From friends with benefits...To parents!Paramedic dream team Maggie and Joe aren't just crewmates in the Aratika Rescue Service, they're also best friends. Until a particularly perilous, adrenaline-fueled rescue leads to one hot night in the shower! But Maggie discovers their unexpected and intensely passionate encounter had life-changing consequences. Now with a baby on the way, she can't help but wonder, can she and Joe ever be more than just good friends...?"This proved to be a heartwarming tale...I loved that Alison Roberts included our main characters' full range of emotions, doubts, and hopes for the future to make this a well-rounded story."— Harlequin Junkie on Twins on Her Doorstep"This had a little bit of everything, dipping its toes into fairytale waters and bringing a Cinderella-like feel.... And Alison Roberts balances everything pretty-much perfectly, bringing an uplifting romance between two endearing characters which...

A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour.It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street in Florence. There was just one problem: Saro's traditional Sicilian family did not approve of him marrying a black American woman, an actress no less. However, the couple, heartbroken but undeterred, forges on. They build a happy life in Los Angeles, with fulfilling careers, deep friendships and the love of their lives: a baby girl they adopt at birth. Eventually, they reconcile with Saro's family just as he faces a formidable cancer that will consume all their dreams. Sicily, a Love Story chronicles three summers Tembi spends in Sicily with her daughter, Zoela, as she begins to piece together a life without her husband in his tiny hometown hamlet of farmers. Where...

USA TODAY bestselling author"Just because we leave the party doesn't mean the night has to end."Rancher Xander Currin won't commit to anyone after tragedy broke his heart. But when his feisty ranch hand Frankie Walsh puts herself at risk to secure her future, his protective instincts kick in. He offers her a ticket to the rich and connected at the Texas Cattleman's Club gala. But soon combustible desires consume them both...and someone's going to get burned.

They hid among us, until she exposed them. They'll destroy everything to be hidden again. Pax is discovering that the smallest mistakes can have the deadliest impact. To protect her city, she's uncovered monstrous truths and involved terrible people. The consequences are coming for her. The Sunken City is unstable. The Fae are armed for war. Can Pax stop the coming disaster? In this closing chapter of the Sunken City trilogy, Williams weaves the complex strands of Pax's misadventure into a truly thrilling conclusion.

Lady Adeline Kentwood is ready to put the past to rest now that it's been a year since her husband died. But in order for her to finally feel free, she must confront the man who had stolen her heart and then stomped on it. Unfortunately, seeing him after all this time only opened past wounds that she wanted to forget. Can she forgive him for his past transgressions so she can help the man she both loathes and loves?Lord Hanover, Collin Dorsey, recently inherited a new title. That title brings him back into contact with the woman he's never stop loving, but the one who now hates him. When he's viciously attacked near her home, he awakens with no memory of who she is. Yet, his heart tells him that the heartbroken woman who lives in his manor is the one who holds his heart. If he regains his full memory, where will their rekindled spark of attraction lead them?

An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff's years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how deafness taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness. Centered around the touchstone stories Jen tells in her popular workshops, On Being Human is the story of how a starved person grew into the exuberant woman she was meant to be all along by battling the demons within and winning. Jen did not intend to become a yoga teacher, but when she was given the opportunity to host her own retreats, she left her thirteen-year waitressing job and said "yes," despite crippling fears of her inexperience and her own potential. After years of feeling depressed, anxious, and hopeless, in a life that seemed to have no escape, she healed her own heart by caring for others. She has learned to fiercely listen despite being nearly deaf, to banish...

At the age of five, Shirley Temple became the world's most famous and acclaimed child—the most talented, beautiful child performer ever to capture the public's imagination. By the time she was ten, she had either met or had received words of admiration from almost everyone of distinction. Nine-tenths of the world could recognize her on sight. She single-handedly cheered an entire nation caught in the firm grip of a depression. Her films saved a major studio from bankruptcy. She earned more than the President of the United States and lived in her own junior-sized San Simeon. As lionized, idolized and protected as royalty, Shirley Temple was the one and only American Princess. Shirley Temple is brought into focus in this definitive, intimate portrait of her as a child and as the woman that child became: a woman forced to live her entire life in the shadow of her own past glory. We follow the tumultuous events and disappointments that marked Shirley Temple's meteoric rise...

LOGAN (Steele Protectors 1) is the 1st book in USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer's, BRAND NEW Contemporary Romantic Suspense series.Author's Note: Beware of the very sexy & very alpha Steele brothers. These books are HOT!LOGAN Steele is having a bad day. Well...after being shot, and almost dying, he's having a bad month. Being forced to recuperate by manning the offices at Steele Protectors, the family security company, is not improving his already short temper.Which might be one explanation as to why Logan, after having a particularly difficult weekend, is so rude to the beautiful August Harvey when she is shown into his office one wet Monday afternoon.The other reason could be that Logan is just naturally rude and impatient.Nor is his mood improved by what August Harvey has to tell him.August had thought she was doing the right thing by coming to see one of the Steele brothers when her friend Jenna...