Lucky 7 Brazen Bachelors Contemporary Romance Boxed Set
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Seven Novella Boxed Set
by Seven New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Authors
Caridad Pineiro
Sophia Knightly
Tawny Weber
Nina Bruhns
Susan Hatler
Virna DePaul
Kristin Miller
LUCKY 7 BRAZEN BACHELORS
Copyright © 2015 by Lucky Romance Authors, LLC
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LUCKY 7 BRAZEN BACHELORS boxed set cover design © 2015 Kim Killion at Hot Damn Designs
JUST ONE NIGHT by Caridad Pineiro
Copyright © 2014 Caridad Pineiro Scordato
HEART HUNTER by Sophia Knightly
Copyright © 2014 Victoria Koch
A SEAL’S SACRIFICE by Tawny Weber
Copyright © 2014 Tawny Weber
KISS OF A LIFETIME by Nina Bruhns
Copyright © May 2015 Nina Bruhns
LICENSE TO DATE by Susan Hatler
Copyright © 2014 Susan Hatler
WILD FOR MR. WRONG by Virna DePaul
Copyright © 2011 Virna DePaul
IT MUST’VE BEEN LOVE by Kristin Miller
Copyright © 2014 Kristin Miller
Lucky 7 Series
Lucky 7 Bad Boys
Seven Novel Boxed Set
Get lucky with a bad boy… .
Whether he’s a rock star, a billionaire, or a playboy magician—whether he wears work boots or a suit and tie—bad boys have one thing in common: how good they can make a woman feel. This contemporary romance boxed set sizzles with SEVEN full-length novels by SEVEN bestselling authors, starring SEVEN unforgettable bad boys who will make you melt.
Lucky 7 Brazen Bachelors
Seven Novella Boxed Set
SEVEN New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Authors bring you SEVEN contemporary romance novellas, starring SEVEN brazen bachelors.
Get lucky with a brazen bachelor… .
Contents
Just One Night by Caridad Pineiro, New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author
He has just one night to prove to her that anything is possible …
Jason Hart, Jase to his friends, has just graduated college and earned his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps. It’s the night of the graduation party and she’ll be there. His best friend’s slightly older sister, Nickie. Nickie is the only woman he’s really wanted for a long time. He has just one night to make it happen.
She has just one night before the man of her dreams leaves, maybe forever, but can she find the courage to take a chance …
Nicole de Salvo has been in love – and lust – for her little brother’s best friend for years. For years she’s watched from afar and done nothing about her attraction for Jason Hart only now their time together is almost at an end. On their last night together will she find the courage to do something about her feelings, or will she live with regret for the rest of her life?
About the Author: Caridad Pineiro
Heart Hunter by Sophia Knightly, New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author
Cameron and Evie – HEART HUNTER (A Heartthrob Series Novella, Book 4)
Heart Hunter follows Heart Tamer, but can be read as a standalone.
When bridal fashion designer, Evangeline Parker, goes to Scotland for her best friend Kate’s wedding, she is shocked to find gorgeous UK celebrity playboy, Cameron Hunter, as her mystery date for the weekend. Evie widowed seven years ago and is finally ready to find love. But after many disappointing attempts at dating, there’s no way she will be tabloid fodder for the notorious whisky tycoon dubbed “Heartbreak Hunter”…no matter how much she is drawn to him.
The strong attraction is mutual. After listening to Evie’s blunt reasons why he’s not suited for her, Cameron is determined to win her over—especially when seeing her in that pulse pounding liquid mercury dress.
Will Evie give into her wild attraction and succumb to Cameron’s hot pursuit? Or will his “Heartbreak Hunter” reputation, a cunning grandfather, a jealous ex-girlfriend and a formidable arch rival keep them apart?
About the Author: Sophia Knightly
A SEAL’s Sacrifice by Tawny Weber, New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author
Never underestimate a sexy, stubborn SEAL…
On New Year’s Eve…
Proud of the life she’s created, financial analyst Gwen Kirkpatrick moves easily among the rich and powerful of San Francisco, including dating her nice-guy boss. It’s quite a change from the broken hearted woman who got dumped on New Year’s Eve five years ago when the love of her life chose his Navy career over her.
As the clock ticks down…
For Petty Officer Noah Morelli, mixing his personal life and his dream career as a Navy SEAL seemed impossible. He made a tough choice, and for the last five years he’s been happy using his career challenges to forget the sweet-but-oh-so-sexy girl he left behind. Until he hears someone else is about to propose to her. Suddenly the idea of Gwen spending her life with anyone but him is unthinkable.
Anything can happen…
Gwen refuses to let her heart be broken again, but Noah is determined to win her back. Some sizzling stolen moments in a closet are all it takes to remind Gwen how hot they were together. She may be minus her panties, but she still has her pride. Now Gwen is the one confronted with a hard choice: a dream-come-true opportunity or the love she thought she’d lost. It’s New Year’s Eve, with new choices, new chances, and maybe a new life for them both.
