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Luke Garrison is a hometown hero, a member of the National Guard ready to deploy again. The last thing he's looking for is a woman to ruin his solitude. When the wildly beautiful Harper stumbles into his life, though, he realises she's the perfect decoy: a fake girlfriend to keep his family off his back until he's deployed.Harper was on her way to starting a new life . . . again. But something about Luke makes her want to settle down in this small town and make his house a home.Luke never thought he'd feel this way about a woman again. But he knows that he can't tell her the truth about his dark past. And she can't reveal what she's running from.At least this isn't a real relationship. It's only for a month. It's only pretend. Until it isn't . . .

This Book contains profanity, sexual content and violence. If any of these are triggers for you, you should consider skipping this read.★★★★★Steamy, Sexy, Alpha-Male goodness!! This is book 2 of The Merge Series, Stand-alone, HEA! No cliffhangers.Contains adult language and sexual scenes. 18+ onlyReillyI learnt the hard and painful way that men don’t stay, ever. Even the ones you trust the most can be taken away in the blink of an eye. It’s easier to keep them at a distance. I have my fun with men and then part ways.I’ve spent the last five years of my life avoiding any and all emotional connections with men. I’ve been successful at it too. I’ve built up walls with so much mortar and rendered them around my heart.That is until Bray freaking Williamson came barging into my life with his perfectly sculpted tattooed body and entrancing green eyes. He was like being tempted by the most delicious chocolate brownie, the perfect mixture of rough on the outside and soft gooey on the inside. He came at me with his damn bulldozer, effectively destroying my carefully constructed walls, brick by brick, leaving a pile of rubble behindDo I follow what my fragile heart wants and give into temptation? Give him the key to my heart knowing how easily he could crush it? Or should I follow my brain and run far, far away from this god of a man?BrayI’m a fighter not a lover. I’m ruthless in the cage, an undefeated champion.I always fight for what I want, and I always win no matter the odds. What I want comes in the form of a beautiful feisty, independent redhead.She won’t agree to be mine, yet, but I’m happy to agree to disagree with her on that, because she is mine. She wants to run, that’s fine I’ll run faster. She wants to hide, I’ll hunt her and I won’t stop until I find her. Everyone in Sydney is about to learn that the fusion of Bray and Reilly is happening.Run, hide and deny all you like, I’m a fighter and this is one fight I won’t give up on. Breilly is here to stay.

Soren:You know what's not fun? Going on a Fiji vacation with four other couples. Especially when recently single.What's even worse is when a past hook-up arrives unannounced.Not only do we have a history, but he's ten years younger and a famous rock star. Most importantly, he's my friend's little brother.Being trapped on an island with Jet Jackson is going to be sweet torture because all I want is another chance.I just don't think he's going to give it to me.Jet:You know what's not fun? Escaping one guy who broke my heart only to run into another.Being on the road for three years has left me exhausted. The last thing I want is for Caleb 'Soren' Sorensen to try for round two.I can't fight my draw to him. I've never been able to.I'm suddenly back to being the naïve kid who stupidly lusted after a hockey player.All I can think is if I let Soren get close, I'll walk away from this vacation with a double broken heart.

"An epic love. An epic hate. An epic story that would last a lifetime."Today, 8:15 p.m.I hurt. I hurt so deeply, I felt the pain searing in my bones and jabbing like a hot poker into my heart. I knew nothing would make it better as the memories pulled from the crevices of my mind, detailing the bad and the ugly, filling my thoughts with regret as I slipped into the darkness. . .When I was eight, my mother was dying of cancer, my father lost his job, and the bank kicked us out of our house. I was forced to move to the strange town of Arlis, Texas where my father and I slept in our car in the hospital parking lot. Desperate and hopeless, we lived on fumes of our former life.Then one night, everything changed forever. A knock on the car window brought a family into my life that I only wanted to shut out. I hated charity and I hated the Masons. Well, except one. He made it impossible to hate him.Jess Mason had the biggest blue eyes and ornery smile of any boy I had ever seen. He was a ray of sunshine in my dark world. A boy full of adventure, dragging me across the meadow of Sprayberry Ranch; a beautiful Texas paradise full of horses and tree houses that got us into more trouble than anyone ever imagined.Jess was my everything as a kid until we grew up and the rules changed. Instead of living happily ever after with a boy full of love. . . I destroyed it.- Alex TannerAuthor Note: The Mason List is a coming-of-age story that follows the life of Alex Tanner from the age of six to twenty-six. The novel crosses the genres of Young Adult and New Adult. It does contain some language and mild adult situations. The Mason List is a standalone, 118,940 word, full-length novel.

