What's a girl supposed to do when she's secretly in love with her best friend? I'll I've you a hint. It's not accompany him home for the holidays and pretend to be his girlfriend. How did I even end up here? I'll tell you how. I got lost in Justin Morrison's baby blues, that's how. Ever since Justin rescued me from my no good cheating ex - I've had a thing for him. I've done my best to keep it under wraps. Hell, I intended to take this truth to the grave. I've never had someone protect me the way he does and I've never wanted to ruin our friendship. The problem is, to give his ailing grandma, possibly the best last Christmas, and cover a teensy teensy little white lie he told her, now I'm having to pretend to to be in love with him. Sleeping in the same bed...kissing him! All for show of course. But I can do this right? I can hide my real feelings? Even when he takes our public kisses behind closed doors and there's no mistletoe in sight?

VadaWhen an unexpected phone call sends me to Drag Creek, Kentucky the last thing I expect is to inherit half of a bar. The other half belongs to a biker named Solo.A jerk who loves to argue with me.He's rude, crude, and annoyingly handsome.I have a week to decide if I want to marry him or give up my inheritance.A week to fall in love with the possibility of a new beginning.The more I get to know about Solo the harder it becomes to walk away even though I know I should run fast and hard from a man like him.SoloVada Vanlow is a ball busting bitch.The woman drives me crazy.She wants to turn my biker bar into a family friendly restaurant.What should be an easy partnership quickly turns into more than either of us bargained for.If I want to keep my half of the business there's a catch. Marry Vada or lose it all. Ball Buster is a quick to the point BRRMC Roadhouse Tale and can be read as a...

Lady Elizabeth Whitton established in Tuileries Castle, a servant in Napoleon’s court known as Lisette Renard. John Phillip Trent has been working in the stables of Tuileries as Jean Pierre Bouvier. His only English contact being Lisette Renard. Their cover is compromised and the two find themselves escaping the palace and France, knowing they could very well never see each other again.Compromise for Christmas, a novella, first appeared in anthology, A Summons from His Grace. It later appeared in a compilation, Scots, Spies & Salacious Lies. It is the first of the Tenacious Trents. Lady Elizabeth craved excitement and adventure. Unwilling to endure further boring Seasons, she convinces her uncle, who has lived a more adventurous life than anyone else she knew, to let her work for him. A few years later Elizabeth was established in Tuileries Castle, a servant in Napoleon’s court known as Lisette Renard.John Phillip Trent has been working in the stables of Tuileries as Jean Pierre Bouvier for the past two years. His only English contact being Lisette Renard, a lovely blond lass, who he desired but kept at a professional arm’s length.When Lisette receives a summons to return home for Christmas, John learns that she is none other than the granddaughter of the Duke of Danby and she had named Jean Pierre as her husband. Their cover is compromised with the same letter and the two find themselves escaping the palace and France, knowing they could very well never see each other again and must face the truth of how they truly feel for the other.

Wall Street Journal & USAT Bestselling Author Glenna Maynard delivers another dark and dirty adventure in her bestselling Royal Bastards MC: Charleston, WV World.SmokeI'm not a good man. I've done bad things. Lied, cheated, and even killed. I'd do it all again if every time it brings me home to her.Ember. My good girl who has been sheltered from the world. Raised in a cult, there's so much she doesn't understand about life. So much life she hasn't experienced.I want to give it all to her. Put the world in the palm of her hand and treat her like a queen.I've made a vow not only to her but to myself to be a man worthy of all the love she has to give. I'm Ember's first and I intend to be her last.I'll do whatever it takes to bind her to me in every way possible.The Biker's Vow is book 16 in the bestselling Royal bastards MC: Charleston, WV chapter. Taming The Biker should be read first for best enjoyment.

I might be the quiet one, but I hear everything. The women who come into my bar aren't at all silent about their wants or desires. And I'm one of them. They call me "sexy, alluring and mysterious." They want to be "spanked by Frank." Hell, there's even a hashtag. But none of that matters until she walks through my doors. My body reacts. My whole world shifts. I want her, but I can't have her. And if she finds out the truth about me, I'll lose my shot forever. That's not a chance I'm willing to take. I just hope I'm strong enough to do what needs to be done before it's too late.

