SUSAN LUTE

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All Benjamin Quincy wants is to make a stable home for his ten year old daughter in the town he grew up in and left in bitter disappointment. Young and hot headed, he made a mistake. Eleven years later, he’s a divorced, single dad with a troubled child, and a lot to make up for.

Sydney Marshall has finally snagged the perfect job at a coveted travel magazine in New York. Does she care that her ex has returned to the tiny town of Rosewood with a precious daughter who’s not hers? Does it matter that every time he comes near, her heat flutters madly like in the old days? No! Her bags are packed; plane tickets are stashed in her carry on bag; the adventure of a lifetime is about to begin.

There’s only one problem. Life and Rosewood have a penchant for interfering in the best laid plans.

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Stella Carmichael can’t believe her life with her husband, though not always perfect, is over. All she wants is to shut herself away in their too empty house and turn her back on the world she’s quite certain will go on happily without her.

Thanks to her interfering daughters, she’s exiled to London. Instead of licking her wounds in solitude, Stella’s babysitting a rebellious teenager and having to make sense of her life thousands of miles from home. Repairing her family’s fragile relationships is not an easy task. While getting to know her sullen granddaughter, meeting new friends, and embarking on an unexpected flirtation, she discovers family is a gift; and living, something to be treasured.

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Ten years before Madrid, Jane Donovan is a kid growing up in an orphanage and flirting with the wrong side of the law. Looking for the family that has eluded her, she has a choice to make. Live her mother's doomed life, or get off the streets. Finding the courage to reach for her dreams isn't easy, but in the end, will she take the road that will give her everything she's always wanted?

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There’s no place like home, and to Gunnery Sergeant Jane Donovan, home is the US Marine Corps. But, she’s made a mistake. A tragic mistake that cost an orphaned kid from the poorest part of Madrid his life. Because of a little insubordination and disorderly conduct on her part, she’s about to lose the one thing she values most. The family and good life she’s forged in the Corps. Now she has one option. Put her future in the hands of Dr. Chase Russell, or become a civilian. The choice is hers.

Chase Russell has royally screwed up. Busy chasing a lucrative book deal that would legitimize his theories about treating war veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and let’s face it, give him a certain amount of fame too, he missed a client’s cry for help and subsequent admission to the hospital for a failed drug overdose. That the client was his brother makes his arrogance more reprehensible. In the aftermath, he leaves his lucrative practice in Chicago to start over on a lovely, neglected Central Oregon ranch, looking for the peace and sanctuary he craves, but hardly deserves.

When the Marine arrives, nursing a cranky hip and an even crankier disposition, he wants nothing to do with her, but the fun is just beginning. Between helping two runaway kids, and taking the stubborn Marine through play therapy, what’s an ex-counselor to do, but make sure this hero finds her way home.

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YOU MAY KISS THE BRIDE...

Once she'd dreamed of those words, but Eleanor Silks Rose had grown up and kicked her crush on Dillon Stone like a bad habit. So why had she blushed as the widowed single dad touched his lips to hers during the mock ceremony? And when their charity dating-game wedding turned out to be real, why did she start dreaming she'd be Mrs. Dillon Stone forever?

Dillon was on a quest for the perfect wife, yet he'd never expected to be wed to an irresistible Eleanor! But he didn't need passion; he needed a mother for his son. Could his accidental bride be the woman he'd been searching for to bring love and sizzle to his life?

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"With a sexy dragon hero and a clever heroine who is the smoke to his fire, Susan Lute's imagined world is an intriguing step to the left of our own, where honor and passion rule the day" -Jessa Slade, award-winning author of the Marked Souls series.