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Carrie Wells is nothing but trouble. She's wild and difficult. Not worth anyone's time. Carrie Wells is a beautiful little brat. She's also a vulnerable young adult on my case list.... I'm breaking every rule of friendship by holing her up in my best friend Jack's house while he's away on business. I thought life was difficult enough when I fell for the girl, but it gets a whole lot harder when Jack comes home early and finds a beautiful stranger causing chaos in his house.

Oliver Watson's world suddenly dissolves around him when Sarah his wife of eighteen years, returns to Harvard to get her master's degree. Oliver is left on his own, with three children and a freedom he never wanted and doesn't completely understand. His family's needs and demands...

I want him to be my first. I want him to be the one. I want him to be my everything. I didn't expect to spend my 18th birthday stranded in the pouring rain with no way to make it home. I didn't expect to be rescued from the worst night of my life by the most amazing man I'd ever seen. His name is Nick, and he says he wants to take care of me, says he'll look after me, says I don't need to be alone anymore. He treats me like a princess, like the fragile little girl he saved from the cold. But I like him...I like him like that. I've never liked anyone like that before....

Decades ago, after the death of his wife, Texas ranch hand JT Tucker took his three small daughters to California to start a new life. With almost no money, a will of iron, and hard work, he eventually built the biggest ranch in California. But when he dies suddenly at the age of 64, the ranch is inherited by his three daughters - each of them finding it impossible to believe that this larger-than-life figure is gone from their lives.

Forbidden never tasted so good. He’s my daddy’s best friend, and he took a huge chance on me. I wasn’t meant to thank him by falling into his bed, I was just meant to care for his twins. But my life has just imploded and he’s the only good thing I’ve got right now. She’s my best friend’s daughter. Completely off-limits and yet I simply can’t resist. I need her to look after my babies, but I want her for myself. She’s the first good thing to come into my life since my wife died.

“[A] bizarre and endearing debut . . . We can’t remember the last time we met a character this singular or read a book this funny.”—Oprah Daily (Best New Books to Read This Spring) “Sleek and darkly comical . . . with the melancholic wit and whimsy of Miranda July.”—The Boston...

Marshal Howard is a death wish wrapped in mystery. Cold, rude, insanely overprotective single dad. Everyone in our little town warned me to stay far, far away. I didn't listen. I answered the castoff's nanny ad because no one else would. I got too close. I saw through his vicious reputation. He's a man who's turning my heart inside out, making me a fool. If it was just the bad blood with him and my family, maybe we'd work through this. Maybe we'd find paradise. Just me, him, and that adorable little girl. But surprises come in threes. Like the lines on the pregnancy test.

Ash is a walking red flag. He is domineering and always in a bad mood. Tragically widowed, yet still in love with his long-dead wife, a single dad to three mini versions of himself, and much too old for me. But I’ve wanted him since I was 16. Seeing him again more than a decade later, all those old feelings just rush back in. Every time when I look up into his deep green eyes, dark scruffy beard, and kissable dimples, all I want is to fall into his arms and never leave. Too much wine and one bed-rocking night later, everything changed.

I go from town to town, never staying in one place for long. I’m always chasing the next deal, the next adrenaline rush and thriving in the great outdoors. Until one fateful trip, one chance encounter. When I meet her...my beautiful Rose. It was only supposed to be one night. No strings attached. Our chemistry was off the charts and we didn’t fight it. Now I'm back in her town. I've got it all figured out. But as soon as I see her, I come to a screeching halt. What's with the anger in her eyes? And whose baby is she carrying?

Untouched and unmarked by the world, Lola Ray is the sunshine that I never thought I needed in my life. She's the perfect petal on a cherry blossom tree aching to be plucked and pillaged. I long to touch her, to make her mine. I know it's wrong... She is, after all, my best friend's daughter. But as I look closer, as I start to give in to temptation, I begin to see the scars she's so desperate to hide. However, there is one thing that I know has the chance to make her whole again. And I won't stop until all her dreams come true.

