Bøger af Leah Braemel

MalcolmI always keep my promises. Like the one I gave to my best friend that I'd never date his little sister, Ellie. While I got my electrician's license and started my own business in my home town, Ellie moved away to the city and got married. Now Ellie has returned to Port Paxton and discovered the house she's moved into has electrical problems, so I'm the first one she calls. That's when the sparks really fly. Looks like my promise is about to go up in smoke. EllieWhen I moved away from Port Paxton to the city, I thought I'd like the opportunities, the festivals, the faster pace. I quickly learned city life could also be lonely. Now I've moved back to my hometown and taken over a gorgeous Victorian house that needs tender loving care. When my secret high-school crush Malcolm Walsh walks in to solve my electrical issues, a spark of attraction flares between us. But will that spark grow into a smoldering long-term affair or will it sputter and fade away?

A shot-gun wedding to a stranger wasn't Sarah McLeod's first choice to escape her abusive stepfather but her new husband Jackson Kellar's calm dignity gives her hope that she might finally achieve the happiness she's sought all her life. Until she realizes that Jackson has already given his heart to another man.Even as ranch hand Jackson Kellar's love for his new bride deepens he cannot shake his desire for his best friend and ranch owner Nate Campbell. Nate thought he'd found the perfect wife in Sarah, a woman who has the spirit and grit to survive life on the Texas frontier. A twist of fate has left him standing helplessly aside as Sarah slowly falls in love with his best friend and lover.After Sarah and Jackson are offered an opportunity at independence away from Nate's ranch, they're faced with a difficult choice-one that will give Sarah a respectable life but will destroy the two men's relationship forever. Or they can accept Nate's more scandalous solution and face a judgmental society's censure

After her cheating ex-husband stole her trust and her brother stole everything else, horse breeder Nikki Kimball is intent on reclaiming her independence. When her carefree neighbor Dillon Barnett and his enigmatic best friend Brett Anderson offer to help her out, both in the stable and the bedroom, Nikki relearns how to trust and discovers joy.Ten years ago, the two friends fought a bitter battle for their high school crush. Although Brett longs to be the man in Nikki's life, he is forced to decide if he is willing to lose Dillons' friendship to gain her heart.As their unusual relationship progresses, Nikki is faced with a conundrum she never expected to face. While her heart wants them both in her life, in her bed, society demands she choose between the two men. Now Nikki has to decide what price she is prepared to pay to keep the happiness and independence she's finally found.

The masks we wear can hide our deepest desires...or reveal them.Wedding rings, babies, commitment? No thank you. Working for a company that's wall-to-wall, testosterone-fueled alpha males, Sandy Hallquist is in her element. By day, she's the picture of calm, cool efficiency. Off hours, her inner adrenaline junkie is off the chain.His whole professional life has been all about being invisible, but nothing about Troy McPherson is real, not even his name. It's the only way he can manage Hauberk's international offices while hiding his other career: assassin. But in one moment of weakness, Troy's carefully constructed mask begins to crack. Cracks that reveal his yearning for things he can never have. Family. Stability. Love.Too bad they're the last things on Sandy's must-have list. By the time she realizes the heat between them will last a lifetime, his next mission could make him disappear from her life.

Sometimes your soulmate has been right in front of you their whole life.Volunteer firefighter Zac Buchanan has been carrying a torch for Tabatha Morgan since…well, forever. A promise he made years ago backfired, sending Tabatha into the arms of another man, and him into a decade of heartache. Now Tabatha's back in town, newly divorced, and the sparks between them are setting them both aflame.Tabatha would have bet her secret five-alarm chili recipe that her school girl crush on Zac had died out long ago. Except those slumbering embers reignited the moment Zac walked into her diner. Now each time she sees him-hears him, thinks about him-she can't imagine her life without him again.But if their new-found love and sizzlin' hot action in the bedroom-and living room, kitchen and bathroom-is to survive, Tabatha must also accept the smoke, flames and danger of Zac's job. Or their happy-ever-after will forever be extinguished.

Security specialist Jodi Tyler has a great job and a great relationship with her boss, Mark Rodriguez-in the office and in the bedroom. Their casual arrangement is all she wants, and she'd thought it was all Mark wanted too. Right up until she's busted while testing the security of a Lake Arlington mansion. To her surprise, and with the help of the mansion's owner, Sam Watson, Jodi's no-strings affair with Mark is about to become a little more...binding.Sharing Jodi with his best friend Sam was supposed to be fun. But as the intimate evening progresses, certain feelings come to light, feelings Mark didn't know he had. Feelings he doesn't know what to do about. But Sam does. And he knows exactly what to do about them.By evening's end, the decisions Mark is forced to make will change everyone's lives. He will either disappoint them all-or claim Jodi as his own private property.**contains BONUS short story FIRST NIGHT**

She's guarding his body. He's guarding his heart.Hostage negotiator Lauren Miller is used to staring danger in the face. Now a vengeful former team member is targeting her and anyone she cares about, including her ex-husband. Although hiding them both in the same remote safehouse is risky, the plan could provide her with the perfect opportunity to make amends with the one man who has her heart.Building Hauberk Protection into a success is the only thing that's kept Chad sane since his marriage ended. He loved Lauren more than life itself and losing her left a hole that haunts him still. When he unexpectedly finds himself trapped with her, Chad can think of only one up-side-he can finally learn why she walked away without an explanation. Except the heat that burns between them is turning their defenses to ash. As their passion rekindles, Lauren struggles to keep her focus. Especially when she learns that Chad wasn't the only one being deceived. And those deliberate deceptions put both their lives in jeopardy.Also contains PERFECT PROPOSAL, a Hauberk Protection short story, for the first time ever in print. Books 3 and 3.5 of the Hauberk Protection series

Despite owning a security business, Sam Watson refuses protection for himself, even after receiving threats from a stalker. His second-in-command, however, isn't willing to take no for an answer, and assigns Sam a security detail headed by none other than Rosalinda Ramos-Sam's secret object of lust. As an employee, she's strictly hands-off. Though, working so closely together, Sam isn't sure how long he can resist.A female in a male-dominated industry, Rosie has enough on her plate just proving her worth, so she keeps her attraction to Sam firmly in check. Until she learns he co-owns an exclusive club. While investigating the club as a possible source of the threat, Rosie discovers her own interest in certain proclivities. Before long, it's all bets off, and all hands-on, for Sam and Rosie.But the couple will soon discover the real threat to Sam is much, much closer to home...and something from which Rosie may not be able to save him.