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Sam isn’t at all looking forward to his 23rd birthday. Why would he want to celebrate another year of grueling, boring office work and striking out in dating? He hates his physique, and he can hardly even think about dating, anyway, what with his confusing feelings for his best (straight) friend Mitchell. If only he’d been born a girl, he might have had a shot with him.

When Jack’s girlfriend Aimee ends their two-year relationship because he isn’t strong or manly enough for her in her eyes, it’s a devastating blow to his self-esteem. Instead of wallowing in his sadness, he picks himself up and catches a flight to sunny Palm Springs, where he hopes some desert hiking might clear his mind, help him heal, and toughen him up. But Jack gets more than he bargained for from his trip.

Every woman wants him and every man wants to be him. Hell, they probably even want him too. The catch? Well, I’m carrying his secret baby. I’ve had a crush on him since we were teenagers but a guy like that couldn’t be interested in a girl like me...could he? Hollywood would be furious if I take their number one star away. Will he run back to his billionaire Hollywood lifestyle after he finds out I’m carrying his child?

Comet is 500 years old by human standards of linear time, but in her mind, she is the same young woman taken out of the Middle Ages by Santa. Being pulled out of her time to become one of the Christmas reindeer had been harsh but better than being stoned or hung as a witch. Her foray away from the workshop takes her to a modern past, a Ren Faire. The clothing and traditions are familiar, and she spends time grieving for a family lost many Christmases ago.

He’s my fake fiancé but my feelings are anything but fake. Him? Oh, he’s my brother’s best friend. He’s charming and gorgeous with a six pack of steel. But he’s as big of an a-hole as he is rich. I’ve known him since he was the arrogant teenager who ridiculed me. He’s nothing but a cocky playboy with more money than sense. Always getting himself into trouble with both the law and his powerful father.

Chad Mason has what looks like the perfect life from the outside: the hot, chiseled body of a surfer, an exciting job as a firefighter, and a different woman in his bedroom every night. But lately, Chad’s perfect setup doesn’t feel so perfect to him anymore. Isn’t there more to life than this? Something is missing, and he can’t put his finger on what it is. When a smoking-hot redhead named Mina corners him in a bar and demands Chad’s attention, he immediately notices there’s something different about her...a hunger in her eyes that he’s irresistibly attracted to.

Ava Walters is a pediatric nurse who doesn't do relationships. Logan Masters is an ambitious specialty surgeon whose past is riddled with betrayal. When he comes to Ava's rescue, there is no denying the spark of attraction. Things get complicated when Logan pursues Ava rather than the arranged relationship that holds the key to his future.

I wear a lot of labels these days: Single dad, ex-special forces, widower. I've survived war, loss, and a mountain of hardship. But I can't seem to pinpoint what keeps me up at night. Then I walked into the Moonlight Diner and met her. Sarah and I instantly connected. She mended old wounds and awoke long-buried feelings. But scars from her past still haunt her. Just when I'm finally falling in love again, she's ripped away. Can I conquer my demons to help Sarah face hers? Can I earn a second chance at love?

Marie, a feisty vegetarian from LA, hires Wil, a meat-and-potatoes contractor, to build her dream home in rural Oregon. They clash on everything until they realize they’ve both been hurt by love before. Life gives them another chance at happiness, but their past makes it hard to believe in love again.

When starship captain Benjamin Rollins beams down to a strange alien planet that appears to have signs of intelligent life, he is shocked to be greeted by a human-like race of beings that traveled from Earth millennia ago and which claim to share a common ancestor with him. Their planet Titan is a wondrous utopia - their people live in peace and harmony, strife is unknown, and coupling is free and frequent.

On a cold night in an abandoned construction site, a dying alien grants five brave children the power to morph into any animal or person they can touch so that they can fight back against a secret invasion of evil, mind-controlling slugs called the "Yucks." Arnold knows this because he was there, hiding behind a half-built wall, and saw everything. He even accidentally got the same powers the children did!

I met Thad Mitchell for the first time when I was just a child. I didn’t remember much about him - except that he pushed me off a swing set when I was four years old and broke my arm. Not the best thing to remember about a person, but there it is. He moved away a couple years later and soon became a distant memory. That is until I walked into my parents' house after being gone for four years to find him sitting at the kitchen table with my family like he’d been there all along.

One night several years ago Logan Crane and Harper Gallagher shared a night of passion and then walked away from each other. Neither one of them were in a position to offer anything other than heartbreak and disappointment. Harper is a former intelligence officer in the Navy, and now works for the CIA. She is sent on an undercover mission to retrieve an apparatus that lists all the secret operatives working in the American intelligence community. Logan had a bad experience working with the FBI that he never truly recovered from.

An undercover operative, Cain Dempsey leaves the woman he loves in order to protect her. A case he's working on takes a turn for the worst leaving him no choice but to return to her for aide. Belle is the one person he can trust, even if she has every right to be angry with him. Taking an impromptu vacation at her family's lake house, Belle is surprised to find Cain at the back door. He's injured, surly, and every bit as gorgeous as she remembers. Lucky for him she's a doctor and doesn't hold a grudge.

Detective Kali Mann lives by her nickname: The Mann-Eater. She’s a true love them and leave them with no attachments - ever. She’s hard-core, to the point, intense and she doesn’t always play nice with others. When her partner, Keith Harvard, finally gets her to take notice of him, the case they are working goes awry, and suddenly Kali is having emotions she’s not sure she wants. A major part of her past will come back to haunt her and just as she beings to open herself up, her life will be torn apart.

When Rick, a high-powered, rich financier, unexpectedly arrives at the gates of heaven and is denied entry because of the self-centered way he lived his life, all he wants is a second chance to make up for past mistakes. He’d always intended to be more generous and kinder to people - he was just planning to do it in his golden years. When the angels give him the chance to go back to Earth in a young, fit body and prove the truth of his intentions, Rick eagerly accepts. Getting to be young all over again while keeping all of his accumulated wisdom sounds like a great deal.

After the accident, the chief was pushing me to retire. Being a firefighter was all I had ever wanted, what I lived for. Well, other than my 12-year-old daughter, Abby. Raising her as a single dad, much less a busy firefighter, wasn't easy, but life never is. Then a call came in from an all-too-familiar area code. I was being beckoned back to my hometown, back to Canon. I had left that small town years ago, leaving behind a lot, including...her.

Alyssa has not had a vacation in five years; she hasn’t done anything different in five years. Her boss convinces her it’s high time she takes a vacation and even offers her advertising leaflets with suggestions on where she should go. Unable to recruit anyone to accompany her, Alyssa decides to go on her own and enjoy some hiking by herself. A one-night stand with the foreign stranger who saved her life probably isn’t the smartest move in the world, but she had also been alone for five years. The temptation was stronger than her will to resist.

Working in a small diner in the town of Rock Face, Jess meets a remarkably sexy, confident biker, who happens also to be rich. Owning his own brewery in Texas, Cole Everson has come to Rock Face, Tennessee, to find out more about the places his artist mother talked about and loved so much.

When Catrina Jackson ducked into her hotel’s jazz bar, all she wanted was a chance to unwind after a long drive and a drink to soothe the disappointment of being stood up by the friend she’d come to see. She figured the massive diamond wedding ring set on her finger would deter any would-be attractors. She was wrong. When also-married, hunky Darius Cornelio suggested they sit together to avoid unwanted attention, she thought it was a great idea.