Take Me, Lover Series by Charlene Teglia

Riding the edge. .. Take Me, Lover, Book 1 When it comes to cars, former race driver Adam Richards knows how to maximize performance. Love? It doesn't come with a maintenance manual, and it's just as well. The secrets he's hiding behind his partnership in a racing garage don't lend themselves to lasting relationships. Now that Maggie Parker is back in town, though, he's got a few ideas to make her purr like a finely tuned engine. Life taught Maggie that men don't stay... moreRiding the edge. .. Take Me, Lover, Book 1 When it comes to cars, former race driver Adam Richards knows how to maximize performance. Love? It doesn't come with a maintenance manual, and it's just as well. The secrets he's hiding behind his partnership in a racing garage don't lend themselves to lasting relationships. Now that Maggie Parker is back in town, though, he's got a few ideas to make her purr like a finely tuned engine. Life taught Maggie that men don't stay. Leaving Adam before he got bored was supposed to protect her from heartbreak. .. only it didn't work. If helping her sister was the only reason for coming home, she might have got away unscathed. But the story she's been assigned to write is going to bring her within scorching distance of her old flame. Adam is as irresistible as ever-and just as stubborn. He won't give her a story, but his offer of a no-strings fling is one she can't refuse. Passion pushes them to the limit, sparking Maggie's belief that loving Adam is worth the risk. Until she digs deeper and discovers some things just don't add up. .. Warning: Cornea-blistering sex scenes that use ALL the words, a hero to eat your heart out over and True Romance. Plus fast cars. less

Hardwired for all kinds of action. .. Take Me, Lover, Book 2. When Anne Parker yanks open her front door, she's armed and ready to aim cold fury at her ex. Instead, she finds herself staring up at Pete Crenshaw, a man as disarming as he is dangerous to her battered defenses. A man whose touch sends her I-remember-sex hormones soaring into the red zone... moreHardwired for all kinds of action. .. Take Me, Lover, Book 2. When Anne Parker yanks open her front door, she's armed and ready to aim cold fury at her ex. Instead, she finds herself staring up at Pete Crenshaw, a man as disarming as he is dangerous to her battered defenses. A man whose touch sends her I-remember-sex hormones soaring into the red zone. Those hormones sure have picked a hell of a time to surge, though--with New Year's around the corner and the ex suddenly making noises about worming his way back into her life. Pete's been biding his time. More accurately, lying in wait for precisely the right moment to take their relationship from friends to lovers. He's aware of Anne's trust issues, but it's time to make a move before she has a chance to do what she does best--overthink it. Her ex isn't just back to make another play, though. He's after secrets Pete and his partner hide under the cover of their garage business. Pete finds his heart caught between Anne's safety and the secrets he's sworn to keep--unless he can find a way to preserve both. .. less

To survive, she'll have to keep up with him all day. And all night. .. Take Me, Lover, Book 3. Jill Martin loves adventure--as long as it comes between the covers of a book. Preferably one sporting a bare-chested hero. But to reinvent her faltering travel agency, she needs to start with reinventing herself. Her assignment: a three-day backpacking trip through the Olympic High Divide... moreTo survive, she'll have to keep up with him all day. And all night. .. Take Me, Lover, Book 3. Jill Martin loves adventure--as long as it comes between the covers of a book. Preferably one sporting a bare-chested hero. But to reinvent her faltering travel agency, she needs to start with reinventing herself. Her assignment: a three-day backpacking trip through the Olympic High Divide. Soon she's forced to cope with bears, blisters, and a basic instinct to get horizontal with her vertical guide. He's as hard as the ground they sleep on and his heart's as icy as the glaciers that surround them. Not a problem, since she's only interested in his body. Ryan Lowe knows how to read terrain, and Jill's is easy. Soft lips, soft eyes, soft curves, soft muscles. She won't last a day. Plus, if she knew what his imagination was doing with her body right now, she'd turn tail and run. Yet the city girl surprises him with her sheer grit--and sassy tongue. When they run into geocachers using the remote location as a drug drop-off, there's only one way to escape--plunge headlong into the untracked wilderness. As she puts her life in Ryan's hands, Jill wonders if she's in danger of losing something more precious. Her heart. less

The heat is on. .. Take Me, Lover, Book 4. Just a few more weeks and accounting student Cherry Harris will officially get her master's degree and kiss her pink waitress uniform goodbye. There's something else she'd like to make official, too--no more bad boys. Tired of getting burned, she's determined that from now on, it's nice guys or nothing... moreThe heat is on. .. Take Me, Lover, Book 4. Just a few more weeks and accounting student Cherry Harris will officially get her master's degree and kiss her pink waitress uniform goodbye. There's something else she'd like to make official, too--no more bad boys. Tired of getting burned, she's determined that from now on, it's nice guys or nothing. What could be nicer than a firefighter rescuing a kitten from a tree? Joe Deluca looks like the perfect way to break her romantic destructive pattern. Perfect melts like ice cream on a hot day when Cherry finds out that when Joe's not in uniform, he rides a motorcycle and wears a leather jacket over his tattoos. Is he a nice guy, a bad boy, or the man who's just right for her? The five-alarm passion Joe inspires proves an irresistible temptation, but Cherry's determined to guard her heart if not her body. Until a firebug leads them both into danger and Cherry is forced to admit her heart's been in jeopardy from the beginning. .. less