Sometimes the things we fight hardest against are inevitable in the end.
Hunter Stevenson wasn’t interested in wasting nights with bed warmers, he had a daughter to take care of and a life to build. Leaving behind the mother of his four year old child and her incessant partying, Hunter moves closer to his family to help provide Sawyer some stability.
Tessa Daniels didn’t share the ‘typical American dream’ like most girls. A husband, 2.5 kids and a white picket fence weren’t the things she wanted for herself. She had a plan laid out, which included a career in the Navy and being surrounded by her best friends. She was perfectly content with her carefree, fun lifestyle and her casual relationships, but all of that changed when she met him.
What neither of them expected was a nosy brother and best friend with some serious matchmaking skills. The two have an instantaneous pull towards one another, they can’t fight the spark even though they both do. Until one drunken night, Tessa throws herself at Hunter, only to face an agonizing rejection. However, Hunter’s gentlemanly facade doesn’t last with the sassy sailor girl, his alpha attitude quickly emerges in the midst of their sexual tensions.
Hunter refuses to be another one of Tessa’s casual hook-ups, and won’t allow her to run away from the idea of ‘them’. No matter how many obstacles stand in their way of a happily ever after. Now he must convince Tessa that their inevitable love is worth fighting for.
Can their newfound love survive the stress of an impending deployment and Hunter’s past pushing it’s way back into his life?
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What the fuck am I going to do without her for eight months? And Sawyer, God, Sawyer’s already so attached to Tessa, how is her leaving going to affect her? This is why I haven’t done relationships in so long. Everything becomes ten times more complicated when you add a child into the equation.
This girl has completely wrecked me. I’d love nothing more than to pick her up and carry her back to my house and never let her leave. Damn her career. Damn this deployment. I just want to be with her.
I already knew it, but laying here with her tonight confirms it, I can’t live without Tessa Daniels.
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JC Santo is a true southern girl born and raised in Central Texas. Until her husband’s Navy career sent them to Norfolk, Virginia. That’s where she has been for the past 5 years being a wife and stay at home mom to 3 boys. In the rare occurrences she gets free time it’s usually spent reading a good book. Three things she will never turn away are tattoos, cupcakes and arbor mist!
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Synopsis:
Her memory may be gone but her past isn’t.
Ash and Cammy have been through hell and now they’re back but on separate roads.
It takes Ash hitting rock bottom before he’s determined to fight to get their love back where it belongs.
For Cammy, new friends replace forgotten ones and MMA fighting steals her heart that Ash is determined to possess a piece of again.
Ash has the plan to get her back, but he didn’t plan for her forgotten past to catch up with his planned future.
Snippet:
Rapid clicking from the barrel of my .45 caliber echoes in my head. The tremble in my hands is shuttering through my entire body. Sweat rolls from my forehead into my eye and I reach up, not able to remember when I buzzed my hair last. The soft bristle over my palm answers the question I should have known. I never let my hair get long because this desert heat has potential to kill you. Shaving my head only offers a small amount of relief, but it’s something.
The sweat and shaking probably makes me look nervous, but I’m not. The only outcome of this standoff results in me winning. The heat probably has me dehydrated, which explains the shaking, but there’s no time for water. I have to say my apologies and hope firing this bullet won’t be taken personal. It’s nothing against them. But this is a war.
“Put the gun down, Ash,” Danny’s nervous voice unexpectedly comes from my left and makes me flinch. “Stop! Stop. Just put it down.”
Shaking my head no, I squeeze my eyes closed and release the building moisture that I don’t want to admit to being tears. I lift my left hand until it’s aligned with my sight and stare at the picture of Cammy.
I can’t talk right now, but I can speak my peace in my head and I’m sorry. I’m sorry for everything I couldn’t protect you from. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you until it was too late that I loved you. I’m sorry I left you for the army. I’m sorry I love you as much as I do because being without you makes me feel like I don’t know who I am. And I can’t do this without you.
