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A little dare never hurt anybody. I’m ready to rock my senior year. So what if my parents are recently divorced, the captain of the cheerleading team hates me more than tan lines, or that I’ve been forced to wear the school’s smelly mascot costume? Those things I can handle. (Maybe.) But if I get to sing my original song at the town’s big centennial event, I’ll be on my way to living the life I’ve always dreamed. But there’s only one problem: Collin thinks-he’s-God’s-gift-to-women Preston. Foster kid. Bad boy. And quarterback of the Rock Valley High football team.

An ex-Army Special Operations member burned once by love. A single-mom stalked by a powerful enemy. Can he risk his heart for her safety? Zeke has everything he could want. A multi-billion dollar inheritance allows him to protect others...and with the camaraderie of his brothers-in-arms. He spends his time growing his security firm and keeping his head down. Love is the last thing on his mind, until Samantha and her daughter are in need of his help.

When Lily Hogan’s fourth-grade class writes letters to the military stationed in Afghanistan, she takes up her own pen, writing to an unknown soldier. John Griffin and his bomb detection dog, Radar, spend their days in Afghanistan sniffing out explosives, searching the hills for insurgents, and leading his team… until an unexpected letter arrives. Could a simple correspondence with a perfect stranger bring a fresh start to a life and love John never expected?

A month ago, my identity as Dr. Love was a secret. A month ago, I thought I was getting engaged. A month ago, I wasn’t stuck with the guy who hates me most in the world. Now…if I don’t make nice with my number-one hater, I might lose my book deal. Without that, I’m not sure what I have left. But when I’m forced on a publicity tour with everyone’s favorite guy, the guy who says I ruined his relationship, I didn’t know how low I could go. You would think after a while, I would hate him too. And you would be very, very wrong...

There’s nothing Sosimo Rivas hates more than liars. But in his new job with Stryker Security Force as private protection for the rich, he sees his fair share of them. Sosimo spends most of his time working on old engines and keeping their clients safe. The first he loves. The second he tolerates—until he meets June. June’s made billions inventing gadgets for the military. But the person in the spotlight is a fake, someone she created to hide behind. Her ruse was working perfectly—until her latest invention attracted the attention of the wrong kind of people.

The bad boy and the golden girl have traded places….I’m back in Harvest Hollow after ten years to prove a point and to even a few scores. I’ve opened a new bar, and anyone expecting the old sweet and shy Jolie McGraw to be running it is in for a shock. I’m not the only one who’s changed: when the sheriff comes to tell me I’m the prime suspect in the most ridiculous crime in town history, it’s none other than Lucas Cole, the former star of my teenage stress dreams, wearing the badge.

Felicity Ford is on the run after her cousin’s suspicious death. At the suggestion of her brother, she escapes to Blackwater Ranch to hide out. When she meets the mysterious Hunter, she recognizes the familiar brokenness inside of him. Hunter Harding was marked as an outcast a long time ago. The scars on his face are the least of his problems when half the town refuses to do business with him. When Felicity moves into the cabin next door, the solitude he keeps is shaken up.

Jade Smith has always dreamed of teaching abroad. While she waits for her chance, she takes a nannying position at Blackwater Ranch. It’s supposed to be temporary, but she soon learns that this devoted single dad and his boisterous five-year-old won’t be easy to leave when the time comes. Aaron Harding was wrecked when his ex bailed on him and their son, leaving him to raise Levi alone.

He's the resident office flirt. I'm the quirky Pride and Prejudice-loving editor who uses big words and dresses like the world's non-sexiest librarian. We have nothing in common. And we're competitors for the same job. Game on, right? May the best person win and all that? Fine by me. And considering I'm practically the only woman in the office he's never flirted with, he's obviously happy to do the same. But when we're stuck overnight in our office building thanks to an earthquake-induced landslide (don't worry, we're totally fine), things between us start to change.

