Marie Johnston

In high school, my crush on Flynn wasn't so secret, but he was so far out of my league that I didn't care. I had more important things to survive. Ten years have passed, I've built a new life, and it's my lucky day. He's one of the eligible bachelors in the fundraising auction I'm helping organize. I saved money to donate to an organization that helped me escape a bad situation, but if I can give it to the same cause and buy a week away with Flynn, why not?***The girl I once knew as Crazy J, the one obsessed with me in high school, just won a week with me at my lake cabin. I've built my empire on reputation, it's how I land accounts worth millions, but Tilly Johnson gives zero thought to what people think of her. From her Wacky Monday work clothes to her raucous laughter, I should be cringing every time she walks into the same room as me and opens her mouth. Only I'm starting to crave it. I want more of what Tilly has to offer. Until her reputation clashes with one of my biggest accounts and threatens to bring my world crashing down. Helping her could cost me everything. First to Bid is a full-length standalone novel in the Unraveled series. It was previously published as Highest Bidder in the now obsolete Fanboys series.

By day, I'm a strict principal of a private school filled with wealthy families like the one I grew up in. By night, I'm a lithe assassin with a penchant for latex and roller derby. At least my cosplay character is, and I never let my personal life bleed into my professional one. Until the handsome comic book shop owner I had a steamy session with at the local comic con walks into my office. Chris is the father of one of my students, and completely off limits. I wouldn't be a good role model for all my young students if I trashed my career over a guy, not even one I can't quit thinking about. ***As a business owner and single father, I don't have time to date. But when work and pleasure collide in a dark corner of the local comic con, I'm willing to make dating a priority. Only the hot cosplayer in the tight body suit disappears in the crowd before I get her real name. When I see her again, she's behind an imposing desk, wearing eye glasses instead of a mask, and reprimanding my daughter. Natalia's determined to keep our roles strictly professional, but I'm determined to get another taste of the uninhibited woman hidden under that business suit. First to Fail is a full-length standalone novel in the Unraveled series. It was previously published as Based on Principal in the now obsolete Fanboys series.

If only I can confront my new landlord and convince him how much the place means to me, and how much it meant to his father. But he's ignoring my calls and my emails, so I take it one step farther and track him down in his nightclub. I should've done my research first.***I inherited all my dad's assets and ambition, but none of his gullibility. Some young thing tried scamming him out of a place worth millions and she thinks she can fool me. So imagine my surprise when I hit on an insanely hot woman at my nightclub and learn she's the persistent comic book shop owner I've been avoiding. She stopped in to find me, but has no idea who I really am. It's time to teach her a lesson. Using a fake name, I get close to her. The only problem is, I want to keep getting closer and to do that I have to keep lying.First to Lie is a full-length standalone novel in the Unraveled series. It was previously published as Unmistaken Identity in the now obsolete Fanboys series.

In high school, my crush on Flynn wasn't so secret, but he was so far out of my league that I didn't care. I had more important things to survive. Ten years have passed, I've built a new life, and it's my lucky day. He's one of the eligible bachelors in the fundraising auction I'm helping organize. I saved money to donate to an organization that helped me escape a bad situation, but if I can give it to the same cause and buy a week away with Flynn, why not?***The girl I once knew as Crazy J, the one obsessed with me in high school, just won a week with me at my lake cabin. I've built my empire on reputation, it's how I land accounts worth millions, but Tilly Johnson gives zero thought to what people think of her. From her Wacky Monday work clothes to her raucous laughter, I should be cringing every time she walks into the same room as me and opens her mouth. Only I'm starting to crave it. I want more of what Tilly has to offer. Until her reputation clashes with one of my biggest accounts and threatens to bring my world crashing down. Helping her could cost me everything. First to Bid is a full-length standalone novel in the Unraveled series. It was previously published as Highest Bidder in the now obsolete Fanboys series.

By day, I'm a strict principal of a private school filled with wealthy families like the one I grew up in. By night, I'm a lithe assassin with a penchant for latex and roller derby. At least my cosplay character is, and I never let my personal life bleed into my professional one. Until the handsome comic book shop owner I had a steamy session with at the local comic con walks into my office. Chris is the father of one of my students, and completely off limits. I wouldn't be a good role model for all my young students if I trashed my career over a guy, not even one I can't quit thinking about. ***As a business owner and single father, I don't have time to date. But when work and pleasure collide in a dark corner of the local comic con, I'm willing to make dating a priority. Only the hot cosplayer in the tight body suit disappears in the crowd before I get her real name. When I see her again, she's behind an imposing desk, wearing eye glasses instead of a mask, and reprimanding my daughter. Natalia's determined to keep our roles strictly professional, but I'm determined to get another taste of the uninhibited woman hidden under that business suit. First to Fail is a full-length standalone novel in the Unraveled series. It was previously published as Based on Principal in the now obsolete Fanboys series.