The clicking of the barrel off my teeth has seemed to stop. The rolling sweat from my hairline has dried. But the tears, they remain and are leaking with the will to hold on.
“Ash, she wouldn’t want you to do this, man. Put the fucking gun down!”
Looking from the blinding sun I take a moment before flashing my sight to the apology letter for my dad that’s sitting on a rock and I hope it makes it home. Then I look back to the picture in hand for one last look at Cammy. The second my eyelids shut off the world in front of me I’m shoved off my knees and as I fall sideways the gun rips out of my mouth and fires.
“Ow!” Danny howls and my sight lands on him before I react.
He’s holding his jaw and ear so I abandon my thoughts of suicide and rush to help my friend.
“You asshole!” he screams at me before colliding his fist with my nose.
Stumbling back and rapidly blinking, the vision of the desert is fading away and I realize I’m in our bathroom of the beach house. I’m not deployed. I’m in Florida and suffering day ninety-four of Cammy leaving me and disappearing.
H.Q. Frost is a dictator of romance but not limited to. She spends her free time eating pizza or napping and loves every minute of it. One of the biggest accomplishments in her life has been co-authoring book babies with the ever talented M. Dauphin and she couldn’t ask for a better partner in crime. She’s sometimes obscene, cusses more than is okay, and really likes the color purple. Find her on all social media platforms, but don’t expect her to know how to tweet.
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═══ THE DEAD DON’T LIE by Camille Taylor ═══ Harbour Bay Series #3 Publisher: Limitless Publishing
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Club X—where fantasy and reality collide…
For notorious sex club owner Aimee Burnes, it’s all about business. That is until her estranged sister, Louisa, is found dead in the small, coastal town of Harbour Bay. Having always been the favourite of their hyper-religious mother, there’s no logical explanation for Louisa’s untimely death—unless she wasn’t the angel she was believed to be.
Aimee will do anything to protect her club, including corrupting a detective with old-fashioned ideals…
James Hawke is Harbour Bay’s newest detective. He’s a country boy through and through, and he’s not prepared for Aimee’s assault on his senses. When he’s sent undercover into Club X to collect intelligence on Aimee and her clients, James wants to believe she’s genuine. The only thing he knows for sure is he wants her in ways he never wanted anyone before. Deep undercover, he must sacrifice his morals to get close.
Aimee is a master of manipulation…
Aimee will do what she must, even if it means taking her seduction of James too far. With both of them craving more than an intense encounter leaving them sweaty and satisfied, outside dangers challenge their newfound bond. But when the medical examiner finds incriminating evidence pointing to Aimee as her sister’s killer, James is forced to choose…
Will he honour the oath of his badge, or believe in Aimee’s innocence, regardless of the evidence stacking against her? With her lies unmasked and her innocence questioned, proof lies in the DNA evidence.
═══ ABOUT THE AUTHOR ═══
Camille Taylor is an Australian author who resides in the Nation’s Capital with her small dog. She was the typical 90’s kid and was raised on Goosebumps, Roald Dahl and Paul Jennings. In her teens she began reading the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie and in later years found Christine Feehan, Janet Evanovich and Julie Garwood.
She started writing at sixteen and enjoys spending time with her family, doting on her nieces and nephews, writing the many stories floating about her head and working on her genealogy where she can trace her heritage to England, Scotland, Ireland and Russia.
Her other interests include, anything creative – such as scrapbooking and drawing and has travelled across Western Europe, New Zealand and the UAE, after spending a year living in London. She’s also dabbled in tae kwon do.
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I’ve been hired to protect the biggest pop star in the world. She’s beautiful, spoiled and the most famous woman on Earth. I’m determined to keep it professional. She’s determined to get a rise out of me. But I’m not sure she can handle it once she does.
My name is Joss but in the service they called me Ice. That’s because I stay calm no matter what. No matter what happens I keep control. I have a job to do and that’s it.
