Two months ago, Carter made the decision to cut ties with Shayla Kline, a woman who he nursed back to health. A woman – the only woman – he'd ever fallen in love with.Shayla is convinced that Carter doesn't love her. And there is no way she can force herself to stay where she's not wanted, even after he makes a pop up visit to her job and takes her out to dinner. Having had enough of his mind games, she decides to leave Charlotte, North Carolina and move to Norfolk, Virginia where she has a new job lined up and ready to make a fresh start. With the help of her new boss, Donovan Sharper, she does just that.Carter worries constantly about Shayla being away. He knows if he's going to win her back, he has to tell her about how he really feels for her. Still, he doesn't have the courage to reveal that Jacob was his brother. He knows that sooner or later he will have to tell her, but he loves her too much to break her heart yet again. That is until his secret begins to eat away at him...

Ramsey St. Claire juggles his new role as husband to Gianna while at the same time running a million-dollar empire – St. Claire Architects. While work is important, everyone who knows Ramsey knows Gianna is his number one priority. She's his second chance at happiness, a chance he wasn't expecting but one he's grateful for.He loves her.More than life.More than anything.That's why he hangs on so tight. Analyzes her movements. Loves her hard. Watches her closely.Expecting their first child and still working at the bakery, Gianna is a woman who wears many hats. One thing she can always count on is the support of her loving husband. But does running the bakery, preparing for her little 'cupcake's arrival and an unforeseen request from her estranged mother bring more challenges than she can handle all at once?

Tyson Alexander is skeptical about pursuing Gabrielle, the ex-girlfriend of his cousin, Dilvan. But he soon realizes that his very strong, dominant feelings for Gabrielle will not go way - feelings that he can no longer ignore. Dilvan Alexander, Gabrielle’s former boyfriend and abuser, has been working on turning his life around in hopes of eventually winning her back. Now Gabrielle must determine which man she wants to be with. Will she give Dilvan another chance, or will she find Tyson’s love too good to pass up?

Tyson and Gabrielle Alexander are living the ideal life of marital bliss, but lurking in the shadows of their happiness is one crazy-in-love ex...Dilvan Alexander!Dilvan can't seem to get over Gabrielle and decides that there's only one way to get her out of his system for good - by having her one last time. The perfect opportunity arises when he learns that Gabrielle is attending an expo in Chicago with his mother, Padma. With Tyson out of the way, he can have Gabrielle all to himself. Or can he?New discoveries are made in The Alexanders, Book 3: Tyson's relationship with Gabrielle is beautifully displayed as his past slowly begins to unravel. Gabrielle develops a relationship with her sister-in-law, Tamera and cousin, Lalita. Heshan thinks about getting serious and settling down. Dilvan tries to mend his relationship with his brothers and is so desperate for Gabrielle that he'd do the unthinkable...

Monica's life is certainly no fairytale. She's failed at a relationship, at being a mother and at twenty-four, teaching is her only passion. She singles out Sean Beauvais, one of her student's fathers – at a parent teacher conference, and schools him about taking care of his son. Their exchange gets heated, but later, Sean realizes that he can use Monica's passion to his advantage; offering her a high-paying summer job being his son's live-in babysitter.Against her better judgment, Monica accepts his offer. Can she handle staying focused on her babysitting gig for three months, or will the job be too much for the young, conservative teacher to handle?Secrets On Lake Drive is an emotional story about a woman looking to correct wrongs in her life that could easily be solved by the secrets Sean quietly carries with him. The question is, will he ever care enough to tell her?

Desmond Champion is not like his brothers. He's not looking for a soul mate, partially because he already knows who his soul mate is - his kryptonite - Sherita Wilkins. That doesn't mean he wants a relationship with her. His heart belongs to him and only him. To give it away now would be absurd. That's why, for the last year, he's been staying away from her. By keeping her out of his sight, she'd stay out of his mind and nowhere near his heart. Besides, she was the type of woman who wanted all the things he didn't want - marriage and children being at the top of that list.All was going well for the thirty-year-old bachelor until...The Champion Corporation gets offered a multi-million dollar deal that hinges on Desmond's relationship with Sherita. It would be hard to avoid her when they would have to 'work' together for this deal - one that would set The Champion Corporation apart from its competitors. One that was too good to turn down. But can he secure the deal without risking...

