When divorced health-food-store owner Maya Williams takes part in Francine Craft's Love's Masquerade, she is unexpectedly reunited with an old high school friend, Christopher St. John. Now, as midnight nears, two people who have known heartbreak may discover that dreams can still come true.

Linda Hudson-Smith's Forbidden Fantasy brings social worker Ashleigh Ayers together with Austin Carrington, the football hero she has adored ever since she was a lonely, unwanted orphan.

But a Caribbean cruise offers unexpected surprises…and the passionate fulfillment of a long-ago promise.

In Janice Sims's Teacher's Pet, literature professor Bethany Porter meets self-made millionaire Colin Armstrong, and she's hooked. But it will take the help of two romance- minded friends for this by-the-book woman to learn that love has its own thrilling lessons to teach.