Career-minded Agent Daphne Taylor is in crisis mode. A pregnancy test comes back positive, but when she's tapped as a competitor on a cooking reality show, her stress level spikes. Vowing to keep the baby news secret, especially since the father is her partner, Jason, she throws herself into the case to find a murderer. Geek and tech guru Agent Jason Patterson has been assigned the lead on this new case. Daphne's involvement in a cooking competition is all fun and teasing until a freak accident reveals a staggering secret she was keeping. His feelings of friendship for her grow into something stronger and he wants a shot at that life. As pressure to solve the case mounts, Jason struggles with his job and romance, while Daphne works through emotions building between them. But their budding love is threatened since the killer is determined to chop them both from life.
Real life crime solving can certainly put a damper on a romance." When the biggest gossip in Newburg, Indiana ends up dead-with Sam Arnold's dad the prime suspect-stuff gets real. It's been a month and a half since she helped bring down a bad guy. It's time to try her hand at a new case, especially since her boyfriend is out of town. B Special Agent Mitchell has been saddled with a sexy, driven partner. Cutting corners or covering shortcuts with charm doesn't work on her. He misses brainstorming with Sam, and now that her dad's reputation is on the line, the pressure's on. Evading his watchdog--and snooze-fest new assignment--is top priority. Time's running out for Sam and Mitchell to solve the crime. His new partner's special interest puts their romance in jeopardy and tries the relationship's trust, but an unlikely killer puts life into perspective.
Agent Kevin Herriman wants praise from his boss, who's also his best friend. He's working his first case as lead, but things aren't going well. Not only does he consider it far from exciting, it also comes with a strong-willed female civilian who might be mixed up in exotic animal smuggling. Carlie Noblett lives determined. Dealt a sight impairment at a young age, she's fought for what she's wanted. Now a substitute teacher who works at a pet shop part time, what she wants is romance and a little adventure. Except a run-in with the swaggering agent isn't what she had in mind. When the suspected smuggling operation morphs into something more evil, Kevin's got his hands full trying to solve a case that's bigger than he imagined. Just like the bright flit of a goldfinch wing, so is love when it makes an appearance and worth the high cost-if it survives.
Love felt a whole lot like PMS... or so Madelyn thought when her childhood friend, Gordy, kissed her. In the midst of Madelyn's crumbling business venture and lackluster love life, Gordy breezes back into her town like a snowstorm, with dating on his mind. To top it off, she's got a secret admirer who leaves her flowers every day, a cat who's scared of her own shadow, and a single's group that's growing by leaps and bounds. But the question remains: just who is this mysterious love interest? And what will she do about Gordy, the man she never thought she'd have romantic feelings for? That's the trouble with love. She'll have to put her brain on auto-pilot and let her heart decide.
Muses are fickle creatures, sprinkling inspiration on their wards as they see fit. They live in a world just right of center from ours, and to them, we're just the day job. Muses need lives too, you know. Enjoy this collection of stories compiled by several authors at Desert Breeze Publishing that will give you some insight into the world of the ethereal creatures who inspire the arts.
Clara Tildon, a cancer survivor, has no time for defeatism. She's opened up the Cute as a Button B & B in Bridgewater, Indiana, and along with her guinea pig, is embracing the lemonade lifestyle. Everything is perfect, except for the nagging sensation that she would still like to fall in love. Jake Yates has returned to Bridgewater, the town he grew up in, for his friend's wedding and he's not happy about it. The people of Bridgewater can keep their small town life, it's in his past and that's where he intends it to stay. Even loneliness can't make him reconsider his decisions. A chance meeting. A fleeting kiss. Suddenly two polar opposites get a unique chance at love. But can Clara give up living in the moment long enough to see Jake as an opportunity she needs to plan for? Can Jake alter his well-laid plans to fit Clara in his life? Or will they both let love get away?
Lily Henderson's greatest passion is knowledge. Christopher Farnsworth thrives on order and decorum. A simple dinner party and a bowl of potato soup are ruined when Lily's penchant for suffragette rallies and Christopher's military ideas of prim and proper meet and clash. The two soon find themselves agreeing to a wager and love is the intended outcome. The premise? A suitable match by Easter. If he loses, he'll attend Easter church services dressed in one of his aunt's outrageously colored and beaded gowns. If she loses, she'll ride, Lady Godiva-style, around the heart of Indianapolis. The problem is neither Christopher nor Lily can find matches that measure up to themselves. Romantic sabotage is the order of the day. The original wager is forgotten and the only thing the pair gamble with is their hearts.
