He saved my mother's life. Now, I owe him a debt. But I don't even know who he is. Dante Langston is man of extreme wealth and privilege and just as much darkness. Our time together was supposed to be a one night stand. No names. No phone numbers. No other way to get in touch. But I keep going back to look for him. What I don't yet know is that he already knows me. He has been watching and waiting. He needs to stay away to protect his secrets but he can't. Neither can I. I'm addicted to his lips and his touch. He's addicted to our shared pain. What happens when I find out the debt I owe is to him? What happens when I find out the other secrets that he is much more desperate to keep? From bestselling author Charlotte Byrd comes an intense romance about debts, lies and secrets and the extent to which people go for love....

Someone's out to stop her newest project by any means necessary.He's got a target on his back from an unknown enemy.And their long-distance relationship might be the final straw. Desperate to make up to her family for her past absence, Gia Carter agrees to take over a partially finished architecture job from her grieving cousin, which means more time spent in New Orleans. But when the threats from environmental activists turn violent, she's assigned a bodyguard who is with her more than she's been with Xander in the last six months. Maybe it would just be easier to be with someone who wasn't long-distance? Stuck in Denver trying to clear his name through a settlement, Xander Reinerman can feel the distance creeping into his relationship with Gia. She's the one he wants to spend forever with, but he's just not good enough—yet. When anonymous letters appear and local gang members assault him, he questions whether they...

Sapphire wonders if she'll ever get her magical power in the second book of this sparkly new chapter book series that follows the trials and triumphs of young foals attending Unicorn University—perfect for those who love magic, happiness, and My Little Pony!It's another day at Unicorn University when Shamrock's magic power develops. While his new ability is super cool, Sapphire doesn't know how to feel. Now she's the only one of their friends without any magic. Sapphire knows that when a unicorn's power appears is as special as the unicorn herself...but what if she's the only unicorn who never gets one? Then Sapphire realizes something: maybe she's already unlocked her magic, and she doesn't know it yet! Maybe she just has to search for it. Will her power be one that her friends already have, like invisibility or flight? Or will it be something Sapphire never expected?

Swirling rumors forced Cecilia White out of the teaching job she loved. She vowed not to get involved with a man again—no matter what. But when the term begins at a new schoolhouse in a new town, disaster strikes. No matter what she does, she can't seem to escape the handsome, single chairman of the school board.John Morgan has a secret. He's not who he says he is. He'll do anything to protect and provide for his young sister—including cozying up to the prickly schoolmarm.Sparks fly and Cecilia must deny her heart if she hopes to keep her job. But what's more important? Duty or love?"...pure sweetness in a very readable package, perfect for those who like their romance gentle, G-rated, and family-style." - Publisher's Weekly on The Homesteader's Sweetheart."...smart, gentle, and uplifting..." Publisher's Weekly on Return of the Cowboy Doctor.

A romance develops as a detective partners with a lonely-hearts columnist to solve a murder mystery.London, 1885Amelie Hampton is a hopeless romantic, which makes her the perfect columnist to answer lonely heart letters in The Marriage Gazette. When Amelie plays matchmaker with two anonymous lonely hearts, she also decides to secretly observe the couple's blind date. To her surprise, the man who appears for the rendezvous is Harold Radcliffe—a grieving widower and a member of Amelie's book club.Police detective Michael Baker has been struggling ever since his best friend and brother-in-law died in the line of fire. Because he knows the dangers of his job, he has vowed never to marry and subject a wife and family to the uncertainty of his profession. But when he meets Miss Hampton, he is captured by her innocence, beauty, and her quick mind.When a woman's body is pulled from the river, Michael suspects the woman's...

We all have our demonsMy parents thought emigrating from Germany to the American frontier was going to be a good thing for everyone. But it seems that a darkness is doomed to follow us wherever we go.Life can be harsh and unforgiving in this world, especially for a woman. Luckily, I have my brother, Thomas, to watch out for me and protect me. He can only do so much, though, and after that vile attack, I find myself shrouded in darkness more than ever. It was then I realized that festering gloom came from within. Although society won't take kindly to it, we have forsaken God and embarked on an unholy life, but just as things finally began to calm down, the past reared its ugly head and came back to tear us apart and destroy and everything we've built. But as Thomas once told me, I would ride my steed through the fires of hell to salvage the only thing worth living for, and if the devil himself gets...

In the spring of 1915, seventeen-year-old medically trained Evangelina de Leon is called upon to deliver a baby, but a physician from a neighboring town arrives and throws her out. The next day, she is arrested for the woman's death and her historic fight for racial justice begins.