Washington, D.C., Metro Police Detective Sergeant Sam Holland needs a big win to salvage her career-and her confidence-after a disastrous investigation. The perfect opportunity arises when Senator John O'Connor is found brutally murdered in his bed, and she's assigned to the case. Things get complicated when she has to team up with Nick Cappuano, O'Connor's friend and chief of staff…and the man she had a memorable one-night stand with years earlier....

Lieutenant Sam Holland has no sooner accepted Senator Nick Cappuano's proposal than she's back on the job. A woman has been found brutally murdered and evidence points to Henry Lightfeather, a senator and close friend of Nick's. While Sam investigates, Nick stands by his friend--complicating his own bid for reelection, and causing tension between the couple. As Sam's investigation reveals a scandal that rocks the capital, Nick and Sam discover that...

Emma Wyatt was on a quest to reclaim her passion for baking. She never thought she could find adventure and love along the way. Emma is the responsible one. The oldest sister of five siblings. The one who is good at baking, and accounting, and making sure that everyone else is taken care of. She's also the one who has quietly accepted that she will never have her own epic love story. Perhaps some people simply aren't lucky at love. Worse still,...

Jake's heart has secretly pulled toward Mackenzie Daniels for years. But with neither of them being known as the "settling-down" type, he always chalked the feeling up to the fact that she was the only girl who had ever been able to keep up with him. Then something happened. One evening camped out under the aurora borealis sky in New Zealand changes everything. Before he knows it, the two of them cross the globe to visit her grandmother in the Highlands...