Married to a Stranger

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Reporter Lizzie Vaughan doesn’t realize it, but she has 2,000 years of royal Vampiric blood coursing through her veins. Neither she nor Tucker, her cowboy lover, has any idea that Julius, the leader of the undead, has a diabolical plan to reign over darkness for all eternity—with Lizzie at his side.

Lizzie battles for her life—and her soul—as she and Tucker find themselves caught up in a vampire war, pursued by hordes of Julius’ maniacal, bloodthirsty followers.

Who will be left standing when the sun rises?

“Deliciously dark.”—BOOKLIST

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Having fallen in love in The Bro-Magnet, ultimate man's man Johnny Smith and D.A. Helen Troy marry at the outset of ISN'T IT BROMANTIC? Never has a sports-loving couple been so well suited. Now everything should be wedded bliss, right? Not exactly. On a honeymoon cruise, both contract a virus but Helen recovers more quickly. Still confined to their stateroom, Johnny is fine with her going off on her own, until Helen has a little too much fun playing beach volleyball with an all-male group of German tourists. And things only grow worse as they return home to CT and try to set up life as a married couple. Can Johnny and Helen's marriage be saved?

Pure chance brought big-city girl Melinda Bravo and rugged rancher Cole Yuma together in time to deliver his sister's newborn. But it was pure desire-baby and otherwise-that convinced her there would be no harm in pretending the baby was hers and Cole's…just for a little while.

THEN COMES MARRIAGE….

And it only made sense that she and Cole also assume the roles of husband and wife-strictly for show, of course.

THEN COMES LOVE!

Melinda and Cole both knew that despite their mutual attraction, they had nothing in common! So why, suddenly, was each of them fantasizing about making their pretend marriage the real thing?

When it came to choosing the wrong man, Jane Elliott had written the book. So from now on, Jane had decided that when it came to untamable men, her policy was "hands-off." Only problem was, she hadn't counted on how irresistible Cade Bravo's hands would be--not to mention the rest of him....

As for Cade, gambler and bad boy extraordinaire, he always went after what he wanted--and he wanted Jane. And she wanted him, regardless of whether she thought it was sensible or not. Oh, he figured her head was saying no--but weren't her heart and body screaming yes?

No place to run, no place to hide...

The job sounded simple enough; locate a space miner's missing wives. Quick. Easy. Painless. As a professional finder of lost things, Cadence Drake has learned in the hardest way imaginable that there's no such thing as a quick or easy job. For the past year, pain has been her constant companion, and death her only refuge.

When she falls into the middle of a horror that portends the end of trillions of human lives, and everything that human beings have created throughout settled space, she seeks the last people who know that she's still alive, looking for a way to fight the unthinkable evil she's discovered.

Now she and four special ex-slaves face off against the end of all worlds, giving themselves to the thing they most fear in order to save what they most love. They're outnumbered billions-to-five, and they might already be too late.

Darkout is coming.

And Cady's coming with it....

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WARPAINT includes an afterword by the author, as well as a download link for Minecraft maps of the spaceships in the book and a couple of the space stations, and for an MP3 of the Warpaint theme song, "Moment," written and performed by the author.

Lovely widowed mother Tess DeMarley had "perfect wife" written all over her-but rancher Zach Bravo had lost at love once before. So he proposed an arranged marriage. And he knew that it would stay just that-because Tess was a one-man woman, all right. Too bad Zach was the wrong man!

WRONG GROOM?

If you'd asked Tess DeMarley what man she'd always dreamed of having down on one knee proposing marriage to her, Zach Bravo might not have been her first choice. But now that he was her husband, she began looking at him in a new light-and wondering if her "in name only" spouse could possibly be turning into her dream man….

CONVENIENTLY YOURS:

To fulfill her father's will and keep her precious ranch, Megan Kane needed to marry, bear a child. Since she'd always loved handsome neighbor Nate Bravo-a maverick she couldn't tie down-her solution was simple. She'd beg Nate to wed her and bed her….

AND THEN SHE'D SET HIM FREE

Meggie vowed she wouldn't cling. Wouldn't linger. She'd cherish her marriage until she got pregnant. Then she'd raise Nate's baby lovingly…and alone. But all too soon Meggie swelled with child. And she learned some promises were hell to keep….

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THE ROAD AWAY FROM HOME ALWAYS SEEMS TO LEAD BACK TO OUR MOTHERS

I am not, nor will I ever be, the kind of woman who wears pearls with her apron while cooking meat loaf for her husband. But when I was a kid, my mother, Babs, prepared me to be the next June Cleaver-teaching me lessons that belonged to another era. Another world, practically. My mother's world. I couldn't wait to leave home and get away from her. But now, well-let's just say life hasn't turned out quite as I'd planned. And heaven help me, I'm going home.
Laney Hoffman-Cotton Queen, 1975

It's funny-all I ever wanted was to teach my daughter, Laney, how to be a lady so she could find a good husband and take her rightful place in our community. But Laney has always remained convinced that my life and my ideas are, well, pathetic. She has no idea-no idea!-what it is to lose a husband, to watch your dreams wither while keeping a smile on your face for the neighbors. Now, that is a talent. Laney is probably too smart for her own good, but being smart hasn't kept her out of trouble. Thank heavens I'm here to help pick up the pieces.
Babs Hoffman-Cotton Queen First Runner-Up, 1956