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Milo Knox rocked Grace Morrison’s world. Now he’s going to rock yours.Sexy, charismatic rock star Milo Knox is known for several things—his music, his excesses and not taking no for an answer. So when beautiful blonde college grad Grace Morrison steps into his life, only to tell him she’s not interested, he offers her the one thing she can’t refuse. Her dream job. Working as a publicist for her favorite band, which also happens to be his own, the Waywards.The Waywards were the darlings of the ’90s, before Milo’s substance abuse issues and personal demons drove them into obscurity. Now clean and sober, he’s determined to make a new start. Both with the band and with Grace, if she’ll just let him—and let herself live her own life, free of the shadows of her past. But old sins cast long shadows and the past rarely stays buried. In their case, it threatens to tear them apart.

Two thousand years have made Emma tougher than nails and full of sass, but one encounter will change her world forever.What do you get when a gorgeous two-thousand-year-old Council member shows up at your door? A case of frenzied lust with a side of unruly bear, that’s what.When Damien calls for reinforcements, he expects a badass warrior, not a sassy redhead who tempts him every which way. But underneath he finds a woman with a heart of gold, and, crucially, his mate.Emma has never been one to bow to fate, especially when it pairs her up with one overgrown arrogant Alpha bear determined to get on her last nerve. But for her investigation, she’ll have to stay close to the delectable Damien. Very close, for danger threatens the Clan from within. Emma and Damien have to put their attraction on hold, as impossible as that is, to find the perpetrator…or the next ‘accident’ could be their last.

A Pack divided…brought together by love.Nikki Stratton returns to her Pack to find it split in half between the new Alpha and the older members of the Pack. Worse, there is talk about her oldest brother challenging for the Alpha position.Taking matters into her own hands when no one else can come up with any ideas, she meets with the Alpha’s brother, RJ. She just had no idea they would end up hot, naked and sweaty.RJ Cross supports his brother one hundred percent, so when Nikki contacts him to find a solution to the Pack problems, he’s relieved. He might even be able to come up with some decent ideas—if he can keep his hands off her long enough.As final preparations start for taking the shifter world public, Nikki and RJ must use everything at their disposal to bring their Pack together—and hopefully get their happily ever after.

Do ghosts fall in love? Jemma is about to find out…The morning after a drunken party, Jemma makes a life-changing pact with her best friend Alice. Fed up with being broke, she enrolls at her local college, determined to turn her life around. But on her first day she’s killed in an untimely accident and finds that she has become a ghost.Terrified, she goes to find Alice in the hope that, by using her psychic abilities, her friend might be able to help her. Instead of making contact with Alice, though, Jemma meets Tom, an attractive but elusive ghost who explains that she is trapped in a dimension for people who weren’t supposed to die.She vows to find a way out, but is torn when she develops feelings for Tom, whose own reasons for being there are darker than she could ever have imagined.As time goes on, Jemma learns to adapt to her new existence and falls in love with Tom. But life as a ghost is never that straightforward. A dark, menacing spirit, an unhappy child and Tom’s traumatic past force Jemma into making a decision that could ultimately destroy her.Will Jemma lose everything in order to make things right, or might eternal love be possible after all?

To reunite with her kidnapped son, a reclusive bookkeeper infiltrates an outlaw biker club, only to fall for one of the members.When Jenna Mitchell enters the world of the Devil’s Prophets Motorcycle Club, unlike most women before her, she is not there to land herself a biker. After the late president of the MC kidnapped their baby and murdered her sister, Jenna could only look on from the sidelines as another woman raised Jack. Now is her chance to finally reunite with her son, and nothing will stand in her way.Try telling that to Ali, the club’s enforcer. The stunning, quiet bookkeeper is like the start of his favourite sex fantasy, the part just before the secretary whips off her glasses, and shakes down her hair. One short meeting, and she’s all he can think about.First love at thirty-two seems unlikely, yet Jenna can’t help falling for the sexy, dirty-mouthed biker. But it’s not all MC parties and off-the-chain hot sex for this interloper. When the man that wants you demands your secrets too, it’s only a matter of time before he will find them out.

