SEALs in Paradise

Letting a man flirt with her at a bar is a huge boost to her ego, but what if he wants more? Elaina's been raising her son alone for ten years. She's cautious about dating and even more cautious about introducing someone to her son. Ty has earned the nickname Flirt with the SEAL team. He can woo any woman easily, especially on karaoke night, which works out perfectly when he spots the brown-eyed girl sitting at the bar. Their lives are too complicated. She's ten years older than him. She can't have more kids. She also can't seem to stay away from him. Ty is whole package. He's an amazing brother, uncle, and boyfriend. It doesn't hurt that he also rocks her world in the bedroom. He's impossible to deny. When his sister's ex shows up in town with a grudge, their relationship is put to the test. Ty can't protect everyone every second of every day. But can he be there when it really counts? Hot SEAL, Brown-Eyed Girl is part of the SEALs in Paradise series. Each book stands alone, and they can be read in any order.

Hot SEAL, Labor Day is a scorching standalone book in the SEALs in Paradise contemporary romance series. She seeks an escape. He's allergic to settling down. Can a marriage of convenience blossom into everlasting love? Ana Zeller Cristiano feels locked inside a life of keys. World-renowned since she was five, the thirty-year-old piano prodigy is desperate for release from her high-stakes existence of overbearing expectations. But running away to figure out who she is hits a serious snag when her car gets a flat… until a sexy military man comes to her rescue. Sawyer "Nomad" Beckett doesn't put down roots. Floating between squads when deployed and living in a motorhome when he's stateside, an offer to permanently join the premier SEAL team gives the former Army brat pause. But when he helps a stranded woman only to discover she's in the cabin next door at his resort, the wandering warrior is shocked when sparks fly. Swept up in the passionate weekend and tired of the pressure to marry her manager's son, Ana presents her new flame with a wild plan and an impromptu marriage proposal. And feeling something fall into place he's never felt before, Beckett agrees to say "I do" despite being set to ship out to the dangerous battlegrounds of Africa. Will this insane scheme catapult two lonely hearts into unexpected harmony? If you like instant attractions, extreme steam, and life-changing emotional journeys, then you'll adore Cynthia D'Alba's touching tale of love's discovery.

Navy SEAL Gage Fontenot is home for the first time in two years because his grandmother, who raised him, is in the hospital after a brutal assault. He has four weeks to get the lay of the land, find who's responsible, and guarantee the attacker gets the punishment he deserves. When he's met at the airport by Mia, the woman he jilted six years ago, his visit becomes much more complicated. Because his reasons for leaving New Orleans all lead back to her.Psychic Mia Blanchard knows there's always a price to pay for the best things in life, but she's shocked by the dramatic change in Gage. Gone is the lighthearted Cajun who played guitar in the New Orleans clubs. What has happened to make him cut himself off from his home and family? She needs to find out, because she can't move on until she puts their past behind her.But there is more than their personal history in play. She sees danger ahead for them both. But Gage never believed in her gift in the past. How can she convince him to trust it now?

On Memorial Day, he will stand by her side when she visits her husband's grave, but he wonders if she'll ever see him as anything more than her husband's best friend and the man who accompanied his body home for burial… Navy SEAL, Chris "Zig" Bykowski, has done his duty to his best friend's wife by being there to help whenever she or her son needed him. However, now, he has the feeling she wants to put distance between herself and the SEALs who watch over her as the widow of a fallen teammate. Though painful, because he's grown to care for her, he will let her go, knowing she needs closure to move on with her life. Andi Westall has picked up the pieces of her shattered life after the death of her husband, Ozzie. Although she knows it will be painful to break away from the SEALs who have given her their support, she is ready to cut ties and move on past the painful memories. However, fate has another idea. When she discovers that she may have a stalker, the only person she knows to confide in is Ozzie's best friend, Zig. When Zig and the team rush to the rescue, she finds that accepting their aid and continued friendship isn't as hard as she'd imagined. While the team works to figure out who is stalking her, Zig insists on sticking close to keep her safe. One night of tearful remembrances ends with her waking up to discover that she wants more from Zig than just his protection. Whether this is love or simply need is something she'll have to figure out before they both get hurt.

√ One match-making sister √ One commitment-phobic woman √ One hot SEAL heartbreaker √ One fake relationship √ Countless laughs From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cat Johnson comes a fun, steamy, standalone, fake relationship love story featuring meddling friends and relatives and two frenemies with reluctant hearts and a profound hatred of all things valentine-related. When one Navy SEAL heartbreaker gets a dose of his own medicine on Valentine's Day, he realizes love isn't the enemy, but he has to convince the commitment-adverse woman he's fallen for of the same thing.

He's a former Navy SEAL in financial straits.She's a bar owner in need of a bouncer.Perfect, right? Hardly. When Jodi finds out her new bouncer is none other than Tucker, the man currently starring on a reality television show, she isn't happy. She doesn't want the publicity. Plus, she thinks he's a fool. Who marries a stranger on television for money? Tucker isn't happy either. He's in over his head in a farce of a marriage, but he needs the money the network is paying him. It's nobody's business why he's working a night job in a bar at the same time. Too bad the heat between them is incendiary. Hooking up is a huge mistake for them both, but some risks are worth it...

