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Out of heartbreak comes hope...BriarI just escaped a job and relationship that nearly crushed me. Crawling out of the wreckage of my previous life, I'm finished with caution. I want sexy, vibrant Hayden, and I'm going to take him. For as long as I can...HaydenIt doesn't matter that I'm the backbone of Australia's hottest international rock group-here, watching my estranged mother die, I'm more alone than ever. Meeting long-legged, perceptive Briar Moore, I know she can help fill the hole in my heart...These few, intense days change us forever. A connection this fierce should burn out as fast as it ignited, but we can't stop thinking about what could have been...2017 Readers' Favorite award winner and The Romance Reviews Top Pick.Perfect for fans of the Kendall Ryan, Carly Phillips, and A. L. Jackson, Between Breaths and the rest of the Seattle Sound Series take readers on an emotional, sexy journey of hot men and their feisty women who are transformed by courage, self-sacrifice, and love.

Betrayal Broke Them Once...We can't afford to indulge in this attraction, but our connection burns too brightly to ignore.DahliaMy husband was the second man who betrayed my trust when he left me alone to raise my daughter. Asher was the first. I found solace from both in my novels, writing about the hero I'd lost. But in those bestselling books, Asher-I mean my hero-didn't shatter my heart the way he had in real life.AsherThere were so many things I couldn't say to Dahlia when she was seventeen. But I've never forgotten the only girl I ever loved. My voice and song-writing talent made me star. Fame extracted its price. Now I have another chance-the chance to restore her faith in love. The chance to find it for myself. I'm not letting Dahlia go now that I have her in my arms again. Perfect for fans of the Kendall Ryan, Carly Phillips, and A. L. Jackson, Sweet Solace and its sequels take readers on an emotional, sexy journey of hot men and their feisty women who are transformed by courage, self-sacrifice, and love.

Running from the truth...Mila The crunch of steel stole the baby I'd always wanted. It also left my career derailed and my body scarred, thanks to a stalker no one believes in. And Murphy Etsam, the man I thought would love me forever, shot to international rock stardom on the pure fury of the song he wrote when I ran away in an effort to save his life. I just want to talk to him one last time so I can finally let go of the pain in my past... Murphy One glimpse of Mila in the crowd, and I know the year of drowning myself in booze, fame, and other women hasn't erased one molecule of my passion for lovely, maddening woman who left me without a word. When Mila's stalker attacks, I'm forced to face the trauma and misunderstanding that wrenched us apart-and to battle the chemistry that still surges between us. There's no going back to what we had before. I know that. But I also know I can never let her go again. Perfect for fans of the Kendall Ryan, Carly Phillips, and A. L. Jackson, Hold You Close and the rest of the Seattle Sound Series take readers on an emotional, sexy journey of hot men and their feisty women who are transformed by courage, self-sacrifice, and love.

A Dangerous Hope... AbbiI can't remember the night that produced a brutal set of photos the media and former college "friends" won't let me forget. No matter what I do, I can't escape the shame and harassment... or the threat of more degradation to come. ClayI grew up in the spotlight, thanks to my famous father. I know what it's like to be surrounded by phonies who will betray you for their personal gain. From the moment I see Abbi, I can't stop thinking about her. I'm not the relationship type, but she needs a boyfriend to help fend off the gossip, and I can play one for the press to help protect her from the vicious comments... There's nothing made up about the desire sizzling between us, and I really want to explore it. But a bond built on fear and faking it can't possibly lead to happy endings... Perfect for fans of the Kendall Ryan, Carly Phillips, and A. L. Jackson, Many Sounds of Silence and the rest of the Seattle Sound Series take readers on an emotional, sexy journey of hot men and their feisty women who are transformed by courage, self-sacrifice, and love.

