Calle J Brookes

HE'D ALWAYS WANTED HER.Nick Tyler had done the noble thing twenty years ago by pushing Robin Patton away when she'd been a teenager with a crush on an older man. Then life had taken them in different directions.But Robin was back in Masterson now. As gorgeous, tempting and intriguing as ever.Nick was never going to survive.WOW. SOME MEN SERIOUSLY GOT BETTER WITH AGE...Nick Tyler was one of them. After one week working with him Robin had come up with a plan. No touching Nick, no falling for Nick, and definitely no kissingNick.It just wasn't safe.Besides, Robin was far too busy raising three kids on her own to even think about a relationship with a man like Nick...right?But staying away from him was just so hard to do.She was doing good-until one day at work...when there was a knock on the door. A social worker stood there-holding the hand of a little girl.A little girl who was all alone now.A little girl with Tyler blue eyes, and the word daddy on her lips.HE HAD A DAUGHTER HE DIDN'T KNOW.He'd been robbed of six years of his daughter's life-he hadn't even known she'd existed. But Nick had her with him now, where she belonged.Seeing how Nick was determined to be the best father he could had Robin falling hard. Changing her plans. Just a little. Because someone had to help him. And it was going to be her.But helping Nick just kept turning into kissing Nick now...

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO START OVER.When her late husband's family almost abducts her two-year-old daughter, trauma counselor Glenna Carnes knows she has only one real choice. It is time to leave Finley Creek behind-and start a new life elsewhere.She just has to find a job somewhere first. And a place to live.SECOND CHANCES DON'T COME OFTEN ENOUGH.No one knows that more than him.Rancher Phil Tyler has worked hard to build his struggling ranch into something he and his kids-and a whole host of in-laws and grandkids-can be proud of after life has thrown them all some seriously hard knocks.But managing the ranch, his new business ventures, and his three youngest sons is almost more than he can handle right now. He needs a housekeeper. Fast.AND... THERE SHE IS.Glenna...needing help.Hiring the pretty green-eyed blonde almost ten years his junior to be his housekeeper seems like the perfect solution to both their problems. Especially when Glenna smiles right at him. Making him feel young and alive again. Now he has to convince his brand-new housekeeper to go after that second chance they both deserve.Because Phil wants to be holding her forever now...

That damned man is back. This is not good.She isn't ready for her late husband's best friend now.Retired physician Rhea Masterson is finally finding her footing again after losing her husband of thirty-five years.Life is good again-her sons have all married and are making her the grandchildren she adores. She's got things to keep her busy. Rhea likes being busy. She gets things done that way.Rhea is happy now.Until her husband's best friend, retired general and diplomat Gerald Talley, moves is overly rigid rear end in right next door...For some reason he thinks it's his job to wrangle Rhea now. Well, that's just not going to happen. Now she has to convince a man used to handling warring nations that she doesn't need him to handle her...

◆◆◆◆◆ TAMING THE BEAST? -NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. ◆◆◆◆◆ Not when the beast is Major Crimes Detective Jake MacNamara. Sparks fly between them every whenever they meet. Shelby Jacobson doesn't have time to deal with him.Especially now.He is just getting in Shelby's way as she finally fights to keep a promise made long ago.◆◆◆ HE LIVES FOR THE JOB. ◆◆◆ The TSP and being a cop is so deeply entrenched in his soul Jake doesn't know where the Texas State Police ends and he begins.But... he has always wanted Shelby. And sometimes the woman who had inherited millions just gets too close. Tempts him too much.That makes him a bit...surly...where the sweetly shy lady is concerned. He knows he's an ass to her, but it's the only real defense he has against her. Jake is made for work boots and cotton T-shirts-not donning tuxedos and attending charity benefits with a woman like her. He'll just keep his distance so he doesn't do anything stupid.◆◆◆ BUT... ◆◆◆Shelby has a secret so dark and dangerous people will kill to keep it hidden. Now she's found herself entangled in the biggest case of Jake's career-with only one man who can protect her.Only...Jake and the TSP might not be enough to keep her safe. If Jake fails, Shelby will pay the price. And Jake will lose the one woman he has ever loved forever. ★★★★★Stand Next to Me takes place one year after the events of the Finley Creek: Disaster trilogy, and is a complete, stand-alone romantic suspense novel. ★★★★★

