Zoe Dawson

A Perfect Mess

The one secret she can't stand to keep is the one she can't afford to tell. The perfect little rich girl, River Pearl Sutton has always done what her family expected of her. She'd become the perfect little beauty queen, the perfect child model and now her global success locks her into a life she never really chose. Coming home for the summer to prepare for the Founder's Day Festival, a celebration of her lauded ancestor, she is tasked by her father to write a speech to be delivered at the end of the party. Returning to Hope Parish brings her back into close proximity with sweet-talking, skirt-chasing Braxton Outlaw, the boy who always seemed immune to her charms in high school. But now he looks at her with those challenging blue eyes, both intimidating and seductive at the same time. Using research of her family lineage and his as way to get close to this bad boy, they fall into a hot, torrid affair. She stumbles across a terrible secret that could bring to ruin not only her reputation, but the reputation and standing of her family. But when her infatuation with Brax grows into something that she can't live without, she must decide what to do. Keep the secret and lose Brax or destroy her family and lose them. It's an awful, heartrending perfect dilemma. *This book contains adult situations and explicit content. 17+* Hope Parish Novel Series: A Perfect Secret Series Three Perfect Girls. Three Perfect Secrets. One Unholy Trinity BOOK 1: A PERFECT MESS (Booker and Aubree) BOOK 2: A PERFECT MISTAKE (Boone and Verity) BOOK 3: A PERFECT DILEMMA (Braxton and River Pearl) Hope Parish Novellas BOOK 4: FINALLY AGAIN (Evie and Win) BOOK 5: BEAUTY SHOT (Deke and Minnie) BOOK 6: MARK ME (Rory and Savannah)

A Perfect Dilemma

How can they have a future when their past is based on a lie? The perfect preacher's daughter, Verity Fairchild, has something that only she and God know about and she wants to keep it that way. Her mistake was easy to keep secret when she was out of town, but now that she's come back to Hope Parish for the summer, she comes face-to-face with the guy responsible for it all. Boone Outlaw nearly ruined everything for her and despite the fact that he's now working at her father's church, she's determined to stay as far away from him as possible. Boone Outlaw doesn't understand Verity's anger towards him. He barely knows her. In high school she was Holy Mary Verity and she was off limits - except in his dreams where Verity seems way too real. Most of the time he was wasted in high school, not the type of boy Verity would ever look at twice, but he can't shake the feeling that something might have happened between them. He's going to break his own rules to get the answers he needs straight from Verity. What will Verity do when she finds something in Boone that she never knew existed and her perfect mistake is the only thing that could stand between them and their happiness? Will she sacrifice Boone to keep her secret? *This book contains adult situations and explicit content. 17+* Hope Parish Novel Series: A Perfect Secret Series Three Perfect Girls. Three Perfect Secrets. One Unholy Trinity BOOK 1: A PERFECT MESS (Booker and Aubree) BOOK 2: A PERFECT MISTAKE (Boone and Verity) BOOK 3: A PERFECT DILEMMA (Braxton and River Pearl) Hope Parish Novellas BOOK 4: FINALLY AGAIN (Evie and Win) BOOK 5: BEAUTY SHOT (Deke and Minnie) BOOK 6: MARK ME (Rory and Savannah)

A Perfect Mistake

Michael “Tex” Penn comes under fire when a mission goes bad and the Navy pilot embedded with the team is killed in action. The pilot's wife, the daughter of an influential senator, wants answers the Navy has forbidden him to give. The OP was as black as night and Top Secret classified. A JAG officer and her partner are assigned to investigate the case to determine what happened during the mission and why the pilot died. In steps Lieutenant Nora Wilson, blonde, blue-eyed and in charge, the kind of confident woman who stirs his blood. But she’s the enemy. She wants his team to spill the details which goes against everything he’s been taught. A former Super Hornet pilot and Navy aviator, Nora already knows she’s going to get push back, already understands that Navy SEALs usually take their secrets to the grave, but a man is dead, and she’s been directed to get the pilot's wife her answers. The minute she comes up against their steely-eyed, confident CO, she knows she has her work cut out for her. Clashing with him professionally, leads to getting closer to him personally than she should. Her mission and her career could be on the line if she were discovered sleeping with the enemy. But when they finally spill the beans, Nora finds herself taking that same fateful OP to finish out the mission that will take her deep onto foreign soil with only the SEALs at her back.

Jack has some 'splainin' to do! That's right! Callie Lassiter's normally well-behaved Great Dane Jack has run off and done the wild thing with the neighbor's dog. It must be puppy love! It's doubly embarrassing since she's a professional dog trainer. Of course, the neighbor would have to be hot, hot nightclub owner bad boy Owen McKay, just the kind of man Callie is determined to avoid. Owen's comfortable with his playboy status and the hype in the media. But the ground moves beneath his feet when he gets an eyeful of the girl next door. The Dog Whisperer never looked this good! How can he convince this wholesome honey that his player days are behind him? Maybe Jill, his Great Dane can help him with this dilemma now that she's pregnant and Callie's dog is to blame. Is this bad boy a bad bet? Beware of dogs, romance and deep belly laughs! Going to the Dogs is a romp through the urban jungle of New York City to find true love, the perfect cocktail, and expensive heels. Dog is a man's best friend, but sometimes a woman just needs a hot man in the city. This series will appeal to a mature crowd, especially fans of Sex in The City.

