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Special Agent Charli Madison can’t get a break. After the stress of her last horrific assignment, all she wants is to spend time vacationing with her Gramps in Fort Lauderdale, a city they both love. Plans go awry, and she’s forced into witness protection, guarding a teenage girl who’s the only person able to identify a notorious killer.

Detective Cora Taylor isn’t expecting the cop who’d haunted her dreams for ten years to return and find her drunk, wearing a torn wedding dress, and surrounded by tiny, white puppies. Go figure her rotten luck. The last time they’d met, she’d been a sweet-looking rookie too fearful to shoot a killer who ended up later murdering a family of four. Guilt from that night changed her into a speed demon, a hardened detective with colorful language… in fact a whole new persona. One who wears too much makeup, bleaches her short messy hair, and has developed many professional skills that ...

Sophia’s mane of silver hair gives her the look of a mystical warrior, a female not of this world. Some colleagues defend her, others are jealous, most fear her, yet everyone respects her abilities. An ace sharpshooter, she’s called on for the most difficult cases. Her uncanny ability to remain cool under duress makes her the perfect person to rescue the twins of the frantic governor whose rejected husband intends to make her suffer. Problems begin when a cocky hero hits on her in the marketplace. Why her?

Agent Shane Murphy has a hard time believing his life could get so crazy. Because of a choice–one he’d make again–he loses his superiority in the FBI. Now he’s forced to work surveillance with a rookie female yapper. And…gets caught up in the kidnapping of a 16-year-old that pulls at the heartstrings he keeps hidden. Fighting the budding attraction for his new partner, he stresses his way through an escalating nightmare. How can he be so infatuated with a trouble-magnet female who drives like a granny and isn’t able to hide her sensitive reactions when on the job?

Strangers, Hali and Terry, and a cute but mischievous Samoyed puppy are stranded in the Alaskan bush. Due to a freak snowstorm, Terry is forced to land his small Cessna on a frozen lake. From the beginning, Hali’s never known a man so independent and rigid in his need to have things done his way. And Terry’s never known a woman so willing to help, stepping on his pride in such a lovable way that he can’t take offense. The frigid temperatures are brutal and when Terry falls through the ice to save a puppy, the stakes for survival become enormous. Can their blossoming mutual attraction ...

Can a crabby puppy perform cupid's magic this Christmas season? Wheelchair bound, Amelia Lloyd is embarrassed when the neighbor calls the police to deal with her out-of-control brother. Her old dog tries to protect her, but it takes the combined efforts of a handsome police Sergeant and a crabby puppy to put a stop to her sibling’s shenanigans. At first, she hates to be caught in such a situation. But then she accepts an important truth. The big-hearted man, her savior, wouldn’t have come into her life otherwise. Sergeant Harley Carlton is exhausted from dealing with a car accident ...

Hooker turned nanny, Faith Whitely, known to her johns as Sunshine, has struggled to be a decent person all her life. And her options were never the same as the good girls in town. Growing up with a sick mother and limited resources, she does the best she can until a man she loves dies in a violent, intolerable situation where she blames herself. Then her world crumbles into drugs and self-hate. She’s saved by the sound of a baby’s cry, an unmanageable child who she bonds with and then needs as much as she wants his daddy. Any luck Steven Corella has with the women in his life has been ...

It's Christmas in small town, Carlton Grove... In this holiday love story, Belinda Page, a single mom of a very intelligent four-year-old daughter, is at her wits end, trying to keep up with her baby genius. When the child throws herself into a lake to rescue a puppy, Belinda is frantic. Turning to the man who saves both babies, she seeks his support - until she finds out he’s one of those hated Carltons. After all, it was at their home where she’d gone to a party, been drugged, raped and left to deal with the consequences. Dr. Reed Carlton, an introvert who feels uncomfortable around ...

Aurora loves her mommy role and is fascinated by her little angel, Lily. When babies start to disappear in Vegas, not once did Aurora ever imagine that Lily would be one of the kidnap victims. So when the unthinkable happens, it forces Aurora to once again partner with Lily’s daddy, Kai, who’d previously walked out on her. This time, her heart will be kept firmly in lock-down where it’s safely resided since he disappeared and left her high and dry. Almost a year later, still heartbroken over having lost Aurora, Kai learns he’s become a daddy. When a crazy lunatic kidnaps his baby ...

Agent Storm is way too gorgeous for a mere mortal. Considering his looks mean nothing to him, that detail has hindered him all his life. For Kurt, it’s all about his ability to be a good Navy Seal and eventually the FBI agent that works undercover and gets the bad guys. Therefore, when a stranger gives him a hard time in a bar, and then kisses him crazy before she’s done, the aftereffects of that meeting change his whole life. From then on, her problems become his focus, and she leads him on a merry chase… especially when she informs him in no uncertain terms to back off because ...

