Valentine's Inc. Cruises Books

Falling in love with your boss is never a good idea. Now if someone could just explain that to my heart. Dane: When I first started working for Holt Atwood, I respected him. That respect turned to like, and eventually into love. But Holt is married to his job, and I am not about playing second fiddle to mergers and acquisitions. So it’s time to move on. I can do this one last thing for him though. I can go on this singles cruise with him and help him see that work isn’t all there is to life. If I can do that, I will feel better about leaving him with such short notice. Holt: Work has been my focus for so long I’ve forgotten what it’s like to just let go and have fun. At first, when my parents insisted I go on this cruise because I was on the fast track to burn out, I thought I could take my assistant along and make it a work trip. But Dane has other ideas, and the longer I am around him outside of work, the more I realize maybe everyone is right. Maybe I have been so focused on work I’ve missed what’s really important. I just hope it’s not too late to convince Dane I want him for more than work. I want him forever.

A happy ever after is not in the cards for me. But a short fling aboard a ship crossing the Atlantic might just be exactly what I need. When my friends suggest I take a much-needed vacation on their Valentine's Inc. hosted cruise, I leap at the chance. I don't have a lot of expectations for this matchmaking singles cruise--I'm certainly not looking for a future Mr. Chase Kelton. What I'm not prepared for is walking into my assigned suite to find a man passed out on the first day. I recognize the shy barista immediately. He's been serving me my morning fix for a year and driving me crazy with the hard shell he keeps locked around himself. I want to break it. I know there's an entirely different man beneath it that I'm itching to reveal. Reign is the proverbial fish out of water, and when I discover the real reason he's on this cruise, I see an opportunity I can't resist. He needs a companion to show him the ropes--I can do that and so much more. An introverted barista with a crush, a wealthy executive afraid to fall in love, and a summer fling with an expiration date neither of them wants to keep.

Photographer Upton Sanders is a proverbial third wheel. Still single after his best friend met the love of his life on the Valentine’s Inc. dating app, Upton assumes he’ll be alone forever. Everything changes when his friends surprise him with a week-long singles cruise. Travel agent Walsh Dunne has never left the state of North Carolina. With the ink on his hospitality degree still wet, he embarks on the S.S. Neptune to learn about the cruise industry and the ship’s exotic ports of call. It isn’t until a chance encounter with Upton that Walsh learns this is no ordinary cruise. Excited to attend the Ship Happens dating events, Upton has zero luck meeting the man of his dreams. The one man he is forever running into, Walsh, keeps rescuing him from sticky situations. Finished with the vain men he’s met so far, Upton and Walsh team up to explore the islands. Sparks fly between the men, making them think a relationship in the real world is possible. Back on shore, both men are excited about the future, until an emergency calls Walsh back home. Can the star-crossed lovers find a way back to each other? Or will their love go down with the ship?

Dawson Hoshaw lives by one motto—work hard, play harder. As the owner of Blue Lotus, a tattoo and piercing shop, he’s got the first part covered. The second part, he accomplishes through meaningless hookups and no-strings-attached encounters. It’s safer this way, with no risk of getting his heart broken again. But when his best friend, Peyton, enters him in a contest—and wins—Dawson finds himself the recipient of an all-expenses paid singles cruise around New Zealand, courtesy of Valentine’s Inc. As long as he can remember, Stephen Kincaid has known it’s his duty to take over his family’s chain of men’s clothing stores. The closer his father grows to retirement, the more responsibility Steven assumes. Running multiple businesses and living up to expectations doesn’t leave him with much time for dating, and he can’t remember the last time he took a vacation. So when he wins a contest he didn’t even enter, he can’t pass up the opportunity to see Australia before returning to his humdrum life. When a mix-up forces Dawson and Steven to share a cabin, their dream vacation turns into a nightmare. It wouldn’t be so bad if they could escape each other during the day, but it’s hard not to run into one another. And the more time they spend together, the more they find they don’t want to stay away. After a night of passion, Stephen and Dawson can’t help giving in to the growing feelings between them. But how can they make this vacation fling work once they go back to the real world? Battle Ship is a Valentine’s Inc. novella, but you will see familiar faces with this Forever in Middlebury Crossover. At 35,00 words, it can be read as a standalone and is intended for adults 18 and over.

Davis ~ Life hasn’t been the same since Conrad and I lost our boyfriend in a tragic accident. We’ve started looking for a third again—this is who we are, and we want another man to love. Conrad ~ I’m missing our man more than words can say, but I’m hopeful we’ll meet someone on this cruise—or have I known the perfect person this whole time? Shane ~ When I splurge and treat myself to a college graduation present, I’m not expecting a singles cruise to change my life. What are the chances of finding two men looking for love, or one of them being my best friend’s older brother? With three men, an age gap, and a best friend to contend with, can this be more than fun in the sun? **Shipping Our Loves was previously available as part of a multi-author series. All novellas in the Writing Our Love series are standalone.

Ben lives for the open road—nothing but endless sky and his motorcycle. His friends sending him on a singles cruise isn’t his idea of a good time until he sits down beside Silas, a sweet, anxious baker and his polar opposite. Pretending they’re together keeps all the other potentials at bay, but it won’t save them from falling for each other or from real life waiting for them when they step off the ship. Don’t miss this sexy, bite-size M/M romance! Formerly part of the Valentine’s Inc multi-author series.