I'm one of those shy, introverted types, but my dream man is the exact opposite. He's outgoing. Straightforward. A businessman. But he's just a 'dream man' because I know he's not attainable. Not real. Just a product of thoughts on my pillow at night. But that all changes when I lay eyes on the exact man I want.Trevor Myerson is the man of my dreams.He's one of those guys who has the whole package. One that you'd be shocked to learn is SINGLE. His interest in me is surprising since, in the words of my bestie, Priscilla, I'm boring and drab (yeah, she really said I was 'drab', whatever the freak that means...). But Trevor likes me. Don't know why, but he does. He says we're friends and he wants to 'draw me out'. Have me try new things. I'm cool with it, but it would be nice if he was more than just a friend. I wanted the man of my dreams to actually be 'my' man.When I finally get my chance, it all comes dwindling down just as easily as dreams end when you...

Tyson and Gabrielle Alexander are expecting a baby soon and, along with their family and friends, they are beyond excited to welcome the newest Alexander to the family. But when Lalita finally drops the bombshell to Padma that she suspects Dilvan drugged Gabrielle, the excitement of welcoming a new baby has all dwindled down into fear – fear that the baby Gabrielle is carrying is not Tyson's since there is a chance Dilvan could be the father.Padma tries to hold everything together and keep the revelation from Lalita under wraps until the time is right, but bits and pieces of the story gets out and the butchered version Tyson overhears from Heshan has him ready to walk away from his marriage to Gabrielle and confront Dilvan for the last time.Friendship and family loyalty is put to the ultimate test in book four. Will Gabrielle's baby shower be ruined? Is Gabrielle and Tyson's marriage strong enough to survive the fallout from yet another invasion from an obsessed, Dilvan Alexander?...

Accidental Deception is a story about love versus loyalty, the tug-of-war that dictates every action Carter Williams will take after he stumbles upon a homeless woman, Shayla Kline, in Uptown Charlotte. Completely out of character for the usually self-centered bachelor, he puts his life on hold to spend a few nights with the stranger in the hospital. That’s when he makes an earth shattering discovery – Shayla was the fiancée of Jacob, his estranged brother. His brother who hated him. His brother who recently committed suicide. His brother who, despite the animosity between them, wrote him a suicide note asking him to take care of Shayla. Out of guilt and fulfillment of Jacob’s final wish, he moves Shayla into his home and gives her everything she needs to start over. The more she confides in him, the deeper their relationship grows and Carter not only wants to help her, he finds himself wanting desperately to love her, to be a man for her, to give her everything his brother could not. There’s only one problem – Shayla does not know that Jacob was his brother. Now, Carter wages an internal war within himself with his own morals – morals that tells him he should be loyal to his brother by not pursuing Shayla. But it’s hard to walk away from the only woman that has been able to awaken his heart. ### From the Author Accidental Deception

Andre is a millionaire business man who meets and marries the woman of his dreams on a vacation in the Bahamas...Ava is a young woman struggling with health problems and a 'why me' attitude. But when she finds out she's pregnant, her life takes on new meaning. Ava, however, fails to let Andre know that she's pregnant.Then he finds out...Their lives unfold in this three-part series that takes you on a roller coaster of emotions. And just what will a man do for the woman he loves more than himself?* * *NOTE: If you've already purchased individual copies of the Dying To Love Her series, you do not need to purchase this boxed set.This Boxed Set contains the COMPLETE Dying To Love Her Series and includes:Dying To Love HerDying To Lover Her 2Dying To Love Her 3

Royal St. Claire was drawn to Gemma Jacobsen from the start. It was an instant connection that he'd never had with another woman. When she was on her sickbed, he stayed by her side, helped to nurse her back to health and the two became the best of friends. Then that friendship grew into something deeper. Something Royal, the picky bachelor, couldn't deny. Something he didn't want to deny. It evolved into LOVE.Doubts about the relationship and herself plague Gemma's thoughts. She tries to force the negativity away but Royal's a great guy, so the thoughts linger at forefront of her mind. A hard life and a caring sister has taught her what true love is – when you love someone more than you love yourself. It's how she feels for Royal – how she thinks Royal feels for her, but how can he when, in her eyes, he's the personification of male perfection while she's just – well – the lighthearted, short-haired sick girl.Their worlds are blended, but their hearts collide in this friends to...

