Baxter Boys Series by Jessie Gussman
Baxter Boys #1
What He Wants
Jessie Gussman
He's the boy from the wrong side of the tracks. She's the pickle fortune heiress. They had an innocent summer fling, then she made a catastrophic mistake and he paid the price...Cassidy Kimbell knows Torque didn't have to lie and serve her time. Because of his sacrifice, she's spent the last ten years making some major changes in her life. She's become a lawyer and a child advocate, always fighting for the underdog. Still, she can't keep herself from feeling like she owes the man who made it all possible. But he won't tell her what he wants.After being released from a ten-year prison stint for a crime he didn't commit, Torque Baxter is eager to get back to working on his passion—diesel motors. Except the out-of-date Popular Mechanics magazines provided by the prison weren't enough to keep him competitive, and no one wants to hire a convict with a rap sheet, no matter how undeserving it is. Cassidy thinks she owes him and doesn't realize that there's only one thing he's ever wanted.What do ten years of a man's life cost?
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Baxter Boys #2
Tough Talk
Jessie Gussman
An energetic philanthropist and a quiet mechanic are thrown together through a car accident. But the mechanic has a secret and the philanthropist has a fiancé. When the secret is exposed, the philanthropist must make a choice: will she choose love over money?Kelly Irwin just wants to help children like she used to be—underprivileged, hungry, and with a family so mixed up she wasn't sure who she really belonged to. None of them wanted the responsibility to raise her. She's convinced herself that she loves her fiancé and that they'll make a great team.Tough Baxter is trying to establish his business and keep his side job a secret. After all, most people don't think that a man who can barely string two sentences together in the presence of a woman would make a very good relationship advice columnist. Then Kelly moves her children's center next door to his garage and suddenly not only are his plans to expand his shop wrecked, but his secret is in danger of being exposed.After spending time with Tough working and helping kids, Kelly can't deny the attraction she feels for the soft-spoken mechanic. But she has a fiancé and a life plan which doesn't include Tough, so she turns to the advice columnist all of America is writing to. Will he tell her to follow her heart or pursue her dream?
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Baxter Boys #3
Serious Fun
Jessie Gussman
Harris Winslett can't believe she lost her leading man. No. What she really can't believe is that her friends think their brother-in-law, Harris's childhood nemesis, Turbo Baxter, might be able to play the part.However opening night is three short weeks away and she has no other options. She can only hope he suddenly develops a brain, acting skills and a big boil on his handsome face, because when the guy decides to be charming, he is irresistible. Still, she refuses to fall for a man who hates libraries and has never read a book.In order to get his truck fixed, trucking company owner, Turbo Baxter, must agree to be the leading man in the stuffy librarian's play production. Turbo takes the part because he needs his rig back on the road, even though he hates books, libraries and, most of all, librarians.Turbo is actually starting to enjoy antagonizing the stodgy librarian, until opening night, when the entire play is in jeopardy and he must work together with Harris to save it.Can two opposites overcome their differences and fall in love?
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Baxter Boys #4
Bring Me Back
Jessie Gussman
A driven company executive and a hard-working mechanic must set aside their differences and try to work together.After spending the last fourteen years raising his twin sisters, Ben Baxter is ready to start his own diesel repair business. But the big trucking company he works for asks him to move to Pennsylvania and manage their home terminal shop, which is located in his home town. Ben has to turn the offer down—his estranged family thinks he's married and he won't show up without a wife at his side. His sisters, ever resourceful, hatch a plan to get their brother "married."Riley Coleman has been tasked with turning the underperforming home terminal shop of her family's company into a profit-turning masterpiece. She's worked her butt off for the company, and is determined to get the corner office her father has promised if she is successful. The key to pulling it off is getting the best shop manager. She knows the perfect man. Unfortunately, he's not interested…unless she agrees to his terms.Can they work together despite their painful past and the sparks that still fly between them?
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Baxter Boys #5
Fly Away
Jessie Gussman
She's a daredevil. He's a healer.Therapists can't date clients anyway.After breaking her back in a horrible bike accident, motocross princess Dusty Gibson faces months of physical therapy just to walk normally again. Her handsome physical therapist makes her recovery a little more pleasant. But no relationships for her.She has a championship to win.Roland wants to start his own practice. He can't bend the rules now. Even if she's the first woman he's met who can make him forget his dead fiancée. He already lost one woman who was addicted to speed. He's not risking his heart on another.Could love be the ultimate cure?
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