About the Author: Tawny Weber
Kiss of a Lifetime by Nina Bruhns, New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author
Convinced she’s about to die in a military coup, Lacy Warrick gives her innocence to her handsome mercenary rescuer. Nine long years later, they meet again…and the bombs they each drop threaten to explode both their worlds. But that’s nothing compared to the fireworks that go off when they kiss again… Can love born in bullets survive the secrets of peacetime…and lead to the love of a lifetime?
About the Author: Nina Bruhns
License to Date by Susan Hatler, New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author
After discovering her fiancé cheated on her, Kaitlin is focused on two things: remodeling her new home and avoiding men at all costs. But her friends insist she get back in the driver’s seat and date again. They strike a hard bargain and agree to paint her house if she goes on five dates.
Anxious to get the paint job started, Kaitlin schedules five dates in five days, but her plan falls to pieces when a sexy bartender at her venue-of-choice makes her swoon. Even though he observes each of the dates from afar, she can’t help but want him to come a little closer.
The last person she should fall for is a mysterious bartender with a sinful smile, but Paul makes her want to take risks again. Will the charming man with electric blue eyes break her heart or will he prove to her that a license to date is what makes life worth the drive?
About the Author: Susan Hatler
Wild for Mr. Wrong by Virna DePaul, New York Times & USA Today Bestselling A
uthor
Can a lonely prosecutor with a soft heart but a dark past, and a laid-back, southern defense attorney who believes in second chances and living life to the fullest, find love despite their opposing agendas?
She’s determined to keep her distance. He wants to pull her close. Together they’ll find their place in each other’s hearts.
This novella includes passion that sparks in the courtroom and the bedroom, a romantic dance involving courtship and unexpected surrender, and a friend playing matchmaker to two people destined to hold each other tight during good times and bad.
About the Author: Virna DePaul
It Must’ve Been Love by Kristin Miller, New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author
Feisty bookstore owner Georgia Swift has been burned on love more times than she can count. She prefers reading romances, rather than hoping for her own. But when bestselling author Grayson Thompson comes into Blue Lake on a book tour, it doesn’t take long before they’re swept away in a whirlwind romance that has both their heads spinning. Can he convince her that it’s not too late to find her happily-ever-after?
About the Author: Kristin Miller
Seven Novella Boxed Set
by Seven New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Authors
Caridad Pineiro
Sophia Knightly
Tawny Weber
Nina Bruhns
Susan Hatler
Virna DePaul
Kristin Miller
Just One Night
Caridad Pineiro
Just One Night: Chapter One
Nicole de Salvo stared out the train window as every passing mile brought her closer to home … and to him.
It had been a hectic day with a dash down to the Philadelphia area for her brother’s and Jase’s graduation and then a rushed trip back to New York City for an interview for a position she wanted for her summer break from medical school. An interview that couldn’t be rescheduled no matter what.
The nearly two hour train ride down to her family’s home on the Jersey Shore was long, but at least it would give her a moment to catch her breath and prepare for seeing him again.
For seeing Jase, possibly for the last time.
He had looked amazing that morning in his dress uniform, sword at his side and his second lieutenant’s bars gleaming in the morning sun. The deep blue of the uniform had made his green eyes seem aqua, like the ocean bathed with brilliant light. Tall and imposing, he had looked every inch an officer and a warrior until he had fixed his gaze on her and offered up the wicked little boy grin that did all kinds of things to her insides.
She pressed a hand to her stomach to quiet the nervous flutters as she thought about seeing him again once she arrived at home, where her younger brother Tommy’s graduation party would be in full swing. It had been tough enough seeing Jase that morning, knowing that with every minute that passed their time together was fading away.
This night at the party and knowing it would be the last one they’d share was going to be one of the hardest things she ever did.
Driving that thought from her mind, she glanced out the train windows and caught glimpses of the shoreline and ocean visible from the North Jersey Coast line.
They’d all spent so much time in those waters, her, Tommy, and his best friend Jason. Jase to his friends.
She was a friend, kind of. After all, they’d grown up together and had spent many a lazy summer along the shore. But as they’d gotten older, something had changed.
The typical teasing between kids, between her and Jase, had become more flirty. Definitely full of subtle sexiness. Or at least, it had gotten that way on his part.
She hadn’t known how to handle it when an eighteen year old Jase had settled that green-eyed gaze on her, flashed her a not-so-innocent dimpled grin, and heat had ignited inside her. Four years later, she still didn’t know how to handle him.
He was like a little brother to her, although the annoying voice in her head shouted a big, “Hell to the no” and reminded her that they were only two years apart in age.
Reluctantly she admitted to herself that Jase was definitely not like a little brother. Not since she’d come to understand that the weird little tingle she got whenever she saw him or talked to him meant that there was way more to her feelings for him.
More that she had yet to explore, only time was running out for them.
