He text dumped me, now I have to pretend to be in love with him or lose my job

I never thought I’d see Jacob again after he texted those seven words: I’m leaving, we can’t be together anymore.
I’ve spent the last two years staring at that message, hearing his gravelly voice loud and clear in my head as I read the words over and over.
We were supposed to be forever, instead he’s forever frozen my heart.
It’s been rough but at least my career is going great.
Or at least it was until I accidentally posted a vibrator video to my company’s Instagram account.
They failed to see the funny side.
Now I have one shot to smooth things over with my boss - pretend to be in a relationship with a stranger for the weekend to impress a potential new client.

Except it turns out it isn’t a stranger after all, it’s Jacob.

***no cliffhangers, no cheating, and guaranteed happily-ever-afters.***

I wanted the sassy little filly the second I first saw her. So I bought her.

Caleb
I had all the success that a self-made man like me could want. But something was still missing. Ready for a break, I returned to my home town to find myself.

And found her.

Riley-Ann.

The sassy, curvy bartender-slash-waitress at the local watering hole, with a body made just for me.

But as it turned out, she was the only woman around to turn me down. And a virgin.

That's why I put in a bid for her at the county fair auction.

And nothing was going to stop me from winning my virgin.


Riley-Ann
I thought my life was finally on the right track, then it all fell apart.

Booted from the only promising office manager job I ever wanted, I turned tail and took a break from everything at my best friend's ranch.

The local saloon was hiring, so I got a job to keep my mind and my hands occupied.

Until he showed up.

Caleb Jackson Reeves.

The biggest name in business around these parts sat down at my bar. He was larger than life, older, wiser, and hot as hell.

And the square-jawed, ruggedly handsome older man wanted me.

I was in no state to deal with anything else in my life right now, not even him. Not his gifts, not his attention, not even the smoldering kiss he planted on me without my asking him to. The one I had to deny enjoying so much.

Except the first chance he got, he made a bid for me at the county fair auction. And he won.

Now, I was bought and paid for, and he wasn't about to let me say no twice.

Warning. This hot and dirty western romance is steamy, spicy, and chock full of feels. If you like slightly over the top romance stories with a big strong alpha male who knows what he wants and isn't afraid to ask for it, this is for you! Standalone romance with no cliffhanger and a sweet happily ever after to make you swoon.

She spent years building walls around her heart … but he plans to tear them down.

Gorgeous women pass through Kane Harmon’s beach town as reliably as the tides. He knows the type; shallow, slumming for the summer, enjoying the sun and the novelty before returning to their real lives. But Rosewood Bay and the garage he owns are Kane’s real life and he makes the most of it.

When Kane rescues Halley Ward from the side of the road, he’s determined to get to know the mysterious, solitary woman. She’s beautiful, wealthy, and the loneliest person on the beach. She says she isn’t interested in him—or anything outside of her painting and her bungalow. Kane knows a lie when he hears one. Soon, bringing the color back into her world is his life’s mission.

Until the past meets the present. Until their two worlds collide. Until it’s her turn to leave her black and white world behind and live in Kane’s, with its risks and love.

A Standalone Novel

Rosewood Bay Series
Book 1: Fearless (B0765CS6HR)
Book 2: Breathe (B079TDH2P8)
Book 3: Freed (B07C4PCVF6)
Book 4: Dream (B07F48LL4X)

I’ve made lots of mistakes.

But never one like this.

Back in high school, the girl next door spent a serendipitous night in my arms. But she wasn’t my type or really up to my level.

So I walked away not knowing her secret—our secret.

Years later, I’m still at the top of my game, ruling my own chunk of the world.

She walks into my office a different woman. Strong, sexy, and dead set on revenge.

I need to walk away again, but I can’t. She’s a different person, and yet, all the things that first had me taking a chance with her pull me back in—deeper this time.

She’s going to wreck my life, one bad decision at a time, and fuck me, I’m going to let her.

The fact that the little man who calls her mom acts like me stops me in my tracks. He even loves the same things I do.

Surely not.

No damn way I’ve been a selfish bastard and haven’t considered the possibilities of our night together so long ago, but it’s true.

He’s mine, and I’m instantly in love with both of them.

I need one more chance, and I’ll do anything to get it.

Every good girl deserves a bad boy. ~ Weston

All I have of him are flashes of memories, vivid nightmares.

But when I wake up to last night's dream man in my bedroom, who do I believe? My head... or my heart?

***

I woke up this morning with everything a woman could ever live for.
A beautiful loft in the south of France. A gorgeous albeit brooding man who looks at me as if I’m his last meal.

