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ife gets a little crazy sometimes, especially when you've got two kids, two businesses, and you are two parents who are very hands on. But when Trick's gift doesn't get here in time for Christmas, I have to improvise. They say variety is the spice of life. To keep my man happy, marriage on track, and our sanity, I decide to give him what he craves most in the world. Me. With a bow on top. Patrick Tennyson won't know what hit him. It'll be the surprise of his life, and all he'll have to do is follow the instructions.

Vladimir has always been the oddball among the Frazier kids. With his love for reptiles, gothic appearance, and devil-may-care attitude, he can be easily separated from the rest of the Frazier bunch. At 22, he is standing on solid ground and trying to create a life of his own. However, it does get lonely sometimes. He is young, but knows his days of partying and sleeping around cannot last forever. He is slowly running out of options when it comes to the female population of Tyler, Texas. Until Carrisa Abbott walks into the pet store where Vladimir works.

It had been a gang rape. As bad as that was, it was not the turning point. Her life turned around when Cindy Smith put it behind her and started over. She got her degree and a good job. She married a great guy. Then she discovered that one of the rapists was a coworker. When Adan Jackson begins harassing her, Cindy tries to protect her secret past by ignoring him. When he escalates, she turns to Private Investigator Nickey Arnold for help. The PI quickly finds herself caught up in unfinished business from the past. When she confronts Adan, things spin out of control.

As a probationary firefighter, I’m doing everything I can to impress the members of my company. Knowing I’m the first in my family to be educated makes me proud, and gives me hope for the future. I hold myself to a higher standard than anyone else, especially with a southern small-town breathing down my neck. One night, on a dark mountain road, I help the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen in my life change a flat tire.

After an eventful Christmas break, Cadence Lewis is shaken to her core, but someone she doesn't expect is there to hold her together. Barrick Carpenter didn't plan on falling in love with the sassy New Yorker, but now he will do anything to protect her from her father. When a second bombshell is dropped on Cadence, she has two options: guard her heart forever or risk letting love in. Will Cadence push Barrick away or fall completely head over boots?

Cadence Lewis has been dancing before she could walk. Living in New York with her parents she has the chance to go to the best dance school in the country, but when her parents divorce she’s forced to leave her dreams behind and move to her mom’s small country hometown. Cadence believes that all men are like her father: cold, unloving, and selfish. Barrick Carpenter has made Candace's life eventful since the day she stepped onto her grandma’s farm.

Attempted murders, intrigue, and scandal are all in a day’s work for Eve, one of DC’s most sought-after escorts. Her admirers include corporate executives, DC cops, and other smitten johns who have seen her dance at the Tahiti men’s club. None of them know her secret. She’s April Walsh, a housewife and writer who has gone deep undercover to investigate DC vice from the inside. Her first priority has always been her marriage. Her writing career has had to take a back seat. That changes when April is assigned to write a story about the sex industry.

Basil Paddington is living his dream. He's built from the ground up a safe space for anyone to get the services they need to feel beautiful. He's very proud of the work he's done and the life he's built. He has a successful business, friends, and a lovely cat named Arnold. What more could he possibly need?

Both Peter Frazier and Trent Lockley thought this about the families they were born into. Two boys, the same age, miles apart. They are both from small Texas towns, born in the same hospital, on the same day. However, their lives turned out to be nothing alike. The Frazier family is a large, lively bunch. The fact that they are close-knit and share every detail of their lives with each other always seemed a little strange to Peter. Although he loves every one of his six siblings and his overly affectionate parents, he couldn’t help but feel out of place around them.

The kid is now a man, and he’s got something to prove..."A Dad is a son’s first hero"...All my life I’ve looked up to my Dad, there’s nothing I ever wanted to do more than be a member of the Moonshine Task Force right next to him. I said no to playing football professionally to stay in Laurel Springs and fulfill my dream. I’m biding my time, paying my dues, and soaking up any bit of information my fellow MTF members slip my way. To most of them I’m the kid they watched grow up, and while they’re proud of me, they don’t take me seriously.

Chance Maxwell is the most arrogant man I’ve ever known - and he’s my boss. Worse, he’s incredibly sexy. At least until he opens his condescending mouth. I hate being indebted to him for this job, but I have more important priorities to worry about. My attraction to him is growing despite my better judgment. But I sure as hell won’t ever reveal it to him.

I’m not a rules kinda guy Department Policy? Kinda sucks, but I do what I have to for the job that I love. Playing it safe? Not my thing. Married? No big deal when I know she’s unhappy and scared. I’m one of those guys - a sniper in the military, a little bit of an adrenaline junkie, and a member of the Moonshine Task Force. I’ve lived through some shit.

My job as the leader of the Moonshine Task Force is my life. I eat, breathe, and sleep it. The men under my command mean the world to me. Knowing they count on my guidance has kept my demons at bay for longer than I care to admit. The control I have over myself is an iron fist that sometimes threatens to squeeze the life out of me. What I want more than anything is to live again - let go of the hurt smothering every bit of light I have in this darkness. I don’t expect it to come in the form of a Moonshiner’s daughter needing my protection.

At the strike of midnight it’s all over! Cinde R. Ella puts it all on the line to win back what is rightfully hers, which was stolen by her evil stepmother. In one night at a secret masquerade ball she makes a deal with a masked stranger. Can this magnetic stranger give her what she wants? One deal. One night. Winner gets everything.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Hotel: A Comedy Play and learn about the guests at The Hotel Pour DohDoh.

I never thought that in the blink of an eye my life could change, but it did. Cresting a hill, driving to my favorite fishing spot, I was hit head-on by a teenager with no regard for anyone’s life but his own. The recovery process has been hard, painful, and damn near beating me down. The bright spot? Blaze. Surviving the wreck has given me a second chance to make a life with her. Not knowing if I’ll ever be able to rejoin the Moonshine Task Force again has brought my world into focus. It’s made me realize what’s important.

I’m the type of man who knows what I want. I make up my mind and stay in my lane, never veering off the course I set for myself. Going into the military? Did it. Youngest member of the Moonshine Task Force? That’s me. Get my best friend’s older sister in bed? It was my pleasure. Age means nothing to me. I’ve seen and done things men twice my age never will. What I want more than anything is someone to share my life with, and that person is my best friend's older sister, Whitney....

I’ve known Avery since she was born. Hell, she’s my best friend’s daughter. I knew that Avery and I had forged an unbreakable bond over the years. What I didn’t realize was that I’m in love with the curvy, beautiful woman she has become. Will her dad try to kill me? I can handle anything if only Avery loves me back.

My name is Ezra Clarke, and I’m 23. Forever. If you’re counting in vampire years, I’m actually 208, and if living that long has taught me anything, it’s that nothing lasts forever. And that’s been fine. It’s...whatever. I’ve never wanted anything that long, anyway, which is why I’ve never taken a mate, but that all changed when I met Declan Byrne.

Michael Wallace is perfectly content with his predictable routine. He's lived in the same town his whole life, waited on the same customers every day, and read the same book over and over again. But his routine is thoroughly shaken when Sigvard Tandoh blows into town with a wicked smile and a mysterious past. Sigvard Tandoh is a cursed Viking who has wandered the Earth for 1,000 years. He thinks he’s done it all, been everywhere, and knows everything.