one...

Binge through the third and final installment of the Texas Hotline Series — sweet romance and page-turning intrigue you won’t want to put down! Book #9: The Blind Date Rescue A tropical storm serves up a second chance at love for a once-burnt-twice-shy rescue diver. Book #10: The Maid by Mistake Rescue A mistaken identity leads to an accidental attraction in this swoony rescue romance thriller. Book #11: The Unlucky Bride Rescue A Texas Ranger and the award-winning chef he’s secretly married to are close to calling it quits on their marriage, only to find out they’ve both accepted ...

A newly promoted vice president falls for her bodyguard, a match her billionaire family will never approve of. Bailey Maddox is anxious to prove herself to her hard-to-please family of billionare executives. Since dating her bodyguard isn't likely to impress them, she fights her growing attraction to him. Former Special Forces weapons sergeant Don Kappelman is in the business of serving and protecting. He's honored to be tasked with guarding the stunning new vice president of DRAW Corporation, though he understands whatever is simmering between them can go nowhere — including their very ...