"If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen . . .
Chef Charlee has spent a lifetime trying to outrun her difficult past. A head chef job in a small town might be the start of something new—but she never expected the boss to be more sizzling hot than anything she's ever cooked! But keeping her mind on the job is the only choice.
If only she would stop imagining the kitchen counter as a great place for a steamy rendezvous . . . (No! You prepare food on that! Stop thinking that way! But he's so handsome . . . !)
His new restaurant is his fresh start. But the head chef is the tastiest thing on the menu . . .
Bear shifter Steven has big plans to break away from his family's brewhouse tradition. All he needs is a new town, a new restaurant, and a new . . . incredibly sexy, curvy chef who just happens to be his fated mate?! Now it's not ambitions for the bistro that get him all fired up—it's Charlee, and finding a way to coax her out of her shell.
Charlee doesn't know about shifters, and Steven doesn't know if this restaurant is really what he wants after all—but the more they work together, the more they become certain that above all else, what they want is . . . each other."
"American photographer Tara Lynch has never wanted anything more than to visit Ireland—but her itinerary didn't include chasing peacocks around a wildlife park! On the other hand, it didn't include meeting a tall, handsome Irishman and falling head over heels for him in a heartbeat, either, so it might be time for Tara to re-think what makes a perfect holiday.
Peacock shifter Declan McCarthy, a local artist, certainly didn't expect to meet his fated mate during an afternoon at the park, but when his secret shifter self is revealed to Tara the very first time they meet, he wants nothing more to sweep her off her feet. Tara is more than willing to be swept—but there's a wicked fashion designer stealing peacock feathers straight off the birds at the park, and both Declan and Tara are determined to put a stop to it.
When Tara accidentally convinces the thief that she's a 'peacock whisperer,' they realize they have the chance to scare the woman straight—and Declan's peacock has a few giant ideas on how to do that!
Set against the backdrop of Ireland's beautiful Blarney Castle, this charming, funny romcom with no cliffhangers is a cuppa for the soul!"
"Lion shifter Elliott Harkness is in Ireland for the dream vacation of a lifetime—and helping the Shamrock Safari Wildlife Park do some fundraising! After all, it's not often that a shifter gets to display his animal form in public, and being the 'lion on loan' means Elliott can show off while doing some good for the underfunded park.
Aoife Gallagher loves her education and outreach job at the Safari Park, but there's something weird going on. Bringing new animals into a zoo isn't a fly-by-night operation, but as long as she's worked here, there's been a magnificent menagerie of exotic animals who seem to drop by for a week and then disappear. And the new lion is in a completely unsafe enclosure! And is also . . . the hottest guy she's ever seen?
The instant connection Aoife and Elliott feel would be wonderful under any other circumstances—but today Aoife has to convince a rude investor that the wildlife park’s mission to protect endangered species is worth their money, while also dealing with an ill-mannered child and the revelation that the park she's loved for so long is a refuge for shifters as well as an ordinary wildlife park. It's all too much—except Elliott is there to be Aoife's 'mane man,' and his steady support help Aoife get through a day that goes wrong from the start—and right at the end, in all the very best ways."
"Sarah is looking for love under the covers . . . of a good book!
As a small-town librarian, Sarah has her hands full with projects that range from running an in-library day care to planning her best friend's wedding. Romance is a complication she doesn't need . . . until he walks in.
Archivist Matthew is a big-city bear shifter looking forward to a quiet, short-term project in Virtue before heading to his dream job in New York. He didn't count on Virtue's vibrant, sexy librarian stealing his heart with a single glance . . .
Matthew never meant to stay; Sarah never meant to fall. But as they investigate a mystery from Virtue's past together, neither wants to turn the page on a blossoming summer romance that just might last a lifetime. Librarian Bear is a delightful, steamy standalone with a guaranteed happily ever after and no cliffhangers."
"Wolf shifter and carpenter Jake Rowly left his home town of Virtue straight out of high school and never planned to return. But a broken heart sends him back into the fold, because if there's one thing Virtue doesn't have, it's any chance of romantic complications. Then he meets newcomer Mabs Brannigan, and realizes fate has brought him home again . . .