The Tattoo Artist With A Heart Of Gold. The Playboy With His Own Hidden Scars. The International Rockstar Who Longs For A Home. The Mechanic With A Dark Past. These Are The Heroes Of Second Circle Tattoos. Trent, Cujo, Dred, Reid. And Now All Four Books Are Together For The First Time In A Fabulous, Low Priced Ebook Box Set Featuring An Exclusive Epilogue. Why Pick One Book Boyfriend When You Can Have All Four? The Strongest Steel Harper Connelly Never Expected To Find Herself Outside Of A Tattoo Parlor At One In The Morning. The Scars That Decorate Her Back Are Just One More Reminder Of Things She'd Rather Forget, The Past She Wants To Leave Far Behind Her, But Before She Can Move On, She Needs Him. Trent Andrews Has His Own Reasons For Specializing In Inking Over Scars. And There's No Way In Hell He's Going To Turn Harper Away. Being With Harper Is Like Going Ten Rounds In The Ring—exhilarating, Powerful, And Dangerous. She Stirs Feelings In Him He Thought Were Long Gone... If He Can Only Get Past Her Carefully Constructed Defenses. The Fractured Heart Tattoo Artist Brody Cujo Matthews Knows How To Keep Things Simple. In Life And In Love.that All Changes When He Meets Drea Caron, The Definition Of High Maintenance And Sizzling Curves. And The One Woman He Doesn’t Want To Walk Away From. Andrea Drea Caron Is Broke And Tired. After Years Of Caring For Her Ailing Mom, She's At The End Of Her Rope Trying To Manage The Piling Medical Bills, Two Jobs, And A Life Placed On Hold. She Certainly Doesn’t Need The Added Frustration Of A Sexy Playboy Tattoo Artist Messing Up Her Carefully Balanced Life. Too Bad The Universe Has Other Ideas. The Purest Hook Rugged, Hot, And Rock Hard, Dred Zander Is Exactly The Type Of Man That Normally Sends Pixie Running. Not Dreaming About Running Her Hands Down His Washboard Abs...and Lower. The Lead Singer And Guitarist For The Band Preload Embodies Trouble Behind His Quick Smile And Guarded Eyes, And Pixie Left Trouble Behind Her Years Ago Along With The Name Sarah Jane Travers And The Pathetic Trailer Her Mom Called Home. But Dred Has Other Ideas. Pixie's Sweet Hazel Eyes, Purple Hair And Kaleidoscopic Tattoo Of Exotic Flowers That Swirl Up Her Arm Haunt His Dreams, And He's Ready To Fight Like Hell To Keep That Feeling. The Darkest Link When Her Car Breaks Down Off The Side Of A Lonely Highway Far From Her Sunny Miami Home, Tattoo Artist Lia Never Expected Her Very Own White Knight To Ride Up On The Back Of A Barely Street-legal Motorcycle...and She Never Expected To Fall For Her Dark Savior. A Bruised Heart Lia Is Not Looking For Forever, And The Hot Mechanic, With His Sexy Scruff And Shaggy Hair, Is Simply Impossible To Resist. He's The Perfect Candidate For A Mind-blowingly-perfect, No-strings-attached One-night Stand. But When Their Fling Becomes Something More And Reid Surprises Her At Her Tattoo Studio, Second Circle Tattoos, He's In For A Shock—and A Fist To The Face—when His Past And Present Collide.

