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Summer Walls

They weren’t related. That’s what Ava kept telling herself. It had only been a year since their parents married — a beachside wedding, sunset vows, and suddenly Noah was her …
Practice Heat

They hated each other. At least, that’s what everyone on the debate team thought. Harper and Jace — fire and ice, sharp tongues, eye rolls across the table, constant bickering. …
The Guest Room

It was just one night. That’s what Tyler told himself when his best friend, Nate, asked if his girlfriend could crash at his place for the weekend. “Work trip,” Nate …
Office Hours

It was supposed to be just another semester. Another lecture. Another forgettable professor. But Professor Hale was anything but forgettable. She was in her late thirties, sharp-eyed and sharper-tongued, with …
The Summer Fence

In the swelter of a Georgia summer, 1862, Caleb, a lanky college boy of nineteen, home from Athens, found his gaze tethered to Mrs. Lottie Harper, his neighbor’s wife. At …
The Window Next Door

It started with a glance through a window. Liam had come home from college for the summer, staying in his childhood bedroom, now too small for the man he’d become. …
The Deserter’s Hideout

In the Tennessee hills, 1863, Clara hid in a barn, her Union nurse’s apron stained with war’s grim toll. She’d fled the hospital, seeking a deserter named Eli, a Confederate …
The Fire’s Temptation

In the shadowed cave, where firelight danced on jagged walls, Kael’s eyes burned for Mira. She was all sinew and secrets, her deerskin wrap clinging to hips that swayed like …
The Widow’s Waltz (Petticoat Affair, USA, 1829)

Peggy O’Neall, a Washington tavern-keeper’s daughter, was trouble in a corset. Her dark eyes and quick tongue had John Eaton, Secretary of War, panting like a hound. Her first husband, …
The Minister’s Mistake (Profumo Affair, UK, 1963)

Christine, a showgirl with legs like a Cold War ceasefire, had John Profumo, War Secretary, in a spin. Their poolside meeting at Cliveden—her nude swim a diplomatic incident—left him dizzy. …