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Between a breakup and a burned-down restaurant, there’s nothing left in New York for Kit Roth except the ashes of her success. Needing distance and distraction, she agrees to work for her best friend’s pasta-making nonna in the Italian countryside. But instead of providing a quiet sabbatical to eat up time while her kitchen is rebuilt, the small town of Manciano keeps pulling Kit into its rituals and rhythms. And before long, it shows her everything she’s been missing. Simpler cooking, community…and Nico Ruspoli, an olive oil producer with his own scorched past.

I was hired to protect her, not make her scream my name. From dodging bullets in Afghanistan to working for the Secret Service, I know danger pretty well. Or I thought I did. That was before my latest assignment came with a whole new kind of danger. Her name? Ruby. She's the gorgeous as hell, opinionated, spitfire daughter of Senator Burgess. Her family's beyond strict, but for a girl who's so innocent, she's anything but sweet.

ONCE YOU FIND Everything in attorney Skye Barclay's life is fitting smoothly into place until she makes the startling discovery that she was adopted. Not only does she learn that her birth mother has died, but now Skye finds out that she has a biological brother: Vincent. Skye wants to track him...

Deva Kent spent most of her life dreaming of escaping. She hated being forced to live among the Fellowship of the Enlightened, the small community closed off from the rest of the world, and was desperate to spread her wings and discover something new. When she applied to be a nanny for a single father and his two-year-old son, the Fellowship wasn't happy, but she knew that was her fresh start. However, she never thought she'd end up falling for the man with more baggage than he could carry and storm clouds in his eyes.

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Driven series. ONE NIGHT. THAT'S ALL IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. Reeling from the sudden loss of her sister, Haddie Montgomery has sworn off relationships. All she wanted from Beckett Daniels was a sexy distraction to help her escape her...

Tobias Gamble knew from a young age precisely the kind of woman he was going to make his. She was not going to be like his mother. She was going to be like the mother he claimed. In other words, she was going to be just right. And when Toby returns to his hometown of Matlock, Kentucky, and claps eyes on Adeline Forrester, he knows she’s the one.

Socially awkward Joellen Bixby has a date every Saturday - with her cat, a pint of ice cream, and fantasies of the way-too-handsome Michael Maddox. She’d give anything to win over the unattainable CEO of her firm, but how can she when she blends in so well with her cubicle? The answer may be closer than she thinks. Cameron McGregor is a cocky, tattooed Scottish rugby captain who just moved in next door. He’s not Jo’s type - at all - but the notorious playboy is offering to teach the wallflower everything he knows about inspiring desire.

Brought to you by Penguin. The delicious new summer romance from the bestselling author of One Day in December Sometimes pretending to be someone else helps you figure out who you really are… Freshly divorced and in need of a job – Kate Elliot’s life needs a rewrite. So when she unearths...

Jackson “The Beast” Boudreaux is rich, gorgeous, and unbelievably rude to the staff at Chef Bianca Hardwick’s New Orleans restaurant. Bianca would sooner douse herself in hot sauce than cook for Jackson again, but when he asks her to cater his fund-raiser, Bianca can’t refuse, knowing the cash will help pay her mother’s medical bills.

I'm going to make her my queen. One wedding. One child. Five years. Ten million dollars. Those are the terms of our contract. My offer is sound, bold, and necessary. In order to gain my inheritance, I have to have a wife. She thinks her clause will keep me from having her skin on mine. She's very wrong. The de Loughrey's rule the world, and I am their king. I get what I want, and what I want is her. I'll have her beneath me no matter what.

In Copper Ridge, Oregon, a cowboy's best friend might turn out to be the woman of his dreams If Finn Donnelly makes a plan, he sticks to it. After his brothers left Copper Ridge, Finn stayed behind, determined to keep their ranch going by himself. And when he realized his feelings for Lane...

From award-winning romance author Loreth Anne White comes a story of justice, loyalty, and unbreakable bonds that is both a thrilling mystery and a moving love story. Newly exonerated ex-con Jeb Cullen is determined to prove his innocence to his former neighbors and win back the heart of Rachel Salonen, the only woman he’s ever loved. Nine years after her testimony helped put Jeb behind bars, Rachel’s life is finally getting back to normal. But it’s turned upside down by the sudden death of her sister...