Some fairytales begin with a kiss...LaneyI finally get it. And to think, it only took my heart being pried out of my chest and stomped on five separate times by men who claimed they loved me. That's got to be a record, right?Let me put it as simply as I can: Fairy tales aren't real. Love is a lie. And, at least in my experience, sex never comes with a happy ending.Fortunately, I still have B.O.B, and he'll never fall out of love with me. I won't walk in on him in bed with another woman either. Nope. As long as I keep supplying him with fresh batteries, B.O.B's only purpose in life is to make me happy.And, damn it, I deserve to be happy. I'm a nice person. I work hard. And, most importantly, I've learned my lesson:I will never, ever let a man near my heart again.CarsonMy secret to happiness is to be completely upfront with what I want and, trust me, it has nothing to do with Laney's heart. Her lips? Hell yeah. A few other parts of her body? You better f*cking believe it. But her heart? Nope. Not even a little.Until it does...a lot.Forget I said that. I don't have feelings for anyone. They were all ripped out of me when I was a kid.This thing between Laney and me could be great. But we have to follow certain rules. We have a good time--no dates, no sleepovers, no expectations. When one of us is ready for something new or if she starts getting too attached, we move on with no hard feelings. Win-win, and everybody's happy.I came into this thinking it would be the same thing as it had always been and that she was like any other beautiful woman.It isn't. She isn't.But how do I tell her she deserves someone better, someone who can love her, someone who's not broken, if I can't seem to let her go?***standalone contemporary romance/romantic comedy without a cliffhanger or cheating***Now AvailableVirtually Impossible (Once and Forever #2)Deeper Water (Once and Forever #3) Carson and Laney's after happily-ever-afterDarker Water is a friends with benefits story inspired by The Frog Prince, and this is how Carson and Laney's fairy tale begins:Once upon a time there was a young woman who lived in a tall glass tower in the middle of a city. She wasn't incredibly beautiful but she was attractive, probably somewhere around the eighty-fifth percentile. She was smart, kind, honest, and good with animals.But the most beautiful thing about her was her heart, for it was made of the purest of golds. Unfortunately, she wasn't very good at taking care of it, and over the years, it lost its shine. Because every time she met a prince, she believed him to be perfect--strong but gentle, brave, and caring. So, she would show him her heart and give it to him to hold, thinking he would take care of it.What she hadn't yet realized was that there was a curse put on her...at some time...by someone. And the curse was this: The moment the woman gave her heart away and kissed the prince--believing it to be true love--the prince would begin to change. Sometimes slowly, other times quickly. But he always turned into a frog. And although the frog would give her heart back to her, each time it was a little more worn, a little less brilliant.But the woman didn't give up trying to find a prince who would remain a prince, knowing that somewhere out there was someone who could heal her heart and break the curse by remaining a prince after she kissed him.Then one day, she finally understood the curse's power. No one could heal her, she would never find a prince, and the curse would never be broken.And so, clutching what was left of her heart, she gave up her search.

“Whether making my heart melt or my head burst into flames, Annabeth Albert draws the reader in and keeps them captivated.” —Gay Book Reviews In the wake of tragedy, SEAL Mark Whitley rushed stateside to act as guardian to his sister’s three young children. But a conflicting will could give custody to someone else—someone Mark remembers as a too young, too hot, wild party boy. Even after six years, Mark can’t shake the memory of his close encounter with Isaiah James, or face up to what it says about his own sexuality. Isaiah’s totally over the crush that made him proposition Mark all those years ago. In fact, he’s done with crushing on the wrong men altogether. For now, he’s throwing himself into proving he’s the best person to care for his cousin’s kids. But there’s no denying there’s something sexy about a big, tough military man with a baby in his arms. As the legal details get sorted out, their long-buried attraction resurfaces, leading to intimate evenings after the kids are tucked in. A forever future is within reach for all of them, if only Mark can find the courage he needs to trust Isaiah with his secrets—and his heart. Out of Uniform Book 1: Off Base Book 2: At Attention Book 3: On Point Book 4: Wheels Up Book 5: Squared Away Book 6: Tight Quarters Book 7: Rough Terrain Also by Annabeth Albert: Shore Leave Book 1: Sailor Proof Book 2: Sink or Swim Hotshots Book 1: Burn Zone Book 2: High Heat Book 3: Feel the Fire Book 4: Up in Smoke

