Small Town Misters

◆◆◆Start this completed Small Town Series Now!◆◆◆ Hero In My Bed: A Forced Proximity Rom Com I need to stay away from the town's hot golden boy. He's waaaay out my league. That doesn't mean I can't have my dirty fantasies though, right? Bad Boy Benefits: A Single Mom Romance From the moment I first saw her, I knew she was meant to be mine. The gorgeous single mom with piercing green eyes behind sexy librarian glasses. But she thinks I'm a player. Says she wants nothing to do with me. But I've seen the desire in her eyes when she looks at me. I know she wants me too... Loving My Enemy: An Enemies to Lovers Romance From the moment I looked into her pretty blue eyes, I knew she was trouble. She's hiding something. I'm determined to unravel this mystery, uncover her secret. But I fall under her spell instead. Completely bewitched. By her innocence. By her body. I no longer want her gone. I want to make her MINE. ♥Exclusive Epilogue♥ First comes love, then comes marriage... Except for a small town Cop who can't get his pregnant girlfriend to say 'I do'. Except for an easygoing Hometown EMT who lost his wedding venue right before the wedding. Except for the town's Golden Boy who has no idea why his fiancée is pulling away. Can these Heroes get their Honeymoon Ever After before it's too late? Elka is happy to have a family with Antonio, but why do they have to be married to make it happen? Penny is looking forward to getting it right the second time down the aisle, if only her wedding venue didn't just burn to the ground. Nina has just received life-altering news, and she's not sure Preston will share her excitement. Three feisty women, three sexy heroes and three weddings...

Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him -- she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and despises the boy. Into this small-town Ozarks mix comes Jimmy Vin Pearce, with his shiny green T-bird and his smart city clothes. When he and Glenda begin a torrid affair, a series of violent events is inevitably set in motion. The outcome will break your heart. "This is Daniel Woodrell's third book set in the Ozarks and, like the other two, Give Us a Kiss and Tomato Red, it peels back the layers from lives already made bare by poverty and petty crime."-Otto Penzler, Penzler Pick, 2001

How I, Stone Morgan, went from the fall harvest to secretly writing online dating and sex advice for the males of Mudville, I can’t figure. All I know is I blame Harper for it. Apparently dating a writer has done something to my brain. But that’s not the worst of it. Oh no. My bigger problem is that my youngest brother is sprinting to the altar, intent on a Christmas wedding with a woman he’s known for barely a year. Boone beating us to “I do” is not going to sit well with my girlfriend. It should go over about as well as the news that I’m the author behind the column she loathes. What will happen when I finally confess that I’m secretly Mr. Naughty, the man she’s declared her arch-enemy? Hell if I know, but I don’t need any advice column to tell me that my holiday this year is not going to be merry. If you love the small-town romance and family series like Bella Andre's Sullivan family, or Pippa Grant and Lili Valente's Happy Cat series, you'll love Cat Johnson's stories set in Mudville and all the small-town crazy inside. Don't miss these standalone stories in the series: Kissing Books, Red Hot, Honey Buns, Zero Forks, Undercover Santa, Mister Naughty, Dog Days and Bad Decisions

My college rival. My ex-husband's best friend.My new roommate? Oh, boy.The last thing I want is to rent my spare bedroom to my ex-husband's best friend.His six-foot-three, dimple-faced, alphahole best friend.His injured-professional-football-player best friend.But desperate times, desperate measures, y'know?I can't afford to hold grudges. These heaping bills of mine won't pay themselves.Keeping my distance from my new roommate should be simple enough. I mean, I can't stand Jude Kingston. Plus, as my ex's friend, he's so off-limits he's virtually radioactive.In any case, Jude promises to stay out of my way. He's just a broken football hero in need of a quiet place to focus on healing his injured knee and saving his lifelong dream.Harmless, right?Um, not so much...The man is infuriating. He spends his days parading that shirtless, muscle-bound body all around my house. He insists on involving himself in my private business. He has zero concept of personal space.But he also has this boyish, unintentional charm. And this inconvenient way of repeatedly coming to my rescue.Suddenly, lust is throbbing in every room of this house.Lingering gazes over the dinner table...Sweaty workout sessions on the living room floor...Stolen kisses in the moonlit hallways...I can't fight these soft feelings growing roots in my belly. Jude is a vine, slowly wrapping himself around my heart.But when a piece of my past threatens his entire future, will our love even stand a chance?Mister Baller is a steamy, laugh-out-loud, enemy roommates-to-lovers small town romance featuring a stubborn footballer with a sinful eight-pack, an insufferable ego and the food preferences of a toddler. It is set in small town Illinois and is book 2 in the Bad Boys in Love series.A full-length (85 000-word) standalone. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.

