Bøker utgitt av L.B. Dunbar Writes, Ltd.

Love wasn't part of the blueprint when high school sweethearts reunite in their small town. But this former military man never forgot the girl he left behind and he's more determined than ever to rebuild their relationship brick by brick and heart by heart.Getting locked in the men's restroom during my mother's funeral wasn't exactly how I expected to run into my high school sweetheart. The one who got away. The one who broke my heart.I could toss the busted doorknob in my hand at him, but I'd prefer to get the heck away. Because twenty years later, Knox Sylver isn't a teenage boy anymore but a broad-shouldered, thick scruff man with eyes that still look at me like I'm the only person in the room.As a newly divorced mother of two teenagers, it's been a long time since anyone sees me. And Knox is definitely watching.Unfortunately, he made choices in the past and I wasn't one of them.According to him, that is ancient history. Also, according to him, it's never too late for a second chance. He's out to prove he's solid and stable, having returned to our small hometown, in a better place after a career in the military. He's a local hero as a fireman and he wants to rekindle the flame between us.I'm the one with decisions this round.Do I stay where memories hurt? Or do I leave my past, and Knox, behind me again?+ + +From L.B. Dunbar comes an all-new small-town romance with a big family and the silver fox swoon one expects from her love over-40 romances.

With the name Holliday, you'd think I'd be all about the Christmas season. Most years, I am, but this one not so much. Between my ex being a real Scrooge-in-the-backside, re-entering the workforce, wrangling my two children, and evading my eight-year-old's questions about Santa's existence, I'm struggling to believe in the magic myself. Enter Nick, my next-door neighbor. My very hot, single, fireman neighbor. He's full of the seasonal spirit from hanging my outdoor Christmas lights to playing Santa for the local church breakfast. Funny thing about Nick, he kind of resembles the man in red, in a younger, sexier, silver fox way, complete with snow in his beard but rather tight abs suggesting cookies are not part of his diet when they are a staple of mine. Anywho, he's sweet in a rugged sense, and if he were the man making a list and checking it twice, I'd like to be in his naughty column. Because something tells me being a little naughty-ish with Nick from next door might bring me tidings of comfort and restore my joy in this season. When he discovers I have a seasonal list myself, he's determined to help me accomplish all the to-dos, only falling in love with my next-door neighbor wasn't one of them. + + + From L.B. Dunbar comes another SHE-grump Christmas tale of holiday shenanigans and jingling bells with a sunshine silver fox fireman.

Sometimes the good guy just wants to be a little bad.When a single father in this small mountain town meets the new woman, he's willing to tarnish his good-guy reputation to be a little naughty with her.Charlie HarringtonI'm a respectable man in my small town. Doting single father. Fair-to-all mayor. Successful attorney. After one mishap in the past, I avoid scandal at all costs. Making everyone else happy is my goal. I'm content . . . and bored. Then one morning I find a woman in my bedroom, wearing a ring that doesn't belong to her, and she turns my world upside down. Suddenly, all I can think about is all the bad ways we'd be good together.Janessa CruzAs the former wife of a person in the media, the only thing I want is peace and quiet. I'm a single mother desperate to go unnoticed and build a stable future with my daughter. Starting over is the plan. Only when a misunderstanding brings me face-to-face with the sexy silver fox mayor, he's suddenly everywhere I need to be. And for the first time in my forty-plus years, being a little reckless never felt so right.+ + +Another Harrington brother bites the dust, and he's looking forward to getting all kinds of dirty. Read how Charlie and Janessa navigate single parenthood and a steamy, second chance at love over 40 in this small mountain town.**The Harrington brothers are a spin-off from Second Chance, but don't you worry, this later-in-life romance can be enjoyed as a stand-alone.