As the train chugged along on her way home, she dragged up the memory of what he’d looked like as he’d sauntered up to her this morning after graduation, looking every inch the hero. His swimmer’s shoulders looking even broader in his uniform. His green eyes bright and warming as they settled on her. His smile had been inviting as he’d leaned in and kissed her. Chastely, but she’d wanted to linger and have it be more. She had wanted to savor those amazing lips before she had reined herself in. She reminded herself that she never would give in to that desire because she was too sensible and responsible and downright boring.
She closed her eyes to hold in the memories. Allowed herself to imagine what it might be like to be with Jase. To let go and explore the temptation.
In her mind’s eye, she pulled his white dress hat off his head and tossed it to the side. Skimmed her fingers through the buzz cut sandy-colored hair at the sides of his head and the longer strands up top before cradling his head and drawing him near for a not so simple kiss.
She covered his mouth with hers and pulled at his bottom lip with her teeth, urging him to open for her. When he did, she dipped her tongue in and tasted him. Trailed her tongue all around and nipped at the fullness of his lips with her teeth.
His strong hands were at her waist, holding her close. Possessively hard and yet gentle as he dragged her closer, but she shifted away because she wanted more than just his kiss.
She trailed her hands down to his shoulders and then lower to his lean waist and the shiny brass buckle with the Marine insignia. As she undid the buckle and loosened his white belt, he snared his sword as the belt started to drop, and gently laid them both on the ground.
“Are you sure about this?” her dream Jase asked as he rose to stand before her again.
“Oh, yeah, I’m sure,” her imaginary self answered because her real self lacked the courage to take a chance with Jase.
He helped her open the brass buttons down the front of his dress blues, and in her fantasy, his chest was bare beneath the wool fabric.
His skin was a luscious honey gold thanks to his end-of-summer tan. He got that smooth golden color from being a lifeguard on the beach to earn money for college and other necessities.
How many times had she snuck a peek at him up in the stand as she’d sat under her umbrella, reading her latest romance novel?
Not that you needed a sexy fictional alpha hero when you had your own just feet away if only you’d do something about it, the little voice in her head had screamed more than once during those long lazy summers.
She forced away the annoying voice and resumed her fantasy, running her hands down across the chiseled muscles of that tanned chest. His skin was sun-kissed warm and slightly damp. She needed a taste and leaned forward, licked from the center of his chest to the hard masculine nipple that she sucked, earning a soft moan from him. He tasted salty like the ocean.
She smiled and moved her hands down toward his waistband, and he helped her by undoing his pants and letting them drop.
He had gone commando (this was her fantasy after all) and his cock was rock hard. Long, thick, and smooth beneath her hand as she encircled him.
He groaned and his eyes fluttered close as he said, “I like that, Nickie.”
“I like, too, Jase,” she said and kept on stroking the length of him. Loving the heat of him beneath her hand and how his cock swelled at her caress of the sensitive head.
When he opened his eyes again, they were dark, almost emerald-colored with his desire. He leaned forward and kissed her and as the kiss grew more intense, she opened her mouth and accepted the
slide of his tongue. Imagined him easing his dick inside of her the way he was making love to her with his mouth and tongue.
She sucked in a shaky breath and circled her index finger around the head of his cock where the first hint of his release wet the tip. She spread it all over, earning a rough growl from him that vibrated through her body. Her clit throbbed and swelled and between her legs, she grew wet for him.
“I want to be in you, Nickie. Now,” he whispered against her lips.
“Now,” she repeated and urgently tore her clothes away as he sank down to the blanket spread out on the sand and lay there, waiting for her. Gloriously naked with his beautiful cock standing at attention for her.
He held his hand out in invitation, a hesitant look on his face, not that he needed to worry. In this daydream, she wouldn’t refuse his request.
She took hold of his hand and lowered herself until she was straddling his thighs. She poised above him and his hands gripped her hips hard and slowly urged her down onto him.
Friction built as each thick inch of him filled her. She relished the heat and pressure as she pushed down until he was completely buried inside her. She stilled and gazed at him. Felt immense power and sexiness as his eyes drifted closed again and his head dropped back in pleasure.
“You feel amazing, Nickie. So hot and wet. Tight, fuck me, you’re so tight.”
Leaning down, she splayed her hands on his chest and stroked her thumbs across his hard masculine nipples, dragging his eyes open.
“You’re amazing, Jase. The way you fill me. The way you make me feel. Touch me, Jase. I want your hands on me,” she said, not hesitant in her dreams about what she needed from him. About what she had fantasized about for so long during those lazy summer days and even longer nights as she’d laid in bed, achy and hot for him.
He grinned, displaying the dimple that made him look so much younger. She skimmed her finger across that cute indent and he speedily turned his head and nipped her index finger with his perfect white teeth.
“I’d rather taste you,” he said and before she could protest, he surged up and put his mouth on her breasts, sucking and biting at the sensitive tips.
His mouth was heaven and she cradled his head to her and offered up soft cries of enjoyment, but soon she couldn’t just stay there with him buried inside her. She had to move. Had to satisfy the need created by the magic of his mouth on her breasts.