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Lorne was having a ball. This party was rocking, and the wedding later in the week would be even better. As the unofficial wedding planner for Dina's wedding, it was her job to make sure everyone was having a great time. It wasn't hard: a good location, good music, and good booze. Done. But before she could check in with everyone, Dina was directing her attention to the tall handsome guy sitting by himself near the window.

Maya just wasn't in the mood for a wedding. Yeah, her best friend in college had pulled out all the stops for it at this paradise destination. A remote tropical island and a plethora of available men with hungry eyes: it's enough to make a girl forget her troubles for a week. But there was something nagging at the back of her head, something just didn't seem right.

Veronica Harper was ready to let bygones be bygones. She'd spent enough years fighting tooth and claw to know that nobody won in a drag-out brawl. It was better for all parties to come to the peace table. But being the leader of a Bear Shifter Clan meant many things, the most important of which was to be the kind of leader that the rest of the Clan would follow. That meant never losing face. Even if the person you're staring down is a handsome hunk with more charm than he realizes.

Happily ever after. These three words annoyed Anita Vasquez to no end. For most women, they summoned images of sunsets over tropical beaches, strolling hand in hand with some handsome masculine perfection. For Anita, as the director of a very popular dating service, these three words were a curse, one that infected the minds of the women she tried to find compatible matches for. Before they even sat down in her office, they already wanted the impossible.

In Danna's senior year of college, she and Jeff engage in a whirlwind romance. Problems, however, arise when Danna's father meets his daughter's boyfriend. He wants the best for Danna, and in his eyes Jeff doesn't fit the bill. The climax occurs around Danna's graduation, when she is preparing to move to the East Coast for an Ivy League MBA. What will become of Danna's relationship with Jeff?

"Don't put that in your mouth. Don't push your brother. Please stop crying." Harmony just needed to get through this day of nannying. The little boogers in her charge were turning their trip to the county fair into a competition of who could cause a migraine the fastest. She spotted a honey stand and thought a few sweet treats might win her a moment's respite. She spotted the owner of the stand and thought about something other than honey....

Jane Walsh was the hardest-working talent agent in California. Even now, checking in on her previous client Elise, she was never far from her cellphone. At any time, it could buzz with another offer from a sponsor or another nervous breakdown from a client. It was nothing but tension and high stakes, balancing personalities both big and small. But in a place like Fairhaven Park, she thought she might be able to finally relax, if but for a week.

Stacey McKinley doesn't have to love what she does, she just has to do it. She's in Fairhaven to collect from a mark, some sucker who got in way over his head with the wrong people. She and her partner have one job: get the money out of him any way they can. They have come to the wilderness to gain information about his assets by any means necessary. To play her part in this, Stacey will do whatever she has to in order to gain the mark's trust. She did not count on him approaching her. Nor did she expect the chemistry.

The complete Big Paw Security series! Contains the following stories: Bearly Tamed, Bearly Protected, Bearly Sheltered, Bearly Mended, Bearly Apart, and Bearly Together.

Just get in, get the scoop, and get out. Kora Lane stepped out of her air-conditioned car and into the blazing heat of this muggy Ozark valley. Her boss had sent her down here to sniff out a story: a local honey harvester was producing illicit moonshine on the side. The tip came in from an anonymous source, but she never passed up a juicy tip. Now she just had to get past this gorgeous mountain of a man that answered the door. Amir Thorne was a man with a secret. No matter how low key he tried to play it, there was always a type of woman who could sense it.

Addison Adelaide-Spencer has always had a natural talent for songwriting. She find herself humming a tune, then running around the house like a chicken with its head cut off looking for a pen and scrap of paper. Receipts, index cards, and magazines: nothing was safe from her scribbles. But these were songs she wrote for herself, not for anyone else. So when her Grandma sent her song to the Konstantine Talent Agency without her knowledge, Addison flipped her lid. Would these strangers accept her and her secret?

Elise Davenport was not having a good night. Just the day before she put her whole career on the line thanks to a few glasses of champagne. Loose lips can sink ships, and they can obliterate your social status. So here she was, stumbling through Fairhaven Park in pitch blackness, looking for the cabin she rented. She'd just hung up the phone with her agent when she heard the rumbling growl come from beside her. Not a good night at all.

Cashmere Woodall is infatuated with the Double M Ranch foreman, Harry. When she finds out he is gay and in a relationship, she is embarrassed. Bruce, Cain, and Danny Morten are overseeing the ranch while the owners are on vacation. The three men are so sexy and handsome, she can't keep her eyes off them. When Cash is assaulted on a night out, the three men decide to watch over and protect her. She is the woman they have been waiting for and begin to woo her.

Layla Moss came out to the wilderness to get away from the everyday grind. A nice vacation away from all things involving the women's section at her department store was just what the doctor ordered. She enjoyed her job, and sometimes she got to help bumbling, clueless men as they tried to buy something for the lady in their lives. But when her best friend set her up on a blind date with someone else out here in the cabins, Layla was the one who felt clueless.

Jasmine has always known that life wasn't fair. It wasn't fair that all her hard work keeping a home wasn't appreciated. It wasn't fair that none of that time counted as "experience," but she was desperate, so she had to take whatever there was. Stepping off the bus, she reminded herself that life didn't have to be fair, but it did have to be survived. As soon as she laid eyes on the handsome man who answered the door, she remembered something she'd suppressed for a long time: life had its sunny moments as well.

Luke Saint knows how to move among people. As drummer in The Four Saints, he isn't quite in the spotlight that his brother Matthew is. Sometimes that can be annoying, but sometimes being unseen has its advantages. Coming up on these thugs beating this poor helpless woman was one of those times. He tasted sour copper in his mouth and let out a roar as he charged the men. Then their world got turned upside down.

John might have the last name of Saint, but his family swears he made a deal with the Devil. Not one person from Ozarks to the Appalachias could strum a mandolin like him. And while he loved the harmonies he helped his family achieve on stage, he always felt something was missing inside. Until that night she came into The Fiddler's Cave, and for the first time in his life he thought there might be someone who felt like he did.

Cheryl Langford has had a lifetime of "always the bridesmaid, never the bride." Growing up with her best friend Beth, she always felt she lived in her best friend's shadow. Beth was an amazing friend, but Cheryl wanted to stop feeling like a supporting character in her own life. So when she heard that Beth was going to get married to a bear shifter bodyguard, it was a bittersweet event. Then she met Derrick, the groom's bear shifter brother, and her life would never be the same.

Addy Croft has always been the loyal, dutiful daughter to the Shifter Clan Leader who was her adoptive father. So when he trusted her with a task of utmost importance, she took it as a sing of his faith in her. She would go meet with a ferocious crew, the Clan that makes up Big Paw Security. This would just be another mission and she would handle herself like a professional. But as soon as she saw Marcus, the feelings she normally tried to keep pushed down made her tingle.

When a soldier is lost in the snowy mountains of Afghanistan, his girlfriend feels the loss thousands of miles away in Boston's Back Bay. Can a shadowy figure, known only as the shadow soldier, bridge the gap and help her heal?