Cheap Thrills Series

Tabitha Losing my mom prompted a move across the country so I could bond with the half-sister I'd never even known existed until I'd taken one of those DNA tests and the results came back.   With nothing tying me to Jersey anymore, I took the leap and got a job as an art teacher and made an offer on the pretty little house I'd seen online. I just never expected to get arrested by the Sheriff, Dave Bell, within hours of getting the keys to it.   I was a sucker for tattoos, and I was also a sucker for a tall man built like a wall.  And apparently, I was a sucker for a guy with a badge and a big… truck.  Call me old-fashioned, but being arrested, interrogated, and tortured (well, maybe not entirely) wasn't exactly romance, but everyone makes mistakes, so I gave him a second chance.    My only worry was, I hadn't moved to find a man. I'd moved to start a new life. Was anyone ever ready to fall in love, though?   "DB" The residents of the town I worked in were relatively easygoing, well aside from the Townsends. That family was a law unto themselves.   Tabitha Newton, the new art teacher, breezed into town and my life at the same time. I'd been called out to check on a house with a suspicious car in the drive by a concerned neighbor and had stumbled across the new woman sprawled across the living room floor. One accidental arrest, a trip to the station, and a friendly 'getting to know you' interrogation later, and I asked her out before she could find out who my stepsister was.    It was stupid, of course she'd find out, but something about the woman had intrigued me so much that common sense hadn't even come into it.  There's a way around that, though, because there's a way around everything.   I hadn't been looking for the fiery, pink-haired, tattooed teacher who took over my heart, but I'd be damned if I'd give up convincing her we were made for each other.   Read the series: Fireball Living On A Dare Classy AF Talk Flirty To Me Just Good Friends Eat Crow  

Katy  Ever felt like you've had a crush on someone your whole life, but they never see you back? That's what it felt like with Jarrod Kline. I worked in the same building as him, I gave him his jobs, I took his order for lunch… but that was it.  Being shy didn't help either. I wanted to be like the other women around me – ballsy, a go-getter, confident… I wanted to be like Tabby, Jose, Rose, and the Townsend women.  Then, one night after a lot of margarita consumption, we hatched a plan – the 'Get Yo Man Plan', aka GYMP. Now that I'm sober, I realize what we've called it, but the GYMP is motion and it's too late to turn back now.   Jarrod I was the longest baby the day I was born, the tallest in preschool, the tallest in kindergarten… you get the point, I've always stood out. The problem was, I was also uncomfortable with it. For once I wanted to not be seen, to do something that no one could see me doing.  I'd looked into how to become an audiobook narrator after Tabby's suggestion, and it seemed easy enough. So now I was a mechanic by day and an audiobook narrator by night, but only a couple of people knew about that last part. And then Katy started working at the garage, and the scenes I'd been uncomfortable reading they took on a whole new meaning. I just have one question, what the hell is GYMP?

Logan I made a mistake seven years ago and opened my mouth, letting words fly out of it that I didn't mean. I said something about the one person I never wanted to hurt and lost my best friend. Now she's back and needs help her with her loss, and I'm going to be the best rock in the history of rocks and make it right between us again.  I'd do anything to get Bexley Heath back in my life, even if it means helping out with her dog, who hates me and loves to destroy everything around him.  Time doesn't kill love. Neither does a giant Irish Wolfhound eating my favorite chair. Bexley I'd successfully avoided Logan Richards for seven years, but somehow losing my grandpa brought him back into my life. Perhaps Papa was right when he said in his last letter that it was time to get over it and just let it go. Life's too short, and forgiveness is divine, right? He's my anchor when I need it and my tissues when I cry. But that doesn't mean I can't reward my dog for causing him grief and destroying some of his furniture, though, does it? To heck with it, good Doyle.

