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Author
Series
Deep in the heart of Texas volume 7
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Country music princess Starlet Brubaker has a sweet tooth for moon pies and cowboys: both are yummy-and you can never have just one. Now Beckett Cates may not be a cowboy, but he certainly has the heart, soul-and body-to whet her appetite. He's a sexy ex-Marine with a touch hotter than the scorching Texas sun and arms strong enough to catch her when she lands into trouble. Playing bodyguard to America's sweetheart isn't easy for Beckett. But falling...
102) All your wishes
Author
Series
Blood singer novels volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A client begs Celia Graves to help return a genie to his bottle. The attempt makes Celia a target for the currently incorporeal ifrit. If she doesn't give him her body, he'll kill everyone she loves. If she does, he'll use her physical form to free thousands of evil djinn. Celia's not going to hand over her body, but her client tries to trick her into it -- so that he can kill the ifrit while it's trapped in her flesh. That doesn't end well for the...
103) American gunner
Author
Series
American gunner volume 1
Publisher
Black Odyssey Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When his street boss goes missing, Raphael is hired by Alex to be her bodyguard and the pair spark an unexpected friendship and work together on an international business deal that goes awry and leaves him holding the bag.
104) Open your heart
Author
Series
Richardson sisters volume 3
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For fashion boutique owner Yolanda Richardson, coming home is a matter of life and death. Witness to a brutal crime, she's terrified to put her family's B&B in the crosshairs after she starts receiving death threats. Her only refuge is the protection of her reserved hired bodyguard, Charles Morris. But Charles is anything but safe. His icy cool-under-fire -- and hidden intensity -- is too explosive for Yolanda to resist...Love always equals loss --...
105) A problem princess
Author
Series
Lords of the Armory volume 6
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
General Clayton Elliott, Home Office Undersecretary and new viscount, gets suspicious when London is too quiet. Everyone says that the anarchist group he's been fighting died along with its leader, but his instincts say just the opposite. Then he meets Her Serene Highness Princess Cordelia of Monrovia. Resigned to doing her duty for her country, she is in London to make a match with a royal duke--and as a royal princess, she has no say in which duke...
106) One warm winter
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Adopted as a child by a tech billionaire, Wynter Bates knows nothing about her origins--or the world, beyond being privileged, sheltered, and lonely. But she won't let anything stop her from investigating who she is. Especially after a high-profile scandal involving her father's past lands her on an island retreat under bodyguard Cullen Whelan's protection--in the guise of being his girlfriend . . . A former military intelligence officer, Cullen figures...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books Kessington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author, US Navy Veteran, and genre pioneer Lindsay McKenna combines pulse-pounding suspense with the romance of a contemporary Western for the fourth installment in her highly emotional, engrossingly swoon-worthy, Wyoming-set Silver Creek series. Can a veteran SEAL protect a woman from her past when it comes unexpectedly calling?" --
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Denji s gotten too famous! After a news program broadcasts Chainsaw Man s heroics, the whole world now wants in on the action! Can Denji s new protection detail keep him safe from all the talented assassins that have assembled in Japan to take him down?!"-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"On the run with her young son, Miranda Blake must stay off the grid. That means she can't tell her would-be protector why she's fleeing her secret past. Just the same, Detective Tad Newberry can't tell Miranda why he's protecting her. Just as the two start falling in love, shocking truths explode their fragile trust."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The war is on... Counted among the fiercest Andarion warriors ever born, Hauk is one of the five founding members of the Sentella: an organization that has declared war on the League. They rule the Ichidian universe with an iron fist and terrify it with an army of well-trained assassins. Hauk's enemies are legion, but he fears nothing and no one. He will do whatever it takes to survive and protect his Sentella brethren. Sumi Antaxas is one of the...
111) Deathless divide
Author
Series
Dread nation volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The sequel to the New York Times bestselling epic Dread Nation is an unforgettable journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America. After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus...
112) A spider in the cup
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
At dawn one morning in 1933, an amateur dowsing team searching the banks of the Thames for precious metals unearths the body of a young woman with a priceless gold coin in her mouth. The case falls on Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard Joe Sandilands's turf, but he's been given another assignment -- and a very high-profile one. London is hosting a historic economic conference to try to solve the Global Depression and political tensions are running...
114) The Isis collar
Author
Series
Blood singer novels volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Struggling to balance her powers as a Siren with her new vampire nature, Celia is perplexed by a seemingly ineffective magical bomb at a local elementary school only to discover that a zombie plague has been triggered, a situation that is challenged by family foibles and the disappearance of her boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A charming historical fantasy with a tender love story at its core, from the author of Unnatural Magic. Hard-drinking petty thief Dellaria Wells is down on her luck in the city of Leiscourt--again. Then she sees a want ad for a female bodyguard, and she fast-talks her way into the high-paying job. Along with a team of other women, she's meant to protect a rich young lady from mysterious assassins. At first Delly thinks the danger is exaggerated,...
116) Howl for it
Author
Series
Publisher
Brava/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Two stories of wolf shapeshifter love and instincts unleashed by passion.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Destined to be a treasure for the millions of fans who made American Gods an internationally bestselling phenomenon, this beautifully designed and illustrated collectible edition of Gaiman's masterpiece features enlightening notes throughout by award-winning annotator and editor Klinger.
Author
Series
Colorado cowboys (Jody Hedlund) volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publisher Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Traveling the Santa Fe Trail on a botanical exploration, Linnea Newberry longs to be taken seriously by the other members of the expedition. When she is rescued from an accident by Flynn McQuaid, her grandfather hires him to act as Linnea's bodyguard, and Flynn soon finds himself in the greatest danger of all-falling for a woman he's determined not to love"--
119) Desperate girls
Author
Series
Wolfe security volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Laura Griffin's Desperate Girls is a tightly wound, fast-paced thriller that examines intricate relationship dynamics in the wake of a killer's symbolic revenge spree"--
120) Kiss me at Christmas
Author
Series
Playful brides volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A noble lady looking for an affair and her hired bodyguard begin a Christmas romance.
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