Author: marialuis
I dare you to find me the perfect match, she said.Luke O’Connor has never turned down a dare. Ever. But that was before his last deployment left the charming playboy a shell of his former self. Now he just wants to be left alone – no hookups, no relationships.Single mother and the CEO of New Orleans’ hottest lingerie boutique, Anna Bryce has it all – except that a business can’t keep her warm at … except that a business can’t keep her warm at night. She’s determined to find Mr. Right, but can’t fight her attraction to Mr. All Wrong, the wounded…
After years playing in the NHL, a guy learns a thing or two.Rule #1: Don’t sleep with your publicist.I’ve spent my career dropping gloves and racking up minutes in the sin bin, but even my hard-earned reputation as the NHL’s toughest enforcer can’t save me.New team, new city, and an off-ice, bad boy persona I’ve got to clean up—or kiss my hard stick goodbye.But then I walk into my new PR firm . . … stick goodbye.But then I walk into my new PR firm . . . and find her sitting behind the desk.Rule #2: See Rule #1.Sin Bin is the…
Warning: one dirty-talking detective and one feisty crime lab technician collide in the second installment to the sizzling NOLA Heart series! Mixing business with pleasure just got a little hotter down in the Big Easy…Nathan Danvers has cultivated a certain, sexy reputation among the ladies in New Orleans. As a former marine and current detective for the New Orleans P.D., Nathan is just fine … detective for the New Orleans P.D., Nathan is just fine with being the guy women take home to bed, but not the guy they take home to meet the parents. It’s exactly what he wants–until he…
Falling in love with your ex should never feel this good … Twelve years, three cities, and too many pairs of stilettos later, Shaelyn Lawrence is back in the one place she vowed never to return: New Orleans.Thankfully, her hometown stint is temporary. Better yet, she has a plan guaranteed to get her out ASAP: Return her aging-but-still-crazy grandmother back to health; Help her cousin with … ASAP: Return her aging-but-still-crazy grandmother back to health; Help her cousin with her boutique; Evade Brady Taylor, her high school sweetheart, a.k.a the reason she fled Louisiana in the first place. Brady isn’t…
He (was) the hottest player on the ice.She’s a (struggling) sports journalist looking for her big break.Charlie Denton has been handed the most impossible assignment from her stick-in-the-mud boss: get an exclusive interview with the NHL’s golden boy, Duke Harrison.The catch? She’s got eight days or she’ll be demoted. Fired. Kicked to the curb – No way is she letting her future rest on the broad … curb – No way is she letting her future rest on the broad shoulders of a goalie who is at least three seasons past his prime.She has eight days to convince Duke that…