Stranded With Her Rescuer

His reluctant damsel in distress Adventurer Will Margrave loves working in the Canadian wilderness, with only his huskies for company. After losing his wife, he's determined never to make himself vulnerable again. Until he rescues snowbound Kitty Callaghan, the one woman who always saw past his armor, and can't continue to deny their long-hidden attraction… Kitty's never allowed herself to get close to anyone, handsome Will least of all! Yet as he starts to melt her defenses, Kitty wonders…is Will the missing piece of her heart she's always been looking for?

Stranded With Her Rescuer - Nikki Logan Adventurer Will Margrave loves working in the Canadian wilderness, with only his huskies for company. After losing his wife, he's determined never to make himself vulnerable again. Until he rescues snowbound Kitty Callaghan, the one woman who always saw past his armour and he can no longer deny their long-hidden attraction... Kitty's never allowed herself to get close to anyone, handsome Will least of all! Yet as he starts to melt her defences, Kitty wonders...is Will the missing piece of her heart she's always been looking for? The Greek's Nine-Month Surprise - Jennifer Faye Billionaire hotelier Niko Stravos has turned emotional detachment into an art form. So the last thing he's expecting is an out-of-character night with Sofia Moore - and even less so the shocking consequences: he's going to be a daddy! Niko persuades chambermaid Sofia to join him on a round-the-world business trip, knowing he must deal with the emotional turmoil inside him. As Sofia's warmth, beauty and compassion touch Niko's heart, it's time to confront the past - so he can convince relationship-wary Sofia that he wants a future!

Falling in love all over again… Marrying gorgeous Caleb Conner was the happiest day of Addison's life. But in the following years, no matter how much she yearned for her husband, the driven tycoon felt increasingly out of reach… Work might have taken over his time, but Caleb hasn't stopped loving Addison. Now he hopes a holiday in paradise will show his wife he remembers the magic they share. Only, their marriage has another surprise on the horizon: Addison's baby secret!

Second Place Winner at Love Romance Café for the Best Man in Uniform... Firefighter Jamey Tucker knows three things in life to be true: an honorable man doesn't go back on his word; never hurts a woman; and lasting love isn't a myth. But with his recent move to a new job at Appleton Fire Station, the long hours don't offer hope of finding the love he's looking for. When Jamey meets beautiful pediatric nurse Heather Longhurst after hearing her sing "Santa Baby" in a supermarket aisle, he offers her a promise he discovers he can't keep. Heather has been betrayed by men in the past, making it hard for Jamey to gain her trust. Determined to find a way to win her heart, Jamey uses firefighter engine-uity and Heather's favorite song to prove he's got Christmas spirit she can believe in all year.

