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      <image:caption>Scarlet Briar The exclusive private community inhabited by actors, sports stars, senators and high society. The most recent additions being Cherie Boddington and her aging stripper mother—poor white trash gone to live in the house on the hill with multi-billionaire community owner Drew Briar. With the Cruelest Intentions Cherie thought since she’d lived in the gutter she knew how dangerous the world was and how to protect herself. She knew how to be hungry, how to do without, and how to scrape and claw for what she wanted. No one ever taught her how to handle excess—or the hedonist heir apparent who has nothing better to do than find her every limit and push her past them. Fearing she’d become like her mother, Cherie’s had little sexual experience aside from her mom’s pervert boyfriends trying to get into her pants, but while trying to hold her own in Scarlet Briar she’s launched on a journey of self-discovery, and the nature of pleasure and pain. With the world at her fingertips while waiting for the glass house to shatter, Cherie embraces every new experience, every taste, and every touch only to learn not all that glitters is gold. Sometimes, it’s just Beautiful Trash.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cherie Worthington-Briar believes she's found her footing in the new world of money, intrigue and betrayal, but the stakes are higher now than she ever could've imagined. Her beautiful trash has burned down like so much candle wax leaving her with nothing but a hot mess. (Beautiful Trash #1, Hot Mess #2, Bitchcraft #3)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cherie Worthington-Briar thinks all that's left is to master the art of Bitchcraft and she'll finally be safe. Only to save herself and her baby, she'll have to decide if she can walk away from it all, including the one man she can't forget. (Beautiful Trash #1, Hot Mess #2, Bitchcraft #3)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Scarlet Briar. The exclusive private community inhabited by actors, sports stars, senators and high society. The most recent additions being Cherie Boddington and her stripper mother—poor white trash gone to live in the house on the hill with multi-billionaire community owner Drew Briar. Cherie thought since she’d lived in the gutter she knew how dangerous the world was and how to protect herself. She knew how to be hungry, how to do without, and how to scrape and claw for what she wanted. No one ever taught her how to handle excess—or the hedonist heir apparent who has nothing better to do than find her every limit and push her past them. Fearing she’d become like her mother, Cherie’s had little sexual experience aside from her mom’s pervert boyfriends trying to get into her pants, but while trying to hold her own in Scarlet Briar she’s launched on a journey of self-discovery, and the nature of pleasure and pain. With the world at her fingertips while waiting for the glass house to shatter, Cherie embraces every new experience, every taste, and every touch only to learn not all that glitters is gold. Sometimes, it’s just Beautiful Trash, a Hot Mess and a lot of Bitchcraft.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Asher When the Bane of My Existence™ asks me what I’m looking for in a man and offers to help me get him, I’m pretty sure I’ve died and gone to hell. But the idea of Barclay Scott in my clutches is too delicious to resist and just like every horror movie ever made, I get into the car with Prince Smarming and let him take me to a house party in the woods where all kinds of fun and games are to be had just off the path. Even silly kissing games like Truth or Dare, where the consequences of the truth are worse than any dare. Truth: I’ve realized it’s not Barclay Scott I want. Dane Cinder Girl has gotten under my skin, and I’m a Dane. I can’t have feelings. Can’t show weakness. The solution is to get her out of my head and set her up with my bastard brother. He’s exactly what she said she wanted. Only the weekend goes horribly wrong because I can’t stop playing the game, and the truth is, no matter what I want, she’s a vulnerability I can’t afford. Dare: Don’t fall in love.