The stakes are high and the passion is hot.Police recruit Xander Matthews will do anything to keep his dark and dangerous past in his rear-view.A past that includes brash, beautiful A.D.A. Tara Kingston--the woman who tried to put him away two years ago.Yet here she is, smack in the middle of a crime sceneand now they have to work togetherto catch a killer.Nothing will stop Tara from getting justice.Not even a gorgeous bad boy who makes her want to get closewhen she knows she should walk away.But the more she gets to know him, he’s the only thing she wants.When danger rises from the shadows, Xander will have to risk everything to keep Tara safe. No matter the cost.

My sister calls him trouble. All she sees is a novice producer with a dark past. But Jonas is the only man who’s ever risked himself to defend me, and recording our album in Grand Orchard means we’ll finally be together.Now that I have my broody protector, I won’t give him up.Not for my sister. Not for the band.Not even when a stalker demands I do so in ugly red paint.Until the worst happens.When I lose my sister, and Jonas might be the reason, I cut ties and run.It takes me two years to find the strength to pull the band together and finish what my sister started.When we arrive at the studio, completing the record is the band’s goal, but mine is a secret.I’m here to make the person who took Landry pay.Jonas stepping in to shield me once again is the last thing I expect.Is there a way to recover what we lost?And will it be enough to keep us safe when the danger resurfaces?

From USA Today bestselling author Kat Mizera comes a brand new series of standalone royal romances. Meet the sexy men who protect the royal family and the strong women who make them fall irrevocably in love… From throne room to bedroom, I'm royally screwed...As a prince and head of security, I’ve lived my life behind the scenes.I’m Prince Sandor Gustaffson, the silent guardian of my family, sworn to protect them at any cost. But when I’m thrust back into the spotlight after years in the shadows, my focus shifts to a new mission. One I’m not ready for.Lennox Briggs. The first woman to join our elite security team, and a walking temptation. She’s everything I shouldn’t want. Too dedicated, too smart, and too off-limits. From the moment she is assigned to my detail, she’s all I can think about. With the country in crisis and my family depending on me, getting involved with Lennox could ruin everything.But what happens when protecting her becomes more important than protecting the crown?

Ex-special forces, Jacob King, is a man who keeps to himself, having learned the hard way that letting people close to you, trusting them, might just get you killed. A lesson he learned when members of his Special Ops team turned dirty, while others, men he considered friends, died. He made them pay. He made them hurt. He put them in jail. And so he doesn't trust anyone anymore. He keeps his women hot and fast, his friends few to none, and his clients through the elite Walker Security at a professional distance, but safe.It works for him. Until it doesn't.His newest job should be simple and cut and dry. Jewel Carpenter, the daughter of the CEO of Carpenter Enterprises, is receiving death threats. He's to protect her and find out who is issuing the threats.Simple. Cut and Dry.Until it's not.Until the chemistry between he and Jewel is all about love, hate, and sex. But even as he fights the attraction to Jewel and discovers there is more to her than meets the eye, the real threat comes not from the threats she's receiving, but the connection she has to him. Because his past has come full circle, and those men he's made pay for their sins now want him to pay. And what better way than the woman in his bed?

A private detective investigates a murder that happened while she was in a coma in this romantic suspense mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author.After spending nine months in a coma, Tara Kinsale awakes to devastating news. Her best friend, Alexis, has been murdered, leaving Tara as guardian to her daughter, Claire. And Tara’s husband has divorced her for another woman.Forced to start over, Tara focuses on reopening her P.I. firm and caring for Claire. But soon her world is shattered again when Nick MacMahon, Claire’s uncle, returns from military service in Afghanistan to take guardianship of his niece. The bad dream turns unbearable when Tara learns that something precious was taken from her while she was in a coma.Working with Nick, a man haunted by his own past, Tara begins to investigate the missing months of her life. Together, they will find that secrets don’t stay buried forever . . . even when they are kept in the darkest of hiding places.“The tension steadily escalates to a pulse-pounding climax.” —Publishers WeeklyOriginally published in 2008

ProtectTrace Davidson is determined to protect Christie from her ex-husband who has ordered a hit on her from his jail cell. Trace will do anything it takes, including putting his own life on the line, to make sure Christie survives.PersistSalvatore Reyes of the Jimenez Cartel intends to make sure his ex-wife never makes it to the witness stand to testify against him. Christie is the only one with enough damning evidence to send him to prison for life. If he’s convicted, he’s as good as dead—the drug cartel will kill Salvatore if he doesn’t kill Christie first. Salvatore isn’t going to let her live another day.PrevailTrace and Christie end up on the run. They must keep moving to avoid Salvatore and the cartel’s men. In the midst of danger, Trace and Christie find love