Jessa Kane Books in Order

Fresh out of prison and scarred inside and out, Beast storms into his former partner’s house to collect what he is owed. Instead of cash he is offered an innocent young woman, and the moment he sees her, the ruthless ex con decides she is his payment, his revenge and his salvation.

After Penny is pulled from a burning building by two firefighters, they refuse to leave her unguarded. Nick is older and possessive, Zeke is wild and tender, and together they are determined to protect her from the danger stalking her, even if it means sharing the woman they love.

A reclusive young artist spends her days painting and secretly watching the brooding man across the canyon. When she makes a reckless escape from her controlling father, she lands in his arms and discovers he is no millionaire neighbor but her family’s sworn enemy.

Wide eyed Astrid arrives in Bel Air to follow her mother’s advice and spread love wherever she goes. Hired by three very different wives to occasionally entertain their overworked husbands, she finds herself tangled in an erotic arrangement that grows into an unconventional happily ever after.

Emery grew up in an orphanage dreaming that billionaire energy mogul Clarke would someday come rescue her. When a chance to slip into his world presents itself, her fantasy collides with reality, and the powerful man who has sensed her presence for months finally lays eyes on his angel.

Hidden away in a convent since childhood, Sister Mercy has never been allowed near men. When soldiers evacuate the nuns, Private Griffin is assigned to guard her from his own unit, but his instant, overwhelming fixation on the innocent beauty becomes the real danger she faces.

Raised to believe she is wicked, a sheltered eighteen year old fixates on the town’s intense new preacher who watches her from the shadows. As her baptism approaches, temptation boils over into a scandalous, sacrilegious affair that neither of them can repent away.

Ophelia is tired of being dismissed as a spoiled rich girl and wants someone to see the woman underneath. When she collides with her housekeeper’s son Ezra on the day he is released from prison, the ex con’s instant, rough edged obsession gives her exactly that and more.

To stop a monstrous beast from ravaging their town, terrified villagers tie an innocent girl to a tree in a wedding dress as an offering. Up close she sees the lonely, half wild man beneath the legend, and the so called beast decides his sacrifice will never leave his side again.

On her eighteenth birthday, Margaret’s stepfather orders her to work at his strip club and give her first lap dance to a Russian stranger. Lenin is there to kill the owner, but the terrified girl in his lap becomes his angel and the only mission he truly cares about.

Lyssa agrees to pose as her best friend’s girlfriend for a visit to his reclusive, ex military father, hoping to help smooth a strained relationship. One look at the gruff mountain loner and her loyalties are tested, especially when he sees through their lie and wants her anyway.

Meadow worked hard to trade trailer parks for a steady job as a massage therapist, but her new client is Boston’s most feared mob boss. When Walter McManus decides her hands will touch only him, her determination to stay independent crashes into his refusal to ever let her go.

When Sienna’s flighty mother runs off to Paris, her new stepbrother, ruthless Wall Street legend Grant Foster, sweeps her into his penthouse and surrounds her with security. He spoils her and keeps her at arm’s length, but Sienna is determined to turn his forbidden protectiveness into more.

Hot headed hockey star Aidan agrees to judge a baking show to soften his public image, only to fall hard for Lola, a Vegas showgirl tricked into competing. With cameras rolling and a corrupt boss looming, he is determined to win the contest and her freedom.

Ambushed into competing on a reality show for terrible bakers, Alice is sure she will be humiliated on national television. Then her longtime crush, icy celebrity chef Sebastian, is announced as a judge, and his ruthless on camera persona melts just for her.

Firefighter Desmond is pranked onto a baking show for people who can barely frost a cupcake, but he only cares about the shy food critic judging his disaster cakes. When Quinn asks him to tutor her in seduction off set, their practice sessions turn very real.

Angelica is a rising pop star and the daughter of Dane’s Navy buddy, which should make her off limits. When she asks the scarred security contractor to teach her self defense and an obsessed fan starts closing in, the big, ugly bruiser decides his friend’s little girl is his to guard and to keep.

Damian has been Arya’s shadow since she fed him as a starving boy, stepping in every time her crime lord father’s enemies circled. On her eighteenth birthday he finally comes out of the dark to claim her as his wife and drag her into the empire he built for her.

Zach is the hefty offensive lineman who has quietly loved head cheerleader Jill since childhood, and he is sure she is out of his league. When a late night bus ride turns into Jill asking him to explore her first real desires, he finally risks believing she might choose him.