Bossy. Infuriating. Sexy as sin...I can't stand the man. And he's waiting for me at the altar. I'm up to my eyeballs in unpaid rent. So is half this town. Cannon Kingston is the devilish, arrogant billionaire with the power to save us all. But he wants something in return... My hand in marriage. The terms of our twisted contract are simple. A month or two of dirty, dirty matrimony and he'll drop the eviction threats. No biggie. I've got this... Until he switches up the rules on me halfway through the deal. First come the bed-breaking orgasms. Then come the late nights, spilling secrets in the dark. Now, he's after my heart. But this is strictly business. Falling in love is a big, fat no-no. I'm not looking for a fairytale ending. I'm just trying to save myself and my town. Cannon Kingston is a man who always gets what he wants. And now, I'm at the top of his wishlist. I'm no spineless damsel, though. I can bring this king to his knees. ...Unless he steals my heart for ransom first. Mister Billions is a steamy, laugh-out-loud, marriage of convenience small town romance featuring a billionaire with a sinful body, a cocky grin and a serious attitude problem. It is set in small town Illinois and is book 1 in the Bad Boys in Love series. A full-length (80 000-word) standalone. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.

Piss off the hot farmer ✔ Find out I'll be living in a funeral home ✔ Meet my new pet pig Petunia ✔ Day one in town proved one thing. . .I'm screwed. Welcome to Mudville, home of KISSING BOOKS, a standalone small town, opposites attract, fish out of water romantic comedy with lots of kissing (and other things), a cocky farmer, a sassy misplaced heroine with too many animals, some crazy locals, and a very happy ending for all of them! For fans of the laugh out loud, romantic comedy novels and series like those by Pippa Grant, Lili Valenti, Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland, Avery Flynn, Lauren Blakely, Kennedy Fox and Helena Hunting.

"There's something sexy about a woman with a man's name..." Stevie Maddox was the last person I would have hired. Or kissed. Or slept with. Somehow, I managed to do all three despite her being all wrong for me. But she's funny. Sweet. Sexy as hell. And I can't stop thinking about her... I just have to convince her this is more than just an office romance. He was another rich pr*ck doctor, at least that's what I thought. Keeping Dr. Scott in his box would keep everybody safe. It would keep things uncomplicated. Simple. But nothing about the former football player was simple. He was a gentle giant, a dominating gentleman. He wasn't anything like I thought he would be. But we're all wrong for each other, no matter what Scott thinks. I just have to convince him of it too. Before one of us gets hurt.

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • An exhilarating, often deliciously funny and "beautifully written voyage of discovery" (Chicago Tribune) that is at once a travelogue, a social history, and a love letter to America. • From the bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land In 1782 an immigrant with the high-toned name J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur—"Heartbreak" in English—wrote a pioneering account of one European's transformation into an American. Some two hundred years later Jonathan Raban, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, arrived in Crèvecoeur's wake to see how America has paid off for succeeding generations of newcomers. In the course of Hunting Mr. Heartbreak, Raban passes for homeless in New York and tries to pass for a good ol' boy in Alabama (which entails "renting" an elderly black lab). He sees the Protestant work ethic perfected by Korean immigrants in Seattle—one of whom celebrates her new home as "So big! So green! So wide-wide-wide!"—and repudiated by the lowlife of Key West. And on every page of this peerlessly observant work, Raban makes us experience America with wonder, humor, and an unblinking eye for its contradictions.

A spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly changed people, places, time, and their meanings. A prime case is the news. Digital webs seem to have trapped "legacy media," killing off newspapers and journalists' jobs. Did news businesses and careers fall prey to the digital "Spider"? To solve the mystery, Kevin Barnhurst spent thirty years studying news going back to the realism of the 1800s. The usual suspects--technology, business competition, and the pursuit of scoops--are only partly to blame for the fate of news. The main culprit is modernism from the "Mister Pulitzer" era, which transformed news into an ideology called "journalism." News is no longer what audiences or experts imagine. Stories have grown much longer over the past century and now include fewer events, locations, and human beings. Background and context rule instead. News producers adopted modernism to explain the world without recognizing how modernist ideas influence the knowledge they produce. When webs of networked connectivity sparked a resurgence in realist stories, legacy news stuck to big-picture analysis that can alienate audience members accustomed to digital briefs.

A tale of sweet affection, romance, and ceaseless twists! His destiny is to constantly encounter peculiar incidents. One day, he falls in love with his childhood friend, who possesses the extraordinary ability to alter fate with a mere sneeze. I was a late talker. At the age of four, I couldn't even complete a sentence. My family was anxious and took me to see many famous doctors, but to no avail. Later, Isaac Rogers stood in front of me and smiled sweetly. He was only as tall as a table at the time, but his eyes already had stars in them. I thought the stars were really pretty. So, I said my first word ever - "brother." After that, I learned my first sentence in life. I said, "I like Isaac brother." After saying that, I sneezed heavily. For the next decade of my life, I fell into a strange cycle. Whenever I sneezed, my life would take a reverse turn and develop in the opposite direction. One second it was sunny, and the next second it could be pouring rain. Sometimes I think that up to now, the only sentence I've said that hasn't caused a reversal is - I like Isaac brother. Isaac, I was a late talker, but I loved you early. --Daisy Russell