Too bad I don’t remember any of it.

A life I never knew with a lover I don’t recognize…
It can’t get any worse…until it does.

Drawn to a handsome devil with secrets darker than his Greek god-like features, I promise Daniela (the woman I used to be) that I will do anything to piece together the life of her protective housemate, Bishop (no first name), and subsequently her own.

But when memories masquerading as nightmares come back to show me the real truth about my/Dani’s life, my family and my love, I have to come to grips with a past that is nothing like it seems… and an unknown life I may end up dying for.


Previously published as FOOL'S GOLD

***AUTHOR'S NOTE***:
The Bodyguard is a STEAMY AMNESIA Romance and part of a series of full-length novels in the Kisses and Crimes series and is not suitable for persons under the age of 18.

I’ve lost my goddamn mind.
I slept with my best friend’s brother.
This has to stop. Now. Except I’m hooked.

I wanted a fresh start for college. New town, new people. Right?
My new best friend made me part of her family.
I’ve never felt so welcome.

Then I met Logan. Her brother.

Playboy reputation. Star player. Gorgeous everything.
His sky blue eyes locked on mine and shot a love-struck bullet right into me.
I was so totally screwed.

If my best friend finds out, I’ll be on her naughty list for good.
So she can’t find out.
Except now I’m pregnant.

Time to run.

I never thought I’d see Logan again,
But there he is on the city street.
I know I should tell him the truth, but I just can’t.

It’s too late for us. We missed our chance.
Do we really deserve a second one?

The Risk is 2 Story Compilation comprising of
Part 1: A Best Friend’s Brother Romance and
Part 2: A Brother’s Best Friend Romance

Emma Munroe, a Juilliard senior, snags a plum role on Broadway a few weeks before her twenty-first birthday. She travels to Hawaii with her best friends to celebrate. When she gets lost in a jungle during an impromptu hike, she happens upon a waterfall—and a naked hunk bathing underneath it.

When she finds out his name is Avery Bell, she’s dumbstruck. She believes she’s meant to love someone named Avery. It all goes back to a message in a bottle she found when she was nine, a letter written by a soldier called Avery to his sweetheart named Emma. He’d written it in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack during World War II. Since then, Emma has been searching (and saving her virginity) for her own Avery.

But Avery Bell is as mysterious as he is irresistible. Emma learns about his family secrets and bitterness. In the course of this vacation, an accident and a tragic death will shake both of them to the core. Her singular faith in him—her unwavering belief in love and destiny—proves to be his saving grace.

Proceeds from pre-orders go to No More - domestic violence & sexual assault charity
Love and deception collide in this standalone romance about a woman running from a past that won’t let her go and the man who risks everything to save her.

Jake
I know she’s lying the moment I see her.
That her name is as fake as her story. She’s barged into my life like a beautiful nightmare, turning everything upside down.
It hasn’t stopped me from trying to help her. Protect her. Save her from the threats that seem to come out of nowhere.
She’s put my entire world at risk. My reputation. My business. My livelihood.
But Mia brought me back to life. And I will do anything to save hers.

Mia
I was running for my life the night I met Jake.
Broken down on the road to nowhere. Lost. Homeless. Scared out of my mind.
I don't care. I’m willing to risk it all to start over. Desperate to hide and never be found again.
But it doesn't take much for Jake to break down my defenses. A soft word. A gentle touch. He becomes mine, but more importantly, I become his.
Until the nightmare of my past shows up, pissed off as hell…

*This book contains material that might be offensive for some or elicit a strong emotional response.

Darkness writhes inside him & it's calling out her name...

Pirate captain, Skylar D’Apra, doesn’t make a habit of saving people’s lives. But when that person is Jag Harver, a man with a price on his head that could set her up for life, Skylar makes a reckless choice that drastically alters the course of their fate.

Blood fuses, souls are bound and Skylar learns a lesson in power. Dark, raging and unsurmountable. The same power she sees reflected in Jag Harver's depthless gaze.

Now Skylar starts to fear that the one choice she made that day has taken all other choices away from her and she’s about to enter a world of shifter princes, magic, mayhem and the madness of monsters.

Don’t miss this irresistibly steamy pirate romance with daring damsels, cutthroat renegades, shifters and battles of men and monsters. If you love hit TV show, Black Sails, and enemies to lovers romance, then you’ll love this New Adult pirate tale, We’re All Thieves.

Fiona was my first love and my best friend.
Ten years ago, I left without a word.
I never told her why. And I never got over her.
Now that we're thrown together under the same roof,
Will I finally have a chance to make things right?
 
