I Have Lived And I Have Loved: A Charity Romance Collection
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It was a drunken deal we made when our flirtatious natures got out of hand. She promised to come to the wedding and pretend to be my girlfriend, to keep my family off my back.
I slip off my shirt, and start undoing my belt just as she turns onto her side and looks at me through her long lashes, her eyes shining with lust.
“I want you, Charlie.” She whispers the words I’ve been dreaming of since she first stepped into my life.
Fuck. I can’t take my name sounding like lust on her lips. As if the taste of my name is all she needs to get off.
Or maybe I’m just imagining it. Maybe all this is in my head, because I want to think that hooking up somehow means more to her now.
It wasn’t supposed to be anything serious.
It was just a date. Just a release. All of this was only for fun.
And I know after tonight, she’ll be long gone.
The bed groans as I climb on top of it and I bend down to kiss the soft skin on the tender side of her neck, I can’t help thinking she feels so right. So perfect in my arms.
I pull back the comforter, revealing the lacy negligee she's wearing, and watch a beautiful pink blush travel up her chest and into her cheeks.
“What’s this?” I ask her with a cocked brow. My already hard dick twitches with the need to get that lingerie off of her and onto the floor. I want what’s underneath.
She bites down on her bottom lip and attempts to throw back one of those smart ass responses she’s always got for me, but my lips are on hers before she gets a single word out. Nipping and sucking and reveling in what’s to come.
Her fingers spear into my hair and she deepens the kiss, wrapping her legs around my hips. My hands roam up the curve of her waist and back down as she moans into my mouth.
This is dangerous. I’m fucking addicted. I swear, it wasn’t supposed to happen like this.
As I stare down at her beautiful face, her lips parted and her gorgeous baby blues half-lidded, I know this isn’t just a good time anymore. Not for me.
I’m not the type of man she wants. We both know that. I don’t have what it takes to keep her.
But damn… I want to.
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Also by Willow Winters
Small Town Romance
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Tequila Rose Book 1 (Feb 2021)
Autumn Night Whiskey Book 2 (March 2021)
He tasted like tequila and the fake name I gave him was Rose.
Four years ago, I decided to get over one man, by getting under another. A single night and nothing more.
Now, with a three-year-old in tow, the man I still dream about is staring at me from across the street in the town I grew up in. I don’t miss the flash of recognition, or the heat in his gaze.
The chemistry is still there, even after all these years.
I just hope the secrets and regrets don’t destroy our second chance before it’s even begun.
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You Are Mine Series of Duets
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You Are My Reason (You Are Mine Duet book 1)
You Are My Hope (You Are Mine Duet book 2)
Mason and Jules emotionally gripping romantic suspense duet.
One look and Jules was tempted; one taste, addicted.
No one is perfect, but that’s how it felt to be in Mason’s arms.
But will the sins of his past tear them apart?
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You Know I Love You
You Know I Need You (December 2020)
Kat says goodbye to the one man she ever loved even though Evan begs her to trust him.
With secrets she couldn’t have possibly imagined, Kat is torn between what’s right and what was right for them.
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Contemporary Romance Standalones
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Knocking Boots (A Novel)
They were never meant to be together.
Charlie is a bartender with noncommittal tendencies.
Grace is looking for the opposite. Commitment. Marriage. A baby.
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Promise Me (A Novel)
She gave him her heart. Back when she thought they’d always be together.
Now Hunter is home and he wants Violet back.
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Tell Me To Stay (A Novella)
He devoured her, and she did the same to him.
Until it all fell apart and Sophie ran as far away from Madox as she could.
After all, the two of them were never meant to be together?
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Second Chance (A Novella)
No one knows what happened the night that forced them apart. No one can ever know.
But the moment Nathan locks his light blue eyes on Harlow again, she is ruined.
She never stood a chance.
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Burned Promises (A Novella)
Derek made her a promise. And then he broke it. That’s what happens with your first love.
But Emma didn’t expect for Derek to fall back into her life and for her to fall back into his bed.
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Valetti Crime Family Series:
A HOT mafia series to sink your teeth into.
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Dirty Dom
Becca came to pay off a debt, but Dominic Valetti wanted more.
So he did what he’s always done, and took what he wanted.
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His Hostage
Elle finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. The mafia doesn’t let witnesses simply walk away.
Regret has a name, and it’s Vincent Valetti.
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Rough Touch
Ava is looking for revenge at any cost so long as she can remember the girl she used to be.
But she doesn’t expect Kane to show up and show her kindness that will break her.
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Cuffed Kiss
Tommy Valetti is a thug, a mistake, and everything Tonya needs; the answers to numb the pain of her past.
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Bad Boy
Anthony is the hitman for the Valetti familia, and damn good at what he does. They want men to talk, he makes them talk. They want men gone, bang - it’s done. It’s as simple as that.
Until Catherine.
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Those Boys Are Trouble (Valetti Crime Family Collection)
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Collections of shorts and novellas
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Don’t Let Go
A collection of stories including:
Infatuation
Desires in the Night and Keeping Secrets
Bad Boy Next Door
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Kisses and Wishes
A collection of holiday stories including:
One Holiday Wish
Collared for Christmas
Stolen Mistletoe Kisses
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All I Want is a Kiss (A Holiday short)
Olivia thought fleeting weekends would be enough and it always was, until the distance threatened to tear her and Nicholas apart for good.
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Highest Bidder Series:
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Bought
Sold
Owned
Given
From USA Today best selling authors, Willow Winters and Lauren Landish, comes a sexy and forbidden series of standalone romances.
