Bøger af Gemma Brocato

What happens when a holiday adverse woman falls for a man who still believes in Santa?A fateful shopping trip on Black Friday left Ivy Woods terrified of crowded spaces. Even she knows her career as a decorator in a large shopping mall makes no sense. While the work feeds her creative side, the long hours and horrendous crowds during Christmas make her rethink her future. When Ivy is nearly trampled in a shopper stampede in front of the toy store, she knows she won't survive another terrifying incident with crowds.For contractor Cole Petry, the holidays bring back bad memories of traveling to a prison to visit his mom. To make matters worse, the great aunt and uncle who raised him as their own truly believed they were Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus. And each year, their holiday craziness leaves him questioning his own sanity. But his simmering attraction to the lovely Ivy is a fantasy come to life. Too bad she seems to hate the holidays as much as he loves them.A freak accident throws Ivy and Cole together in an unexpected and delightful way. While working together on special building project for underprivileged kids, Ivy believes she might have found her new calling. However, taking a new job means a close working and possibly personal relationship with Cole, a man who still believes in Santa Claus. When his mom turns up like a bad penny, their relationship could melt faster than snow in July. Can all the glittery trappings that make the holidays help them overcome their differences in this romance between total opposites?

Jayne's latest assignment is simple: Stop a kidnapping, save the world, and hold on to her humanity.Ordered to care more about the world leaders than other humans, Vampire Intelligence Service master spy Jayne Bond is forced to pretend she's a cold emotionless operative as she throws herself into her latest mission: foil a terrorist cell plot to kidnap the G8 world leaders. When she arrives in Italy at the summit Navy SEAL she is paired to work with, Renner Warren is actually a vampire as well. When the prince of the Vampire Confederation is also kidnapped, she must save him...even if it means sacrificing the other leaders.The doomsday clock starts ticking faster when the criminal mastermind behind the plot announces plans to auction the abducted leaders to the highest-bidding enemy nations. With their backs against the wall, Jayne must trust Warren, and use every spy trick she's ever learned to save the powerful leaders from sure death and the world from chaos all while struggling to retain her own humanity.

With the right amount of nurturing, love will bloom.This close to Valentine's Day Malin Eckert's flower shop is entering their busiest season. As if the added work isn't enough, her father's drinking has spiraled out of control and Mal discovers she's been named guardian of a fifteen-year-old sibling she never knew about. To make matters worse, Mal's crushing on a customer, a serial dater who drops by the shop with alarming regularity to send flowers to other women.Gunnar Sims never had the best luck with women, a fact that doesn't stop his growing attraction to his florist. His new business is losing money and he should be concentrating on that, but instead finds Mal an enticing distraction.In spite of her best intentions to keep Gunnar firmly in the friend zone, Mal finds herself falling for the classically handsome gym owner. As her affection for Gunnar and her sister, Gabriella, grows, Mal's heart hangs in the balance when it appears both could be taken away from her.Content Warning: Hard bodies, spoiled princesses, and a levelheaded woman who knows how to smell the roses.

A spicy attraction, a sweet small town, a tasty mystery...all the right ingredients for a delectable romance.Jemima George leads a charmed life in New York City as a personal chef to reality T.V.'s latest darling. But all that changes when her Aunt Caro suddenly dies under odd circumstances-bequeathing her a small café in picturesque New England. Despite her attractions to a deliciously sexy local contractor, Jem intends to sell it and continue her fast-paced career-until her cheating boyfriend causes her to re-think her recipe for happiness. . .Jack Kerrigan considered Caro a surrogate mother and hates the idea of selling the cafe. But he loves the idea of beautiful, intriguing Jem staying in town as long as possible. If it means remodeling the cafe, Jack's all in. And when his jealous ex-wife, a shady attorney, and a slew of secrets threaten to extinguish Jack and Jem's simmering attraction, they might just add heat to a romance that's heading toward a full boil. . .

They walked through the shadows individually. Will they emerge into the light together? Leading a vagabond life as a curator for a traveling photography exhibit translates to a lot of bad days for Rikki Salerno. But her trouble doubles when a careless high school student shoves her into a marsh. Being rescued by teacher Sam Kerrigan should have made things better, but Rikki's inability to confess her true identity casts a shadow over their budding affair. When Sam refuses an overly aggressive parent's marriage proposal, she's determined to ruin him. Not only does she doctor photos to make it look like Sam's behaved inappropriately in front of students, she hacks the foundation website to reveal Rikki's true identity. Faster than the blink of a shutter, Rikki's focus changes from pursuing her full-color future to the black and white necessity of clearing Sam's name.

Allow me to introduce myself: Bond. Jayne Bond. Master spy, loose cannon. Oh, and undead.As an operative for the secretive Vampire Intelligence Service saving the world is my job. And because I am secretly clinging to my soul, I've been known to go rogue to save random humans. When the leaders of the VIS learn of a conspiracy to take over the world, they saddle me with a bumbling rookie agent to track down the mastermind behind the plot.While investigating a deadly chemical spill I learn that all mortals are targets in the battle between good versus evil and my arch-nemesis is more determined than ever to see me dead. Matters go from bad to worse when I discover my trainee isn't as inexperienced as I've been led to believe.If I disobey direct orders on this assignment, my secret will be out. But I'll gladly break the rules to save my life, and those of all humans.