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Iris Benedetto’s wedding day just went viral … for all the wrong reasons. After a heated blowout with her lying, cheating fiancé at the altar, Iris storms off on a solo honeymoon—loudly announcing that she’s finally going to find out what good sex is all about. Rebranding from small-town preschool teacher to #HornyRunawayBride was not the plan, but the insanely hot stranger who ends up double-booked in her bungalow on the island of Kauai is an opportunity even devastated Iris can’t ignore.

Heiress Charlotte Davis has pulled some impulsive stunts in her twenty-seven years. Ranking right up at the top? "Buying" at auction the quarterback of her brother's precious football team, the Baltimore Blaze. In her defense, the event was for charity. Besides, she owed the guy one. He'd rescued her from a situation even more dire years before—right before he broke her heart.

Kaitlyn Armstrong has a mission this holiday season: pull off a glitzy fundraising gala to redeem her family's reputation. After all, besides one tiny—okay, catastrophic—failure in high school, Kaitlyn is her family's rock. Who better to trust? But then Kaitlyn meets the architect she must work with to pull off the event. Micah Croft is the man who broke her nose, her heart, and her perfect academic record in high school. Now he's breaking her eight-year streak of avoiding him.

My dreams of making it to the big league had finally come true, but one wild night in a strip club which was clearly a mistake landed me squarely on the team's bad boy list. The PR manager is supposed to smooth it all over, too bad all I wanted was to get in trouble with her. I wasn't really the playboy they thought I was, I just needed to find the right woman to set me straight. Now I just have to prove I'm not what she thought.

I had the perfect bachelor's life. No obligations. No commitments. The greatest job in the world, all while being paid millions to do it. Until I became a dad overnight. My world turned upside down, I went from ballfields and bars to dirty diapers and bottles. I turned to my best friend for help but ended up with his little sister. Now, all I want is the one woman I can't have. She's the curveball I never saw coming. The one woman I'm willing to commit to and change my old ways for. I just have to show her that we can be a family.

Gaby Fineberg just wants to get through Passover Seder without her "well meaning" family playing matchmaker. She needs a date, just for one simple meal - that includes singing, the history of her forefathers, and not one bit of yeast. The hot guy at her gym would be perfect. He probably hates bread, anyway, with a body like that. But when she finally works up the nerve to ask him...he doesn't hear a word she said.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns to sun-drenched Bella Vista, where the land's bounty yields a rich harvest…and family secrets that have long been buried.

Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the sleepy Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school—a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Bella Vista's rambling mission-style hacienda, with its working apple orchards, bountiful gardens and beehives, is the idyllic venue for Isabel's project…and the perfect place for her to forget the past.

But Isabel's carefully ordered plans begin to go awry when swaggering, war-torn journalist Cormac O'Neill arrives to dig up old history. He's always been better at exposing the lives of others than showing his own closely guarded heart, but the pleasures of small-town life and the searing sensuality of Isabel's kitchen coax him into revealing a few truths of his own.

The dreamy sweetness of summer is the perfect time of year for a grand family wedding and the enchanting Beekeeper's Ball, bringing emotions to a head in a story where the past and present collide to create an unexpected new future.

From "one of the best observers of stories of the heart" (Salem Statesman-Journal), The Beekeeper's Ball is an exquisite and richly imagined novel of the secrets that keep us from finding our way, the ties binding us to family and home, and the indelible imprint love can make on the human heart.

Cam DeSantis's life is a mess. How else would you describe losing your husband, your job, and your money all at once? Desperate times call for desperate measures. So when salvation comes in the form of one intolerable jerk, who just happens to be the starting quarterback for the vaunted New York Titans, she has no choice but to accept his offer as a live-in nanny slash teacher for his eight year old nephew. Now all she has to do is find a way to ignore him for the next three months. Which is easier said than done.

Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the sleepy Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school - a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Bella Vista's rambling mission-style hacienda, with its working apple orchards, bountiful gardens and beehives, is the idyllic venue for Isabel's project… and the perfect place for her to forget the past.

It's easy to fall back into old habits with friends, but with Cole something is different. He's different with me. The touches are gentler. His eyes linger on me. There's something there that wasn't before. My heart flutters just a little too much every time I look at him. What's the worst that could happen if I stopped overthinking and just let go?