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jax I’m a virgin, but I don’t want to be. I just want to get it over with, so I made a list. I held interviews. (I know, I’m a total Type A.) The winner is Sebastian Rathbone. Grade A Beefcake who plays defense for the Grizzlies’ Rugby team. Manwhore extraordinaire. So basically, a professional. The problem? My best friend, Matt. For some reason, he wanted me to pick him. I’d never choose him because then I’d fall in love and I remember the hell that was middle school. Now that he’s grown into his head and feet, and he is by definition also Grade A Beefcake, there’s even less chance he’d ever feel more than friendship for me. Why put myself through that? I thought I’d locked all of that away until a game of Spin the Bottle makes me doubt everything. Especially the lie I’ve been telling myself about not being in love with my best friend. Matt Sebastian Rathbone? Dude. No way. He’s not a bad guy, but he’s not the guy for Jax. If anyone knows the guy for Jax, that’s me. It hurts I wasn’t even consulted. Actually, what bothers me the most is that she didn’t ask me to be the one. To punch her V-Card, I mean. I’m pretty good at what I do, or so I’ve been told. It should be a good memory. Something special. And lemme tell you, Rathboner isn’t going to make it special for anyone. I don’t like it that there’s this part of her she’s going to give to someone else, but I guess I have to get right with it. I’m the best friend. Not the lover. Except when faced with losing her, I’ll have to take a spin on chance just one more time.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bonnie I really thought going to a party at the illustrious Ridgemont Hall would be more refined than kid’s kissing games in closets. Until my best friend’s older brother is the one I’m locked in a closet with for seven minutes. Those seven minutes were both heaven and hell. I get the make-out session I’ve been dreaming of for the last four years, but things get complicated. Don’t they always? I want more from Justin than seven minutes. (Don’t we all?) But I don’t know that he has it to give. Justin I only wanted to show her that she was playing with fire, but it was me who got burned. I can’t keep my hands off of her and what’s worse is she tells me I don’t have to. She’s offering me everything I never knew I wanted. Bonnie has always been like a kid sister to me, but suddenly she’s a wildcat of a woman. Whenever I try to reconcile this new Bonnie with little Bon-Bon, I feel like I’m crossing a sacred line. I should be protecting her, especially from myself. If only that seven minutes in heaven wasn’t worth burning in hell.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Ridgemont Hall Key Party is a long-standing tradition. It keeps our college indiscretions amongst our peers. I knew Conrad would be a little bitch about it when he drew my key, but those are the rules. You go home with the person who gets your key. We’re student body leaders. What would it look like if we didn’t follow through? I’m pretty sure he’s terrified of me because he’s my best friend. He knows me better than anyone. And I’ll admit, I’m curious. I want to know this side of him. Especially because he doesn’t want to show it to me. I know how to push all of his other buttons, I need to know about these, too. Especially because he’s the only person on the planet I trust. He has way too much power over me. I need some of my own. Conrad I don’t want the key to Pandy’s panties if it doesn’t come with the key to her dark heart. Hey, even villains fall in love. And we’re the worst. I know we’re both terrible people. We manipulate, plot and devise both rises and falls. It’s people like us who run the world and I don’t want to share my kingdom with anyone but Pandora. It gives me a little thrill to tell her no. Even though she thinks I’m showing weakness. I’ll let her think that to watch her squirm like a worm on my hook, wondering why I won’t dance to her tune. And when I’ve got the key I want, maybe I’ll tell her she’s always had mine. Or maybe I won’t. Like I said, we’re the villains.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Shae I’m not into Sebastian Rathbone. I’m not. I discovered he was a “cunning linguist” on a dare, but he’s not the one for me. I’d never trust him, even if he was more than a dick with feet. We’ve played all the games, both of us. Sometimes we’ve ended up in a closet together. Sometimes my heart beats faster when he’s around, but only because I know he can make me feel good. That doesn’t mean it’s love, because that’s one game neither of us have played. Never have I ever fallen in love. Except, I think he actually sees me. The real me. The me I hide from everyone else. In the dark with him, I don’t just take off my clothes. I take off my mask. And he wants me anyway. Bastian Sex is easy. It’s not hard to find someone to make friction with. It’s not hard to figure out that an intake of breath means keep touching me there. What is hard? Finding someone who sees who you are underneath the skin and loves you and accepts you anyway. That’s the scary part. The part I don’t want. No one will ever be able to accept all of who I am, so never will I ever want to be in love. At least, that’s the lie I tell myself to keep from begging her to stay.