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Annie West

A lavish masquerade ball is no place for plain-Jane receptionist Carys Wells. Used to being unnoticed by the glitterati, Carys feels vulnerable and exposed by the searing gaze of a dark masked man. Little does she know he's the man she ran from two years ago, whose wicked touch is about to become her undoing once more....Alessandro Mattani cannot remember Carys, but his body does—intimately. And the red-blooded Italian is determined to claim all that he believes is his....

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Anne O'Brien

In the eerie depths of Llanwardine Priory, Elizabeth de Lacy is about to take the veil when she is told she must wed her family's sworn enemy! Lord Richard Malinder must produce an heir, and a union with the de Lacy family could prove advantageous - if only to keep his enemies close. Elizabeth has not expected to feel such intense attraction, or to find Richard so kind, understanding and devastatingly handsome. His arm feels strong beneath her hand, and the heat of anticipation rises as they make their way to the bridal chamber.

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Marion Ekholm

"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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Karen Whiddon

Eyes Wide Shut She’d barely escaped with her life from a savage killer. Now Lyssa Reinholt Lupe faced a different threat--her mercurial husband. DEA agent Alex Lupe had disappeared without a word months ago--now he had mysteriously reappeared to protect her. Lyssa couldn’t deny the magnetic pull Alex still had on her senses, but could she trust this sensual stranger who was her husband? Alex had thought leaving Lyssa would keep her safe. But only he could stand between her and this killer. Protecting Lyssa was his top priority, even if it meant blowing his cover and revealing the haunting secret that might drive the woman he loved away forever--his ability to shape-shift into a wolf...