Author: empetrova
Arielle Jackman grew up as an Army brat—and then she became an Army wife. Now she’s widowed and looking for something she’s never had… roots. Back in her favorite Texas town, she’s teaching middle-schoolers, and since she and her husband never had any, she considers them all her kids. But the evenings are lonely, and Arielle’s wondering if she should get out and make some friends. Then friendship … friendship finds her again, in the form of an old childhood acquaintance, Cavanagh Wraggs.Known as a weapon of mass destruction for the Ranger Ops team, Cav is always neck-deep in danger.…
It takes a lot to impress a Dalton girl.Family feud or deep, dark secret? Jessamine Dalton is determined to uncover the reason why one branch of the family tree broke off and headed north to Colorado decades ago. Hitting the road to visit their distant relations seems perfect—she’ll get away from her interfering sisters, and making a proper family tree will double as a Christmas gift for the … gift for the entire Dalton clan, right? Trouble is, Jessamine’s expected back in time for the festivities… and well, Colorado winters are unpredictable.Holidays always depress Jake Strahan. While everybody else on…
Avery Aarons believes it’s fate that she will die by the hand of a criminal. As a child, she hid in a cupboard while men ransacked their home. In college, she met with an attacker walking home on campus. After that, going into law enforcement is her only path to protect herself and others who can’t. She’s never felt so empowered, until she ends up in the wrong place without backup.When Jess Monet … Jess Monet attends a CPR refresher course and runs into the sexy brown-eyed officer his special ops team helped out, he’s just as impressed this time…
It takes a lot to impress a Dalton girl.And Gracie Dalton is not impressed at all with the fact she’s got to prove her ability as a cowpoke on one of the best ranches in Texas this summer. After all, she’s got the chops from years of working with her brothers and cousins on their well-known ranch. Now she’s pitted against a cocky man with a rodeo belt buckle for each day of the week—not that … week—not that she’s noticin’.Hands down, Noble Watkins’s going to win a permanent position on the Blackburn Ranch. No way will he be bested…
She’s tougher than he thinks. She’s also more vulnerable than she wants to admit… beauty between his sheets.From birth, Edie’s always been the underdog. Even her father didn’t claim her. All her life, she’s fought to get people to take her seriously, and in the tough field of journalism, that isn’t easy. Fighting for what she wants is the norm, but putting herself in that situation still requires guts she doesn’t always believe she has.When Lennon discovers the woman he desires has so many buried secrets it will take some hefty explosives to shake them loose, he feels a little…
When your boyfriend hands you the gift addressed to his other girlfriend… Well, that’s a doozy of a Christmas downer. Rather than cry or pout, Annabelle’s determined to make a new tradition and what better place than Paradise Valley, Texas on a ranch, where a large family and a happily married college girlfriend are ready to brighten her spirits.Case Dalton’s been living and working on his … working on his uncle’s ranch alongside his cousins for two years now. In the typical holiday spirit, chaos breaks out and he’s designated chief hospitality officer, seeing to a curvy gal who has…
If hate is a game, this special ops man and ATF agent are out for blood. Or maybe they’re just fighting to see who will be on TOP.Special Ops Sergeant Lincoln Reed, aka Linc, doesn’t want to talk about how small, dark places make him want to blow shit up. He wants to forget about that time of his life and get back to his team. But now he’s trapped in an elevator with the annoying—and strangely … annoying—and strangely pretty—ATF agent he’s spent weeks trying to get off his back. She’s a know-it-all on a power trip… and has…
When trouble walks in, there’s no choice but to hold on tight for the ride.Two years before, Shaw Woodward watched the love of his life walk down the aisle to another man. Since then, life has kicked him in the balls and lifted him up several times. Just so happens he’s on the downward dip of that cycle right now.After a difficult mission in the Ranger Ops unit, he’s struggled to keep his focus, … struggled to keep his focus, and his captain is forcing him to seek help. He just never expected to walk into the shrink’s office to…
Bullets aren’t the only things flying on this mission…When Texas Ranger Nash Sullivan finds himself in a hailstorm of gunfire during a bunker raid, he handles himself—and those around him—with his usual skill and sharp wit. It seems his charm worked its wonders too, because he’s gone from a Ranger to a special ops unit captain overnight. His first assignment—find a man everyone’s believed dead … everyone’s believed dead for the past decade. And he and his Ranger Ops team are going in.Ten years ago, when Nevaeh Vincent’s brother disappeared on a hiking expedition, her heart was torn out. Now,…
Aria has never made decisions for herself—it seems life makes them for her, which is how she’s become a star on the hit western TV show REDEMPTION FALLS. Now it seems she’s landed herself with a fiancé she doesn’t exactly want. No way is she getting hitched, so it’s high time she does something about it. But she didn’t plan to be a runaway bride—it just sort of happened.Wheeler is not only laid … only laid up with a broken foot but his horse is on watch with a tough injury too. Hobbling to the barn is a trial and…