Barefoot Bay World

It was bad luck that had Robin Hanna working late the night her boss, already in trouble with the feds, had two late visitors. Worse luck for him when they shot him dead. Barely escaping the men chasing her, she connects with Jonas Faulkner, the FBI agent who she's been helping build a case against her boss. In less than twenty-four hours, they whisk her out of town and off to the Casa Blanca Resort and Spa in Barefoot Bay, Florida. If she has to hide away, she gives thanks for the hiding place they picked...a luxury resort. The old saying about the best-laid plans of mice and men going astray would definitely apply to Trey DeMarcus. He had his life all mapped out: a beautiful wife, a career in JAG, and then retirement to Montana, a state where he's always wanted to live. But, along the way, his wife objected to both the kind of law he wanted to practice and where he wanted to live. Her divorcing him on the day he retired from the Navy cut him to the quick, and in a year he hasn't healed. Which is why he's on a forced vacation at the Casa Blanca Resort and Spa. When these two meet up at Barefoot Bay, they have nothing in common except lives in chaos. Robin is terrified the killers will find her, and Trey has vowed never to risk his heart again, But Barefoot Bay works its magic, and soon the electricity between them lights up the sky. But when Trey gets the wrong impression of something, this second chance for both of them could be sunk in the waters of Barefoot Bay.

Molly Waiter grew up on the fantastical stories of sunken ships, pirates and lost treasure. As guardians of lost Le Cœur Surveillé — the Guarded Heart — each young Waiter is warned of the curse: the one who possesses the Guarded Heart will never find happiness in love. Fine with Molly! Ever since the hurricane that tore through Mimosa Key, she's been off love and on the lookout for cash. Bad boy adventurer Cooper Overton has been hiding a big secret — he has half the map leading to Le Cœur Surveillé. He's determined to have Molly's half, too, to save his tanking career. When the sexy beauty turns him down flat, he decides to heat things up — with seduction. Molly's determined to resist the gorgeous modern-day buccaneer. She wants all or nothing, and no sexy usurper is going to horn in on her family's two-centuries-long quest. But how does she get the map from the man whose touch she can't forget? Will she become one more Waiters to lose her heart? Or is Cooper her chance to find the jewel and break the curse?