I'm living the dream. My comic book shop supports me and my ailing mother, and I have a chance to buy the strip mall it's in. For only a dollar. That is until my dear friend and landlord dies before the sale, leaving the place to his estranged son who plans to shut my store down and sell the building. If only I can confront my new landlord and convince him how much the place means to me, and how much it meant to his father. But he's ignoring my calls and my emails, so I take it one step farther and track him down in his nightclub. I should've done my research first.***I inherited all my dad's assets and ambition, but none of his gullibility. Some young thing tried scamming him out of a place worth millions and she thinks she can fool me. So imagine my surprise when I hit on an insanely hot woman at my nightclub and learn she's the persistent comic book shop owner I've been avoiding. She stopped in to find me, but has no idea who I really am. It's time to teach her a lesson. Using a fake name, I get close to her. The only problem is, I want to keep getting closer and to do that I have to keep lying.First to Lie is a full-length standalone novel in the Unraveled series. It was previously published as Unmistaken Identity in the now obsolete Fanboys series.

Broke, jobless, and stranded in Las Vegas on Valentine's Day, I am forced to call my parents for a bailout. Again. A pampered princess and wannabe environmentalist, I know I'm a clich and would do anything to change it. So when I meet Xander, a struggling photojournalist with absolutely nothing in common with my domineering, millionaire parents, I know just where to go next: A wedding chapel.But when I wake up the next day, my matrimonial rebellion comes with an unpleasant surprise. My husband is no penniless globetrotter-Xander King is the son of a billionaire oil tycoon, and my parents couldn't approve of the match more. Now the only thing that could shock them would be a quickie divorce...except my new husband has a proposition for me. ***I take one look at Savvy and know I could spend the rest of my life with her. The feeling is mutual...until she figures out who I am. I didn't mean to hide my identity, and I thought a desire to get out from under the weight of familial baggage was something we had in common. But with Savvy just moments from proposing divorce, I offer her the one thing I'd been ready to walk away from: A trust fund worth millions.All Savvy has to do is stay married to me for a year and then she'll get half-except I have no intention of letting her go after 365 days. I've spent a decade running from my father's disapproval and my brothers' successes. Now I'm willing to spend a lifetime convincing the woman I love to stay put by my side.

I've been the wicked witch of King's Creek since I was eight years old, from my angry red hair down to my ball-busting boots. With a mean drunk for a daddy who left nothing but insults and unpaid bills in his wake, was there ever any other fate? Now his passing has left me one bad turn from losing my land to the neighbors my family's been feuding with for generations. So of course it's Dawson King who comes to my rescue in the middle of a snowstorm. But I don't care how good he looks in a pair of Wranglers, or how much he spoils my horse, or how great of a cook he is. The Kings already have everything-money, looks, and charm. Dawson's not getting my heart too.***I'm living my dream, I admit it. I took over the family ranch from my dad and grew it into the envy of Montana. I have the best views, the best employees, and the respect of the entire town. The only thing I don't have is someone to share my dream with. So when my neighbor breaks her leg and nearly freezes to death, I all but kidnap her back to my place to recover. We grew up less than a mile apart, but we couldn't be in more different places now. Bristol's had nothing but pride for so long, it's hard to get close to her-and I want to get very close. I don't care if the whole town loves me, I'm only interested in earning the love of one woman. But for a guy who's got the world at his feet, Bristol's heart might be out of my reach.

She's used to rescuing strays and injured animals, but she's not prepared for the wolf-shifter passed out in her ditch.Patience doesn't always live up to her name and she wants the guy she brought home to sleep one off gone. She's figured out what he is, and since she's human and shouldn't know his kind exists, she's worried he'll start asking all the wrong questions. Because that's not the only secret she's hiding. The sooner her stray gets going the better.Malcolm was lost in so many ways when Patience woke him up in that cold ditch. Just when he's ready dust himself off and go back to work finding his long-lost sister, he realizes the pretty human knows more than she's letting on. Since his job to is to protect shifter-kind, it's a handy excuse to hang around. It's hard keeping her private life private when Malcolm ingratiates himself so seamlessly into every part of it, and even worse when she likes it. But when their pasts clash with their present and her secret rescue work is exposed, danger claws at her doorstep. Will that be when Malcolm finally leaves her for good?

It was supposed to be a simple case of revenge: get to know King Tech owner and CEO Beckett King, learn his secrets, and ruin his life like he ruined my brother's. But Beckett King offers me a deal I can't refuse. Not only does he want me to pretend to be engaged to him, he needs to marry me to get his grandmother off his back. And at the end of the year, we can go our separate ways, only I'll be a whole lot richer. I won't fall for his irresistible good looks, or that aw, shucks country-boy charm he still possesses from growing up on a ranch. I'm smarter than that. He has a lesson to learn and I'm the best one to teach him. But that's the tricky thing with revenge. It doesn't always go as planned.

KendallAfter losing my job and my home in the same day, I need a miracle. And that miracle is coming in the form of an interview with the son of a local oil baron, Gentry King. The catch? I have to hop on a private jet with said gorgeous oil baron to get to the interview.Except, I miss the interview when we get waylaid by a snowstorm. Now I'm stranded with Mr. King. In the same hotel room. With only one bed.GentryI've made a promise to myself--no more women. It's not like I'm a love 'em and leave 'em kind of guy. They all know the score, and they're all looking for the same thing I am. But I have to set a better example for my grown sons, who seem to be making all the wrong decisions when it comes to their relationships.The last thing I need is to be stranded in a snowstorm with Kendall, twenty years my junior and unintentionally sexy. We're stuck in very close quarters. With no electricity. And no heat other than what we can generate...

