Esme Jaramillo learned long ago that brains count more than beauty. Her prestigious academic career pays off when she's invited to appear on a national talk show as a genetics expert. Little does she know that the episode is really entitled "Those bo...
Who would believe that the breathtakingly beautiful Lilly Lujan has a care in the world? Only Mexican gardener Enrique Pacias, who offers gentle understanding and friendship. Secretly attracted to his sweet sensuality, Lilly tutors him in English in ...
Once, Pilar and Danny Valenzuela thought they were destined to grow old together. But after fourteen years of marriage and two children, that seems like the foolish dream of passionate high school sweethearts. Heartbroken that her husband seems more ...
Rogue To The Rescue Iso Pacias had been happily coasting through life as a confirmed--and contented--bachelor. But the day he stopped to help the victims of a highway pileup, everything changed. He found the woman of his dreams...dreams he wasn't ev...
WHEN LIFE THROWS YOU A CURVE... Single father Sam Lowery was good at many things, but raising his little girl to be a lady didn't seem to be one of them. So before his precious daughter started swearing like a truck driver, Sam set out to find a n...
Lucy, the commitment-phobe, is about to do something she never thought she would: get hitched. She has fallen in love -- with the right man. Only there's one problem: every first marriage in her family has ended in divorce. Every single one. She thin...
THE PERFECT NIGHT... Single-minded events planner Erica Goncalves was stuck on maintaining her independence -- even if it meant turning down a job to keep a sexy single father away. But after he made an offer she couldn't refuse, Miss Independence...
While working on the cruise ship that her father captains during summer vacation, Camille and her friend Jiggy, trying to make the best of a bad situation, party with their co-workers, but when Jiggy's partying gets out of control, Camille learns the...
Popular talk-radio queen Marisol Avila can't keep her mouth shut--and she's airing her sister Cristy's dirty laundry to millions of listeners nationwide. It's going to take more than Cristy's unwanted fifteen minutes of fame to repair this sisterly r...
Years after a prom-night accident claimed his best friend, Brody Austin decided it was time to stop running--and return to Troublesome Gulch, Colorado, to overcome the pain and guilt. Right away, a chance encounter on the ski slopes brought Brody fac...
BURNING OUT OF CONTROL... When a deadly apartment blaze sparked memories of the prom-night accident that took her fiance and unborn baby, firefighter Erin DeLuca ran...and lost herself for just one night. Erin was left pregnant, and the stranger w...
Twelve years ago Jonas Eberhardt was run out of Troublesome Gulch on prom night by the jackbooted police chief. Even worse, the chief's daughter, Cagney Bishop, love of Jonas's life, seemed to go along with Daddy's wishes. But the boy from the wrong ...
After a tumultuous junior year, best friends Lila Moreno, Meryl Morganstern, and Caressa Thibodoux plan to make the most of the summer before senior year. But those plans fall by the wayside when Lila’s archenemy, Jennifer Hamilton, finds herself f...
Lila Moreno and her two best friends, Meryl Morgenstern are social mutants. Not because of who they are, but who their guy-repellent daddies are. Lila's dad is the chief of police; Meryl's dad is the football coach, the driver's ed instructor, and th...
Niki Burnham, Terri Clark, Ellen Hopkins, and Lynda Sandoval give us four tales about the end of first love. How does anyone survive? Read on and find out. Each story showcases the writer's signature style: Niki Burnham keeps it smart and sassy; Terr...
THERE ARE NO WINNERS AND LOSERS... Colleen Delaney would never forget the night she and Eric Nelson went from law school sparring partners to lovers. Now, after years apart, the irresistible attorney was back in her life in a major way as they went h...
GETTING THE CALL The minute emergency dispatcher Lexy Cabrera heard the desperate six-year-old's voice, she knew this was life or death. His dad was unconscious, the situation desperate. But together, Lexy and the little boy saved Drew Kimball. Soon...
Alyssa De Leon has spent all her seventeen years being perfect. The perfect daughter, the perfect student, the perfect candidate for Valedictorian. When none of the other student ambassadors in her school mentoring program wants to pair up with trans...