Rules of Engagement (5 page)

If he wanted to give them a shot, even
though he had doubts, she knew he’d do everything he could to make
it work. That he’d be hell-bent on proving that they had a
chance.

How could he do any less?

Gina stepped closer, close enough to slide
her hands up his chest and curl her fingers around the back of his
neck.

Relief flitted over his face, but Rico still
stared, intent while he waited for her response. Leave it to him,
he was going to make her say it out loud.

Yeah, this whole thing
probably was the heat of the moment. And yeah, they didn’t know
each other well enough yet for crazy promises of happy ever
after.

But a beginning? Delight
and excitement filled her. He wanted her enough, cared about her
enough, to believe they had a future.

“
A beginning it is.” She
brushed the softest promise of a kiss over his full lips, then
challenged, “Now let’s see what other wild things you’re willing to
do.”

Wasn’t this the perfect Valentine’s thrill?
The promise of so many possibilities.

You can see more of Rico
and Gina in BREAKING THE RULES
—Sophia and
Max’s story.

Breaking The Rules

ISBN: 978-0-373-79596-3

Subject:
Max St. James, U.S. Army Sergeant First
Class

Current
Status
: On leave after a year in
Afghanistan
.

Mission:
Take some R & R. Check up on a buddy’s little
sister
.

Obstacle:
Sophia Castillo. Independent, stubborn…

and hot enough to make him forget she’s
anybody’s “little sister”!

Max may be off duty, but he still has one
last job to do. He’s promised To look in on—but not fool around
with!—his best friend’s kid sister. Only once he meets Sophia, all
thought of keeping his hands to himself go out the window.

Sophia, however, has
different ideas. A recent widow, the last thing she needs is
another man telling her what to do. Even if that gorgeous man
leaves her drooling in a puddle of lust....

It’s a battle of wills. Who will end up on
top?

Max breaks every rule in the book to keep
Sophia in his bed. After all, all’s fair in love and war. And Max
is counting on life with Sophia being a little bit of both.

Want more hot military heroes? Check out
Tawny’s Sexy SEALs

A SEAL’s Seduction

ISBN:
978-0373797424

Subject
: Navy SEAL Lieutenant Blake Landon


Current

Status
: Two weeks of enforced leave



Mission
: Distract himself in
any
way possible

Obstacle
: A woman who tempts him to break the rules...including his
own!

Navy SEAL Blake Landon
(a.k.a. “Boy Scout”) knows the rulebook inside and out. Checked.
Rechecked. But when a mission ends badly, his entire team is
ordered on leave. And that’s when Blake sees the tall redhead whose
dark eyes suggest that the rules— especially those in bed—are made
to be broken.

Scientist Alexia Lane has
sex on the brain—partly for work, but mostly because she needs a
man who makes her girly parts do the happy dance. Her only no-no?
No military dudes. But Blake’s rockin’ bod promises delicious
pleasures, and Alexia is halfway to sexual Nirvana before she can
find out he’s actually a Navy SEAL.

And where one rule is
broken, more are sure to follow....

A SEAL’s Surrender

ISBN:
978-0373797431

Subject
: Lieutenant Commander


Cade Sullivan



Status
: On leave



Mission
: He’s home to take care of some family business.

Obstacle
: Eden Gillespie. The girl
who always lands in trouble...has landed in his bed!

Lieutenant Commander Cade
Sullivan
is
the
job. His commitment to the Navy SEALs is absolute—almost. Worse
still, he’s been summoned home, where his family is the town
royalty and women vie to be one of Cade’s conquests. One of them in
particular....

Ever since they were kids, Cade has been
rescuing Eden Gillespie. Now she’s decided she owes him one heck of
a thank-you—one that involves a bed, naked bodies and sweet
satisfaction. But when their sexy trysts are discovered, Eden
becomes a bit of a town sensation—and not in a good way. Can she
convince her SEAL to risk one last rescue operation?

A
SEAL’s Salvation

ISBN:
978-0373797875

Subject
: Navy SEAL Petty Officer


Brody Lane


Current Status
: On
leave


Obstacle
: The one girl who was off-limits...

Where Navy SEAL “Bad Ass”
Brody Lane goes, trouble follows. Being run out of his hometown
years ago for misbehaving with Genna Reilly—the sheriff’s
daughter—was one thing. Now Brody is about to step into real
danger. Not the suggestive letters he’s been exchanging with Genna,
but the kind of trouble that can send a soldier home injured and
broken inside...

Genna’s entire life has been
orchestrated by her family.
The right job.
The right friends. Enough! Brody’s return offers the promise of
lust-filled pleasures. Of flesh teased and tasted. She’s not
expecting to find a soldier with distant eyes who has secluded
himself from the world. But this good girl knows exactly how to
bring a bad boy back to life....

A SEAL’s
Kiss

ISBN:
978-0373797875

Subject
: Navy SEAL Petty Officer Aiden Masters

Current
Status
: On leave

Obstacle
: Deploy "Mission: (Fake) Engagement"…without actually falling
for his fiancée!

The
goal of Mission
: Engagement is
simple—a fake engagement concocted to bring happiness to Sage
Taylor's ailing father.

The
Rules
:

1) Treat it like a military mission

2) Keep the truth undercover

3) The "engagement" lasts as long as the
professor's health depends on it; and

4) No sex…especially with each other!

But the incredibly spirited (and a touch
quirky) Sage has never been one for rules. Especially when they
involve Aiden's rock-hard navy bod and a ton of smokin'-hot sexual
attraction. Which means in order to seduce this sexy SEAL, she'll
have to completely outmaneuver him….