There’s more than one way to ride shotgun.A serious error in judgment sends actress Steffi Corden spiraling from A-list sweetheart to Hollywood pariah. Her TV show is canceled, her ex-boyfriend has married somebody else, and not only can she not eat lunch in this town again, she can’t legally drive through it. It’s going to take some serious butt-kissing and good behavior to climb back to the top. Getting there with a suspended license, though, is half the battle.Barry Spahn came to Hollywood with dreams of the big time. While his unsold scripts pile up on his hard drive, he pays the bills as a rideshare driver, mostly shuttling other hopefuls to auditions and meetings. When he’s hired to chauffeur Steffi around town he’s initially skeptical given her reputation, but quickly comes to understand her. Nevertheless, he drives her around L.A. while she drives him nuts.How Steffi and Barry make the journey from road rage to true romance becomes one long, strange trip, one neither wants to end.

Domination, obsession, possession—where the all-powerful Frost comes toe to toe with Juliet Sinclair, a submissive to no one, until her first touch of Frost.After a chancy one-night stand, Juliet Sinclair runs into Mr. Tall-Dark-Handsome, the only man to make her contemplate true submission—Roman Frost, CEO of Frost Industries, alpha billionaire playboy and her new boss. There is no question that the chemistry between Frost and Jules is sinfully alluring, but being together will risk everything they both have fought so hard to build.Frost, a controlling megalomaniac, can’t get enough of the only woman who has said ‘no’ to him. Jules, a hopeless romantic, wants to be consumed by love until she stands too close to the fire of Frost. The two of them together are chaos, but the two of them apart are emotional mayhem. Fighting their own inner demons, they launch themselves into the all-consuming cat-and-mouse game of love. Yearning for something more, Jules willingly steps into the belly of the beast, driven by a touch of Frost.

Think archeology is just dead bones? Think againHeadstrong archeologist Casey spends her life exploring the world for hidden treasure and ancient artifacts. A free spirit, her dedication to her calling means she’s often in conflict with the more narrow-minded higher-ups at the university where she’s employed as an associate professor. Timetables, rules, protocols—they all go out of the window when Casey’s on the hunt.The inscrutable Professor Truman Harrison falls for Casey at first sight, literally, tumbling into a pit at her feet on first meeting. Now, if he, as Casey’s new, detested department head can just talk her into helping him search for the legendary treasure buried in the Money Pit of Oak Island, Nova Scotia, maybe he can also get her to fall into his bed. But first he needs to prove to her he’s not just another tunnel-visioned, box-ticking management ‘suit’.But the romance of this scorching-hot couple proves to have all the twists, turns, false starts and trick corners of a multicursal labyrinth. Luckily, both Casey and Truman have no small skill and a little bit of practice in navigating those…Part madcap caper, part serious treasure hunting, the Brass Ringers never fail to entertain or get their way!

Two cowboys. Twice the love-or twice the heartache?Having arrived in Cavern County to stay with her aunt and uncle, Trinity Ellis is shocked to find that two handsome cowboys have been helping the elderly couple. Knowing how wealthy her relatives are, she is suspicious of them and annoyed that they have undertaken chores she should have done.Jarrod Parker and Cordell Bray are happy to help their neighbors, whom they regard as family since losing their own. Jarrod was orphaned not long ago, while Cordell's brothers and sister turned against him and their mother after their father's death. They are both instantly smitten with the pink-haired beauty, although her Uncle Frank has warned them to tread carefully around her. It appears that not only has she just lost her home in a gas explosion, but she'd lost her mother a couple of years ago, a trauma she has never really recovered from.Despite her best efforts, Trinity falls for the guys, who support her in her quest to uncover the secrets her boyfriend had kept so well hidden. He died in the explosion, but their love had died long before that and she's about to discover why.They all help each other to heal while learning the true meaning of family. She learns to trust again, realizing that she loves them in a way she'd never felt about her boyfriend.But the cowboys are not as they appear-and who is the other woman in their arms?

Some things are best left forgotten.Scarlet Pierce has it all—an impressive home, a successful business and an intimidatingly handsome husband who adores her. It’s the kind of life most people only dream of. There’s just one problemΓÇòshe doesn’t remember any of it.When a horrific car accident claims her twenty-eight years of memories, Scarlet is thrust into a world of self-discovery and terrifying nightmares that she soon learns are echoes of the past.Her life is turned upside down once again when she’s introduced to the man who saved her from the near-fatal crash, the strong, silent Mitch. The two share an instant connection but when Scarlet begins to have memories of him, she realizes there’s more to himΓÇòand them than meets the eye.As she starts to recover her memories and uncover the shocking truth, Scarlet discovers that some things are best left forgotten.

