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Edge of DangerEven for a complete screw-up, Fiona O’Malley was having a really, really bad week. After the car trip from hell leaves her stranded on the highway with no one available to help her, she’s forced to call the last man she should ever talk to: FBI Special Agent in Charge, (and Fiona’s former boss) Andrew Sherwood. And if having to break down and call Andrew wasn’t bad enough, by the time he arrives, she’s doing battle with a gang of armed thugs. Andrew rescues her from the thugs, and drives her home, only to find out that her house is a very small pile of smoldering rubble. When she’s nearly killed in the FBI safe house where Andrew stashed her, he comes to her rescue again. Andrew Sherwood thought his life had gotten a lot easier when Fiona O’Malley finally did what all his secretaries had and quit. The young woman had made his office entirely too distracting. Or rather, his attraction to her had. He hadn’t known how to handle the first woman he’d felt anything for since his wife had died four years before. But as much relief as he’d felt at her leaving his office, he doesn’t want her removed from the planet, so he does what any Special Agent would do: While his team tries to find out who has it in for her, he packs her into a borrowed car and hits the road with the intention of keeping Fiona safe. The only question is, who’s going to keep him safe from her? The Razor’s EdgeFalcon. Jack Falcon. Unrepentant ladies’ man and FBI Agent, Jack Falcon knows how to use his good looks and charming appeal to get whatever he wants — personally and professionally. Unfortunately, his usual tactics will do him no good on his latest assignment: Go undercover as a gay hairdresser to expose a mob-led drug ring. His cover story becomes exceedingly difficult to maintain when he meets the spa’s manager, Marissa Vallatigno. After years of stifling over-protectiveness by her family, Marissa owes everything to her Uncle Mario, who has given her the opportunity of a lifetime – managing his multi-million dollar spa. Nothing–not her three interferring older brothers and not a gorgeous hairdresser with questionable sexual orientation–will make her let her uncle down. However, when Marissa discovers that Jack’s indeed straight-as-an-arrow, and intent on bringing down her beloved Uncle Mario, she puts together a deviously distracting plan that will have the tough guy agent begging for mercy. Will he next find himself begging for her heart? Edge of MidnightIt was supposed to be an easy assignment Cincinnati FBI Agent, Rey Rodriguez is taking a moment to enjoy his current assignment: undercover on a singles cruise in the middle of the Caribbean ocean when Ohio is in the dead of winter. Evidence from a previous case has led his team to here where drug runners are using the cruise ship to smuggle cocaine from the Yucatan Peninsula to the United States. It was his knowledge of the area that got him this assignment, and thank God, because he needs all the help he can get when the case goes very, very wrong. It was supposed to be a dream vacation Reporter and compulsive planner, Megan Miller had planned to figure out what to do with her life on a cruise with her best friend. Instead, her friend is MIA from the outset and the vacation of a lifetime has turned into a nightmare. So far, she’s been shot at, jumped overboard into (potentially) shark infested waters and stranded in the Mayan jungle with nothing but the clothes on her back and Rey, who isn’t quite what he seems. If they can’t make it back to the ship before midnight it will leave without them and leave them to the mercies of the jungle and a band of drug runners. Edge of DeceptionEvery bad thing in her life came from telling the truth After barely escaping personal tragedy and near-career annihilation in another city, FBI Agent Draghana Yenichek is now working a murder investigation that puts both her job–and her life–on the line once again. In the past few months at least three young women have died on the streets, all with a connection to a mail-order bride service. She’s determined to catch the killer before he strikes again, and volunteers to go undercover as a foreign bride. Then she finds herself on the doorstep of Deck Murphy… who isn’t like any killer she’d ever expect. Every bad thing in his life came from a lie Deck, a third-generation cop has always lived by his family’s motto: Honesty and Honor above All. Ironically, lies have all but destroyed his life. When a mail order bride he never ordered ends up on his doorstep, he finds himself falling for her against all rational sense. And when he learns Dana’s nothing more than a government-paid liar who’s been playing him to further her case, both Deck’s convictions and his heart are put to the test. Dana can’t afford to fail and she can’t afford to fall in love. But when danger and passion push her back into Deck’s arms again, she finds herself driven well beyond THE EDGE OF DECEPTION.