He doesn't have to like his new mate, even if she is the only angel to accept him. Bryant should've behaved himself. Now he's been ordered to find a mate. Easier said than done when a bloke like him looks the way he does in a realm full of angels. He'd rather be fighting the good fight in the human realm. But mating the ravishing female that claims him shouldn't be a hardship. If only her father wasn't the reason for his scars. Perhaps mating the surly, scowling warrior wasn't Odessa's best idea. But she's committed, and he's...frustrating. Enticing. Carrying a grudge she knows nothing about. Yet when her boss winds up dead and she's attacked, he's there to save her. Digging into the danger Odessa's facing uncovers an ambitious plot against the realm. Good thing Bryant's a persistent guy. He'll stick to Odessa's side and keep her safe, all so he can let her go in the end. Because one thing he's learned about the down-to-earth angel is that she deserves better than him. Except Odessa doesn't want to be rid of the loyal warrior. But that's an argument for a day when someone's not trying to kill them.

His thoughts are less than angelic around her.... Jagger Hancock is a fearsome warrior for the angelic realm, slaying demons left and right on Earth and protecting the human race. But when a powerful senator is murdered, he's reduced to acting as a bodyguard for the grieving daughter. Too bad she's the same female who ruined his one and only chance at happiness. Felicia Montclaire looks as angelic as the rest of her kind, but she hides her scars well. Yet the male who gave them to her is not just after her again, but seeking conquest over the entire realm too. While her life goes up in flames once more, the last thing she needs is a cranky bodyguard...even if he's the only one who can keep her alive. Jagger and Felicia might not survive each other, much less the constant attacks from their enemies. But when danger drives them back to the angelic realm, they'll discover their past is waiting for them--and it's far more dangerous than anything on Earth.

Years after Gray had a complete mental breakdown that cost him everything, he's clawed his way back to mental balance, a steady job, and a solid relationship with his grown and married daughter. Gone are the years of thinking conspiracies abound and that he is being followed...until a stunning woman busts down his back door and announces that there's a secret world he doesn't know about--and it's hunting him. After losing her mate and one of her children, Armana abandoned the shifter world to spare the lives of her two surviving children. Two decades later, they're grown and healthy, but she's between packs and still fighting for a relationship with her angry son. So coming to the aid of his mate's human father seems like a good way to prove herself. Only she can't shake the feelings growing for Gray, and he finds a kindred spirit in her. But if they reach safety, the shifter world won't let Gray keep his memories of their kind. And Armana will become nothing more than a dream that drives him back into insanity.

Porter Denlan's home is in turmoil, his pack lives in fear of their cruel leader, but he knows one female whose birthright can govern them without question. Unfortunately, his nemesis is also searching for her--and it isn't to bring her back to the home she was taken from. Raised as a human, Maggie Miller wishes she could connect with her species. But when a sexy carpenter comes into her work making outrageous claims about her destiny, she blows him off--despite her intense attraction toward the rugged male. Hours after she watched his admirable backside walk out, three brutes attack her. Unable to stay away from her, Porter jumps to her aid; they barely escape. On the run, they learn what Maggie's birthright truly is--and how it could tear them apart.

Chayton Eagle comes from a strong line of wolf shifters, his father an ancient in their pack. He proudly acts as a Guardian to their people, but the one thing he doesn't need is human-raised Kaitlyn on his team--especially when she passes out each time she shifts And he has to remember he's scheduled to take the blood oath with another female, a long-ago pairing arranged by her parents. It doesn't matter he and Kaitlyn are fated mates. She can't be his. Not now. Not ever. Kaitlyn Savoy knows Chayton is supposed to be her mate. Too bad he's such an ass about her human upbringing making her weak. Too bad she's been assigned as his partner to take down the feral shifters threatening one of the colonies. Too bad she's so damn attracted to him, a tidbit Chayton's soon-to-be inlaws notice. And they intend to put an end to the temptation Kaitlyn poses.

Two years ago, Lucas's high-school sweetheart divorced him for her boss, leaving him with nothing but a string of words like unreliable, disappointing, and failure. He hasn't looked at another woman since--a failing farm and an ailing dad are all he has time for. But when an old friend moves back next door, he can't help but notice she's a woman. And single. And ignoring him. Seven years ago, Trina's boyfriend left her for greener pastures, leaving her nothing but a son and no child support to help raise him. So when she's late for the interview of a lifetime and the childhood friend who abandoned her offers to cover, she can't afford to say no. The proposal is clear: pretend to date him and she'll get the job she needs with his aunt. They both know the deal. It should be no problem. But the more Lucas learns about Trina's plans and ambitions, the more he knows his ex-wife was right--he has nothing to offer. Yet the bigger the glimpse Trina gets into Lucas's lonely life, the more she wants to be a part of it, even at the risk of her own damaged heart. These old friends have so much more to risk the second time around, but the temptation next door has never looked so good.