Fiona
 

Books 1 – 4 in the wildly successful (and swoon-inducing) Academy Ghost Bird Series, together for the first time at a low price. This bundle includes an exclusive that fans have been begging for: Meeting Sang, an alternate POV story of how it all began.

Introductions–Book 1
With an agoraphobic mother and a barely-there father, Sang Sorenson abhors the isolation keeping her in the shadows. What she craves is a fresh start and to be accepted as ordinary, because for her, being different meant being cast out alone.
When her family moves to a new school district, Sang infiltrates a group of boys, each nearly perfect in every way. Grateful for an influence outside of her parents’ negativity, she quickly bonds with the boys, hoping to blend in and learn from them what it means to have friends.
Only the boys have secrets of their own and they’ll do anything to keep her safe from the knowledge of the mysterious Academy they've sworn allegiance to. Bit by bit, Sang discovers her friends are far from what she’d expected. Will her loyalty change when she's forced to remain in the dark, or will she accept that she's traded one house of secrets for another?
Meet Kota, Victor, Silas, Nathan, Gabriel, Luke and North in a story about differences and loyalty, truth and mystery, friendships and heart-throbbing intimacy.
The Academy, ever vigilant.

First Days–Book 2
As a new student to Ashley Waters High School, Sang Sorenson hopes her new friends will be the change she’s been craving and will make fitting in a breeze.
But Academy students aren’t there to take it easy at the overcrowded school rife with violence. When fights begin, Sang will uncover the true reason the boys traded in their private school lives for public ones. This year, Sang will no longer be invisible. This year, Sang is a target.
The principal and vice principal are hot to take Sang down, and her own mother is determined to entrap Sang forever in her belief that the safest place to be is in the shadows. Despite this, Nathan, Luke, Kota, North, Silas, Victor, and Gabriel will discover Sang’s unyielding loyalty. And they will sorely need it.
The Academy, supremely influential.

Friends vs. Family–Book 3
Sang Sorenson is forced to suffer through another of her mother’s extreme punishments that almost kills her. The Academy boys vow it will be the last. They're determined to keep Sang safe, especially from her own family. Their solution: complete infiltration into her life.
Kota, Luke, Silas, Nathan, Victor, Gabriel and North do everything within their power to show Sang what true loyalty means. It takes more than blood to make a family and they want Sang in theirs. Sang experiences a taste of freedom and what it’s like to truly be cared for, wanted. Sang learns a bit more about the boys’ broken families and they discover more than they ever imagined about Sang’s. The Academy was the answer to their problems. Could it be hers?
Sang’s actions force her mother to reveal a startling truth that will change Sang’s and the boys’ lives in unpredictable ways. Forever.
The Academy, Allegiance

Forgiveness and Permission–Book 4
Sang Sorenson’s abusive mother is secure in a hospital and her father has vanished to a new family of his own, leaving Sang and her sister to fend for themselves.
But Sang is never really alone. The Academy team has stepped in, promising to protect and care for her. Kota, Victor, Silas, Nathan, Gabriel, Luke and North take over, showing Sang they can be depended on for anything. But just because her parents are away, doesn’t mean Sang’s life has become any easier.
The newfound freedom will have a higher price than any of them could have imagined.
Principal Hendricks now wants to use Sang to exploit Academy secrets. Mr. McCoy has his own dark plans for her. Enemies are closing in. Sang will need to believe in the boys, and the boys will need to trust her if they want to survive their rivals. And each other.
The Academy, Relentless Trust

Everything's sexier in the dark

Emma paused, and I lifted my head to look in her direction. She looked up at me and smiled with a mischievous grin as the leopard spots flowed over her pretty face. She lifted herself up and positioned her hips over mine. Then she rested her thighs on top of mine and slowly lowered herself until we touched…

When bored housewife Jade seeks to broaden her horizons, she discovers an erotic adventure club where strangers meet to explore each other’s bodies in mysterious dark rooms. Using special effects to project exotic light patterns onto their figures, the shifting shadows provide just enough light to highlight their naked bodies while protecting their identities.

Jade books an appointment and on the scheduled date drives out to a private countryside villa. She’s escorted to a chamber where three large glass cubes display different groups of people under changing light effects. She watches the naked figures touching each other in the mesmerizing light effects and decides to enter the first cube.

What happens inside shocks and delights her. The feeling of being caressed and worshipped by multiple partners is exhilarating. As she moves from one dark room to the next, her arousal level rises in intensity, until she’s completely consumed and spent.

