Springwood Series

When it's right, it's right. Zane Kendrick has finally returned home after being in the Army for twenty-two years. Empty he isn't sure what his future holds for him until he runs into Zoë Duncan working in her father's shop. When he sees her again, out, he realizes she's no longer the little girl who followed her brothers and his around. This Zoë was all woman. And his feelings for her have changed.  Zoë Duncan has loved Zane forever. He's been the object of all her fantasies and when the opportunity arrives for her to experience him for real, she can't refuse. However, a one night stand doesn't change anything in her mind. He's still off limits, she's not about to risk the relationship between their families for her own desires.  Zane, isn't a man who lets go of what he wants and he wants Zoë. He'll have to work to get past her defenses. When trouble arrives at her door, he's there but will it be enough for him to convince her to give them a shot? Can he make her see it's always been her? This part of a series and has been previously released. 

Sometimes you have to lose it before you realize what you had… Cade Kendrick has a reputation of being a playboy in town. One he's proud of and has worked to keep up. Women were a blur until he shared a night with a woman who'd always had a more important place in his heart. Cora Sunderland had been crushing on Cade since school. Aware he was how he was, she'd kept it strictly flirtatious. The night that changed, everything did. However, she wants more than to be just another notch on the belt of a playboy and takes matters into her own hands. Unwilling to let her go, he struggles to find her and accepts that to keep the woman of his dreams, he will have to stop being the playboy he's seen as and grow up.  This book is part of a series and has previously been released.

***This was originally published in Lucy Kevin's Four Weddings Kindleworld. All her elements have been removed.*** Donal O'Keefe is aware that although he's the best man at his friend's wedding, in truth this is more of a dry run for his wedding, if the mother of the bride has anything to say about it. He's the CFO for a gaming company and has little time to think of marriage, much less to a woman he barely dates. A call from another groomsman has him waiting for the little sister of the man who will be running late. She's filling in for her brother until he arrives. Mindy Watkins isn't quite sure how she got into this situation. A trip to visit her brother has turned into a snafu. Now she has to hang out with the groomsmen until he arrives. What she doesn't count on is falling for the best man. Determined not to ruin anything she fights the attraction best she can. However, weddings are magical times and although it may not seem like it at the time, things happen for a reason. With his spiteful ex-girlfriend, snobbish parents, and her overprotective older brother, will these two ever be able to find their own happily ever after?

***This was previously released as a story in Melody Anne's Billionaire Kindleworld. All elements of her world have been removed.*** Sometimes doing the right thing, is not doing what you'd first intended. All it took was heavy rain, a motorcycle, and a poor decision and Royal Hamilton who made his living acquiring and developing property, found himself under a tree, having been robbed and with no memory of who he was. Jules Tarrington isn't sure what to make of the strange man she finds on the back end of her horse farm, he doesn't look like a man who's used to hard physical labor. However, she can't just leave him there so she takes him back to the house and sends for the doctor. As he recovers his strength he works beside Jules at her farm. During which bits and pieces return to him about who he is. When it all clicks into place, he finds himself in a unique dilemma, does he continue to pursue the property for the money or should he follow his heart's advice and leave it alone for it belongs to the woman he's fallen in love with. Better question would be, will she believe he hadn't pretended about his memory loss to turn her affections?  

Taking that first step is always the hardest… Nate Kendrick has had a thing for his new housekeeper ever since he met her. Aboveboard on it all, he never pursues it until the night they are without his brothers' as chaperones. No longer can he ignore his desire for her.  Leandra Brice is working on her dream and being employed by the Rocking K Ranch is only a step along the way. So what if the eldest is the star of her every fantasy? Giving in may not be smart, but it sure does feel good. Their affair is hot and whirlwind until the season catches up and chills it to frost. When Leandra leaves, Nate is going to need more than luck to get her to believe his heart belongs to her.  This is part of a series and this book has been previously released.

Sometimes the most passionate heat resides behind walls of ice… Dorian West puts down the bottle when a request comes in from a man, he respects more than anything to help find a woman running scared. Agreeing, he discovers, she is one he could spend a lifetime getting to know and still not unearth all her secrets. Hard to when she hides behind an icy demeanor. He does have one way to get her to thaw out… Sakharre Myers is on the run. Her brother plays on defense for the Hialeah Cougars and she is tired of being used to get closer to him. After one relationship turns dangerous, she hightails it out of Hialeah. Despite her mistrust and attempts to get away from the man named Dorian there isn't any way to ignore the sizzling passion between herself and this man sent after her. Stress and fear can accelerate a relationship and then the question becomes, will it last once everything settles down? Will they have a chance together or will Sakharre once more retreat behind her walls of ice? ***This is a rerelease, all parts that had been in while it had been part of a Kindleworld series have been removed.***

It only takes one moment to change the game forever…  Sergej Markovich is the star player, the left winger, for the Washington Raptors. And he wants the Stanley Cup. Asked by his friend and teammate to pick up a woman from the airport, he doesn't realize that this woman is the one, the only one, who would be able to delay his game. She's not at all as he expected and now that he's met her, all he can think about is getting beneath the layers she has around her. Constantine Gleason is taking a break from work to hang out with her best friend to watch Vale's brother's hockey team in the quarterfinals of the run for the Stanley Cup. Only when she sees who's picking her up--not her friend Vale, or Vale's brother, she isn't sure she's not dreaming. Sex on skates. And when the opportunity comes, she takes it not caring about how she may feel in the morning. Their whirlwind relationship has the potential for more, if they are both willing to make sacrifices. And that's the question, is Sergej willing to let there be a delay of game?

Some dares are worth everything… Luca "Hard Man" Van der Laar is the top bad boy player for his MLS team, Washington Ospreys. While attending a multi-sport charity event, he lays eyes on a woman he wants to call his own. But can he keep her after their one night? Kaitlyn Henderson never expected to find a one-night stand at the event she attends. But there he was and there they were. From a family of cops, and as a 911 dispatcher herself, she embraces life, taking it as it comes, understanding that the next second may be your last. She wasn't expecting anything more than their one shared night. However, he takes that as a dare and is determined to prove there is so much more between them than twenty-four hours. ***This is a rerelease of a story that used to be in Kindleworlds. All links to that author's world have been removed***

He's determined to heal the pain he caused Rutger Jasper is a doctor who has an earned and deserved reputation as a player with the ladies. There is one in town however that he keeps at a distance, but not for the reason she thinks. Sasha Bouvet, a nurse, pursuing her law degree only admires Rutger from afar. Aside from their joking and teasing at work, she knows as she doesn't fit the mold of the type he chases, and she doesn't stand a chance. Until their one dance changes everything. Unable to stay away, Rutger realizes his reasons in the past no longer matter. She's who he wants and he will do whatever it takes to become a permanent fixture in her life. She will be leaving after the Christmas holiday unless he convinces her to stay and give them a shot at a future together.   ***This story was out in a boxset over the 2020 holiday season.***