WILD ONE--Book 3 Caden Kink series
Dallas' willful, hot-as-hell granddaughter meets a wolf in sheep's clothing...
Young country doctor Les Fourchet falls hard for Deidre Caden, spoiled princess of the Bar C. A nice guy who's fun to be with, Les seems too nice to Deidre, who wants a man to control her, the way her brothers control their partners--well, maybe not quite that much but still...
A closet Dom, Les enjoys BDSM play on weekly visits to the Neon Lasso--always masked to hide his identity from potential patients who might be put off by his kinky activities. He takes care to treat Deidre as the vanilla princess he thinks she is, until one night when Deidre shows up at the club and he can't resist picking her from the crowd of unattached subs. She's a totally different and fully intriguing lover who obviously doesn't recognize him in his black leather gear.
Dare he reveal himself? And if he does will the revelation end what they're both thinking might be a love for a lifetime? See how Les tames his wild one and helps Deidre discover he is all she needs--one sweet lover and one hot Dom rolled into one.
COURTHOUSE CONNECTIONS: a brand-new Ellora's Cave series spun off from Lawyers in Love
TOO HOT TO KILL:
Young, beautiful Lanie Winstead has been arrested for the murder of her husband, State Senator Wayne Winstead. The state's top defense lawyer believes in Lanie's innocence and assigns crack investigator, JD Fourchet, to prove she didn't do the deed. Sparks immediately fly between JD and Lanie as they try to sort out the evidence that has gotten her charged with capital murder. JD at first believes Lanie is lying about the supposedly idyllic state of her marriage to the Senator, and he manages to suppress his attraction to her. Then he learns about Lanie’s brutal rape before her marriage, and soon afterward that Lanie’s marriage was a sham to keep her husband’s sexual preference under wraps. Following a confrontation with Lanie about what he has learned, hey give in to lust, which complicates the investigation.
JD's snooping into the lives of the dead man’s former lovers bears no fruit. Convinced the police have deliberately avoided following leads that might implicate members of Lanie’s wealthy, powerful in-laws, JD digs in and discovers dirt about the Winstead family that rivals what he was used to seeing before he left the New Orleans police department and became chief investigator for the Tampa law firm. As his investigation intensifies, strange things begin to happen. A bar owner who gave JD information ends up floating in the lake behind his run-down roadhouse. Lanie is kidnapped as she walks to her car in the Winston-Roe parking lot. JD traces the license tag of the pickup truck that sped out with her and rushes to save her. Barely evading a barrage of bullets, he manages to wound the two men who took Lanie and free her from a produce warehouse before it is engulfed in flame.
They learn Lanie’s brother-in-law was behind the kidnapping, and that he commissioned his brother’s murder after Wayne refused to further legislation that would have helped him gain a lucrative state contract. Free from the lies she has lived for years, Lanie can now give JD not only her passion but her love.
ENTICE AND TAME:
On the surface, BDSM club Domme, Elena Leto and her submissive partner and sex slave, Corey Wells, seem most unsavory clients to Winston-Roe associate Hank Ehlers. Elena is charged with involuntary manslaughter following the death of a club member. following an intense scene in which Elena took part. The fact that she is in the sex business makes her a pariah in the media and a prime target for a state attorney bent on using her conviction and imprisonment as a springboard to his re-election.
Elena, a buxom woman with a smart mouth. a lust for life and a determination to protect the painfully submissive Corey, is very different from any woman the newly divorced Hank has ever known. He begins having highly arousing fantasies about being under Elena’s control, experiencing the sting of the flogger she used on the man the police say was her victim. He imagines himself joining Corey in giving their mutual Mistress pleasure. As Hank spends more time with his client, his attraction toward her and her lifestyle grows stronger. It looks as if Elena will be convicted, until the law firm's investigators unearth evidence that the dead man had been a potential cardiac transplant patient—in other words, a dead man walking whether or not he had taken part in the BDSM scene that proved fatal. Hank also finds a witness to the man’s admission that he hoped to die rather than live as an invalid unable to continue in his chosen lifestyle.
In his first major trial as lead attorney, Hank wins acquittal for Elena. Not able to bear the thought of losing her, he admits his obsession and accepts her invitation to come to the club and sample the submissive lifestyle she will require of a lover. When they play, he finds sexual satisfaction that escaped him during the years of his marriage, with her and Corey. Hank soon realizes he must choose between the society lifestyle into which he was born and a life with Elena and Corey that makes him feel alive and fulfilled. It takes the threat of losing the two people he loves to make him opt for personal happiness even if it costs him his career as well as the respect of his family and friends.
