Lucy Lenin is broke, her abusive husband is missing, and the gangsters he owed want to take it out on the demure Lucy. When she's offered a job at a strip club, Lucy takes the job for fast money and to get the mafia off her back, even finding a way to tolerate her regular client, Sheriff Aaron Dwyer, who happens to be her old boyfriend. Aaron Dwyer has his own problems. He's the face guy of the county, and the public is breathing down his neck for answers on why unemployed men have shown up dead in his jurisdiction. Pile that on top of losing his wife a year ago and raising two daughters. But there's one bright spot in his life... Lucy. Can Lucy and Aaron work together to solve the county's murders before it's too late for one of them? Copper is a full-length standalone.It is not a dark romance between the mains, but it has dark themes around side characters and in the main female character's past. CWs: memories of domestic abuse,...

From Tori Ross, the National Indie Excellence Award winner for The Cuffing Season Contract, comes a laugh-out-loud romance sure to fire up all five senses and answer the eternal question of what happens when your brother's best friend buys your dirty panties. Laney Wyatt has problems. She's just been fired from her brand-new paralegal job. To make matters worse, her student loans are coming due and her medical bills from a past skiing accident are piling up. When Laney learns about a website where she can sell her dirty panties, she initially laughs it off as a lark. But it's no lark when she starts making hundreds of dollars a week and has more than enough to pay her medical bills and rent. Too bad Milo Coulson, her old crush from high school and her brother's best friend, finds her page and buys her underwear for his own naughty use...

Archie Morganstern is a fireman in Jensen City with a typical life. At least it's a normal life until he falls into a mysterious substance while battling a warehouse blaze. Darby Clausen has a tedious job as a mortgage processor, but she has a secret only she and her best friend know. She can see a person's most recent dream with one touch. When she accidentally sees what the man harassing her at a bar dreamt last night, she sets out to investigate on her own. After Darby is rescued from a burning warehouse by a mysterious firefighter, they work together to find out why he suddenly has the power to move fire at his whim and precisely what is going on in one of Jensen City's biggest corporations. It would be helpful to stay focused on the task at hand, but Darby and Archie can't keep their minds on the problem and can't keep their hands to themselves.

Tori Ross, the award-winning author of The Cuffing Season Contract, is back with another Calvert sister adventure! Peyton Calvert has never really fit in with normal society. Content to work at Chili Shack and stay close to home with her tight-knit family, she's always been happy slacking her way through life or spending her time at her local hippie commune. When a coworker, Avery, asks Peyton to go home with her for Thanksgiving to help deal with her difficult and cold family, Peyton accepts. But dealing with Avery's brother, Prescott Rausch the Third, is harder than Peyton imagined. As a physical attraction grows, can the fun and relaxed Peyton teach the uptight Prescott her ways? Or will she be schooled by the Princeton-educated stock trader? This novella is book 5 in The Traveling Calvert Sisters series but can be read as a standalone. Read the series in any order!

Second in series but can be read as a standalone! Zeke Lightfoot is the new Jensen City fire chief and a damn good one. He may be young for a fire chief, but he's a good leader and is always in charge. The only exception is that he likes to be dominated by beautiful women in his off time. One night, he goes to a secret club known only to the city elite by invitation only where he's humiliated and punished in the best possible way. The woman he meets there, his new dom, is gorgeous and mysterious. Who is the woman behind the mask she uses to keep her identity a secret? Remi Young has a boring day job but an exciting and secret night gig. She's also having a rough time since falling into a puddle while helping her friends. With her new ability to control water haunting most of her thoughts, Remi welcomes the distraction of a new sub at her night job. He's gorgeous and everything she wants in a partner outside of work. Unfortunately,...