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Winter The last thing I wanted was a room in Ridgemont Hall. I won’t fit in here any more than I did at boarding school. I promised my father a year at Hollingsworth checking items off his list of musts. Ten things I have to try before I’m allowed to give up on his dreams for me. The first thing on the list is a Ridgemont party, but all they’re doing is playing a stupid makeout game and my bodyguard is watching. I’d rather make out with him, but I guess any jock will do. I’ll have to find one that’s not afraid of the dark, a.k.a. me. Or my gangster father. I’ll pay him to play my boyfriend if I have to. I’ll play the game until I can be free. Although, I’m breaking all the rules. Just like I always do. Pretty sure if you have a fake boyfriend, you’re not supposed to actually fall in love with him. I started a fire I can’t put out and I’m afraid I’m the one who is going to get burned. Brad I’ve always had a thing for goth girls. I don’t know if that’s my way of rebelling against my perfect corn-fed, apple pie life, or something else, but I’ve always been drawn to outliers. Maybe because I have to work so hard to fit in. To be what everyone expects of me. I admire anyone who colors outside the lines. Especially since I can’t. Until Winter. She makes me an offer I don’t want to refuse. She’s a gangster’s daughter with a penchant for trouble, everything I’m afraid to let myself want. Too bad someone has to lose in this game we’re playing. I don’t know if loving her puts me in first place or last, but I can’t afford to lose.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“You’re pretty, for a fat girl.” That’s nothing Claire Howard hasn’t heard before, and there’s part of her that doesn’t care, that thinks it’s okay to love herself just the way she is. Then there’s that other voice in her head, the one that plays on a constant loop that gets louder whenever people scrutinize her dinner order, snicker when she needs a belt extender on a plane, and outright laugh when they see her with her the kind of man they don’t think fat girls deserve. It reminds her that existing while fat is the worst thing in the world. It’s worse than being ignorant, bigoted or cruel—at least according to society’s standards. Even when she has the attentions of two men who are the embodiment of fantasy. But it’s not their love that matters, it’s her own. Fat is a brand that’s been seared into every aspect of her life—even her heart. Can Claire love herself enough to reach past the labels for her own happiness?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“You’re a woman who is comfortable in her own sexuality. That necessarily means you must be labeled, categorized and filed away for everyone’s safety.” Rebecca “Bex” Foxworth likes that description of herself. It makes her sound strong, dangerous, and powerful—like she’s standing against some grand injustice by using her body as she sees fit. That’s how her friend Claire Howard sees her and if Claire has taught her anything, it’s that labels are defined by the people who wear them, and not the other way around. But SLUT is more than a label to Bex: it’s her armor. It protects her from ever having to share her true self. The loop in her head tells her she’s innately flawed and wholly unworthy. Why else would her parents insist she go under the knife for a new nose, a new body, and plastic perfection? That’s something Thornton Henry Edgeleaf would never understand. Thornton is perfect, in every way—handsome, worldly, passionate—with just one unforgivable flaw: he’s utterly sincere. It makes Bex want to run screaming, back into the familiar, indifferent arms of men who won’t fail to dismiss and mistreat her. But nothing’s as easy as it used to be…</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>For months, Anne’s been indulging in a porn site that caters to women. She’s even got a favorite model; a hottie who gets her juices flowing every time. Until she finally sees his face—and discovers she’s been jilling off to videos of her lifelong best friend, Chase. Now Anne can’t even look at him without imagining his big, hard…everything. Worse, she’s just become Chase’s new roommate. How can she possibly keep her hands off all that Grade-A beefcake when it’s within arm’s reach? Does she even have to? A friends-with-benefits arrangement is looking more appealing by the second… Starting with the world’s dirtiest dance, Anne and Chase’s physical relationship progresses to the point of combustion. However, no-strings is harder than Anne ever imagined. Her lust for Chase is like a drug…but she’ll soon realize other, more complicated emotions are far more potent.