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Andre Monroe is ready to move on from heartbreak, and the first step is bringing home his rescue pup. He’d bonded instantly with the playful Zeus and was already planning their first adventures. But one thing he definitely hadn’t daydreamed about was Zeus accidentally being promised to someone else - or that he might go home empty-handed and brokenhearted all over again.

After going through a messy public breakup, I've sworn off dating. That pact changes when my new bodyguard walks through the front door. Hudson is nothing like the men in the industry. He's callous, cold, and doesn't want to spend a second longer with me than he has to. All that changes when I start to defrost his iciness and find the real man hidden inside.

Following an accident, Sergeant Erin Kennedy gets the promotion of her life, becoming bodyguard to Princess Alexandra, the future Queen of the United Kingdom. Rule Number One in the Bodyguard handbook is: Never fall in love with the client. Princess Alexandra is due to marry a Prince. So, when Erin starts to secretly develop feelings for the charismatic Princess, she knows it can only ever end in tears. Erin finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into a tangled web of duty, responsibilities, and secrets with the Princess. How much pressure can both women take before they begin to break?

Talia Shaw has spent her adult life working as a scientist for a big pharmaceutical company. She’s focused on saving lives, not living life. When her lab is broken into and it's clear someone is after the top secret formula she’s working on, she turns to the one man she can trust. The same irresistible man she turned away years earlier because she was too young and naive to believe a sexy guy like Shane Landon could want her. Shane Landon’s bodyguard work for McKay-Taggart is the one thing that brings him satisfaction in his life.

A moment of weakness ruins everything that Liberty Sullivan holds dear. The worst part of it? She has no one to blame but herself. With her marriage in tatters, she returns to her hometown in rural Scotland with her daughter.

A year ago, Honor Reid was kidnapped and held hostage for seventeen days. Freed in a ransom drop gone wrong, her ordeal has lasting consequences. Despite round-the-clock security, she lives in fear of her abductor returning to finish the job. Royal Marine veteran Aiden "Mack" McKenzie is struggling with his own demons. He isn't interested in a babysitting job on the other side of the Atlantic, especially for a damaged billionaire heiress who point-blank refuses to leave her house. When the man Mack owes his life to pleads with him to take the job, Mack reluctantly agrees.

Not only does Griffin Gentry show up unexpectedly at Riley Thorn’s door—the real shock is that he’s begging her for help. Riley’s hot private investigator boyfriend Nick Santiago refusing to take the job is…well, less of a surprise. Too bad for Nick that his octogenarian business partner overrules him and takes the lead on Griffin’s case. But when a dead body makes it clear someone really is out to get Riley’s ex, the mile-long suspect list means all hands on deck at Santiago Investigations. Even the wrinkly, retired ones.

New York Times bestselling author of the Briar U series Elle Kennedy’s first hockey romance, Body Check, is now released in an expanded version, with both new and enhanced scenes by the author! More story, more hockey—and more heat! After a childhood spent being dragged around the country by...

Joanna Lucas is single again, but a trip to Venice to consult on a mosaic restoration will help mend her broken heart. Most of her two weeks will be free to explore the city with her friend Deena, but if she'd known who suggested her for the trip, she might have stayed home. An award-winning painter, Chandler Cardin also gives private art lessons. She's the last person Joanna expects to run into so far from Boston. Equally unexpected is the attraction that resurfaces, reminding Joanna of old times. Not all of the memories are good.

From his position behind the pulpit, Reverend Peter Taylor has a unique view of his affluent congregants. By and large, they appear respectable and morally upstanding, but they have their share of troubles - and perhaps even more than their share of sins. Liza Howard is a notorious Jezebel who seduces young and old alike, and who now has her sights set on Judy Bennett’s son, despite his engagement. Meanwhile, Judy hides her own family secrets behind her relentless judgment of others.

"Marcado por el saxo de Charlie Parker transcurre la historia del profesor Justo Flores, que llega a dar una conferencia sobre 'El deseo y sus limitaciones rituales', y la de Rosa Travis, que trata de dar con la verdad. Con una. Con cualquiera. Body time es un remolino vertiginoso que gira a...