A chance meeting. An improbable connection. An exquisite attraction.Trent Hettinger’s turbulent formative years transformed him into a cynic—and into a man who realized he required something outside himself to control his temper. Something he found as a Dom—at least for a while. But he allowed himself to trust a woman once and was slapped back into reality with a vengeance and now devotes all his energy into building his real estate empire, raising his teenaged daughter…and avoiding anything resembling authentic attachments.Melody Rodriguez kept her head down for years—working hard, making her own money, trying to get ahead with every deck stacked against her. She’s determined to move beyond the ugliness that haunts her without anyone’s help. When a mutual friend sets her up with Trent, she’s determined to have some fun with him and move on.A man with nothing left to lose. A woman hiding behind her past. When two lives spent in emotional denial collide, it’s a perfect match—at least on the surface. But neither Trent or Melody are prepared for the full force of their true feelings, once fate intervenes and blows a cold breeze into their white-hot relationship.

They betrayed him then took his woman and his child. Now they want his world, but Murdoch is hitting back in hot blood.When Catherine Howard comes back like a ghost from Murdoch’s past, she intends to do more than just haunt him. Her lies are like a poison that infects even his closest and oldest friends. Suddenly, Murdoch finds himself betrayed and alone, fleeing across two continents, fighting the odds to save the woman he loves and his unborn child. His only allies are a deadbeat college dropout with a schoolgirl crush and the fire in his own blood.But in Murdoch’s world, nothing is ever what it seems. In a journey that takes him from the House of Lords in London to the Pentagon in Washington DC, via Gdansk, San Francisco and a string of desert motels. If Murdoch sets one foot incorrectly or puts his trust in the wrong person, the whole world will pay the price.The question is, who is the wrong person? As the final battle approaches, can Murdoch even trust himself?

A wolf and bobcat come together and change one community—forever.Gray Mason is worn out and run down from the long months on the road in search of the feline Prince. All he wants is to finish his mission and go back to his Pack, until he finds himself in the most unique little town and meets the one woman who will turn his world upside down.Beth Williams is happy in her town Coyote Bluff. The community of shifters support one another and she has her brother and nephew. Sure, sometimes she might get lonely, but she’s content with her life. That is, until a new wolf hits town.But there is more going on than just the attraction between the wolf and the bobcat.Gray’s search is taking him closer to finding the Prince but leading him right into the middle of a feline conspiracy and battle. Beth’s family is deeply entwined with his mission and Gray has some serious decisions to make.Gray’s depended on his Pack as much as they have on him. In a strange place, surrounded by other shifter species, Gray is going to have to figure out who he can trust, and fast, because trouble is coming down the canyon and doesn’t care who’s in the way.

“When a Siren sings, best listen”—StephanoThe god of war, Ares, had reached down to Hades and given Stephano another chance at life as one of his legendary fighters—Spartans. For centuries, he’d fought and survived more battles than he could recount. But the one fight he feared he might lose came in the form of one tiny, perfectly formed woman who was off-limits.Yet, the longer he had with her, the more he realized she might be the one battle he would gladly lose.Maeve was a Siren, one of only two remaining in her realm. When warriors arrived and offered her brother a way out of their realm, if only they led them to the gates between worlds, she knew she had to aid them. It was the only way to free her brother from the burden of caring for her. She would help them, lead them to the gates, then let her brother go so he could be free from her.Only one warrior, one sexy, too-handsome rogue, might ruin her plan. Especially when he was clearly bent on seducing her. Worse, for the first time in her life, she was tempted to allow it, just to see if he could make her sing in his arms. 

Taylor’s suddenly thrown into the dangers of the corporate world and her only protector is her hot, anonymous one-night stand.Taylor Scott thought she had it all—a good life and a great job. No relationship? No problem. But her world is turned upside down when the father she never knew she had first refuses to acknowledge her, then makes her the sole heir to the major conglomerate he owned. It’s the last thing she wants, but circumstances leave her no choice. She steps into a world of corporate greed and treachery where no one is what they seem.And the only person to guide her through the treacherous waters? The man with whom she had the hottest one-night stand ever, Noah Cantrell. Noah isn’t what he seemed at first, either, but now he’s the only one Taylor can trust.As danger stalks her at every turn, she must rely on him for everything. The man who makes her scream with pleasure is the only one who can tell her where the danger hides.

