NFL football player Isaiah Blackwell lost his husband three years ago and is raising their teen son alone. He lives his life as quietly as his job allows, playing ball to support his family but trying not to draw unwanted attention. His quiet life is shaken up when a mutual friend introduces him to Victor, a visiting principal ballet dancer who is everything Isaiah is not. Brash and loud, Victor Aleksandrov has applied for political asylum to avoid returning to Russia, where gay men are targeted and persecuted. He’s been outspoken about gay rights in his home country, and if he doesn’t get asylum, going back to Russia is a death sentence. Their one-night stand turns into a tentative friendship, a relationship they both agree is temporary...until Victor’s denied asylum. Isaiah can’t offer Victor a happily ever after, but he can propose something that’ll keep Victor in the US and safe...marriage. He just doesn’t expect his new husband to dance away with his heart.

Marriage—for love, sex or convenience? Tess is about to lose custody of her precious baby nephew, so it's only natural for her to cry on her best friend's shoulder—Rafe Farrar. To the rest of the female population, he's sex on legs. So Tess is shocked when he suggests they marry to guarantee custody! Instantly, their friendship becomes more intimate. But how will they relate to each other as husband and wife? One place they seem to communicate perfectly is the bedroom…

May Coleridge must marry before she's thirty to inherit her family home and keep her new business afloat. Adam Wavell comes from a long line of wastrels—but he's turned his life around. He's a corporate success story and a pillar of the community. Only, now his flaky sister has left him with her screaming baby! A deal must be done. May will help Adam with his niece if he'll answer her SOS!

Includes a bonus short story by Brenda Jackson.

Surprise reunion… …with her husband! Dr. Ruby Cloutier agreed to a marriage with army doc Aran Atkinson in name only so she could continue working in Alaska. Aran’s military service has suitably kept them apart—and their attraction at bay—until he unexpectedly returns, more brooding and tempting than ever! Now working together on life-threatening cases, it’s getting harder to resist the burning chemistry between them. Suddenly Ruby finds herself inconveniently falling for her convenient husband! “It is an engaging read that I didn’t want to put down. There are so many emotional barriers to this romance and just how they can be overcome make it an enthralling read. I’ll definitely be looking out for more by this author in future and have no hesitation in highly recommending this book to anyone…” — Goodreads on NY Doc Under the Northern Lights “A Date With Dr. Moustakas is a mesmerizing romance filled with emotional intensity and sensuality. Author Amy Ruttan once again astounds her readers with her heart-warming story telling style.” — Goodreads

Nathan Mallory hasn't set eyes on Phelix Bradbury since they conveniently wed. When they meet at an international business conference eight years on, Nathan is intrigued when he sees that Phelix is still wearing her wedding ring…. Now a successful lawyer with the independence she's always craved, Phelix is not the same shy, mousy teenager Nathan knew, but a confident and stylish woman. And her transformation certainly hasn't escaped the English tycoon's notice….

When a young widow’s husband makes a shocking return, their marriage of convenience is rekindled with new passion in this sexy Victorian romance. Seven years ago, Avaline entered a marriage of convenience with Lord Fortis Tresham just before he went off to war. Not long after, she received word that he fell in battle, never to be recovered. But now her convenient husband has returned—just in time to save her from an unwanted suitor! Yet as he returns to her life—and her bed—Avaline is cautious . . . Why is he so mature, courteous, thoughtful, so different from the selfish soldier she married?

A marriage in name only leads to unexpected passion in a Regency romance that shows what happens when the heart clashes with the head. Her husband is back—and everything has changed . . . After Beth Webster married her childhood friend to escape from debt, he swiftly returned to his life in London. But now Rendell Graham is back as lord of the estate, and Beth’s heart pounds whenever he is near! She’s wary of expectations to produce an heir, for fear of passing on her blindness. But Ren’s hidden sensitivity is a surprise—could their arrangement become something much more passionate? “[A] very engaging historical story . . . original and highly entertaining.” —alwaysreviewing.com