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He needs respectability and she needs a safe place to land. It's a win-win, right?Mack Granger's reputation is a PR nightmare. As his career winds down, he realizes he needs to clean up his act. One way to secure his post-MLB future is to convince the media he's in a stable, loving relationship. When fate drops a roomie with benefits into his lap, it's like hitting a grand slam.Greer Bradley is tossed a curve ball via a creepy email. As her new job covering the New Orleans Revelers for a local station heats up, so do the stalkerish advances. A too close for comfort encounter sends her running to Mack Granger's doorstep. He might be MLB's biggest playboy, but if she's being honest, he makes her feel safe... and sexed-up.Somewhere in the midst of the crazy game called life, this fake relationship could become the most real thing either of them has ever experienced.

Welcome to French Settlement!This is a complete series set in a small town in Louisiana. You'll find friends who turn into lovers, aheart-warming second chance romance, two people fighting for their HEA, and a rock star who getsthe surprise of his life. There is humor, heart, and tons of heat, along with a family you're sure to fallin love with. Come sit on Annie Landry's front porch, let her pour you a glass of sweet tea, and getlost in the deep south! Finding Focus is a friends-to-lovers romance set in the quaint small town of French Settlement, Louisiana.After accepting a freelance job in French Settlement, Sheridan Reed feels the bleakness of her lifeback in New York fading in the rearview mirror. Getting back to her southern roots seems to be justwhat she needs to lift her spirits and spark her creativity. During her stay, she meets playboy MicahLandry and his welcoming family. She knows she should avoid him and keep things professional, buthis southern charms are hard to resist. Chasing Castles is a brother's best friend, second chance romance.With so much history and love between Cami and Deacon, they were bound to find their way back toeach other. "I know we've done things slowly, but I've loved you since I knew what it meant to lovesomeone." He is all her heart has ever known. But will reality live up to her dreams? Fighting Fire is a continuation of Dani and Micah's story.Just because Micah Landry got the girl doesn't mean he's going to be able to keep her. After tragedystrikes the Landry family, an offer Micah can't refuse comes in at the perfect time, offering a newchallenge and distraction from his life in French Settlement. But he quickly learns that nothing in lifeworth having comes easy. Taming Trouble is a frenemies-to-lovers, single-dad romance.After years of living the rockstar life, Tucker Benoit finds himself back home. Unlike when he left, henow finds solace on the farm that once isolated him from the world. The only thing hindering hismuch-needed respite from the fast life he's been living is Piper Grey, the smart and sassy magazineeditor from New York City. The spark between Tucker and Piper is explosive and lands thembetween the sheets more often than not. But when a blast from Tucker's past shows up out ofnowhere, with a surprise he never saw coming, he's forced to re-evaluate his life. The future never looked more uncertain and his heart never felt more torn apart.

Two strangers struggling each day-one trying to overcome the past: the other hiding behind it.When a guy with nothing to lose takes a chance on the sad girl at the cafe, everything changes. Tripp Alexander My entire life was mapped out. High school football star. College scholarships. My future was bright. Until a turn of fate delivered an unexpected dose of reality. Life is fragile and I'm notindestructible. What I'm left with is a ghost of my past life, a brokenness that tortures me daily. Then one day I see a girl with mournful eyes sitting at a corner table in a café. There's amelancholy in her that my soul recognizes. Loren Jensen I know heartache. My entire life was taken from me with no safety net, and despair slowly crushes me.For the last year, I've been living in my own personal hell. Suffering with guilt for something Ican't fix, and trying to pay penance in hopes of not permanently losing my soul. Then he walks in and he's so beautiful it hurts. And the pain is welcome. It's the first time I'vefelt alive in so long. Our pasts colliding might be the final blow... Or we might survive our tragedies and demons tofind fate had a plan all along. A New Orleans story of destiny, healing, and forgiveness with a promised HEA.

A waitress fielding life's curveballs.A CEO with a penchant for pie.She's independent and tenacious.He's chivalrous and demanding.They're an unexpected match.Somehow, through a series of events, their lives are thrust together. But what happens next? Is this a one-night stand or something more?

Micah Landry has lived in his brother's shadow his entire life, working side-by-side, but also waiting for a chance to make his mark. After tragedy strikes and an offer he can't refuse lands in his lap, he takes it as a sign to take the leap and go out on his own. It seems as if everything he's ever wanted is falling into place-he's getting the restaurant and he's got the girl. But when he loses sight on what's important, he's faced with the decision of a lifetime-his dream or his family.Nothing in life worth having comes easy, but when you lose everything you love in the process, who's left to share it with? Fire is a fickle bitch. It comes in all shapes and sizes.The power held within its heat and flames can either create something strong and beautiful or destroy everything in its path.Sometimes it does both without you even realizing it.

GriffinFrom the moment I walk into her office to get a tattoo removed-finally ready to move on withmy life-and catch a glimpse of the good doctor, I know I have to have her.Jenna Green is what dreams are made of-smart, witty, and drop-dead gorgeous.But she's also unavailable.For now. JennaFrom the moment I lay eyes on him, I know he's going to be a problem. Never, in all my years ofmedicine, have I ever been so attracted to a patient.Griffin Mitchell is everything I never knew I needed-nerdy, funny, and down-right sexy.But he's off-limits.For now.A few months is a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things, right?The question is: Can we keep things platonic until then? Or will we combust into flames andburn our chance before it's time?

