Zebra contemporary romance

Author Daily delivers two complete novels featuring women who are reunited with their first loves. In Bed of Grass Valerie Wentworth knows only too well that the most beautiful memories can also be bittersweet. But, even if it means seeing Judd Prescott again, she has to go home to Maryland for her grandfather's funeral. In After the Storm Lainie MacLeod's mother wanted only the best things in life for her beautiful daughter. And for a while, Lainie had it all, including the perfect husband. Now he's back and they're both a little older and a whole lot wiser ... and the romance is hotter than ever.

To Tell The Truth Deep powder, blue skies, and the excitement of downhill skiing...Andrea Grant can't resist another run, but she's got a not-so-secret admirer. Tell Stafford can't resist her energy or her fresh beauty and the mountain air of Nevada puts a sexy sparkle in Andrea's eyes. And Tell intends to kiss her rosy lips as soon as the sun goes down... For Mike's Sake A year after her divorce, Maggie Rafferty moves to Seattle to raise her ten-year-old son, Mike. Puget Sound, Pike's Market, the Space Needle--Mike loves the city but he misses his dad so Maggie has to let Wade Rafferty visit. She reminds herself that her ex once seemed like everything she ever wanted in a man--and that they promised to love and cherish each other forever. Now, when Wade takes Maggie in his arms again, she remembers exactly why...

After quarterback Tyler James rescues fiery freelance journalist Jessica Myers from a jammed locker in the Columbus Knights locker room, he is shocked to learn that he must pose as her boyfriend so that his teammates will allow her to interview them.

A Bright Red Ribbon Fern Michaels Being dumped by your boyfriend on Christmas Eve has got to be the worst. Still, Morgan Ames promised she'd wait two Christmases for his return -- tonight -- and she always keeps her promises. But a sudden snowstorm has other ideas, including a romantic turn Morgan never imagined... The 24 Days of Christmas Linda Lael Miller A matchbox advent calendar first brought Frank Rayner and Addie Hutton together. But that was years ago. There's no way the miracles of Christmas -- and the magic of true love -- could possibly be hidden under one of its tiny flaps. Or could they? Santa Unwrapped Theresa Alan When Aimee Lachaussee offers to drive three volunteer Santas to a children's hospital, she finds herself stranded in a bar with two really obnoxious playboys -- and the quiet, hunky, wheelchair-bound Ryan, who's about to show Aimee that the very best presents come in unexpected packages... Maybe This Christmas Jane Blackwood Laura Randall thinks life has passed her by, until a Christmas angel grants her wish to live one, important, destiny-shaping Christmas over. Now that she's got her second chance, can she manage this time to hold on to the love that got away...? While the weather outside is frightful, unwrap a gift of your own, and delight in these sparkling stories of holiday romance!

(The second book in the Trehan Brothers series) A seemingly quick divorce between Suzanna Trent and All-Star Phillies catcher Tim Trehan three months after their spontaneous marriage goes awry when Suzanna learns that she is pregnant and Tim, realizing that he cannot live without her, vows to reclaim her heart.

The wedding of the year gets underway at the charming Bluebird Inn in small Serendipity, Texas. But when the big day becomes an even bigger fiasco, the surprises for the Loving family unfold in four entwined tales by Wilde, Janet Dailey, Allyson Charles, and Stacey Keith.

Returning home to Vermont, Jonas Concannon meets his first love, single mother Bridget O'Shea, and, with some holiday magic, finds himself back in her life and falling in love with her and her daughter Molly.

Heiress Molly Applegate is holding down the fort at her cousin Jane’s day care center. But when Broadway producer Dominic Longstreet, reluctant babysitter to his brother’s children, asks her to be temporary nanny at his country estate, Molly can't refuse. Will free-spirited Molly be able to show workaholic Dom that life should not be all work and no play?

When it comes to love, he plays to winThere's only so much frustration a guy can handle before he gets a little nutty. For Jude Jamison, his frustration has a name—May Price. She's everything the former Hollywood bad boy actor came to Stillbrook, Ohio, hoping to find: open, honest, lovable, and full of those luscious curves you don't find on stick-figure starlets—curves May doesn't seem to appreciate in herself. Every time Jude tries to get close to the skittish business woman, to take her in his arms, she thinks he's joking. Joking? Joking does not involve lots of cold-shower therapy. Time for new tactics. If May can't respond to his sly compliments and sexy innuendos, he'll just have to spell it out for her. Jude Jamison is going to lay down the law for May Price. And after that, she'll have no delusions about just how much he wants her. . .

Determined to find the perfect woman, Bruce Kelly, who makes a living by helping people who are down on their luck, gets more than he bargained for when his search leads him to Cyn Potter, a brazen beauty who is his polar opposite.

Sexy vampires, dangerous devotion, unparalleled romance—no one does desire after dark like bestselling author Amanda Ashley. Now, in her enthralling new novel, she explores a passion as smoldering as it is risky...Vicki Cavendish knows she should be careful. After all, there's a killer loose in town—one who drains women of blood, women with red hair and green eyes just like her. She knows she should tell police about the dark, gorgeous man who comes into the diner every night, the one who makes her feel a longing she's never felt before. The last thing she should do is invite the beautiful stranger into her house...Cursed to an eternity of darkness, Antonio Battista has wandered the earth, satisfying his hunger with countless women, letting none find a place in his heart. But Victoria Cavendish is different. Finally, he has found a woman to love, a woman who accepts him for what he is—a woman who wants him as much as he wants her...which is why he should leave. But Antonio is a vampire, not a saint. What is his, he'll fight to keep and protect. And Victoria Cavendish needs protecting...from the remorseless enemy who would make her his prey...and from Antonio's own uncontrollable hunger...

Declan McDonald has been dead for two years. At least that's what everyone thinks. Certain that his pop idol status cost his brother his life, the superstar has faked his own death and sentenced himself to exile in a bleak mansion. But even the most extreme self-imposed punishment has its loophole. Dec is tired of TV dinners. — Rose Pisano thinks it's a little odd that someone has offered her $80,000 a year to be a personal chef, and the fact that she talks with her employer over a speaker seems strange, too, but she needs the money. Dec soon becomes infatuated with the spunky chef, not to mention her food, and when they accidentally meet, it's obvious they're made for each other. However, Dec doesn't want to, once again, subject someone he loves to the risks that go hand-in-hand with superstardom.