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2021-02-16</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>I was a bad mother, a bad daughter, a bad wife, a bad friend. Boozed out and tired, with no dreams and no future. But I was a good officer. Sara Lunsford helped cage the worst of the worst, from serial killers to sex criminals. At the end of every day, when she walked out the prison gate, she had to try to shed the horrors she witnessed. But the darkness invaded every part of her life, no matter how much she tried to immerse herself in a liquor bottle. She couldn't hide from the things that hurt her, the things that made her bleed, the things that still rise up in the dark and choke her. With a magnetic, raw voice that you won't soon forget, Sweet Hell on Fire grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go. It's a hardscrabble climb from rock bottom to the new ground of a woman who understands the meaning of sacrifice, the joy of redemption, and the quiet haven to be found in hope.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“The Vigilante” was my case. He killed killers. Rapists. Drug-dealing scum. All the ugly crumbs that fell through the cracks of willfully blind justice. I spent five years hunting him until I realized I didn’t really want to catch him. So I walked away—from the case, from my failure, from my big-city life in Detroit to start over with my husband in Merryn, Kansas. My devils came with me. Bodies matching his M.O. were found in a cold storage unit wrapped up in macabre tribute—each victim with some tie to me. He won’t let me go, won’t let me run. There’s part of me that doesn’t want him to. It’s the same part that wonders if his way might be the only way. At least as far as my husband is concerned. I found Jacob’s Altoids tin in our fire pit—it was full of human teeth. Trophies from the women he raped. He’s a special investigator for the KBI, assigned to the task force that’s supposed to be hunting this master predator. He’ll never be caught unless someone takes matters into their own hands. When he’s sleeping soundly, so trusting next to me in the dark, I tell myself I’m a good cop. I’m no Vigilante. But I’ve been wrong before.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>SOME KIND OF AWFUL . . . Lucky Fujiki’s first name is a cosmic joke. Her luck is so bad, even the number seven steers clear of her. But when her adorable godmothers ask for a favor, Lucky can’t say no. After all, it’s just a little one—to save the world’s magic. Lucky can already feel the bad juju waiting to strike. And her mission is even worse than she imagined: to promote Ever After as a wedding destination by faking a marriage to her first love and long-time ex, Ransom Payne—he of the Embarrassing Incident that neither of them will ever live down . . . OR ALL KINDS OF WONDERFUL? Ransom Payne has spent years building an impressive new reputation for himself, and now his godmothers want him to pretend to wed the one girl he’d like most to forget? Sure, weddings in Ever After could be a huge boon for his chocolate business, but risking more up-close-and-personal time with Lucky? Considering the stakes, it’s a curse he’ll have to bear, at the risk of being humiliated—or perhaps, bewitched . . .</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>SOMETIMES YOU’RE THE CURSE . . . Disgraced wedding planner Zuri Davis is so relieved to be offered a job with Fairy Godmothers, Inc., she’s willing to trade the high-rise excitement of Chicago for the small-town charm of Ever After. Falling for one of her grooms, even unintentionally, was enough destroy her career—and also to prove that all men are indeed frogs. But when she meets gorgeous B&amp;B owner Philip Charming, who definitely lives up to his name, even she is tempted to test that theory . . . AND SOMETIMES YOU’RE THE CURE Three hundred years as a frog by day and himself by night, is enough to test any man’s patience--even if Philip knows he deserved Petunia’s curse. It certainly taught him not to mess around when it comes to making promises. And stubborn, proud Zuri is a woman he’d like to promise his heart and everything else to—if only he weren’t a sometimes-frog. Can he hope for True Love’s Kiss from a woman whose trust has been so thoroughly broken?