After some major soul searching and hitting rock bottom, Master Chief Dean “Striker” Teller finally comes home to LA. He needs to pick up the pieces of his life and try to find his path outside the Navy SEALs. His first order of business is to handle all the loose ends from his mom’s death and he and his brother’s inheritance, including some mystery surrounding how a load of cash got beneath the floorboards of his family home. One of those headaches is a rundown motorcycle dealership located in an expansive building he decides to renovate. While he is home, he runs into his high school sweetheart, SWAT Officer Ophelia Barr and sparks start to fly all over again. But there is a lot of baggage from their past that has to be waded through and much that has happened to him since he was kicked out of the SEALs before he can be at peace. As he tries to track down the origin of the secret money, Dean gets sucked into more than he bargained for. Ophelia joined the police academy straight out of high school after Dean had enlisted in the Navy, effectively making it difficult for them to continue a relationship. She has never been able to really forget her first love. But she has a job to do on the mean streets as a member of SWAT. When her cases begin to overlap with Dean’s pursuit of the truth, she wonders what a former U.S. Navy SEAL is doing mixed up in the investigation. But Dean had kept all his secrets close to the vest, never involving her in his home life, and their painful parting haunts her. She’s falling for him as hard as before, but can he really come home again and be the man she needs him to be to give them even half a chance at happiness?

MORNING SUN LIGHTS UP THE TWO DIFFERENT AND FASCINATING WORLDS OF AMERICA AND JAPAN BEFORE PEARL HARBOR This bestselling author’s wonderfully moving adventure-love story takes us to Japan in 1913. When his US Navy officer father dies, teenage Sam Pinkerton discovers he’s the son of a Japanese mother, and follows his heart to find her. Too late. Madam Butterfly ended her life with a samurai blade. Whether American or Japanese, he’s an outcast desperately alone in the strange and dangerous lower depths of Nagasaki, struggling to stay alive. A wily criminal Japanese kid helps him avoid the law and endure to young manhood and sex in varieties gaijins know little of. A breathtaking fantasy with a geisha ends when corrupt and powerful Kodo traps the American-looking Sam into marrying his club-footed daughter. Sam feels no love, yet respects Mayumi, who bears the children he adores. Her father sends him to the States, posing as an American in a lumber deal illegal for a Japanese. Accepted among the Jazz-Age youth, he falls in love with blonde Nicola. One slip, however, will reveal his identity and mean prison for Sam. Now truly between two worlds -- Nagasaki and Mayumi waiting with his children, or America and his deep love for Nicola. Desert Mayumi the way his father betrayed Butterfly? Where does young Sam belong in the world?

Strikers Grove is the setting for a group of six friends, affectionately named the Six-Pack, who go through some difficult twists and turns, ups and downs as they find their way into adulthood. They choose a variety of careers, but their paths still cross, apparently too many times. They vowed to keep a momentous secret from the rest of the world, then found themselves keeping secrets from each other, while one could not share secrets with anyone. Assault, stalking, infidelity, blackmail, manipulation, seduction, and romance are what these friends experience. Who seems to lead the charmed life and who seems to attract the most drama at every turn? Which character emulates your own life?

I have kind of become invisible. Nobody looks at me. Not like they used to. You reach an age. Like my age and people stop looking at you. They stop checking you out. In Greenwich Village a generation or so ago, the city is alive. Joni Mitchell sings, friends and lovers come and go, and the regulars change at the White Horse Tavern. As 50 years pass, one woman's life is revealed in all its complexity, mystery and possibility in this enthralling world premiere about mothers and daughters, beginnings and endings in New York City. Simon Stephens's new play, commissioned by MTC, premiered off-Broadway in November 2021 starring Blair Brown, Edie Falco and Marin Ireland.

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Rio McCord had saved Courtney Tremaine-Smyth from her brutal kidnappers. An elegant Englishwoman, Courtney couldn’t resist the passion she felt for Rio, and married him within weeks. But rugged Rio was a covert agent and a mercenary, and Courtney took off. Rio tracked her from West Texas to England, hoping to take her back. Could the passion that drew her to marry him become a lifetime love? [Sequel to Morgan Wade’s Woman] Contemporary Romance by Amii Lorin; originally published by Zebra

Books 15&16 of the USA Today Bestselling series! MICHEL Michel doesn’t trust Dr. Chelsea Young. Why should he? She willingly worked as a researcher for the humans who were using Pantera as lab animals. Unfortunately, his suspicions haven’t kept his cat from becoming obsessed with the need to possess the beautiful female. Chelsea is determined to atone for her youthful mistakes. Even if that means working with the aggravating Michel who refuses to believe she now wants to help the Pantera. Together they must overcome their mutual animosity to track down her former boss, Stanton Locke, before he can commit the ultimate betrayal. STRIKER Dark, damaged and definitely gorgeous, Striker is all about the mission. And when the mission’s over? The Hunter is out of there. That is, until one of Locke’s lab rats is forced on him—a beautiful, pained female who needs sex to survive. The lovely Twelve was abducted and taken to the labs several years ago. Used for breeding, she was given drugs that make her irresistible to males. It was a hellish, lonely life. But she’s free now, and determined to discover the truth about her past. If only the road to that truth didn’t involve the heartless male she can’t stop herself from wanting.

New York Times bestselling author Monica McCarty continues her Highland Guard series in this tenth steamy historical romance set against the sweeping backdrop of the Scottish Highlands. When Eoin MacLean decides to fight with Robert the Bruce, he knows he will earn the enmity of his new bride’s father, but he doesn’t expect Margaret MacDowell, the spirited girl he’s fallen in love with, to betray him. Blaming her—and himself for trusting her—for the disaster that led to the death of Bruce’s two brothers, Eoin cuts her out of his heart and leaves her behind with no intention of ever coming back. But when Bruce puts him in charge of conquering the troublesome southwest province of Galloway—ruled by his wife’s father—Eoin reconsiders. Especially after he learns that his treacherous wife who thinks him dead plans to remarry. That’s one wedding he has no intention of missing.

Like a piece of the night, the giant stranger came into the cabin. Roaring like a beast and brandishing a knife that flashed like a moon-bright sword, he attacked the children sheltering there. Taken by surprise, Carl and Traci fought like cornered cubs. Carl hurled a lighted gasoline lantern at his attacker, and through a shower of flames, he and his sister raced into the forest. For days the giant, like an evil shadow, hounded them, driving them ever deeper into the wilderness. When at last they were alone, they found themselves in a wild and beautiful land and on a journey of adventure and self-discovery that lasted through a long and glorious summer.