Mercenary by name and by nature, Carson is a Lakota Sioux who stays to himself and never keeps women around long enough for anything emotional to develop. But working with his friend Cash Crier on a complex murder investigation provides Carson with another kind of fun: shocking Cash's sweet but traditional secretary, Carlie Blair, with tales of his latest conquests.

It's the most wonderful time of the year...for rugged ranchers to fall in love! Diana Palmer spins two fan-favorite tales of love, joy and happily-ever-after under the mistletoe.
Winter Roses—Handsome rancher Stuart York was never one to mince words. Ivy Conley, his younger sister's best friend, found that out the hard way. During a night's stay at his Jacobsville ranch, Ivy wound up in Stuart's arms. Knowing she was too young...

Even in the wide open spaces of Texas, secrets find a place to hide...in the heart of a shy, determined woman; behind the hard, rugged exterior of a DEA agent; and in the dangerous world of drug smuggling. Rodrigo Ramirez is sent undercover as an itinerant laborer on Gloryanne Barners's truck farms in Jacobsville. He's looking to bust a new and vicious cartel operating south of the border. But secrets are about to shatter all their lives, for better,...

Stanton Rourke lives life on the edge. The steely mercenary is dangerous in every way...especially to Clarisse Carrington's heart. She and Rourke were playmates as children, but she's not the innocent girl he once knew. When tragedy robbed Clarisse of her entire family, her life was changed forever. Besides, she's a grown woman now, and there are secrets that hold her back from succumbing to her pursuer. As she struggles to keep her distance, sparks...

Determined to expose an international child labor ring, Cord Romero teams up with Maggie Barton, a childhood friend, and, pitted against a formidable enemy, Maggie and Cord are forced to confront their feelings for each other in order to survive.

"Gaby Dupont knows some men shouldn't be trusted, ever. Especially not high-profile lawyer Jake Chandler. How can she trust the man who might be helping her greedy relatives steal her family fortune? To get the inside scoop on Jakes dealings, and protect herself and her beloved grandmere, Gaby must take a job with the devil himself. Of course, she can't tell him who she really is..."

The life of a paid mercenary makes sense to Special Forces Officer Winslow Grange. The jungles of South America may make his former job as a ranch manager for his friend Jay Pendleton look like a cakewalk, but it's nothing that the former Green Beret can't handle.A woman's heart, however-that's dangerous territory. Back in Texas, Grange's biggest problem was avoiding Peg Larson and all the complications being attracted to the daughter of his foreman...

Simon Hart had sworn off romantic entanglements forever. But every man had a weakness, and his was the beautiful, beguiling Tira Beck. He thought the bubbly socialite was a shameless flirt with a cavalier attitude about marriage--until he learned she'd secretly saved all her love for him.

Against his will, Simon became entranced by her glorious presence, her every gesture tempting him like a sweet, beckoning caress. Still, he knew she

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Police chief Cash Grier, struggling to keep the town of Jacobsville, Texas, safe, finds himself surrounded by betrayal and danger when he succumbs to temptation with his sworn enemy, Tippy Moore, a former Hollywood starlet who is not what she seems.

Jason and Gracie have been inseparably good friends until a moment of sudden passion pulls them asunder, and Gracie comes to realize that Jason will never see her as anything more than a younger step-sibling. It takes Gracie being kidnapped, Jason saving her, an interferring other woman and Jason almost dying before the two lovers conquer their fears of intimacy and admit their total love for each other.