It wasn't his protection that I needed.My name is Tris Kane and I'm so done with college and this whole town and the leash my gangster father wrapped around my life at birth.Oh yeah, and let's not forget Tanner Hayes, my father's all muscle watchdog who lives in my shadow. He's my so-called bodyguard.I don't need a f*cking bodyguard! And I hate his rugged deliciousness.Tanner barely ever speaks, yet I can't stop thinking about him. He's always there.It just makes me want to scream.**From USA Today Bestselling author Alison Foster, Bodyguard Dearest is a standalone novel.No cliffhanger -- explicit language. 18+**TREMBLE (BOOK 2) now available!

You can’t run from him. U.S. Marshal Titan Everett never loses his prey, and he always stays mission oriented. His latest mission? He’s working with a group of cold case solvers called the Ice Breakers—he’s chasing down a runaway witness, a woman who may be the key to solving a string of unsolved murders. Seems like a simple enough job. After the hell he’s seen, locating one Cassidy Jacobs, former kindergarten teacher, should be a walk in the park.She doesn’t want to be found. When you manage to escape from a twisted killer—who happened to be your boyfriend—you grab life by both hands and you hold on tight. You run like mad from danger, you reinvent yourself over and over, and you don’t look back. Ever. Unless, of course, the past comes barreling at you in the form of one truly massive and strong U.S. marshal.Titan is big, dangerous, and determined to bring Cassidy back home. He also has the most incredible eyes she’s ever seen and a voice that makes her whole body ache with longing…Problematic. Very. Because the last time she fell hard for a sexy stranger, he wound up being a monster.Home is where the nightmare waits.Scarred and twisted by his own past, Titan never claims to be anyone’s hero. He barely talks, and charming is the last word anyone would ever associate with him. The bubbly, beautiful Cassidy is his complete opposite, and the scorching, primal attraction he feels for her catches him completely off guard as they embark on what has to be the road trip from hell.Unfortunately, Titan isn’t the only one who has found Cassidy. She’s been running non-stop, but she just can’t seem to run far enough—or fast enough—to evade the man who wants her dead. When Titan saves her life and promises protection, she agrees to a partnership with him. He’ll protect her, and she’ll help him draw out the killer. No biggie. Not like she’s utterly and completely terrified.But eventually, you have to stop running and start fighting.This isn’t just another hunt for Titan. Everything has changed in his world because of Cassidy. Losing her can’t happen, but putting the man in the ground who has been terrorizing her? Absolutely on Titan’s to-do list. New mission: Protect Cassidy and catch a killer. And when the case is closed, maybe Cassidy will want to start a new life once again…only this time, with Titan at her side.U.S. Marshal Titan Everett is on the hunt. On the outside, Titan looks scary as the devil, and he’s well aware that he often sends small children running. But Cassidy isn’t afraid of him. Beautiful, bold, and with a spark for life that draws him close, she is unlike anyone he’s ever met before. She needs help, and she’s going to get it. Because from the first moment he sees her, Titan knows…he will move heaven and fight hell to keep her safe.

A single dad, nanny needed, friends to lovers, military protector romance from New York Times Bestselling Author Lynn Raye Harris.For elite soldier Noah Cross, everything is easy. Hell, that’s his call sign. Easy.But when he inherits a two-year-old baby girl, nothing is easy anymore. He can’t care for a toddler while going on dangerous missions to protect his country - and quitting isn’t an option for a man who lives and breathes the military.What Easy needs is a nanny. And he knows just who to ask.Waitress Jenna Lane’s luck is running out. She witnessed something she shouldn’t, and she’s been running since. She keeps moving, keeps working odd jobs and trying to survive.After she’s fired from her current job, her situation is desperate. Until the man she’s secretly drawn to offers her a lifeline. She can’t say no, even if saying yes puts him and his little girl at risk.But as the feelings between them grow, Jenna knows she needs the courage to tell Noah the truth. Before a killer strikes again….**Find out what makes the men of H.O.T. so HOT! Start reading the Hostile Operations Team Series - Strike Team 2 today and enjoy an action-packed, seriously romantic and steamy-good-fun military romantic suspense. Each book can be read as a standalone. No cliffhangers or cheating and a guaranteed happily-ever-after ending!

A woman on the run finds a man who will stand by her side in this scorching hot series debut by the author of the Bad Boy Biker novels. After escaping her violent ex-boyfriend, Jane Beaumont is on her way home to Bay City, Oregon, with a cat, a hundred grand in cash, and a pistol. She’s planning to lay low at her Beaumont Body Shop, a car detailer where her brother secretly runs a private investigation agency. The only wrench in her plan is Kage Archer: sexy, strong, and determined to protect Jane at all costs. She’s wanted Kage for years, but putting him in harm’s way is not a risk she’s willing to take. Kage is no stranger to the dark side of life, and when Jane expressed her interest in him years ago, he pushed her away for her own good. Now, after learning of all she’s endured, Kage can’t leave her side—or hide his burning need for her. But when danger comes knocking, can Kage convince Jane that the safest place to be is in his arms?