When three best friends decide to stretch their wings and revamp the local airport in small-town Haven, Georgia, the destination is laughter and love . . . Jade McKenzie left her high-society family’s expectations behind when she came back to cozy Haven, and she’s never been happier. But what’s supposed to be a quick trip to Nashville for a cousin’s wedding turns into a disaster when one of the airport’s pilots offers to fly her there. One crash landing and a shared room later, and tattooed, bearded Cash Miller is standing in as her gorgeously unsuitable plus-one—and turning her on in ways she can’t deny. But a relationship? A real one? That’s definitely in the no-fly zone. Vincent “Cash” Miller doesn’t have much in the world, but he does have pride—and a strict policy not to let anyone trash-talk his friends, not even their mothers. Standing up for sexy, headstrong Jade comes naturally—but so does the bone-deep itch for her he’s always wanted to scratch. Giving in to attraction is one thing, but commitment is another. So why does it feel like together, love might take them to breathtaking heights? Praise for Jules Bennett and Stay with Me “Jules Bennett has a gift for creating warm-hearted, emotional stories of love, friendship, and romance set in small towns readers will want to return to again and again.” —JoAnn Ross, New York Times bestselling author “Readers will hope for Bennett to continue telling Haven’s love stories.”—Publishers Weekly

From New York Times bestselling author Maisy Yates comes a collection of three novellas in the Silver Creek Romance series—together in print for the first time.UNBUTTONED When Carly and Lucas must work together on a charity project, Lucas is shocked to find their bickering melt into some serious mutual attraction. He’s determined to show Carly that he’s the man for her, if only she’d learn to let loose. But her brother’s best friend is the last man on earth Carly should give in to. The freedom she finds in his arms has her feeling happier than ever, but is it enough to make her realize that the greatest risk isn’t losing your heart, but losing the chance at happiness?REKINDLED Mac Denton can’t believe the mean girl who once tormented him in high school is now his housekeeper, but Lucy Ryan has changed. After leaving a loveless marriage, she’s starting over and is ready to go after what she really wants in life. And what she wants more than anything is Mac. But is Mac ready to truly forget the past and embrace the future?UNWRAPPED Sarah Larson and Walker Callahan are both in it for one night with no strings attached, but when Sarah discovers that Walker is the father of her new student, what was once just a naughty Christmas wish turns into to something so much more....

A wildland firefighter falls for his best friend’s widowed sister after she and her kids move in next door, in this flaming hot book three in the BookTok viral Sky Ridge Hotshot series. ‘Don’t ever let me hear you talk about yourself like that, do you understand? You’re perfect just like this.’ Being a hotshot wildland firefighter is all I’ve ever known. It’s my greatest passion. This job is dangerous, and after watching my parents’ marriage fail because of it, I knew long ago I’d never be a relationship kinda guy. That all changes when Teddy moves in down the street. As her brother’s best friend, I’ve always been Xander to her, but secretly I’ve always wanted to be more. She’s recently widowed, with two young kids and another soon on the way. With a heart locked up like Fort Knox after losing her husband, breaking down Teddy’s defences will be damn near impossible . . . but I want to show her that I’m here to stay. As superintendent, my duty to my crew has always been my priority. But with Teddy’s heart on the line, can I give up the only life I’ve ever known? Or am I doomed to be honour bound and lose the only woman I’ve ever loved? Tropes: Firefighter romance Angst Small town romance Forced proximity Friends to Lovers Hurt Care Workplace romance