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I wouldn’t change being a single dad for anything. But with my daughter off at college, I need a nanny to help care for Ryan. In comes Jazz, a beautiful, brown-skinned firecracker. My daughter’s best friend never went to college, and it’s a big SECRET why not. When I find out what Jazzy does for her online fans, I launch into protective dad mode. I’ve never thought of Jazzy like this before… But now, she’s all I think about. My obsession with my daughter's black best friend quickly turns dark. If there’s one guy she should put on a show for, it should be me…

She was never supposed to stay. Confident. Curvy. A city girl who belonged to a world I could never touch. But I married her anyway, thinking I could keep her at arm's length and still call her mine. I never let her all the way in. Never let her see how deep she got under my skin. And now she's done pretending that's enough. When she hands me divorce papers, I expect her to run back to her perfect, polished life. But she doesn't. She gets a job slinging coffee in town like she's not tearing my whole damn world apart. So I give her an ultimatum—thirty days in my bed, living like we used to.

A historic Upstate New York snowstorm traps Michelle's high school bully, star quarterback Duke Callahan, at her house. She can't bear to look at him after what he did to her. He's cruel, remorseless and an utter sociopath. Michelle wants nothing to do with his confession of love, even from the chiseled, popular, and effortlessly charming Duke.

Thor is the hottest single dad at the park, and every mom wants the dedicated father with the huge biceps. Whether it’s at school or on the playground, Patricia knows she doesn’t stand a chance—he’s the sexiest man she’s ever seen. A single dad that hot must be a player. Plus, every woman in town wants him, and Patricia isn’t built like the “traditional” suburban housewife.

Student loans are kicking in soon and the crisis looms over Trinity's head. She does what every other single, childless and soon to be smothered by rent millennial her age is doing... She signs up to become a mail order bride for the cost of her student loans. Being dark-skinned, plus-sized and unapologetically sassy in her profile, Trinity expects nothing. A little email announces her purchase with a first-class plane ticket to where? Alaska.

He’s a small town cop, who wants the one woman he can’t have—his best friend’s 20-year-old black daughter. Thirty-something Fletcher Sweeney falls hard and fast for the African American girl-next-door with bouncy brown hair and a behind that rounds out a pair of blue jeans. Brittany has flawless brown skin, a gorgeous face, and a body that stimulates his increasingly dark and inappropriate romantic obsessions with the younger black woman.

Eoghan and Nora are on a mission. In a last ditch effort to save their war torn country, they have been sent to climb the Mountain and wake the giants. Eoghan is certain the old legends about the giants are just stories from his childhood.

In 2010, still bound by the restraints of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell," Air Force pilot Aaron Chambers must continue to hide his ever-evolving, ever-sizzling love for Dr. John Castle. After surviving a near fatal shooting, Aaron and John are in no mood to bow to DADT idiocy.

Newlywed Lena Wheeler, a 22-year-old virgin, traveled cross country to Silver Lake, Kansas with her husband for a long-awaited honeymoon, which has yet to begin. When she arrives in the small town, unexplained occurrences ensue almost immediately. Questioning her sanity, and her new husband's lack of empathy, Lena finds friendship and comfort from her handsome neighbor's black wolf, who becomes her devoted companion.

A sudden, violent tornado sends Lachelle careening into the arms of a grumpy, blue-eyed painter working on her Tudor home. Julius hasn’t felt the touch of a woman in years. He prefers life on his own in the country with his dog. Most women can’t handle Julius anyway. He’s too gruff... Too possessive of his women. Too addicted to his lovers once he has them in his clutches. Most women want something less intense…

Most women would be grateful to have a smoking hot country boy rescue them from a raging inferno. But not Andi. Dylan broke her heart five years ago and the last thing she wants is to owe a debt to the shredded 6'7" firefighter who threw her over her shoulder like she was weightless. He has a past. A child. A baby mama on the loose. More drama than she can handle. And... he broke her heart.

The year is 1878. In the untamed heart of the wild west, Samantha Thorne and Warren Mathews emerge as an unlikely duo striving to survive. Not long ago, they basked in the familiarity of the twenty-first century, until a cosmic phenomenon unraveled the very fabric of their existence. Wandering through a desolate landscape, Sam’s hope dwindles. One night, fate intervenes through a chance run-in with a band of dubious cowboys, turning their lives once more on its head.