While surveying work on a new club he's opening, Landon Riker never expects to find a woman hanging, bloody, and in shock from being whipped by her so-called Master. He renders the woman aid, but days after the incident she still dominates his thoughts. After nearly dying at the hands of the man she's called Master, Kinley Ross knows if she stays he'll eventually kill her. With only one option she turns to the man who saved her. She knows nothing about Landon Riker other than he's willing to help her, but sometimes extenuating situations require a leap of faith.

Vanessa Beaumont is desperate to protect her beloved thoroughbred, Ransom, from her ex-husband’s clutches. Intent on hiding Ransom at her friend’s farm hidden in the mountains of Pennsylvania, Vanessa falls short of her destination when she collides with a deer during a summer storm and is forced to rely on the kindness of a stranger to help protect her horse. What she didn’t count on was her own attraction to him or the ease with which she fits into his life. Sheriff Riley Whitaker thinks nothing of the consequences when he opens his home to Vanessa, but finding out her ex is out to get her spurs Riley’s protective nature. Before long, Riley can’t picture his life without Vanessa in it. When Vanessa’s vindictive ex-husband discovers her whereabouts, placing her life in danger, Riley knows he’ll puts his own life on the line to protect the woman he loves.

Series: Husbands and Wives; Other Books: Par Three by Anne Douglas and
GWM Wanted by Amanda Young
Series Note: Each title in the Husbands and Wives series can be read as a standalone title.
Genre: Erotic Ménage Contemporary
Length: Novella
After seven years of marriage and the birth of their first son, Lance and Samantha Phillips find themselves facing the real possibility that their marriage may be over. Immersed in her role as a working mother, Samantha is tired, frustrated, and resentful that Lance can't understand how she feels and cut her some slack.
Lance has never had a problem taking second place to his baby boy, but being treated as though he doesn't exist is more than he's willing to tolerate. He's stood by and watched Samantha fall into a depression and spiral out of control for too long. The last thing he wants is to walk away from woman he loves, but he's left with few options when she refuses to admit there's anything wrong.
In a last-ditch effort to save their marriage Lance books a weekend at an Intimacy Retreat. At first, Sam is combative and resentful of his ultimatum -- do the retreat with him or their marriage is over. Once there, she slowly discovers the person she'd lost and realizes that being a mom doesn't mean she can't still be a sexy vixen who likes to stir things up in the bedroom. A little voyeurism, combined with toys, bondage, and suggestion of a ménage, and before long it becomes clear that their lives will change as a result of the retreat. But will it be for better...or worse?
Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, ménage (m/f/m), mild bondage and flogging.