Once a courtesan, not always a courtesan. It’s time to move on, and who better to do it with than a rake?Theresa Kyle, ex-courtesan, will not kowtow to any man in marriage, let alone an odious ex-pupil. When the man rejects her refusal of his proposal, she reluctantly agrees to seek help.Jamie, the Earl of Weston, is in a fix of his own. The marriage mart is not for him, let alone a compulsory wedding due to the machinations of his mother.A mutual friend seems to have the perfect solution. The earl and the courtesan—what better way to foil those who want to see them married against their wills?Alas, the best-laid plans go awry, for neither had expected to fall in love. Needless to say, as far as Jamie is concerned, being a member of the aristocracy comes in handy when you need to bend the rules to your will. Convincing Theresa, however, may well be harder than winning over the ton.

To submit or not to submit? She wants to, but is afraid. When she acts out, he barges through her barriers. Taking it all. And more.Rebecca is submissive at heart, and deep down craves to find a Dom she can submit to. But after her ex—and Dom—hurt both the woman and sub inside her, she’s not so sure she’s willing to go there again. She’s not even sure whether she still needs or wants BDSM in her life. Until she meets Kyle. Master Kyle at that, owner of a private, posh bondage club. He stirs something deep inside her, and when he offers her a job at his club, she simply has to accept. A golden opportunity to discover more about her submissive side. Maybe, just maybe, this tall, blond—and very dominant—god can fulfill her every need, and make her submit.Master Kyle finds Rebecca more than intriguing. Warm. Luscious. Intelligent. Submissive to the core. When he hears about her conflicting doubts and interest in BDSM he decides to help her find the right Dom. But what he really wants is for him to be that man. Will he be the right one for her, or does he need to find her another Master? He’s not quite sure, but he’s determined to find out.Both will soon learn that things don’t always go as expected. Rebecca will learn to submit wholeheartedly. The question is, to whom?

Sometimes, parlor games can lead to more than mere flirtation.Jillian Kelley, a young woman on the brink of the new millennium, has just returned from university in the States. Her new knowledge of the world and its infinite possibilities facilitate a desire to disregard her mother’s old-fashioned Victorian parlor ideas of proper behavior.As Jillian avidly pursues her girlhood crush—a traditional fellow countryman with wealth and property—a handsome American with whom she’d shared a passionate night comes to call. The insufferable intrusion is annoying to say the least, however his irresistible, seductive ways draw her cravings to the surface like the rise of a tide.Bradley Townsend accepted with pleasure the bequeathed gift of Miss Kelley’s virtue the very night they met, but the adventurous blue-eyed beauty stole his heart, leaving him holding nothing but a note in the morning. There’s no way in Hell he’s going to let her slip through his fingers—even if he has to hop on a ship, follow her home and seduce her all over again.

Brewer Ross has given up on love…until he meets a woman who turns his life—and brewery—upside down.Ross Hoffman held the potential for a perfect life in his hands—a life with Evelyn, the only woman he’d ever allowed himself to love, their baby and…her husband, Austin Fitzgerald, who also happened to be his best friend. But the challenge of trying to make a threesome into something acceptable—let alone the thought of actually sharing Evelyn with anyone—forces him to bolt. Determined to put all thoughts of their relationship behind him, Ross jumps headfirst into a new brewery job in Colorado, and back into the sort of sexual decadence that he hopes will distract him from his misery.When he agrees to assist Austin through a spate of brewery mishaps, he lays eyes on his true fate—in the form of the petite, mysterious and exotic Elisa Nagel. Hired as assistant brewer, Elisa is absolutely everything he believes he doesn’t want in a woman. But he’s drawn to her in ways he can’t explain, and he can’t help but fall hard, fast and deep, which places him square in the middle of her horrific, until now secret backstory.Ross is determined that his love will conquer and overcome the horrors of Elisa’s past, allowing her to trust him with the only thing he desires—her heart.

Sydney was being coerced into marrying a man she didn’t love. Then Caleb crashed into her life and one little white lie turned her universe upside down.Sydney Bennett has a bit of a problem. Blackmailed into marrying a man she doesn’t love in order to save her father from extradition? Check. Falling head over heels in love with Caleb Jones, lead guitarist of her favorite band, Divine Intervention? Check. Spilling a little white lie—that quickly evolves into a gigantic white lie—by not telling Caleb she is engaged, just so she can spend more time with him and escape the terrible reality of her future? Check, damn it. Check.To top it all off, every time she breaks up with him, Caleb sees through her feeble excuses and refuses to let her go. He loves her and she loves him, but when the ugly truth comes to light, will he ever be able to see her situation for what it is and forgive her? Or will she lose him forever?

