Barely There is one of those short stories that would have made a fantastic novel. Interesting characters that would have made a lasting impression with a novel-length story. A very interesting premise that would have smoked with a novel-length story.And therein lies my biggest issue. Short stori...
EJ Beaumont is one big flirt. Not exactly the best trait for a cop, but it's an asset on his current undercover investigation for the HotWires team. He's flirting big-time with sexy online psychic Charlotte Gerard, who's reportedly running a lonely hearts scam. He is going to nail her cute butt b...
Sarah Jessup is supposed to be taking some R & R. A former hacker, she's now legit as a member of the crack HotWires team, investigating computer crime on Uncle Sam's dime. Taking her first real vacation in years means leaving the laptop--and handcuffs--at home. Or so she thinks.After one too man...
Maybe Garrett and the police were right, but Luke had to know for sure. If he was right, he had finally put the past to rest. If the police were right, he had a second chance to make sure that Nicky didn’t take the life of another unsuspecting person. He could make a difference this time. &...
Bo said against her mouth, his hands on her shoulders, pushing her away. Erin’s entire being protested, and she shook her head. “No.” Then his big hands were on her face, making her look at him. His cheeks were ruddy, his eye...
The thud sounded again, and she sat up, hand to her slamming heart. Looking at the clock, she saw it was two-thirty in the morning. She’d only been sleeping for a few hours. Living alone for several years now had fine-tuned her senses to any noise in the house at night, and she listened closer. S...
At first she’d had her doubts, but now that she was in the thing, it wasn’t too bad. She could go forward and backward and, since she didn’t intend to fall out, that was all she needed. For a city girl she was a decent swimmer. Though she hadn’t spent much time in open water, she did laps at the ...
The appointment for her interview had been more than thirty minutes ago, but she was willing to wait—she needed a new job, a real job, something that would allow her to move forward in life. When she’d seen the classified ad for a security consultant, her heart had leaped—plenty of hackers, even ...
Jodie asked, looking at him as they crowded into the shower together. It was a small space, really built for one, and he was okay with that as hot water poured down over the two of them. Jodie’s slicked-back hair and wet, gleaming skin made her look like something straight...
He’d followed her to make sure no one else did—namely, the guys who had cornered her by her car. He’d intended to step in, but she’d taken care of things pretty well on her own. Lydia was one tough cookie, no doubt about it, he thought with a spark of admiration. Even so, ...
She and Brody had more or less settled into a nice rhythm with her work and his helping his teenage crew with their cars. Her days were spent wedding planning and working on her blog and her photos, and her nights were spent in passionate delirium with Brody. Life was good...
Seemed as if it hadn’t moved in ten minutes or more. One of the clerks behind the rental car counter boomed, “Again, any customers with reservations, please move to the right-hand line. Everyone else, please stay to the left, and we’ll do our best to accommodate you.” &nbs...
One of his buddies still enlisted in the U.S. Marines was on a long tour in Iraq, and had offered the small, remote beach house in Antigua to his friends whenever they needed it. Ely had needed it. Away from the touristy areas, the small house had few amenities, no close n...
Ana led him behind the waterfall into a room that was carved in the rock—not a cave, but an actual cavern that was part of the ruin built above. The waterfall crashed outside the entrance, barring any view inside. Ana pulled herself up gracefully from the water onto the stone platform, worn smoot...
After she passed out, he extricated himself from her arms and went downstairs for a more thorough look through her office and then returned upstairs. She was still asleep in the bed, naked, exhausted and wrapped around the tumbled sheets in such a sexy way that he thought about waking her up agai...
She didn’t want to think. She’d been thinking for every damned second of the last sixteen hours and none of it good. Right now, she wanted to feel good. Leo could do that for her better than anyone. She could make him feel good too, and she was about to show him how much so. Falling t...