Reunions

Getting lucky...means getting more than she bargained for... I've been talking myself out of falling for Matt Carter for a long time. Easier said than done. He's tall and fit, with sexily mussed red hair and a mischievous glint in his eye that never goes away. He's been my rock for a decade-there when I needed him for support or just a good laugh. In college, he used to promise that everything would work out all right...and I always believed him. So, when I called him up two weeks ago about my latest fertility issues, first he told a joke, then he promised to get me through it. Which is why I accepted his offer to be my sperm donor. When I meet him to discuss IVF at his San Francisco mansion-the perks of selling groundbreaking software in his mid-twenties-it's hard to remind myself I'm strictly in the friend zone. And when he asks me what I want from him, I'm not sure why I tell the truth. "What I want is you." What was supposed to be a no-strings agreement gets complicated when we end up in bed...again and again. Matt never wanted to be a father, so I don't expect him to stick around. A relationship is strictly off the table, because Matt moves on when love comes into the picture. But when we're together, it's electric. It's hotter than friendship, better than sex. What it probably should be is over...but that's one word I can't bring myself to say. Sexy. Passionate. Bold. Discover Harlequin DARE, a new line of fun, edgy and sexually explicit romances for the fearless female.

Rich girl gone bad, poor boy made good. No time like the present to even things out. For book editor Veronica Johnson, it's sheer hell seeing her ex again. She thought she'd spend a lifetime loving Rafael Velez, but he abandoned her-and now here he is at her best friend's wedding. How she detests him still! He has an outrageous proposition. It's foolish, but achingly tempting. Especially if she walks away after without a backward glance, just like he did to her... In college, Rafael Velez ran out on the woman he promised to love forever. His intention? Make himself worthy of her and get her back. But Veronica expected a proposal back then-and after seven years and two failed marriages, the headstrong editor certainly hasn't waited for him. Rafael has a plan to get over her, and to get a little revenge along the way-nothing like no-holds-barred sex to get unquenched passion out of one's system. With a scorching bargain struck, an old spark reignites. And as they remember how good they were in bed, long-suppressed feelings arise, too. Soon the flame they thought to douse is burning out of control. Can each learn to trust the person they'd come to hate? After all, aren't loving and loathing two sides of the same coin? Sexy. Passionate. Bold. Discover Harlequin Dare, a new line of fun, edgy and sexually explicit romances for the fearless female.

When a conservative attorney and a wild-child bartender are thrown together, they'll have a chance to slake the lust they've been hiding for years. They're from different worlds...but their attraction knows no bounds. What's the answer to a slow burn? New York lawyer Teague Hamilton has always been out of Frankie Lee's league...yet the bartender and sometimes exotic dancer has always managed to turn his polished, old-money facade on its head. And drive him mad with temptation! On a trip to Sydney, his close friend, Frankie's cousin, entrusts him to return something valuable to her. And he'll maintain propriety...right? A superhot fling! Frankie's never hidden her want to corrupt blue-blooded Teague. She dares him into a naughty-but-nice fling for the two weeks he's in town...and they're both surprised when he accepts. It's a scorching-hot case of opposites attract, but neither expected to find common ground on a deeper level-the yearning to belong to someone. Frankie won't play second fiddle to Teague's first love, whom he's still not over, and Frankie's lifestyle makes long-term promises hard to keep. Will a temporary tryst be enough to quench their thirst before they go their separate ways? Sexy. Passionate. Bold. Discover Harlequin Dare, a new line of fun, edgy and sexually explicit romances for the fearless female.