Love is more than brilliant sex.It’s been a year since my whirlwind affair with Thomas Quidell. Good jobs and wedding plans now swirl around us—as do a mortgage and the stress of Tom’s blossoming art career. But when a job vanishes and a parent becomes ill, the trauma becomes too much. We’re pulled in opposite directions. Now separated by distance and desperation, we must come to terms with what it means to be apart—and how to work as a team to stay together. Sacrifice may be our only route forward. Will our love survive?HOW TO BUY: rETAILERS:  ...

I didn’t mean to be an outsider.A photographer’s life means always moving, always documenting. I create brilliant, soul-melting photos, but every morning, I wake up alone. Until I met my brother’s roommate.Robert Quidell understands the side effects of his bad boy behavior: No bonds. No commitment. No connection. He gives his goddesses one night of wish fulfillment and supernova sex. But, like me, he always wakes up alone.Rob thinks graduate school will allow him to shed his bad boy reputation. For me, crashing at my brother’s apartment should be a momentary opportunity for stability.We never expected to find each ...

A blaze destroyed more than my firefighting career. It destroyed my life.Court cases, therapy, and five pins in my bones later, I’m a divorced father working myself ragged trying to provide a good life for my son. I’m exhausted, and honestly, I don’t know what to do.And to make things worse, the only person who can soothe my aches and pains is Camille Frasier, my son’s preschool teacher.She’s beautiful. She’s empathic. But she desires more than a gentle hand to help her body to find its fire. And she hopes I will give her what she needs.But some wounds ...