Zander's the gorgeous quarterback that every girl wants…and he's only got eyes for Sienna. She's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. If there's one thing I have to do with my last year of high school, it's getting to know her. Being around her makes me feel alive. There's no pressure when we're together. It's just us. The world can't touch me when I'm with her. Except that it can....

Nicht zu wissen, wer der andere ist, war der Reiz dieser Nacht. Doch uns war nicht klar, dass uns jede Berührung ins Verderben stürzen wird. Nash Jeder in Amerika kennt mich. Bis auf diese Kleine, die behauptet, noch nie etwas von Nash Ryder, DEM Runningback der Iron Crushers, gehört zu haben. Erst ist sie mein schüchterner ONS, dann die toughe Chefköchin bei uns im Trainingscamp. Ich glaube nicht an Zufälle. Diese süße Stalkerin soll zittern, denn ich lasse mich sicher nicht verarschen.

Starquarterback der Iron Crushers verliebt sich in die Tochter seines Managers. Ava. Was wie eine schlechte Schlagzeile klingt, ist leider tatsächlich eine. Jaxon Wilder steckt in der Klemme und mein Vater verlangt, dass ich ihn da wieder raushole, indem ich seine Freundin spiele. Obwohl ich nichts von den hirnlosen Footballaffen halte, die mein Dad managt, ist das kein schlechter Deal für mich, denn dafür finanziert er mir meinen Traum. Aus einem simplen Fake wird ein Wettbewerb zwischen diesem nervtötend heißen Muskelprotz und mir, bis uns alles gnadenlos um die Ohren fliegt.

My new roommate doesn't seem to like me... But then, she doesn't seem to like her boyfriend much, either, so maybe that's just the way she is. Until one night, when her boyfriend won't take no for an answer, I have to step in, and I realize the grumpy attitude she's given me since I moved in is because she's been dating a douchebag. After she sends him packing, I make it my mission to cheer her up. In the process, I find that she's creative, charming, and fun to be around. What starts as trying to help my roommate turns into wanting something more.

I don't think I can sink any lower. Somehow I've ended up blackmailing a girl into pretending to be my girlfriend. Let me back up. I've known Charity since high school. Well, we went to the same exclusive prep school, anyway. We weren't friends, though. Now we're at the same university, and her friend group keeps crossing paths with mine, much to her obvious dismay. Given how vocal she is about disliking me, it's become a hobby of mine to needle her more anytime the opportunity presents itself.

I spent last year busting my butt as the starting quarterback to make sure Marycliff moved up to Division I. Now it's my senior year, and as thanks for all my hard work, the university's brought in a new head coach and a new starting quarterback. Bitterness doesn't even begin to describe my feelings about that. And since the new QB is Coach's pet, no amount of hard work will win my spot back. But he has a weakness: a smokin' hot sister who just so happens to tag along to all the team events. And lucky me, she's as attracted to me as I am to her.

Lorelei Romano thought junior year would be spent living with her best friend, having the best season of her life on the girls’ soccer team and enjoying time with her boyfriend. Instead, she was suddenly single and stuck living with her brother in the football house across the hall from the grumpiest football player on campus. The tight end might be easy on the eyes with his tree-trunk thighs and gorgeous thick hair, but the guy hates her on sight.

Summer, Brianna, Tami und Stella haben jeder ihr ganz persönliches Happy End bekommen - ob mit einem Quarterback, Kicker, Linebacker oder Cornerback! Ein paar Monate später steht ein Junggesellenabschied an ... oder eine Bacherlorette-Party? Die Teammitglieder der "San Antonio Lions" und ihre Frauen finden sich - scheinbar - ungeplant in demselben Club wieder. Findet heraus, wie es mit den vier Paaren weitergeht ... und was mit dem Stripper passiert! Der gesamte Gewinn aus den Verkäufen dieses Hörbuchs wird an Listiversum gehen und den Tieren auf seinem Gnadenhof zugute kommen. Dies ist der 5.

In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Proby’s brand new series, five best friends open a hot new restaurant, but one of them gets much more than she bargained for when a sexy former rock star walks through the doors—and into her heart. Seduction is quickly becoming the...