Her I wanted him, but couldn't find the courage to have him. You know that feeling, the one where you’re too scared to go to sleep, too scared to go out, and too scared to do anything? Ever since my assault, I've been functioning, but not living. T...
Her Snark. Jokes. Attitude. These were all things I used to disguise the hole in my heart. I'm not a happy person. I don't live life. I just exist. That is until that beautiful man rides in on his Harley Fat Boy and burns rubber on the way into my he...
Her She’s the definition of lost. Doesn't know her name? Check. Cruelly beaten within an inch of her life? Check. No memory of anything that's happened since she woke up from that beating? Check. Losing a child she doesn't remember conceiving? Chec...
Him James had plans for his life. Those plans were derailed by the surprise arrival of his daughter. His life revolved around her. Then she arrived with her beautiful brown hair that was made to wrap around his wrist, and a butt that was to die for i...
Her Blaine didn't understand the true meaning of lonely until she spent her first Christmas away from her husband. She was never one to believe in love at first sight. Then she met Elliott while he was on leave from the Army. From that moment on, the...
You’re the Halligan... Kettle had it all. Until he didn't. He lost it all in a moment. One heart stopping, soul shattering moment, and there wasn't a single thing he could do about it. From that day forward, he stayed away from relationships. Then ...
You’re the Kevlar… Behind the badge and the pretty face was a heart. A heart that bled just like the rest. A heart that was so in love with Viddy Sheffield that it was humiliating. Trance had been burned before by a woman that couldn’t handle t...
You’re the Keys Loki’s life was a lie. Everything he’d done for the last eight years was under an assumed name for the Benton Police Department. He’d lied, cheated, and stolen all in the name of the law. He wore himself thin, and not even the...
You’re The Life Cleo’s a Pararescueman for the U.S. Air Force. When a PJ is called, it’s because everyone else has said no. It’s one of the most dangerous jobs in the entire military, but also one of the most rewarding. It’s the reason he d...
You’re the Charge…
Bad Boy. Screw-up. Good for nothing. Hero. Angel. These were all words Grayson ‘Torren’ Trammel had heard whispered behind his back over his lifetime. What he hadn't heard was ‘quitter,’ and he’d be damned if...
Luke Roberts came to the small lazy town of Kilgore, Texas with one thing on his mind: Forgetting. He wanted to forget why he left. Forget those emerald green eyes that haunted his dreams. And forget how it felt to have his heart ripped out of his ch...
Nico met the love of his life when he was seventeen. Immediately, he realizes that the gap in their ages is too significant to make a move on her until she’s legal in the eyes of the law. So he joins the United States Navy, killing time until he ca...
Lachlan Downy was a lover, not a fighter. Okay, he wouldn't lie, he was a fighter, too. But nobody had to know that. Especially not Memphis Tennessee Conner and her stuffy attitude when it came to cops and ‘men like him.’ Memphis knew cops. Her d...
Miller Spurlock might seem like a laid back man on the outside, but piss him off, or violate his trust, and he’ll show you the meaning of pain. He was a Navy SEAL. He could kill a man a hundred different ways and not break a sweat. He’s also a po...
Foster made a promise in his hospital bed when his leg was taken from him that he’d get back to one hundred percent. Leg or no leg, he’d get back on the SWAT team if it killed him. And he does get back. But he has a problem. He can’t let go of ...
Michael was that guy. The one that everyone was cautious of. Maybe it was the tattoos. Maybe it was the way he gave off a ‘don’t screw with me’ vibe. Maybe it was because he just told them to leave him the hell alone. Regardless, people gave hi...
Sometimes the heart wants what it can’t have. That’s the motto Silas Mackenzie, the president of The Dixie Wardens MC, has lived by since he was a young man. Now he’s well on the way to middle age, has three grown children, and he’s lusting a...
Nightmares Sterling and Ruthie have more things in common than they realize, even though from the outside it doesn’t seem like they do. Blood Sterling is a decorated war hero. Ruthie is an ex-con. Their two worlds should’ve never collided, but fa...
Griffin Storm wasn’t prone to violence, but when someone takes what Griffin holds dear, the world as he knows it is gone. Retaliation, revenge and rage fuels him. His MC, The Uncertain Saint’s, do their best to offer support, but Griffin is beyon...
Taima, a.k.a. Tai, is the last person people come to for help. He’s the fuck up…the bad boy…the guy that only looks out for himself. Which couldn’t be further from the truth. He’s fought hard to become the man he is today. He’s a hero in ...
