Welcome to Bear Essentials, where caring for the outside of you from head to toe is our specialty. Basil Paddington is living his dream. He's built from the ground up a safe space for anyone to get the services they need to feel beautiful. He's very proud of the work he's done and the life he's built. He has a successful business, friends, and a lovely cat named Arnold. What more could he possibly need? Basil gave up long ago on finding love, much...

Aiden Shaw is the smuggest, most infuriating man I've ever met. Ever. He's also my next door neighbor. We've been at war for four bitter years. But last night, Aiden crossed a line. The worst part? My public humiliation was caught on camera, and the video's a viral sensation. Now, the entire internet is raving about our "off the charts chemistry" and "crackling sexual tension." Apparently, everyone is delusional. And blind. Yet when Aiden turns up...

Spoiled yet broken-hearted New Yorker meets gorgeous, kind-hearted southern gentleman in this clean and wholesome romance. Cadence Lewis had been dancing before she could walk. Living in New York with her parents, she had the chance to go to the best dance school in the country. But when her parents divorce, she's forced to leave her dreams behind and move to her mom's small, country hometown. Cadence now believes that all men are like her father:...

If you don't love, you can't get hurt.... Nick Kepler One thing my childhood taught me was never show my emotions. Don't make memories. Don't count on other people. Don't hope for the best. All that changed when I was adopted by Ryan and Whitney Kepler. Begrudgingly, I let them into my life, along with my new sister and a best friend I would lay down my life for. But giving up my heart and accepting love in return from Kelsea Harrison? It's the...

The sexy, single dad of the MTF finally gets his turn... Mason "Menace" Harrison "Single and ready to mingle…" Those are the words above every picture of almost every female that strikes my interest on this dating app my son talked me into getting. After being a single dad for seventeen years, I'm ready to spread my wings, just not with most of the co-eds who keep hitting on me and calling me daddy. Now that Caleb's in his Senior year of high school,...

Trick and Hadley are back! Just in time for Christmas! Life gets a little crazy sometimes, especially when you've got two kids, two businesses, and you are two parents who are very hands on. But when Trick's gift doesn't get here in time for Christmas, I have to improvise. They say variety is the spice of life. To keep my man happy, marriage on track, and our sanity, I decide to give him what he craves most in the world. Me. With a bow on top....

When you fall in love with the most unexpected person, at the most unexpected time... Ryan "Renegade" Kepler I'm the type of man who knows what I want. I make up my mind and stay in my lane, never veering off the course I set for myself. Going into the military? Did it. Youngest member of the Moonshine Task Force? That's me. Get my best friend's older sister in bed? It was my pleasure. Age means nothing to me. I've seen and done things men twice...

Life isn't promised, love isn't easy, and relationships aren't always clean, but everyone has their soulmate who is willing to forgive when it would be better to forget. Trevor "Tank" Trumbolt I never thought in the blink of an eye my life could change, but it did. Cresting a hill driving to my favorite fishing spot, I was hit head-on by a teenager with no regard for anyone's life but his own. The recovery process has been hard, painful, and damn...

A forced sentence leads to a reckless passion… Hadley When my husband walked out on me over a year ago, it devastated me. When the divorce papers came, it wrecked me. When we had to sell our house, it broke me. But then he moved in with his new flavor of the month and told our daughter his new woman wasn't into children. That pissed me off. Now Riley feels abandoned, and I can't make it better; no matter how hard I try. I'm desperate to help her...