Tessa D'Angelo was tougher than she looked. She survived her beloved D.A.dad being linked to a drug scandal, and his unexplained «suicide.» But what she couldn't survive was the stalker who wanted to silence her questions. Enter Jack Chaney, a brooding special agent, who spirited Tessa away to a self-defense boot camp. What single woman wouldn't want to be stuck in the wilderness with a paramilitary George Clooney look-alike who could get the job done without breaking a sweat? But...
RULE #1: I'M IN CHARGEWorking in covert intelligence, Zach Russell knew that three basic rules could be the difference between life and death. There was no room for deviation–especially not the Antonia Castillo kind.RULE #2: WHERE YOU GO, I GOHe'd ignored his strict policy once–and the heiress had been kidnapped as a result. So why, after ten years, was he her bodyguard?RULE #3: NOTHING PERSONALAntonia was no longer a timid beauty–and her new no-holds-barred approach to life made their...
Itinerant chef Eddie King had spent most of his life moving from place to place, looking for something he could never seem to find. But suddenly he found himself headed for the place that had most seemed like home–once.And it was there he found Mala Koleski. He'd known her as a perky teenager; now she was a battle-weary single mother. So why did Eddie find her even more appealing this time around? And, more importantly, what was he going to do about it?Simple: Convince the lovely Mala that...
He'd waited for this day–this woman–for forever it seemed. Harry Ballantine had been a prisoner of Fernhaven forest and now he found the key to his salvation in Jenna Dante. But would she surrender to him before she left the hidden hamlet?With an angry ex on her tail and rain pouring, the last thing Jenna Dante needed was car trouble and a cranky child. Her only option was to seek refuge in the desolate hotel on the hill in Fernhaven. But the restored walls seemed to hold more than...
One minute she was « Secondhand» Rose Delancey, no one special, a woman driven by her dreams to a faraway home…to meet the man of her imaginings. The next, everyone was calling her Anna, as in Anna Benedict, troubled daughter of the political powerhouse Benedicts. A woman who was her spitting image. A woman who had a special relationship with her dream lover….Logan Maguire' s job was to troubleshoot for the Benedicts. But Rose was one fire he didn' t want to extinguish. Though she bore...
A MAN WAS POINTING A GUN AT HER…and he was her father. A man Lou McAndrews hadn't even known existed until a few days ago; a man whose political clout gave him enough incentive to make her disappear. With the shattering discovery that her whole life was a lie, the last thing the beleaguered veterinarian needed was Will Jamison back in town. The six-foot-tall heartbreaker had been the secret love of Lou's young life and now he seemed intrigued by her. As a crusading reporter, Will...
When strange things began happening at her isolated home, lonely widow Kayla Thorne turned to handyman Paul Fitzgerald for protection. But was that a mistake? Because Paul was not only an ex-cop, he was an ex-convict–though he swore he'd been framed. Yet if he was so eager to prove his innocence, why was he spending time fixing her house, instead?Paul seemed intent on gaining her trust–and as the mysterious dangers escalated, Kayla needed someone to keep her safe. Paul was the perfect...
Two images kept Mitch McCluskey fighting for life on the secret mission he'd sworn would be his last: reuniting with his sons…and seeing sweet Melissa Carroll. Without hesitation, his childhood friend had made her home his boys', but Mitch sensed that some man had made Lissa doubt her desirability…just as someone was making her fear the last person who would ever hurt her.Him.Lissa wanted to believe that Mitch was one of the good guys, just as she wanted to believe that the feral look...
Battling a fire at a friend's house turns into a nightmare when firefighter Shelby Fox becomes the only witness to a murder. Unfortunately, a bad fall at the killer's hands leaves Shelby with traumatic amnesia and plunges her life into danger.Assigning himself as Shelby's personal protector is Detective Clay Jessup, her best friend and someone she always counted on. But as they work to find the murderer, a fierce desire begins to replace the simple friendship they once saw in each...
All ex-agent Rafe Blackhorse wanted was to capture the man he'd been hired to retrieve and head back to his secluded life in the mountains. Unfortunately, an unforseen shoot-out forced him to protect both his client's best interests and one very attractive computer specialist named Meg Kavanagh.Rafe soon realized that Meg was trouble with a capital T. An elusive killer was stalking her every move, and now Rafe's life was in danger, too. But all of Rafe's field training...
THE LEAST LIKELY BODYGUARD…When Cassie Bowers awoke in a hospital bed to see her ex-husband, she was bewildered–and bombarded by bittersweet memories. But she soon discovered that Luke Slater hadn't come back to discuss old times or what might have been. He was here as a detective, to uncover the one thing Cassie COULDN'T remember: a killer's identity.Luke knew Cassie's amnesia wouldn't last forever. But until she recalled the details of the murder she had witnessed, he...