She never knew what heat was until she met her cowboy—then fire consumed them.It could have been the animalistic heat of the rodeo, or the pin with special powers that the old woman all but forced her to buy. But, whatever it was, within seconds of meeting rodeo rider Ben Lowell, Grace Delaney’s safe world ignites in a voluptuous explosion of lust. Every night is something new. From the handcuffs to the intriguing sex toys to the taking of her virgin ass, Grace gives in to it all, relishing her body’s surrender.As Ben Lowell leads her from one earth-shattering climax to another, as her body softens and opens to him, her juices lubricating the way, all she can do is hang on for dear life and follow his lead.But when it’s over, can she really walk away from the man who has taken her on this outrageous journey of sexual self-discovery, one where there are no limits or boundaries?

A new town, a new cast of characters, a new adventure.Annabelle Sanchez has lived her entire life in the shadows, watching the world from the outside. Having grown up in foster care until she ran away at the age of fourteen, Annabelle doesn’t trust anyone except for the ragtag group of shifters who have become her family. Cold, scared and alone on the streets, Annabelle stumbles across Mac Gordon, the only person to ever tell her why she’s so different from other people. Mac brings her into his family—the bar he owns and the underground network where he helps shifters disappear when they need to. Annabelle is furiously loyal and she will not let anyone hurt her family.When an agent from the Coalition starts sniffing around, Annabelle knows there is more to the gruff shifter than what’s on the surface. The way she responds around him is both frightening and exciting. Family bonds are tested when Annabelle starts spending time alone with Logan.Logan Coldwell has lost everything when he joins a new shifter organization looking for law enforcement agents for its ranks. Logan jumped at the chance to start over after being rejected by his birth family. He puts everything he has into his job, the only thing he has left.For two years Logan has had one goal—to protect innocent shifters and make those who break the law pay. His latest assignment leads him to a small northern California town that is chock-full of all kinds of shifter species. Several shifters have come before him and have never been seen or heard from again. Logan is determined to find out what is going on, no matter how much he’d really like to be investigating the beautiful and sweet Annabelle.

Sara Stevens left her dreams behind long ago, but with William Bryson she can’t stop wondering if they really can come true.Will knew when he first met Sara Stevens that she was a temptation. He wasn’t prepared for her, not six months ago in Wyoming, and certainly not now with the wild storm of the Sentinel drug still thrumming through him.But life wasn’t going to allow him the luxury of time. Not when Sara’s threatened by Ashton Potter.If Sara had learned one thing, it was that dreams were meant for fools. Life was raw and terrible. William Bryson was every girl’s dream, which meant he wasn’t to be trusted. But faced with an insane serial killer wanting to make her his next kill, she has no option but to let William close.Only when she does, her fear switches from the evilness of the man chasing her, to the sexiness of the hero who held her close. He might protect her, but who will protect her heart from him?

This party girl knows what she wants…but he is everything she needs.Manhattan is party girl Hayley’s playground. Every night there’s a new club opening, a hot DJ’s birthday party, or dinner with the city’s most eligible bachelors. Despite her carefree and bohemian outlook, there is one thing Hayley takes very seriously—her love life. She’s looking for her Prince Charming but so far all she’s found is a lot of frogs.Fresh from her latest heartbreak, she meets Colton Deluca…and everything changes. Even though he’s hot as hell, funny and oh so seductive, he isn’t her type at all, and no amount of persuasion on his part will change her mind. But Colt is a patient man and he knows a woman like Hayley is worth the effort. As her perception starts to shift, Hayley realizes that maybe she’s been looking in all the wrong places for all the wrong things.

Life—and love—is better with a bulldog…right?Everything is changing for Tiffany. Things used to be simple—Friendship Friday nights with her besties, Mackenzie and Molly, meeting up for late afternoon lattes and just enjoying the single life in Seattle. Now Molly is engaged. Can their friendship survive the change?Coffee is not just a drink, but a way of life for these three best friends, but Tiffany takes her love of coffee to a whole other level. Her job is assistant to an executive at Blue Moose Coffee Corporation, but it’s in jeopardy when Colin Murphy takes over the small company. This isn’t the first time Tiffany has met Colin. They’ve already kissed and possibly shared an incredible one-night stand. She’s still a little foggy about that, waking up in his luxurious hotel suite with no recollection of the night before. She has more questions than answers.Tiffany could easily fall in love with Colin, except now he’s her boss and that complicates things. And besides…if keeping her job means becoming a babysitter for an English Bulldog with a severe drooling problem, then Tiffany isn’t so sure she’s going to be employed much longer. She can handle every aspect of her job, no problem, but taking care of a stinky and stubborn dog isn’t in the job description.Things start to get interesting when she finds herself falling for Colin and his precious fur baby, but is it just puppy love?