Join Jade as she discovers a new side to her sensuality and rises to new heights of pleasure…

He returns to the only home he's ever known only to find that the ranch has been willed to a stranger who doesn't want it--and he must keep her there for thirty days, or it will be lost to them both.

"Jean Brashear's distinctive storytelling voice instantly draws in the reader. She writes with warmth and emotional truth.” ~ #1 NY Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber

Discover the first book in New York Times bestselling contemporary Texas romance author Jean Brashear's TEXAS HEROES: The Gallaghers of Morning Star series—small town love stories rich with emotion, ripe with secrets, scandals and sexual tension.

Up-and-coming chef Maddie Collins finds out that her father's life was a lie when she is bequeathed a family homeplace she never knew existed—by the husband of the only woman her father ever loved.

A former Navy SEAL, sexy cowboy Boone Gallagher arrives back in Texas to discover that the father who drove him away has struck one last blow. The only place he's ever thought of as home now belongs to a woman who doesn't want it, and he must keep her there for thirty days—or it will be lost to them both.

The TEXAS HEROES contemporary western romance series includes:

TEXAS SECRETS

TEXAS LONELY

TEXAS BAD BOY

TEXAS REFUGE

TEXAS STAR

TEXAS DANGER

TEXAS ROOTS

TEXAS WILD

TEXAS DREAMS

TEXAS REBEL

TEXAS BLAZE

TEXAS CHRISTMAS BRIDE

TEXAS TIES

TEXAS TROUBLES

TEXAS TOGETHER

TEXAS HOPE

TEXAS STRONG

TEXAS SWEET
TEXAS HEARTTHROB
TEXAS HEALER
TEXAS PROTECTOR
BE MINE THIS CHRISTMAS
TEXAS CHARM
TEXAS MAGIC

Sweet, clean, and wholesome romance from four best selling authors in a twenty book collection!

From historical to contemporary, there's plenty of love, faith, and happy endings to make your day. Sweet River authors Annie Boone, Hayley Wescott, Kelly Anne Bruce, and Joy Witt share lovely, inspiring stories to make this compilation a must read.

From Annie Boone
The Agreement
Mismatched
Duty and Honor
Eleanor and Matthew
A Family’s Destiny
Leap of Faith

From Hayley Wescott
You Can Go Home

From Kelly Anne Bruce
A Lady’s True Fortune
The Earl’s Choice
The Baronet’s Daughters
Their Second Chance
The Duke’s Big Surprise
A Perfect Match
A Bonfire to Remember
The Duke’s First Love
A Brother’s Duty

From Joy Witt
Restless Disobedience
The Englischer’s Secret
Pride and Patience
Transforming Changes

This boxed set is available in Kindle Unlimited - read for free!

Expect to find stories from these authors listed in the following categories:
Western Historical Romance
Regency Romance
Scottish Romance
British Romance
Frontier and Pioneer Romance
Contemporary Romance
Amish Romance
Christian Romance
Clean and Wholesome Romance
Historical Romance
Second Chance Romance

These daddies don't ask for obedience. They demand it.

Daddy's Demands is a collection of decadently dirty daddy dom romances from some of the hottest authors in the genre. This deliciously naughty box set includes twenty-five brand-new, stand-alone novellas featuring steaming hot, irresistibly sexy adventures with the baddest daddies imaginable. Good girls be warned: your obedience will be demanded on September 18th.

Featured Authors: Madison Faye, Renee Rose, Loki Renard, Maggie Ryan, Zoe Blake, Alta Hensley, Lee Savino, J.L. Beck, Jane Henry, Isabella Laase, Kelly Dawson, Sara Fields, Kara Kelley, Measha Stone, Amelia Smarts, Mary Wehr, Maddie Taylor, Meredith O'Reilly, Morganna Williams, Katherine Deane, Alexis Alvarez, Shelly Douglas, Sassa Daniels, Marlee Wray, and Rory Reynolds

Publisher's Note: The stories featured in this collection all contain hot, dirty sex, sometimes involving ménage or reverse harem themes. Some include spankings, intense and humiliating punishments, and strong D/s themes. If such material offends you, please don't buy this box set.

If Sadie Turner is good at anything, it’s putting stuff in order. So when she finds her “perfect” life in disarray, she hopes a summer vacation at her aunt’s lake house will help her piece it back together. She wants to relax, reboot, and heal the wounds left by her cheating ex-husband. And that requires time away from men. All men.

Or so she thinks.