A quiet young woman learns that the brooding man who has always hovered at the edges of her life is hiding far more than a casual fondness. Their affair has to stay secret, but his possessive devotion makes it increasingly hard for either of them to pretend they are only pretending.

Philadelphia detective Ryan has spent years hiding his strength and his obsession behind baggy clothes and nerdy glasses, playing the harmless roommate to his best friend Jessie. When he discovers she plans a reckless stunt, he drops the disguise and proves exactly how far he will go to keep her safe.

Desperate to pay tuition, Alana sells her virginity for one night to a rough stranger named Gavin who has very specific tastes. A week later she walks into her first college lecture and discovers her new professor is the same man who has not stopped thinking about her since.

After two years locked away, Juno escapes through the forest and stumbles onto an isolated cabin. Its owner, brooding former soldier Caleb, mistakes her for the research intern he hired for the summer, and she lets him, even as their invented arrangement spirals into feral, mutual obsession.

New York Fashion Week designer Parker needs a male model who inspires her, not another rail thin runway regular. She finds him tending bar, a huge, self conscious ex bodyguard named Daws, and convinces him to pose for one night that quickly turns into something much more permanent.

When trouble lands a young woman under police protection, the hard edged officer assigned to watch her quickly decides she belongs in his house, not a safe house. Crossing every line, he turns protective custody into a possessive, no one else touches her kind of love.

Rex, a towering palace guard, has sworn to protect young Queen Britta and to keep his forbidden love for her secret. When he finds her crying alone in the dark, his resolve shatters, and touching his monarch becomes a risk he is willing to die for.

A reclusive man has spent years watching over the woman who never knew he existed, leaving small, anonymous acts of care to make her life easier. When danger finally forces him into the open, his confession sounds less like apology and more like a marriage vow he fully expects her to accept.

Tired of shrinking herself to fit other people’s ideas of beauty, a curvy heroine meets the one man who treats her body like something to worship, not fix. His relentless adoration forces her to see herself through new eyes and to claim the kind of love she thought was off limits.

Moving back home means sharing a roof with the stepbrother who has always kept her at a frosty distance. Underneath his gruff warnings and slammed doors, though, is a man hiding how long he has wanted her, and how far he will go to keep her from anyone else.

To escape a vile auction of her virginity, Maisy is bought by a stranger who seems just as dangerous as the men bidding. Forced to take her in front of an audience to secure her freedom, he discovers he has no intention of walking away once the show is over.

For her eighteenth birthday, Cassie wants one thing, the gruff rancher she has worshipped from afar. When a tattooed new ranch hand arrives the same day, her innocent crush explodes into a scorching love triangle that could either ruin or remake her quiet farm life.

Whitney’s gambling father wagers her innocence on the outcome of a brutal underground MMA fight. To take control of her fate, she tempts Russian brawler Maxim with a desperate kiss, and he vows to win the bout and claim her as a prize no one will ever touch again.

A ruthless crime boss built his reputation on having no soft spots, until the day a debt brings a terrified young woman to his door. Claiming her as payment exposes the one vulnerability he cannot hide, the lengths he will go to keep his new obsession breathing and by his side.

Billionaire workaholic Lincoln finally takes a forced vacation and finds a nervous young woman waiting in his island villa, wrapped in a ribbon. Nova’s greedy sisters sent her as part of a cruel scheme, but her wide eyed honesty makes Lincoln determined to keep her and destroy their plan.

A volatile star pitcher is saddled with a timid student assistant to help clean up his image and organize his chaotic life. Long hours in locker rooms and hotel suites turn professional boundaries into kindling as the grumpiest man in baseball falls for the only woman who tells him no.

Zoe takes a temporary job working for her intimidating stepbrothers, Jacob and Bridger, planning to save enough for a big trip and then quit. Instead she ends up in their boardroom and their bed, as the powerful pair decide their eager intern will be theirs for much longer than one summer.

Everyone calls him the devil, a man with blood on his hands and no mercy to spare. The first time he meets the sheltered heroine who sees past his reputation, he decides she will be his personal angel, even if dragging her into his darkness is the only way to keep her close.

Sent into the Louisiana bayou to collect a gambling debt, a hulking enforcer expects a routine job. Instead he meets the debtor’s innocent loved one and decides the only payment he is willing to accept is her hand, even if dragging her away makes him everyone’s enemy.

