Specials Romance

Lights, camera - all Maeve needs is action. But at 18, a rare form of muscular dystrophy usually stands in the way of romance. She's got her friends, her humor, and a passion for filmmaking to keep her focus off consistent rejection...and the hot older guy starring in her senior film project. Tall, bearded, and always swaying, Cole Stone is everything Maeve can't be. And she likes it. Between takes, their chemistry is shockingly electric.

When my brother, the alpha wolf, asks me to help secure some land that the vampires promised to us, I don’t hesitate. That’s the thing about being an outcast. When you’re a human who is unable to shift, you’ll do whatever it takes to prove yourself. That includes making a deal with a vampire. Their kind killed our parents, so I know they’re not to be trusted, but Jason is nothing like I expected. I’m certain he’s playing games and trying to trick me with the contract. Except I can’t ignore the way he makes the blood pump through my veins.

Music is Simon’s life - which is why he is devastated when a stroke destroys his hearing. He resists attempts to help him adjust to his new state, refusing to be counseled, refusing to learn sign language, refusing to have anything to do with Deaf culture. Refusing, that is, until he meets G, a tough-as-nails girl dealing with her own newly experienced deafness.

Missy Carter leads a rather boring, overworked life as a system analyst for the State Department, or rather that’s what she lets everyone believe. As a Shadow Agent with the Paranormal Security and Intelligence, she’s seen and done it all. Intelligence is her specialty; assassination is her hobby. She’s learned to handle anything life can throw at her. That is until the biggest paramilitary pain in her backside shows up again. Lucky for him, he’s good looking.

High school senior Jesse Alderman, or Sway as he's known, could sell hell to a bishop. He also specializes in getting things people want—term papers, a date with the prom queen, fake IDs. It's all business with Jesse. He has few close friends and he never lets emotions get in the way.

Kate Reynolds has just graduated from college and is determined to make it on her own. Her job as a junior political analyst at the CIA is a dream come true and the perfect opportunity to find answers about the night that’s plagued her for four years - the night she lost her fiancé, Matt, on a Special Forces mission in Afghanistan. Kate’s consumed with uncovering the truth and avenging the man she loved and lost, even if it means risking her own life to prove that his death wasn’t an accident.

Merilee leads a Very Ordered Existence: V.O.E. for short. She does not have time for Biswick O'Connor. She does not have time for Miss Veraleen Holliday. He with his annoying factoids and runny nose; she with her shining white shoes as big as sailboats. Both of them strangers who, like the hot desert wind that brings only bad news, blow into town and change everything.

Hailey Parrish used to be an average, everyday human. Boring, in fact. After being possessed by Sebastian Kess, a magically inclined enforcer from the parallel dimension Coursodon, her life took a decidedly less mundane turn. Besides coming to grips with the existence of supernatural beings, she risked her life helping Sebastian and her heart falling for his protégé, Alex Sunderland.

Die toughe Plussize-Schauspielerin Christina trifft auf den knallharten Ex-Marine Eric. Vom ersten Moment an fliegen zwischen den beiden die Funken, doch Stolz, verletzte Gefühle und die Schatten der Vergangenheit stehen den beiden im Weg.

Hazel ha sedici anni, ma ha già alle spalle un vero miracolo: grazie a un farmaco sperimentale, la malattia che anni prima le hanno diagnosticato è ora in regressione. Ha però anche imparato che i miracoli si pagano: mentre lei rimbalzava tra corse in ospedale e lunghe degenze, il mondo correva veloce, lasciandola indietro, sola e fuori sincrono rispetto alle sue coetanee, con una vita in frantumi in cui i pezzi non si incastrano più.

Stella was born to sing. Someday Broadway. But everything changes when a tragic accident renders her deaf; she cannot hear, much less sing. Trapped in a strange new world of total silence, she must face not only the loss of her friends, her hopes, and her voice but also the loss of her identity and her life's purpose. Who is she if she's not a singer? Hayden is a quiet loner, an outcast, and the only person Stella can communicate with; his profound stutter makes him speak so slowly, she is able to easily read his lips.

Dr. James Hagen thought he'd bid the Paranormal Security and Intelligence Agency good riddance nearly 10 years back. He'd been an operative with them for so long that carving out a new path in life had taken time, but he'd achieved it. He'd made it his mission in life to help the wayward find a path again, to help those who couldn't help themselves.

Robert Prentice has spent all his life attempting to escape his mother's stifling presence. His mother, Alice, for her part, struggles with her own demons as she attempts to realize her dreams of prosperity and success as a sculptor. As Robert goes off to fight in Europe, hoping to become his own man, Richard Yates portrays a soldier in the depths of war striving to live up to his heroic ideals.

Mientras acompaña a su esposa Zoya, que agoniza en un hospital de Londres, Georgi Danilovich Yáchmenev rememora la vida que han compartido durante sesenta y cinco años, una vida marcada por un gran secreto que nunca ha salido a la luz. Los recuerdos se agolpan en una sucesión de imágenes imborrables, a partir de aquel lejano día en que Georgi abandonó su mísero pueblo natal para formar parte de la guardia personal de Alexis Romanov, el único hijo varón del zar Nicolás II.

Eyes gets in deeper than he thought with a battle he never imagined he'd have to fight - in the arena of love. Will he be able to focus on the mission at hand while this breathtaking woman is now front and center in his life? Follow Eyes, Sleep, Brackish, Smoke, and Green on the last steps of this journey - showing what a team of true alpha males can accomplish when their focus is on the same goal and have all the resources they ever want.

I didn’t expect to fall for my best friend, or to discover that I’m his fated mate. And I certainly never imagined that I would find myself pregnant with his twin sons and the target of dangerous threats. Xander's more attracted to me than ever—and more fiercely protective. He insists we leave town and take shelter with family to keep us safe. But not everyone is supportive or welcoming, and with all the pressure on Xander to be a strong alpha, he’s turning into someone I no longer recognize.

Patrick Crenshaw is the sort of dangerous businessman my father warned me about. One minute, the Silver Claw alpha is making my blood boil, and the next I’m heated with passion. And now he’s my fiancé. It’s completely fake, of course. Except, Patrick is a little too good at pretending I'm his, and the looks he keeps sending me only fuel my desire. But if I want to find who murdered my father, I have no choice but to go along with the fake engagement and the merger of our companies.

Former mercenary Zane Ackerman wants a family. In particular, he wants a child who’ll be his legacy—and his heir. That’s because his upcoming mission might be his last, and it’s made him all too aware of his own mortality. Architect Lesley Walker wants a family, too. She craves a baby of her own.

Tyrell Rice, known as Smoke to his military contacts, is on a mission. Number one is to break down the walls of a drug cartel circle that’s been affecting those he cares about for far too long. His number two mission, not to succumb to the marriage flu that’s been infecting all of the men around him. Smoke is former military, and a former NFL superstar. He’s been around the block many times around.

Barriers is book three in the Anderson: Special Ops series written by Melody Anne and John Henley that continues the journey of former military men now working to purge Seattle and her surrounding areas of drugs and crime - which is no easy feat. We’ve all watched as two of the team members have busted the bad guys while also managing to fall in love. Now it’s Green’s turn to step up to the table.