With two slobbering dogs and two cousins living there—one a flamboyant decorator intent on making over Sadie—it’s hard to get a moment’s peace at eccentric Aunt Dody’s house, especially with everyone so determined to set her up with Desmond, the sexy new neighbor.

Desmond is Sadie’s worst nightmare. Tall, tanned, muscular…and to top it off, he’s great with her kids. But he must have a flaw—he’s a man—so Sadie vows to keep her distance.

As summer blazes on, the life Sadie is trying so hard to simplify only becomes more complicated—a new career presents itself, her evil ex haunts her, and Aunt Dody reveals a tragic secret—but maybe a little chaos is just what Sadie needs to get her life back in order.

From USA Today Best Selling Author Ali Parker

Me and my brothers have a reputation around town.

And it ain’t a good one.

We’re not so bad, though. Working hard for our father’s ranch by day and chasing skirts by night.

It’s what Texas cowboys do.

But someone is trying to f*ck with our crops, and when I find him, he’s gonna wish I hadn’t.

We need help, and as always, help arrives. This time in the form of a sexy strut and a sweet, innocent attitude.

A beautifully uptight college research assistant is the last thing I need but the first thing I’ll take.

And she wants to keep things hot and casual while we figure things out.

Feels like a win-win to me.

Long nights with nothing but her boots on and up in the air. That’s what I’m talking about.

But things change. For me.

Never have I thought of myself as a romantic, but this nerdy girl from town has my blood pumping and heart racing.

Maybe it’s not just lust. Lucky thing.

Lady Catherine Adair has lost her parents and needs a husband to keep her fortune. Her fortune makes her popular among the eligible men in London. The whole courtship process is distasteful at best for her. Knowing she has no choice makes everything worse.

Lord Abraham Coyle, Earl of Glasgow and Baron of Ross, grew up next door to the Adair family when the family was in London. After finding out his father had played a nasty trick on him and his brother, he has come up with a plan to keep his title and the family fortune. His father's will stipulated that the son who married first would get the family fortune including the castle in Scotland and the townhouse in London.

Bram proposed a marriage of convenience to Catherine and hoped she would accept to preserve inheritances for each of them. What he did not count on was Catherine's memories of how he had teased her mercilessly when they were younger. And more than that, he had spurned her sincere declaration. She had never forgiven him for that.

Would their rocky history keep them both from getting what they both deserved? More importantly, would they come to recognize that love could come even after broken dreams and lingering hurt?

My neighbor just seduced me. She thinks we’re only playing.
But my love isn’t a game. And I’m not about to walk away a loser.

I was minding my own business when my new neighbor walked in.
Holy f*cking sh*t.
I’ve never seen anyone more beautiful.
Curves to kill. Mouth-watering lips.
Too bad she's my sister's best friend.
When she “accidentally” bumped into me, I knew what she wanted.
It’s been years since I had a little fun, and Nina’s the perfect person to play with and more.
But my daughter needs me more than Nina.
Her mother’s back.
She all but slapped me in the face when she showed up to reclaim our girl.
But I’m not letting her go without a fight.
I just hope Nina is up for the challenge.
We could be the perfect family.
No more one-night stands. I’m playing for keeps from now on!

"One Night Stand" is a full length standalone romance with no cheating and no cliffhangers, but with plenty of a steam and a HEA. I've also included a preview of my billionaire romance "One Night Bride" for you! - Sarah J. Brooks (USA Today Bestselling Author)

Although this is the seventh book in the bestselling Border Series, it can be read as a standalone novel.

Court and Marion have been pitted against each other by fate—can love twist them back together?

The Protector
Sir William (“Court”) keenly feels his lack of status as a seneschal, running a castle that belongs to Kenshire. When one of the king’s regents offers to grant him both land and a title in exchange for storming a strategic castle in the borderlands, he quickly accepts. But before he can lead the attack, he finds himself inexplicably drawn to the enchanted fairy pools in Scotland, from which he takes a powerful stone. Though he knows naught about the stone’s legend, he senses it will help him. There’s one problem: the stone has an assigned protector who will do anything to retrieve it—and Court will find she’s not so easy to deny.

The Promise
Marion has spent her life preparing to do her duty as the Stone of Scotland’s protector. She pledges to take it from the Englishman who’s stolen it, but he’s not at all what she expected. She certainly didn’t consider the possibility that she might fall in love with the handsome, confounding man.

The Protector's Promise is the seventh book in a historical romance series set in 13th century Northumbria along the Anglo-Scottish border. If you like being transported to a time of knights and castles with ​steamy romance and strong female heroines, you’ll love the seventh installment of the Border Series.