Never mix work and men. This simple rule has given security specialist Jade Broussard busy days and lonely nights. Only that was before utterly gorgeous art dealer Remy Tremaine crawls into her bed, requesting her protective services. He presents dangerous new territory. She can't deny the talents of his hands and mouth. Melting the day's work tensions each night is a guilty—if delicious—pleasure. Yet he sidesteps boundaries, while Jade wrote the rule book. No, it will never work out. But there is an easy solution: catch the bad guy, save her client's life then say goodbye. Too bad Remy's secrets might change Jade's mind. The question is, will it be for better or worse?

After a close friend dies on the job, former smoke jumper Steve Kimball returns to work to help out his buddies. With a wildfire threatening a small California town, the last thing he needs is to run into former love Laine Sheehan. He thought they were over, but the sparks are stronger than ever…. "Take a chance" is Laine's new mantra. Always the responsible one, she's decided it's time to be more aggressive—on the job and in the bedroom. On location to shoot photos of the wildfire, she has to get close to the smoke jumpers, and being around Steve is more than her body can handle….

All Roxanne Lewis wants is a normal life with her perfectly ordinary, perfectly sexy fiancé, Gage Dabon. With her family full of cops, she has no desire for a husband who risks his neck every day. But when she discovers Gage is a Secret Service agent and not the subdued, buttoned-down banker she fell in love with, she's furious— and determined to show him that two can play at that game.… Donning a sexpot disguise of her own, Roxanne confronts Gage on the job but unwittingly becomes involved in his major counterfeit sting operation. Now she has to play Gage's hot-to-trot lover—or risk blowing his cover. Although it isn't long before she sees the benefits of all the undercover work!

It's not police lieutenant Wes Kimball's imagination. Cara Hughes, the big-city arson investigator from Atlanta, is hot, hot, hot. She's slender, curvy—and rumored to sleep with a six-inch switchblade under her pillow—and Wes is forced to fight his four-alarm desire from the first moment they meet. Cara seems just as intrigued…. But business is business, and she'll lose control with Wes in bed before she'll give ground in their investigation. Equally passionate about their work, Wes and Cara know their white-hot affair must fizzle eventually. Still, a temporary fling has its merits. And where's the harm when it means both of them get exactly what they want—or do they?

Malina Blair went from rising-star FBI agent to… er…cold-case officer in the backwoods of South Carolina—not exactly a hotbed of action. But when a smuggling investigation leads her to tranquil Palmer's Island, Malina inadvertently discovers one of the region's best-kept secrets: sexy, gorgeous attorney Carr Hamilton. But even as their chemistry goes from fizzy to red-hot and explosive, Malina wonders if maybe she isn't getting in over her head. After all, she's just visiting—and the island's main attraction is also her prime suspect!

Take two resort owners and one eccentric chef. Add a fussbudget food critic, mix up two rooms—and what have you got? Either a recipe for disaster…or all the ingredients for love. Suite dreams are made of this…. Francesca D'Arcy has just pumped her last penny into making her five-star fantasy come true. Feather beds, fine wines and fabulous food—the Cabernet Inn is a stage set for seduction. Except romance isn't on the menu for Francesca—at least not until after dark, when a figment of her imagination takes on a life of its own! Resort owner Tony Galini has never met anybody like his business partner, Francesca. She's smart, she's sexy…and she hasn't got a clue how much Tony wants her! Still, he's hesitant to risk their friendship by making a move on her. But the lust is getting pretty close to the surface…and when they accidentally fall into the same bed, all bets are off. After all, who says friends can't make even better lovers….

Manhattan caterer Shelby Dixon decides to pursue the man who swindled her parents out of their life savings, not counting on a romance with the swindler's millionaire businessman half-brother, Trevor Banfield.

The Kimballs of Baxter, Georgia, are setting hearts on fire! Can't Help Falling in Love by Wendy Etherington Only fools rush in? Skyler Kimball has actively avoided daredevil men her whole life, and even secretly appreciated her overprotective brothers' meddling to keep them at bay. But when sexy Cajun firefighter Jack Tesson moves into town, Skyler may have to rethink her position on risks and take a chance on Jaclk…jf she can get her brothers to back down, that is! Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love by Wendy Etherington She has him all shook up! Interior designer Monica O'Malley is used to men falling at her designer-shoe-clad feet. So what gives with stuffy fire chief Ben Kimball's aloof attitude? She's been trying her flirtatious best to get his attention while remodeling the town firehouse, but to no avail. Thinking her outrageous reputation is to blame, she tries a more buttoned-down approach—hoping she'll be unbuttoning with Ben sooner or later….

The explosive expansion of Christianity in Africa and Asia during the last two centuries constitutes one of the most remarkable cultural transformations in the history of mankind. Because it coincided with the spread of European economic and political hegemony, it tends to be taken for granted that Christian missions went hand in hand with imperialism and colonial conquest. In this book historians survey the relationship between Christian missions and the British Empire from the seventeenth century to the 1960s and treat the subject thematically, rather than regionally or chronologically. Many of these themes are treated at length for the first time, relating the work of missions to language, medicine, anthropology, and decolonization. Other important chapters focus on the difficult relationship between missionaries and white settlers, women and mission, and the neglected role of the indigenous evangelists who did far more than European or North American missionaries to spread the Christian religion - belying the image of Christianity as the 'white man's religion'.