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Penelope Harbough has dedicated her life to her job at a home for battered women and children. With such a stressful and heartbreaking job, she finds her solace in the arms of Frank - a gargoyle statue that sits atop her building watching over the city. She spills her heart to him daily while watching...

**A DECEPTIVE AFFAIR ** Virginia Johnson had learned to take what she wanted. It was a strategy that had worked well for her in business, but not so well in her personal life. Men were intimidated by her-except new hire Dillon Jones. Dillon was different. He had broad shoulders, a hard body...

FIVE-ALARM RESCUE After a devastating hurricane, Miami firefighter Ricky Wilder rescues dozens of devastated people from the wreckage of their homes—including Allie Matthews. The beautiful stranger has no place to go, and Ricky insists she stay with him. But the notoriously commitment-shy...

**Sometimes a knight in shining armor wears a Stetson ** Seven years ago, as a young cop, Darius Franklin saved a vulnerable woman from a violent situation. They shared one night of pure passion before she walked away. Now Darius is a wealthy rancher and security contractor working at a women's...

AN UNDERCOVER AFFAIR… Ever since DEA agent Alexander Cobb gave Jodie Clayburn a Texas-size brush-off, they’ve been sworn enemies. When he pushed Jodie out of his life, he told himself he was doing the right thing. But eight years later, this cynical Texan can’t believe the baby-faced...

DARK NIGHTS AND DARKER SINS… She’s got the face of an angel and the body of…well, isn’t that what he’d expect from an exotic dancer? But there’s something about this woman that Johnnie Riggs can’t shake. The former army ranger is hot on the trail of an elusive drug lord—and...

Sasha is a successful salon owner in public. She seems like she has it all together to most that are on the outside looking in. In private, though, she is a queen trying to keep her kingdom floating, but when the love from her King, Kendrick A.K.A. Keyz seems to be tainted and causing her more hurt...

**Cold-blooded predators lurk in the Everglades-and not all of them are gators ** When Jesse Crane returned to his roots to serve on the Miccosukee police force, he'd hoped to leave behind the violence of the city and the memories of his murdered wife. But bodies start to pile up in Jesse's...

**A COWBOY'S PURSUIT ** Rancher Harley Fowler had a knack for getting himself out of trouble-until trouble runs right into him in the form of whirlwind investigator Alice Jones. Alice has been called to Jacobsville, Texas, after a man's body is discovered. And when her investigation leads...

ONE STEP FORWARD… In Berry Ridge, Vermont, Beth Callahan had found a place to start over. She’d started a successful real estate and design business in the quaint, picturesque town, and she’d even found her perfect house…where she dreamed of someday living and raising a family. Until...

WINTER IN WYOMING Financial wizard Joshua Ames was used to living in luxury. The globe-trotting pace he lived didn’t include cows. Yet here he was, back on a sprawling ranch deep in snowy cattle country, confronted with the one woman he hadn’t been able to forget—a mischievous, irresistible...

**WHO DEFINES FAMILY? ** To Tina Harrington, the definition was simple: anyone she loved was a part of her family. Including all the people-and animals-she'd invited into her home when they'd had nowhere else to go. She was their safe harbor, and they were hers. And she would protect them...

DESPERATE TIMES…  If it hadn't been for the earthquake, Amber Riggs would never have made love to a perfect stranger. And no doubt about it, fire inspector Dax McCall was perfect. Who else could have taught her the meaning of passion at a time like that?  Still, when Amber ran into...

**A PROMISE OF PASSION ** Tony Morelli had always pursued the things he wanted with single-minded tenacity and authority. It had been a very successful strategy in business, and it had been just as successful with Sharon Harrison. From the moment they met, he and Sharon had had an explosive...