Before the Last Bell
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Lavinia wants the man whose temporary vows keep him out of reach. She will not be his secret or the reason he leaves the life he loves.
The one I shouldn't want
Enemies, rivals and forbidden love
The pull is the problem. These leads know exactly why they shouldn’t — a rivalry, a rule, a line neither of them is supposed to cross — and want each other anyway.
The Garden After Dark
Completed · 18 chapters · Steamy
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Blythe wants the man whose moving light cannot mingle with her glass garden. Keeping him outside is becoming harder.
Where the River Narrows
Completed · 18 chapters · Steamy
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Veda, 46, loves her fishing boat. She also wants the man campaigning to close the estuary grounds that keep it working.
What We Keep for Ourselves
Completed · 18 chapters · Steamy
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At sixty-two, Tressa wants a life that includes desire. The man she wants is her adult son's trusted friend.
The Other Half of the Dance
Completed · 18 chapters · Steamy
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Coralia helped exclude the man who opened a rival dance night. One dance with him makes loyalty a much less tidy affair.
The Empty Place Beside Me
Completed · 18 chapters · Steamy
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Adela promised her best friend to keep Oswin out. Three years after her friend's death, he arrives for supper with a chair.
After the War, Tea
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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A retired battle-mage runs the village tea-house. The general she defeated moves in across the lane; the treaty forbids private dealings.
The House That Keeps Her
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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A guild exorcist has fourteen days to clear a widow's haunted house, and the widow is the first client afraid of the cure, not the ghost.
Private Viewing
Completed · 20 chapters · Warm
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An art-fraud investigator is assigned a forgery claim on a widower's gallery, and he is the first person in years to ask what she found.
The Standing Invitation
Completed · 19 chapters · Warm
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Tess loves her husband. She is falling for the architect beside her. Six hours with him show her what she has stopped saying at home.
The Other Side of the Pass
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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Six weeks in one kitchen with the critic who savaged her first restaurant, and neither of them gets to stay right.
Everything Below the Ring
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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A filmmaker gets six weeks inside London's underground fight circuit, and one rule from the man who runs it: nothing below the ring.