from FictionDB: Her Hero: Barrie Lovejoy needed a savior. The terrorist group holding her hostage surely wouldn't tolerate her silence much longer. Instead they would silence her - forever. Then out of the darkness he arrived. Grizzled and dangerous, he led Barrie from her captors straight into his sheltering arms... Her Husband: Navy Seal Zane Mackenzie was the best. No mission had ever gotten the better of him - until now. Saving Barrie Lovejoy had been textbook - except for their desperate night of passion. And though his job as a soldier had ended with her freedom, his duties as a husband had only begun. For he would sooner die than let the enemy harm the mother of his child. Heartbreakers

Summoned like a serving girl to the king, Laura Cambridge was hired as nanny to Richard Blackthorne's secret child. Rumors about this hulking recluse didn't daunt Laura -- her beauty-queen past had taught her the inner person didn't always match the facade. But Richard's heart was as painfully scarred as his chiseled features.... To Richard, lovely Laura was like candy dangled in front of a baby -- he was offered the sweet, but denied the taste. Yet sometimes grizzly bears enjoyed a taste of honey...and in fiction the disfigured Mr. Rochester won the love of Jane Eyre. So Richard dared to woo his green-eyed goddess, gambling that -- like Jane -- Laura would one day declare, "Reader, I married him." [Taken from FictionDB]

Runaway Bride. A teary-eyed bride in a long, white getup and veil was on Luke O'Dell's property--with no husband in sight. Uh-oh! Runaway bride on her honeymoon alone at his Lazy O Dude Ranch! Luke knew too well what happened when he comforted a sobbing woman, and no way was sweet Josie Randall getting anywhere near his strong shoulders.... Josie's two-timing groom-not-to-be had done her a huge favor. She'd never even imagined she could love a man so much, until she'd looked into Luke's dark brown eyes and saw forever. But how was a woman to convince six feet, two inches of nonmarrying man that she was the woman he didn't even know he was waiting for? [Taken from FictionDB]

Zara would risk anything to escape the loveless marriage her ambitious stepfather had planned for her. She knew that a traditional birthday gift was being sent to the exiled Prince Haidar -- a woman for his pleasure! Zara was determined to be that woman.... Prince Malik was immediately suspicious of Zara when she arrived as a birthday gift from his cousin. But if she refused to explain her true mission, Malik would simply take control -- making her his mistress...and bride? [Taken from FictionDB]

**Lauren’s dedication to her work doesn’t leave her any time for romance.** Lauren is a popular TV news anchor. She’s been invited to a party hosted by the mayor, but she has no date because her dedication to her work doesn’t leave her any time for romance. David lives across the hall from her condo unit. He’s a handsome man and she secretly hopes he will take her to the party. He goes one further when he suddenly proposes to her! “Can you pretend to be my wife?” She accepts his request in return for his escorting her to the party. Their married life starts out as a fiction, but the passionate kiss they exchange feels all too real!

Home, hearth and a man by the fire... They were all that Sarah had ever dreamed of, all the things a woman could ever want in life. But the efficient life of Sarah Weiss was far from perfect. As a respected physicist, she could handle theorems and calculations in seconds. As a woman, she was lost; Sarah had never even been out on a date! Then Cal Harriman came to the rescue. Strong, protective Cal made up for a lot of the lessons Sarah had missed. Would his feelings change if he knew that this sweet innocent was also a renowned scientist? [Taken from FictionDB]

"I want you to become my mistress!" Suzanna was stunned! She was no longer the naive seventeen-year-old who had thrown herself at Pasquale Caliandro; now she was renowned model Suki. Other men might proposition her, but Pasquale had bitterly rejected her seven years ago. True, the electrical charge between them was as strong as ever, but what was that without any tender feelings? He must be mad or have a very warped sense of humor! But, she thought, Pasquale never joked about business--and being his mistress was business... [Taken from FictionDB]