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A second chance stand-alone from small-town romance author Brooke Montgomery about a literary agent from NYC who returns to her Southern hometown and the cowboy high school sweetheart she left behind…

Charlie Jones has landed on the island to embark on her brand new life. Charlie Jones has also just arrived on the Isle of Ormer, to embark on his brand new life. This second chance is the best thing that could have happened to Charlie . . . and Charlie. That is, until they are introduced . . .

Cassaundra Moore, event planner extraordinaire, never believed in fairy tales, only in creating them for her clients. Why would she believe something so magical would happen to her after being scammed by her ex causing her loss of business and social standing?

She serves me coffee late at night when I come around to write lyrics, but it’s not the caffeine I’ve gotten addicted to. We’ve got the spark, but she’s the only woman in town who seems to be immune to my charms. When it’s time for me to leave for my cross-country tour, I just can’t imagine not seeing her for months. So I offer her a job on the road with me.

Shane Miller. My brother’s best friend. My brother’s former co-star. My first non-Disney prince crush. The insomniac movie star single dad who has hired me to be the live-in nanny to his five-year-old twins. And the way his kids’ faces light up when they see him? My right ovary weeps while the other one shovels ice cream into its mouth.

She has zero friends . . . and is wary of men, living life as a recluse. His only friend is 90 and when she dies, he’s adrift. Can a dyslexic actor and a shy singer-songwriter find happiness together? Famous from the time she was fourteen, London Russell lands the cover of Sports Illustrated to cap off her modeling career. Leaving the fashion world behind, she follows her dream of becoming a singer-songwriter. Thanks to an ex-boyfriend’s vicious attack on her, London becomes a recluse who turns out hits but never tours—and can’t trust a man.

Incredibly smart and unbelievably stealthy, I take my name “Zeppelin” seriously. As a Brit who worked for the US NSA and NRO, I’m experienced and wise, with a penchant for technology. Traffickers can never get by me, and they never even see me coming. Teaming up with the young and assertive Verity is not my idea of a good time. But going undercover as her lovesick husband may be my worst nightmare. The last thing I want to do is pretend to like this chick. Let’s be honest, she’s not real happy with this make-believe coupling either. I may have heard her mumble “neanderthal” once or twice.

Arrogant. Repulsive. Cocky. With an ego almost as big as his… Well, you know. There is no length he wouldn't go to score. To be in control. To win. Life is nothing but a game to him, and I've become nothing more than his little pawn. Something to toy with. To taunt. To mess with. And to hurt. The wicked smirk on his face as he helped upend my entire life is proof of that. He wants to push me to my limit until I'm begging for reprieve. For mercy. Or for more. Mateo Rojas is a force to be reckoned with. He's everything I should run from. He will be my ruin.

On a rainy, winter night, a mysterious woman in a red dress seeking shelter comes inside the restaurant Kabir was busy working in —primarily the bar. Night after night, drink after drink, she comes back to the same spot. That is where he sees her for the first time. Hundreds of patrons around her try to speak with her daily, but she dismisses them. It appears she wants to remain in a blissful peace alone with her booze and books.

I sent her away, humiliated her, made her think I wanted nothing from her. That was the biggest lie I'd ever told. Because what I wanted was everything from her. I was the villain. The bad guy. And she'd be mine.

Ravenscar got in the car, and before pulling away, he opened the envelope. His last assignment. Three pictures fell out and Ravenscar froze. Little had he known that when he told de Laisser someone was still calling his name, de Laisser would know where the call came from. He looked back down at the pictures. Three people, three betrayals.

With an eye for quirky detail, Helen W. Mallon presents four lively characters who are all, in different ways, on a blindfolded hunt for intimacy. Izzy, the burned-out mother of twins in "Did You Put the Cat to Bed?" tries to provoke her clueless husband by painting the town red. In "You Say You Want a Revolution", Sarah, a motherless child of the '70s, flaunts her sexual liberation, refusing to admit she's being used by an older man....

How do you make evil men suffer for their disgusting acts when you have no experience in the art of torture? Trouble is, life gets in the way of Nya's big plans. Archer's dragging his feet. Tag's crossed a line. And Nya Yorke is spending too much time playing referee between the men in her life. Help comes to her in the most unlikely form… Hexam. Making an alliance with the man who once wanted to murder her best friend, could give her what she needs, but selling her soul to the devil comes with a price, and the deal is done before she realizes that price is too high.