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?