Sometimes you just need to embrace the challenge.When a quiet, grumpy, silver fox mountain man encounters a chirpy, sunshine, city woman who wants his land, he offers an ultimatum: three days camping. Who will lose their heart first?George HarringtonGiving up my family's property is never going to happen. No sale, Cricket.However, the chirpy city woman with sky-blue eyes and fast-talking lips wears me down. Or at least whittles away at my lack of spontaneity. Suddenly, I find myself negotiating with something I promised myself I wouldn't ever sell again. My heart. Olivet PiersonObtaining his land would be the biggest real estate deal of my career.Name your price, Mr. Harrington. The muscular mountain of masculinity isn't going to get in my way of getting what I want. My future depends on this acquisition. However, after accepting his crazy conditions to spend three rustic nights up on the ridge, my heart is re-evaluating its options. +++Welcome to Blue Ridge where sexy silver foxes meet their matches in feisty vixens.Can opposites attract? Accept the challenge to find out. Read how Giant and Letty navigate their grumpy-sunshine hearts in this steamy, small-town, second chance at love over 40. ** The Harrington brothers are a spin-off from Second Chance, but don't you worry, this later-in-life romance can be enjoyed as a stand-alone.

Sometimes the woman you like the least is the person you need the most.When opposite small-town business owners never see eye-to-eye, a personal development causes them to re-evaluate their bickering ways and negotiate a heart-to-heart. Billy Harrington.A young girl walks into a bar... I'd like to say that is the start of a bad joke, but it isn't. It's my life. Can you be called a baby-daddy if the secret baby shows up as a teen? I don't know anything about raising a teenage daughter, let alone being a single dad. And the one person who can help me the most is the woman I like the least in this town. With her bookish ways and long silver hair, she bewitches me. I mean, she despises me.Roxanne McAllister.I've always been a runner-up in life. To my sister. To my niece. To the infuriating sexy silver fox pub owner across the street from my bookstore. Disregard his lush mouth, quick wit, and bad-boy reputation, because his name garners him privilege in this small town, and I don't like him. But suddenly, he needs me more than anyone else and wants a truce. Is he able to play nice?+ + + Friendship with your nemesis is a gamble. Falling for the enemy is even worse a risk. Read how Billy and Roxanne go from enemies to understanding when opposites bond over a shared interest in this steamy, small-town, second chance at love over 40.**The Harrington brothers are a spin-off from Second Chance, but don't you worry, this later-in-life romance can be enjoyed as a stand-alone.

Sometimes the only way forward is to fall back in love with your wife.When a small mountain town, silver fox biker loses everything he holds dear, it's a bumpy ride to reclaim his heart. James HarringtonThat's my name, my birthright, and my curse. I didn't always dislike being a Harrington. At one time, I took it for the privilege it is. But a name doesn't stop you from losing everything, and after six haunting years that everything is back, forcing me to face the past or give up a future.Evie HarringtonYou probably haven't heard my name because James doesn't talk about me. Or to me. We had it all, and I was never happier. My family was my entire world, but that world shattered. When faced with the unimaginable as a parent, is there any way to put the pieces back together? After six painful years, it's time for James and me to accept our history and move forward or move on from one another.+ + +A marriage in trouble has only one course: fall in love again or ride away without a backward glance. Read how James and Evie weather their history and the hopes for a future in this steamy, small town, second chance at love over 40.**The Harrington brothers are a spin-off from Second Chance, but don't you worry, this later-in-life romance can be enjoyed as a stand-alone.

Having a baby in a bakery gives new meaning to taking the bun out of the oven. I'd been in Curmudgeon Bakery for one of those lemon baby-Bundt cakes I'd been craving since I found out I was pregnant. The draw had nothing to do with the baker himself. Tall, tatted, and edgy, looking more like a biker than a man who makes baked goods. I hardly knew him other than taking a tumble in a rainstorm in front of his shop . . . and then tossing myself at him after he rescued me. We shared a moment but it's not what you'd think. Months later, he delivered my baby among his cookies and cakes. Talk about a second chance encounter. Then he whips up a plan to pretend to be my baby's father, and everything heats up from there. My body.My heart.My willingness to accept a perfect stranger's kindness despite him telling me over and over he isn't who I think he is. I beg to differ. He's that sugary drizzle on a citrus-flavored, guilty pleasure that's bad for the hips, but together-him, and me, and baby-we're the perfect blend of ingredients that might do all our hearts some good.