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Bad Boy Standalones, cowritten with Lauren Landish:
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Inked
Tempted
Mr. CEO
Three novels featuring sexy powerful heroes.
Three romances that are just as swoon-worthy as they are tempting.
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Forsaken, (A Dark Romance cowritten with B. B. Hamel)
Grace is stolen and gifted to him; Geo a dominating, brutal and a cold hearted killer.
However, with each gentle touch and act of kindness that lures her closer to him
, Grace is finding it impossible to remember why she should fight him.
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Read Willow’s sexiest and most talked about romances in the Merciless World
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This Love Hurts Trilogy
This Love Hurts
But I Need You
And I Love You the Most (December 2020)
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An epic tale of both betrayal and all-consuming love...
Marcus, the villain.
Cody Walsh, the FBI agent who knows too much.
And Delilah, the lawyer caught in between.
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A Kiss to Tell (a standalone novel)
They lived on the same street and went to the same school, although he was a year ahead. Even so close, he was untouchable.
Sebastian was bad news and Chloe was the sad girl who didn’t belong.
Then one night changed everything.
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Possessive (a standalone novel)
It was never love with Daniel Cross and she never thought it would be. It was only lust from a distance. Unrequited love maybe.
He’s a man Addison could never have, for so many reasons.
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Merciless Saga
Merciless
Heartless
Breathless
Endless
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Ruthless, crime family leader Carter Cross should’ve known Aria would ruin him the moment he saw her. Given to Carter to start a war; he was too eager to accept. But what he didn’t know was what Aria would do to him. He didn’t know that she would change everything.
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All He’ll Ever Be (Merciless Series Collection of all 4 novels)
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Irresistible Attraction Trilogy
A Single Glance
A Single Kiss
A Single Touch
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Bethany is looking for answers and to find them she needs one of the brothers of an infamous crime family, Jase Cross.
Even a sizzling love affair won’t stop her from getting what she needs.
But Bethany soon comes to realise Jase will be her downfall, and she’s determined to be his just the same.
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Irresistible Attraction (A Single Glance Trilogy Collection)
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Hard to Love Series
Hard to Love
Desperate to Touch
Tempted to Kiss
Easy to Fall
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Eight years ago she ran from him.
Laura should have known he'd come for her. Men like Seth King always get what they want.
Laura knows what Seth wants from her, and she knows it comes with a steep price.
However it’s a risk both of them will take.
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Not My Heart to Break (Hard to Love Series Collection)
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Tease Me Once (September 2021)
Tease me once... I'll kiss you twice.
Declan Cross' story from the Merciless World.
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Spin off of the Merciless World
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Love the Way Duet
Love the Way You Kiss Me (May 2021)
Love the Way You Hold Me (June 2021)
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With everything I've been through, and the unfortunate way we met, the last thing I thought I'd be focused on is the fact that I love the way you kiss me.
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Extended epilogues to the Merciless World Novels
A Kiss To Keep (more of Sebastian and Chloe)
Seductive (more of Daniel and Addison)
Effortless (more of Carter and Aria)
Never to End (more of Seth and Laura)
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Sexy, thrilling with a touch of dark Standalone Novels
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Broken (Standalone)
Kade is ruthless and cold hearted in the criminal world.
They gave Olivia to him. To break. To do as he’d like.
All because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. But there are secrets that change everything. And once he has her, he’s never letting her go.
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Forget Me Not (Standalone novel)
She loved a boy a long time ago. He helped her escape and she left him behind. Regret followed her every day after.
Jay, the boy she used to know, came back, a man. With a grip strong enough to keep her close and a look in his eyes that warned her to never dare leave him again.
It’s dark and twisted.
But that doesn’t make it any less of what it is.
A love story. Our love story.
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It’s Our Secret (Standalone novel)
It was only a little lie. That’s how stories like these get started.
But with every lie Allison tells, Dean sees through it.
She didn't know what would happen. But with all the secrets and lies, she never thought she’d fall for him.
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Christmas at the White House
By KA Linde
I: The Rose Garden
The White House Rose Garden bordered the Oval Office and West Wing. The First Lady’s pride and joy side by side with her husband’s greatest achievement.
I’d always thought it was outdated that the woman got the garden next to the greatest office in the world. But that was before I’d stepped into those shoes. Before I’d realized the significance of the garden and how essential standing by my husband as Brady ascended to that office would be.
Now, I walked the length of the small lawn. The roses were no longer in bloom. The crabapple trees had lost their leaves, set to flower pink again in the spring. The grass was still green under my feet. But it didn’t feel like home, like North Carolina winters.
I wrapped the peacoat tighter around myself as the DC breeze cut crisp into the garden. One more circuit, and then I’d go inside. The kids would be wondering where I was to tuck them in if I stayed out much later.
Still, I walked around the garden one more time. Soaked up the presence of all the incredible women before me. Brady was doing good work here, necessary work. It was hard not to think that I could be doing more. Not that anyone in Congress or the public agreed. Everyone was hypercritical of a First Lady with opinions. As if the reason the president had fallen in love with me wasn’t because I was the most opinionated person in the room.
A smile touched my lips. Easier times.
Impossible to believe that. At the time, it had felt catastrophic. Every day a new pain, a fresh wound. But the campaign had hardened us, brought us together rather than apart, and now, we were here.
Currently, it was just asinine things that set people off. What suit I wore, what designer had dressed me for an event, the ridiculous Christmas decorations debacle. I hadn’t even actually designed them myself. But somehow, they were all wrong.