When Marie Simco finds out that the money for her research is about to be cut, she'll do anything to keep her lab funded. Pitted against her former professor in a race to publish on deadline, she finds herself in a desert oasis fighting sabotage, drug lords, natives and her attraction to one very hunky lab tech. Darren Newbury is ready to follow Marie deep into the New Mexico desert if it will finally get her to acknowledge the connection between them. Determined to help her win the competition against his former employer, he fights to protect their work and break down the barriers around her...

Professor Charlotte "Charlie" Reynolds assumes that the weather is the only thing she has to worry about when she prepares to lead the last backpacking group of the season up Tempest Mountain. Joined at the last minute by sinfully sexy Jake Nelson and his beautiful young companion, Charlie is caught up in a dangerous whirlwind of nature, illicit activities and a man she can't seem to resist. Agent Jake Nelson knows his latest mission to secure evidence will be dangerous and potentially put the entire group of hikers at risk. But when the feisty Dr. Reynolds catches his eye, he's torn between...

On the run from her father and the marriage he wants to force on her, Monica Burns gets a job at Fantasy Ranch, an adult playground outside Reno, Nevada. Her hopes of staying in one place for longer than a few weeks are dashed when he tracks her there, but before she can run again she gets an offer she can't refuse from owner Harlan "Harley" Majors. Harley has personal issues of his own to deal with, and when Monica reveals her predicament he offers a marriage of convenience as the solution to both of their problems. But the union catapults them into a world of smuggling and deception that...

Claire Taylor is running for Mayor, and she's been advised to clean out her proverbial closets - including covering up the initials she had inked on her ankle many years ago. When it comes time to get the cover-up though, she can't go through with it, and when she's plunged into a world of threats, explosions and kidnapping, suddenly her tattoo is the least of her worries. Adam Cranston hasn't seen Claire since high school, but when he sees his initials on her leg, it brings back feelings he was forced to ignore in his youth. When a publicist asks him to protect Claire during her campaign,...

Betsy Majors, co-owner of the adult-themed Fantasy Ranch has her romantic sights set on Ian Mitchell, her brother's best friend and resident wedding officiant. She knows he wants her too, but he seems determined to hold her at arms length. When her ex-husband shows up and demands the money she stole from him, she'll need Ian's help to beat her ex at an old fashioned treasure hunt and protect a secret she's never told a soul. Tempted past the edge of reason by his best friend's sister, Ian is ready to leave the ranch to protect them both from a relationship that can't possibly work. But when...

Celebrate fall with this multi-cultural collection of stories that explore what it means to listen to the leaves. Romance, suspense, poetic prose, vampires and fantasy - there's something for everyone in this literary buffet from authors in five countries. What will the leaves tell you?

Falling in love isn't easy and for Kathrine Gibson, neither is falling asleep. Her insomnia is so bad that when her friend suggests an unconventional treatment plan Katherine is just desperate enough to try it. But the execution is harder than she expected, and soon she finds herself stranded on a deserted island with the one man on earth intent on resisting her pleas for help. Sleep, love, and life itself hang in the balance in this stormy tropical romance.

Flames once put the heartbroken Thomas Grady under the ancient curse of an old manor house. Hundreds of years later, fire fueled by an unholy passion drives Katie Watson to the same manor for protection. Assigned as her guardian under duress, Thomas is determined to avoid any emotional entanglements that would put Katie in another sort of danger altogether.
Despite his best efforts to keep her at arm's length, Katie falls hard for her new protector. And now that she's found him, she refuses to give him up - even if that means she has to travel through both time and space to help save...