No one makes a little's Christmas wish come true like a Santa daddy...Jethro Del Bosque owns Clover City's best garden center. He's also Clover City's most sought after Santa, and he's got his eye on one of his elves. Sable Hollingsford is heir to the Hollingsford real estate fortune, and she's one of the city's wealthiest and most sophisticated women. She's completely out of Jethro's league. Sable's always wanted a daddy who would spoil and discipline her, and she's always liked the look of Jethro, but being little isn't in the cards for a ruthless businesswoman like her. Except a chance encounter at the club Jethro frequents and where Sable fulfills her secret needs gives them an inkling of hope. And when a stranger at the club won't take no for an answer, Jethro rushes to Sable's aid. His heroics give them both second thoughts about what might be possible...especially at Christmas.

She's been a very bad girl, he could be the man to teach her a lesson...Gunnar Fox has the patience of a saint. You have to when you teach high school. But one thing that isn't so saintly is the thoughts he's had about Twyla Smith. She's nineteen, in her second senior year at Clover Hills High, and she has a reputation. She's loud, she's crude, and she breaks all the rules. Gunnar doesn't like brats but something about Twyla says she's just never had anyone teach her how to be good. Maybe he could be that man. Maybe he could be her daddy. When Gunnar comes to her rescue after some boys gang up on her after school, they'll have the chance to find out.

Sophie Warrington McPhalen finally lands a long-awaited job at the Daily Trib. Ironically on her first day at work, a story comes in about bones being found on her family plantation. Forensic examination discovers that the bones date back to the Civil War, but there is no headstone to mark the grave. Intrepid reporter Jack McFallen starts an investigation. Meanwhile Sophie continues renovations to the old family gatehouse on the plantation. In the process, two spirits are loosed, one good, the other evil. During the renovation, the discovery of her great-great-grandmothers journal only adds to the mystery. While continuing to investigate, an attraction was obviously developing between Jack and Sophie as they poured over the old letters and documents. A jealousy conspiracy by outsiders moves the lovers closer together as they work to solve the mystery. Both are forced into the tangled world of the occult, mysticism, and demonology in their effort to purge the gatehouse of its spirits.

How many daddies does it take to heal a broken little girl? Cosima Valtolina has been trapped in a living hell for eight long years, held hostage by a man she thought would be her savior but who turned out to be a monster. One fateful night frees her from her nightmare come true but also leaves her beaten and bloody in a ditch. Ian Galbraith, Hudson Lindberg, and Ryker Donahue have been looking for a little to love together for two decades. They never expected their best prospect to turn up half-dead on their doorstep. Hudson falls hard from the start for sweet and submissive Cosima, and Ian's not far behind, but the enigmatic Ryker isn't interested in risking his heart again for anything. The owners of Clover City's favorite fetish club can help Cosima's body mend, but can they heal and win her heart? Or will ghosts and demons from their pasts keep them from their happily ever after? Cosima's Club Owner Daddies is a standalone novel in the Clover City Littles series. It features a damaged but determined little girl in need of a guardian angel-or three-and a trio of protective and devoted best friends who have vowed to share everything, even love.

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