Kait Nolan
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Jilting The Kilt
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Arranged marriages are so three centuries ago. But that doesn"t stop Afton Lennox from being bound by one. All her life she"s been pledged to wed Connor MacKean. It"s the only way to save both their families" estates, and they"re friends, after all, so it won"t be that bad. Right?Hamish Colquhoun has spent his entire adult life trying to find a way to liberate his best friend from a marriage he doesn"t want. If it also spares the woman he"s secretly loved for years, it"s of no mind to him. He"s already got a wife and family of his own. Freeing them both is just the right thing to do.But with the wedding just days away, time is running short. Afton and Connor are prepared to do their duty, fulfilling the pact made by their long-dead ancestors. There"s one option Hamish hasn"t mentioned. It would only buy some time at best and risk everything at worst. But as Afton begins to question everything, Hamish finds he can"t stay silent.God save them all.
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Just Wanted You To Know
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Livia Applewhite needs a change. Her awful boss has made the job she used to love a serious drag. On top of that, it seems everyone around her is paired off in romantic bliss. It"s enough to give a girl a complex. Hoping a change of scenery will give her new perspective, she sets off for a two-week trip to Tennessee to visit her favorite cousin.It"s been more than a decade since Declan Callahan has thought about anything but being a dad. But when his extensive (and meddling) foster family wrangles him into a "chance" encounter with the first love he had to leave behind, he"s wise enough not to waste it. He"s got a long-overdue apology to make.But as that apology opens a door long shut, Livia and Declan give in to the spell of nostalgia, basking as all those old feelings kindle anew. They"re fully grown now, with lives in different places. Will this brief encounter be enough to convince Livia to give the undeniable connection between them a real second chance?
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Grump in a Kilt
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A grump who lost his family...After a devastating loss, Malcolm Niall has spent the past twenty years hiding from the world. As manager of a Highland estate, he"s built a life of purpose, caring for the land and animals. And for the past six months, his peace has been utterly destroyed by a sexy Southern whirlwind who"s never met a stranger. Worse, they have to work together daily.His sunshiny nemesis who"s starting a new lifeNothing about Charlotte Vasquez"s life has been traditional. She never married, abandoned her corporate job to raise the son of her late best friend, and now she"s followed that grown-up son to Scotland for a chance at something new. While she"s enjoying the challenge, she could do without the attitude from the broody Scot next door.Join forces to protect a runawayMalcolm and Charlotte clash over absolutely everything on the renovation project they"re tasked to lead. If there"s a healthy amount of heat beneath the frustration, neither is willing to admit it. But when they discover a runaway hiding in one of the cottages, they find common purpose at last. Risks are taken and hearts expand as Malcolm and Charlotte pull out all the stops to protect Gavin from the abusive father who"d tear their unconventional family apart.
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Cowboy in a Kilt
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A cowboy without a homeRobbed of the family ranch that should have been his legacy, Raleigh Beaumont is a man with no roots and no purpose. When a friend drags him to Vegas, he figures he’s got nothing to lose. But after a hell of a lot of whiskey and a high stakes poker game with a beautiful stranger, he finds himself the alleged owner of a barony in Scotland.An heiress with a crumbling heritageWhen her brother’s bride disappears just days before the wedding that’s meant to save their ancestral home from the mad marriage pact that’s held their family captive for generations, Kyla MacKean believes they’ve been granted a reprieve. Until she finds out about the new, single—male—owner of Lochmara and knows she’s next on the chopping block or ownership of both their estates reverts to the crown.A modern answer to a three-hundred-year-old problem.Raleigh’s lost his land once. He’s not about to lose it again. Not even because of some lunatic pact made centuries before he was born. Kyla’s desperate to save Ardinmuir. She agrees to marry him on one condition: They wed for one year to satisfy the pact, then get a quick and quiet divorce. There’s no stipulation against it, and they’ll both get what they want.But this displaced Texan and his fiery bride are about to find so much more than they bargained for.
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Stirred Up By a SEAL
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Can a SEAL without a mission and a widowed baker help each other learn to live again?Jonah Ferguson never wanted to be anything but a Navy SEAL. But after an injury sidelines his military career, he finds himself back home in small-town Tennessee. Opening a bakery with his best friends and daring to re-imagine his life is a whole new mission, but his biggest challenge yet is sticking to the friend zone with the woman who helped give him new purpose.Two years after losing her husband to a traumatic brain injury, baker Rachel McCleary needs a change. With the proceeds from the sale of her business, she"s exploring what a new life would look like. For the short-term, it means helping one of her former students make his fledgling business thrive. And hopefully adding some benefits to the friendship that helped bring her back to life.All Rachel wants is temporary, and that"s the one thing Jonah can give her. But when the trouble that"s stalked his business from the start lands her in its crosshairs--and the hospital--he can"t deny that there"s nothing short-term about his feelings. Determined to protect her at all costs, he enters into a dangerous race to neutralize the threat before it torpedoes everything he holds dear.