When sudden impacts change life's trajectory... Evie The accident knocked my life apart. My body will recover, but when I look at the orphaned girl from the other vehicle, I get lost in memories of my own awful time in the foster system. I refuse to let little Paige go through that nightmare. Kai I have frontman good looks, I'm the lead singer of a chart-climbing band, and I have cash to burn. My life is a twenty-two year old's dream. But fame and fortune don't quiet the demons of my past. And now, shy, sultry Evie gives me something better to desire... When the girl in Evie's custody faces crisis, we have one reckless shot to take Paige's future into our hands: get married, and fast. Evie and I can keep Paige safe while we sate the lust that taunts us. All minus any messy feelings. But racing from the truth may lead to a larger crash... Perfect for fans of the Kendall Ryan, Carly Phillips, and A. L. Jackson, From the First and the rest of the Seattle Sound Series take readers on an emotional, sexy journey of hot men and their feisty women who are transformed by courage, self-sacrifice, and love.

Risking it all...PresleeThanks to my violent ex, I haven't felt safe enough to date in six years. When I volunteer at a soccer camp with Matteo Cruz, star and international sex symbol, I can't deny my attraction. Teo is driven, patient, kind-and his butt is on seventy-foot billboards. Maybe I can risk trusting again, if only for one night... MatteoBattling a career-ending injury, I have one chance left to chase the elusive World Cup I've sought since I was twelve. I can't afford to be distracted by a fling. Especially not with pretty, talented Preslee, with her watchful eyes and sudden laugh. She's been hurt before, badly I'd bet. But the more I see her, the harder it is to stay away... Our growing need can't be ignored, but as our relationship goes public, her ex storms back into her life and, now, the backlash could cost me more than just my career...Perfect for fans of the Kendall Ryan, Carly Phillips, and A. L. Jackson, Striker's Waltz and the rest of the Seattle Sound Series take readers on an emotional, sexy journey of hot men and their feisty women who are transformed by courage, self-sacrifice, and love.

Love played false...Ella It's just before Christmas, and I'm pregnant, heartbroken, and miserable. My husband Simon hasn't been home in months. There are photos of him snuggled up with his publicist. And that's the best part of my December. Just before the holiday break, I'm served with divorce papers at work. Simon As my life with Ella disintegrates, my music career finally commands the admiration and cash I always desired. But my son believes the rumors circulating, and Ella refuses to even see me, thanks to those divorce papers I never intended to send. Ella's annual trip to visit her parents in England couldn't have come at a worse time... I have until Christmas to discover the truth about who wants to end my marriage and win my wife back. But there's more to Ella's life than me. For our love to last, I'll have to learn her heart all over again.Perfect for fans of the Kendall Ryan, Carly Phillips, and A. L. Jackson, When We Fell Down and the rest of the Seattle Sound Series take readers on an emotional, sexy journey of hot men and their feisty women who are transformed by courage, self-sacrifice, and love.

The sound he can't forget...RynI've suffered my share of heartache, and I'm not eager to risk a silly crush on an arrogant, unavailable rock star. Jake's band is one of the hottest acts in the world, but for a woman who's already lost it all (that's me), celebrity drama holds no appeal. The man himself, though, is harder to turn away...JakeI fell in love with her voice first. But trying to recruit the mysterious girl-next-door music teacher, Ryn Hudson, to work on my solo album is proving harder than I imagined. She's prickly, defensive, wounded, and stubborn. And I'm in serious danger of falling in love with the rest of her, too... As the holiday season takes over chilly Seattle, we see that something between us glows warmer than twinkle lights. But even if we can stop our doubts, close our eyes, and believe in magic, the pressures of my fame and Ryn's past can't just be wished away...Perfect for fans of the Kendall Ryan, Carly Phillips, and A. L. Jackson, A Moonlit Serenade and the rest of the Seattle Sound Series take readers on an emotional, sexy journey of hot men and their feisty women who are transformed by courage, self-sacrifice, and love.

A steamy, emotional romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Alexa Padgett. "Two strong, battle-scarred people grapple with how to make a relationship work in the forceful first Austin After Dark contemporary." BookLifeRemembering the music I love... lets me forget a past that haunts me.I thought realizing my dream of country music stardom would chase away the ghosts of the past. But I didn't understand how the horrors of war would imprint their scars on my heart... leaving me a shadow of the man I used to be.Haunted by regret, filled with a rage I can't control, I destroy my favorite guitar. A J. Olsen original. The only instrument that allows my fingers to caress my music into creation.Now, I need a new one, and in order to get it fast, I have to work with her--Jenna. She stirs something deep inside me. Something I haven't felt in years.When I stare into her breathtaking eyes for the first time, I see struggles that echo my own. The kind of torment that colors a woman's soul. But I'm drawn to her--I just can't stay away. As our emotions start to blossom, creating a magic that rivals the music, Jenna's dangerous ex reappears to play a reckless game. Between his lust for revenge and the unreasonable demands of my record label, we can't catch our big break. And unless we can both heal the wounds that remain shuttered in darkness, we'll lose everything.

