"A new must-read series
from Violet Duke. Not only will you fall in love with the characters, you'll
fall in love with romance." --New York Times Bestselling Author Kathleen
Brooks
Cactus Creek's most romantic
eligible bachelor, new-to-town and new-to-singlehood chocolatier Luke Bradford
believes in old school romance, fighting wars waged over love, and deploying
his dimples whenever an impossible-to-resist woman instigates it. But for once, he's trying not to platter up
his heart to get stomped on. Luckily, he
has a brand new hobby to keep him from falling:
...driving the addictively
easy to incite beer-brewing beauty next door crazy.
Cactus Creek's feisty
brewmaster and town sweetheart Dani Dobson cannot believe how well that
maddeningly charming man next door with all his chocolate-covered romantic
idealism--the kind her heart has been shattered by before--can push all her
buttons. If she's not careful, he'll
sneak right past all her defenses.
Luckily, she has her go-to hobby to keep her mind off him:
...playing her own version of
cupid for everyone in town but herself.
When Dani and Luke's
inexplicable chemistry escalates their ensuing chocolate and beer feud into so
much more, old wounds and new demons surface to bring them face-to-face with
exactly what they've been protecting themselves from:
...the kind of love that can
break their hearts all over again.
LOVE, CHOCOLATE, AND BEER
"Guaranteed feel-good,
swoon-worthy romance!" -- New York Times Bestselling Author Erin Nicholas
From the author of the New
York Times bestselling Can't Resist series, comes a fan-requested surprise
addition to the USA Today bestselling Cactus Creek series.
She’s the Self-Proclaimed
Wicked ‘Witch’ of the West
Fiercely independent single
mom Quinn Christiansen is used to flying solo. She’s been raising her young son
and figuring out how to pay his pediatric hospital bills on her own for years
now. And truth is, Quinn loves the notorious reputation she’s already gained in
town of having a heart too hard for any man to break. Because it is. Two carats
too hard, to be exact. Courtesy of the two-carat heirloom she’d had to barter
to cover her ex’s debts when he took off after she got pregnant. The day she’d
promised herself never again.
So color her pissed when the
universe goes and decides to make the one man in Cactus Creek not afraid of her
natural ball-busting charm another gambling musician. A ridiculously handsome,
wickedly gruff and gritty, pushy one at that.
He’s Everything She’s Sure
She Can’t Possibly Want
Rylan Grey isn’t used to
getting a woman so worked up…well, not in a bad way, at least. But somehow, his
mere existence seems to annoy the guarded and gorgeous Quinn to no end.
Surprising, really. A dirt-and-jeans landscaper by day with a regular gig to
perform for a packed house by night, Rylan considers himself a decent guy.
Sure, he’s made some gambles to get to where he’s at, but they were all of the
life variety, with risks as important as the rewards, fate betting as the
house, and not a single dollar in play.
While Rylan never wagers
anything he’s not willing to lose—namely his heart—he’s more than ready to ante
up once he sees past Quinn’s icy defenses. Quick as a firecracker, loyal to a
fault, and sweet when no one’s looking, she could be his riskiest gamble yet.
LOVE, DIAMONDS, AND SPADES
"Heart-melting and
guaranteed to make you laugh and cry before you finish the last page." --
New York Times Bestselling Author Sawyer Bennett
He's a better fighter...but
she has all the weapons.
After his combat injuries
retire him from the military career he wasn't ready to give up, battle-scarred
Hudson Reyes now spends his new life as a movie industry fight scene and
weapons specialist simply doing what he knows best: surviving.
Until he meets her. The one
woman who makes him want to live again.
An antique arms authenticator
with a lifetime of martial arts training, Liana Lin has made a living turning
the demons of her past into the passions that fuel, and fill, her life. She's a
scrappy little thing. A sweet, angel-faced wrecking ball to his good intentions
capable of making him laugh, and turning him inside out. Hell's bells, watching
her execute that wicked roundhouse kick of hers shouldn't be a
turn-on--especially not when his head is the receiving target--but hot damn, it
is. She's a fiery, unpredictable paradox who wears her heart on her sleeve,
despite the wounds he knows she has hidden as deeply as he hides his own.
Even though she's everything
he's told himself he can't have, Hudson can't help but want her. Sure as sin,
if one woman could sneak past the barbed wires he's wrapped around his heart,
it'd be Lia.
Now if only they could stop
sparring long enough to find out...
LOVE, TUSSLES, AND TAKEDOWNS
He may very well be the
perfect ex...
Isaac McKnight has had enough
loss in his life to know never to take anything for granted. So when the
perfectly-imperfect-woman-for-him puts an end to their relationship out of the
blue, it's Isaac that makes sure they remain friends. Now a year later, whether
it's at his gym or her brewpub, or the dog park they visit every
weekend--though neither of them own a dog--he and Xoey are steadily getting
sucked deeper into buddy-zone galaxy, with its dangerous proximity to
watch-me-settle-down-with-someone-else abyss. It's a reality he's resigned
himself to. That is...until one drunken confession changes everything.
But she's looking for the
perfect oh...
For Xoey Montenegro, history
has taught her that sometimes, it's Prince Charming who vanishes without a
trace. And fairytale love? Highly overrated. Heck, give her a real and perfect
'oh' over that fantasy any day. So as far as rock-solid tequila-fueled plans
for her love life go, coming up with a match-finding formula based on the
qualities of the men responsible for her three most epic ohs seems brilliant.
Except for the fact that one-third of her genius little man-quation is all
about her friend Isaac. Actually, more than a third if Xoey were being honest
with herself--which she's not. Because full honesty would require thinking not
just about how perfect Isaac really is, but also about how perfect the fourth
epic oh she's kept buried deep in her past once was.
An easy enough thing to keep
ignoring...until her past isn't past tense anymore.
LOVE, EXES, AND OHS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY bestselling author Violet Duke is a
former professor of English Education who is ecstatic to now be on the other
side of the page writing wickedly fun contemporary romance novels. Her NYT and
USA Today bestselling books have been Top 10 bestsellers across the major
eretailers both in the US and internationally. When she's not writing or
feeding her book-a-day reading addiction, Violet enjoys tackling reno projects
with her power tools, trying pretty much anything without reading the
directions first, and cooking 'special edition' dishes that laugh in the face
of recipes. A born and raised island girl, she spends her days getting into
creatively fun trouble in Hawai'i alongside her two cute kids (daughter Violet
& son Duke) and similarly adorable husband.
Jennifer Foor is
an award winning Contemporary Romance Author. She's best known for the Mitchell
Family Series, which includes ten books.
