KAYLA I'm an intern sent on a night-time mission for my boss to visit her office. I need to get some files for her that she forgot. I guess that she's a workaholic. When I'm in the office, I accidentally witness a political hit. Now, the assassin is after me.BRANDONI never met the only kid of my former drill sarge, Charlie, before she started working for my twin, Brittany. I have to help out and provide private security until the assassin is caught. She's in college, but I need to keep my hands off of her. With the curves of her body and irresistible smell, she's going to spell nothing but trouble.Suddenly, she's pregnant. Charlie knows about it.
My dad prepared me for everything… except falling for his best friend. PORTIA Running from homicidal gangsters wasn't on my weekend to-do list—and neither was getting steamy with a man more than twice my age. But even with the threat of death hanging over our heads, I've never felt safer than I do with Jake, the fiercely protective FBI agent who happens to be my dad's military buddy. Every touch makes the idea of giving him up feel more impossible, but what other choice do I have? My dad taught me how to protect myself from danger. I just wish he'd told me what to do when the one I'm fighting is me. JAKE The moment I laid eyes on Portia after all these years, I suspected I was in serious trouble. And the moment we shared our adrenaline-fueled first kiss, I knew it. Everything in me is screaming to hold her, protect her, give her the world. But if my best friend finds out how I feel about his daughter, he'll make sure I never go near her again—and I wouldn't blame him. But knowing she's off-limits isn't making it any easier to let her go. There can't be a future for us—we both know it—but I'm not sure that a future without her is one I can survive…
This CEO knows how to protect an innocent. Yvonne I may have lost my memory, but I don't trust the stranger in the hospital room who says that he'll take care of me. Rich men don't give away money for free. What does he want from me? Grey When my car breaks down in my childhood neighborhood, I catch Yvonne just as she is fainting. I can't explain the way I feel when I look at her. She reminds me of one of my old friends. When I realize that Ray Brewster wants Yvonne dead, I make plans to keep her safe. Yvonne fights my restrictions, and I don't know if I'll be able to do so. All I can do is my best to keep her safe from Ray and her best friend's older brother, Jeremy Malone.
I want to bend her over my desk and make her scream, but I shouldn’t. LINCOLN I want my secretary. Those tight skirts she wears leave little to the imagination. I can see every luscious curve. She has the face of an angel and curves that could tempt a choirboy into sinning. CAMILLA I have a crush on my boss, who happens to be best friends with my dad. He’s stern and bossy, with a handful of silver streaks in his hair. Gorgeous, yes, but also demanding as hell. Strict but fair. One day, he asks me to come in his office. And lock the door.
Stay away from strangers. KAREN My heart is hammering when I raise my hand to knock on the door of this dark house. Everyone knows you're not supposed to go to a house in the middle of nowhere to meet a stranger off of the Internet. Yet here I am, wearing my varsity cheerleading uniform and meeting a stranger in a dark house. JULIAN From the time I saw her, I was hooked forever. It's been torture to watch her and never be able to touch her. Now she's at my house, knocking on the door. I've been waiting for too long to strip her bare and take everything she has. She needs to know that she's MINE. Once I claim her, there's no going back.
The single dad next door needs a nanny. When my neighbor's nanny quits, I step in to watch Danny. When I move in, my secret crush on Jeff blossoms. I've had a crush on my dad's Army buddy a long time. And one night, I find myself in his bed. I give him my v-card. And then I'm wearing his grandmother's ring on my finger to save his company. Once I'm pregnant, our marriage seems a little too real. ***No cheating, guaranteed HEA***
“A documentary filmmaker and daughter of the late, great New York Times columnist David Carr celebrates and wrestles with her father’s legacy in a raw, redemptive memoir.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “A breathtaking read . . . a testimony equal parts love and candor. David would have had it no other way.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates, bestselling author of Between the World and Me NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GLAMOUR AND MARIE CLAIRE Dad: What will set you apart is not talent but will and a certain kind of humility. A willingness to let the world show you things that you play back as you grow as an artist. Talent is cheap. Me: OK I will ponder these things. I am a Carr. Dad: That should matter quite a bit, actually not the name but the guts of what that name means. A celebrated journalist, bestselling author (The Night of the Gun), and recovering addict, David Carr was in the prime of his career when he suffered a fatal collapse in the newsroom of The New York Times in 2015. Shattered by his death, his daughter Erin Lee Carr, at age twenty-seven an up-and-coming documentary filmmaker, began combing through the entirety of their shared correspondence—1,936 items in total—in search of comfort and support. What started as an exercise in grief quickly grew into an active investigation: Did her father’s writings contain the answers to the question of how to move forward in life and work without her biggest champion by her side? How could she fill the space left behind by a man who had come to embody journalistic integrity, rigor, and hard reporting, whose mentorship meant everything not just to her but to the many who served alongside him? All That You Leave Behind is a poignant coming-of-age story that offers a raw and honest glimpse into the multilayered relationship between a daughter and a father. Through this lens, Erin comes to understand her own workplace missteps, existential crises, and relationship fails. While daughter and father bond over their mutual addictions and challenges with sobriety, it is their powerful sense of work and family that comes to ultimately define them. This unique combination of Erin Lee Carr’s earnest prose and her father’s meaningful words offers a compelling read that shows us what it means to be vulnerable and lost, supported and found. It is a window into love, with all of its fierceness and frustrations. “Thank you, Erin, for this beautiful book. Now I am going to steal all of your father’s remarkable advice and tell my kids I thought of it.”—Judd Apatow
This CEO knows how to protect an innocent. Yvonne I may have lost my memory, but I don't trust the stranger in the hospital room who says that he'll take care of me. Rich men don't give away money for free. What does he want from me? Grey When my car breaks down in my childhood neighborhood, I catch Yvonne just as she is fainting. I can't explain the way I feel when I look at her. She reminds me of one of my old friends. When I realize that Ray Brewster wants Yvonne dead, I make plans to keep her safe. Yvonne fights my restrictions, and I don't know if I'll be able to do so. All I can do is my best to keep her safe from Ray and her best friend's older brother, Jeremy Malone.
Social media influencer Maya Wilkerson, one of Camilla's friends, is being stalked. Carter Jackson, the head of her father's security, is hard at work tracking down the culprit. With the two of them in close proximity and a stalker escalating every day, sparks fly. Will they be able to hunt down the stalker before it is too late?
Sergeant Bett Smythe and Lieutenant Gale Rains are building a life together, despite the risks in the tightly closeted world of the Women’s Army Corps. When another couple, Captain Kathleen Hartley and Lieutenant Victoria Whitman, invite Bett and Rain to a dinner party, they’re introduced to the lesbian underground on the base. Kat and Whit have had a turbulent relationship, and as a budding friendship deepens, Kat’s attraction to Rain threatens both couples’ futures. When Whit’s friend is accused of sexually assaulting a recruit, the ensuing investigation impacts them all, professionally and personally. As the Battle of the Bulge rages overseas, the bounds of love and friendship are tested. Whit will do almost anything to preserve what she has with Kat, but who is the real threat? And can Bett protect her relationship from the very real dangers close to heart and home?