An office assistant with a flair for the dramatic leans into Halloween by pretending to cast love spells on her grouchy boss. When the ultra rational man starts acting like he really is cursed to crave her, she has to admit the magic might be their chemistry, not her candles.

A grumpy, overworked boss expects his temporary assistant to fetch coffee and follow orders, not challenge every decision he makes. Their constant clashes in the office turn into combustible chemistry after hours, and soon he is the one willing to be led anywhere she wants to take him.

In high school he made her life miserable, hiding his own feelings behind cruel words. Years later, success and distance have turned her into the confident woman he never thought she would become, and he is determined to earn forgiveness, support her dreams and prove he was always hers.

She has been in love with her best friend’s big, brooding father for as long as she can remember. When she proposes a sugar daddy style arrangement to the forty something man who thinks he is too old and too large for her, he discovers just how grown up she really is.

During a violent prison break, Wendy is nearly swallowed by a mob of inmates until two dangerous men drag her into their cell and refuse to share her with anyone else. Trapped together, fear gives way to scorching attraction and an unexpected three way bond.

Falling for the coach’s daughter is the one rule every player knows not to break. Late practices and stolen moments in empty locker rooms make that rule harder to remember as a star athlete and the woman he is forbidden to touch set fire to the sidelines of their small town team.

Sent to a remote work camp to deal with a crew of roughnecks, the heroine expects surly men and long, boring days. Instead she finds one huge, taciturn worker who wants nothing to do with her until a single kiss has him ready to throw away his job to keep her.

A young woman with a rebellious streak sets her sights on the older family doctor she has always been told is off limits. One bold dare in his exam room shatters years of restraint, and the man who has seen her grow up has to choose between his career and claiming her.

Good girl Grace from an elite prep school falls hard for North, a bruised underground fighter who survives one illegal bout at a time. Their secret, all consuming teenage romance burns hot enough to defy her controlling father, but every stolen kiss pushes them closer to catastrophe.

She thinks her best friend is just a sweet, slightly awkward guy who always shows up when she needs him. What she does not realize is that he has mapped her routines, followed her home and quietly eliminated threats for years, and he is done pretending his love is casual.

Her new step relative has always seemed a little too present, his gaze lingering, his car appearing wherever she goes. When she discovers the extent of his fixation, she has to decide whether to run from the man who tracks her every move or lean into the safety of his obsession.

He has spent years trying to smother the anger and violence that simmer just under his skin. The heroine is the one person whose presence calms the blaze and fans it at the same time, drawing him into a relationship that might finally burn away his past or destroy them both.

Raised in near total innocence, a shy tutor is assigned to help a rough delinquent catch up on his studies. The first time he touches her, her world tilts, and their lessons quickly turn from algebra to anatomy as his single minded focus on her eclipses every other plan.

An after hours fling with her demanding boss leaves the heroine holding a positive pregnancy test and a lot of questions. When she tries to slip away quietly, the fiercely controlling businessman refuses to let the mother of his child go anywhere but straight into his life and bed.

Everyone warns her that the intense, much older man fixated on her is bad news, but she has never been good at listening. His brand of obsessive, borderline toxic devotion is exactly what she craves, and falling for him feels less like a mistake and more like fate.

Asking her gruff neighbor to pose as a fake boyfriend for a family event seems like a harmless favor. The act goes so well that neither of them wants to drop it afterward, and the man who never did relationships finds himself addicted to playing real partner for her.

A sunshiney heroine makes it her holiday mission to melt the heart of her miserly, Christmas hating boss. Every carol, cookie and accidental brush of hands chips away at his defenses until the office Scrooge is the one begging for more of her cheer all year long.

That silly crush she nursed for years was supposed to fade once real life started, but seeing him again proves nothing has changed. The feelings that once fit in a diary margin come roaring back, and this time he is just as unwilling to pretend they are one sided.

Everyone assumes she is too sweet and naive to handle a man like him, but the heroine is tired of being treated like glass. When she finally reaches for the rough, dangerous neighbor she has always wanted, she proves that innocence and bold desire can live in the same heart.

This collection gathers several of Jessa Kane’s big boy novellas into one volume, showcasing thick, self conscious heroes and the women who are thrilled to climb them. It is a quick hit tour of her plus size obsessions, from bayou bruisers to high school linemen and royal bodyguards.

Falling for the grumpy grandfather in the next room was never part of her plan. When Pops discovers how his roommate’s sweet young friend looks at him, the older man stops pretending he is just a family friend and stakes a possessive, taboo claim she has secretly wanted all along.