BEYOND SHAME:
Tampa’s legal movers and shakers crowd into Bennie’s Place across from the courthouse at lunchtime and after court is over, eager for a beer or cocktail and a bread bowl full of Bennie’s famous stew to wash down the latest rumors and innuendo about who’s doing what and whom and how. Selena, the bar owner, is involved in a contentious divorce from her bigamous husband who is determined to get Bennie's Place in the settlement. Melinda George, a family practice attorney who is handling the divorce. suspects that Selena’s husband is obviously getting money from somewhere to fund the property settlement fight as well as his defense on criminal bigamy charges. She hires retired Navy Seal Alan Sanders, now a private investigator, to determine who is funding the fights and why.
Alan comes in constant contact with Selena after Bennie’s Place is vandalized. It is a case of mutual lust at first sight, and a relationship develops despite Selena’s initial resistance.
It soon becomes clear that someone other than Selena’s husband wants Bennie’s Place and is working through the bigamous bastard to achieve his goal. During the past year, separate corporations have bought up several properties in the same square block with Bennie’s Place. These corporations have a common shareholder, a local venture capitalist known for skirting the law. Because Selena’s resources are stretched thin, Alan pays personally to have the venture capitalist and Selena’s husband tailed. Fiercely independent, Selena is furious. She needs no man’s help. He admits his feelings for Selena after they spend a weekend at his lakeside cabin, and she agrees to let him help her save her business.
When Selena’s husband turns down her offer of a cash settlement far greater than half the value of the pub, Melinda advises Selena that if the man wants a piece of Bennie’s as a part of the divorce settlement, he will almost certainly get it under Florida’s modified community property laws. To no avail, Selena begs her husband to reconsider. Her entreaties do no good, but Alan’s threats convince him to accept the settlement offer. Selena sells Bennie’s Place to the developer but negotiates a deal for a new Bennie’s to be built into the first floor of the new high-rise office building. She has found something more important than her business—the man she loves.
REDEEMED BY LOVE:
Eleven years ago Zach Goodman became a pariah when he threw away a promising future for cocaine. After two years’ incarceration and five trying to survive on the few jobs open to a convicted felon while battling an alcohol addiction he developed while seeking a crutch to help keep him off illegal drugs, he is pardoned. In three more years Zach turns his life around, earns a law degree, passes the bar and convinces Winston-Roe partners Tony Landry and Gray Syzmanski he deserves a shot at success in Tampa’s most prestigious firm.Life is good. Zach has a condo on Tampa Bay, friends who have stood by him through all his trouble and a great relationship with Melinda George, a family practice attorney who was his best friend through his high school years and is still that but also a damn hot lover. The only regret Zach has is that he has become a stranger to his son, who lives in Atlanta with his mother who walked out on Zach when the child was five months old.
Mel stood by him during all his troubles, and the longer they spend together the more certain he becomes that she’s not only his best friend and lover but also his soulmate. Zach asks her to marry him, grateful that she knew all about the skeletons in his closet long before their friendship heated into so much more. In love with Zach since they were kids, Mel accepts his proposal. Their wedding, a simple affair on picturesque Cabbage Key, is the culmination of all Mel’s dreams.
Two days later, as they stroll along the sandy Gulf beach, Zach gets a disturbing call. His ex’s married lover is dead, shot by his estranged wife. His ex is hospitalized with life-threatening wounds. Social services plan to place his son in foster care. As much as he loves Mel, he can’t turn his back on his child. He arranges to have the boy brought to Tampa after giving a brief explanation to Mel as to why their honeymoon is coming to a grinding halt.
Mel has mixed feelings about them becoming instant parents to a seven year old neither of them has seen since Zach's ex took him and walked out on Zach when the boy was six months old. Sad the little boy witnessed the shootings, hurt that she and Zach now suddenly has to alter his well-laid plans, Mel wonders if their brand-new marriage will survive what will be a severe test. How will they cope with a seriously traumatized seven year old? How can they juggle the practical considerations of providing child-friendly living space and competent child care when both she and Zach have demanding jobs that often go way beyond nine to five?
Zach senses Mel’s misgivings and tries to reassure her, but he also has his doubts. It's true, he doesn't know his son, hasn't seen him for years or spoken with him beyond weekly phone calls that have become very awkward. He can only imagine the poison his ex and the slime she lived with have spewed to his son about him. He knows this won't be easy--and it isn't. As they sort out the issues of their demanding jobs, a hurt and confused child and married life that places new strains on their formerly carefree sex life, they must make hard decisions that affect not only them but also a little boy they have quickly come to love.