Rose Bloom has never wanted anything more than to take over the family farm and care for the animals she loves. The goats make better company than men in her experience, anyway. She’s determined prove to her father that despite being the youngest, she’s the best person for the job. Tate Russell left Montana desperate to buck his own family’s expectations. Landing on Bloom’s Farm four years ago was a stroke of pure luck. He knows more about animals than farming, but he’s learned to love it. Plus, Rose lets him exercise the horses whenever he needed time to think.

Jan Clark lost her firefighter husband 10 years ago. She fills her days running Stories and Scones and doting on her first grandchild. Finding someone new feels like betraying the husband she loved for decades, and the thought of tragically losing someone again is terrifying. But Pete O’Rourke is handsome, charming, and makes her feel young again—and what could be safer than an insurance agent?

She wants her fiancé’s betrayers found. He yearns to fix a horrible mistake. When tensions explode, will they find an ally in each other - or an enemy? If you like page-turning adventure, fascinating characters, and engaging stories of triumph, you'll love Sara Blackard's riveting inspirational security romance series.

Twenty-two-year-old Garnet Adams longs to marry and have a houseful of children. Forced to support her widowed mother, she embraces her role as a teacher, although the Carrie Town board of education's rules for female teachers leave no opportunity for a social life. She contents herself playing the violin at church. Tall, bearded, and rough around the edges, Deputy Noah Scott would rather hunt than socialize. Garnet thinks he’s a rude, insensitive drifter, and Noah's sure the last person he'd want to court is a schoolmarm - especially with her unladylike sneeze.

Cara Hunter owns the bed-and-breakfast in town, but before she came to Fire Beach, she was in the military. Strangely, no one seems to know exactly what she did when she was in the military, but when Bubba and Makenna find her unconscious on the floor, her past may finally get revealed. Cole Davenport is a criminal investigator whose lead suspect is Cara Hunter, but when he meets her, he has a hard time believing she's a killer.

Lanie Perkins Hall never imagined being divorced at 30. Nor did she imagine falling for an old friend, but when she runs into Azarius Jacobson, she can't deny the attraction. As they begin to spend more time together, Lanie struggles with the fact that Azarius keeps his past a secret. What is he hiding? And will she ever be able to get him to open up?

Can a reality TV marriage have a happily ever after? Tyler and Laney met under unusual circumstances on a reality dating show, but their love was true. Now, that the fame is gone and it's after their celebrity wedding, will their love stay strong? This short story follows The Cowboy's Reality Bride. While it can be listened to stand alone, the characters will be more dear to your heart if you listen to how they met first.

Billionaire Maxwell Banks enjoyed his single life. He was free to do what he wanted, until a blast from his past showed up on his doorstep with a daughter he didn’t know he had. Now, he is forced to become a father overnight, and he has no idea what he’s doing. Alyssa Miller hasn’t had the best luck with past relationships, and she’s heard nothing but negative comments about Maxwell, but when she is tasked with helping him care for Peyton, she begins to see a different side of him. Will she fall for the one man she is sure will break her heart, or can he be redeemed?

Drew Devonshire is tired of attending wealthy functions with women who only want his money, so he's pleasantly surprised when he meets a woman at a masquerade ball who seems genuine and down to earth. The only problem is she runs off before he finds out who she is. However, she leaves behind a bracelet and a first name. Will it be enough for him to find her?

Megan Warren is secretly Marcus Warner, best-selling author of adventure thrillers. Hiding away in a remote cabin near Freedom, Colorado, is the perfect escape to meet the looming deadline from her publisher. Her peace and quiet keeps getting disrupted by the gruff Search and Rescue officer using the mountain as training grounds, but she doesn't mind the interruptions.

Dandelion “Andi” Bloom has sacrificed a lot for her career in the army. Now that she’s retired, playing security guard at Bloom’s Farm for high-profile events is a welcome change of pace. That is, until hosting a string of political events means working with a Secret Service detail—including a certain special agent she would have rather left behind in Virginia.