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Love makes the world go ʼround—at least magically speaking. And Ever After, Missouri’s resident fairy godmothers Petunia, Jonquil, and Bluebonnet are doing their best to restore their hometown’s deep well of enchantment by conjuring true love, one happy couple at a time—and this time, it’s all in the family . . . CAN YOU SKIP THE STORYBOOK BEGINNING . . . Novelist Juniper Blossom has romance down to a science in her bestselling books. But she’s not about to settle for just any man—a happy ending looks different for everyone, and she needs to find the guy who’s idea of forever matches her own. Try telling that to her adorable, meddling grandmothers, though. If she doesn’t find a man soon, they’re going to find one for her. Which is why Juniper has prepared for a trip home to Ever After by fibbing that her sexy, smart, sweet best friend Tomas is her fiancé! He doesn’t believe in love at all, but that doesn’t matter if they’re just pretending . . . ON THE WAY TO THE HAPPY ENDING? Divorce attorney Tomas Rivera is as proud of Juniper’s authorial success as she is, but that doesn’t mean he buys into her books’ premise. His career is proof enough that true love is the real fairy tale—and everyone knows fairy tales aren’t real. But he can never say no to gorgeous Juniper, and an “engagement” might move him one legal brief closer to partner at his old-fashioned firm. Yet playing the part suddenly starts to mean feeling it, especially when a kiss just for show turns up the heat between them. Is happily ever after possible for two people who aren’t on the same page when it comes to love?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Got Demon? Grace does. She’s got more demon than she can saddle. In fact, she’s got a sinfully sexy Crown Prince of Hell named Caspian. She’s also got ten days to get rid of him or Bad Things shall ensue. See, her Russian mobster exboyfriend didn’t take kindly to her smutty Mephistophelean contract. It’s not that she’s conspiring with fiends; that was his idea. It’s that she’s conspiring against him with outrageous devilry that runs the gamut from embarrassing to a dead hooker turned dominatrix demon gunning for his soul. One should never trust demons, let alone shag them. They don’t have hearts. Yet Grace is buying hers some slightly tarnished armor and hoping that once he’s been shoveled into it, kicking and screaming, he’ll find it’s just his size. This damsel in distress needs a dark knight for a Happily Ever After.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Got Warlock? Middy Cherrywood does. She's got more warlock than she can hex with Dred Shadowins. He isn't just a billionaire playboy and Weekly Warlock centerfold. He's a spy for the High Chancellor, and he convinces Middy to pose as his fiancée for his latest mission. Too bad no one told his mother before she slipped Middy a potion that will make their sham engagement all too real in just ten days. Dred Shadowins already has his hands full with cursed objects, possessed nuns, and dreams where Merlin makes him pay for taking his name in vain by relating his sexcapades with Nimue. But by the end of the mission, he's convinced his most difficult challenge is the hero's cape Middy's draped over his shoulders. Because he wants nothing more than to give her the one thing he may not be capable of providing: Happily Ever After.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Got Angel? Drusilla "Tally" Tallow does. Both fallen and otherwise because she's got ten days of Heavenly and Infernal Parole after knocking Falcon Cherrywood from his broom. All she wanted was to settle down with a nice warlock, have babies, and grow old together. But she's got a bad habit of falling for the wrong warlock. She blames Cupid. Too bad her Heavenly Parole Officer is none other than the heart bandit himself--the newly appointed Cupid and current fixture in all her fantasies, Falcon Cherrywood. After smiting Cupid with a fireball, Falcon Cherrywood must now play the Diapered Archer. He can't think of anything more humiliating than flying around in pink wings shooting arrows into hopeless fools. Archery was never his strong suit and Falcon doesn't even believe in love. But more troubling are the feelings his sinfully irresistible parolee sets off in him--for only Tally has the power to make him believe in things better left to fairy tales, like Happily Ever After.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Blake Woolven is the bad boy CEO of Woolven Industries, but he’s badder than the luscious, BBW Randi Rutger would’ve guessed. After Woolven took down her father’s company and devoured it like a shaking rabbit, she’s determined to get close to him and make all the Woolvens pay for destroying her father. Blake knows Randi’s agenda, but the wolf inside him will do anything to have her. Even expose the Woolven family secret. When Randi sees Blake and his brothers shed their skins beneath the moon, she’s terrified. But it’s just what she needed to bring him low—that and the silver nitrate plasma gun her father designed. With her loyalties torn, Randi must choose between avenging her father and the big bad wolf who clawed his way into her heart.