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That was then… Ten years ago, getting up close and personal with Ryder Kincaid was all Lindsay Brookes wanted. The bookish senior couldn't believe it when the gorgeous Clearville High football hero finally noticed her. One magical night together was all it took to change her world. Now the single mom is coming home—to come clean with the guy she's never gotten over. Could this be their now? The stunning brunette with the shy nine-year-old kid is…Lindsay? Ryder never forgot how she gave herself to him so completely. But he's changed—a lot. And the secret Lindsay's keeping could tear them apart. With desire reigniting—and then some!—this could be Ryder's chance to step up and become the husband and father he always wanted to be…with the woman he's never stopped wanting…

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"She had a crush on him when she was a teen and Roger was in college ... and made his life miserable as only the friend of a guy's kid sister can. Years later, Emmy Lou returns to Phoenix, divorced, with an asthmatic little boy at the center of her world. Grieving the death of his wife, Roger reluctantly asks her for help with his young twins and teen daughter who's proving as difficult to handle as Em used to be. Just as they finally begin to find happiness together, a career move comes between them--because it affects Em's child, whose welfare means more to her than ... anything."--Page 4 of cover.

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Still recovering from a failed engagement, law intern Julie Campbell keeps warning off the premier divorce attorney at the firm and office playboy, Brad De Luca, but as his charm begins to draw her to him, she enters a world of sexual exploration that her heart might not survive. Brad De Luca is used to getting whatever and whomever he wants. The premier divorce attorney in town, he's a playboy who's bedded half the city-- including his own clients. And when the newest intern at his firm poses a challenge, his seductive prowess goes into overdrive. Pre-law student Julia Campbell is fresh off a failed engagement and happy with her new independence. The last thing she needs is a man who could destroy her job prospects, not to mention her innocence. But before she knows it, his deviant tastes plunge her deep into a forbidden world of sexual exploration ... and her heart may not survive the fall.

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Christine Merrill

Dashing Duke, Bluestocking Bride! Shy heiress Miss Penelope Winthorpe was only trying to escape her bullying brother. She never meant to wed a noble lord over a blacksmith's anvil! Adam Felkirk, Duke of Bellston, had no intention of taking a wife. But then Penelope's plight moved him. Now the notorious rake has a new aim—to shock and seduce his prim and proper bride. But the gorgeous duke will be taught a lesson of his own as scholarly Miss Winthorpe becomes his seductive duchess!