Callie Monroe is leaving California and not just because it's ridiculous for a girl named Callie to live in a state with the same nickname. If only that were the stupidest thing she'd done lately. Unfortunately, it wouldn't even make the very bottom of the list.When she stumbles into the local honkytonk in her hometown and lays eyes on hot-blooded, cattle rancher Ford Holder, she begins to think her return trip home is one of her smartest moves yet.The ink isn't even dry on Ford's divorce papers, but he's done. Done with the lying, with the cheating, and with women in general. Until the girl with the broken smile and curves for miles needs a little help getting over her ex.Callie never expected to find the healing she needs in his capable arms.Ford knows she's way too young for him, but she's also everything he never even knew he wanted.Callie understands that he is the answer to every question she was never allowed to ask and the fulfillment...

Meridian Holder has long believed that most gorgeous men ruin their God-given gifts as soon as they open their mouths.Just because that theory doesn't prove true with her boss, District Attorney Jack Denton, it doesn't mean she would ever do something as stupid as risking her position as his ADA to gain his affections.Until he has the one thing she needs—to protect her family from a lawsuit without his interference.Lucky for her, Jack has needs of his own—specifically, a date to his former fiancée's wedding. Surely, she can hold her own out in Bourbon Country with his blue blood, debutante family for a week.She's certain that with a little persuasion, they can negotiate a trade. If he can also scratch that little itch that she gets whenever she thinks of him, all the better.Jack has spent the last four years imagining Meridian's long, auburn hair wrapped around his fingers while he indulges her lethal mind and body.As much...

Protector. Warrior. Shield. That is who Dan Vindico has always been—would always be.Until he wasn't. He seeks redemption. Robbed of his station and his command, he'll serve his penitence by teaching other Shields not to make his mistakes. But repentance never comes without a sacrifice.Dan is ordered back to his alma mater and finds it embroiled in scandal, an unraveling mystery he can't seem to solve. This time his father is on the line unless Dan can protect his family from everything that threatens to destroy them.Empath. Oracle. Savior. Fionna Vindico is the most powerful of the Empathic Receivers. She wields her wisdom like a sword and her understanding a spear. She must protect her daughters. She must protect Dan.When the lines between good and evil blur, Dan knows there is only one person he can trust—Fionna. They need the flames of their passion to sustain them. But to reveal the hidden secrets, they must be careful not to get...

Charlotte Tilson knows all about running away—she's been doing it most of her life.Running from the memories and pain of the fire that took everything.Now she's running from her wedding, or she's hanging from the lattice work outside her father's church with the stupid gown up over her head, to be more precise.All of Holder County is going to see everything and then some if she can't find a way out.When Lt. Jamie Holder, Holder County's most eligible firefighting cowboy, sees his best friend tied up in a bundle of lace and dangling from the side of the church, he knows this is his chance to fan the embers of their friendship into a blaze of passion hotter than any prairie wildfire.He's all about exit strategies. He's been the Clyde to her Bonnie for most of their lives. If anyone's going to help her make her greatest escape yet, it's going to be him.Because she was always supposed to be his.He just has to convince her that...

Born and raised on the sunny shores of Gypsy Beach, Hope Camden is struggling to make sense of life on her husband’s family cattle ranch. Born and bred to be a cowboy, Brock Camden is desperate to make Hope love Pleasant Glen as much as he does. A shocking twist of fate has both of them clinging tightly to one another, and Brock has to prove that he’ll stand by her side through thick or thin.

Dan Vindico is the Chief of Elite Iodex, the fiercest, peacekeeping, police force in the Realm. A man constructed of raw sinew and steel, he's sought revenge for his fiancée's murder for the last decade. As he tears apart the men responsible, he finds himself drowning in the riptide. Amelia's kidnapper is going to walk free. The knowledge drives Dan to the brink.Rainer Lawson, son of the assassinated Crown Governor and the newest officer to earn the Elite rank, can't seem to do anything more than watch his boss be crushed under the weight. With Emily on another continent, Rainer has already let his guard down for one brief moment and has seen the brutality of the Interfeci. They've taken something he can't ever get back. Can they be stopped?Can anyone save Vindico from the hellish abyss he seems determined to let consume him? He can't continue on. He's reached Rock Bottom. Narrowly escaping certain imprisonment and possible death, his body seems unwilling to fight anymore....