Between Friends (Friends with Benefits) (12 page)
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Authors: Vristen Pierce
Tags: #Fiction / Romance - Contemporary, #Fiction / Romance - Erotica, #Fiction / Romance / Collections & Anthologies
Ellie Watt is used to starting over. The daughter of a grifting team, Ellie spent her childhood being used as a pawn in her parents’ latest scam. Now she’s much older, wiser, and ready to give her con-artist life a rest. But returning to the dry desert town of Palm Valley, California, means one more temptation than she bargained for—the irresistible Camden McQueen.
He steals her away to a deserted island, to the one place she’s dreamed of being—the one place she can’t go. He’s used to buying whatever he wants, but he can’t buy her. How can she resist the magnetism of his body, the longing ache deep inside her? She wants him to take her—on her terms. Every attempt he makes to love her only hurts her. How can they go on like this? This is the story of how she was…
TAKEN.
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Ella is back at school, trying to focus on her future and forget the darkness of her past. Micha is busy touring the country with his band, seemingly getting everything he’s ever wanted. When Ella and Micha are together, anything seems possible… but lately those shared moments aren’t so easy to find. When a new tragedy shakes their already fragile world, one of them will make a dramatic choice that could break them apart forever.
Tessa O’Hara thinks she’s found the man of her dreams until she discovers he’s an undercover DEA agent investigating her possible role in her ex-husband’s drug business. Brock is committed to his anti-drug mission, but he’s fallen in love with the beautiful woman. Standing between Tess and Brock are their own exes, one of them a drug lord who’s determined to get what he wants. Now, as danger threatens, can Brock break the rules he’s lived by and let loose his wild side to protect the woman he loves?
Tessa Galloway is a gifted nurturer who can grow anything except what she wants most… a baby. All she needs is the perfect donor to make her dream come true. John Brown is hired at the resort. After being into the witness protection program, he’s desperate to be reunited with his toddler twins. When he gets that chance, there’s a catch—he must prove he’s got a steady job and a new wife. Landing a gig as a chef in Barefoot Bay is easy enough. And falling for lovely Tessa is even easier. The hard part? Can he win the heart of a woman who prizes honesty-when the truth may shatter it?
Emma Keane is your average city girl trying to get a date. There’s just one thing holding her back: the disembodied male voice speaking to her through her mind. Sound kind of crazy? Maybe. But crazy turns deadly when the voice persuades her to travel to the wilds of the Mayan jungle to set him free. Guy can’t deny his feelings for the beautiful Emma Keane no matter how much he tries to talk himself out of it. Now that he’s freed, his enemies are hers and he’ll have to do everything in his power to keep her safe. But will it be enough?
Colonel Ian Ferguson may be a rake, but he’s no traitor. Accused of a murder he didn’t commit, he’s now a fugitive from the law. Wounded and miles from his allies, Ian finds himself at the mercy of a spirited woman who is achingly beautiful and hiding some dangerous secrets of her own. Lady Sarah Clarke is holding on to her vanished husband’s crumbling estate as her final chance to earn respectability. She knows that hiding the devastatingly handsome Ferguson will jeopardize her home. Common sense demands that she turn him in. But a single, delirious kiss shatters her resolve… and awakens a passion that neither of them can escape.
The risqué painting owned by Benjamin Elliot, the earl of Foxburn, features a stunning beauty with sapphire eyes, golden hair, and creamy skin. Ben recognizes this particular English rose the instant he meets her, and the demure debutante is even more irresistible. In desperate need of money for her sick mother, Daphne Honeycote had posed for two scandalous portraits. Now she must hide her secret to save the Honeycote family name. Ben’s possession of one painting makes him an insufferable thorn in her side—and yet he may be her best chance at finding the canvas’s companion. As she becomes drawn to the dark-tempered earl, can Daphne risk laying bare the secrets of her heart?
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
