Harlequin Superromance (October 2010)
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Camille Arraby is impulsive, creative and completely commitment phobic. An artist who works odd jobs to pay the bills, she takes impetuousness to a whole new level—she’s managed to live her entire adult life without putting down roots or taking on responsibilities. But why would she when there’s a big world out there dying to be explored and she’s only seen about half of it? Carpe diem is her catch phrase, which is why she goes home with the tall, good-looking guy she met at a friend’s art exhibit. One night stands aren’t her usual thing, but this guy is just too delicious to let slip through her fingers. One night turns into six weeks, and suddenly she’s looking into the eyes of a guy thinking about commitment. That’s all it takes for the girl voted most likely to sail around the world to take off with a wink and a wave. Love is fine—as long as someone else is falling into it.

Matt Jenkins is haunted by dreams of Camille. From the moment he first saw her, he wanted as much as she would give him—and probably a whole lot more. An architect who is used to bringing order to even the most chaotic project, Camille is a challenge he just can’t resist. And when he starts to fall for her, the control freak in him does something it’s never done before—it surrenders to the inevitability of falling in love. But when Camille takes off on him, unwilling to even give a relationship between them a try, he gives up on her. He’s been burned before—badly—and the idea of chasing after another woman who doesn’t care enough about him to stick around isn’t his idea of a good time. So he writes her out of his life … until the day she shows up, pregnant, on his doorstep.

Opposites attract, but how do two such different people put aside their differences and try to build a life for themselves—and their child?

Harlequin Superromance (2011)

Interior decorator Paige Matthews hasn’t been home in nine long years—not since she left town rejected and pregnant with the child of the only man she’d ever loved. On her way out of town—devestated by the loss of her lover and frightened at the prospect of being a twenty-year-old single mother—she vowed never to return. But when her sister, Becca, moves back to their hometown to open a bed and breakfast, and asks Paige to help her renovate and decorate it, Paige has little choice but to come home again, this time with her eight-year-old son in tow.

Logan Powell has spent nine long years trying to forget Paige Matthews—to no avail. Years before, they’d broken up when her sexually promiscuous past reared its ugly head and he’d found “incontrovertible” proof that she was cheating on him. Praying he was wrong—even in the face of the evidence, he confronted Paige and hoped for a denial. When she didn’t give him one, he figured his accusations had been right on. And when she started hanging out with another man—and turned up pregnant a few months later—he was certain the baby wasn’t his. But now she’s back and from the second the small town sheriff lays eyes on her son, Luke, he knows that he’s been denied the first eight years of his child’s life. Can the two of them somehow find their way home, despite the long and bitter road that stretches between them?

Harlequin Superromance (2011)

Rhiannon McKinley is thirty-eight, alone and lonely—three things she never thought she’d be. At one time, she’d had a good marriage, a job she loved and more friends than she could count—until one senseless act of violence took all that away from her. Raped while researching a story for the major newspaper she worked for, Rhiannon lost everything that mattered to her—including her job, her husband and her ability to ever feel safe again. Now working as an events coordinator for her best friend’s business, she can’t stand the loneliness of her new life, but after the way she was hurt—first by her rapist and then by the husband who left her when he couldn’t accept what had happened to her—she is certain she’ll never trust a man enough to open herself up to him. At least until she meets Shawn Emerson.

Twenty-nine, footloose and fancy-free, Shawn’s got the world by the tail and is enjoying every second of it. Or at least that’s what he’s let everybody think. A graphic novelist with a very popular series of books that have just been optioned by Hollywood, he should be thrilled. And he is, though a part of him longs for someone to share his success with, someone who will care about more than his money and success. Someone who will see through his happy-go-lucky public façade to the man who’s spent his whole life looking for what he never had as a child—a happy home and a family to call his own. But can he convince Rhiannon that he’s more trustworthy than he seems?