Rachel Gibson

Take one top-secret, deny everything, ‘this operation doesn’t exist’ operative: Max Zamora. With his cover blown, recently tortured, and on the run from the drug lord whose son he accidentally killed, Max is desperate and deadly.

Once upon a time, three young women each attended a New Year's Eve ball. The moon shone brightly, music filled the air. Kisses were stolen and promises made. But what happens when morning comes? Indulge in these three original novellas from three favourite authors. Stephanie Laurens. A new year brings new scandal when a rake awakens in the bed of the flame-haired temptress who had seduced him years before. All of society has them bedded, but can he convince her to become wedded?

Georgeanne Howard has lived her whole life with the knowledge that she has a brain dysfunction, aka a learning disability. She refuses to let this get in her way. She will be the most beautiful, the most charming, the most flirtatious Southern Belle ever to leave Texas, and she will do it married to a rich and powerful man, never mind that he’s old enough to be her grandfather. Except that at the last second, Georganne chickens out, and leaves the church at a dead run, jumping into the car of the first man she sees – who happens to be John Kowalsky, captain of the Seattle Chinooks Hockey team.

We should all have a job this good: Hope Spencer writes for an LA-based tabloid. The sort that publishes ‘true’ stories like I Had Elvis’ Alien Baby. What a riot! Fresh out of ideas, Hope’s editor sends her to deepest, darkest … Gospel, Idaho, in the hopes she’ll come up with some fabulous alien or yeti stories out there in the wilds. The fact she’ll get away from her midget wrestler stalker is another plus.

When pretty hairdresser Delaney Shaw returned home to Truly, Idaho, for the reading of her stepfather's will, she planned on paying her respects and getting out of town. But it seems the will has some unexpected stipulations-like the one that says if Delaney wants her inheritance she needs to stay put and have nothing to so with sexy Nick Allegrezza - for an entire year!