Bøker av Calliope Dean

Secrets & Denials is a special edition featuring two steamy, small town novellas, complete with a special bonus scene for each story. Red, White & Dress BluesFour years ago, when Lucas Barnes was celebrating his high school graduation before he headed off for boot camp, the two of them shared a night of passion. But a lot has happened to Lacy Devereaux since the night she slept with her little brother's best friend.When the strapping young Marine returns to Cedar Hollow, showing up one day at the coffee shop she now owns and runs, Lacy has to decide whether or not to let him back into her life. And when, and how, to tell him the truth about all that transpired while he was gone. Can it all be water under the bridge? Or has too much happened for them to have a chance?Bandaids to BroomsticksSingle mother and school nurse Ruby Langley's life is full. Full of her job, full of parenting her six-year-old daughter, full of housework. Just, full. Too full for whatever the young, new first-grade teacher thinks can happen between them. No matter how good-looking he is.Julian Schultz was looking for small town life when he moved to Cedar Hollow, but he wasn't expecting the way he felt drawn to the school's quiet, serious nurse, Ruby. She seems intent on keeping their acquaintance purely professional, citing their age difference, the fact that they work together, their quintessentially different lifestyles.And yet, thanks to life in a small town, their divergent lives seem to keep colliding. As do their lips. How long can they fight the chemistry that obviously lies between them?

Holiday Hearts is a special edition featuring two steamy, small town novellas, complete with a special bonus scene for each story. Home for the HolidaysWhen Ryan Crandall loses her boyfriend and her job within weeks of each other, she decides to take a break and go home to help her parents with the family store for the holiday rush. What she doesn't expect is to run into Asher Cohen, her high school boyfriend's little brother who had become like her own little brother. But he surely doesn't look or feel like a brother now. Hearts on FireWhen firefighter Brett Travers is called out on Valentine's Day, he's shocked to find a fiery redhead fighting the blaze. From their first meeting at her Tarts Burning Hearts party, he's smitten with the voluptuous firecracker. When he shows up offering to fix the damage to her house, she reluctantly agrees, but soon the two are sharing more than tools, despite her attempt to keep the younger man at arm's length.

Selah Walker shows up at her estranged father's Montana ranch in the middle of the night with her children, having fled her cheating husband who wanted a divorce. She's shocked to find rancher Declan Dawes there instead, and over the weeks she comes to terms with the changes in her life while caring for the ranch with the reserved Dawes. Slowly they find themselves sharing more than the chores, and Selah has to decide if this is a permanent change or just a temporary stop.

Katherine isn't looking for something new. Barely keeping things going as she manages the single parenthood thrust upon her when her deadbeat ex-husband left them for another woman, dating hasn't even been on her radar. So when her daughter's climbing teacher strikes up a friendship and makes it obvious he's interested in more, Katherine is shocked. Is she ready for this? And can a younger man really be ready to take on a divorcee with two kids? Jakob isn't thwarted by the fact that Katherine is a little older than him, that she's in the throes of a divorce, or that she has two kids. He can't stop thinking about her, and he's determined to be what she needs to feel comfortable starting a relationship with someone new, someone younger. Jakob helps Katherine open herself up, growing up a little bit himself at the same time. But can they make it through all the obstacles between them? Taking Hold is a steamy, reverse age gap romance that tells the first half of Katherine and Jakob's story. Check out the second half of their story in Holding On.