The Future Group is the city’s biggest and most lucrative company even though no one really knows what it is they do. Michael Duckett has worked there for four years and he still has no clue. All he knows is that he hates his meaningless job and all the people in it. But it pays the bills. Bills that have been stacking up since his roommate and best friend Stephanie Dyer decided to open a detective agency – despite her chronic inability to commit to anything. When Michael is suddenly fired, he and Stephanie are forced to return to the world of private investigation against his better judgment. A mysterious woman wants to enlist the services of Duckett & Dyer: Dicks For Hire to track down an assassin who has a bone to pick with Michael’s former employer. Apparently, The Future Group has been harboring a deadly secret for decades. One that could put the world in the grip of an indescribable horror. It turns out Michael was lucky to get out of that job alive. Too bad he and Stephanie are being dragged back to work.

"How Do You Feel About Marrying a Cowboy?" When Pete Ledbetter's granddad decided to find Pete a wife, the bachelor had no choice but to find a decoy bride-to-be. For help with his scheme, he looked no further than the chef at his family's Colorado dude ranch. After a summer romance, he knew he was compatible with Mary Jo Michaels. But after the way they had broken up, he knew convincing her to help him would be nearly impossible…. Mary Jo loved the Lazy L; it was Pete she wasn't so sure about. He'd hurt her once, and she couldn't be sure he wouldn't again. Although the way he was acting around her—the way he looked at her—had her thinking the cowboy had changed his ways. Could she trust Pete enough to turn their pretend engagement into a real marriage?

Luke Chisum had spent most of his life running from his past… But now a family crisis has brought the former River Bluff daredevil home. Home to the small-town girl he still loves—and the secret that could tear them apart again. Sixteen years ago, Luke dated Becky on a dare and broke her heart. Now he's back, rekindling old feelings and tempting Becky to give him a second chance. But she can't risk Luke discovering the truth about the child she's kept from him all these years. Becky isn't the only one keeping secrets. A shocking revelation about his own family is about to test Luke in ways he never imagined—as a father, and a son.

He wanted the one woman he couldn't have Artist, rancher, bull rider… Crockett Jefferson had always been a man who followed his heart. So when his heart led him to the one woman he shouldn't turn to—Valentine Cakes, the mother of his brother's child—this sensitive cowboy knew he was in trouble. Valentine had no idea what Crockett felt for her, but she did think the handsome cowboy was more tempting than any man had a right to be. Of course, she wasn't about to let on, because trying to win Crockett would confirm everything the Jefferson men had once thought about her: that she was a gold digger after a wealthy cowboy. Crockett and Valentine were sitting on a powder keg—and it would take only one sweet kiss for the whole thing to explode!

First comes marriage…to another man? Mimi Cannady had no regrets. Spending that night with the cowboy had been the right thing to do—their beautiful daughter was living proof. And since the word commitment used to make Mason Jefferson buck like a bronc, her marrying another man the very next day was a good idea, too. But now it's time for the truth…. When the sheriff from Malfunction Junction finds out he's a father, he's delighted. Naturally, Mason assumes claiming his daughter means claiming her mother, and he'll finally get the only woman he's ever wanted. However, Mason soon discovers he's got it wrong. He'll have to woo Mimi the way he should have all along….