Until I meet my latest assignment. Trista Davis is primped and polished to a high shine. She’s sex on wheels. But what I didn’t expect was the soft side to her. A lost side, that needed my help.
It goes deeper than just protecting her from danger. She needs to be woken up. Set free.
Come to think of it, so do I.
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MEAT. MANWHORE. PORN STAR. I have sex on camera for a living. I don’t need to feel anything to perform. In fact, I like it better that way. That’s until I meet her. She makes me want things I shouldn’t. Like her.
My name is Trent but in the business I go by Rez. I work hard, play hard and party hard. That’s until a crash takes me out of rotation. I broke all of my bones — all, that is, except the one that counts. Too bad I’m too messed up to use it.
Now I’m laid up in a hospital bed, unable to do more than scratch my ass. That wouldn’t be so bad, but the nurse in charge of my recovery is hell on wheels. Bossy, prudish and rough with her sponge baths. Not to mention drop dead gorgeous. Worse yet, she seems totally immune to my charms.
I love getting a rise out of her. And for some reason, she always gets a rise out of me.
She thinks she is better than a manwhore like me. She might be right. But I’m not giving up until I take the prissy know it all on the ride of her life- on me. I can’t wait to see the look on her face when I’ve blown her mind six or seven times in one night.
Trouble is, I’ve gotten in deeper than I meant to. And I don’t know if I ever want out.
HEAT is a standalone novel with no cheating and a guaranteed HEA!
I’m not just a high class escort, I’m a world class escort. My latest client doesn’t know who or what I am. I’ve been hired to take her virginity, give her an heir and steal her heart. I’m getting close. All she needs is just a little PUSH…
I pleasure wealthy women for money, but that’s not just between the sheets. I know the best restaurants, the finest in art and music, the perfect wine to order. I’m well read, smart and discrete. So discrete in fact that I’ve been hired to deflower the daughter of one of the richest noblemen in all of England. That’s how I find myself flying first class to London to seduce her.
Lady Rosalie.
She’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. And the most innocent. Her religious family has kept her under tight wraps. Now she’s of age and feeling a bit rebellious. Who better to take her on the ride of her life than a professional like me? Except I find that when I’m with her, I’m not acting. She makes me want to be bad. But she also makes me want to be good. Good enough for someone like her.
By the time I find out that I’ve been hired to cause a scandal and shame her, it’s too late. But I’m in over my head and so is she. The only way out is to risk it all… I will stop at nothing to make her mine.
PUSH is a stand alone novel with a guaranteed HEA and no cheating!
I’m Jackson Delancey. I work hard, play hard and when it comes to women, I’m always hard.
PLAYBOY. BACHELOR. HEARTBREAKER.
I do whatever I want, when I want to. Chasing women doesn’t interest me. Not with the responsibility of running the famed Delancey Stables falling squarely on my shoulders. Until I meet her. Or rather, she slams into me hollering about some tree that’s on the border between our property lines.
Angelina Randall.
She’s feisty, argumentative and the best looking woman I’ve ever laid eyes on. I’d like to lay other parts on her too- just enough to get her out of my system. I tell her so, but she takes offense. No woman has ever turned down a Delancey and I’m not the kind of man who backs down from a challenge. Especially since I can’t get her out of my mind.
The longer it takes to win her over, the more I want to keep her for myself. I’m the man for her, if only she could stop picking fights with me long enough to see it. I’ll make her mine, if I have to drag her to hell and back again.
The way things are going, that might be a possibility.
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Liam O’Reilly doesn’t trust anyone, not even his own mother. With good reason too, because he finds out his mother and stepfather pay to have his brother kidnapped and held against his will. Now, all Liam O’Reilly wants to do is save his brother from the people who are hunting him and get them both out of a very messed up situation. He thinks calling the police will help, but it turns out they are the enemy. When the police who are supposed to protect him throw him in the jail instead, he thinks all hope is lost, until a man named Wolf shows up. Liam isn’t sure if Wolf is his rescuer or just another bad guy. He can’t trust anyone.
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