A poignant and provocative romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Alexa Padgett. She aches to make her own music...but I burn for the perfect revenge.I never thought a late-night Scrabble game would blow my world apart. Moving letters. Keeping score. Swapping words and desire with a mystery woman who makes me fantasize of things I have no right thinking.I can't get involved.I won't. Despite the pull of her lush curves and the electric crackle of chemistry between us, I resist. Regan has aroused something far more desirable than revenge, and I can't get sidetracked by my pesky feelings. Not now that my plot to pay back my best friend's heartbreaking betrayal finally snaps into place, and I vowed years ago to see it to the bitter end.And that means no emotional entanglements. Even for her.Until a vindictive smear campaign aimed at Regan is followed by a bombshell that blows my world apart...and our fragile relationship crumbles.Unless we both go all in and trust each other, we won't be able to pick up the pieces.

A sexy, new brother's best friend romance from USA Today bestselling author Alexa Padgett. He's my brother's childhood friend. I'm pregnant with another man's baby. What a time to fall in love... Coming home seemed like a good idea at the time. My ex-fianc split, I was almost done with my master's degree, and I was already working at the family architecture firm. When I move in next door to pediatrician Ryder Mackay, I'm not expecting the connection-or the passion in his eyes that I feel deep in my soul. He's the best doctor for my baby, but he's not the guy I need. Still, the way Ryder looks snuggling my puppy-and my infant daughter-to his rock-hard chest makes me wish this sexy, smart, compassionate man was mine. Maybe, it's pregnancy hormones. Or...maybe this magnetic pull is forever.

All secrets come with a price in this page-turning romantic suspense by USA Today Bestselling Author, Alexa Padgett. Someone will stop at nothing to silence her... Ethical hacker Tawny Reed chose the FBI over a possible criminal record....and gave up any semblance of a life to meet her handler's stringent demands. But getting stabbed in the line of duty wasn't part of the plan: she deals in code and algorithms, not the blood and violence that cost her father his life. Biology professor Colt Rippey rushes to save an injured woman on the side of the road. That white-knight act tumbles him into Tawny's world of power built on lies--and people's lives. When Tawny reveals she has nowhere to go, Colt suggests they hide in his cabin deep on the Olympic Peninsula. There, he hopes to save Tawny and even give his life some meaning. Danger stalks Tawny and Colt, making it difficult to know who they can trust. The sanctuary Tawny finds in Colt's arms and bed is temporary. Isolated in a remote cabin, hunted by figures who want to silence her, Tawny must outpace and outmaneuver the men who destroyed her life years before. The hunt is on...will Tawny's timebomb explode while Colt risks his life and future to keep Tawny safe?

A sexy, new forbidden romance from USA Today bestselling author Alexa Padgett.For the first time in years, I want... I want Knox Wright. My best friend's brother, my boss...the man who breaks my still-shattered heart. Knox was a college hockey legend and, now, he's one of the most successful architects in decades. I was the new hire whose desperate need to move on from that night drove me to succeed. I never should have accepted the position, not once I looked into Knox Wright's eyes and felt the heat deep in my belly...but I did. Because Knox makes me feel alive. And as I fall under Knox's spell, our relationship turns intense and deep...and secret. When our affair runs the risk of being exposed, I face a far more intimate betrayal than I ever expected.

