Kirjahaku

Nothing about them fits, and they shouldn't be trying to make it work, but Deke and Taylor know that after all life has thrown at them, they were meant to be. CAN'T GET HER... Deke Gregory has a type - petite, feminine, pliable. His ex-wife was his ideal, but she wasn't his, obviously. Faced with the realities of joint custody and a family "village" raising his son, Deke sets out to find a woman who ticks all his boxes and thinks he walks on water. Enter Doctor Taylor De Witt: tall, strong, willful, opinionated, and too busy to be bothered with soothing his rough edges. Imagine his surprise when he falls for her - hard. OUT OF HIS HEART Taylor De Witt knew she would be a heart surgeon since college. Now a single mother with a schedule that requires roller blades, she has little time for her family, never mind a social life. When she meets Deke Gregory she thinks he's a Neanderthal - yummy, but from a different era. Little does she know what their mutual attraction will bring, including examining her life to include an everlasting love.

A VOW...When Ike Jeffries married Cassandra Siler he believed in their future, and he couldn't wait to meet their daughter, born on Christmas Eve. What should have been a blessed event turned into a nightmare when Cassie disappeared with their baby girl. With a hardened heart, Ike finds them five long years later and learns that everything he thought he knew about his wife and child was a lie.AND A PROMISECassie Jeffries loved her husband with all her heart. But after the birth of their daughter she discovered a horrible truth about the child that forced her to run for their lives. Crisscrossing the country until she found a new home, Cassie knew she'd done the right thing until Ike found them and demanded answers she wasn't prepared to share. But life has a way of giving you what you need, and Cassie and her daughter needed the family they had left behind, even if it meant fighting for what was right, and for what she'd forsaken all those years ago.

EXES AND OHSThe marriage was one of convenience. She had status and he had money. But... there was something there, and both of them felt it. After three years of him working long hours and her spending too much time at the Durango Street Theatre, Miguel Abonce and Vivienne Heiser called it quits. One year later, they are forced to work together to save or sell the theater. In the process they discover things they never knew about each other and they learn there's more between them than burning up the sheets. They might really love each other after all.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY, HONEYMaggie Gutierrez's job is to keep the Durango Street Theatre afloat financially. In other words, she spends her days sticking her hand in people's pockets in the hopes of pulling out cash. Well, euphemistically. The Harrington Foundation grant would go a long way to ensuring the theater's continued survival, but the administrator of the grant is the guy she used to crush on in a big way, and the last time they saw each other...let's say things didn't go so well. As in, he blames her for his father's death. Soooo...what's a girl to do? Anything she can to get that grant, including spending time with him, which takes them down a road that might just lead to a forever neither envisioned.

SUCH A GREAT ACTOREverything in Wade Baxter's life is controlled and compartmentalized. To the world he's a laid-back, handsome, urban cowboy who's good at his job, is adored by his friends and family, and is the star of his city's community theater. But inside, a hideous dark lurks in the shadows of his psyche, and he cannot, will not let that ugliness show. When he meets Owen Aldrete, a man who's scars are visible - a former bomb squad cop who took a blast to the face - Wade is forced to confront his demons or he will lose the man he's fallen in love with, and he'll never get a lifetime to show Owen he's the most beautiful person Wade has ever known.

HAZARDOUS DUTYIt took the Academy Director of the Durango Street Theatre Jessica Clary years to get over her husband's death - a bomb squad officer who died in the line of duty. After growing up with a cop father, she knew all too well she was not meant to be waiting all night worrying, never mind being widowed again. She has a son who never knew his dad, and refuses to set him up for a lifetime of heartache. Then SWAT officer Brian Howard dances his way into her life, and she has to make a choice: be happy or be safe.

RESISTING THE UNEXPECTEDLetti Aldrete's dreams fizzled some eighteen years ago, but that doesn't mean her daughter can't live the life Letti always wanted. Sure, some people think she's the stage mother from hell, but she won't be denied. Letti is happy enough acting in the community theater's productions, but increasingly, the leads are going to younger women, and Letti is pissed off. She looks good. Could play twenty-five with the right makeup, wigs, and costumes, and everyone agrees she's the powerhouse female talent at the Durango Street Theatre. When her daughter is cast in a minor role in the theater's newest production, Letti blows up, and does it in front of a one-night stand who is fifteen years her junior. Five years ago, delicious Kevin Summerset had been a wild, unforgettable night, but no way will there be a repeat performance, and no matter what he says, Letti's not going there again. Kevin has other ideas.

BONUS NOVELLA INCLUDED THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAMSubtle glances, suggestive smirks, passing comments laced with innuendo...Cameron Heiser and Josh Goldstein have been quietly flirting for years. Just when the time seems right to act on their desire, Josh's focus shifts when unexpectedly, he becomes father to his young niece and nephew. Cam doesn't date men with kids. Too many complications. He likes his fun to flow with the pace of his life. He comes and goes as he pleases, and getting involved with someone else's family is more than he's willing to take on. Even for Josh.But the pull is too strong, and they strike a deal. What they have has to remain separate from Josh's family life. No kids involved. What starts out as the apparent perfect solution turns into everything Cam swore he wouldn't do. Josh's time is not his own, and Cam is not good with waiting on the sidelines.Miserable apart, Cam sees no way to make it work until fate's hand pushes him in a direction he never saw possible. No one is more surprised to learn, love really does conquer all.

THE BEST KEPT SECRETSDurango's production manager, Miranda Jenks is straightforward and honest. She deals with life head-on no matter what it brings, and she's not afraid to speak her mind. But... she's been harboring a soul-destroying secret for years, and when Ross Ellis returns to town to try to clean up his mess, she can't tell him the truth.Ross has made more mistakes than he can count, and all of them are worse than horrible. The only reason he's bothered to come back to his farm is for his teenage daughter, and he hopes like hell she'll let him make amends.Miranda is the last person he'd thought would forgive him, and as they spend more time together he finds they fill each other's gaps. Until he uncovers the lies she's been keeping for years.Two lonely people who understand each other better than most must find a way to heal the breach or they'll never get to the happy they're reaching for.