Includes an excerpt from "The marrying season."

Me and him, we’re two polar opposites... Is there an equation for our love to blossom? Blythe lives alone in a ravine by the sea, working in gardening and flower arranging. One morning when she opened the door, she heard the beautiful sound of an organ. Someone had moved into an empty house in the same valley! Blythe goes to greet them with some cookies and a bouquet of flowers but Jas, a very grumpy looking man, appears. He is a mathematician absorbed in proving a certain theorem. Blythe can’t help but be curious about the unsocial but kind Jas. It turns out he has a sad past...

A sexy romance author. Her biggest fan. One pesky secret could ruin all their fun... When Jeremy meets romance author Taralynn Harwood in a hotel bar, he's glad just for the opportunity to buy her a drink. When she takes him back to her place and has him sign a non-disclosure agreement, his imagination-and libido-run wild. But after she kicks him out of bed, the blow to his ego forces him back to her, ready to just about beg for an opportunity to perform better. He's willing and eager to learn the art of pleasure from one of the hottest romance authors in the business. Tracy doesn't hide from her achievements as Taralynn Harwood, touted by readers and reviewers alike for the off-the-charts heat of her books. What she does hide is a secret that could destroy her entire career. But when her failed one-night stand shows up at her door-NDA already signed and enforceable-it seems like the perfect opportunity to indulge in a little research. All for the sake of her books, of course. -- Summer Seduction is a sexy contemporary romance novella that blends a cinnamon roll hero, a secret identity, and a firmly sex-positive approach together to make for a happy ending—guaranteed. "If you are looking for a schmexy quick read without a lot of angst, grab this book!" (Becky M.)

Julia is always at the beck and call of her selfish and criminally handsome boss, Sebastian. However, she explodes with anger when he asks her to break up with his girlfriend for him. This time he’s gone too far and Julia has had enough. She announces that she’s quitting, but she never could have anticipated his reaction. He tells her that, though he would never pursue his secretary, he has no problem setting his sights on an ex-employee. Julia’s resignation has unexpectedly lifted Sebastian’s self-induced ban on her seduction! (The story His Accidental Fianc?e is also included in this volume.)

Marlo and Ray's story continues...I wanted revenge.And I got it in the best way possible.Ray has always driven me insane, now that we're older, all I want is to make her feel the pain she put me through for four years.And then suddenly, everything shifts and I realize I just want her, It's bad enough that I'm the camp director - her boss.Our love is equal to our hate for one another and the burning tension between us refuses to relent. If anything it's gotten worse.I push her.She pushes back.Passion, whether it be born of love or hate - is a powerful beast, one I'm refusing to tame

Taking place over a single summer at an abandoned Massachusetts summer camp, this “sun–saturated tale of love and longing” explores the sting of seduction and how desire and ambition can shift through time and experience (Chicago Tribune). After Emily inherits an abandoned summer camp in Massachusetts just before her fortieth birthday, she and her husband David move onto the property with grand plans to fix it up. Instead, Emily finds herself drifting, grieving her recent miscarriage and her own perceived lack of ambition, while David works in the city. Until the day Emily discovers that their new property includes an unexpected guest. Living undetected in one of the cabins is a magnetic twenty–two–year–old named Stella. Their immediate and intense connection expands and contracts over the course of an single summer, calling all of Emily’s relationships, including her marriage, into closer scrutiny. As the two women begin spending time together―talking and drinking, swimming in the lake, watching seductive French films through long afternoons―Emily finds herself playing at performing various roles relative to Stella: friend, mother, lover. Each encounter they share promises to bring Emily a little closer to an understanding of her own identity, but it also puts her marriage and future at risk. How much does she really know about Stella? Why is Stella here, and what does she want, and what might she take with her, if and when she leaves? Named one of the best books of the summer by O, The Oprah Magazine, this “sun–saturated tale of love and longing” is a “smart, funny, nuanced and seductive” read (Chicago Tribune). Startling yet dreamlike, The Summer Demands marks Deborah Shapiro as a master at capturing complex relationships and the electricity of what passes unsaid between people.

A sexy summer anthology featuring two separate stories—twice the delectable scandal! CEO's Summer Seduction by Katherine Garbera Meet the billionaire boss: Sebastian Hughes has taken his secretary for granted one too many times. To keep her from walking out he must show her what she's really worth…fast! But she's seen all of his usual seduction ploys…and she'll only settle for the real thing. Magnate's Mistress-for-a-Month by Yvonne Lindsay Watch out for the jaded businessman: Richard Wells has had it with romance…and marriage. Then he spies a woman on horseback and vows to bed her. But the object of his seduction is no privileged female. She's the hired help with a heart bound to make even this disillusioned bachelor crumble.

A vivid and provocative literary criticism of famous women writers from Virginia Woolf to Zelda Fitzgerald by a “gifted miniaturist biographer” (Joyce Carol Oates) The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America’s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of criticism. A gallery of unforgettable portraits—of Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Carlyle—as well as a provocative reading of such works as Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler, and the poems of Sylvia Plath, Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer’s reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life.

Thrown together with Lord Morecombe after she discovers an abandoned baby accompanied by a brooch bearing his insignia, Thea Bainbridge agrees to help him find the child's mother and soon finds it harder and harder to resist this notorious rake as scandal swirls around them.

She definitely wasn’t in the mood to deal with a man! Jade DeSantis could ignore the intense attraction for the handsome Detective Simon Kershaw! Yes, she could do it. She’d moved to Wyoming to start a new life! Unfortunately, the guy kept coming around. Granted, he had a mystery to solve, but…with each visit from the overly muscular, shockingly attractive detective, he was shattering those newly minted vows? Detective Simon Kershaw thought that the gorgeous woman shooting a BB gun at a spider was…fascinating. Crazy, but entrancing! The attraction was obviously there and very much mutual. So what was stopping the beautiful woman from enjoying the sparks that flew around them like fireworks every time they looked at each other? Was there some way to convince Jade to take a chance? Or had someone hurt her so deeply that she was a lost cause?