I have a week off and a leave pass burning a hole in my pocket. I should go home to Conception Ridge. I head there, but when the exit on the highway comes up, I keep on driving to Virgin Peak, and my cabin on a mountain lake. I don’t expect to find a squatter. Or to immediately have a visceral connection to the young woman, who refuses to tell me her name. And despite the fact I’m a big guy, a Navy SEAL, she seems to trust me. We have five days together. Five nights, too, and I’ll use every second to forge a stronger bond between us. Before I leave this island, I will know her name—and give her mine, if she’ll have me. Operation: Wife Her Up is underway, and I never fail in my mission.

A BONUS EPILOGUE FOR WIFE HER UP

The last thing I did before joining my family for Christmas was drop a resignation letter on my boss' desk. I didn’t expect him to follow me to Colorado! Now he's standing in the foyer of the glittering mountain chalet. I don't know how to explain to my family who he is or why I quit...so when they assume he's my boyfriend, and he gets a dangerous glint in his eye, I roll with it. Sure, it means he needs to share my room for the night, and there’s only one bed. But all I have to do is explain why we can’t work together (without admitting that it’s because I’m secretly in love with him), and then he’ll leave in the morning. I’m not prepared for the searing kiss my previously mild-mannered boss lays on me as soon as we’re alone—or what he demands next.

Ray Hudson knows the innocent angel who has just stepped onto his sailboat is too good for his son—and for himself, for that matter. But when Jenna Lowe asks him for a lift to the Bahamas, he can’t say no. Then a storm blows them off course, and she fears for her life… So, suddenly she’s in front of the retired Navy SEAL, clinging to him and demanding a kiss. Her first kiss, she tells him. He can’t say no to his innocent angel. But once he has a taste, he has to admit, he’s never letting her go. He wants to be every one of her firsts—and her only, forever.