She accepted his proposition because of the money, but soon the stakes would change. Max’s ex-wife was on her way to try to rekindle their relationship. Max had always been helpless against her charms, so Max and Janine struck a bargain?he would pay her to pretend to be his new wife for a brief period of time. Janine accepted Max’s proposal since she needed the money. But in the midst of their performance, something started to happen. They couldn’t be sure, but it felt like something deep and abiding. Could it be true love?

First Love. Forever Love...' International business mogul Rafael Morretti has his pick of the world's most desirable women. But the all-work, no-play bachelor can't forget the one who got away. Fifteen years ago, Paris St. Clair was his college sweetheart. Now a destination wedding in Venice has reunited him with the vivacious beauty. And he will stop at nothing to win her back. Busy building her financial career, Paris is still haunted by the one who got away. Maybe meeting Rafael again in The Floating City is a sign that their love is meant to be. As passions collide and they give in to desire at a private villa, will a sudden web of blackmail destroy Rafael's good name and sabotage their precious second chance?

Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn exposes the fears expressed by elders about young people in the early American republic. Those authors, educators, and moral reformers who aspired to guide youth into respectable stations perceived new dangers in the decades following independence. Battling a range of seducers in the burgeoning marketplace of early America, from corrupt peers to licentious prostitutes, from pornographic authors to firebrand preachers, these self-proclaimed moral guardians crafted advice and institutions for youth, hoping to guide them safely away from harm and toward success. By penning didactic novels and advice books while building reform institutions and colleges, they sought to lead youth into dutiful behavior. But, thrust into the market themselves, these moral guides were forced to compromise their messages to find a popular audience. Nonetheless, their calls for order did have lasting impact. In urban centers in the Northeast, middle-class Americans became increasingly committed to their notions of chastity, piety, and hard work. Focusing on popular publications and large urban centers, Hessinger draws a portrait of deeply troubled reformers, men and women, who worried incessantly about the vulnerability of youth to the perils of prostitution, promiscuity, misbehavior, and revolt. Benefiting from new insights in cultural history, Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn looks at the way the categories of gender, age, and class took rhetorical shape in the early republic. In trying to steer young adults away from danger, these advisors created values that came to define the emerging middle class of urban America.

Iron Cowboy Diana Palmer Hard-hearted Texan rancher Jared Cameron was a mystery to everyone in town...and he liked it that way. Only sweet-natured bookseller Sara dared to intrude on his privacy. Captivated by her audaciousness, Jared pursued the plain-Jane. But their burgeoning relationship soon thrust Sara into Jared’s hidden world of intrigue. Now the iron cowboy had the fight of his life on his hands. Seduced by the Rich Man Maureen Child Billionaire Max Striver surprised Janine Shaker by suddenly proposing a fake marriage. Max’s need for a temporary wife and his desire for Janine seemed to coincide perfectly. He knew that Janine wasn’t in a position to refuse his offer – or his bed. But then their make-believe marriage became more passionate than either anticipated...