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He's My HeroA protector, a provider, a friend and a lover–he's every woman's hero.MOST ELIGIBLE SOLDIERThe government wanted protocol specialist Chessey Banks Bailey to teach rough-around-the-edges Lieutenant Derek McKenna how to be a gentleman. And though he was her student, Derek was the sexiest, most intriguing man Chessey had ever met. From the moment he kissed her without warning, Chessey knew she wanted to be his bride.But even though blue blood Chessey had him second-guessing his bachelor status, walking down the aisle was the furthest thing from Derek's mind. Could Chesssey enlist the reluctant soldier for a lifetime of love?

Caught in a blizzard, Georgia Beckett is forced down a narrow lane she hoped to avoid… and not just because of the snow! The road takes her past the beautiful abandoned house of her youth, the new residence of her childhood sweetheart.Sebastian Corder’s shocked to hear the doorbell ring – he never expected to see Georgia again. Nine years ago, both chasing different dreams, they went their separate ways. Now Sebastian’s hand hesitates. Is he ready to open the doors to the past?But the snow’s getting heavier… and there’s only one way to find out!

From festive fling…When heartbroken Becky Shaw retreats to the Cotswolds for Christmas, she expects to be warming herself in front of a fire, not in the arms of gorgeous Italian billionaire Theo Rushing. As a snowstorm rages outside, indoors the temperature starts to rise……to fake fiancée!It was meant to be a holiday fling, until Theo reveals he needs a fake fiancée, and sweeps Becky away to Italy and his luxurious world. To protect her heart she agreed to a ‘relationship’ in name only, but as the chemistry between them crackles, how long before Theo and Becky pass the point of no return?

Althea Johnson is only meant to tutor widower Clark Beaumont’s son. Not fall in love with her boss.But, with her help, Clark’s kids begin to come alive again after losing their mother and against the odds Althea hopes that when Christmas morning arrives there will be four stockings hanging over the fireplace…

For private investigator Wade Sutton, the town holds too many memories–none of them fond– of his childhood.Yet he can't say no when the sheriff asks him to secretly watch over a woman who might be in danger. «Helping» lovely Jasmine Hunter with the church's Christmas celebration does more for his bruised heart than he wants to admit.As does being back on his family's farm. But he can't stay in Dry Creek. Unless…Jasmine gives him a reason to call it home again.

A man, a woman…a baby? Colonel Mike Remington wasn't a man who backed away from a challenge. But the tough, combat-hardened Special Forces officer knew he was way out of his league when he cradled an adorable baby in his arms–and an elegant, enticing lady lawyer told him he was the little girl's brand-new «daddy»….The only solution to his sudden baby problem was marriage–in name only–to the lady lawyer herself. But the more time he spent on a secluded Texas ranch with the beautiful, sensual Savannah Clay–and the more «innocent» kisses they shared–the more he ached to see this make-believe marriage turn into the real deal….

FIVE YEARS TOO LATE….She should have been mine, Victoria Ketchum thought as she cradled Jess Hasting's daughter. Instead, Victoria had turned from Jess, and he'd married another. Now a widowed single father, the lean, rugged deputy sheriff could still make her passion rise–but the bitterness of their breakup kept them apart.Until now.Now Jess saw Victoria strictly as his daughter's doctor. And Victoria needed Jess's lawman skills when a body was found on her family's ranch. Yet, working together to care for his sick little girl, and to investigate the murder, made them remember just how good it had been between them.And how good it could still be…

Newly divorced and back in her hometown, Melody Tanner is ready to change her life for the better. Her girlfriends think it's the perfect time to revisit the lists they came up with as a joke at Melody's bachelorette party–a list of five men they could sleep with no matter what.But when Melody looks at her list, she discovers two of the men are already dead. Worse, the homicide detective she contacts just happens to be her #1, former marine Nick Walker.Nick isn't taking the coincidental deaths too seriously, until the other two men on the list die suspiciously. Melody thinks the only way to keep Nick alive is to let him go. But Nick's willing to take the risk. Besides, if he does have to check out, there's no place he'd rather do it than in Melody's arms….

When Jeff Ritter offered Ashley Churchill shelter, the struggling single mom longed to lean on his broad shoulders. And though she accepted a job as his housekeeper, Ashley was determined to make her own happiness, without the heartbreak of loving a man. No matter how tempting that man was….It was Jeff's nature to protect, but his heart was off-limits–even to the woman and child he came home to each night. For life had made Jeff a hardened soldier, not a man to love. And despite the hope he saw shining in Ashley's eyes, Jeff didn't dare dream she could truly be his….

MARRYING THE MINISTER'S DAUGHTERThad Shippen had no business being anywhere near hallowed ground, and certainly not lusting after chaste Miss Chloe Miller. The virginal do-gooder deserved far better than the town's black sheep for a husband.She deserved a white picket fence, 2.2 kids and a straightlaced man who knew what hearth, home and family were all about. Thad could only make her grist for the gossip mill. But marry her, he did… .When Chloe vowed to love and honor her husband, she truly meant the words. She believed in Thad with all her heart and would defend him till the end. Because this man whom everyone thought was so bad for her was oh, so good… .