Midnight Rendezvous by Jamie Denton
He's a playwright with an alcohol problem and she is an ex model disfigured by a drunk driver. He's searching for a muse and her naked midnight swims are keeping his creative flow going but his life is in New York and her life is in New Orleans and the two of them couldn't possibly work as a couple until they do.

Dime Store Cowboy by Kate Douglas
Mark decides after an experience at a dude ranch to move there and try the life, Betsy has escaped an abusive relationship and resents his flippant attitude to life. The two of them have to find common ground.

From the Storm by Lori Foster
Sabrina works at a children's shelter using her life experience as a child to help the children. Roy works as a vet who also has an animal shelter. When they were younger his family took her in when her junkie
Sweet, tender. She was an abused girl his family had saved and taken in after her abusive junkie father tried to sell her for a fix. Storms make her very upset and he's always willing to soothe her but he respects her boundaries until they both change theirs.

Life in the Past Lane by Kathy Love
Rocco Vincente is happy with his life of writing columns and squiring women around New York but his 15 year reunion happens and the woman in charge of the Bed and Breakfast he goes to happens to be Fanny who he liked from afar. As he explores the town where he finished his high school education from a group home, he gets some perspective from himself as adult.

Take Me Home by Erin McCarthy
Sarah is home and pregnant and unsure who the father was. Travis has always been her refuge but he's cautious, she mightn't stay and that would break his heart but he can't stop helping her.

Razors Edge - Sylvia Day
This was included in the Shadow Stalkers Novella Anthology - he's an old friend of her now-dead husband and he's always been attracted to her but didn't want to go there on a friend, she's getting over the death of her husband and trying to find a new future.

All in all the stories were okay, in some instances I would have liked a bit more, in others the story was about the right lenght. A few of the authors I'd look for again. ( )

Midnight Rendezvous by Jamie Denton - 5
He's a playwright with an alcohol problem and she is an ex model disfigured by a drunk driver. He's dried out when he discovers her midnight swims, she becomes his muse. I think I would have liked more of their story in a full novel version.

Dime Store Cowboy by Kate Douglas - 5
At 40, Mark sells everything, turns in his resignation and heads to Colorado to reassess his life. Betsy is comes back home after an abusive relationship

From the Storm by Lori Foster - 5
Sweet, tender. She was an abused girl his family had saved and taken in. He's always loved her and she's always loved him. She works in a children's shelter and he's a vet who also runs an animal shelter. Perfect match. Also contains an adorable dog named Abner

Life in the Past Lane by Kathy Love - 5
Bad boy comes home for his 15 year reunion and discovers his memories of the past may not have been accurate. He's the boy she had a crush on. Sweet romance.

Take Me Home by Erin McCarthy - 4
They are both orphans, they grew close as youngsters. She left for bigger and brighter things and comes running back to him after she finds she's pregnant and panics and runs to the one man she could always count on.
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1st story by Lori Foster - Roy and Sabrina lived next door to each other when they were kids. He from good parents and her left with a drug addicted, abusive father. When she was 15 and Roy 19 her father sold her to a drug dealer for a fix. Roy and his family witnessed Sabrina being dragged out of her house in the middle of a raging thunderstorm by the dealer and intervened. After this Roy's family got custody of Sabrina and he was in love with her but she was to fragile at that time. At 25 she still has emotional breakdowns when there is a thunderstorm and runs over to Roy's place and he holds her until the storm passes. Sabrina works in social services with kids with no home and Roy is a vet that also runs a shelter for animals. Roy decides it time to tell Sabrina his feelings. This was a very sweet love story.
2nd story by Erin McCarthy - This is a very short story that basically tells us about Sara Parker, the woman that had a one night stand with Evan Monroe and got pregnant in the book The Chase. We find out that she lived in foster homes her whole life and never thought she was good enough even for her best friend Travis who she left behind when she ran. It starts off with her being honest with Evan and saying she doesnt know who the father is and not liking what she had become and decides to go home - back to Travis to find herself. Travis has been in love with Sara since they were kids. They both were in the foster care system. He doesnt take sex lightly where as she went the opposite way. But Travis makes her see she is worth of love and he wants to marry her and be the father of her baby..
3rd story by Sylvia Day - Jack Killigrew works for the US Marshal Service - more specifically with the Shadow Stalker unit. He is a loner coming from the foster care system and believes his job will keep him from the one thing he wants desperately, Rachel. Rachel is a widowed mother whom Jack was good friends with her husband Steve and he made a promise to look out for her and her son should something ever happen to Steve. Jack has been in love with Rachel from the start but never told anyone. Rachel is a different person since her husband died - she loved her husband and the person she was with him but since he dies she had to become stronger and more independent and knows what she wants and that is Jack. So she sets up a hardcore seduction scene which Jack tries to fight (for her own good of course - men are so stupid sometimes) This story was the main reason I bought this book - Jack and Rachel were in the Men out of Uniform anthology in Brian and Layla story and I just had to read there story after meeting them.
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