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>While on holiday in Greece, Drew Woolven had a passionate encounter with a woman he never expected to see again. Especially not in a small Midwestern town with a boy that has a crescent moon birthmark on his wrist that matches Drew’s own. Emmie Anderson had never been more thrilled than when she discovered she was pregnant. At thirty-eight, she was tired of waiting for the right man to have a child, and after a messy divorce from a sociopath, she’s not sure she wants a man. Emmie thought she had it all planned out until she discovered her son’s unique affliction. Pack law demands Drew marry her and turn her to keep the Woolven secret, but after her divorce, Emmie swore she’d never let another man have that kind of power over her again. Especially not one who tempts her to surrender her heart.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>After waking up in a hotel room in Vegas married to waitress Belle Vaughn instead of wolf heiress Maribella DeVaughn, Parker knows he’s made a mistake of epic proportions. One that his family, money and position can’t fix for anyone involved. There will be no annulment or divorce. Not only because wolves mate for life, but because of Woolven Industries. They can’t afford another scandal. Belle doesn’t understand why it’s such a big deal until the full moon Parker tries to turn her and fails—because she’s a vampire. They aren’t even the same species, but somewhere along the way, the show they put on for human society became real and that mistake became something not only worth dying for, but worth living for, too.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When his nephew marries the wrong woman, Warner steals the accidentally jilted Maribella and marries her in the way of old—with his bite. More human than wolf, Maribella takes to the new pack who has accepted her just as she is. Until a new threat rises in the north and with it, something dark and hungry inside Warner. Maribella will have to surrender to the hell-beast that sleeps beneath her skin to fight for her mate, her pack, and to claim her destiny. In the bleakest of nights, War realizes that while he was stealing his heiress, she stole his heart. And for all who dare to try and take her from him, there will be hell to pay.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Heart of the Mummy by Saranna DeWylde The Egyptian legend of He Who Endures fascinates archaeologist Dr. Kalila Blake. But her enigmatic colleague Dr. Seth Dakarai knows more about the warrior king—and about immortal desire—than she ever dreamed . . .</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In Glory, Kansas, the best bakery in three counties not only brings together ingredients for sweet treats, but is the place where—through the powerful mix of friendship, community and a well-stocked kitchen—a wounded hero can forge a forever kind of love. Back in the hometown he left behind five years ago, Jack McConnell has returned battle-scarred and feeling like half a man. But Betsy Lewis only sees the hero who once saved her life and set her heart on fire. Now she's burning to save him in return. She'll use every trick she's got up her sleeve, from her generous natural assets to her talent for baking, to coax Jack out from the bottom of his whiskey bottle. At first, Jack responds to Betsy like any red-blooded man would. He's always denied his attraction to the innocent girl he used to know, but he's returned to find Betsy's grown into a full-on woman with strength enough for both of them. Until Jack realizes the only way to conquer his demons and be worthy of the hero's mantle she's pinned to his shoulders is to save Betsy one last time—from himself.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In Glory, Kansas, a fairy-tale wedding has local tongues wagging. But through this false engagement, can a wounded warrior and the woman he's protecting find true love? Byron Hawkins doesn't want to be responsible for anyone ever again. The former Black Ops soldier is better at taking lives than saving them. But on a mission in Tunisia to deliver a package to safety, Byron is dismayed to find that the precious cargo is actually a hostage rescue, and that his orders are to take Damara Petrakis back to US soil and hide her in plain sight—as his newlywed wife. Back in Byron's hometown of Glory, Kansas, petite, fierce Damara keeps surprising him; she may be royalty, but she's fully trained in martial arts and will sacrifice anything for her country. As the town rallies around the returning hero and his bride-to-be, he's finding that it's way too easy to play the part, and after the hell he has seen, that terrifies him. Byron didn't want another life to save, but the passionate beauty he's sworn to protect might just turn the tables and save him instead.