FICTION · MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS
Brenda Harlen
I have to do it, Mama.
— from Dangerous Passions
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Extreme measures
The CIA has detected and intercepted two terrorist cells, but a third is feared to be on the loose. Led by a dangerous mastermind obsessed with becoming the leader of al-Qaeda, this determined and terrifying group is about to descend on America. Mitch Rapp needs the best on this assignment, and Nash, who has served his government honorably for sixteen years--first as an officer in the Marine Corps and then as an operative in an elite counterterrorism team run by Rapp--is his choice. But on this assignment Rapp and his protege may have met their match.

Pregnancy proposals
-- The Duke's Baby — Rebecca Winters Lance Malbois, Duc du Lac: a hardened military man with a scar that crosses his cheek--and reaches right to his heart. But all he wants is to hold a child in his arms and be called 'Daddy.' Andrea Fallon: pregnant, widowed and alone, she's determined to give her baby the father and family she never had. The perfect solution: a marriage of convenience...? -- The Boss's Pregnancy Proposal — Raye Morgan Working for her heart-stoppingly handsome boss shouldn't have been so hard, but could Callie Stevens let her attraction get the best of her when he asked her to have his baby? Of course, love wouldn't enter into the arrangement. Or would it? A busy CEO, Grant wanted a family, but he'd been devastated by love. Sensible Callie was exactly what he was looking for. Yet as they prepared for their little bundle of joy, Grant's control slipped. Maybe Callie was exactly what his heart needed.... -- The Marriage Solution — Brenda Harlen Tess Lucas had carefully planned every detail of her life, determined to create the happiness she'd craved since childhood. But a broken engagement led to a one-night stand with her best friend--and a baby! Wealthy playboy Craig Richmond never planned to be a husband or a father--until Tess told him she was pregnant. He knew marriage was the best way to guarantee their baby had a real family--and to finally realize his long-hidden feelings for his oldest friend. But Tess refused to settle for a marriage of convenience--she wanted the fairy tale. And to win her heart, Craig would have to prove he was the one man who could give her everything she'd ever wanted....

Dangerous Passions
Elissa Tauber poses as a recently widowed countess to discover the murderer of her brother and the traitor to her native homeland, and in the course of her deception, she falls for Lord Wolvermont, even though she suspects he is the spy she has sought to expose.