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Diane Romero, die Tochter des größten Immobilienmoguls Kaliforniens, hat ein mächtiges Problem. Entweder sie ist vom Pech verfolgt, oder es trachtet ihr jemand nach dem Leben, denn die vielen Unfälle der vergangenen Monate können kein Zufall mehr sein. Als sie Zeros Bekanntschaft macht, ist sie von dem schweigsamen Ex Navy-Seal beeindruckt. Zero erkennt recht schnell, dass Diane in großer Gefahr schwebt und Hilfe benötigt. Doch plötzlich steht er den Dämonen seiner Vergangenheit gegenüber. Wird es ihm dennoch gelingen, Diane zu retten?

Seth Kane gives zero pucks about what anyone thinks, except when it comes to hiding his enemies-with-benefits situation with Damon Pierce. Bad enough that Damon's everything Seth should hate: cocky, infuriating, and his brother's biggest rival. Worse that their angry hookups are becoming less...

Hannah's got a bad feeling about this. Not only has the NASA aerospace engineer found herself injured and stranded at a remote Arctic research station—but the one person willing to undertake the hazardous rescue mission is her longtime rival. Ian has been many things to Hannah: the villain who tried to veto her expedition and ruin her career, the man who stars in her most deliciously lurid dreams...but he's never played the hero. So why is he risking everything to be here?

Waking up alone in a strange hotel room, missing my prosthetic legs, and having no memory of what happened the night before is not how I wanted to spend my estranged twin's bachelor party trip. Yet there I was, legless and with zero idea how I got there. Or who I spent the night with. Which is… not great. Though I suppose that trauma lies somewhere between losing my legs in a car accident, which killed my career in the NHL, and my brother running off with my fiancée. So, in the grand scheme of things, not the worst weekend I've had.

Hannah, Mara und Sadie und sind beste Freundinnen – und als Naturwissenschaftlerinnen leidvoll darin erprobt, sich in männlich besetzten Domänen zu behaupten. Eines wissen sie nur zu genau: In Fragen der Wissenschaft – ebenso wie der Liebe – sind es stets die Gegensätze, die die heftigsten Reaktionen hervorrufen.

At 18 Emerson Rosberg was poised to become an Olympic skiing sensation. Growing up in the Adirondack ski town of Lake Henry with a world-renowned ski champion for a father gave her an edge over the competition...until the day she let her ego get the better of her and made a devastating mistake that would cost her any future in the sport. Deciding the only way to heal her shattered dreams was to run as far away from Lake Henry as possible, she settled in Los Angeles.

Love happens when you least expect it. So does heartbreak. I thought we were finally done with the lies. Secrets? Sure, Lilly's still holding on to plenty of those. My perfect woman is secrets buried under beautiful layers of deception. She's the seductive siren bent on destroying my heart.

I've spent a lot of years as a hit-it-and-quit-it player only seeking a good time. As Vice President of the Lost Kings Motorcycle Club, willing women are never in short supply. I never needed any of them for long. Until I met her. My perfect woman. Like a mermaid, she was beautiful, smart, and hard to hold onto. I thought I'd convinced her we'd be good together long-term, but then she disappeared without a word. Almost three years. That's how long it's been since I saw her.

Na terceira história da série Odeio te amar, Hannah tem um mau pressentimento. Ela, uma engenheira aeroespacial da Nasa, não só está machucada e perdida em uma remota estação de pesquisa no Ártico, como o único ser humano disposto a realizar sua perigosa missão de resgate é justamente aquele que ela não queria ver nem pintado de ouro. Ian tem desempenhado muitos papéis na vida de Hannah: o de vilão que tentou vetar sua expedição e arruinar sua carreira, o de protagonista dos seus sonhos mais ardentes... mas como herói ele jamais havia atuado.

La vie d'Alicia bascule brusquement, le jour où son mari et sa fille sont victimes d'un accident de la route. À la suite d'une trahison qui l'a ébranlé au plus profond de son être, Jérémie s'est juré qu'il ne se laisserait plus jamais briser le cœur par qui que ce soit. Lorsque, lors d'un mariage, ces deux-là se croisent, il suffit d'un regard pour que la magie opère instantanément.

Dicembre 2015. Costanza e Mario, due sconosciuti, sono bloccati all'aeroporto di Londra-Stansted a causa di una bufera di neve. Lei gioca a scacchi da sola, lui la spia con curiosità perché Costanza, oltre ad avere le clavicole più spettacolari che Mario abbia mai visto, durante la partita confabula con l'alfiere nero. Dallo stalking passano a giocare insieme e, quando tutti i voli vengono annullati per il maltempo, i due decidono di dividere prima un taxi e poi una camera d'albergo. Prende vita così una notte indimenticabile, quella che per entrambi diventerà la "Notte numero zero".

Ivy is doing her best to make ends meet after a failed relationship. She decides to take in a puppy that's been hanging around her place, but, when she goes looking for him, she finds him in the arms of a big burly man. Sam feels more alone than he's ever felt with his best friend about to become engaged. When the puppy he wants to adopt has another potential owner, he thinks it might be a good idea to team up. Sam and Ivy can't deny their attraction to each other and do their best to make things work, but the emotional baggage they both carry may prove to be too much.

"In here," he said, pushing on the skin above my heart, "you're 10 below zero. And you're closer to death than I am." My name is Parker. My body is marked with scars from an attack I don't remember. I don't want to remember. I choose to live my life by observation, not through experience. While people are laughing and kissing and connecting, I'm in the corner. Watching them live. I'm indifferent to everything, everyone. The only emotion I feel with any kind of depth is annoyance, and I feel it often.

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