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Once upon a time, he was just a hopeless cause from the wrong side of Glory, Kansas. And he'll be damned if he'll let anyone drag him back down after finally clawing his way out. Everyone knows that Gina Townsend is a saint, always taking care of everyone around her. And now she's trying to be a mother to her six-year-old niece, Amanda Jane. But the girl's biological father isn't helping matters. The scruffy, gangly boy Gina remembers has returned to Glory a sexy, successful man, but Reed Hollingsworth is the only thing standing between her and losing Amanda Jane to foster care. Betrayed that neither Townsend sister bothered to tell him he was a father until he had money, Reed's still not about to shirk his responsibilities. So when he demands Gina move in with him as part of Amanda Jane's custody agreement, he tries not to notice pretty much everything about her—especially the way his solemn-faced daughter laughs when they play together. Raising a child together, Reed and Gina learn that some dreams come and go, but some are a spark that burns eternal…</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Madelyn Morrison is going home for Christmas to get an interview with America's newest sweetheart. Madelyn grew up with the hero, so she knows she'll get the interview, but she has bigger problems. The biggest stands six foot two inches and his name is Johnny Hart. He left her standing at the altar. And there's no part of the small town that doesn't hold some memory of him and her broken heart. From the moment Johnny Hart met Madelyn, he knew she was too good for him. Then he fell hard, he fell fast, and for a moment he believed they could have everything. Until reality intruded…and he behaved like a coward. Now fate has brought her back to Glory and given him a second chance. Dare Johnny believe that the magic of the holidays could bring him the most special gift of all?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sometimes the only way to forgiveness is sin… Sean Dryden—the superhot all-American golden boy—has always gotten under Kentucky Lee's skin. She can't remember a time when she wasn't in love with the Special Ops Aviation pilot…even when he got engaged to her best friend. What Kentucky never knew is that Sean broke it off with Lynnie just a week before she died. Something has come apart in Sean—too many missions, too much loss. Only Kentucky seems to understand him…and the undercurrent running between them is tangible. That need to touch and taste—to remind themselves they're still alive. Can the fire in her warm his frozen heart</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sophie Benedict was sixteen when she was burned in the house fire that killed her parents and eight years later, while the scars on her skin have healed, those on her soul haven’t. Working as a licensed therapist online, it keeps her away from face to face interaction. She’s more comfortable with other people’s pain than her own. Hayden Cole was the rookie fireman who hesitated—it was his first call. While ultimately he saved her, he believes everything that’s happened to her belongs squarely on his shoulders. He’d do anything to make it right. As he begins to coax her out of the darkness and into the light, Hayden realizes that he was the one who was lost. Only their love can burn away the shadows that threaten to swallow them both.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>After Livie Dodd’s firefighter husband Ben was killed on County Road Five doing what he did best—saving people, Livie vows never to love another hero. She wouldn’t survive that again, all the pieces of her heart scattered so she’d never stitch them back together. Especially not her husband’s best friend, Royce Cole. The sparks she feels when his fingers brush hers, when his eyes rake over her, they mean nothing. She can’t let them. Since his friend’s death, Royce feels that Livie is his responsibility. Ben would’ve wanted him to take care of her. Only he finds the old feelings he thought long smothered rekindled, no matter how he tries to deny them. When comfort turns to something hotter, an ember could become an eternal flame.</image:caption>
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