First comes marriage, then comes...love? Divorce? Let's pretend this never happened ... They say opposites attract and that couldn't be truer when it comes to CeCe and Shep. But what happens when the two most anti-marriage people in the French Quarter start enjoying the act? CeCe I never planned on getting married. After my dad deserted my family the day before my tenth birthday, and I watched my mother fall to pieces over him, I decided it wasn't worth the heartache. Then Shepard Rhys-Jones, who ghosted me two years ago, declares he needs to marry someone to claim his inheritance, and I drunkenly offer myself up as his wife. He was the best I've ever had and now, he's all mine... but only for the next year. ShepI never planned on getting married. It was one business transaction I had no desire to close. Yet, here I am... sitting in a bar in New Orleans... seriously considering making CeCe Calhoun my wife. If we can manage to stay married for a year, I'll be one hundred million dollars richer and finally have the freedom to forge my own path, separate from the Rhys-Jones name. She's the only woman I've struggled to forget, and she's finally mine. For now.Is it possible for this fake marriage to be real?

The road to self-discovery leads Maverick Kensington deep into the heart of New Orleans. The colorful characters, beautiful scenery and a hot mess of a woman he finds along the way offer him the perfect place to reinvent himself.The French Quarter and Blue Bayou are exactly the change of pace he's looking for, helping him escape the soul-sucking work he does for his father's company.Carys Matthews is young and inexperienced. Having her family's hotel dropped in her lap after her mother's untimely death, she's struggling to keep her head above water and keep the hotel's doors open. She doesn't have time for relationships, but Maverick Kensington is worth an exception. Besides, his stay is temporary and a fling never hurt anyone, right?His passion and business know-how is exactly what she needs.Her carefree spirit is what he wants.Their whirlwind relationship is one for the books until truths are untold and assumptions are made. Everything comes to a screeching halt just when they were getting to the good part.There's always been a saying around the hotel: eventually, everyone comes back to the Blue Bayou. Will Maverick be the exception?

He's the recently divorced veteran player and she's the teammate's "little sister" who comes to his rescue. Ross Davies, ace pitcher for the New Orleans Revelers, needs help putting his life back in order before he throws away everything he's worked so hard for.Casey Carradine has a knack for managing people's lives. When she agrees to step up to the plate and help Ross dig his way out of the debris of his failed marriage, it shouldn't be a hard task. After all, she's run her rockstar sister's life for years. But things get heated and lines get crossed. And neither of them expect the curveball that's thrown their way.

The day Tucker Benoit left his father's farm in French Settlement to pursue his love of music was the best day of his life.Or so he thought...After years of booze, girls, drugs, and gigs, Tucker finds himself back where he started. Only this time, he finds solace on the farm that once isolated him from the world.Now, the only thing hindering his much-needed R and R is the smart and sassy Piper Grey.The fire between them is palpable and lands them between the sheets more often than not.But when a blast from Tucker's past shows up out of nowhere, he's forced to re-evaluate his life. The future never looked more uncertain and his heart never felt more torn apart.Suddenly, staying on the road doesn't seem like such a bad idea after all...

Friends are what we agree to be, but some romances deserve a second chance.Finley She was my first everything-first love, first real kiss, first time. Even though we came from different worlds, Georgette Taylor understood me. She was mine and I was hers. I thought we'd be together forever.Until she left me, just like everyone else.GeorgetteI haven't seen Finley Lawson in five years.The day I walked away from him-or ran, rather-was the hardest day of my life.My only regret is losing touch with him. I loved him and he loved me. And then I threw it all away.I thought the past was in the past until I walked into a bar in New Orleans on New Year's Eve and smackdab into the boy I used to love, who is now a man.Like, a really hot man. And I realize, every feeling I ever felt for him is still alive and well.

WOMEN HAVEN'T BEEN HIRED TO WORK IN MY BAR FOR A REASON: they're too tempting and too distracting-too much of a liability-even if they are good for business...That's why I shocked myself by hiring Avery Cole. She's young, carefree, and happy-a beautiful distraction. When she's around, the devastation of my past gets buried under layers of lust and desire... hints of a life I once lived but have completely given up on.I've already had my love and now that's gone; there's no need to try again. Even if love is staring me right in the face with a pair of deep brown eyes and no expectations.WHAT CAN I SAY ABOUT SHAW O'SULLIVAN?He's rude, abrasive, sexy-and my boss. He's also broken in ways I would never have seen if I hadn't been looking.Which means he should be off limits; my heart and body cannot handle his baggage. I'm on a quest to find myself, and Shaw O'Sullivan will only get in my way and drag me down.Where I'm light, he's dark. We don't mix and neither of us are looking for love, so what happens when it finds us anyway?

Lola Carradine isn't just rocking the stage, she's rocking Bo Bennett's world. Gossip Thread has recently heard rumors that actress-turned-singer, Lola Carradine, is reportedly dating Bo Bennett, the New Orleans Revelers' hottest new rookie. With her next album set to drop in less than two months, what Gossipers are dying to know is: is this the real deal or the latest publicity ploy from Camp Carradine?#TheRookieandTheRockstarBaseball News has been following the developing story of rookie third baseman, Bo Bennett, and singer, Lola Carradine. With this being a crucial time in the young athlete's life, finally making it to the Big Leagues, we have to ask ourselves: is this the right move this early in his career or will the rocker be too much of a distraction?