Threats, bullets, espionage, and murder are no match for love. When danger knocks on their door, these five heroines have their heroes' backs, and only together can they survive the treacherous twists and turns in these heart-pounding stories.

Hero Needed: When Marisa's best friend is killed by a train, she suspects it was no accident, and she's determined to enlist EMT Nick Stark's help in revealing the truth.

Touchpoint: Insurance investigator Gabrielle Healey uses her touch clairvoyance to learn the truth about disasters, but she's not prepared for the vibes she gets from architect Christian Ziko and his secrets.

Counterpoint: The attorney general assigns Ciara Alafita to find out if defense attorney Bryce Gannon is corrupt, but what she discovers could blow her career and their lives apart.

Secrets and Lies: Actor-turned-private-investigator Charlie Ziffkin traces a stolen sculpture to his hometown, where his path crosses again with former sweetheart Juliana Sanchez, a psychic who knows exactly what he's hiding.

Blood Secrets: Ileana Alvarez Calderon's second sight predicts a forbidden lover until she meets importer Michael Ziffkin and her dreams turn to danger as she defies her family to protect an innocent man.

Some heroes are born and some are forged by events.

Marisa’s best friend Carolyn is killed by a train, but then Carolyn’s husband claims she committed suicide. Proving he’s wrong will be a heroic feat. EMT Nick Stark seems a natural for the job.

Yet the truths Marisa and Nick uncover spark unexpected danger. Does the secret of Marisa’s parentage tie in with Carolyn’s death? And is Marisa prepared to face the truth in order to identify whoever now wants her dead?

She learns secrets with a touch. He has secrets to hide.

Insurance investigator Gabrielle Healey uses her touch clairvoyance to learn the truth about disasters. But when the crippled Densmore building can’t provide the answers she needs to deny the claim, surely the man who designed it can. The evidence points to a flawed design. A touch will confirm his guilt.

Brilliant architect Christian Ziko has secrets he can’t reveal, and not that he caused the building he created to collapse. With the victims’ families howling for justice and a grand jury poised to indict him, he must uncover what happened so he can clear his name and his conscience. Yet his brother and business partner discourage him. When a clue unearths terrible truths about the people he trusts, Christian is forced to ask beautiful Gabrielle for help. But someone wants their investigation terminated...and is willing to kill to keep their secrets hidden.

Defend me in court or else, accused racketeer Adam Steele orders.

The last thing defense attorney Bryce Gannon wants to do is get another criminal acquitted. And it does look like it might be the last thing he does. Somebody has already tried to kill him. Now the Feds tell him there’s a traitor in Steele’s organization who may be gunning for him and that Steele has sent him a beautiful spy to make sure Bryce complies.

The Attorney General orders Ciara Alafita to find out if Bryce is corrupt. She hates liars and now she’s become one. But finding the truth about Bryce is as hard as finding the identity of the person trying to kill him. As she challenges the cold attorney to thaw, she finds many things to like about him . . . if she can ignore he’s defending a mobster. But if she can’t convince Bryce to let the Feds protect him or to give up the Steele case, she might never get the chance to admit the truth or her feelings to him.

Lies are his specialty, but sometimes the truth can be deadly.

Actor turned private investigator Charlie Ziffkin has traced a stolen sculpture to the hometown that haunts him. He needs to find the statue and get out of town fast, but when he learns the police use his former sweetheart Juliana Sanchez’s psychic abilities to locate stolen goods, their reunion seems fated. He loved her as a boy; as a man with a terrible secret, he has to let her go.

Juliana knows firsthand how well Charlie plays whatever role suits him, whether P.I. or lover, so he could be pretending to desire her while using her to find the sculpture. He stole her teenage heart and now she’s risking it again, but if she doesn’t help him, he’ll be in even greater danger. Being with him is the ultimate thrill . . . until bullets fly.

Charlie and Juliana are in over their heads with ruthless men willing to kill, and with the sizzling attraction they can’t control. Will this be the last role this chameleon ever plays?

Her dreams will show her who wants him dead, but who can sleep with a sexy man and danger close?

Ileana Alvarez Calderon and her family are bound to the past: them to a country they left two generations ago, and her to a deceased fiancé. But the Sight has shown she’ll have a forbidden lover. Meeting importer Michael Ziffkin awakens a part of her she thought died with her fiancé. But now she dreams of danger, and to protect this man her family rejects, she will have to defy them.

Haunted by the past, Michael has built his business empire to protect his family. Now his company is under siege. As the threats expand to his customers, including the Calderons, Michael and Ileana must uncover who has targeted their industry. Family duty brought them together, but will family pressure tear them apart? In a city gone mad, two cultures collide and the shadowy violence against them erupts into the open. Will they survive to make Ileana’s vision a reality?