A broken engagement followed by six months of grueling work has Sloane Bianchi ready to hit the beaches of Hilton Head South Carolina for some R and R. She isn't looking for romance, but when she catches the gaze of a stranger at a local restaurant, her attraction is immediate. But he turns out to be just another guy who can't follow through.Karma isn't always a bitch. Navy SEAL Connor 'Hammer' Evans decides a fender bender is a small price to pay for finally meeting the woman who got away. Even though he'll only be on the East Coast a short time, he's convinced he and Sloane can enjoy a sexy, no-strings adventure together while he's here.Their first kiss ignites a hunger for each other they can't seem to quench. As their relationship deepens, Sloan realizes she has to be honest with Connor and share the reason behind her broken engagement. When he learns the truth, will he go wheels up and leave her behind? Or will he follow through?

A Navy SEAL who wants seclusion. A diva who craves the spotlight. The deal they make could give them both what they need ... if they don't kill each other first! Reality TV has never been so hot! Navy SEAL Clay "Dirtman" Hagan's retirement plans are simple. Buy the dilapidated beachfront cottage he found listed for a song, fix it up, and live out his days in solitude. Everything is set until an anonymous bidder drives up the price of his future paradise. TV talk show host Tasha Jones is flying high, until one word-CANCELED-sends her crashing. Now she's looking to resurrect her career with a new home renovation show if they can get around the buyer standing in the way of the perfect property. When the competition turns out to be the obnoxious a-hole from her embarrassing drunken one-night stand, the battle for the property really heats up as the insults-and the sparks-fly. The producer notices the chemistry between them and decides the viewers will too and "Hot House" is born. If Clay agrees to have the self-centered star and her cameras in his house for the duration of the show, he walks away as the owner in the end. If Tasha can put up with living in the bungalow with the Neanderthal control-freak during the construction, she gets a hit show and her career back. Win-win. It shouldn't be too hard since the director loves when they argue on camera, which is good since they agree on nothing. Well, almost nothing. They do both agree that they pretty much hate each other and neither one wants a repeat of their one night together ... So why does it keep happening?

Ten years ago, Nick, the hot but cocky Navy SEAL went from ignoring her, to kissing her, to rejecting her. Now the last thing she wants is his help, even if he is willing and uniquely qualified to give it. And she really doesn't want to want him . . . Dani was the girl next door. Too young. Too tempting. Too off limits. Ten years later, she's all grown up and all woman. He steered clear of her then. But now? Now is a different story entirely . . .

Ten days… No strings attached… The perfect vacation…He's a SEAL married to the team.Hhe's his teammate's little sister, all grown up.He's on the vacation of a lifetime.She's playing tour guide.He's everything she remembers and way more.She's no longer a gangly teenager.He doesn't ever want to get attached to a woman.She doesn't date military men.How can they hook up and then walk away?How can they not?Everything about this no-strings-attached arrangement should be easy.Except the part where they have to guard their hearts.Hot SEAL, Australian Nights is part of the SEALs in Paradise series. Each book stands alone, and they can be read in any order.

Ellie Gorman hasn't had a vacation in years. Working herself to the bone day and night on Wall Street has kept her mind from wandering too often to the only man she's ever loved. The man she left fourteen years ago after their high school graduation. When her best friend lures her to join a girls' cruise, Ellie relents. The sun will do her good. Relaxation is her top priority. No stress for a full week.Noah Seager has spent more than a decade fulfilling his dream of joining the Navy SEALs and serving his country. But he's exhausted and worn out. It's time to retire, find himself, and start a new chapter in his life. A vacation with his best childhood friend is the perfect way to decompress. Even better a cruise.Neither Noah nor Ellie are prepared to run into each other at the bar on the lido deck as soon as they board the ship. They've been set up, and they plan to toss their meddling friends overboard…as soon as they can find them.Fourteen years ago they'd been very much in love. They'd known. Everyone had known. And then the bottom had fallen out of their worlds. Ellie has a secret she has never shared with a single person. Noah has lived with the pain, hurt, and frustration of being dumped for unknown reasons. He never should have let her go, and that realization slams into him with a powerful punch as the two get reacquainted.While Ellie struggles with admitting her deep feelings for Noah have never subsided, Noah fights his own internal battle. She insists she can't and won't ever reveal the nature of their breakup. Can Noah convince her to let him back into her life anyway? And more importantly, can he let their past go, bury it, and live a fulfilling life with the woman he never forgot, knowing he will never have all the answers?

He's a Navy SEAL. She's his sister's annoying best friend ... and now she's missing. In Tijuana. And he has to find her. During his leave. F*ck. Navy SEAL Zachary Browne made it back from Yemen to find a squatter living in his house-an apparently homeless and very possibly insane, sexy AF interior designer who claims she was hired by his sister to redecorate his place as a surprise. Even he knows decorators don't move in to their jobs with all their worldly possessions. And his sister Amanda should know the two things Zach hates more than surprises is change and people touching his stuff. Gabrielle Lee Interiors & More has done all that-and more. Zach survived Houthi rebels, but he might not survive these two women. Just when he finally gets Gabby out of his house, if not out of his mind because she is as distracting as she is exasperating, she goes missing and he has to find her. When he does, things get wild-and not just from the chemistry they've been trying to ignore for more than a decade. What happens in Tijuana ... might just kill you.

