by Cheris Hodges (2009)
High-stakes action and even hotter men are all Jade Christian wants now that her scheming boyfriend has aced her out of his bed and their successful company. But several nights of hookups in Vegas with easygoing businessman James Goings leads Jade to realize he's becoming the one bet she can't resist.
Gwynne Forster
For artist and free spirit Naomi Logan, sexy call-in host Rufus Meade is definitely the wrong man. His conservative views drive her crazy, and finally she tells him what she thinks. The last thing she expects is to see Rufus standing on her doorstep--and to find him irresistibly attractive.
Brenda Jackson
One mindblowing kiss. That was all Ellie Weston shared with her neighbor and crush one summer, before he angrily discovered she'd approached him on a dare. Ten years later, Ellie is back at her greataunt's lake house, and so is Uriel Lassiterstill wildly sexy, single and happy to stay that way. When Ellie finds her greataunt's nevercompleted romance novel, she decides to finish the manuscriptbut first she needs some reallife inspiration: a sultry summer fling.Uriel hasn't forgotten Ellie, and their sizzling chemistry is starting to make him reconsider his triedandtrue bachelor status. But when the truth about her motive emerges, can Ellie convince him that makebelieve has turned into sweet reality?
Terra Little
After gossip columnist and blogger Vanessa Valentino's forced back home to the sleepy town she thought she'd left behind forever, she must face her sworn enemy Nathaniel Woodberry, who can't believe she's back to wreck havoc on their close-knit community.
Adrianne Byrd
"Ladies' man Marcel Taylor got his nickname, Casanova Brown, the old-fashioned way--he earned it. His life of privilege has been filled with the finer things and the finest women, but he's becoming bored with it all...until a mysterious seductress enters his world. When Marcel meets 'Mayte' at a masquerade ball, he's powerless to resist her seductive charms and desperate to learn her true identity. Beneath the mask, Mayte is hardly a stranger to the infamous Casanova Brown. Yet, once revealed, she will finally show him the true face of love..."--P. [4] of cover.