The trail of the missing flash drive led to Barbie and flamingos.

Detective Carson Brooks needs the flash drive full of the mob’s secrets that the murdered woman had downloaded. And she deserves justice. But why did she send the drive to Barbie, a woman pleading for yard flamingos? She isn’t what he expects; she isn’t even blonde. And the only thing pink about Barbie is her flamingo Christmas tree. She’s got a figure that can halt men in their tracks, but that drive is too important to stop Carson. She tells him to focus, then insists on distracting him. But it doesn’t take him long to detect that she’s hiding something other than the drive.

Barbie Bordeaux has no time for the detective and his hunt. She’s got a protest to organize against her homeowners’ association and their ban on Christmas yard flamingos, and a secret business life hidden by her party-girl exterior. Carson attracts her like no man ever has, but he’s too observant; he might discover she disguises her brains behind her bra size. She wants him to see who she really is, but will he value what he finds?

Liv Benning is under police protection as she prepares to testify against an embezzler. Unfortunately, her protector is her blind date and one-night stand, Joe Castellanos. Now Joe the Stud has turned into Joe the Cop, with a lethal black gun and somber expression. She never would have let a man like that into her life, let alone her bed. Too bad she can’t get away from him or stop yearning for the dreams they shared on that magic night, or for the man she thought might be The One.

Joe Castellanos took the protection detail because that one date with Liv and the night spent in his bed revealed her to be The One. But she believes in lucky pennies and now rejects him because he’s a cop. Their undeniable attraction allowed her to be seriously wounded under his watch. Now, as she recovers in hiding at her grandparents’ house, he won’t leave her side, despite their flamingo Christmas tree and zany ideas. But Liv’s beliefs are rubbing off on him: he’s carrying a lucky penny in his pocket, next to his gun.

Joe can’t fail to protect Liv a second time. He needs to prove to her that wishes and shared dreams can come true.

Layne Arina resigned from being a bodyguard to families overseas after she failed on her last assignment. She’s learning to be a civilian, but her gun is as much a part of her as her arm. She dreams of having a family of her own, but she’s not soft or motherly. When she meets the people renting the vacation cottage next door, the daughter Schuyler forms an immediate attachment to Layne, and Layne begins to think dreams might be possible.

Aaron Malone brought Schuyler to the beach on her therapist’s recommendation. Schuyler hasn’t spoken since her mother died a year ago. But now that she’s talking to Layne, she tells him that a man threatened her to be silent on the day her mother died. Was his wife’s death really an accident? Layne insists they return to his hometown to start an investigation. She promises to protect them.

With Layne armed, will Aaron ever look at her with desire again, or will they both realize she can’t change what she is? She promised to protect them. Now that they own her heart, she can’t fail.

Emerson Blake only has the Christmas holiday left to make a life-altering decision before she must return to her job as a cop. It’s her family’s vocation and they don’t understand her dissatisfaction. She’s done everything to find an answer: taken a leave of absence, worked temp jobs, dyed her hair pink to match her flamingo Christmas tree. And then she slept with a stranger, a predator whose eyes burned with the need for her.

Mason Rockwell was having an adverse reaction to medicine when he begged Emerson to sleep with him. Yet he couldn’t shake the experience, or her, from his mind. When he checked on her, it happened again: a mindless need to possess her. He’d sworn nothing and no one would detour him from making his business successful, especially a temp with pink hair. But as he becomes aware that someone is targeting his business, he learns Emerson’s real situation.

Is he merely a distraction, or when this predator becomes prey is he the answer she’s seeking?

Danger, distraction and desire: it’s just another flamingo Christmas.

Uncovering Flamingo Christmas Secrets

The trail of the missing flash drive led to Barbie and flamingos.

A Lucky Penny Christmas

With a gun in his hand and a lucky penny in his pocket, he’ll protect her any way he can.

The Bodyguard’s Christmas Promise

She promised to protect them. But now they own her heart, so she can’t fail.

Christmas Detour Into Danger

Is he merely a distraction, or when this predator becomes prey is he the answer she’s seeking?

Dr. Sheleigh O’Brien was supposed to be a scientific observer, not mated to the future ruler of a planet on the cusp of civil war.

She came to study his people. Instead, Kleet Kryszan, heir to the planet, claimed her as his mate, unlocking the passion between them and the secrets of Avera no outsider has ever seen. But their secret hides a darker one--a deep unrest among a faction considered inferior.