Murdoch never wanted to love, but once he learned to, someone stole his woman. Now—whoever they are—he wants to make them pay.A young woman has just been brutally murdered by a serial killer. Her father is the supreme crime lord in London, and he wants Murdoch to find that killer. But Murdoch has promised Maria he is done with his old life. Then his best friend’s niece is killed in the same horrific way, and he knows the killings are a message—for him. But from who? Someone is out to get him—and the woman he loves.His search leads him into the darkest reaches of the serial killer’s mind. But when he thinks he has his man, things take an even more sinister twist. Suddenly, he is in a desperate chase across Spain and into Morocco and Algeria. The prize is Maria’s life, even at the cost of his own sanity.Because what he finds there is too horrific to believe.

When the foundation of their marriage falters, Michael and Tabitha must rediscover what it means for her to be his hot wife.Tabitha is a hot wife. Not just a sexy wife. A hot wife. A wife allowed to be with other men with the permission of her husband.Michael couldn’t love his wife more. Which is exactly why he shares her with others. Because she’s his.On the cusp of everything they’ve worked for—years in the making—a shattered promise threatens the foundation of their marriage. A foundation Michael had thought unbreakable until he lets Tabitha down in more ways than one.Taking her submission for granted could lose him everything he’s strived for, and winning back her trust is the only thing that matters.

Mya believed she didn’t deserve love. Jake thought he could never love again. But a threat to Mya’s life galvanizes Jake’s protective instincts—and opens his heart.Mya has finally escaped the slums she grew up in and made a life for herself as a chef in the Catered Affairs kitchen, but she has never been able to shed the feelings of inadequacy that were beaten into her by her abusive father. So she stays in the shadows, the quintessential voyeur at the Playground, the BDSM club she belongs to.Jake is attracted to Mya’s beauty when he spies her across the dungeon at the Playground. But he’s only looking for a play partner for the evening. Ever since he lost his wife in a car crash, he hasn’t been able to commit to anyone again.After a disastrous evening at the club, where Jake pushes Mya out of her comfort zone, it looks like Mya and Jake will not even be friends. But dangerous circumstances push them back together, and Mya must rely on Jake to keep her safe. When a stupid mistake puts her in terrible jeopardy, will Jake be able to come to her rescue in time?

Two recovering sex addicts. Two broken souls. One shared passion.Mary Ann Scott was once an aspiring fitness model and all-around party girl. Now, she’s a sex addict whose recovery is making her miserable. Despite spending nearly a year in a treatment program, she struggles to escape the scars left by her addiction. Then, one night, she crosses paths with Peter Robert Rogers, a childhood friend turned handsome firefighter who just happens to be a recovering sex addict as well.He comes into Mary’s life broken, distraught and vulnerable. Having experienced that feeling, too, she reaches out to him. Together, they try to help each other heal. But in doing so, Mary doesn’t just open old wounds. She evokes a wealth of pent-up desire…a desire that quickly consumes them both.Now, she and Peter are nearing the brink of relapsing. They’re on the verge of giving in to their addiction. Will it break them once more? Or will it bring them together and finally heal their wounded souls?

Sam hunts a black widow. Will he untangle the web of lies and deceit or will he be her next victim?Two men, in the prime of their lives, are now dead. The only link is the beautiful, but deadly, Eliza James. Sam Rivers must follow the cold trail of a murderer. His instincts lead him away from the rich widow, though why he couldn’t say. All the evidence points to her guilt. Is he falling into her trap as his fellow agents warned? To unravel the secrets from years gone by, Sam must listen to a voice long dead—one that challenges his view of the mysterious and sexy widow.Eliza finds the handsome diplomat too good to be true. He reawakens a desire within her that she thought had been lost. Yet their time together has a stopwatch ticking. Knowing that every moment counts, she accepts his bold proposal to explore her sexuality. Through pleasure and pain mingled together, she discovers a hidden strength that could mean the difference between life and death.Together they must sift through lies and betrayals to unearth the truth before time runs out.