HAZARDOUS DUTY

It took the Academy Director of the Durango Street Theatre, Jessica Clary years to get over her husband’s death – a bomb squad officer who died in the line of duty. After growing up with a cop father, she knew all too well she was not meant to be waiting all night worrying, never mind being widowed again. She has a son who never knew his dad, and refuses to set him up for a lifetime of heartache. Then SWAT officer Brian Howard dances his way into her life, and she had to make a choice: be happy or be safe.

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY, HONEY

Maggie Gutierrez’s job is to keep the Durango Street Theatre afloat financially. In other words, she spends her days sticking her hand in people’s pockets in the hopes of pulling out cash. Well, euphemistically. The Harrington Foundation grant would go a long way to ensuring the theater’s continued survival, but the administrator of the grant is the guy she used to crush on in a big way, and the last time they saw each other…let’s say things didn’t go so well. As in, he blames her for his father’s death. Soooo…what’s a girl to do? Anything she can to get that grant, including spending time with him, which takes them down a road that might just lead to a forever neither envisioned.

A VOW…

When Ike Jeffries married Cassandra Siler he believed in their future, and he couldn’t wait to meet their daughter, born on Christmas Eve. What should have been a blessed event turned into a nightmare when Cassie disappeared with their baby girl. With a hardened heart, Ike finds them five long years later and learns that everything he thought he knew about his wife and child was a lie.

AND A PROMISE

Cassie Jeffries loved her husband with all her heart. But after the birth of their daughter she discovered a horrible truth about the child that forced her to run for their lives. Crisscrossing the country until she found a new home, Cassie knew she’d done the right thing until Ike found them and demanded answers she wasn’t prepared to share. But life has a way of giving you what you need, and Cassie and her daughter needed the family they had left behind, even if it meant fighting for what was right, and for what she’d forsaken all those years ago.

SUCH A GREAT ACTOR

Everything in Wade Baxter’s life is controlled and compartmentalized. To the world he’s a laid-back, handsome, urban cowboy who’s good at his job, is adored by his friends and family, and is the star of his city’s community theater. But inside, a hideous dark lurks in the shadows of his psyche, and he cannot, will not let that ugliness show. When he meets Owen Aldrete, a man who’s scars are visible – a former bomb squad cop who took a blast to the face – Wade is forced to confront his demons or he will lose the man he’s fallen in love with, and he’ll never get a lifetime to show Owen he’s the most beautiful person Wade has ever known.