Lies Mig’s wife is a bitch. How else do you describe a woman that lies, cheats and steals to get what she wants? That’s exactly what happens when she traps him into a marriage he wants nothing to do with, saddling him with a kid that he knows doe...
Masen Crisfield fell in love with Booth Jones when she was sixteen years old. Booth was the love of her life. The rock she needed to get her through the day. Then she rips his heart out while he’s deployed, leaving him wondering just what he’d do...
There are rules to life that one just obeys in order in her attempt stay on the right path. For example: 1. You don’t wear dirty panties out of the house. You just never know who’s going to see them. 2. A lady must always have chocolate at the re...
Keifer Vassago, The Prince of Dragons, has enough on his plate without adding a brunette with a bad attitude to the mixFate has a way of screwing all his plans, though, whether he wants them screwed or not. One second he's fetching his brother from y...
No take-backs. That was the motto that Drew lived by in all things, including his love life. He’s a player, pure and simple. He’s learned the hard way that women aren’t all hearts and flowers. Sometimes their sexy bodies and beautiful faces are...
July Dupree and Dean ‘PD’ Hargrove fell head over heels in love. When PD comes home to tell July the good news about joining the SWAT team as a tactical medic, everything changes. July can’t fathom why PD would want to be a cop in this day and ...
Dragon Prince Nikolai Vassago’s day starts out fairly normal: get up, kick some ass, fondle his beard, take some names. One minute he’s participating in a run-of-the-mill mission, and the next minute, he’s rescuing Brooklyn, the woman that is f...
The thing about hitting rock bottom… Ridley doesn’t think he has anything left to lose, not after the life he’s lived. Then he meets her, Freya Capone, the nurse who saves his life when the last thing he wants is to be saved. One look at her, a...
He knows that pain makes you stronger… Wolf isn’t always a good person, and he doesn’t hesitate to say what’s on his mind. He is who he is, and he doesn’t offer apologies. He isn’t out to impress anyone, and he doesn’t make excuses for ...
Aaron ‘don’t ever call me Fatbaby’ Sims is lucky to be alive. Or at least that is what everyone keeps telling him. He doesn’t feel lucky, though. He’s scarred, has more than a little bit of a bad attitude, and there isn’t a single day tha...
Tally is a twenty-year-old single mother struggling to finish nursing school. Has she made mistakes in life? Sure, but her daughter isn’t one of them. She works hard, she studies even harder, and she’s only a few weeks away from graduating. Sheâ€...
Truth Alan Reacher was a biker. He was a bladesmith. What he was not, was a fool. The moment he walked in on his girl screwing his cousin on his bike, he does the only thing he can do. He ditches the bike seat -- and the girl -- riding right out of h...
Sean is a man with needs -- needs that a lot of women were ready and willing to fulfill. Yet, the only woman that he wants to fulfill them dumped him for another man. A man who’s a member of his MC and is someone he has to see every single day and ...
He’s only a friend. Those words had haunted him from the moment Jessie James had heard them muttered from the girl who held his heart, and whom he thought had his back. Fourteen years later, he still feels those words like a brand on his soul. Luck...
Tobias knows that women are a lot of trouble, and one in particular is more trouble than most. Yet even with the knowledge that she’s a pain in the ass, he doesn’t stop himself from doing the one thing he knows that he shouldn’t do -- fall in l...
Baseball is life, the rest is just details. Everyone who’s played the game has heard those words a time or two. But Hancock has heard them his entire life from his parents. His family has lived and breathed baseball even before he started little le...
Everybody has problems. But Travis? Yeah, he has so many problems that he finds it hard to breathe sometimes. He spends five years catering to his ex-wife’s every want and need -- all to make it possible to continue to see his child. He isn’t sup...
One look at the sixteen-year-old, prim and proper town goody-two-shoes, Hennessy Hanes, and Tate Casey knows he’s in trouble. He knows he should stay away from the preacher’s daughter, but there’s something about her he’s drawn to, and he can...
Get out! He yelled those words at the love of his life twelve years ago, and to this day, Reed Hail regrets them. He’s always been the type of person to speak before he thinks, and apologies have never come easy. It’s been over a decade since she...
He’s wanted her since he repossessed her car and made her cry. Baylor Hail knew two things. One, he hated crying females. Two, it was even worse when he was the one to make that female cry. He never meant to do anything but his job, but when one th...
