First Love Second Chance Temperatures Rising PDF Download

Short & Sizzlin’ Contemporary Romances with a Touch of Fate… These stories are a mix of both sweet and steamy contemporary romances with feel good endings you can start and finish in one sitting… standalone stories, no cliffhangers, happily ever after, a little touch of magical fate. BOOK 1, SECOND FIRST KISS Tragedy strikes and leaves forty-five-year-old Rebecca (Reeby) Harlow a widow. She's spent the last six months rebuilding her life and suffering through friends who know the perfect man for her. She's about to give up and accept that she had her happily ever after, and it's over now. Rhys Benchly is recovering from an illness he thought would claim his life—a life he's never fully lived and frankly wasted until now, and hopes he isn't too late to get a second chance. But he's just gotten a clean bill of health and is about to have his first drink in a year to celebrate the victory. Reeby is struggling to tread the waters of the dating world and has just been stood up when he spots her sitting at the bar. Something stirs in his heart—something new and yet oddly familiar. Her confidence is shaken, but she's drawn to Rhys and doesn't understand why. One steamy night of passion reveals the biggest of revelations, including that they just might be fated to be together for the rest of their days… BOOK 2, LOVE FOR RESALE Selene Waters is starting over in a small town in the middle-of-nowhere Maine—why? Well, life in the big city wasn’t exactly making her happy personally or professionally. So, why not try something entirely different? At the very least, the job sounded more fulfilling than any she’d ever had, and that might have to be enough as it seemed like a lasting love was never going to find her. It was a dream for other people, but not something she expected to find for herself. But when she visits a local secondhand store and makes a purchase of a coat and finds an old letter hidden inside the pocket, she starts a side quest to track down the original owner of the coat to return the letter. But her new life finds her busier than ever with her work, and more frustrated than ever with her personal life, as local teacher, Roger Bancroft seems to have it out for her for reasons no one quite understands. But when worlds collide and the letter is read and the true recipient revealed, Selene’s love life won’t ever be the same again. BOOK 3, FANTASTIC MR. FOXX A hunky carpenter with nothing to lose and a feisty first-time thief get caught up in a mess of animal mischief—but the only thing in real danger of getting stolen is each other's hearts… Ten years ago, Mason Foxx lost almost everything dear to him in all the world. All he had left was his childhood best friend, and his trusted furry four-legged buddy since his teenage years—but his dog is gone now too. Mason spent the following years drowning himself in his work trying to forget that tragic night until a carpentry job for a miserly and miserable old man with a dastardly secret sucks Mason into a dangerous mission his heart refuses to say no to. Unbeknownst to him, he's interrupting a first-time thief, the feisty and mysterious Maura, who's got walls around her heart so thick it's clear it's taken years to build them, and as Mason comes to learn, she's a woman who's been let down time and time again by those who should have stuck up for her. But when Maura realizes that Mason Foxx has stolen the one thing she still cares about in all the world, the one thing she'd do almost anything to get back, she sets her thieving sights on the hunky carpenter, determined to get the property he stole from her. Together, they end up in a tangled mess of animal mischief, but the only thing in real danger of getting stolen is each other's hearts… BOOK 4, SEVEN YEAR SWITCH An aging actor and a romance movie writer hire each other to solve a mutual problem that might save their flailing careers. Only, this acting gig might just be the realest and steamiest job ever. Naomi Blake is a romance writer whose career bloomed seven years ago when she signed a contract to turn all her past and future books into movies. But lately, her words have gone stale because she's spent the last seven years working non-stop and not allowed herself any time for real romance—meaning, she's forgotten what falling in love feels like, and it shows in her work and not in a good way. Bradley Boone is a famous aging actor who has sacrificed his youth to a lifetime role—the forever baby-faced playboy every woman wants and cannot have—only, now, he's just been offered his first acting gig as the bumbling father—not the leading man. After a chance meeting, Naomi schemes an idea—she hires Bradley for the ultimate acting gig—to pretend to fall in love with her so she can remember what it feels like and get back to work. At the same time, he sees this as an opportunity to prove to studio execs that he's still a leading man—if they see him "settling down" their minds might change. However, the journey from fake romance to proving themselves and saving their careers leads to some steamy blurred lines and makes them wonder if their scheme can go from make believe, to a lasting happily ever after…