Mitch, the widowed bishop of a Mormon congregation, falls in love with Cassie, the woman hired to restructure his steel mill. Meanwhile, a man in Mitch's congregation plots to take over the position of bishop using Cassie's past profession as a prostitute as his weapon. A Mormon bishop. An ex-prostitute. A man with a vendetta. Let the games begin...

Emilio Bautista is bored with his job as a matador and has a PhD in chemistry he's not using. Cube-farm chemistry is out of the question, but the universities in Andalusia are well staffed-except Covarrubias University. They're desperate, but he still can't get hired. Further, for the last six years, he's been obsessed with a woman he can't manage to meet, much less seduce. Victoria LaMontagne is worried about her job as an English professor at Covarrubias University. After six years of being on tenure track, her new department chair is pressuring her to change her teaching style-or else. Further, she learns that one of Spain's star matadors has a crush on her and threatens her hobby job for a chance to chat with her over tapas and flamenco. Though they have never met, when Dr. LaMontagne and Dr. Bautista crash into each other in the administration offices, they fall into conversation as if they were long-time friends who'd had a spat. He finds her charming in spite of her tactlessness, vanity, and demanding personality. She finds him intriguing in spite of his obsession with her, his legendary promiscuity, and his boring bullfighting. She makes him laugh. He solves her problems. They're just friends- -right up to the first kiss ...

It's 1780. The Americans are losing their desperate fight for independence from the most powerful nation on Earth. Britain's navy is crushing outposts up and down the eastern seaboard and the Americans' pitiful navy consists mostly of small-vessel privateers on missions of profit. "Captain Jack" Celia Bancroft is one of those privateers, whose list of debts of honor is a nautical mile long. Sailing for the Americans is the current project on her to-do list, and once she has finished all her tasks, she will then be free to sail on a tide of whimsy. Commander Elliott Raxham, cashiered from His Majesty's Royal Navy, is a newly made British earl who longs for his own independence - from the title he never expected to inherit and the country that has betrayed him time and again. They meet in a Caribbean tavern where he steals a kiss that starts a brawl she finishes. In retaliation, he steals her ship's figurehead and, if that isn't a grave enough insult, proceeds to chase her across the Atlantic to collect on the promise in her kiss. With that, the romance is on, but the adventure is only beginning as Elliott and Celia face obstacle after obstacle in their own fight for independence - a new life together on the American frontier.

After a 20-year marriage and five children, teenage sweethearts Etienne and Tess LaMontagne had burnt out. Tess, once a brilliant architect, was exhausted, drained of energy and vision, and no longer building with her engineer husband. Etienne was feeling trapped and frustrated by a life that had taken a direction he had not wanted and missing the vivacious, creative woman he had married. Five years after their bitter divorce forced each to experience life on their own, Etienne is drawn home to rescue his oldest daughter. Tess, having brilliantly revived her career, is also dealing with a sick child. When her latest project and their children's crises bring Etienne and Tess face to face, they must decide whether they want to reunite, and if so, how to overcome the issues they'd run from years before- -because even separated by distance and time, they never stopped loving each other, never stopped wanting. It's just that sometimes, love isn't enough. Until it is.

ONE NIGHT. ONE MAN. ONE DRESS. Regina Westlake sees nothing wrong with her clubbing lifestyle until the gorgeous guy cleaning her pool refuses to play her games. When he's hired to be her arm candy for a formal event, he makes his disdain for her clear by re-dressing her in something far more appropriate than what she had worn to the party. Shattered, she takes his contempt, his dress, the memory of his kiss-and rebuilds her life from the ground up. She never expects to see him again, but when she does...

At 12, Vanessa defied her family to save 17-year-old bad boy Eric from wrongful imprisonment and, possibly, death. She'd hoped for a "thank you" from him, a kiss on the cheek, but before she could grow up and grow curves, he left town. Fourteen years later, Vanessa is a celebrity chef at the 5-star Ozarks resort she built. Eric is the new Chouteau County prosecutor on his way to the White House. Four hours apart and each tied to their own careers, their worlds have no reason to intersect until a funeral brings Vanessa back to Chouteau County, back to face the man for whom she'd risked so much, the only man she ever wanted--the only man she can't have.