As a committed bachelor, I never met a challenge I couldn't talk myself into. Show up at my best friend's author signing in a dress? You bet. Besides, I look good. An impulsive engagement to the love of my life? Great decision until I found her in bed with a tourist. Open up my heart again? True love deserves your best—okay, you can stop right there. The closest I've come is last year's one-night stand—Olivia, you're the only exception I'd ever make. Until my next rock-climbing programs are short one instructor, and guess who fate delivers to my group? Seems our friends are desperate to play matchmaker—the least I can do is agree to pretend she's already taken. You know, by me. That is until I feel the first chink in my bachelor armor. It's stupid, but...I'm tempted. Even though opening our hearts means opening our pasts, and I can tell Olivia's got secrets of her own. I always knew my next dare...

Connor Wanting Ally was never the problem. That part was always easy. The fact she's my best friend's little sister? That I've been down this road before and it ended in disaster? Those are complications. Hiding behind an impenetrable wall not even the love of my life can get through? You could say that's a problem. When a harmless community project cements me with Ally for the most challenging week of our lives, she slowly crumbles those walls until that want turns to more and brings back the feelings I thought I'd buried. Feelings I'm tired of shoving down. Ally Kissing Connor in the shadows wasn't a problem, until it was. With that first crack in our barriers, the tables turn, and we both succumb to how right it feels to be wrong. Getting my hands on six feet of sex on a stick is everything I wanted—and everything...

A lone wolf. That's me. Growing up, it was Mom and me against the world. But now that she's sick, it's my turn to take care of her. If I have to work until I drop to get her what she needs, then that's what I'll do. What I don't see coming? The sassy, heart-of-gold brunette who lives in the apartment next door. Meadow Ridley drives me to the brink of insanity, it's only fair for me to return the favor. Taunting her lights a fire in her that drags me in over and over again. Being ordered to work with her to nab the bad guy? I can't resist the opportunity to push her buttons. If nothing else, just to piss her off. Falling for her in the process? It can't happen. I won't let it. Not when my future isn't guaranteed. Turns out I have as much control over that as I do Mom's illness. Because as it happens, all's fair in love and leaderboards. All's Fair in Love and...

He thought he was prepared for anything. But nothing could have prepared him for her... As a park ranger, Boone <lastname> has learned to be prepared for just about anything. Including the bear attack that resulted in his current forced vacation. Needless to say, getting caught off guard by a freak snowstorm when he's supposed to be "recovering" already has him feeling a little grumpy. And finding a gorgeous woman on his front steps in desperate need of a place to stay certainly isn't helping things. Especially since his tiny cabin only has—you guessed it—one bed. But as their reluctant roommate situation turns to passion hot enough to melt the snow outside, Boone might just find himself blindsided by the one thing he never even thought to prepare for. Love.