He's a widower ready to find love again. She's a widow who's still grieving. But he wants her... Dante Champion is on a mission to make Emily Mitchell his wife by any means necessary - even if it means resorting to trickery to lure her to a grief retreat in Pleasure Island, North Carolina, hoping she'll get the help she needs and play wifey until she falls in love with him. Two years after her husband passed, Emily is still grieving his death. She's buried herself in her work, in making her high-end boutique a success. She has no interest in dating again and she's definitely not about to be swept off her feet by one of those womanizing Champion brothers. Will she find it difficult to resist a sexy, sophisticated Champion man who has his sights set on her, or will her lonely, calloused heart forever belong to her deceased husband?ReviewThe Champion Brothers Series:His Paradise Wife (Dante and Emily)When a Champion Wants You (Dimitrius and Melanie)**Books can be read in any order as standalone books. From the AuthorPrologue Dante Champion sure was fine... Emily could admit that very easily to herself, but she'd never do such a thing to anyone else, especially not to her best friend, Melanie. When she thought of Dante, the tall, sexy, muscular being that bled testosterone through his pores and wore confidence like his thousand dollar suits, she always remembered this - the last time she saw him. It was a few weeks back, but she could recall the event like it had happened yesterday. Dante was just one of those distinguished,rarefied men that a person never forgets. That a woman never forgets. He'd been walking along the sidewalk by her little boutique on Battery Park Avenue with enough swag to melt ice. It had snowed that week, the last week in April, and the temperature was leveling out at around thirty-five degrees. Emily had been sitting behind the counter, on a barstool sipping on a cup of hot cocoa. Her assistant and friend, Sherita, had stayed home that day since the roads in her neighborhood hadn't been plowed. There was no way she could drive in such treacherous conditions. Therefore, Emily had to perform all the operations of the boutique - including working the register, hanging new items and pricing them. Additionally she had to do closing work that entailed sweeping the floors, wiping down the counter and closing out the cash drawer.At any rate, Emily couldn't believe it was actually him, Dante Champion, strolling by her store. In the town of Asheville, North Carolina, that was the equivalent to President Obama walking down the road without his security detail. It was just unheard of.Dante's ten-story office building, the building that he himself owned, was five blocks away. Five blocks. He couldn't be walking to work could he, when he could've easily summoned a taxi or better yet, called his personal driver to swing by in the limo, black Escalade or the Maserati, and pick him up. Stranger things have happened, Emily thought to herself. Maybe the man just felt like walking.Fast forward to six o'clock in the evening...Emily was bored out of her mind. The store had been slow, so slow that she could count the number of customers she had all day on one hand. She'd yawned and stretched enough times to make the Guinness Book of World Records and she caught herself nodding off several times."Ugh...is it time to go home yet," she drawled out. Even though it was her store and she could leave any time she wanted, she always made sure to remain open during the regular operating hours that were posted on the door. It was good business practice, one of the pointers that Melvin had given her. He stressed the importance of consistency to maintain validity as a small business owner. He always used to tell her that small business owners were actually big business owners who were just starting out. She believed that and she believed in him.She sighed, rubbed her eyes until she heard the small bell ringing at the top of the boutique door entrance, alerting her that she had a customer. With tired eyes, she looked up and there stood one of the most sought after men on the Eastern seaboard - Dante Champion - standing six feet tall, dressed in a black business suit covered by an unbuttoned black peacoat with the collars flipped up, enhancing his broad shoulders while drawing attention to his handsome face. Black, leather gloves covered his manly hands and a skull cap fit perfectly on his head.Emily instantly felt a nervous twinge run through her like a jolt of uncontrolled electricity, but of course she couldn't let Dante see her sweat. He was probably accustomed to the attention he received from women. She imagined that he would feast off of the way women reacted in his presence - women who would instantly become flushed, nervous and nearly drool at the very sight of him. Women who deemed it an honor just to be close to him. In the same room as him.Nope. Not her. No way. There was no way she would get caught up under his spell. So she pretended as if his creamy, Werther's Original caramel candy complexion, the result of his African-American, French and Irish heritages, had no effect on her when the truth of the matter was, her mouth was watering uncontrollably for something sweet this very second.She nervously cleared her throat, swallowed hard then took a sip of cocoa to satisfy her craving for sugar. She quickly glanced up at Dante walking closer to the counter where she was sitting, then she looked away. She wanted to look up at him once more since he was walking so slowly. Then again, she didn't want to. Honestly speaking, he was too beautiful to look at and too beautiful to ignore, sort of like staring directly at the sun. Sure, it was a beautiful creation, but one could cause damage to their sight by just gazing upon it.Dante knew full well the power he had with his handsome appearance. He and his brothers had inherited a bunch of good genes from their parents. Their good looks and features were unique enough to make people ask about their heritage and stare longingly into their hazel eyes.Emily, however, maintained her stance on not getting caught in a trance with him. She was tempted to lose herself in his eyes, but she pretended to be otherwise engaged on her laptop instead of being hypnotized by his appeal. There was no need to entertain the thought of being with a Champion man. They were well-known in Asheville for being notorious womanizers and since they were extremely good-looking, successful and had loads of money, women fell at their feet and into their beds as easily as their millions fell into their bank accounts. Finally, after reaching the counter, Dante greeted her with a simple hello. She spoke to him as well and afterwards, he boldly asked her out to lunch. Meeting his gaze so he could know she meant what she said, Emily declined with a resolute 'no'. When she did, she could see the smirk on Dante's face. He didn't appear defeated when she turned him down, nor did he seem fazed. His look was one of determination, which was something Emily couldn't understand. Why was he so determined to go on a date with her when he could have any woman he wanted? Then it dawned on her. Maybe he'd already had every woman he wanted and she was next woman on his to-do list. If that's what he was thinking, then he was in for a rude awakening because Emily Mitchell was one item on his list that wouldn't get checked off.