Rock-n-roll is hell on relationships. Especially his.Aya Aldringham has it all, but wealth can't make her father love her or give her more time with her dying grandfather. Nor can it stop her from yearning for Nash Porter-the boy she never forgot. The boy who saved her. Nash doesn't do relationships, not after watching his parents use each other's feelings as weapons. When he finds Aya again, after so many years, he can't help but get close-really close-like in her bed and in her arms.He can't keep her though. There's a seduction in falling in love, but it's a lie. The truth is in the sold-out crowds who chant his name every night he's on stage.So why does Nash only want Aya?★★★★★ "I love this series" -Samantha, Goodreads Review★★★★★ "My favorite story of this year" -Kate, Goodreads ReviewSWEET OBLIVION is book 1 in the angsty bestselling rockstar romance series OBLIVION. Start reading now-and fall in beat with Nash and Aya's heart-stealing romance

Their love was like a song, full of body and the right notes...Aya Aldringham ran away from Nash's betrayal, but no matter how far she goes, she can't outrun her feelings for him. The only way to survive is to shut down, erecting fences around her heart that are too tall to scale.She puts on a mask for the world, but when trying to move on earns her an unexpected marriage proposal from a new man, Aya is left second-guessing her life choices. What does she really want, and how much longer can she deny who she desires?Nash never recovered from the last night he spent with Aya, and the way she ghosted him proves everything he believes about love and how badly it sucks.Drugs and alcohol numb the gaping, Aya-shaped hole in his heart, when playing to sold-out crowds no longer fills the void. Fame ripped her from his arms, but is he desperate enough to put his faith in an old enemy for a second chance? Because no matter how hard he tries to deny it...While crowds might clamor for just one touch, one look...He only wants hers.CRAVING OBLIVION is book 2 in the angsty bestselling rockstar romance series OBLIVION. Start reading now-and fall in beat with Nash and Aya's heart-stealing romance

He was never supposed to be mine... Nico Wright hates me because of my sister's actions. I hate him because of how he makes me feel. I'm all twisted up with attraction, longing, and a large dose of shame. When I find out he's the architect I need to help me get the old theater turned into a proper dance studio, I have no choice but to use his designs to bring my vision to reality. As I spend with Nico, I realize he's the only one who understands how much I ache over losing my prima ballerina position at the Boston Ballet. He, too, had his dreams shattered by people who claimed to love him. Just like me. I'm learning the real Nico. He cares too much. Unfortunately, I can't let him fall for me, the younger sister of his ex-fianc e who already cost him his job and his reputation. Daring Draftsman is an enemies to lovers/workplace romance inspired by British Bedmate.

When Penelope Davis inherits the farm next to grumpy widower Carlo di Laurentis's farm, neither one of them expect the connection-or alpaca fur-to weave them so tightly together. Carlo loved his job as team lead at a fire station in California, but when his wife dies in a fire, he can't handle the memories...or how he failed her. Her family apple orchard in tiny Cinnamon Bay, all the way across the country, seems like the perfect place to grieve-and do his best to keep her hard apple cider dream alive. Penelope lived for those weeks with her grandmother in Cinnamon Bay. Pen's lived a nomadic life of touring the country from one fair or convention to another, selling her fiber art creations. Yet, now, she's the proud owner of a house, complete with a hot-mess-of-an-almost studio and her very own loom , and a mischievous alpaca who loves to eat her grumpy neighbor's prized apples. First impressions aren't always true, and as Carlo and Pen spend more time together, they come to realize they have much more in common than either expected. But can Pen's optimism help Carlo heal from the shattering truths he uncovers? And will Alpaca Man destroy their first-ever cider press?

The only ice I fear is the frozen wall protecting her battered heart...Keelie Hayes has fast and hard rules about life and love, which have served her well. She's kept her heart safe from being broken again, her trust from another painful shattering.Until I, hockey star Cormac Bouchard, skated onto the scene with my charm and scorching sensual gaze only for her and changed the entire game. Keelie's no longer sure about her rules, but she's throwing up every frosty defense possible to keep from dreaming of that coveted shot at forever. I don't make excuses for my poor choices. I've done the work, put in the hours, and served my time in life's penalty box. Now, I want a place to belong-and to take my Wildcatters to the NHL finals. They've become the family I've always wanted, and I can't let them down.But my iron-willed focus fails me when it comes to the beautiful ice queen I want to melt in the hottest ways possible. If only I could earn her precious trust. I must relinquish my past to be the partner she deserves and the man I want to be.Easier said than done.Dare Cormac go all-in on a long-shot love that just might heal both their pasts and redeem a future neither ever dreamed possible? One-click this hockey romance filled with forgiveness, found family, and outrageous laughs today.