A Place to Return To
Completed · 15 chapters · Warm
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June returns to Cedar Lake for the summer and finds the man who kept his distance ready to let her close.
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Before the Last Bell
Completed · 20 chapters · Steamy
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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 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.
The Months Between Us
Completed · 15 chapters · Steamy
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Anouk wants Orson, his kisses and his kitchen. She also wants the life that takes her away when summer ends.
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.
Before We Call It Love
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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For eleven years Felix has answered Nina's calls. Now he wants her to choose him before she leaves for Copenhagen.
The Court We Choose
Completed · 19 chapters · Warm
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Saskia wants her tennis partner after the match. An injury stops her playing just as Mara is offered a place beside someone else.
Notes Toward a Second Language
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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Two translators, divorced, are left a dead friend's last novel on one condition: they finish it together, in one room, in six months.
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 Plus-One Clause
Completed · 19 chapters · Warm
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A wedding speechwriter becomes a chef's fake girlfriend for a television season, and the clause she wrote about kissing stops being funny.
The Frost Ledger
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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A city debt-reader inherits a page that can end a border lord's endless winter, and the price only counts if nobody makes her pay it.
A Week of Small Repairs
Completed · 19 chapters · Warm
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A week of wedding work on a tidal Norfolk creek puts her back beside the man she loved in secret at twenty-five.
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.
The Cartographer and the Blade
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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A royal surveyor must map a disputed border before treaty talks, escorted by a former captain who once stood on her worst mistake.
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.
The Vineyard at Lake Como
Completed · 16 chapters · Warm
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Her father's vineyard and debt are hers. His old partner may buy forty per cent by year-end. She wants to know why he won't.
The Thornbound Court
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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A deposed queen marries the general who took her father's throne to break a curse — and finds her enemy keeps every promise he makes.
Everything We Left in Edinburgh
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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A hotel negotiator must buy the Scottish castle where she walked out on her wedding, and its owner wants her to stay the week first.
The Boardroom Truce
Completed · 16 chapters · Warm
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A turnaround consultant breaks her one rule for the CEO who humiliated her — six weeks to save his company, and no reason to trust him.
The Quiet Consort
Completed · 15 chapters · Steamy
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A prince and an interpreter risk their public lives when she refuses to make a dangerous treaty sound safe.
The Man Assigned to Guard Her
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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A forensic accountant due to testify in a laundering trial, and the protection officer who runs her days but must not hear her evidence.
Harmony in Secret
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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A folk singer kisses her bandmate in the dark after their famous love song, with thirteen shows left and a label selling the mystery.
The Long Con
Completed · 18 chapters · Steamy
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Two investigators hide opposing assignments at the same firm. Telling the truth could cost them their work and each other.
Under Two Signatures
Completed · 15 chapters · Warm
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An architect and the anonymous investor funding her tower fall for each other under an agreement neither can break.