The Long-Awaited Prequel to the RED RIVER OF THE NORTH Series Twenty-year-old Ingeborg Strand is certain she is destined to be an old maid. She's had several suitors but none she deemed worthy of spending her life with. That is, until she meets a university student from Oslo, and feelings stronger than friendship begin to develop between them. But tragedy strikes, and the future begins to look bleaker than ever. Grief settles heavily over Ingeborg, and her mother suggests that she leave Norway and start afresh in America, as so many others have done before her. But how will she accomplish that with little money and no one to accompany her? It isn't long before she meets Roald Bjorklund, a widower who has been planning to go to America for some time, lured by the promise of free land. He's a good man, a hard-working man--and he has a young son who desperately needs a mother. He's clearly interested in Ingeborg, but is he the answer to her prayers? And what about love? This isn't how she's always imagined it. Ingeborg Strand has a heartrending decision to make...

Marcos Rivera is a fighter. A gang member. Someone who has seen the dark side of humankind and survived. He has lost family and gained enemies. He has stolen cars and destroyed hearts, stripping one for money and the other for pleasure. His past is haunted and his future is bleak.Until her.Katie Foster is a high school history teacher. Smart, strong, and sexy. She is a woman Marcos shouldn't want. Shouldn't touch. Shouldn't love. He met her in Garnet, a backwards, hick town that's the last place in the world he wants to be, but he finds himself going back, all for a taste of the forbidden.Katie represents all that is good in the world, and Marcos knows he's nothing but trouble for her perfect life. He fights and he screws. He commits crimes and he breaks the rules. He will never change and he will never escape his gang lifestyle.Or can he?What happens when two different people from two very different walks of life risk it all by giving into the passion that threatens to consume both of them? Can a woman who only knows how to play it safe give her heart to a man who lives hard and loves harder?Can she survive The Viper?

They are the lost boys. Sons of mafia mistresses expected to keep their fathers' sins in the shadows. The lucky ones are forgotten. Unfortunately for Valentino "Tino" Moretti, his brother Nova was too smart to be forgotten, and too valuable to risk when he resists a life of crime. So they punished Tino instead. Forced into the cruel world of the Sicilian Mafia at twelve, Tino was broken before he was old enough to know the man he was supposed to be. Now he's what the mafia made him. The enforcer. A trained killer forbidden to love, but he did anyway. He's loved Brianna all along. Raw and beautiful, their romance was all consuming and far too dangerous. They were ripped apart a long time ago. It's not until the borgata puts out a hit on her that Brianna falls back into Tino's arms, churning up their dark past and unraveling all the Moretti brothers' closely guarded secrets. This isn't the end of the story. It's only the beginning, and it is brutal. There's a reason enforcers are considered too deadly to love. "We have to be better than them. Stronger. Faster. Smarter. Lost boys have to fly." Carlo Moretti, original lost boy

To Chuito the apartment was a self-imposed prison for a lifetime of sins. To Alaine, the girl next door, it was salivation from her overbearing, religious father. He was a devil. She was an angel. Two people who should've never met, let alone become friends, but it's not until they give in to the dangerous passion that's been simmering under the surface for five years that things go to hell. On the outside, Chuito "The Slayer" Garcia in on top of the world. He's successful. He's wealthy. He's a champion MMA fighter surrounded by friends who support him, but they don't know what he was before he came to Garnet. A gangster. A thief. An addict. A murderer. Now his past is churning up demons he can't ignore. Chuito knows he needs to go back to Miami to end it, but there's something holding him back, a single temptation he can't resist before leaving. Alaine. She's the one drug he can't give up...even if it destroys them both. "To me you're coke. Fine. Smooth. Perfectly white. Very bad for me, but so sexy I don't care. It's worth going down for." --Chuito Garcia

A true cowboy never gives up on what he really wants... Professional rodeo cowboy Jesse West has made a career out of going with his gut and holding on tight. When he learns that the woman of his dreams is suddenly single, he’s determined to win her back. Tara Kent has already lost everything she ever dreamed of. With her career in crisis and her longtime fiancée in another woman’s bed, she wishes she could crawl under the covers and hide. She definitely isn’t ready for a free-spirited cowboy to ride roughshod over her heart. Jesse’s used to working with difficult horses—he knows how to take his time and gain their trust—but reaching Tara’s wounded heart is proving to be far more of a challenge. Can he convince the feisty beauty that she doesn’t have to be perfect to be loved? EXCERPT: He grinned lazily at her, and she felt a little flame flicker alight somewhere down inside her. “It must be a heavy burden needing to do everything right all the time.” “It would be better if I tried to do stuff wrong?” He shook his head, smiling. “Nope, but sometimes you’ve gotta just do stuff, and figure out the right or wrong part later.” “That kind of behavior sounds like it could get you into trouble.” “Yeah,” his smile broadened into a grin. His eyes narrowed slightly and flashed as the sunlight caught them. “That’s exactly what I’m talking about.” Explore the Hearts of the West series: A Cowboy's Heart: The One that Got Away His Fearless Heart: The Bull Rider's Baby Surprise His Untamed Heart: The Cowboy's Christmas Reunion ...and a Box Set with all three stories Join the new release newsletter at www.jenlewis.com.

The Language of an Untamed Heart by M G Garreffa