Winnie thinks she has the perfect life.Two beautiful, healthy children. A police officer husband. A job that she loves. Oh, and let’s not forget that she’s a nationally ranked marathon runner.Fast forward six months, and her perfect life has impl...
You want some?- She snarls those words at him with barely concealed hostility the moment he arrives at her window to ask for her license and registration. After a few choice words, he lets her go with not one ticket, but three. Next time she should c...
She’s in a white dress that dances around her ankles, and her hair tumbles in a long sheet of curls down her back. A veil covers her beautiful eyes, and she smiles directly at him. Janie is everything Rafe’s ever imagined she would be on her wedd...
Coke Solomon has lived a full life. He’s a retired army drill sergeant, so he is more than used to getting his way. And if he can’t have it his way? Well, let’s just say that’s never happened before… At least not until Cora Maldonado walks ...
Peter Parker Penn.Unlike the superhero his mother named him after, Parker is no good guy.In fact, if there’s a picture in the dictionary under anti-hero, it’s his.Parker’s spent his life trying to get back on the right side of the tracks, but e...
What’s wrong with my butt? She means those words to be directed toward the woman beside her, not him. But he can’t stop himself from answering. Not when her ass is the most magnificent thing he’s seen in his life. Apparently, answering her with...
Tyler Cree has never been good at the whole look and don’t touch thing. From the moment he was old enough to walk on his own two feet, he’s been looking for trouble. Trouble comes in many forms…quite a few of those forms being the female persua...
When Rome Pierce moved to Bear Bottom, Texas, it was his intention to lay low. To not be seen. To find a way to heal his body and soul -- as well as his son’s.Nobody would know by looking at him that he used to play professional football. Not with ...
Linc has two very important things on his mind -- professional football and his motorcycle club. What he does not have on his mind is the woman that drives him crazy and makes him want to do stupid things, like throw caution to the wind. Nope, not Li...
Rhys Rivera is the star short-stop for the Longview Lumberjacks. Many know him, even more love him. He has a pretty face, a quick smile, and an air of danger about him that everyone seems to adore.He’s not known as the bad boy of baseball for nothi...
Wade had everything he could ever want in life…then he lost it.Now, his life -- his forever girl -- is living in a house he built for her while he’s struggling to move on and find meaning where there isn’t any to be found.Landry Hill was his gi...
Benson Bayou Beauregard is the president of the Bear Bottom Guardians MC, and the grandson of the Sergeant at Arms for the Dixie Wardens MC. He’s a mountain of a man and the warden of a prison, and there’s only one thing that can scare him -- bei...
Zee + Annmarie and Tan + Jubilee.Forever. No exceptions.They were to have the picture-perfect life together. Everything was all planned out.Jubilee was to marry Eitan and Ezekiel was to marry Annmarie. That’s how it was always supposed to be from t...
Ghosts are real.Well, technically speaking, maybe not. But the ones that haunt a man’s soul? Those are very real. So real, in fact, that there are times when Castiel would rather silence them forever in the worst way possible than to go on living w...
Poor judgment: knowing better yet doing it anyway.Flint Stone is a professional in every way.He’s a police officer with the K-9 unit and works at Gun Barrel High as the school resource officer. In his spare time, he’s working his heart out to cre...
Good vs Bad.Light vs Dark.Right vs Wrong.There are always two sides to every coin.Josiah ‘Liner’ Paldecki knew the moment he laid eyes on her that there was something different about her. Something special. Something so unique that it practically...
I'm kind of a lady, but definitely more of a weirdo. Hearing the woman at the table behind him say that to her friend should've turned Logan Gibbs off.It doesn't. In all honesty, it only makes him listen harder.He's had enough weird in his life to la...
Piper Mackenzie first sees him shirtless, standing in front of the military plane she was about to board, with one rather large wrench in his hand. The fact that he has the plane—the one that she's about to be flying on for hours—in pie...
Oakley Spurlock is dying. She only has weeks to live thanks to a freak infection that totally and completely destroyed her kidneys.Despite her family's desperation, not a single one of them is a match. In a last-ditch attempt, Oakley's father takes t...
He saw her from across a crowded ballpark and knew she was about to change his life.Yes, he realizes just how cliché that really is, but the moment his eyes locked on her, he knew that she was the one.At least, the one that royally screwed him...
Gabriel Luca Maldonado, III and Francesca Leandra Solomon were meant to be. They were so in love that everybody prayed for what they had.Everything was glorious. They would get married, have children and live a perfect life. She would be a doctor in ...
