Candace Brown has hit rock bottom. After a failed marriage leaves her in mountains of debt, she is desperately trying to find a job and ends up face to face with a man whose heart she broke when she left him years ago. But Jaxson Pace is no longer the “poor trash” her parents stopped her from seeing—he’s a successful billionaire with a potentially dangerous grudge. Can Candace get him to forgive her? Or will her first love find a way to make her pay for dumping him, sending her life into final devastating shambles?

Once superstar jock Abraham Stone notices shy Madison Mills, all hell breaks loose. He is determined to have her, finally deciding to shed his longtime gold-digging girlfriend, Bethany, in favor of the quiet, unassuming nerd. But with Abe’s determined desire comes crippling unforeseen consequences. Jilted Bethany won’t go down without a vicious fight, and in the end, they will all pay for piercing each other’s sphere, one way or another. Can the athletic alpha convince Madison he’s worth the cost?

Sweet, curvy Nina has been in love with her best friend, Brent, for years. She accepts being friend-zoned until one steamy impulsive night changes everything between them. But then Brent completely vanishes from her life, leaving her alone, confused, and carrying around a huge secret. When she runs into Brent again, both of their lives have changed drastically, and now that her old best friend is a billionaire, she’s convinced he’ll never want her now that he can have any woman he wants, and especially once he finds out what she’s been hiding. But will Brent surprise her after all? Or will he toss her aside again, leaving her alone and broken once more?

DONATELLO - Since I became head of the family, things haven’t been the same. I want to limit bloodshed and take things in a different direction, but with an enemy like Emilio Baldini, that might just be impossible. Saving a prisoner of Emilio’s from certain death probably won’t exactly endear me to him, either...

ISABELLA - Bound, gagged, and kidnapped. Then, finally, saved by a man I have only heard of—Donnie Soriano. But Donnie must never find out I’m Emilio Baldini’s daughter. If he does, he’ll probably throw me out on the street—a fate worse than death, as my feelings for the young Don are blossoming into something deep and real. And so is the new life in my belly…

From the TIED TO HIM: MY BFF series

- No man has been able to capture young, ebony hottie Gina’s imagination the way her hunky, blue-eyed military best friend, Jake, has. Jake hasn’t had a chance to lock down a long-term relationship himself, but he’s had plenty of time to think about his beautiful brown-skinned buddy and what he wants to do to her while he’s away at war. They both think the other sees them as nothing more than a friend, but this time, as Jake heads home from deployment, he plans to show Gina not only how much he has missed her, but how much more than a friend she’s about to become!

- Brandon can’t take it anymore. His sexy longtime friend, Lola, needs to crash at his place for a while, and he’s not sure how he’ll handle his secret desire for her. He wants to take advantage of the situation, but he’s not sure where to start. Soon, his dilemma is taken care of for him by a sleep disorder, and Lola finds herself at the mercy of her old friend’s lust!

- Curvy, untouched Janine thinks she’s ready for the next important step in her womanhood, so she’s on the lookout for a strong alpha male to give her innocence to. Her best friend, Josh, lives a few houses away, and when she pops by to visit him, she runs into a hot, muscular guy leaving his place and thinks he’s the one. She asks Josh to hook her up with the hunky stranger and Josh agrees, but he suddenly realizes that he should be the one to get the voluptuous brown beauty’s gift, and he’ll make sure he gets to stuff his sexy best friend first!

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From the FORBIDDEN FRUIT: HIS BFF series

- Sylvia is a wanted woman. Not by the feds, but by just about every guy in her husband’s circle—his closest friends. The military guys all try to hide how much they want to take her for a spin, but when the opportunity comes up, friends turn into opportunistic fiends, and Sylvia has no idea what she’s in for once her husband lands the two of them in a mess his lusty buddies are only too happy to bail them out of—on one hard, raw condition. Well, maybe two…

- Simone has been having naughty thoughts about one of her boyfriend’s insanely hot military friends. She doesn’t plan to act on it, despite the ‘hall pass’ she still has for her boyfriend’s infidelity a few years ago, but when an opportunity presents itself to find out what it’s like to be with the huge off-limits alpha male…well, she actually doesn’t have much choice in the matter!

- Newlywed Tara is already bored with her sex life and has some naughty fantasies about someone way off-limits—her husband’s best friend, Tucker. She wants to talk to her hubby about mixing things up between the two of them, with no intention of adding a third party, but her husband surprises her with her deepest, darkest wish: his best friend taking her hard and raw. Now that the forbidden fruit is no longer forbidden, things are suddenly shaken up far beyond carnal desires. Can Tara handle the changing group dynamics?

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- Travis is overworked and underlaid. He returns from a military mission with a hunger greater than ever before, and is horrified when, instead of his best friend Joey, Joey’s gorgeous curvy girlfriend, Lisa, shows up at the airport to take him home. He has secretly wanted to give it to Lisa hard and unprotected for years, and by a twist of fate, he now has a chance to turn all of his filthy fantasies into reality, and he’s about to take it.

- Sensual Nicole is a dirty rotten tease. Military man Michael has finally figured out what his best friend’s hot girl has been up to—flirting with him and messing with his head in various ways he thought were innocent at first, but eventually realizes weren’t—the sexy brown beauty knew exactly what she was doing. Now that he’s on to her, he’ll take things a step further and make sure the tease thinks twice before she messes with a red-blooded man like him—and she’ll learn her lesson hard!

- Lonely Bridget would love to get back at her ex somehow—to make him pay for how callously he dumped her. But she’s not a vengeful person, so she simply tries to move on. Against her better judgment, she decides to attend a party thrown by her ex’s best friend, Scott—a gorgeous, muscular guy she harbored a light attraction for but never thought of pursuing. But Scott has other plans for the dejected, no-longer-off-limits beauty, and he’s determined to pull her out of the dumps and quench his own burning secret desire for her once and for all.

- Reese can’t get brown beauty, Eva, off his mind. Unfortunately, she’s his best friend’s girl, but he can’t stop the dirty thoughts he has of taking her hard and raw, filling her with his essence. He resigns to suffering the torture silently, but Eva surprises him with a friendly visit one day and ends up stranded in his place by a sudden storm. Now that he finally has the delicious, nubile beauty alone, he’s going to give her far more than a piece of his dirty mind.

- Nicolette knows she shouldn’t fantasize about her boyfriend’s sexy best friend, Jacob, so she keeps her crush a secret until her boyfriend’s troubles land him in jail, and Jacob makes it clear that he wants her, and intends to have her. Jacob can’t stop the dirty, lusty thoughts he has of his best friend’s girl, and now that he has a chance with the young hottie, he’s going to take it—hard.

- Avery’s fiancé drains their financial resources, leaving them broke and depending on Chad, her fiancé’s hot best friend. They have to find a way to pay strong, muscular Chad back for letting them stay in his condo until they get back on their feet, and Chad has a couple of naughty ideas how!

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