Leashed

Ruckus

Petty Officer Oliver “Artful Dodger” Graham heads with the team to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic to apprehend the financier of their failed terrorist target Muhammad Angar Said. But on a routine recon of the city, he discovers a hooker that looks suspiciously like Mad Max’s baby sister, Anna Keegan. Once he follows her all hell breaks loose. Dodger has been trying with all his might to stay away from the tantalizing beauty. In the past he’d turned his life upside down for a woman and that left him alone and jobless, in the US once she cheated on him with another guy. Years later, the scars of that failed romance haunt him still. Now he’s more intent on getting to the bottom of this interesting intrigue while still trying to maintain the status quo. The trouble is Anna is always maddeningly unpredictable. Anna Keegan finds herself in some hot water in a foreign city without backup. After discovering an ominous plot that would have devastating consequences for the US, Anna must pull out all the stops to neutralize the threat. But on the way to diffusing the situation, she runs into overprotective Dodger and he insists on staying with her and helping her to clear her name. As they work to discover all the clues to eliminating the danger, they stumble onto an even bigger and more dire plan that will take them to major cities and across continents in a desperate attempt to save lives. Anna and Dodger fight their attraction in the midst of all the peril, but can they allow themselves to be overtaken by passion when so much is at stake?

Artful Dodger

Grace Under Fire

When Professor and his team is sent to support a mission in Niger with the UN, Professor has to deal with not only a new CO, but the aftermath of being in Afghanistan and dealing with a buddy’s wounding. That mission makes him realize he needs to reach out to his family, but his parents can’t seem to understand him or why he gave up so much to serve. Frustrated and struggling, he comes face to face with Julia Whittley. Intellectually, Professor knows that having the secret hots for a nun wasn’t going anywhere, so after a seeing her in Kenya, he had tried to put her out of his mind. That’s until he finds her at the US Embassy and is no longer a nun. This information throws Professor into a tailspin. He and Julia have unfinished business which is then compromised by the unrest in the country. It’s one man against all odds, who goes to any lengths to save a woman who has the courage and fortitude to match him in both strength and smarts. Julia has never forgotten Professor and the way he lived with a purpose, along with his extraordinary leadership and his plain badass warrior vibe. But Julia has just left the order and she’s struggling with so much uncertainty in her life. Is it fair to get involved with a man who will demand everything she has, not only because he deserves it, but because he’s worth it? It isn’t until things escalate in a war-torn country that Julia comes face to face with her choices and the experiences that sent her fleeing to a convent. Finding her own personal happiness seems both reckless and just as dangerous as the country embroiled in war. When it comes down to survival, losing her heart to Professor happened a long time ago. But working out her own tangle of personal emotions and principles becomes all the more complicated until she finds the courage to be honest with herself. Hopefully, it won’t be too late.

Professor

Rescuing Piper

Safeguarding Kelly

Managing Emma

Handling Neve

Petty Officer Neo “2-Stroke” Teller and Officer Chrysanthe Steele have been taken by ruthless people who will stop at nothing to get what they want. 2-Stroke and Chry are trying to survive as they work to escape. During this time, 2-Stroke finds that he is reconnecting to emotions, memories, and relationships that he’d thought he’d left in the past. Could working through them all bring him back to himself, teach him something new, and lay to rest old ghosts. And can he reconnect with the woman he’d left behind from all the turmoil of the past? Chry and 2-Stroke have history and their attraction got the better of them while captured, but while on the run after escaping, they draw even closer together and their revelations about each other begin to become clear. As their enemies close in for the kill, their only hope in in relying on each other. Can 2-Stroke trust her and open up about his past and let her in to help, or will he try to handle everything alone, effectively ruining any chances they have of finding forever with each other?

2-Stroke

After some major soul searching and hitting rock bottom, Master Chief Dean “Striker” Teller finally comes home to LA. He needs to pick up the pieces of his life and try to find his path outside the Navy SEALs. His first order of business is to handle all the loose ends from his mom’s death and he and his brother’s inheritance, including some mystery surrounding how a load of cash got beneath the floorboards of his family home. One of those headaches is a rundown motorcycle dealership located in an expansive building he decides to renovate. While he is home, he runs into his high school sweetheart, SWAT Officer Ophelia Barr and sparks start to fly all over again. But there is a lot of baggage from their past that has to be waded through and much that has happened to him since he was kicked out of the SEALs before he can be at peace. As he tries to track down the origin of the secret money, Dean gets sucked into more than he bargained for. Ophelia joined the police academy straight out of high school after Dean had enlisted in the Navy, effectively making it difficult for them to continue a relationship. She has never been able to really forget her first love. But she has a job to do on the mean streets as a member of SWAT. When her cases begin to overlap with Dean’s pursuit of the truth, she wonders what a former U.S. Navy SEAL is doing mixed up in the investigation. But Dean had kept all his secrets close to the vest, never involving her in his home life, and their painful parting haunts her. She’s falling for him as hard as before, but can he really come home again and be the man she needs him to be to give them even half a chance at happiness?

Striker

Due Process

Rainwater

After Somalia and the mission that had thrown him once again into the same orbit as his ex-wife, Solace Mitchell, Fast Lane is struggling with his emotions and his love for her. But too soon, before he’s even nicked the surface of his torment, he finds himself working with her in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Together they’re assigned the highly classified mission to take down Zasha Vasiliev coalescing into a terrible and deadly encounter with the vindictive woman and her terrorist allies, leaving the team devastated. Solace can’t believe she’s once again working with her estranged ex-husband. Ford had always been a force to be reckoned with when she was married to him, but as the years have passed, her memories of him have started to dominate her mind. After seeing him during that harrowing time in Somalia, she hasn’t been able to go back to forgetting him. Now they were thrown together in the scariest, most hostile, and dangerous place on the face of the earth. They must fight for their lives even as she starts to reconnect to him, discover that he still loves her and deal with the fact that her heart had been blown to pieces when they separated. Could she trust that he has changed and if they don’t die, would a future between them be possible?

Zoe Dawson

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