Lexie is a big girl at 16, at least she thinks she is, but when her big brother Anthony ruins her pole dancing debut she escapes that life safely and intact. Her brother is an Army Major with a lot of muscle who has been looking for her for 14 years and now that he's found her he will do everythi...
Kai jerked around, startled, peering into the darkness, hunting for him. Gabe smiled to himself. Another lesson to teach the kid. Always keep your back against a tree or another solid surface if you plan to ambush a man. And, he snorted to himself, don’t try to ambush a guy you know in your gut i...
She closed her eyes and swallowed hard. Brady’s voice was low, commanding. “Open the door, Tiffany.” As if her legs weren’t a part of her, Tiffany walked to the door and opened it. She’d expected him to be angry but he had a quirky smile on his face. She stood in the doorway and forced herself no...
How dare you, Nathan Stryker? Have you no shame? You make love to me? Hold me in your arms? Tell me how much you love me. Knowing full well you have betrayed me?” Nate sighed hearing Erin’s angry voice rise to a near shriek. He put his hand over the speaker and turned to the young woman in front ...
Eric Gardner’s voice in her cell phone rang with excitement. The most cheerful lawyer Jesse had ever known, was now practically giddy. “This will make my life so much easier.” Her counselor’s tone darkened. “Garrett is serious, Jesse. He’s fucking loaded for bear. From what his lawyer intimated t...
Glancing at his phone, he saw that it was after nine o’clock. A shot or three of Maker’s Mark begged for his attention. A confab with his brothers along with the booze would be a welcome close to a devilishly challenging day. Unfortunately Jared wasn’t “available”, which meant that his brother wa...
She didn’t have to look in the mirrored wall of her full-sized workout room to know that she was flushed and drenched with sweat. No mystery why: she’d been pounding the bag with her fists and feet for over an hour. Her brief breaks from attacking the leather target had been filled with a series ...
Single malt, straight up.”Lexie swallowed her grin, amazed at Tiffany’s unexpected order.Not to be outdone by her stunning friend, Lexie said with a nonchalant shrug, “Make that two.”The bartender flashed a surprised grin.“You got it, ladies.”He turned to the other two women at the table who were...
The reek of cash for access offended him—as did the supercilious, sycophantic exchanges among arrogant men who actually despised one another. Since most of his clients came from either D.C. or New York, he often had to hold his nose and venture to the home base of America’s ‘ruling’ class. But in...
“Please, Erin, sit down.” She shook her head, too angry to speak. Blake was insistent. “Look, Erin. Obviously that man is harassing you. If he continues, let me know and I’ll have him reported. Cops can be held accountable too, you know. But we don’t have to let him spoil our dinner. Here is our ...
For a minute, she struggled to remember where she was. The jolt of pain she felt when she moved her ankle made last night’s unbelievable events brain shatteringly real. Gingery lifting her foot she acknowledged that her sprained ankle was the least of her worries. Struggling to drag herself up to...
If any of them heard the old man’s furious invective, they ignored it, sunk in blessed oblivion. “God damn you to hell, Pauli. You fucking, ignorant piece of pig shit.” Pauli, the trembling object of the tirade and the unlucky messenger who brought ...