Karen Hrdlicka

Oxford, England 1993. An awkward American grad student runs into a gorgeous English undergrad with her bicycle. She’s embarrassed. He’s intrigued. They go their separate ways, but neither forgets. Chicago, Illinois 2013. When Cress Taylor starts receiving anonymous threats, the successful novelist feels her world crashing down. Max Grant turns up at a book signing and wants to renew their fleeting acquaintance. Is the timing coincidental or suspicious? Should she fall into his arms or run like hell? Then the plagiarism accusations start.

Life is good for hot wide receiver Zane Tinsbury. He’s playing stellar football on the field and having his dream home built out in the country. Still, all is not perfect for this gorgeous man. He’s been feeling kind of lonely lately, and now he suspects a furry intruder may have taken up residence at his soon-to-be home. Little does Zane know he’s about to get the surprise of his life. Morgan Delano is a woman on the run from her dangerous ex-husband. Hiding out in a pro football player’s under-construction house seems like a pretty great idea. Until it’s not.

My teammates don’t call me a gambler for nothing. As a hotshot forward for the Las Vegas Wolves hockey team, I, Landen Zehner, am known for taking chances - both on and off the ice. Lucky for me, I almost always come out the winner. That’s why I know I’m going to win over the team’s new event coordinator, Cricket Nance. She’s everything I’ve ever wanted. So I’m going in, hard and fast, by making her a bet to give me a real chance. That means seeing no other people. I tell her to trust me, and we’ll both come out winners. You can bet on it, baby.

After my brother was killed in a motorcycle race, I made it my life’s goal to end illegal street racing. Yeah, I grew up building and riding with him and his sexy best friend, Roni, but I couldn’t bear to watch these kids endanger their lives the same way my brother had. However, when Roni returned to London to take on The Palace, I forgot all about my mission and focused on her while trying to forget the one night we shared years earlier. Hell, who was I kidding. That one night rocked my world...multiple times. There’s no way in hell I’d forget that night.

My life has sucked for as far back as I can remember. My folks didn’t want me, so I was thrown into foster care. Let me just say lots of fun. NOT. Then one day, my life took a dramatic change. My circumstances improved greatly. I met The Grimm Wolves MC, and they took me under their wing. I became not only a prospect, but also part of their brotherhood.

The stockings weren't hung. The tree was in disarray. Who needed decorations anyway? Two vampires were fighting. Two mates were taking pictures. While a wolf pack watched on taking bets on who'd win. Oh, no, poor Solomon just took a hit to the chin! Revenge would be swift. The brothers don't play. Ford would get his by the end of the day. The pack alpha laughed as his beta turned red. He assured them they'd all soon be dead. Wolves ran amok as children laughed with glee. What a fun, festive Christmas Eve this turned out to be.

What happens when your past pounds on your door, and you lose the little control you have over your own life? Cesar "Beast" Ironhorse struggles with which road to take when a new threat storms into his life. As he is blackmailed, he needs to find a way out not only for himself, but also for his family, who he has sworn to protect. As luck would have it, his well-intended play goes to crap, so Beast involves his brothers from his club, the Grimm Wolves MC.

Becca is a runner. She ran from me the first day we met, and she still runs all the time - from us, from what we could be. She tells me it’s because she doesn’t believe in love. I tell her, "believe in me.” Because I, Lars Samuels, will rock her world and treat her like a queen. She says, “Ha, I will never be caught.” Good thing I’m really good at catching things. I should be. I’m the best wide receiver on the Columbus Comets football team. I like winning. So I’m going to win her. Once I catch her, of course.

It all started with a cat on my roof. When Mrs. Higgins begged me to go up on my roof to save Chloe, I did it to appease her because she thought the cat was stuck. The cat wasn't stuck. But I was. The ladder fell, Mrs. Higgins called 911, and the guy I’d had a crush on since high school arrived with the fire department and saved me. To my surprise, he asked me out, and our relationship took off. That was until I got the opportunity of a lifetime to go to Paris for six months and didn't see him again for two years when he was a passenger on the flight I was working.

She likes picking up her camera because it allows her to see things through a different lens. Like when she lost her job recently and instead of focusing on what she’s forced to leave behind, she zooms in on the new options opening up in front of her. Or when a dangerous looking silver fox comes rolling up her path on a FatBoy, and her digital output shows a deep loneliness, matching her own, in his ice-blue eyes. But when she's working on making her dreams come true, she inadvertently captures something in her viewfinder she can’t un-see.