A woman ready to move on. A man who can't afford distractions. An inspiring journey of healing love.Determined to walk away from a traumatic past, 22-year-old Grace Allen feels ready to take the next step in her healing journey—dipping a toe into the dating pool. Although she should probably start by making a friend or two, right?Samuel ‘Cal’ Callaghan isn’t who she had envisioned as her first male friend in… well, forever. With an intimidating build, tattoos everywhere, eight years her senior, and a little sister under his care, the last thing she expected was to warm up to him so easily. As their friendship evolves, Grace can’t help but wonder if Cal is exactly who she’s been looking for all this time.Cal can’t afford to lose sight of his priorities—making sure his tattoo parlor thrives and taking care of his little sister. Especially the latter. He wants to make sure 4-year-old Maddie has a healthy and happy childhood, despite their mother going off the rails and her father’s blatant neglect. There’s certainly no room for love in his life right now. But when a sweet blonde with a veiled past breaks down his walls, he finds it difficult to stick to his guns.CONTENT NOTES: This book contains themes of sexual assault (there are no explicit scenes depicting sexual assault), profanity, alcoholism, and explicit sexual content. Recommended for 18+.

Riley BentonCowboys break hearts. It’s a known fact.But my career as a romance planner has me moving back to my hometown of Kissing Ridge---a town so full of cowboys you can’t enter a room without bumping into a Stetson. And I don’t date cowboys. Not that it matters. I build romance for others… not myself.There’s no way I’m falling for a steer wrestler with a sinful smile and awkward rambles.I’ve already had one cowboy break my heart. I don’t intend to make it two.Jackson SutherlandRiley Benton is all my daydreams brought to life.And despite that fact, he doesn’t make me self-conscious when my mouth runs away with me and I blurt out random things. I’m pretty sure he thinks I’m cute, too.We have a connection, and if he’d just let himself accept it and move past the friend zone, we could be beautiful together. But he’s more stubborn than a steer who hates the wash rack.I’m used to working hard for what I want, but how do I convince him to risk his heart and kiss another cowboy?Cowboys Can’t Kiss is book one in the Kissing Ridge Cowboy series. It features a hopelessly romantic, but awkward cowboy and a guarded former escort turned romance planner who thinks the friend zone will keep his heart safe. A friends to lovers story with a unique first “date” and all the found family you wish you had can be found in Kissing Ridge. Pass the hummus and remember to look up when the stars are out.

A woman comes home single and pregnant and is reunited with her lost love in this romance from the New York Times bestseller—includes a bonus novel.When Katie Rogers returns to Dundee, Idaho, it's not because she wants to. It's because she's disillusioned, broke—and pregnant. She was going to make something of her life in the big city. Instead, she's paying a high price for trusting the wrong man.Booker Robinson is the the man she'd left behind in Dundee . . . and the first person she sees when she comes back. But despite Booker's notorious past, he now has a successful business and a home of his own.Katie's vowed she'll never trust her heart again to a man. But sometimes a man isn't everything he seems. And sometimes he's more . . .FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME!Temperatures Rising by New York Times–bestselling author Brenda JacksonAs a hurricane hits the Florida Keys, Sherri Griffin and Terrence Jeffries are stranded together, making their own shelter from the storm—and walking right into the eye of a hurricane of passion.

From a #1 New York Times bestseller, "the master of blending emotionally believable characters in realistic situations," an opposites attract romance (Library Journal). Beth Davis's fairy-tale days are over . . . or so the single mother of two thinks. She suddenly finds herself on a date with her very own Prince Charming, millionaire bachelor Todd Graham. He's smart, sexy and very eligible—everything a woman could want in a man. But Beth's a suburban mom, and approaching forty . . . She's not sure if she's Cinderella material. Todd was supposed to be raising money for charity, not auctioning off his heart, but he never expected to be so taken with his date. Something in Beth's smile captures the Texas tycoon's attention, and suddenly life as a bachelor seems less exciting than it used to. But they're worlds apart, and building a life with Beth isn't as simple as all that. Can these unlikely lovers find their courage—and the fairy-tale ending they deserve? "Mallery is an expert at writing about strong women, their friendships, and their romances." —Booklist "Susan Mallery never disappoints." —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Best is Yet to Come

Pretending to be the fiancée of some random guy in a bar isn't the kind of thing Aspen Fairchild would normally do. Ever. But when a medical scare sends her reeling onto a path of "live life to its fullest," and she sees an opportunity to do a good deed, she figures she can use all the good karma she can get.Pro hockey player Brooks Hennessey was just taking time off, working through his grief, trying to do a good deed. But now his fake engagement has gone viral, and his publicist wants to know what he's going to do about it.He knows what he'd like to do: spend his week at grown-up summer camp with the woman he can't stop thinking about.She knows what she'd like to do: spend her week at Camp Firefly Falls with the guy who unexpectedly rocked her world.But the girl of his dreams is hiding something, keeping him at arm's length. Because the guy who makes her heart beat is oh-so-vulnerable to the last thing she'd want to burden him with. Will she give them a chance, or will she run away before he can learn her summer camp secret?Grab this steamy contemporary summer romance about a fake engagement, real attraction, and the secrets people keep when they’re trying to protect those they love.