WHAT’S A GAL TO DO? Carrie Zablonski has challenging students, a needy mother, an overprotective lover who’s also a cop—and now, a stalker. She deals with all of it by taking charge—but the results aren’t exactly what she expected. Maybe everyone’s in need of some————special education.

Major A.C. Bannister - known as Ace - grew up on the mean streets of a Texas town. The army was his one chance to get out, and he took it. He worked his way up through the ranks and now, as ROTC head at a Texas college, he's admired by all the young men - and adored by all the young women. Truly a "major attraction"... Captain Meredith Marshall St. James has a West Point education, a general for a father and an attitude that doesn't meet with the major's approval. Ace just doesn't hold with her belief in a 'new' army, a 'softer' army. He soon learns two things: 1\. the beautiful captain St. James isn't as soft as she looks, and 2\. on the battlefield of love, unconditional surrender is sometimes the only option!

Luke Dakota - His life was sent into a tailspin the day he learned that Mike Alexander, his buddy during Desert Storm, had committed suicide, leaving behind a wife and child - a child who'd been named Luke, after him. Caitlin Alexander - With a business in the red and a child to raise alone, Caitlin had her share of trouble. And she still couldn't believe that Mike had killed himself! Then Luke Dakota arrived on the doorstep offering to help, and he brought back feelings she thought she'd buried with her husband.... Luke soon found himself in over his head. He'd made the trip because Mike had been closer than a brother to him. But there was nothing brotherly about Luke's feelings for Caitlin!

Nick Apostalis—Our Fourth Strong Man Major Nick Apostalis Represented Everything She'd Cast Out of Her Life He was used to danger. He was a risk taker, a man who put his life on the line for a cause. Kara Hartman had been widowed by one such man. She would never get involved with another. But as a strange odyssey threw them together, she began to care for Nick more than she'd expected—or wanted to. And once they were home, back in their respective worlds, she found she had one more tie to this man she wished she could forget. She was having his baby…