Will a Moonlight Beach bachelor make the grade as a father and a lover? Find out in this novel from USA TODAY bestselling author Charlene Sands. Left to care for her late sister's baby, Mia D'Angelo goes on a secret mission to find out if the missing father would make good daddy material. But...

Jamie McCoy is the ultimate guy: 30 years old, carefree and professionally successful as the writer of a nationally syndicated humor column called "Guy Stuff". Nine and a half months ago, he spent a week basking on the beach in Eluthera and indulging in a fling with a woman at the resort. Never did he expect to find the unplanned result of that fling - a healthy, wailing baby named Samantha - strapped into a car seat on his back porch, along with a suitcase full of diapers and infant apparel and a note informing Jamie that he's her father.

After a lengthy sabbatical to be with her terminally ill husband, Sharon Ross is finally returning to Edgewater Industries. Broken by her loss and weary from constant caregiving, she is relieved to be back with the only family she has left. Knox Miller has loved Sharon from afar for years, and he can’t stand by as grief and exhaustion consume the little girl inside her. A special daddy’s tender love and care could rescue Sharon from her misery, and Knox intends to be the one she can count on for that relief.

For Keith Higgins, the past is a curse, but his present is everything he could dream of... or so he thought. With twins on the way, he and wife, Ella, should be overjoyed. Yet Ella harbors a secret that Keith is about to uncover. After a traumatic labor, Ella vanishes, thrusting Keith into single parenthood. Haunted by memories of his father's cruelty and his past mistakes, Keith embarks on a journey to make things right. Starting with his own mother, whose abandonment feels even more burdensome now that he is a single father.

“Clever, honest, sexy, funny, emotional, unique, and deeply romantic . . . Kate Goldbeck is in a class by herself!”—Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis NATIONAL BESTSELLER A jaded twentysomething is stuck living at home, her life on pause, when a...

Nine years ago Lindsay and Gibb had the perfect marriage - except Lindsay wanted a baby and Gibb didn't. Their marriage broke up over the disagreement. Now Gibb's back in town, and their attraction is just as strong as ever. But Gibb still doesn't want a child - and Lindsay now has an eight-year-old son. Nominated as best sweet traditional romance novel of the year in the Romance Writers of America RITA contest.

Maddox Moore already made a name for himself as a chef and successful restaurant owner before life threw a wrench into his own plans, and now he’s a multibillionaire single father who doesn’t have time for anything outside of work and his kiddo. After a night at a charity event, Maddox makes the sudden decision to bid on a date with a beautiful redheaded woman, Evelyn, and 20,000 dollars later, he wins her for the night. He soon realizes that one night isn’t enough.... He wants more of her.

Bad boy bear shifter Kade Hunter knows how to nurse a beer...but a baby? No way! He couldn’t possibly have a six-month old kid. Except, he does. His days of brawling and boozing it up at the local roadhouse are over. He doesn’t know the first thing about taking care of a kid. Terrified of making a mistake, he asks for help from the one woman who has every right to ignore him.... Ten years ago, deputy Emily Redson walked away from the hot mess that is Kade Hunter. Now a respected member of law enforcement, she can’t be seen with the bar-brawling shifter.

Die Liebe zwischen einer Mutter und ihrem Kind ist unendlich stark. Daran hätten auch Melissas Eltern denken sollen, als sie ihrer damals 16-jährigen Tochter erzählten, ihr Baby sei im Mutterleib verstorben. Auf dem Sterbebett offenbart Melissas Granny ihr das große Familiengeheimnis: Ihre kleine Tochter ist nicht tot. Das Kind lebt und wurde zur Adoption freigegeben.. Mittlerweile ist Maisie 6 Jahre alt und wohnt bei ihrem Adoptiv-Single-Daddy William Coldwell in einem verschlafenen Dörfchen in Irland.

Jake was impressed by Chris, who he met in night school. She was educated and appeared to be very independent and self-confident. After they married he was uncomfortable with the unusually close relationship that she had with her daddy. He loved her but every little thing about her that he didn’t like was magnified, from her plowshare legs to her snippy superiority. Divorce was beginning to look like a very tempting option. When Chris told him she was pregnant, he knew he needed to man up and be responsible for their baby.