"Tomaś Martinez has had a crush on his, Darcy MacFarland, best friend's mother, for longer than he's willing to admit.
Would it be wrong to make those feelings known the weekend of his best friend's wedding?
Or would that a big time party foul?
Tying himself up and offering up his body for her to defile wouldn't be on his list of best man duties either, huh?
What if he dropped to his knees and begged her to let him worship her in every way he fantasized about over the years?
Would that be a wedding day faux pas?
And what if...
What if she said yes?"
"“I am the first to admit that I have a special talent for falling for the wrong guy.”
But Elijah Weinstein is wrong for Yves in all the right ways. The kinky, pretty boy and his filthy, delicious mouth has burrowed his way under her skin and she isn’t sure how can or if she wants to get him out.
And he believes in her talents and supports her dreams… seems a little too good to be true.
When they begin to explore her submissive and kinky tendencies, their feelings for each other become more intense, she fears that she is falling into old patterns, losing herself in him.
Elijah keeps pushing her boundaries, making her want and feel things she doesn’t feel ready for, but when they come right up to his limits will he be brave enough to let her in? "
"“I thought I knew how to be alone...”
In the wake of her break up with Elijah Weinstein, Yves seems to have forgotten everything she ever learned. Boys and booze don't fill that emptiness as easily as it had before and as depression threatens to take her under she turns to the one thing that has always buoyed her: writing.
Everyone rallies around her including the person she least expected to reenter her life, Julian Webster. His sweetness and caring turns out to be exactly the thing she needs to rebuild her confidence in herself and her talent.
Yves works her way back to some semblance of normalcy but as her book moves toward publication she knows that she will have to face Elijah. Will the confidence she worked so hard to rebuild crumble in his presence?
CW: parental death, suicide"
"“I want to live my life as unapologetically as a man…'
Entertainment columnist Yves Santiago leads a delightfully filthy life. Her day job keeps her flush with men and by night, she details her exploits on her anonymous blog, The Lust Diaries.
Well, it was anonymous until it was discovered by Creative Nonfiction editor, Elijah Weinstein.
Dark green eyes.
Broad, sun-kissed shoulders.
A mouth so sensual that it should come with an NC-17 rating.
This Fifth Avenue prince is everything she never wanted but can’t resist. Just his mere existence in her life lays waste to the walls she erected to protect herself. With the promise of a fairytale turned real, can Yves shake out the skeletons in her closet and accept what Elijah has to offer?
CW: Domestic abuse, miscarriage"
"Julian Webster needs a muse.
After leaving Philadelphia to escape a woman who couldn’t love him the way he needed, he’s beginning to wonder if he left every creative cell in his body back there too.
Agostina Malone knows that too much heartbreak can make you bitter.
She loves the idea of love but knows she's just not built for it. Good sex, recognition from those she loves and respects, close relationships with friends and family — those were the things she craved. But romantic love? No. Romantic love can drain you. Steal your light. Leave you empty and depressed. But with her own two hands she has carved out the life she wants, the life she can manage.
Big, broody Julian keeps invading her sacred spaces, and they share a wall at ArtCrush Studios, making him impossible to escape. Agostina offers her spiritual practices to help him snap out of it. But even a fistful of crystals and all the mojo bags in the world can't seem to put this man right. Maybe a mojo bag isn't what he needs...
Maybe they both need something only love can cure."
"Sous Chef Birdie Malone is willing to do anything to disprove the rumor 'she doesn't play well with others.'
Even if it means taking a job as a line cook at a local meat and three while trying to be the superhero her five-year-old daughter Amara believes her to be. Competing in her hometown’s yearly foodie competition would definitely help. If she wins, she
will finally get the position and recognition she's been desperate to receive. Even if Saxon Turner, world renowned chef and ruiner of her life is one of the judges. No one ever needs to speak about what happened between them. She can keep her secrets.
Chef Saxon Turner is in danger of having his foodie travel show canceled after he gets caught in a dark room with the Governor's daughter. Luckily, a long time friend steps in and offers him an opportunity to judge a foodie competition and a chance to
lay low until it all blows over. Maybe this time he will be able to shed the bad boy image he's carried with him through most of his life.
Or at least he thought it would be until he saw that one of the contestants is Birdie Malone.
It's been six years since he’s seen Birdie and he’s more than surprised to find the petite, brown-skinned, talented chef competing in a small town food competition when she should be commanding a kitchen of her own. When they met, the passion between
them was hotter than a pit barbecue fire and the way he left things between them when she got kicked out of culinary school is chief among his regrets. Now that she’s back in his life, he can only hope that she will trust and respect him again.
Birdie just wants to win the money to start her own catering business and ignore the fact that Saxon has unexpectedly become an unwanted distraction. But the passion, intensity, and creativity he inspires in her can’t be denied. Will she be able to keep him out of her bed and her head in the game?"
"Sonja Watts needs to re-enter the workforce after divorcing her husband of thirteen years. Taking the advice of her sister Birdie and her best friend Estelle, she signs up for a six-week course for entrepreneurs; hoping that she will learn everything she needs to know to build a business to support herself and her kids.
On the first night of class, Sonja is able to ignore the fact that most of the students were younger than her by ten years or more. It was what she expected. But when the instructor walks in, she debates packing up her new twelve hundred dollar laptop and walking out.
Sonja couldn’t remember the last time she looked at a man with little more interest than she give a sturdy dining room table. She was just disinterested.
But wow, did Atlas James grab her interest.
Atlas hasn’t been interested in dating since he moved back home from California. Adjusting to new found success in the town where everyone sees him as that big, geeky guy who cut grass for pocket change when they were in high school has been awkward. Aside from a couple of one night stands, he hasn’t really wanted to pursue a relationship with anyone until sweet, shy Sonja signs up for his class.
Compact, curvy, and juicy in all the right places, being in the same room Sonja Watts ignites all of those giddy feelings he felt when he had his first crush. He wants to know her and he’s pretty sure she wants to know him — despite the age difference that she seems to be so fixated on.
With her future riding on the success of her new business, Sonja has no time for distraction. Will she be able to keep her eyes on her own paper or will they remain glued to Atlas’s biceps and thick thighs?"