Real heroes show up when a woman needs a little help… Do you crave stories about savvy, capable women who suddenly find themselves in challenging circumstances—vulnerable to the elements or their situation? Love it when a hero comes along who makes them feel a vulnerable in different ways…sexy ways…? Here’s just a glimpse of the stories you’ll find in STRANDED… Inside these tales you won’t find damsels in distress who aren’t determined to save themselves, but you will find a wide variety of unexpected themes and genres. In Sam Heathers’ “Too Deep”, an undercover officer loses her handlers and is forced to trust a top lieutenant in a gun-running gang to survive. A woman trapped in a book by a sorcerer is rescued by a thief in Michal Scott’s “Put It in a Book.” In “Rescuing Alaska” by Elle James, a Coast Guardsman leaps into the frigid Alaskan waters, then braves a bear-ridden island, to save a woman swept overboard during a storm. You’ll find astronauts finding love in the International Space Station, genetically-enhanced humans in a flooded world, werewolves warring with an outlaw clan, along with a corporate scion and a bounty hunter. Fourteen stories with one thing in common—couples leaning on each other to survive and falling in love. Too Deep by Sam Heathers – When an undercover officer loses her handlers in the outside world, she must trust the top lieutenant of a gun-running gang to survive Rescuing Alaska by Elle James – A former Navy SEAL on an Alaskan fishing trip is washed overboard and stranded on a bear-ridden island with the beautiful deckhand The Kiss of a Stranger’s Flame by A.C. Dawn – Sparks in the sky ignite an inferno when a millionaire bad boy rescues a struggling romance writer stranded in an airport Shelter from the Storm by A.J. Harris – A rogue super soldier and an ocean-dwelling scout discover the keys to surviving enemy soldiers and giant super-storms on their flooded world may be each other Reviving Artemis by Ara Geller – Defying her alpha's direct orders, a young warrior braves a pack of hunting werewolves to finally claim her Mate Quincy Down Under by Delilah Devlin – A bounty hunter following a lead is trapped in an underground-bunker-turned-beauty-salon with a pretty beautician Hourglass by Kenzie Matthews – With danger all around them, time-hopping graduate students find it hard to keep their clothes on while their time machine glitches Out of This World by Kimberly Dean – When an astronaut is stranded without a research partner, her mission's bad boy commander volunteers to help her complete her studies...on sex in space Burning Stars by Kimberly Lithe – Heated glances and flirtatious banter ignite into a fever pitch when a mechanic aboard a stranded starship looks for her rescue from an intergalactic criminal Switching Call by Lucrecia Christina – Stranded in a field, a tow truck driver learns from his sassy rescuer that there’s more to getting stuck in the mud than spinning tires A Change in Predicament by Melanie Jayne – A doctor with a death wish and a history of bad decisions uses her wits to survive a kidnapping by the wounded leader of a dangerous gang Put it in a Book by Michal Scott – Trapped in a book by a sorcerer for rejecting his sexual advances, an ex-slave's daughter discovers one hope of rescue – a nosy thief Undercover Lover by N.J. Walters – A DEA agent working undercover as a waitress in a dangerous biker bar is stranded without backup until a man from her past walks in Going Down by Sukie Chapin – One broken elevator, one sexy boss, one hot night...maybe falling isn’t so bad after all

One broken heart. One battered soul. No one said life would be fair or easy. Quiet, Peruvian-born artist Cassie Lopez learned this the hard way. Betrayed by the man she planned to marry, she shut herself off as far away from all but her closest friend from college… Until the night Luke Denton came crashing into her Colorado mountain sanctuary with a vengeance. Confused by her heart's response to this kind and gentle man, Cassie pushes herself to help the cowboy recover quickly so she can send him on his way. But Luke’s patience and understanding threaten to break down the very defenses she needs to survive in this world after he's gone. Search-and-Rescue worker Luke, who lost his wife and unborn child in a tragic accident, also knows firsthand of the unfairness of life. He keeps his own nightmares at bay by focusing on his rescue activities, most recently adopting and working with abused and neglected horses. Can two wounded people find trust and love together? Do nightmares end where dreams come true? SPECIAL NOTE: This book contains a number of chapters that focus on the continuing journey of Adam and Karla Montague. Rather than publish it as a separate short novel, Kallypso Masters chose to incorporate them into Luke and Cassie’s story. But it’s a bonus for readers who get an enormous book—for a much longer Rescue Me Saga visit with some of the couples you love!

On the centenary of Fontane’s death and at the turn of the century these essays take a new look at this supreme chronicler of Prussia and of the Germany that emerges after 1871. Written by scholars from different countries and disciplines, they focus on novels and theatre reviews from the perspectives of philosophy, sociology, comparative literature and translation theory, and in the contexts of topography and painting. Connections and crosscurrents emerge to reveal new aspects of Fontane’s poetics and to produce contrasting but complementary readings of his novels. He appears in the company of predecessors and contemporaries, such as Scott, Thackeray, Saar, Ibsen, Turgenev, but also in that of writers he has rarely, if ever, been seen beside, such as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Stendhal, Trollope, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Beckett and Faulkner. The historical novel and the social position of women are each a recurring focus of interest. Fontane emerges as receptive to other voices, as a precursor of developments in modern narrative, and confirmed as the novelist who brings the nineteenth-century German novel closest to the broad traditions of European realism.