Winter Heat

From National bestselling author Dawn Halliday comes a sizzling Highlander novella. A lost beauty melts the cold heart of a Jacobite warrior in this stirring novella of fear and desire… Stranded in a blizzard, Maggie MacDonald is rescued by Logan Douglas, a Highland warrior physically and emotionally wounded from battle. Now, hidden away in a mountain cabin high above the village, Logan discovers that this fiery and unpredictable beauty is capable of warming his heart—and his body. But the storm is far from over. A tempest of another more dangerous kind is brewing when Logan discovers that Maggie is on the run from the mad and violent suitor who has pursued her too long, too relentlessly to ever let her end up in the arms of another man. But he’s about to meet a formidable competitor in Logan—and the prize is too cherished to ever let it go. Winter Heat previously appeared in A Highlander Christmas

He has what it takes to win the gold, but can he win her heart? Hot-headed snowboarder Samir Andrews is a bad boy on the slopes and in the public eye. But his swooning fans have barely scratched the surface of what a bad boy he really is. Samir is determined to keep his dangerous secret under wraps, but when the Winter Games are scheduled to happen on the full moon his iron control threatens to unravel. Becca McCall spends her days helping her beloved twin brother accomplish his goal of becoming a figure skating champion. Abandoning her plan to go to fashion design school feels like a small price for Becca to pay to see Christopher so close to fulfilling his dreams. But when they arrive at the Winter Games, Christopher makes some interesting new friends and Becca finds herself out in the cold, questioning every life choice she’s ever made. Until she meets the snowboarder who’s been all over the news. When circumstances throw Samir and Becca together, their attraction is instant and irresistible. When the dust settles, they realize they just might be the answer to each other’s problems. But can fire and ice become more than just steam? And what happens when Becca gets too close to finding out Samir’s secret?

How had her life gotten so complicated? As if grad school wasn’t hard enough, Celeste had caught her boyfriend cheating on her and kicked him out of their apartment. Now she’s on the hook for all the bills, and she needs a job that will pay her more than a teaching assistant’s meager salary. In desperation she finds herself at a party on the yacht of Andrew Winter, a playboy oil billionaire, hoping to land a job as his personal assistant. But the gorgeous stranger she ends up talking to isn’t Andrew Winter. In the dim light she couldn’t make out the color of his eyes, but it really didn’t matter. They were riveted on her, and that was all she cared about at the moment. What she can see is that he’s smoking hot, oozing testosterone, and interested in her. After the hit her ego has taken with her ex, the attention is nice. It isn’t going to get him anywhere, but that doesn’t mean she can’t have fun with it. Who wouldn’t take advantage of a little moonlight on a yacht with good company? But no one had bothered to tell Stephen he couldn’t have a taste, and now his soft lips are setting her on fire. Why couldn’t she enjoy it for just a little while? It wouldn’t hurt anything, would it? This edition contains all eight installments of The Winter Billionaires series and is over 127,000 words (over 540 pages) long. Keywords: billionaire romance, billionaire assistant romance, billionaire erotic romance, workplace romance, new adult romance, college romance, older man younger woman, yacht, beach, romantic suspense, the winter billionaires, jet set

Updated edition! Kate Marino refuses to let herself tumble into love with Riley Carter a second time. Even though Riley has moved next door to Kate in charming downtown Charleston. Even though the magic of the holiday season is in the air. Even though memories of spending last Christmas in his arms weaken her resolve. Kate is sure all Riley ever wanted from her was sex, and she has a plan to get him to admit it. But trying to tempt Riley into another red-hot affair might not be her best move. Especially when she can barely resist him.

It's Downton Abbey, Nemesis-style, in Winter's Heat, an exclusive new novella from award-winning author Zoë Archer An auxiliary Nemesis agent and a former client go undercover as servants at a country estate during the Christmas season to expose corruption among London society's powerful elite. Michael and Ada never thought they would again be working side by side in the pursuit of justice. Now that they're on a case together, the attraction they had once shared flares to life, making a dangerous assignment even more unpredictable. Can they take the heat? Look for the next novel in the Nemesis, Unlimited series, Dangerous Seduction, coming in December 2013 from St. Martin's Paperbacks. Praise for Zoë Archer's Nemesis, Unlimited series: "Unforgettable...romance [that] will leave readers craving more."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Creating heroes to die for and empowered women and bringing them together in powerful action/adventures with depth of emotion and sensuality is [Archer's] forte. To readers' pleasure, she brings an amazing cast of characters, a strong plot and romance to her Nemesis, Unlimited series."—Romantic Times BOOKreviews "Sexy, action-packed romance...that will make you swoon."—New York Times bestselling author Courtney Milan ABOUT THE AUTHOR Zoë Archer is an award-winning romance author who thinks there's nothing sexier than a man in tall boots and a waistcoat. As a child, she never dreamed about being the rescued princess, but wanted to kick butt right beside the hero. She now applies her master's degrees in literature and fiction to creating butt-kicking heroines and heroes in tall boots. She is the author of the acclaimed Blades of the Rose series and the historical paranormal series The Hellraisers. Zoë and her husband, fellow romance author Nico Rosso, live in Los Angeles.

Determined not to submit to the aloof and powerful lord who became her husband, convent-raised Lady Rowena realizes that the only way they can fight the treachery around them is to love each other unconditionally. Original.

A WOMAN ON A MISSION After putting her life on the line to protect classified intelligence, military psychologist Mia Kensington is on a cross-country road trip from hell with an intrusive save-the-day hero. Uninterested in his white knight act, she?d rather take her chances without the ruggedly handsome, cold-blooded operative who boasts an alpha complex and too many guns. AND THE MAN SENT TO STOP HER Colby Winters, an elite member of The Titan Group, has a single objective on his black ops mission: recover a document important to national security. It was supposed to be an easy in-and-out operation. But now, by any means necessary becomes a survival mantra when he faces off with a stunning woman he can?t leave behind. MUST PARTNER TO SURVIVE When Titan?s safe houses are compromised, Colby stashes Mia at his home, exposing his secret?he?s the adoptive father of an orphaned baby girl. Too soon, danger arrives and Mia lands in the hands of a sadistic cartel king with a taste for torture. As hours bleed into fear-drenched days, Colby races across the globe and through a firestorm of bullets to save the woman he can?t live without. If they make it out alive, can he reconcile duty and desire? Does Mia trust her heart to a man who willingly walks into kill-zones?

Includes summaries of proceedings and addresses of annual meetings of various gas associations. L.C. set includes an index to these proceedings, 1884-1902, issued as a supplement to Progressive age, Feb. 15, 1910.