Agent Jennie hates only one man. The same guy who comes back into her and her daughter’s life and rips it apart. How can she allow him the power… how can she not? Thank goodness for Agent Jennie Sarnoski’s baba. The grandmother who came from the old country as a child and steps in during Jennie’s time of need. Left by the boy she loves, alone, pregnant, and terrified, she survives because of the help from the old lady she adores. Her daughter, Lisa, grows up searching for the man her mother refuses to discuss. Unwilling to stop, she finally gets her wish. In one night, Officer Kane ...

Left high and dry, Aurora battles against her love for Kai. She eventually fights her way out of the pain of abandonment when she learns that Kai unknowingly left her with a part of himself she can love. Of course, she’s also forced to take on another partner. A ditzy gal who gets under her collar at first, but whose chatty cheerfulness and incredible skills soon win her a place on Aurora’s best-friend list. Then there’s the good-looking devil, Jeff Waters, who’s the owner of the fantastic new casino in town. He makes up his mind he desires Aurora. She’s his type of woman, and ...

These three stand-alone stories will keep you reading well into the night. Special Agent Kandice, the barbie doll of the office, yearns to be tough like the others on her team. She hopes to impress her new aloof boss, Dan Black. Being the chief hostage negotiator at a bank heist starts the process. Being stalked, kidnapped, and beaten helps see it through. In the end, pulling the trigger comes easy… Booker gave up his FBI badge for his family, but when terrorist activities in his neighborhood need to be kept under surveillance, guess who they turn to? Domestic terrorists, a sham fiancé ...

LAND OF THE FREE Escape… a new beginning. That’s what Demi Fedora yearns for. And so, she leaves everything and everyone she knows to move to her deceased grandfather’s derelict cabin in the wilds of Alaska, the one he left her in his will. Meeting Whittaker Hart isn’t in her plans. Though the ruggedly handsome gold prospector does everything to win her over, she keeps her distance until her need to survive a life totally foreign to her nature overcomes her desire to do everything herself. After rescuing a young drunk and taking on the tough life of a greenhorn, she realizes one ...

Tikka decides to get a puppy for her mother to help her with the horrible grief she’s suffering over the death of her husband. Surprisingly, the breeder brings the whole litter. The little monsters get loose in her house, knock over her Christmas tree, and make a huge mess. Panicked by the furry critter’s - never having had a pet – when one is injured, she’s helped that the breeder’s handsome son, Noah, who shows up to collect the puppies. Soon, she falls in love with the furballs and finds out there’s a problem. She wants the one Noah’s earmarked for his own. When Noah ...

Ginny can't walk past the old man caught in a snowstorm, especially when he isn't dressed to be outside, doesn't know his own name, or where he lives. When the blizzard blows out of control, she's thankful he's safe in her tiny apartment where she and her son can care for him… and the puppy he rescued while wandering in the park. When the Deputy Police Chief comes to her door in response to her call about finding a lost person, everything in her world turns upside down. The storm intensifies, the power shuts off, and because of the vicious weather, she's forced to have this handsome ...

Abandoned puppies found under the porch of their duplex become an issue when Ruby Innes overrides her co-tenant, Thatcher Rollins, in his demand she call in the SPCA. Instead, she becomes a surrogate mother to the tiny balls of fluff… with the cranky good-looker’s unexpected assistance. Not surprising, one of the pups bonds with Thatcher and won’t be put aside. After all, it’s exactly how she’s beginning to feel about the guy whose bluff exterior hides a mushy heart. Seriously, how can a woman ignore someone who loves his mother so much, he’s willing to fly to Vegas to stop her ...

In this delightful Christmas love story, Deputy Shawna Mallory finds Billy McCrae - a runaway boy sleeping in a mound of snow with an anxious puppy guarding him. He’s a sad child surviving a terrible existence until she puts a stop to it and becomes his foster parent. She’s drawn to the snarky kid and just wants his life to be happier, his and the stray mutt who won’t leave his side. Not that the boy cares about the dog… or her. Then she meets his father, the one who abandoned the boy when he was five. John Reid McCrae wants only one thing in his life to make it worth living. Years ...

Christmas is family time in small town, Carlton Grove... Three stories to lift your holiday spirits! Please Keep Me (Book #1) A puppy, a brave little girl and a single mom, who can't refuse her munchkin the chance to get to know her secret father, turn this story into a real heart-warmer. Snow Pup (Book #2) A small town’s lovely deputy & a father, who lost his son years ago to a vindictive wife, team up to save the kid from a foster home he hates. Find Me A Home (Book #3) An accident changes the lives of: a little girl who loses her parents, a crabby puppy who hates men, a soft-hearted ...

No job. A lost Samoyed. A missing kid. Three accidents. And a blizzard. How can Jasmin’s world get any worse? Maybe because she ends up having to wait out the storm with a stranger. The same man who owns the dog she slammed with her car when blinded by the snow. It gets worse… Turns out the dude is supposed to pick up his newly orphaned nephew who was forced by the courts to stay with his nasty grandmother. Three days before Christmas and the kid runs. Meanwhile, anxious and worried, Dex is stuck with a painful twisted ankle, waiting for the road crew to clear their way. As tensions ...