Badge Bunny

Looks can be deceiving in this hilarious enemies-to-lovers romcom complete with a shocking secret hobby, a heavy metal playlist, and an uninvited wedding guest! Chris Everson has a pretty sweet life: a great job as a state trooper, lots of buddies to hang out with, and he lives at the beach. What could be better? But he’s harboring a secret--a secret that doesn’t fit with his whole tough guy cop persona. He’s gone to great lengths to keep his secret from his guy friends AND the women he dates. Brynne Miller’s job as an ER doctor means she’s always meeting cops. In fact, she’s dated so many that her friends call her “Badge Bunny.” But she will never date Chris Everson. Nope. Not a chance. He managed to piss her off within two seconds of meeting him...and first impressions are everything. Aren’t they? Badge Bunny is part of the Romance in Rehoboth Series. If you like your romcoms sweet, funny and semi-clean, if you enjoy a small town setting, and if you like your heroines curvy, strong, and a little bit snarky, then by the time you're done reading, you're gonna want to move to Rehoboth Beach! It's a real place--in Delaware. I know, right? Delaware has beaches and people actually go there? On purpose? I'm as surprised as you are. These books can be read in any order, but if you're one of those types... Then here ya go: Book 1: Music Man (Claire and Jack's Story) Book 2: The Flip (Sonnet and Drew's Story) Book 3: Plot Twist (Lindy and Meric's Story) Book 4: Badge Bunny (Brynne and Chris's Story) Book 5: Wedding War (Hannah and Jason's Story) Book 6: Stage Mom (Larissa and Mateo's Story) Book 7: Shark Bite (Megan and Shark's Story)

A Kid, His Guns, and His Badge by Jim Waddell __________________________________

A Callie Morgan and Carolina Slade crossover! (A standalone mystery) Regret has become ex-Police Chief Callie Jean Morgan's constant companion. Her half-assed, "good ol' boy" replacement in the town of Edisto deepens her guilt at having abandoned her citizens, her officers. When her friends Carolina Slade and Wayne Largo arrive unannounced and determined to uncover why the hell Callie gave up her badge, the group is pulled into a mystery they shouldn't have to solve—but no one else seems to care that the Edisto Witch has turned up dead behind the cemetery. In fact, Callie and posse have caught the new chief in a lie about the death. She'll have to decide whether to stay safely retired, save Edisto from an unforeseen criminal element, or take that job offer in her hometown… The dead still speak to Callie Jean Morgan. Whether she's on the job or not. "When a shocking murder leaves more questions than answers, retired police chief Callie Jean Morgan reclaims her true purposeâ€"solving big crimes in a small town. Packed with plot twists, suspicious new characters, and the Edisto Beach community readers have come to love, C. Hope Clark fans will be cheering." —Julie Cantrell, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Perennials "Characters that linger in your mind long after the last page is turned." —Karen White, New York Times Bestselling Author Hope Clark's books have been honored as winners of the Epic Award, Silver Falcion Award, the Imaginarium Award, and the Daphne du Maurier Award. "I am grateful that the mayhem of the Edisto Island Mysteries is restricted to these enjoyable works of fiction, and I am a big fan." —former Mayor Jane Darby, Town of Edisto Beach, SC "Ms. Clark delivers a riveting ride, with her irrepressible characters set squarely in the driver's seat." —Dish Magazine on Echoes of Edisto Author Bio: C. HOPE CLARK has a fascination with the mystery genre and is author of the Carolina Slade Mystery Series, and the Craven County Mysteries as well as the Edisto Island Mysteries, all set in her home state of South Carolina. In her previous federal life, she performed administrative investigations and married the agent she met on a bribery investigation. She enjoys nothing more than editing her books on the back porch with him, overlooking the lake, with bourbons in hand. She can be found either on the banks of Lake Murray or Edisto Beach with one or two dachshunds in her lap. Hope is also editor of the award-winning FundsforWriters.com.

From the eyes and ears of a former police dispatcher is a collection of stories that are so shocking, it is hard to believe that they could be true. But they must be true. Because there is no way that incidents such as those described could possibly be made up by anyones imagination. Anita Gunn exposes the corruption, the dirty tricks, and the just plain nastiness of those who abuse the power entrusted to them. But somehow, she manages to maintain her courage while she is fighting against the Broken Badge.

Pick your favorite 21st birthday present. One evening with your parents at the theater or one night with a tattooed firefighter. Good girls like Vandy Patel spend their days behind books in the library. But when her twenty-first birthday rolls around, she meets Royce Murphy with his tattoos and gorgeous red hair. Just the guy her mom would tell her never to date. Firefighter Royce Murphy knows he's not permanent dating material for a college girl like Vandy. Still, something about her draws him to her, and he soon discovers how eager she is for anything he can teach her - in and outside of the bedroom. And their passion is more than enough to lead them both astray... Warning: This steamy new adult romance is the perfect for readers who want some HFN summer fling catnip. Please avoid if you hate smoking hot sex on the beach that leaves you with hickeys in very interesting places. You will love this new adult one-night stand turned more, featuring an Indian heroine and the firefighter who's hiding his secret pain. These books are perfect for readers of AWWM, IWWM, protector romance, action romance, romantic suspense, medical romance, firefighter romance, police romance, Asian woman White man romance, Indian woman romance, new adult romance, one-night stand romance, scarred hero romance, summer romance, birthday romance, 21st birthday romance, college student romance, secret romance - you got the idea. If you personally wish Grey's Anatomy and Chicago Fire (and every single medical drama you watch) had were heavier on the kink, sex scenes, and erotic, you need to read MetroGen! This book is perfect for readers who love Brittany Sahin, Nicole Snow, K.C. Crowne, Lucy Score, and J. Saman.

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What Would You Do With the Last 12 Hours of Your Life? At 6 p.m. on a Wednesday in October, a gunman will enter Goldman’s Diner and commit one of the worst massacres the small coastal town of Palm Isles, Florida has ever seen. Twelve hours earlier: twelve lives are on borrowed time, unaware that death is coming, or that their paths will collide in one tragic moment. A young waitress and mother fights to protect her daughter from her violent estranged husband. Little does she know that a greater threat looms under her nose. A cop is forced to decide between his job and his marriage. A bullied teen with an abusive father is down to one friend when his world suddenly crumbles around him. An old man struggles to hold onto his memories and do one last thing to honor his wife. But in doing so, he will have to reveal his darkest secret. A cook with a shady past attempts to stay on the straight and narrow, until he gets a call which forces him to choose — his family or his honor? A woman attempts to meet her father’s expectations, clinging to a struggling diner even as her relationship with her son falls apart. TWELVE HOURS TWELVE LIVES WHO LIVES? WHO DIES?

All Shane wanted was to get away from the wreckage of his career for a while. He picked New York City to provide him with a distraction from his early, unwanted retirement from the police force. New York City delivered, distracting him with three corpses and a miniature llama with a spitting problem and an attitude. If he wants to return to a normal life, he’ll have to face off against a sex trafficking ring targeting the woman of his dreams, ancient vampires, murderous criminals, his parents, and an FBI agent with a hidden agenda. Some days, it isn’t easy being an ex-cop. Warning: This novel contains excessive humor, action, excitement, adventure, magic, romance, and bodies. Proceed with caution.