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The Marriage PactIn college, free spirit, Annie Tremont and pragmatic Ben Danforth were pals with unrealized potential. Upon graduation, they made a pact: “If in ten years, we’re still single, let’s marry each other.” Their deadline is looming and though they’ve kept in touch, they haven’t seen each other in years. Ben, now a top executive with a New York financial firm, keeps dreaming of her and their pact. When his company sends him to Annie’s hometown for a two-month assignment, he knows he has to see her again. After Ben contacts Annie, a radio deejay and social activist, they renew their friendship. When he grumbles that he hates the idea of living in a hotel for the two months he’s in town, but doesn’t have time to apartment shop, she offers him her guest room. While living in close proximity, can they make good on their marriage pact before he returns to New York? Awards
For Love or MoneyAfter two serious relationships end short of the altar, Sophie Redmond decides to put love in fate’s hands and signs up for a Reality TV Show called Lights… Camera…Marriage!. On the show, twenty men compete for the attentions of one woman, and America at large votes off the cast members until the last man standing is contractually obligated to marry her and live with her in front of the cameras for the rest of the season. Former Navy Petty Officer and current Best-Selling Spy Novelist, Jay Sinclair is looking for nothing more than to finish his current book and spend the next year traveling. It’s a trip he’s put off before, but not again! That is, until his brother, Patrick, a Lights… Camera… Marriage! assistant producer, begs him to take the place of a last minute cancellation with the idea that Jay should act like a jerk to get kicked off the show. Of course the viewing audience sees through Jay’s act and leaves him the last man standing. When the lights and cameras are gone, can Jay and Sophie make their marriage work? Awards
Trouble in AppletonThey say you can never go home. But Maddie O’Callaghan doesn’t have much choice. When her freak of an ex-husband steals her job, her life and her sanity, Maddie finds herself with nowhere to go but back. Back to the small shop her mother is giving her six months to make profitable or she’ll be on the street again. Back to the town that abandoned her over her high-school mistakes. Back to her lifetime crush who turned her down. That last one was, admittedly, the worst, because Eli Harrison never turned any woman down. To have a chance with her, though, Eli knows he needs to clean up his womanizing ways and fast, since Maddie’s dead-set against trusting anyone as smooth-talking as Eli. When Eli’s high-school girlfriend drops Rogan, the seventeen-year-old son he never knew he had, on his doorstep, his problems only seem to get worse. Rogan is distrustful of Eli’s attempts to build a friendship, and the boy is the closest thing to the Anti-Christ that Appleton has ever seen. Maddie wants to trust that Eli will do the right thing, Rogan’s trusting that he won’t and all Eli knows is that trusting his heart may just be the most dangerous gamble of all. Hope & Gingerbread MenIngrid Mendoza, a painfully shy egghead who collects college degrees like some women collect shoes, is working on her second PhD, this one in anthropology. Her thesis, 10 Theories About Dating is proving to be a little difficult to research since she has all the social grace of the common houseplant. As soon as she meets any attractive man, she turns into a babbling idiot. And it certainly doesn’t help that the new department head is Dr. Clark Butler, a man who put the G in gorgeous. Clark, a widower of four years, is finally ready to start dating again. In an effort to ignore a strong attraction to his surprisingly appealing grad student, he decides to take her theories on a ride with someone else. The problem is, her theories (even the one about cookie-cutter Gingerbread Men) keep leading him back to her… Fate & Fortune CookiesGrace Mendoza, a newspaper columnist, is assigned to write a series of articles titled: Dating Tactics for Today’s Single Girl. Each week’s misadventure pushes her one level further into dating hell while she’s fighting an attraction to Joe Baker, her very best friend in the world, whom she can’t quite forgive for disappearing when she needed him the most. Joe, appalled at the possibility that Grace’s next dating disaster will end happily ever after, makes a plan for sabotage. Joe must find a way to trust Grace enough to admit his true feelings and Grace needs to accept that the Fortune Cookies from their favorite restaurant are correct in telling them it’s fate. Love & OreosKatherine Mendoza, an intelligent, attractive, but moderately overweight Public Relations consultant thinks her life is perfect until she receives an invitation to her high school class reunion the same day her company begins a job for Quinn Mitchell. Quinn is the obscenely attractive owner of a chain of fitness centers who is a tofu eating health nut and aghast at Katherine’s Oreo-addicted ways. Unwilling to go back to her high school looking as she does, she asks Quinn to whip her into shape in time for her reunion. As Katherine discovers that exercise doesn’t have to be torture (but beauty doesn’t only come in a size six) Quinn finds that Love and Oreos are both food of the gods. Awards
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