Showing results for "Becoming" in Romance

My goals for college were pretty simple: Get an education. Meet some new friends. Enjoy the mountains of Colorado. If I was lucky, find a boyfriend. Pretty sure they did not include being stalked by a magical black market. Or having multiple boyfriends. I mean, come on. What are the odds?

Every girl has dreams of meeting Prince Charming, or at least I know I did. A fairy-tale-like meeting of love at first sight. Real life and fairy tales are very different. I'm just a small-town Indiana girl who had a chance encounter with one of Hollywood's golden boys. You may think you know where this story goes - not even close. Life is different. Marriage is hard. It's even worse when you're strangers.

I cannot stand Bennet Montgomery. His rugged hotness knows no bounds, and his unwavering cheery disposition is maddening. How can someone be that happy all the time? His smile infuriates me. I need to keep my distance from this man and all his Midwest charm. I have my camboy career to focus on, and I can't afford to get attached or bogged down with his nonsense. When Bennet receives devastating news about his mother, his grief consumes him. I don't know what to make of this new sad side of Bennet.

CORA: I'm in my senior year of college and done it all: interned at my dream job, stumbled home drunk, even gone sky diving. Can you guess the one thing I've never done and everyone around me is doing? Kind of hard to when you've been raised by men - with a hard-working single father, an overprotective older brother who would drop dead if he knew I'm musing on the three-letter-word. NICHOLAS: This girl is going to be the reason I go to jail. Especially if she keeps acting out the way she has been . . . coming home drunk, jumping off planes, talking about sex?

It's been two months since Sadie O'Dell and her friends discovered the existence of the Wall and took over the Eden Facility, and two months since she and Kimberly Gellar followed Ethan Bennett south to track down and evacuate survivors, and Sadie has finally begun to find some measure of happiness and family after the loss of her brother. But her little family's routine is shattered after they rescue a lone survivor outside of the Demopolis community in Alabama. A fellow survivor and acquaintance from Sadie's past, Dez Ikeda, reveals a potentially devastating discovery he’s made.

New town, new school. Same story. I'm Laura, I've spent most of my life crisscrossing the county yielding to the whims of my transient mother. We've never stayed in one place long enough to call it home, and I don't have any hope of that changing. I follow the rules; no drawing attention to myself, no friends, and especially, no boys.

Mia will eine zweite Chance bei ihrer ehemaligen Jugendliebe und heutigem Boss. Dazu greift sie auf ein unorthodoxes Mittel zurück, das beide ins Chaos stürzt. Er reagiert nicht wie erwünscht ... Elaine tritt in die Fußstapfen ihres Vaters in der Kanzleiführung und trifft dort auf einen erbitterten Rivalen. Der Machtkampf eskaliert und führt zu unerwarteten Konsequenzen. Er weiß genau, was er will ... Catherine verbirgt ihr wahres Ich vor ihrer biederen Familie.

Family is a feeling There’s nothing like an important birthday to make a person realize all the things they haven’t accomplished. As Tabitha Steele blows out thirty candles, she makes a wish to take charge of her life. It’s a tall order, considering she doesn’t have much to show for...

From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we unearth - and those that are too dangerous to tell. The once impoverished medical student Agnes Glock is now the fabulously wealthy Mrs Mulberry. Her estate in the mountains is magnificent, a haven for...

Escaping her troubled past and moving into a seaside cottage on a windswept island off Cape Cod with her Abuela, all Delilah wants now is a place of her own - and she’s paid a high price for it... But her wild, colourful garden and scandalous affair with married man Alan have her neighbours talking. And when she crosses paths with the reclusive Anton - who has a secret of his own - sparks fly. Will the past catch up with them? A delicate yet haunting novel about love, trauma, and identity, Becoming Delilah is perfect for fans of Priscilla Oliveras and Brit Bennett.

There is a place in modern-day America with no electricity, no plumbing, and no modern conveniences. In this place there is no room for dreams, no space for self-expression, and no tolerance for ambition. In this place there is a boy with the body of a god and the heart of a warrior. He is strong and faithful and serves his family honorably. But he dares to dream of more.

Sophia Briar is a lone wolf. On her own since age 14 when her parents died, Sophia isn’t used to being around other shifters. In fact, the one time she did run into a pack, she met her mate - and he rebuffed her. Sophia’s fended for herself all these years, and now, in Michigan, she’s desperate to create a new life for herself. The only problem? It seems her mate has found her, and this time, he isn’t letting her go.

Zook only wants to devote herself to God, but struggles with patience toward others. Her sister's challenge that she can't serve God if she isn't willing to serve His people finally opens her eyes and she soon finds herself helping a family overwhelmed by triplets. Much to her surprise, she has a knack with the babies, and her confidence in dealing with others, both young and old, grows. One person she'll never be able to find peace with, though, is Ben Rupp.

Twin sisters Waverly and Charlie Talbot have drifted far apart as they pursue opposite dreams of stardom and service to the poor. Now they must come together to face their fears, find their courage, and fight for what they love. Celebrity chef Waverly Talbot has built a successful career with...

Twenty-three-year-old Denver James: worry-wart, protector, beautiful, loyal, headstrong. When she was a teenager, her entire life was planned out, including marrying her high school sweetheart, Hazel Ford, after he completed his six-year prison bid. However, years later, life has other plans for her, especially the addition of becoming a mama to her younger siblings. With her heart on lock, Denver doesn't entertain other men—until a handsome but rude customer catches her eye

I'm a monster. That's what Brandon thinks when he flees the medical institute that changed him. Living a normal life isn't in the cards for him because, while he can hide his scaly skin, his wings are hard to miss. So he runs and lives in the shadows where monsters belong. What he didn't expect to find were others just like him, and they call themselves dragons. Or so Aimi with the violet eyes tells him when she pins him to the ground. Seriously, though, dragons? He doesn't want to believe, but the evidence is mounting.

Amelia Beckett is delighted to be a widow. Married by proxy to a man she'd never met, Amelia recognizes that a fortuitous entry into widowhood frees her from meddlesome chaperones and matchmakers. Heiress to her mother's sugar plantation in Jamaica, she happily anticipates working in a man's world, with the additional credibility of her new title: Lady Lockwood. But with the arrival of Captain Sir William Drake, her plans quickly go awry...William has traversed the Atlantic with one purpose.

Sacrifice your soul? Check. Die to protect those you love? Check. Come back as something the world hasn't seen since the dawn of mankind? Check. Make those who hurt me wish the Gods had never created them? I'm still working on this one.... Are you ready to play? I'm coming back. I'm more, darker, deadlier, and I'm pissed.

Wie konntest du mir das antun? Wie konntest du dich nur in mich verlieben? Glaubst du an das Schicksal? Ich auch nicht, bis ich Ethan Carnahan kennenlerne. Trotz seiner unzähligen Frauengeschichten hilft mir dieser gut aussehende Kerl, mich in meinem neuen Leben zurechtzufinden, und ist DER perfekte beste Freund. Ein Kuss scheint alles zu verändern und endlich wage ich es, ihm zu gestehen, dass ich mich in ihn verliebt habe. Dann knallt er mir die Wahrheit vor die Brust, so hart und fest, dass ich glaube, ich muss sterben.

Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O’Connor’s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce’s wife, muse, and the model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses is a “lively and loving paean to the indomitable Nora Barnacle” (Edna O’Brien). Dublin, 1904. Nora Joseph Barnacle is a twenty-year-old from...