SHE WOULD RISK EVERYTHING TO BECOME A PRACTICING DOCTOR Annie Lundin’s dream of practicing medicine and a life of dignity and self-sufficiency vanishes in the small Kansas Territory town of Denver City. When the men of the town refuse to become her patients, all she has left to fight for is her practice. She is thwarted from every direction. She didn’t mean to fall for the dark, handsome sheriff. Didn’t mean to ask for his help. Annie needs Deke Sullivan to protect her from the dark secrets that follow her from Boston. In return she offers all she has—herself. HE WOULD STOP AT NOTHING TO WIN HER LOVE AND TRUST Raised by the Cheyenne, Deke Sullivan was churlish, overconfident, and dangerously handsome. His life changed when his Irish grandfather discovered him. He was sent to West Point, fought the Seminole in Florida as well as some on the planes where his loyalty was divided. A woman is the last thing in the world he needs. Especially a woman who belongs in Boston, not the rugged Rocky Mountains. He has commitments that don’t include a woman. The moment he sees Annie her intoxicating beauty changed him forever. Love has a way of changing the rules.

Without lies… A woman with no guile, with adoration in her heart for the only man she believed she would ever love. Tara once loved with purity and passion. Shared all that she was. Then she learned the agony of irrevocable loss—along with the unexpected permanence of death. Without trust… Case Ferguson has known only animosity as well as treachery from women. Scarred, embittered, Case becomes a solitary aloof man—swearing never to allow himself to have faith in a woman again. Passion for all time… When Tara and Case meet there is a haunting quality of misjudgment between them. Desperate to get past his disparaging ways, she understands his vulnerability. Tara is willing to gamble what proud reticent Case cannot. With tenderness and understanding she brings trust along with love to an anguished soul who believes in neither—though she fears in her heart that by loving Case she will lose him. Just as she lost her first love.

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Three full-length novels in one ebook volume! This ebook contains: Waterborn Molly is a siren with a very dangerous power. Her small community is endangered by the evil leviathan and she’s been sent to the mainland to get help. She teams up with Rick, a water elemental and Navy SEAL, on a quest to get help from the bear shifter soldiers of Grizzly Cove, but it’s not as straight forward as it seems. She’s undeniably attracted to Rick and sparks fly between them. Could he possibly be feeling the same? Fathom Navy SEAL Jim is back from his latest mission a changed man. Tilly is a highly specialized thunderbird shifter who senses his deep pain and wants to help. Not only that, she is very attracted to the emotionally wounded warrior and senses in him a kindred spirit. Jim finds Tilly irresistible and incredibly compelling. He is drawn to her like no other. Can they join forces to defeat an ancient evil, live to tell the tale, and somehow find a way to stay together forever? Leviathan On a quest to find the ancient Trident of Poseidon, Deke, a non-magical Spec Ops soldier raised in a family of water elementals, joins forces with a mysterious woman who doesn’t know the nature of her own power. Sparks fly between them as earth and water meet and combine in the most tempestuous way imaginable. Will the human heir to an ancient legacy be the one to finally defeat the leviathan, and will he live to claim his very magical mate?

He’d taken her virginity and left without a word . . . When Mary Beth Adams heard rodeo star Deke McCall was back in town, she wanted nothing to do with the love-‘em-and-leave-‘em cowboy who’d disappeared two years earlier after they’d made love. She was too busy struggling to save her family’s ranch. Despite her reserve to take care of the ranch herself, she needed help. Enter sexy Deke to the rescue . . . It took everything Mary Beth had to hold on to her anger when Deke swept in as the gallant hero. She couldn’t resist his tempting kisses and heated caresses. Even with all she’d been through with this handsome cowboy, she was falling in love with him. But he’d hurt her in the past, and she wasn’t sure she could forgive him. Deke knew he’d made a lot of mistakes in his past with Mary Beth. His determination to help her was an effort to atone for leaving her years ago. He hadn’t planned on the gorgeous redhead getting under his skin. Her hot temper turned him on as much as her fiery kisses and sexy body. Each time they made love, it was harder for him to leave her. Until one day when he decided he wanted a life with Mary Beth. He just wasn’t sure if she was ready and willing to trust him with her heart.

From Author Kimberly Readnour comes a fake dating sports romance in the anticipated new Cessna U Hockey series! This star player, ordinary girl new college hockey romance leaves you laughing while sizzling the pages. Because we all know when it comes to the charade of hearts, love scores the winning goal. My life is a mess. The last thing I have time for is to fake date Blake Morton, the arrogantly charming captain of the hockey team. But with my grandmother’s looming rent and a paycheck that’s playing hide and seek, I have little choice but to accept Blake’s bizarre proposition: pretend to be his girlfriend. The deal is simple—no strings attached, just play the part and collect the payment. Easy, right? Wrong. Emotions don’t play by the rules, especially when you’re teamed up with someone who’s supposed to be nothing more than an arrangement. I come from a world where every penny counts, while Blake has everything—a sizable trust fund and effortless talent. Yet, as our charade deepens, so do the glimpses of vulnerability behind his perfect facade, and the more I fall for the real Blake. My job was to fend off distractors, not become one. As lines between reality and make-believe blur, I’m left questioning: Can my feelings withstand the ultimate test, or will they prove to be the most compelling distraction of all? *** KEYWORDS: hot athletes, hockey romance, love books, love stories, romantic novels, steamy romance, college hockey romance, new adult baseball romance, fake relationship, star athlete ordinary girl, rags to riches, contemporary romance, new adult romance, steamy sports romance, sports romance novels, no cliffhangers

Do you like scratchy cat kisses? Or do you prefer squeaky pig kisses? How about a velvety cow kiss? Kids will adore puckering up to Barney Saltzberg's irresistible menagerie of animals with fuzzy, sticky, and rubbery mouths just waiting for big smooches.

Anise is trouble Ryne is a magical troubleshooter, sworn to protect the innocent from being harmed by magic--and she's been chasing Anise, her former mentor, for six years. Deke is a private investigator who knows something key to defeating Anise. But Anise cast a dark spell over him, and even though Ryne has managed to temporarily lift the curse, Deke can't remember what it is that he knows. Ryne has sworn to never get involved with a human, but Deke is sexy, charming, brave, and irresistible--and as Ryne and Deke are pulled further into Anise's evil schemes, it's harder and harder for Ryne to resist the attraction. But dark magic has its own attraction, and in order to defeat Anise and lift Deke's curse permanently, Ryne will have to risk following in Anise's footsteps and succumbing to the lure of the darkness... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A single woman finds herself falling for "an irresistibly charismatic cowboy" in this heartwarming USA Today bestseller (RT BookReviews). Allie Logan isn't the type to land a hot hunk of cowboy. Truth is, she's given up on dating since shedding her no-good ex. But the new owner of the most ramshackle ranch in Texas might just change her mind about that. He's six-foot-plus of tall, dark, and charming-the kind of guy who could make a girl throw caution to the wind . . . or the kind of guy who could break her heart. Blake Dawson hopes he can make Lucky Penny Ranch finally live up to its name, but the property needs a ton of work. Allie and her carpentry skills are his best shot at getting things in order. Besides the fact that her brown eyes and dangerous curves have him roped and tied. Now Blake only needs to convince her that a wild cowboy can be tamed by love-and she's just the one to do it . . .