Let’s do a calendar, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.Well, they -- I.e. Kilgore Police Department’s public relations specialists -- were wrong.Now, every time Dax Tremaine walks around a corner, the women of Kilgore, Texas can’t help calli...
I fell in love with his rope skills. I stayed because somehow he took hold of my heart and made it his.Callum Valentine didn’t mean to eavesdrop. Then again? When a man is calling a woman fat right in front of your table, it’s kind of hard not to...
Sometimes people come into a person’s life and make their heart skip a beat.Those people are called cops.Well, one cop in particular.A SWAT officer for the Kilgore Police Department, to be specific.The first time Avery Flynn saw Derek Roberts, she ...
Candy Ray Sunshine -- Yes, that is my real name, thank you very much, Mom and Dad -- knew two things.One, she was going to work her butt off and open her very own coffee shop, even if she had to die doing it.Two, Banks Valentine was the world’s wor...
Ford Spurlock has known Ashe Trammel since they were babies.He’s also done his level best to stay away from her because every time he gets to within five feet of her, they’re fighting like cats and dogs.Ashe is the apple of her father’s eye. Th...
Ares saw him for the first time at a Kilgore Police Department benefit dinner. She’d gone with her dad as his plus one. Hayes Greer had gone by himself and brooded silently across the same table as her, drinking whiskey and not saying a word.It onl...
Darby has always been 'that' guy.The guy that no man, woman, or child wants around their loved one.See, a long time ago he made some bad decisions. Those bad decisions have haunted him ever since. No matter what he does, people still see him as the t...
This is for charity. This is for fun. You are a professional. You can do it.Those are the words that Calloway Alvarez chants to herself as she watches all the large men gather into the small room where she’ll be doing the interviews for her employe...
BlurbBanner Spurlock knew the moment that he walked into Kilgore High School and saw Perry Street that life was about to get interesting.Forced to move due to a problem at home, a problem in the form of his ex-best friend hating him for something tha...
Booth Pena definitely didn’t make the smartest of decisions when he was a teenager.At eighteen, he knocked a girl up and signed up for the military all in the same day -- signing his life away in more ways than one. Fast forward six weeks and he’...
There are a few lessons one has to learn for themselves. Then there are the lessons that most people don’t have to learn because it’s just not done.For instance, most people know instinctively that they shouldn’t crave the mother of their broth...
Amelia loves her good friend, Avery. So much so that she agrees to do the stupidest thing ever.A stranger photoshoot.You know the type. The photographer takes photos of two individuals. Two individuals that, until that day, have never met in their li...
Going from a professional baseball player to a SWAT officer should’ve been seamless. Should have been.But it wasn’t.All it took was one single calendar shoot for word to spread that Nathan Cox was not only no longer playing professional baseball,...
All he ever wanted was to matter to someone.What he didn’t know was that he did matter to someone. Someone that worried about him every single day that he was gone.***Malachi Gabriel Gnocchi was missing for two years. Thanks to a mission gone wrong...
It was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring…nope. No. Nuh-uh. That’s a lie.The moment that Caro wakes up, she knows that she’s not alone.One thump-thump from the living room and she quickly moves in...
Lynnwood Thatcher Windsor has lived a lot of lies. Seen a lot of good men go down.But he will not stand by and watch as the world he's built from the ground up burns to ashes before his eyes. Even if he has to build an army to combat the problem he s...
Don't ever, ever, ever go near that boy. Not unless you want to be a single mother at seventeen. That boy is Bad with a capital B.The words that my father spoke to me when it came to Trouper Aoki didn't scare me like they probably should.In fact, the...
There's a crush, and then there are the type of feelings that Croft Cruisie evokes from a person.He's everything that any straight woman would want: tall, handsome, charismatic, muscular, and sweet.At least, Carmichael thought he was sweet, until he ...
Live-in property & pet caretaker needed. Six-year minimum. Background check required. Generous compensation. Marriage of convenience required.The moment that Wyett Villin read the ad on her local community's page, she knew that it would be perfect. I...
This is the story of a man falling in love with a woman.A man that was supposed to be a role model, and a woman that was just barely twenty-one.A man who should've known better, and a woman that didn't know that she was destroying his career word by ...
A porn video changed his life.One second, he has an ex with an ax to grind, and the next, he's internet famous—and definitely not in a good way. In an, it'll ruin your career, kind of way.Only, Laric didn't know that he was internet famous.Not...
