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THERE IS ONLY ONE MAN WHO CAN HELP YOU. IF HE'LL TAKE YOUR CASE."–Victoria Colby of the Colby Agency to Rachel Larson, desperate motherShe'd heard his heart was as hard as his honed body and as cold as the steel of his gun. But the man called Sloan was Rachel Larson's last hope. She had nowhere left to hide from her son's father–a cold-blooded assassin, and Sloan's deadliest enemy. So she would face this lone wolf in his lair and plead for his help… .Ex-agent Sloan lived only to take down the man who'd killed all he loved. Now a desperate, desirable woman offered him that chance on a silver platter. Vengeance was his–if he could keep Rachel and her son from invading the fortress around his heart….

Is her chance to have it all shrinking along with her waistline?All Evelyn Mays wants is to be the perfect bride in a size 8 Vera Wang wedding dress. Call her superficial, but when your boyfriend has turned up at your office and dramatically proposed–your green-with-envy colleagues watching in astonishment–there's a certain image to live up to!Evie senses that her supposedly fast-track career is spiraling away from her, but at least there's something she can control: her Big Day. She just has to transform herself from a cuddly brunette into a svelte blonde….But changing her appearance proves addictive; Evie develops a taste for experimenting: new friends…new men? Her best friend, convinced that Mr. Right is just an urban legend anyway, eggs her on to have one last fling. Only, is Evie discovering her true self, or playing a game of chance that will end in trouble?

It seemed exciting at first, but after two and a half years in New York, Tracey has to admit her life…well, sucks. Sure, she makes a decent living as a copywriter, but Blaire Barnett Advertising is a cutthroat world that basically swallows her life. If she does manage to get home before nine, she's usually greeted by husband Jack's best bud, an almost-permanent fixture in their tiny, unaffordable apartment. Add the circus freaks stomping around upstairs, and Tracey decides it's time to move.After quitting her job, she and Jack take the plunge into the nearby suburbs of Westchester and quickly discover they're in way over their heads. Their fixer-upper is unfixable, the stay-at-home yoga moms are a bore and Tracey yearns for her old friends–she even misses work!So which life does she really want? Other than Jack's wife, who is she? If Tracey merely has to find her own Slightly Suburban niche, it had better be just around the corner, because there're no subways here!

A heat wave in Manhattan is enough to drive a girl crazy, and for Tracey Spadolini, a 24-year-old New York transplant who's been «left behind» for the summer, there's even more to sweat about. Her Slightly Significant Other, Will, will be returning from summer stock in September, to pick up where they left off. (Or will he?)But, in the days after Will's departure, Tracey decides it's time for a reality check. Her un-air-conditioned East Village apartment is a dump, her entry-level ad job sucks, her thighs don't seem to be getting any thinner, and Will seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. So, Tracey, with the help of her friends and one very attentive guy, decides to spend her summer reinventing herself…and taking a chance on liking the new woman she becomes.

Top Two Don'ts for the Office PartyDon't dress in a revealing manner. (Translation: Don't wear the sexy scarlet, size-eight dress you couldn't fit into three months ago. The one that flaunts your firmed-up cleavage and newly discovered collarbones.)Don't make a spectacle of yourself. (Translation: Don't get drunk and make out with a really cute stranger for the whole company to see; he could turn out to be your boss's roommate.)I didn't follow those tips, and here I am with a hot new man in my life, Jack.But my friends are asking if I really want to bump into my boss in his boxers in the hallway of their apartment. After all, I am aiming for a promotion. And now, not only does my ex want me back, but the guy I used to think was Mr. Right just kissed me!Three months ago I couldn't hold on to one guy. Now three want me. When did my life become so complicated?

After two years, the man who bought a lifetime subscription to TiVo without trying it finally committed to a lifetime subscription to Tracey Spadolini.All Tracey wants is to get hitched without a hitch–but as the calendar marches toward her late-October wedding date, suddenly she and her fiancé can't agree on anything. From where to get married (New York City or Buffalo?) to how many attendants they're going to have (she's already asked eight; he was thinking of just a best man). Meanwhile, Tracey's friends are caught up in their own dramas. There's newlywed Raphael, who just had his gay wedding; newly pregnant Kate, who is trying to adjust to impending motherhood; and Buckley, who is acting inexplicably strange. When Buckley unexpectedly breaks off his own engagement, all but leaving his fiancée at the altar, Tracey is stunned to learn that he might be in love with her.With plenty of snafus to keep them distracted, is being Slightly Married the road to happily ever after, after all?

There are a lot of things worse than being SLIGHTLY ENGAGED…being entirely broke, completely alone and wholly perplexed.It's been a year and a half since Tracey and Jack moved in together, and everything's totally perfect–well, okay, almost perfect. There's still Tracey's mom, who says they're «living in sin,» and her friends, who are all smug, married and totally sure that there would already be a ring on Tracey's finger if she hadn't been in such a rush to cosign a lease. Even Tracey is beginning to wonder whether Jack really is looking for a permanent relationship, or whether she's just renting space in his heart.But just when Tracey's doubts are seriously raging out of control, Jack's mom lets her in on a secret–he's just taken an heirloom diamond out of the family's safe-deposit box, which must mean that he's going to propose any day now.Okay, any week now…Any month now?

Hope Hope Butler is about to watch the man of her dreams, Jake Whitelaw, marry another woman–unless she finds the courage to stand up and fight for him.FaithFaith has always been more concerned with the happiness of others than with her own, and if she isn't careful, she's going to let a good man slip through her fingers.CharityAdopted at a young age, Charity Burnette never really had a home, and she's not one for putting down roots–even if it means shutting out the man who'd love to call her his wife.When the three sisters come together unexpectedly at Hawk's Pride Ranch, the sparks fly. But each woman is about to learn something about herself…about family…and about the love of a good man.

Detective Kane McDermott might be fighting a bad case of burnout, but that doesn’t mean he’s taking things easy. His latest assignment is to investigate Kayla Luck, to discover if the etiquette school she runs for awkward businessmen is really some kind of escort service. It looks cut-and-dried…until he sets eyes on Kayla. She’s smart, but she’s also trusting to a fault–and the heat that flares up between them keeps getting in the way of Kane’s best intentions.But if Kayla ever suspects his real motives, Kane will be the one who ends up getting burned….

Easy money. That’s why P.I. Ben Callahan agrees to take the job of watching over spoiled heiress Grace Montgomery.But he soon discovers she has a reckless streak a mile wide. She’s determined to experience everything she’s been missing…including a chance to explore her sensual side. And she wants to do that exploring with Ben!He’s not complaining–it’s just too bad what they’ve got going won’t last after Grace discovers Ben’s on the family payroll….

New York Times bestselling author Carly Phillips continues to delight her many fans with this steamy tale of two unlikely lovers who come together in a way that is…Simply Scandalous. Wealthy Assistant D.A. Logan Montgomery needs to ruin his reputation–fast! That's the only way he'll be able to convince his father that he's not cut out to follow the family tradition of going into politics. His plan? To indulge in a very public fling with a woman whose family is a scandal in itself. It should have been the perfect solution….Only, the more time Logan spends with Catherine Luck, the more he realizes he'd give up his reputation–and everything else–for just one night in her bed….