Fabiola Santos never expected to be back on Cutthroat Island, the reality competition show she lost six years earlier. But when the opportunity to redeem herself and win half a million dollars comes along, she can't pass it up. It's a decision she regrets the moment she sees Cameron—the woman who stole her prize and broke her heart once already. All Cameron Herrera wants to do is rewrite history. Walking away from Fabiola was her biggest mistake in a long line of wrong choices. Now that she has a second chance to play with her, Cameron is determined to win Fab back.

After a cruel breakup, my New Year's resolution is to put myself first for once. Somehow, my fitness influencer sister thinks that includes getting me into the gym. I walk right into a space filled with weights and exercise equipment. And them. Rhys—the muscle-bound personal trainer with a heart of gold. Garrett—the nurse who fills his scrubs all too well. And Rhett—the hot firefighter with a secret.

Un lien mystérieux. Une attraction indéfinissable. Depuis deux ans, la vie de Norah est rythmée par son traumatisme. La multitude de remparts infranchissables qu'elle a dressés pour se préserver l'empêchent de respirer et d'entrevoir une existence sociale normale. Depuis de trop nombreuses années, Vélian s'est renfermé sur lui-même, refusant tout contact, ne semblant pouvoir s'exprimer qu'à travers son art. Pourtant, lorsque le regard ténébreux de cet ange noir et sexy se pose sur elle, c'est le chaos.

Pretty Little Liars meets Gossip Girl in diesem fesselnden Auftakt einer New-Adult-Dilogie über Liebe, Intrigen und die Suche nach Gerechtigkeit, die tief in die Abgründe der prestigeträchtigen Inside University blickt. Mit Vincent Fallow, dem begehrten Sprecher der Fourth Wing-Reihe! An der Inside University ist Rache süß, Verrat tödlich und Geheimnisse sind die Währung der Macht. Für Noa wird mit der Aufnahme an der elitären Inside University ein Traum wahr – bis sie im glamourösen Chateau nahe Paris ausgerechnet auf Julie, ihre Erzfeindin aus Schultagen, trifft.

Not much has stirred Detective Jake Lowell’s interest since a perp put a bullet in his shoulder, killed his partner, then walked on a technicality. Until a sexy waitress at a tiny neighborhood café catches his eye. Physical therapy is the last thing on Jake’s want-to-do list, but he needs it to get back on the street and track down the killer. But what’s a guy to do when he meets his new PT—and it’s his smoking-hot café angel?

I have two goals this season: 1. Be named captain of the Seattle Serpents. 2. Stay single. I'm right on track . . . until she happens. Auden Sinclair.

What do you get when you cross Carter Waters with a brain cell? Nothing. Because if that asshat had a single brain cell in that gorgeous head of his, he never would have broken my heart the way he did. Only one drunken night, he left me with little more than just regret. I'm going to be the mother of his child, and I'm determined to see this through. Carter told me, point blank, that he doesn't want children. So here I am, staring down the barrel of a shotgun, trying to figure out how the hell I'm going to do this on my own. Get back together with Carter Waters, you say? Over my dead body!

Sie bringen das Eis zum Schmelzen. Hayden Houston hat für eine Nacht genug davon, das nette Mädchen von nebenan zu sein. Sie beschließt daher, in einer Bar ein One-Night-Stand zu suchen. Es dauert nicht lange und sie trifft auf Brody Croft, einen Eishockeyspieler. Hayden, die in ihrer Kindheit von ihrem Eishockeytrainer-Vater von Eisbahn zu Eisbahn geschleift wurde hat genug von dem Sport und den Spielern. Sie sehnt sich nach Stabilität. Und sie ist entschlossen, diese zu bekommen – nach diesem einen One-Night-Stand, den sie so schnell wie möglich hinter sich lassen möchte.

Nashville Sound enforcer Thor Eastrom has been married, divorced, engaged, and dumped. But the hardest thing he’s ever done is bury his twin babies. The last thing he wants or needs in his life right now is a relationship. All he wants is one more year in the NHL, so he can go out as a member of the 20-year club. Tradd Davenport’s dream is to succeed in the hardscrabble world of country music. She has the talent and the drive - and she’s ready to work hard for something that her father’s money can’t buy her.