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They both believe it’s too late for love, but is it? Now that she’s in her fifties, Stacy Roberts has given up on love. She’s been divorced for ten years, her kids are all grown up, and dating seems like too much work. She’s ready to just enjoy her life and do precisely what she wants, as soon as she gets through her daughter’s wedding… Dave Harkin has just retired from the military. After years of being separated from his kids, he’s looking forward to reconnecting with them and transitioning into a quiet civilian life, starting with attending his son’s wedding. Thirty years...

It’s never too late to find romance, especially when your true love turns up at your office. The holidays are coming and the employees at the Fitzgerald accounting firm are falling in love. It’s a good thing there’s not a “no fraternization” policy, because everyone from the boss to the cleaning lady is realizing that sometimes love is right where you least expect it – at work. “Good with Numbers” is a collection of five great holiday romances featuring couples in their forties. Expect strong independent women, alpha males, meddling coworkers, workplace flirting, and a ...

Christmas is coming – and so is love. Love is in the air this Christmas, and three couples are finding that working at the holidays comes with an unexpected benefit – a soul mate. This holiday anthology includes three previously published novellas, together for the first time in one collection. Each steamy story features a midlife couple, an alpha male, an independent woman, meddling friends, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Dating Santa: A Hot Workplace Seasoned Romance Forty-year-old Samantha has never had much interest in falling in love. Her troubled childhood taught her that ...

When rock star Johnny Oliver first met Janie Williams in a crowded bar, he called her fat -- and she shoved him to the floor and poured beer on his head. Ten years later their paths cross again. Johnny is writing a book and Janie is his new editor. Johnny has forgotten their long-ago meeting, but Janie sure hasn't. All he knows is that he can't write unless Janie is around. Her job depends on her getting the scattered rock star focused on meeting his deadlines, even if that means letting him move in with her. Can Johnny get past Janie's walls and convince her that he's not the jerk she met ...

You never forget your first love, but what if, when you meet again, you’re both totally different people? After twenty years away, Penny moves back to the tiny coastal town of Diamond Bay to make a new life for her and her daughter. She’s surprised to learn that Mitch, her high school boyfriend, is also back – and now he’s the Sheriff. Mitch wants to rekindle their romance, but the easygoing boy Penny dated is now a Navy veteran with a bossy streak – just the kind of guy she promised herself to avoid at all costs. With circumstances – and a matchmaker daughter – throwing them ...

His daughter’s medical emergency will lead to love… When his teenage daughter winds up in the Emergency Room, Ed is worried sick, but not too worried to notice how beautiful the E.R. doctor is. He’s never believed in love at first sight, but even after he butts heads with the stubborn doctor, he can’t get her out of his mind. Joy is content with her single life, but there’s something about her patient’s father that makes her long for more. When her friend schemes to get her out on a date with Ed, she realizes that despite their apparent differences, she and the grumpy contractor...

Twenty years ago, she threw his love away, but can they get a second chance? When Angel attends her best friend's wedding, she knows there's no way to avoid the 'man of honor', Juan. The billionaire businessman is just as handsome and sweet as she remembered, but suddenly she's seeing him in a whole new light. He's no longer just her friend's younger brother, now he's all man. A man whose attention is fixed on her… Juan had his heart smashed when Angel married another man after his proclamation of love. He thought he was over her until he saw her again. Now that Angel's back in town and ...

The hunky baseball player has his eye on her, but she knows better than to trust an athlete! Agnes always promised herself to avoid athletes at all costs. The daughter of a hockey player as famous for his philandering ways as his skill on the ice, she learned the hard way that men can’t be trusted. So when she meets a hot younger man who happens to be a Triple A team pitcher, she’s ready to run the other way. Nolan loves three things: baseball, his mama, and the PR executive who’s working with him to bring more publicity to his baseball team. Sure, she’s a little older than him, a ...

It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation – until a stray dog crashed into their lives. They’ve just concluded one of the largest cases in the history of Portland’s FBI office and now agents Michelle and Gary are ready to try something new: relaxing. It’s their first vacation as a couple and lounging on the beach in Hawaii over the Thanksgiving holiday sounds like the perfect way to unwind and reconnect as a couple. But when a dog named Chester convinces them to follow him, things start to get a little hairy. Or furry… Chasing criminals and rescuing animals isn’t how they ...

Twenty-five years ago their friendship ended over a misunderstanding, but now that they’ve found each other again, he wants more than friendship. But can they forget their painful past? Lainie Halverson always had a crush on her super-hot friend Mark Barone, but she knew that he didn’t see her as more than a friend. When Mark invited her to the prom after she was humiliated by another guy, she assumed it was a pity invite. Little did she know her refusal would lead to an ugly fight and the end of their friendship. Mark Barone has just realized that he made a big mistake all those years ...

Just when she’d given up on finding her fated mate, he turns up in her kitchen. Pepper Rosewater is known around town as the “mate magnet”. Everyone in the magical town of Greysden seems to find their true love when they’re with Pepper. Shifters, demons, witches…she helps them all, whether she means to or not. Now she’s decided to focus on her newly restored witchcraft and do something she’s always longed to do – learn how to cook. Charles is a magical mutt. He’s part demon, part wolf, part vampire, and one hundred percent grumpy about it. Ever since he turned forty his ...

Falling in love with the boss is the ultimate cliché, but before the ball drops this New Year's Eve, this tough as nails FBI agent is going to have to face her feelings. All it took was one little kidnapping for her boss to bench her. When Michelle Lewis demands to be sent back out into the field, Supervisory Special Agent Gary Fencik agrees on one condition: she only works with him. Gary's got a big plan to protect Michelle from danger. He's still reeling from realizing that he almost lost her on their last big case. But as they work together to prevent a New Year's Eve terrorist attack ...

There are two things Lana Lewis avoids like the plague: relationships and holidays. Although she's famous for her epic Halloween parties, family holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas bring back bad memories she would prefer to forget. Unfortunately, the new marketing consultant her company just hired, Ian Sherman, is determined to convert the self-proclaimed Thanksgiving Scrooge into a holiday lover - and a relationship person. Can Ian convince Lana to look past her fears and give holiday love a chance? Maybe if he keeps talking in that distracting English accent… "Thanksgiving Scrooge...