The road less traveled by a sexy silver fox and a restless woman might be the path they need to restore both their hearts.Lindee FoxMy entire adult life has been a road trip, and I'm ready to put the brakes on the wanderlust in my veins. So, I bought a motel. The irony isn't lost on me.What I hadn't anticipated was a little clause in the contract, stating I must use a specific construction company for renovations. A business owned by a man who gave me one toe-curling, thigh-clenching, soul-defining night that came with a huge dose of reality the following morning. I wanted to erase him from my memory, but that has not been easy. And seeing him once again because I'm his new boss, well, I can't decide if I want to kiss him or fire him.Leaning toward firing him. Maybe.Thaddeus RhodeMy forty-five years have been full of reckless twists and turns. Former motorcycle man. Newly divorced single dad.The one direction I never expected was a glance back at the woman who crashed into my life. Hadn't planned on that single, incredible night. Hadn't foreseen a big misunderstanding the next day. After everything that happened, I never thought I'd see her again. But I hoped I would. She rejuvenated my road-weary soul and been impossible to forget. When fate crosses our paths a second time, I had decisions to make.I wasn't giving up this job.I wasn't leaving this town.Walking away from her?Definitely not happening again.+++Join Lindee and Thad when one-night leads to a second chance adventure that neither predicted would take their desires down unfamiliar paths where one person is a wandering soul and the other wants to stay put . . . together.

She didn't think it could ever happen again. Love that is. And it definitely shouldn't be happening with him. Anna Kulis has lost her husband. Their love was a perfect kind of love; a once in a lifetime experience. She never intended to fall for anyone again. Never expected to have this attraction stirring inside her. And she never thought her emotions would run wild for the one man she shouldn't be attracted to - her late husband's best friend.Mason Becker has a secret. As a renowned ladies' man, he's been in love with his best friend's wife for twenty-five years. After his friend's untimely death, and a period of grief, Mason finds himself in a compromising position with the one woman he didn't think he'd ever have. And that night leads to complications - namely, a desire for more.Letting go can be one of the hardest tasks for the heart. Opening up to a second chance at love can be even harder.

It takes a village, or in the case of this jaded silver fox, he needs a wife to save one. "I need you to marry me." Jane FoxMy boss cannot be serious. The ridiculously handsome man I hate-to-crush on has just proposed I pretend to be his wife for a funeral. A funeral! Only, when he dangles a much-coveted position in exchange for my time, I can't refuse. Who am I kidding, though? I seem to have a habit of not saying no to Mr. Wright. Machlan WrightThings spiral out of control the second we reach my small town. A place I swore I'd never return has suddenly become my inheritance. As in, I've inherited an entire town! Only, there's one condition: my hot, top executive pretending to be my wife must marry me for real. What could possibly go wrong? +++ Join Jane and Mach as they road trip to a lovely mountain town where memories haunt and relationships build. And it takes (the restoration of) a village for this marriage of convenience to question the past and change the future. L.B. Dunbar brings you a second standalone in Road Trips & Romance. **Note, the Fox sisters are siblings of Garrett Fox from Wine&Dine, an original #sexysilverfox.

A sexy silver alpha hero returns to his family's lakeside cottage to find a single mother in his bed and her presence just might be the second chance he needs at love and family.Archer McCaryn has been a mystery to his family. At forty-five, he isn't certain who he is anymore. When he returns to the family's lakeside cottage, he finds there is someone in his garage apartment. In fact, she's in his bed, and he doesn't have a problem with the beautiful, single mother staying there as long as she doesn't want into his heart.Jenna Davis is self-aware - she's a teacher, a mother, and a widow. Now in her early forties, this once free-spirited woman considers herself a responsible adult and works hard to keep life put together. So when a college friend invites her and her two little girls to come for a visit, she's ecstatic about a vacation. Only she's placed in the garage apartment of her best friend's older brother. Being attracted to him hadn't been on her itinerary, but there's no going back when hearts become reckless.+ + +Welcome back to Lakeside Cottage.