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Wrapped Up with a Ranger
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Can a grumpy former Ranger find lasting happiness in a marriage of convenience with a sunny single mom?After losing his leg, former Army Ranger Holt Steele is building a new life and a new business with his friends. Sure, he never expected to put small-town baker on his resume, but he finds he likes the quiet, simple life. If only he didn"t like the sunny single mom who works across the street--or her adorable kid--quite so much.After escaping a controlling husband, event planner Cayla Black has one focus--growing her business and maintaining a safe, happy home for her daughter. She has no time or interest in a man. Not even one who charms her child with Disney songs and keeps turning up like a mind-reader to help without being asked.But when her ex"s conviction is overturned on a technicality, and he shows up to reclaim his wife and child, Holt intervenes with an outrageous lie. The only way to fix it is to make his falsehood the truth. As they struggle to convince everyone that their marriage of protection is real, these two reluctant hearts fall deeper, until the lines between the fiction and the dream begin to blur, and they have to risk it all to protect the family they didn"t know they wanted.
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Mixed Up with a Marine
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Can a Marine turned baker and a jaded contractor find their way to a second chance?Braxton Whitmore needs a change. After leaving the Marines, he’s free to build a new life. But is he gonna be a baker? Really? When his buddy inherits a decrepit bar and proposes they partner up to turn it into a bakery, Brax figures why not? Until his ex comes walking in.Mia Whitmore has built a new life for herself, far from the heartbreak and secrets that tore her marriage apart. The last thing she expects is for her estranged husband to be business partners with her latest client. Or for Brax to think they’re already divorced.As they’re forced into proximity on the renovation, truths come to light, and Brax and Mia get a second chance. But when past secrets become present danger, Brax puts everything on the line to protect the woman who’s always held his heart.
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Rescued By a Bad Boy
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What"s a little marriage between friends? Mia has been Braxton"s best friend for years. Even when they no longer lived in the same foster family, even after he"d aged out of the system, he"d continued look out for the one person who got under his skin and made him care. For the last six years, Mia"s been keeping her head down, putting one foot in front of the other, unable to trust anyone with her secrets—including the foster brother who"s been the one bright spot in her life, as well as her secret crush. Just one more day until Mia turns eighteen—a legal adult. Brax doesn"t trust her foster father and wants her out of that house. Is proposing a marriage of convenience to your best friend a little drastic? Maybe so. But what Brax feels is so far beyond friendship. Is it possible Mia feels it, too?
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Come a Little Closer
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Griffin Powell has avoided his hometown since he left it in the rearview years ago. But the former Marine understands duty and promises, and that means dragging himself back home as part of his brother"s wedding party. Which gets him thinking about a promise he made to a woman, after the best weekend of his life. When she, too, shows up as part of the wedding, it feels like a sign.Always a bridesmaid, professor Samantha Ferguson is dreading this bachelorette weekend. She’s the one of the lone single ladies, and the matron of honor is her high school nemesis. Sam figures she can suck it up and deal, until she comes face-to-face with the big, sexy ginger mistake from her past. Can this trip home get any worse?Turns out it can. Not only are she and Griff paired up for all the bridal party bonding activities, forcing her to relive high school hell, but Sam"s best friend goes missing. When no one takes her concerns seriously, she starts a search herself--and ends up with an unwanted bodyguard whose very presence reminds her of a hot Vegas night she’s tried hard to forget.As they work together to solve Jill"s disappearance, Griff"s determined to prove to Sam that this time, he"s going to stick.
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Until We Meet Again
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Freshly sprung from the Marines, Griffin Powell is looking for some fun. Las Vegas offers the perfect playground to blow off some steam before getting to the serious work of deciding what to do with his life. He never expects that fun to include the high school crush who tutored him years ago.Samantha Ferguson arrives in Vegas for a friend"s wedding only to get dumped by text. Desperate not to be the only single in a sea of couples, she makes an impulsive offer to the former bad boy she used to tutor in high school: Be her fake boyfriend for the weekend.Griff knows he"s not the guy for Sam, but he can"t resist saying yes for the chance to get to know this grown-up version of the girl who once starred in all his dreams. Turns out, there"s not a lot of faking it involved. Between the single bed and the endless couples activities, new feelings flare from the old, until they both fall under the spell of Sin City.Will what happens in Vegas stay in Vegas? Or will one impulsive weekend be the start of a brand new forever?*NOTE TO READERS: This is a prequel novella and does not end with a HEA or HFN. Their story continues in COME A LITTLE CLOSER.
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