Samantha Arnold, prep cook and struggling romance novelist, believes adventure is right around the corner, but nothing exciting happens in the small town of Newburg, Indiana. When a routine trip to pick up chicken results in meeting Mitchell, she can't help but hope things are about to turn. Special Agent Patton Mitchell despises the farming community. He's watching his mark as well as the meek and mild Samantha. Her questionable Internet search history has triggered a visit from the NSA, and he's not above a little flirting to get his answers. Small town life explodes with intrigue, guns and betrayal to boot. What she thinks of as a madcap caper is a fight for life or death in Mitchell's book. Between dodging bullets, chasing a would-be terrorist and dealing with drop-in relatives, there might just be a shot at romance-if the bad guys don't get them first.
The most powerful force in the world is love.Lady Christiana Tremaine lives in the kingdom of Vesance, but ever since her father remarried, her stepmother-Lady Tremaine-has stripped her of everything befitting her station, has reduced her to that of a maid, and forced her to answer to the slur of Cinderella. Though the life of drudgery is horrid, she carries hope circumstances will change, especially when she remembers dancing with the prince who stole her heart. A chance meeting with that same man strengthens her resolve to change... if she can survive that woman's deadly machinations.Alto August Henry Ferdinand Lansdowne, Prince Charming of Annanvale has been searching for the woman who sent his world upside down and ran from him at midnight leaving a glass slipper behind. Though he's been cursed to shift into wolf form each night, he has faith that the woman he's coming to love will overlook his affliction. When he finds her, they begin an unorthodox courtship and he falls ever deeper, but their romance is fraught with obstacles.When Christiana is locked into a high tower by her stepmother and kept there by an enchantment, Henry is quick to come, but when Lady Tremaine gets wind of their plot to escape, she lies in wait for the noble prince and leaves Cinderella to an ugly fate, for she desires power above all else. But as long as there is love, there is hope. The beleaguered pair will need to fight hard for their happily ever after. With luck and a little magic, they just might win.
Can wearing sexy stilettos win the heart of a demon, or will it cause Heaven to protest? Anne Jenkins never bought into the concept of a heaven or hell, but when she's rescued from a runaway horse hurtling toward a steep ravine by a guy who claims he's a demon, her freak detector goes off. When she demands proof, the leather-clad biker sets some local wildlife on fire. She starts to believe in a hurry. IRS agent Gregg Carter, bound to the Devil for all eternity for an audit gone wrong, seizes the opportunity to take possession of Anne's soul as a way to please his boss. What he didn't count on was the fact his libido would take the one-way bus to crazy town as he gets to know her better. When dreams of a future come calling, he's screwed. Trouble is, Anne and Gregg spend so much time trying to hide their true selves from each other, that they can't escape their mutual attraction. But everyone knows demons and humans don't mix, and neither can two people destined for two different eternities. In the matter of heaven or hell, maybe the answer is somewhere in between.
A lonely woman trapped in a loveless marriage. Wed for twenty years to a cruel man, the Duchess of Essex yearns for love. At the age of forty, Anne wants excitement, wishes to remind herself she's still a vital woman. When she enlists the services of a known rogue to bed her, she has no idea he'll change her life. A scarred war hero searching for acceptance. Captain Andrews lives on the outskirts of polite society. People avoid him, consider him a monster since he lost an arm in the War of 1812. Women only want him for his skill in the bedroom, but Tobias wants something permanent. Fulfilling carnal needs with the duchess is heady, yet the more time he spends in her company, the more he wishes for what he can't have. Two broken people finding solace in each other's arms. As Anne's relationship deepens with Tobias and love blooms, the duke retaliates against them both in a violent way that threatens the fragile, secret joy they've found together. Life can be harsh within the ton, but sometimes fate takes a hand and happy endings can be grasped if love is patient and perseveres. Trigger Warning: Some of the content found in this book may be triggering and/or sensitive to some readers. Sexual violence, sexual assault, physical violence/abuse, and/or attempted rape/abuse might be some of the topics mentioned within the pages and could illicit a strong or potentially harmful emotional response. Read with caution.
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