President of the Lost Kings MC, Rochlan "Rock" North hasn't managed to find a woman capable of making him want to curb his wild ways - until he meets sweet, innocent, married lawyer Hope Kendall. Forced to represent the outlaw biker, Hope is rattled by her immediate attraction to Rock. Hope is a good girl in a good marriage. Rock thrills her, but she's not going to throw away everything she's built on a fling with her criminal client. Rock respects Hope enough to leave her alone, even as he realizes he's become a little obsessed with her.

But good girls don't finish first. They get dumped. Even after investing - no, wasting - six years of their life on the guy who was supposed to be the one. So, I traded in my halo for a pair of horns! Hello, world...Clover Kelly is single and ready to mingle! Then it happened: I suddenly found myself starring in the dating game to beat all dating games. While pouring out my heart to my best friend, my new quest for lust is accidentally broadcast live...on the radio. Yay, me! Did I mention my best friend is an uber famous radio personality...and a guy? A really hot guy?

#1 USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Maya Banks continues her suspenseful and sizzling Slow Burn series with this fourth book—a mesmerizingly sexy tale of a strong, brilliant woman who encounters the one man who makes her lose all control. Eliza Cummings fought free of a monster...

Zack og Gracie har været forelskede, siden de var helt unge, og de er ikke i tvivl om, at de er skabt for hinanden. En nat forsvinder Gracie sporløst, og Zack kaster sig ud i en årelang kamp for at finde hende. Men Gracie er og bliver forsvundet, og først da Zack flere år senere tilfældigvis finder et maleri, som forestiller et sted, kun han og Gracie kender til, genoplives håbet om, at hun stadig er i live.

Arial kender de regler, der holder hende uden for farezonen. Hun har fulgt dem, siden hun var helt lille: Fortael ingenting. Vis ingenting. Men da hun i et øjebliks frygt står ansigt til ansigt med en overfaldsmand, som er opsat på at tage mere end blot hendes liv, har hun intet andet valg end at tage de telepatiske kraefter i brug, som hun har skjult for omverdenen lige siden sin barndom. Da hendes evner nu er afsløret, lurer en endnu større trussel, som får hende til at saette spørgsmålstegn ved alt, hun troede, hun vidste om sine foraeldre og sin hemmelighedsfulde opdragelse. Men dette er ikke en kamp, hun kan kaempe alene. Som direktør for Devereaux Security er Beau Devereaux ikke ubekendt med det overnaturlige. Men da han får en ny klient - en smuk, ung kvinde med en usaedvanlig evne - er Beau ikke forberedt på, hvor tiltrukket han vil blive af hende. Hvad der begyndte som en simpel opgave, bare endnu et job, bliver derfor hurtigt personligt, da Beau opdager, at han vil gøre hvad som helst for at beskytte Arial, uanset hvad det vil koste ham, hjerte og sjael. BESKYTTET AF DIG er en romantisk spaendingsroman fuld af forførelse og begaer. Bogen er anden bog i Slow Burn-trilogien. "Formidabelt Jeg elsker Maya Banks, og jeg elsker hendes bøger" - Jaci Burton, New York Times bestsellerforfatter Maya Banks er en amerikansk bestsellerforfatter kendt for sin evne til at skrive romaner, der emmer af kaerlighed og erotik. Maya Banks har skrevet over 50 romaner, hvoraf trilogierne Breathless, Surrender og Slow Burn er oversat til dansk. Maya bor i Texas med sin mand og sine tre børn.

Der er intet så farligt som at blive forelsket. Da den rige og magtfulde Caleb Devereauxs elskede lillesøster bliver kidnappet, må han gribe til utraditionelle midler for at finde hende igen. Ude af sig selv opsøger han en smuk og følsom ung kvinde, som er kendt for sin evne til at se de ting, der ellers er usynlige for det blotte øje. Ramie St. Claire er i stand til at føle andres smerte og kan derfor finde mennesker, der lider i det skjulte.

A sizzling story of a woman who risks her life and her heart to find a wealthy man s missing sister the first novel in a sexy new romantic suspense series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Maya Banks When Caleb Devereaux's younger sister is kidnapped, this scion of a powerful and...

From the age of three, I was obsessed with tutus, leotards, pointe shoes and everything that dancing had to offer. After years of hard work, sweat and tears, I finally was able to make the dreams of the little girl in me come true. Years later, I'm dancing for one of the most respected companies in the world, leaving out a dream and living the best life that I could have ever imagined. Everything was going according to how I'd mapped it out. Except . . .I hadn't mapped out two little blue lines skating into my life after a one-night stand.