Clarissa may have been daydreaming about her head stockman, Brandon, every day and night of the long, hot drought, but Brandon has never been anything more than friendly and professional, and Clarissa has long accepted that life will never imitate fantasy. Until Brandon recommends an old friend—a renowned bull rider and stockman—for a job, and suddenly Clarissa finds herself in the middle of a competition between two of the hottest men that she's ever seen. But Clarissa doesn't fancy herself a prize—and with two cowboys willing to do whatever it takes to make her happy, she might just decide that the winner takes all.

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To all of Sydney's society, Camilla is just the upstart, gold-digging waitress that somehow managed to snare one of Australia's most eligible bachelors. Camilla can't pretend that the gossip and the innuendo following her wherever she goes doesn't bother her, but when the world gets too much, she just stays in her beautiful home, with her beautiful husband. After all, no one knows what goes on behind closed doors, and plenty goes on at Camilla's house.

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Kristen Treymore isn't living, she's existing, stuck in a marriage to protect her stepdaughter from Jack, an alcoholic who uses his fists to communicate. When Conrad Doyle, childhood friend and the man whose heart she unwittingly broke, shows up on her doorstep and offers her a lifeline, she can't refuse.

What she never dreams possible is how much she still wants him—but is that enough to keep them together when terror still beats deep in her heart?