CAPTIVE HEARTS From hostages to prisoners of passion— Held at gunpoint in a mysterious crime, three women are soon bound by desire to the men sworn to protect them at all costs… Amanda Fielding remembered nothing of the crime she was suspected of, or the blow that caused her partial amnesia. She awakened in the E.R. to gaze into the eyes of her former lover, Dr. David Haines—the man whose touch flamed her deepest desires. The man she'd left without a word… To prove her innocent and save her from a killer, David would take her captive himself. But would he still trust her when he learned she was guilty—of not telling him about their baby…? In twenty-four hours, their lives change forever…
The Bachelor Bodyguards of Payne Protection Agency are back—and this time, it's personal Walking away from then-fiancée Amber Talsma was one of the hardest things sexy bodyguard Milek Kozminski ever had to do. But it was nothing compared to the shock of hearing she'd been killed in a car accident alongside the son Milek knew, deep down, was his. Amber will do anything to keep her child safe. Which was why she had to fake their deaths—to evade the assailant who murdered her boss, then came after her. But now someone has found them. And when Milek learns the truth, he'll stop at nothing to protect his son…and the woman he never stopped loving.
Garrett Skye took his bodyguard job seriously. So when he was accused of taking a life rather than protecting one, he was left with few options but to go on the run.
DENVER Accidentally receiving an explicit pic from my best friend was a surprise, but my reaction to it was a shocker. Last year, with one text, my eyes were opened to an attraction that's grown into so much more. No matter what my feelings are, he's still my best friend and I'll always have his back. So when he shows up at my door needing a place to live, I don't think twice. Having him so close and not being together is harder than I thought, but it's better than losing him completely. When an unexpected gift changes his life, I'm there and commit to helping him raise the child he's always wanted, regardless of my own heart. FORD I never expected to become a single dad. I always thought I'd be settled when it happened; be in a relationship, have a home, promoted at my job, basically living my picket fence dreams. While my life may not be going according to my plans, I at least have my ride-or-die best friend here by my side through it all. At first, I thought it was the sleep deprivation, but as time goes on, I'm starting to realize that seeing him with my son is doing unexpected things to my body and my heart. If I've learned anything recently, it's to take a chance on the unexpected. Just when I feel like I have a handle on my new life, my work leave gets cut short. A serial killer is on the loose and my team is called on to help catch him. I'm left torn between my duty as a detective, being a new father, and my rapidly growing feelings for my best friend. Will everything end up sunshine and rainbows or will our destiny be like dark cloud with lightning ready to strike us down?
Can trauma be inherited? In this luminous memoir of identity, exile, ancestry, and reckoning, an American writer returns to Russia to face a family history that still haunts him. It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of family trauma, and to end a cycle of estrangement that had endured for nearly a century. His search takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth. In Ukraine he tracks down his paternal grandfather--most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin--to reckon with the ways in which decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. He returns to Lithuania, his Jewish mother's home, to revisit the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for, learning that the boundary between history and biography is often fragile and indistinct. And he visits his birthplace, Moscow, where his glamorous grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet ministers' wives, his mother dosed dissidents at a psychiatric hospital, and his father made a living by selling black-market jazz and rock records. Finally, Halberstadt explores his own story: that of a fatherless immigrant who arrived in America, to a housing project in Queens, New York, as a ten-year-old boy struggling with identity, feelings of rootlessness, and a yearning for home. He comes to learn that he was merely the latest in a lineage of sons who grew up alone, separated from their fathers by the tides of politics and history. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his family's formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational transmission of fear, suspicion, melancholy, and rage. And he comes to realize something more: Nations, like people, possess formative traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their citizens' lives.
Bodyguard Clay West wasn't happy about his latest assignment: protecting a movie star. But seven-year-old Gracie Bryant needed his help and he intended to keep the adorable kid safe. Her mother, Libby, was another story. The drop-dead stunner made him ache, but he hid his attraction, especially since Libby seemed like a typical stage mother misusing her child to attain fame and fortune. And yet, as Clay witnessed a mother's vulnerability and discovered the heart beneath Libby's smooth facade, this born-and-bred cowboy rethought his mission. This could be more than a life-and-death assignment for Clay. This could be his destiny.
Hank "handsome as sin" Tyler is all that stands between Melody Thompson and the wrath of her sister's killer. The lonely widower—formerly a rancher—makes a perfect hunk of a bodyguard but leaves much to be desired as boyfriend material. With a precocious eight-year-old daughter to raise, he's sworn off love and marriage. Which is fine with Melody, who intends to go back to her life in Chicago. Besides, romance would distract them from catching the killer. But as days go by, the leads are few, the danger grave, the desire unforeseeable…until the night Hank guards Melody's body more passionately than either intended!
Fiercely independent, determined, driven and…betrayed. Grace Covington vowed never again to lay eyes on the arrogant, hotshot defense attorney who'd broken her heart. But everything changed when her stepfather was murdered, her sister found holding the bloody knife. Charlie Black was the only one who could help. Accepting the case would shatter the simple life Charlie established after taking charge of the family ranch in Cotter Creek, but he couldn't deny Grace's pleas. Discovering who was bent on destroying the Covington clan might be the only way to prove he was a changed man capable of protecting her—body and soul.
A pulse-pounding tale of romantic suspense by Lisa Childs, part of the Bachelor Bodyguards series! He can handle killers but guarding a beautiful woman? He’s defenseless. Tyce Jackson’s had some dangerous undercover assignments. But acting as Bella Holmes’s boyfriend is his riskiest yet. Because heiress Bella isn’t what he’d expected. And focusing on protecting her is proving to be a colossal challenge. Despite their mutual distrust, their seismic attraction is off the charts. But with killers watching Bella’s every move, Tyce must not lose his cool—or his heart. From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama. Bachelor Bodyguards: Book 1: His Christmas Assignment Book 2: Bodyguard Daddy Book 3: Bodyguard’s Baby Surprise Book 4: Beauty and the Bodyguard Book 5: Nanny Bodyguard Book 6: Single Mom’s Bodyguard Book 7: In the Bodyguard’s Arms Book 8: Soldier Bodyguard Book 9: Guarding His Witness Book 10: Evidence of Attraction Book 11: Bodyguard Boyfriend