Two years ago, Cannel Crow experienced the worst day of her life. She was taken from a supermarket, and forced to spend a year with a man that treated her worse than a neglected, chained up dog.One year later, she's saved by a shadow organization tha...
A few years ago, when his sister went missing, Haggard Crow turned into something he never wanted to be. A killer.Even after his sister is rescued a year after she was kidnapped and sold, Haggard 'Thief' Crow doesn't have any plans on changing. He so...
Flaws—he has them.Laws? He breaks them.Dues? He's paid them.Scars? He bares them proudly.Lessons? He's learned them.Problems? He has one.Her name is Iris, and she's the one thing in his life that he can't control....
It's not every day that you see a dead body at the beach. Or the woman of your dreams sitting next to that dead body.Price Crow first saw Sabrina Proctor in the middle of a hurricane.She'd been sitting next to her dead best friend, who'd passed away ...
You better watch out for people that bounce back from everything that's meant to destroy them.Those were the words that Coreline King learned to live by when it came to dealing with Tide 'Rook' Crow, member of the Battle Crows MC, general surgeon, an...
Usually when you find out you have a stalker, you don't fall in love with him.But Banger Olivia Crest isn't your normal, run of the mill, everyday girl. Banger is a truck driver who just so happens to know how to sling drinks in her spare time.She's ...
The moment he divorced his ex-wife, Jeremiah decided two things.One, he would never, ever get into that kind of situation again—i.e., marriage.Two, he would spend more time doing what he loved—baking, riding motorcycles, spending time w...
It's not every day that someone tries to pin a murder on you and a random girl you just met. But Bram Crow isn't your average, everyday guy, either.One second, he's hiding evidence with the girl, and the next, he has to marry her so a police detectiv...
The problem with Wake was that he was understandable. He was the type of villain that literally scared the absolute shit out of you because you knew that under the right circumstances, you could end up exactly like him.Which, sadly, was the case for ...
Bain met Diana, a.k.a. Luce, the night before he was set to deploy to Afghanistan.It's not every day that you take your brother's girlfriend to prom because he refuses to put out the effort.That night was one of the best nights of his life and the ne...
Etienne LaFayette hits the ground running the moment he breathes free air after being paroled from a maximum-security prison in Texas.He claws his life back from his brother-in-law who'd taken over his business during the years he'd spent as an inmat...
The first time Cassius Ulysses Costas met Alice Paradis, she was in a string bikini and filling up a long line of boats that were there just to see her. She was eighteen and every man's wet dream.Even his.For the longest time, he went out of his way ...
Her: Just a word, yet one person came to mind.Morrigan St. Pete.The woman that'd been hounding my every step since the day she was born. From the moment we first comforted each other in the hospital, to the day that I left her to follow her dreams, I...
He had a way of pulling everyone into his darkness. Then, to make matters worse, he convinced you that you liked it there.Kyle Davis—ex professional baseball player and current felon—loved Sara, his best friend. Strictly platonically, o...
Big Nick Energy is a compilation of works that I've written as companion pieces to already published novels.Get updates on your favorite couples during COVID-19. These stories were written in the very first weeks of the Covid-19 Pandemic. You'll see ...
AITA: Am I the asshole?Five years ago when she left, she broke my heart. No warning. No hey, this isn't working out. No nothing.Just poof. One day she's there, in my bed, and we're talking about our futures. The next, she's gone.So when she shows up ...
Every single thing you want is going to require you to be uncomfortable.Those words had been shared with her by the one man she didn't think she could take a chance on. She just didn't know that he was right, or that he was going to be the one making...
Ellodie Cassandra Solaire made a single, solitary New Year's resolution.That resolution was set in stone, and she wouldn't be breaking it, no matter what.It was simple: Say yes to every person who asks her out on a date until she finds a boyfriend.Ea...
Toxic: very harmful or unpleasant in an invasive or sinister way.One word. Two consonants. Five letters. Two people.Quinn James Carter met Solei Shayne Rodriguez his senior year of high school.At first, he tried to stay away from her. But the heart w...
Loneliness is overwhelming in its intensity.There are times you think you can cope, that you can make it despite the hollow feeling in your chest. Then there are the times when you realize you can't breathe through the pain of loss.When Gable Buchana...
Dixie + MaryDixie met Mary in a bar in the middle of nowhere. He knew the moment she served him whatever the hell she wanted to that she was the one. That day, he takes her from her abusive life and gives her everything she's ever wanted. For thirty-...