All single mother Mabs Brannigan wants is a safe, friendly place to raise her young son. When a distant relative leaves her a falling-down farmhouse in upstate New York, it seems like the chance of a lifetime to start over . . . until an unethical contractor runs off with her money and she's left with the devastating truth that she may have to sell the farm.
Jake needs a place to stay. Mabs needs a carpenter. Jake doesn't want to move too fast with a single mom trying to build a new life . . . and Mabs can't imagine a gorgeous, sexy guy like Jake would be interested in anything more than her amazing old house.
But when Mabs's past comes back to haunt her, and winter traps them together, Jake and Mabs find they're ready for whatever romance may bring . . . and that the house holds more secrets than they know!"
"Agent Alisha MacAleer has put the past behind her as best she can, but her trust in the CIA is no longer what it was...and the Agency's faith in Alisha is fractured, too.
When a mission goes sideways—again—thanks to her ex-lover Frank Reichart, Alisha's loyalties are called into question. Furious to learn that brilliant but treacherous Brandon Parker is back developing the next generation of his sophisticated artificial intelligences, assigned to desk duty, and sure that there are answers that only she can get to, Alisha is left with an impossible choice.
She can follow orders, or she can strike out on her own to uncover Brandon's intentions, Reichart's secrets, and the hidden mastermind behind the game she's been drawn into—a mastermind whose identity she suspects, but could never guess.
With no support, no resources, and no safety net, Alisha must believe that honor can survive a trial by fire…."
"THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE—IF IT DOESN’T KILL YOU FIRST
Lara Jansen is a truthseeker, gifted—or cursed—with the magical ability to tell honesty from lies. Once she was a tailor in Boston, but now she has crossed from Earth to the Barrow-lands, a Faerie world embroiled in a bloody civil war between Seelie and Unseelie. Armed with an enchanted and malevolent staff which seeks to bend her to its dark will, and thrust into a deadly realm where it’s hard to distinguish friend from foe, Lara is sure of one thing: her love for Dafydd ap Caerwyn, the Faerie prince who sought her help in solving a royal murder and dousing the flames of war before they consumed the Barrow-lands.
But now Dafydd is missing, perhaps dead, and the Barrow-lands are closer than ever to a final conflagration. Lara has no other choice: she must harness the potent but perilous magic of the staff and her own truthseeking talents, blazing a path to a long-forgotten truth—a truth with the power to save the Barrow-lands or destroy them."
"When CIA Agent Alisha MacAleer's cover is blown by ex-lover Frank Reichart, she's forced into a spy game that draws a curtain back on a world she never even suspected existed…
The clandestine Sicarii have hired Brandon Parker, the brilliant, estranged son of Alisha's handler, to develop an artificial intelligence capable of enforcing their divine right to rule. No one, not even Brandon's father, imagines he can do it—not until Alisha herself faces one of the AI's battle drones in combat. It's suddenly a race between the CIA, the Sicarii, and Alisha's mercenary ex, to see who can keep—or steal—the AI for themselves.
No matter which way Alisha turns, she faces new dangers and heartbreaking betrayals. In the end, she has no choice but to adhere to the cardinal rule…
Trust no one but yourself."
"Lara Jansen is the world’s worst liar. Literally.
Born with an uncanny gift to know when the truth is being spoken, Lara lives a quiet, risk-adverse life as a tailor. But when handsome, mysterious Dafydd ap Caerwyn enters her life and claims—truthfully—to be a prince of Faerie, Lara’s world is turned upside-down.
Dafydd has traveled from his world—the Barrow-lands—in search of a ‘truthseeker’ to help untangle the truth around his brother’s murder, a crime which the warring factions in the Seelie court can’t solve. Lara, determined to take a few chances with her life, agrees to journey to the Barrow-lands with him, but there, discovers that even her gifts don’t necessarily prevent people from lying to her...and that charming, irresistible Dafydd has secrets of his own.
Caught between ancient, bitter rivalries and a burgeoning evil wielding dark power, Lara’s own abilities grow uncontrollably, and the Barrow-lands may yet discover that truth is the deadliest magic of all…."
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