Nestled between Jarek's black satin sheets was a beautiful stranger, but she was way too sexy to be Goldilocks. The mystery woman revealed herself as Leigh Van Dolph, a tigress seeking a stake in his family's territory! Jarek knew just how to thwart her—bring the sleeping beauty to his bed again...this time for the ultimate loving. But the lady exec turned the tables on Mr. Temptation, for their intimacy summoned a primitive, powerful need for a woman all his own...

Past experience had taught Mikhail Stepanov to keep his boss' dangerously alluring daughter at arm's length. But once the desperate single mother turned to him, how could he resist? In his embrace, Ellie wasn't the willful heiress he remembered but a fiery temptress he was determined to have and to hold forever.... Ellie Lathrop knew the coolly competent businessman who ran her father's hotel empire had the power to help her keep her legally adopted daughter. Yet beneath Mikhail's steely exterior was a powerfully sensual male who, once aroused, could turn her world upside down...

Powerful. Dangerous. Male. Alexi Stepanov was everything that painful experience had taught Jessica Sterling to fear. Which was why he made the perfect protector for her dearest friend. What made better sense than to counter a threat with maximum threat? Keep your enemies closer...wasn't that the general wisdom? Only, Alexi was too close for comfort.... In honoring a vow, Jessica had resigned herself to a cold, lonely life as a wealthy widow, but Alexi warmed her world with his large, loving family...and a heat he alone stirred. Once, a man's touch had meant taking, but Alexi's touch was giving. And deceiving. For Alexi knew her friend had never been in danger. Jessica was.

It had begun like any other assignment. Until the night she encountered Danya Stepanov atop a windswept cliff...then moved in with him. Her immediate feminine response to his masculinity frightened her, for Sidney Blakely didn't do the fair-lady bit. She led during slow dances. Her sole experience with sex had been fast and more about physical fitness. And she believed that home was where the photo shoot du jour was. But Danya was confident enough to allow her to lead. And he showed her that loving could be slow, and giving...and often. Trouble was, Danya wanted the total package: wife, babies. And Sidney had never believed that such a gift was intended for a woman like her.

SINGLE MOTHER IN TROUBLE Gritty homicide detective Jake Delancy was steamed about baby-sitting, a blonde—even one as tempting as Rebecca Bolen. Hell, he had a cold-blooded killer to catch!! But the innocent single mom was the assassin's avowed next hit. The bachelor cop itched to make his collar—then make tracks. But gutsy Rebecca and her two cuddly kids drew him like a magnet to metal. Burning desire had Jake losing his cool, even though peril stalked the Texas night...only one mistake, one bullet, one heartbeat away... HEARTBREAKERS: They can't be tamed by just any woman.

THE HIDALGO COUNTY WAR Riley Whitaker had been sheriff of Hidalgo County for so long, he wasn't figuring on much trouble come election time. So it came as a heck of a shock for a Texas good of boy like him to find out he'd be getting the fight of his life—from a woman! Becca Prescott sure was riled up, and every woman in the county was on her side in this battle of the sexes. But the damnedest thing was, that feisty little single mother had him wishing he could do a little fraternizing with the enemy ....

DILLON CASSIDY WANTS TO BE ALONE Burned out, fed up and with a bullet lodged in his back, the ex-DEA agent needs to go where no one knows his name. He's through with work—and with women. Because despite the charms of a lovely lady journalist, he knows when he might go off... SYDNEY O'KEEFE COULD USE SOME COMPANY. Socially, anyway—though as far as her work goes, the determined investigative reporter is a solo act. But suddenly she and the intriguing Dillon are a team, and she is about to find out what the mysterious recluse has to hide and why she could get caught in the cross fire...