The last thing this SEAL wants is to open his heart to her again, but Amelie needs the "hands-on" kind of protection only he can provide... Navy SEAL, Thibaut "T-Bone" Cyr, has a lot on his mind. The time is approaching when he'll either have to re-up with the Navy or leave. He's come home to New Orleans to spend time in his old stomping grounds while he mulls over his decision. New Orleans is where his roots are, where his family lives, but he wants to stay on the down-low while he considers his future. He's also hoping the past he left behind doesn't still haunt him. Fourteen years ago, he fled the city when the woman he loved dumped him. Amelie Rivette is back in New Orleans, ready to start again. She's helping her blind aunt run a voodoo shop in the French Quarter, but her aunt's troubles are getting complicated. After a string of bad luck, which includes a robbery and threatening calls, Amelie finds herself trapped inside the shop when a fire is set, and she's attacked by an assailant. Coming to the rescue of his ex-girlfriend, Thibaut finds himself torn. The last thing he wants is to relive the pain of their breakup, but Amelie needs the kind of protection he can provide. Soon, neither of them can resist their attraction, but while they reconnect physically, he holds back his heart, not trusting that what he feels is real and not some remnant of their shared past. Complicating matters is that their families are conspiring to give him a reason to stay in New Orleans. When Amelie is kidnapped, Thibaut realizes he's still in love with her. Hoping he's not too late, he sets out to save her.

On leave after a difficult mission, Navy SEAL Tony Gallo steps off the plane in Rome and tumbles right into the arms of the woman who dumped him nine years ago, and they're both there for family events. He discovers Darcy's attending the wedding they planned but never had, but now it's someone else's.Darcy Moreau is traveling for the first time and fulfilling a dream. She's in Rome to be her best friend's Maid of Honor. But she's also there to bury the past and start a new life.When she and Tony meet again, she wonders if the past might not be such a bad thing if her future can include the man she left behind. But can she make amends and convince him to give her another chance?

Navy SEAL Stefan Kowalski is stubborn, cocky, obnoxious and entirely too full of himself. He's also as attractive as he is annoying and he knows it. Even worse, Shelly Laurens has to work with him, and smile for the camera while doing it, or risk losing her career. Stefan thought he knew pressure until he was coerced into doing a reality show that pairs Navy SEALs with civilians in a no-holds-barred contest. The biggest challenge turns out to be keeping his hands off Shelly, the sexy civilian he's been paired with. She's almost enough to make him not care about losing... if he can have her in the end.

An ex-Navy SEAL agrees to play fake lover for the Maid of Honor at a destination wedding only to discover that what happens on a Caribbean Island can sometimes follow you home.Nicholas Falcone, aka Nikko, aka Falcon, is five months out from active SEAL duty, putting his pre-service accounting degree to use while going to law school at night. He'd love to take a vacation between semesters, but every buck is earmarked for his education. When a fellow accountant approaches him about his sister needing an escort for a destination wedding, Nikko jumps at the idea. With the wedding families footing the bill, what does he have to lose?Surgeon Dr. Jennifer Pierce is still stinging from a broken engagement. Going to a destination wedding at the Sand Castle Resort in the Caribbean would be great if only her ex-fiancé and his new wife weren't also attending. Her options are to find a date or not go, but not going isn't really an option. That means letting her brother set her up with a guy from his accounting office…Heaven forbid. When did accountants start looking like this?** Cold Beer ** is part of the Diamond Lakes, Texas Series and Sand Castle Resort series. Each book can be read as a stand-alone. They do not have cliffhanger endings.**Hot SEAL, Cold Beer** is also in the "SEALs in Paradise" connected series. Each book in the multi-author branded SEALs in Paradise series can be read stand-alone, and individual books do not have to be read in any particular order.

Rylie Stewart, daughter of SEAL legend, Admiral 'Black Jack' Stewart, is in trouble. Big trouble. Eight and a half months through a difficult pregnancy, she's kept her silence about who the father of her unborn child is, but the closer she gets to giving birth the more the pressure mounts for her to reveal the man's name. But she's been a SEAL's daughter for twenty-three years and she's as good at keeping secrets as her father is.Navy SEAL Eric 'Viking' Anderson has just come off a six-month deployment to find Rylie on his doorstep with news. He's about to become a father, and she wants a promise in case something happens to her during the birth. Eric's more than willing to give her his word, but he wants something in return. Another chance with the woman he loves. And this time they're going to do things his way. No more hiding and no more secrets.But there's one truth he can't reveal to Rylie without further damaging her rocky relationship with her father. He suspects Black Jack knew about their affair and deployed Eric to end it. But now Rylie's carrying his baby, the Admiral will play hell getting rid of him again. His missions: To put a wedding ring on Rylie's finger, making their relationship permanent, and to be the best dad in the world for their baby boy.