After twenty-nine years working as a police officer in NY, my dad attended a call that shocked the country when the details were aired on the news. He'd done everything he could, but he'd been too late to save the daughter of a powerful businessman.  After a lengthy trial and investigation, and with her killer in prison, her father had turned his focus onto the people he felt failed him and her—my dad and his partner included, and their families. After a close call, we decided it would be safer and Dad could focus on stopping Cevdet Gjorka if I wasn't there, so I started over somewhere far away from my family as Zuri Hadid.  I've kept my head down and work at a hospital in Texas now, not saying more than I have to. Well, until the topic of jelly fish came up and I remembered a meme I'd seen online. Who can resist spouting facts that probably aren't true? Not me! It was only meant to be temporary, but I love living in Piersville… and then there's Garrett Evans. He makes me want to get out and live again, instead of hiding all the time. Sometimes bad things bring new joy and light into our lives, right?  That is until trouble found me. ∞∞∞∞ Leaving the military should have been a scary experience, but I couldn't say I felt that way. Yeah, I've had some nightmares and I definitely have scars, but I'd come out of the Air Force with plans for my new civilian life, and it'd turned out better than I thought it would.  Some of my scars weren't from the military, though, and if I'd known a jellyfish sting years ago would bring Zuri into my life, I'd have thanked it instead of calling it every name under the sun. But then, for some ungodly reason, I'd immediately friend zoned myself with her. Fortunately, I prefer to think of zones as suggestions, not limits, and suggestions can be changed with a bit of persuasion and work, so that's what I set about doing. Well, after we'd both been stitched up in hospital after an unfortunate accident involving me and a door, with Zuri standing on a chair on the other side of it. It didn't break the ice per se, but it definitely broke the glass. I never imagined that the kinds of monsters I'd fought against would follow me from my old life into the new one. These ones weren't terrorists from overseas, they were living on home soil with the power of money behind them who wanted revenge, and for people to feel the pain they were feeling.  One thing is clear, though—when you get good in your life, you fight to keep it. Who knew a meme could have such an impact.

Alex Regrets—I've got them. Mistakes—I've made them. And I lived with them every day. Wondering if I'd made the right choice back then or if I should have walked away the day my superiors called me into their offices to discuss the case. I didn't, and it's something I'll always wonder if I should have done it differently. Now I worked next to my son, and I loved every minute of it and the peace I'd finally found in life. Until my new neighbor moved in and distracted me from the orderly course I was on. Evie My mom was a romantic. That's where I'd gone wrong with my ex-husband, thinking anything the man did could ever possibly be considered romance. The divorce had given me back my freedom, though, and I had custody of my son, Cody, so I was putting it behind me. All I was planning to do was to start over and focus on the two of us. Everyone had known my business back in Pflugerville, so this time I'd keep my head down and stay in the background. That was until I totally embarrassed myself taking the box from the bakers in town out of my car. To be fair, I was talking about the buns, but if the nice buns shoe fits…

Jose Every little girl dreams of a big white wedding with their knight in shining armor. None of us ever dreamed of being divorced with a baby because we discovered the knight was an evil ogre when we caught him in bed with another woman. Yet, here I was, twenty-six, a single mom, trying to find a magic spell to keep the ogre out of my life.   My sister, Tabby's, arrival on the day I found him cheating brought something I needed into my life—someone who acted and loved like a real family member. I hadn't even known she existed until that ancestry DNA testing gift, but it felt like I'd known her my whole life.   Now I wanted my dream, but I wanted to have a fresh start and be me for the first time in years. I wanted to live my best life with my daughter, laugh every day... Basically, I wanted the dream without the knight.   Then, my soon-to-be brother-in-law's best friend dares me to go out on a date with him, and it's not a dare I can say no to.    Ellis I've been a tattoo artist for years. I've met great people, weird people, pains in the ass, you name it, but I've never met anyone like Jose.    We're proof that opposites attract, but every time I ask her out, she keeps saying no. So, I've come up with a plan, a plan based on handing out dares, knowing she wouldn't say no to them. Why? Because she's the most stubborn woman in the world.    When that still wasn't enough, I went ahead and submitted a photograph of the two of us into a competition in an ink magazine. Guess what? It won, so it's now on billboards all over the country, and she can't get away from me.    So now we're living on a dare. And I dare Jose to say no.   Read the series Fireball Living On A Dare Classy AF Talk Flirty To Me Just Good Friends Eat Crow  

Raoul    I have an issue that comes in a tidy, neat little package—my neighbor. She's driven me out of my mind every day since she moved in a year ago. To add salt to the wound, she's a nurse and the sister of a tattoo artist, and I have a massive phobia of needles.   I think it would be okay if she'd just stop giving me her special smile every morning, stop being cute, stop giving me that attitude that drives me out of my mind. I'm lying. Rose could wear a paper bag over her head, and I'd still want her.   The problem is, we're the complete opposite of each other. I mean opposites in everything, including the fact that I'm me—the most normal guy out—and she's classy AF.   I'm not sure that's enough to stop me, though.   Rose   Grumpy Raoul Evans, oh, how I do love to mess with him.   Smiling and waving at that glare he gives me every morning, the flowers I plant in front of his house, the packages of needles that accidentally fall out the pocket of my scrubs onto the floor in front of him. It's all just so much fun.    It used to hurt me when he glared at me, but then I decided to enjoy it and just seize the day, so now I do that every day. I'm sure at some point I'll push him too far, but today is not that day. Maybe tomorrow?    He says I'm classy, I say he's grumpy, and the rest of the world says opposites attract. I know I'm attracted to him, but until he starts feeling the same way toward me, or I make his head explode, I'm just going to enjoy pushing his buttons.