In this collection featuring rough-and-tumble outlaws, four romance authors serve up sexy stories, including one by Jodi Thomas, in which Cozette Camanez, in order to save her family's ranch, forces an unsuspecting thief into marriage.

This delightfully daring collection of holiday Regency novelettes, follows the lives and loves of eight individuals, from a spirited lady who sets out to save her rakish best friend from a unsuitable engagement, to a bold spy who finally gets his chance with the woman he has always loved.

A serial killer strikes in a sultry southern town. The next morning, Caitlyn Mongomery Bandeaux wakes covered in blood. But Caitlyn has no memory of the night before, when her estranged husband was brutally murdered.

"Twenty years ago, wild child Jessie Brentwood vanished from St. Elizabeth's high school. Most in Jessie's tight circle of friends believed she simply ran away. Few suspected that Jessie was hiding a shocking secret-- one that brought her into the crosshairs of a vicious killer-- Two decades pass before a body is unearthed on school grounds and Jessie's old friends reunite to talk. Most are sure that the body is Jessie's, that the mystery of what...

Making spirits bright. "Melanie McLaughlin desperately wants to adopt two orphaned siblings and give them a real home for Christmas. A just-for-the-holiday marriage to Bryce Landry fits her plan perfectly . . . until unexpected sparks have Melanie dreaming of forever by his side."--P. [4] of cover. Mister Christmas. "A week before Christmas, attorney Claire O'Brien is summoned to Ireland to change her wealthy client's will--only to encounter resistance...

Amidst the pageantry, rampant desire, and very real dangers of Wueen Victoria's London, a bevy of lovers is about to stumble into a spectacle of sin and scandal, where appearances are deceiving and anything can happen when desire is pulling all the strings.

Six months after a car crash and a coma, Marcy Edmond awakens to a second chance, plastic surgery and weight loss have transformer her into the woman she's always wanted to be.

"The tranquil little town of Willow Ridge is facing a startling challenge. Wealthy Nora Glick Landwehr is determined to make it her home again--and put her past to rest. Cast out by her own family, Nora can't reconcile with Old Amish ways or her strict father. But she'll do anything to help her community embrace the future, and to make amends to the daughter she had to give up. So she certainly has no time for her reckless new neighbor Luke Hooley....