Wall Street Journal & USAT Bestselling Author Glenna Maynard weaves another gritty and twisted ride in her Royal Bastards MC: Charleston, WV World.The moment I laid eyes on Kiesha, I knew she was pure trouble.I should have been strong enough to resist the tempting little devil with pink hair. Everything I ever wanted was within reach. I'd just gotten my sponsorship to be a prospect for the Royal Bastards MC, and I had my girl by my side. There was only one problem. I was tasked with protecting the stepdaughter of one of the club brothers. Kiesha, a gorgeous girl with a wild side I wasn't prepared for. The moment we met, she stole my breath with her beauty, and I knew my life would change forever. Only not in the way I expected it to.All I wanted was to make the cut.All she wanted was to steal my heart.One mistake. One lie. Three broken hearts. What a tangled web I find myself in.I never meant to hurt anyone, but nothing is fair in...

“Knowing that I’ve just done something that will take decades off my parents’ lives with worry, you’ll excuse me for not getting into the fa-la-la-la-la Yuletide spirit this year. . . . The only difference between Christmas 2001 and Christmas 2000 is that I don’t have a visit from Hope to look forward to. And Bethany has already packed on some major fetal flab. Oh, and now Gladdie doesn’t need to ask a bizillion questions about my boyfriend, because she’s already gotten the dirt from you know who.” Jessica Darling is up in arms again in this much-anticipated, hilarious sequel to Sloppy Firsts. This time, the hyperobservant, angst-ridden teenager is going through the social and emotional ordeal of her senior year at Pineville High. Not only does the mysterious and oh-so-compelling Marcus Flutie continue to distract Jessica, but her best friend, Hope, still lives in another state, and she can’t seem to escape the clutches of the Clueless Crew, her annoying so-called friends. To top it off, Jessica’s parents won’t get off her butt about choosing a college, and her sister Bethany’s pregnancy is causing a big stir in the Darling household. With keen intelligence, sardonic wit, and ingenious comedic timing, Megan McCafferty again re-creates the tumultuous world of today’s fast-moving and sophisticated teens. Fans of Sloppy Firsts will be reunited with their favorite characters and also introduced to the fresh new faces that have entered Jess’s life, including the hot creative writing teacher at her summer college prep program and her feisty, tell-it-like-it-is grandmother Gladdie. But most of all, readers will finally have the answers to all of their burgeoning questions, and then some: Will Jessica crack under the pressure of senioritis? Will her unresolved feelings for Marcus wreak havoc on her love life? Will Hope ever come back to Pineville? Fall in love with saucy, irreverent Jessica all over again in this wonderful sequel to a book that critics and readers alike hailed as the best high school novel in years.

Lord Seth Claxton embraced the life of a rogue: brandy, women, gambling. His luck with cards led him to establishing his own gambling den from which his wealth grew. That is, until those who usually sat at his tables started gambling at a more respectable establishment owned by his cousin. For Miss Frances Hawthorn, the limited prospects of who she might marry were uninspired. While many misses had a sea of gentlemen from whom they could choose, hers had always been limited due to a lack of dowry. Thus, Frances retired to the side of the ballroom, happy to claim her wallflower status, and was determined to forge her own path. What she had not counted on was a gentleman from her past upsetting the balance of her perfect world. Now she fully intends to have her revenge by beating the rogue at his own game.

My family's whiskey empire needs to keep me as CEO. But thanks to my dad's will, to take my place as rightful head of the company, I need to find a wife. If I could just get my brother Sean's pain-in-the-arse best mate, Grace, out of my head long enough to focus on finding a decent woman.The woman maddens me, but she's a longtime friend of the family, so giving her a job as my assistant is the only way I can keep everyone off my back. But the more time I spend with her, the more I find myself looking differently at this girl from my past.Too bad she's decided not to give me the time of day.Each book in the Murphy Brothers series is STANDALONE:* Straight Up Irish* Murphy Brothers