★ FIVE MONTHS JUST WASN'T LONG ENOUGH. ★ After practically kidnapping her boss's baby to protect Violet from a drunken gunman seeking revenge, Maggie is finally back in Masterson County. It's time to give Violet back to the sexy-as-sin single father who still burns Maggie with just one look. The same man who broke her heart after that one beautiful night they spent together. The night that never should have happened. ★ HE ONLY HAS ONE CHANCE TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT. ★ Wyoming Highway Patrol investigator Clint Gunderson nearly lost the two people he loved most to the damned job. Once this last case wrapped up, he was leaving law enforcement forever. And getting his family back. His infant daughter-and Maggie Tyler. Maggie, the woman who haunts his dreams at night. He has a lot to make up for with that woman. But while he's convincing the woman he loves to give him a second chance, someone else is watching. Someone far too close to Maggie. Someone who wants something only Clint can give them. Something that if revealed will make all Clint values go up in flames-and take Maggie away from him forever.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ EVERYONE HAS SECRETS THEY WANT TO KEEP ★ ★ ★ ★ ★Jaclyn Jones has earned her stripes for the FBI: PAVAD division over the last four years. When a murder case involving a friend of hers comes into PAVAD's jurisdiction, Jac takes the lead.Along with her former partner Max Jones-same last name, absolutely no relation. They were nothing to each other any longer. They were previously known as the infamous duo, Jones and Jones-until one heated kiss changed everything between them.A kiss that sent Max running for the proverbial hills like his boxers were on fire. Now Jac has to put all of her chaotic feelings where Max is concerned aside to focus on finding her murdered friend's missing daughters-two little girls who eerily remind Jac of herself and her own younger sister. The little sister Jac will always protect. Jac and her sister had been vulnerable and in the hands of a madman once, too.★ ★ ★ SECRETS. LIES. ENEMIES. ★ ★ ★But there are more secrets in PAVAD than one heated kiss between partners-and those secrets have a way of coming to the surface at the worst possible time.A PAVAD agent is dead, his wife and three children devastated-and the killer is targeting people Jac considers friends. Family. The people she loves. Now, the only people she knows she can trust completely are the ones on her team-and the one man who has almost always had her back. ★ ★ ★ SAFE. IN HIS ARMS. ★ ★ ★ The only place Jac truly feels safe now is in Max's arms.Jac and Max have to figure things out-both on the job and between themselves fast.Because if the enemy is as close as Max suspects, they might not ever get the chance again...

Trouble. She doesn't need his kind of trouble...The sheriff of Masterson County had always meant trouble-especially for the Tylers of Tyler Township.The last thing Phoebe Tyler needs is the sheriff complicating her life. She has to focus on helping her widowed father run their struggling ranch and raise her younger brothers. When the sheriff shows up with her teenage brother, Phoebe knows more problems are right behind him.He has a job to do...Sheriff Joel Masterson has an entire county depending on him to keep them safe.He doesn't need more trouble with the rabble-rousing Tylers. But once he gets a good look at the eldest Tyler daughter, things get complicated. Real complicated-real quick.Now Joel doesn't mind trouble-at least...not Phoebe's kind.Trouble has a way of finding all the Tylers sooner or later. Phoebe is no exception.But this time the sheriff might not be enough to keep Phoebe safe, after all...

A dead grandmother is a good reason to run... Fourteen years ago, the Beise family just disappeared. Rumors filled the small town of Masterson-everything from mass slaughter to alien abductions. PAVAD: FBI Agent Miranda Talley had always wondered what happened to her best friend's family. When human remains are found buried in the Beise family barn, Miranda returns to her Wyoming hometown to find the answers. With potential-PAVAD agent-and sheer pain-in-the-ass-Allan Knight tagging along, Miranda leads her own team of PAVAD agents and the sheriff of Masterson County deep into the secrets of the town she'd always loved. Secrets people will kill to keep buried...

She had survived. She could survive. She would survive again.After a brutal assault and cancer as a teenager, Dr. Nikkie Jean Netorre wouldn't let herself be called a victim. Nikkie Jean wasn't a victim. She was a survivor. Now a pediatric surgical resident at the best teaching hospital in Texas, Nikkie Jean knows there's nothing she can't make it through if she just keeps going. Even an F4 tornado bearing down on the hospital she loves so much.Even falling for Dr. Caine Alvaro, Chief of Medicine at nearby Barratt County General Hospital. Caine-identical twin to one of the few men Nikkie Jean half-way trusted. Caine, the one man she doesn't fear. The one man she had almost let in. Almost. Just when he got close to her, they both retreated behind the walls they'd erected years ago to protect their hearts.Caine's past was just as painful as Nikkie Jean's. They were two wounded people surviving in a world of hurt. As Nikkie Jean fights the instincts telling her to run from the one man she could love, and Caine fights the urges to protect the first woman to break through the shell around his heart after the loss of his wife two years earlier, the pain swirls around them like the storms bearing down on Finley Creek. Until the only ones they can turn to are each other. But actions have consequences-a lesson Nikkie Jean and Caine had learned long ago. Their actions have led to a very big consequence for both of them, and for Caine's three young children. Nikkie Jean and Caine have just changed everything for everyone. But the actions of another physician are far more sinister-and Nikkie Jean just might become a victim once again.Unless Caine could keep her safe from the one threat they couldn't see coming.