I knew my best friend since childhood loved me. I knew it. And when I got back from my business trip, I was going to tell him how I felt, especially when he told me he had something exciting to tell me. But it wasn't that he loved me. He'd gotten married while I was on an overseas business trip to my worst enemy.

He made me his ol' lady. I thought it was because he'd finally seen me as more than my brother's little sister. Until I heard him talking with his ex, I didn't realize he was with me out of guilt, that he'd promised to protect me. So I ran and didn't look back...until I had to go back to find him waiting for me.

It was a case of mistaken identity. Without stopping to see who was answering the door to the apartment he knocked on, Dutch blurted out the invitation to dinner. But instead of asking out the girl he had a crush on, he'd asked out her roommate, Penelope. Dutch decided one dinner date with Pen would be fine and that would be the end of things. Except...he fell in love with Pen on that date and eventually asked her to marry him. Life was perfect. Until Penelope overhead Dutch telling his former crush that asking Penelope out had been a mistake.

Everyone fears Major Alexander Draven. At twenty-nine, he's the youngest Major to command an elite operations camp buried deep in the burning sands of Iraq - a man born from a dynasty of power and politics. His father runs corporations and elections alike. Alexander? He runs a battlefield like an empire - cold, precise, merciless. No soldier crosses him. No enemy survives him. No one touches him - until her. Lyra Brooks was never supposed to end up here. She's just the pretty army doctor with a smile too perfect to trust. Lyra knows how to stitch up bullet wounds but not her own scars. She keeps her heart locked away behind sarcasm and late-night drinks. But here she is, buried in blood and sand as a Field Surgical Resident with the U.S. Army Medical Corps. One drunken night. A bar miles from base. A man everyone fears and a woman who pretends she doesn't fear anything at all. One night of brutal, wordless heat neither of them ever mentioned again. Until now. When the two pink lines appear in the harsh white light of the medical tent, Lyra knows one thing for certain - Alexander Draven cannot find out. Not now. Not here, never. But war doesn't care about secrets. Danger doesn't care about mistakes. And Major Draven? He does not like being kept in the dark.

18+ The Duke of Kent, Theodore Allen Hale, has lived in self-imposed isolation for years. A childhood stutter, mocked and ridiculed by the first and last lady he gave his heart to, believing he would receive more ridicule from society, forced him into the shadows, where he has remained, speaking only when necessary. Despite his wealth and power, he is the ghost of the ton-whispered about but rarely seen. Lady Sophia Hannah Newton has never stepped foot into a grand ball or a glittering soirée. She was never introduced to society, this allowed her to dedicate herself to her true passion-painting. Under an anonymous name, her art has taken the ton by storm, each new masterpiece the subject of fierce bidding wars among London's elite. Yet no one knows the artist behind the work. What happens when fate draws them together and they agree to a marriage of convenience? ©2025 | All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without my permission. *NO PLAGIARISM!!!*

After years of pining for the man she let go, Hailey is reeling as he crashes back into her life. She'd be a fool to let herself get burned again - but who doesn't like a little fire? ♥　♡　♥　♡　♥　♡　♥　♡　♥　♡　♥　♡　♥　♡　♥　♡　♥　♡　♥ Thank you so much for your interest in my story! If you enjoy what you read here, please consider checking out the previous novel, "In His Bed" or my other projects, "The Fling" and "His Hidden Desire"! Also, I will be writing this so that it can be read as a stand-alone, but it is a sequel to my book "In His Bed" - if you would like to get a fuller picture of the backstory between these characters, you might want to give that a read!