Donovan Sharper is left torn and defeated after being turned down by Shayla Kline, the only woman to touch his heart since the death of his wife five years ago.Worried about her son's current state of depression, his mother urges him to go on a cruise to get away from his hectic life as a workaholic and single father. During his vacation, he meets Kamila Jenkins – a fun-loving, younger woman who forces him to let go of his frustration and live a little.Donovan can admit he enjoys the time he spends with Kamila, but can he let go of his feelings for Shayla to make his heart available again? Or will he let Kamila slip away?

~The Champion Brothers Family Novel~Dante wants another child. Emily feels guilty for not spending enough time with the child they already have, their one-year-old son, Ezra. Struggling with motherhood while trying to ensure her boutique is a success, she's not ready for more children.Melanie runs into her ex - Scott - again. Scott had left her heartbroken when he found out she couldn't have children. Since seeing her with her daughter Grace, Scott feels like Melanie owes him an explanation. Melanie keeps Dimitrius out of the loop. The last thing she wants is for him to think she still has feelings for her ex. But her plan backfires.Sherita knows she married a fine, millionaire boss, Desmond Champion. That's why she's under pressure trying to lose baby weight after giving birth to their twins, Celeste and Nolan, six months ago. She's working hard to be a good mother while trying to run her photography studio - not to mention dealing with postpartum and intimacy issues that's...

Romulus St. Claire operates under the guise that he'll never marry. In the back of his mind, he knows it's a lie. He would marry if the woman was special enough – someone like his best friend, Siderra Monroe. He's in no hurry to make her his. He's still in limbo with his feelings and he doesn't believe he's ready for a woman like her, even though he has a feeling she's in love with him.Siderra has been in love with Romulus for years now and has grown tired of playing the friend role while watching him date other women. Figuring it's time to move on, she limits her time with Romulus to start dating, but how can she really date when her heart belongs to her best friend?Romulus can't handle another man stealing her attention. He wants her, but he doesn't want to hurt her by his history of being carefree and nonchalant when it comes to women. He's a man conflicted. Confused. Tortured by his own emotions. He's a man who's on the verge of losing the only woman...