Lost Andersons

Richard Storm is saddened that his children are throwing away their lives and gives them an ultimatum. They each have two years to take a failing business and make it a success or they lose their trust funds and are on their own. His stubborn children think he's gone insane, but they don't know the powerful secret that can knock them to their knees and tear their family apart. Will they come together as they should, or will self-centeredness consume their hearts, ripping their family apart forever? Crew Storm opens an exclusive resort in the Catalina Islands off the coast of California, and pride swells within him as he accomplishes the impossible. Everything is on track-until a blonde steps into his life. Haley Sutherland is done with her fears, done being a wallflower, and done being invisible. She comes up with a brilliant idea to find the perfect person to teach her how to seduce the man she truly wants. The person she has chosen to be her teacher is Crew Storm. She has researched his technique of charming and luring women to his bedroom and begs him to teach her how to be the perfect seductress. But she soon finds she is forgetting her first love's name.

In this third novel of Melody Anne's exciting Lost Andersons series, another of the children of Richard Storm reacts to their father's ultimatum. Mega wealthy Tanner Storm has it all: great looks, wealth, and nothing holding him down. Then his father decides to play games with him and his siblings, handing him an apartment complex in downtown Seattle that Tanner wants nothing to do with. When the conditions of his father's terms ensure that he do something with this building or lose his inheritance, he at first thinks, "So what." But then it becomes a challenge that he has to accept because he's never before backed down. He decides to tear down the building and start fresh with something far more appealing that will add to his already fat wallet. The only problem is that the residents don't want to leave, and under the contract with his father, he can't force them out. When he ends up before Judge Kragle from all the complaints made against him, the judge decides the best punishment for him will be two weeks of living in the very apartment complex he despises and two weeks of community service, playing Santa Claus at the mall. Perfect! This is not the Christmas of his dreams. The plot thickens when he meets his neighbor, Kyla, and falls into instant lust. Will this turn out to be Tanner's secret angel, or will he forget all about her the minute he leaves?

Ashton Storm had always possessed a sense of humor, but he tended to be more thoughtless and self-absorbed than his other siblings. He skated along through life, enjoying the finer things. That was until one day his father had enough and gave him an ultimatum: he either did his father's bidding, or his ride on easy street came to an instant stop. Though Ashton fought against doing what his father demanded, he finally caved in and took the small boating company his father gave him, ultimately turning it into a multibillion-dollar corporation. Now he's back on easy street, and he's alone-but for how long? Richard Storm is disappointed when his matchmaking plans for his son Ashton and the very sexy, smart, somewhat clumsy Savannah Mills don't work out. But no other woman seems to be catching his son's eye. Fate has a funny way of working out though, and maybe, just maybe, Richard isn't wrong about Ashton and Savannah being the perfect couple. Because they're about to finally meet.

Alexa Mills gets the trip of a lifetime when she's chosen to go on a humanitarian trip to the Philippines to help rebuild one of the villages that were devastated years ago by natural disasters. She's more than excited until she steps on the jet and discovers her benefactor is none other than Lance Storm, the man with whom she'd had a one-night stand at her sister's wedding to Ashton Storm. They are together in a foreign country for a month and she can't fight her attraction to him though she knows marriage can end devastatingly badly. After all, the only example she's ever had is the father who abused her and the weak mother who allowed it. When they return home and Lance asks her to pretend to be his girlfriend for the holidays so his family will lay off trying to get him married, she can't resist the temptation. She doesn't want to spend another holiday alone. But will Lexie forget that it's all pretend as she is welcomed with open arms into the Anderson and Storm clan? Or will she manage to hold onto her convictions and walk away when the fantasy of being a part of a family and falling in love with a man is supposed to be over?