Taking a temp job at a powerful company seems like a simple way to pay the bills, until the heroine attracts the attention of the CEO himself. What begins as filling in at a desk becomes an all consuming affair with a man who has no intention of letting her contract end.

She thought quitting her job and disappearing would be enough to escape the intense CEO who terrified and thrilled her. He sees her resignation as a challenge and chases her down, determined to bring his runaway assistant back and make sure she never thinks of leaving again.

A quiet waitress working the night shift at a lonely truck stop is warned she is in serious danger by a mysterious big rig driver. When she trusts him enough to climb into his cab, a road trip of protection, captivity and obsessive love begins.

A modern heroine stumbles into a time bending twist that delivers a fierce, old fashioned warrior straight into her life. His possessive, slightly outdated ideas about love clash with her independence, even as their instant connection proves that some soulmates really do span centuries.

A sheltered debutante believes there is a curse attached to her name, every suitor either cruel or cowardly. When she crosses paths with a man who terrifies society and treats her like a priceless treasure, she has to decide whether breaking the curse is worth scandal.

Long before she knew his name, a stranger was following her home, fixing things in her apartment and quietly steering danger away. Discovering the man behind the obsession forces her to confront a frightening truth, that the safest place she has ever been might be in her stalker’s arms.

A burnt out city girl flees to the countryside and crashes into a gruff farmer who would rather be alone with his land. Her high heels and big ideas clash with his routines, but their chemistry makes both wonder if there is room on the farm for a new kind of life.

The first time he sees her, he knows with absolute certainty that she is meant to be his, even if the world thinks he is too old and too intense. Convincing her to trust that same gut feeling becomes a battle he is fully prepared to fight dirty to win.

What should have been a simple, dirty job turns complicated when the crew’s focus shifts from the score to the woman caught in the middle. As attraction tangles with loyalty, she has to decide whether to run from the criminals who want her or help them steal a future together.

Hired for a shadowy assignment that was never meant to be personal, the heroine quickly discovers her new boss has far more intimate uses in mind. The deeper she sinks into his world, the more the so called job starts to look like a dangerous, addictive love affair.

Eloise only applied to the White House because war hero Pierce McAlister decided to run for office. Now she works down the hall from the youngest president in history, and the man she has idolized needs someone to worship him in private as fiercely as the country does in public.

To save her family’s farm, Ashley married a cruel man she refuses to let touch her. Marriage counselor Caleb suggests an unconventional treatment, three days and nights alone with him so he can learn what pleases her, then teach her husband. He has no intention of giving her back.

Eric is a six foot six high school goalie who does everything he can to hide behind pads and lockers. New girl Marlow cannot hide her awe of him, and sneaking away together during lunch breaks turns the shy giant into the only boy she wants her parents to fear.

Nicknamed Moby because of his size, the hero has learned to laugh off jokes before anyone can hurt him with them. When a woman walks into his life and treats his massive body like a miracle instead of a punchline, his easygoing facade gives way to single minded, hungry affection.

Publicists chain Hollywood starlet Jenna to a tree, naked and shaking, to force a sultry rebrand. Penn, a massive single dad in flannel sent to cut that tree down, is the only one who sees her fear, and he will gladly blow up her image to make her feel safe instead.

When Haylo’s airline pilot father bails on sorority parents weekend, he sends his friend and co pilot Joel in his place with one rule, do not touch her. Meeting the lush, furious college girl in person makes that promise feel impossible, especially when she sets out to seduce him.

Father Rune has devoted his life to the church, but one encounter with Farrah, a starving thief caught stealing chocolate, rattles that resolve. Forced to prove his virtue under the eye of a suspicious superior, he keeps failing the test, because choosing holiness means losing her.

Decorated commander Conrad is ordered to guard a fragile princess whose country is splintering around her. She is soft spoken, traumatized and far more powerful than she feels, and his job quickly turns from security detail to being the only man she trusts to hold her together.

July accidentally sits at the wrong restaurant table on her very first date and ends up across from Theo, a haunted soldier still wrestling with memories of a POW camp. Her sweetness quiets the noise in his head, and he quickly decides changing tables is not an option.

Ruby Lang once tutored two very different men who never quite got over her. Years later, their wives stage a week in a beach house to settle old tensions, only to spark an intense, tangled attraction that forces everyone involved to decide what happily ever after really looks like.