Exception to the Rule

The biggest story of reporter Valerie Daniels’s career could be the one that kills her. A part-time news reporter, Valerie is determined to prove her twin brother is not responsible for the rash of suspicious fires in Benton Falls, despite all the evidence that leads undercover investigator Adam Michaels to believe he’s caught his arsonist - Valerie’s brother.

Adam Michaels relies on the facts when he is working a case but on this one, his instincts, and his heart, tell him there is more behind this story. And there’s a lot more he wants to know about Valerie Daniels, a woman who makes no bones about the fact she doesn’t like him - or what he’s doing to her brother.

Arson turns to murder and sparks fly between Adam and Valerie. But the real arsonist has his own ideas about the heat between these two. To defeat the killer and his deadly trap, they must learn to trust each other.

Sensuality Level: Sensual

Luke Delaney was the sexiest-and most scandalous-man Inferno, Arizona, society had ever bred. Though he'd broken all the rules, he was coming to terms with the past and moving on with his future-until he met tempting single mother Abby Graham and did an about-face.

Running for her life, Abby had come to Inferno to elude the dangerous man who threatened the safety of her children. She needed Luke. And Luke wanted her enough to wed and protect her. But could she ask him to put his very life on the line...

He could handle raising his orphaned little brother. He could handle his demanding career. But what Joe Salazar couldn't handle was this quirky little town where people actually cared. People like Taylor McIntyre. She had worked wonders with his heartbroken little brother, but she scared the hell out of Joe. Because no kindergarten teacher he'd ever met before could make him hot with desire just by looking at him. Could make him want things he had no business wanting--not when the only way Joe knew how to live was by putting duty before desire....

Johnna Delaney's hectic world stood still the moment she laid eyes on Jerrod McCain again-and her heart instantly leapt into motion. He was back in tiny Inferno, Arizona, to request an impossible favor-and to remind her of what might have been....

If Johnna weren't the only defense attorney in town, Jerrod could have gone on devoting the rest of his life to trying to forget her. But seeing her again had awakened more passionate memories than he could possibly ignore-if he still even wanted to....

"HE WILL KILL YOU BEFORE HE EVER LETS YOU GO."

She'd become an obsession to the patriarch of the deadly and powerful Adriano family--but not for the reasons she'd thought. For Aubrey de Lune, aka antiquities thief Dr. Ginny Moon, had ties to a legacy that could finally bring the Adrianos to justice. She had to escape from the golden cage in which they'd entrapped her. Millions of lives depended on it. But how?

With no options left, Aubrey went on the run with the Adrianos' young heir and an ancient manuscript containing a shocking historical secret. Pursuit was swift--and now, she had just hours to seduce the child's brooding bodyguard, keep the heir safe from his bloodthirsty family--and pull off a heist so impossible, it would surely be the death of her.

"GET CLOSE TO HIM BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY."

Seduction was a weapon CIA Special Agent Nova Blair had never resorted to before. After a tragic childhood, she'd dedicated herself to ridding the world of criminals, not entertaining their wildest fantasies. It didn't matter that her target was extraordinarily handsome and charming. What did matter was that he was a suspected terrorist, and millions of innocent lives were at stake. Failure wasn't an option--but was sleeping with the enemy?

Working in war zones while treating the sick and wounded, Dr. Calista St. James was used to being under siege. But now, her team had been deliberately infected with a dangerous virus--and all signs pointed to it being an inside job.

Before Calista could expose the traitor, she had to travel worlds away with black-ops agent Damian De Luna--a man she didn't trust--to find the cure. Radical steps were needed to stop this deadly outbreak--but could Calista stop the breakdown of everything she'd dedicated her life to fighting for?