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"Huset i Buckley Street" er endnu en medrivende roman fra Marcia Willetts kompetente hånd. I Max’ hus i Salcombe, en lille by ved den engelske sydkyst, krydses spor fra fortiden og baner vej for nye muligheder. Cara er blevet enke og bor midlertidigt hos sin bror, Max. Hun lærer nye mennesker at kende og reflekterer over sit liv. Cosmo er ligeledes i Salcombe på fransk visit og har mødt Amy, en pige fra byen. Men er han ærlig om sin fortid, og det han har efterladt sig i London?

As the devoted carer for famous antique expert Harold Kershaw, Karrie Morgan was always happy to keep a professional distance from his four spoilt grown-up children, who rarely made time for their father. But then a surprise involving Harold's will means Karrie is flung headlong into a press scandal and into the chaotic world of the surviving Kershaws. With the support of her trusted childhood friend Andrew, mild-mannered Karrie must face down ruthless ice queen Portia, master manipulator Gabriel, Botox fanatic Arabella and Rafe, star of reality TV show Raised in Richmond.

When Katerina Murphy agrees to take part in Celebrity SOS, a reality TV show where celebrities have to fend for themselves in the Alaskan wilderness, she’s up for the challenge. But then she locks eyes with fellow contestant Finn Drayson and realises that the show is going to push her further from her comfort zone than she ever imagined. After all, Finn wasn’t just Katerina’s co-star in the school play where she discovered her acting confidence, he was also her first love - and the first boy to break her heart.

Former Olympic skating champion Katie Saunders is well known for her ‘ice queen’ persona in the press. Perhaps Katie should have forgiven her former skating partner and ex-boyfriend, Alex Michaelson, for the accident that shattered both her ankle and their Olympic dreams - but she just can’t seem to let it go. Desperate for cash, Katie, reluctantly agrees to take part in a new TV skating show, but not only is she partnered up with an infamous love-rat rugby player, but one of the judges is none other than Alex Michaelson himself.

Ex-dancer Emily Williams turned her back on popular dancing show Strictly Dancing with Celebs to help those in need. Now the only dancing she does is teaching lonely pensioners to waltz. She's certainly not star-struck when Hollywood heart-throb Blake Harris is sent to her at short notice for community service and has no desire to babysit the arrogant actor with his bad-boy antics. But Emily's reasons for abandoning her dancing passion means she understands the Hollywood wild child more than she'd like to admit.

Christopher Buckley, the bestselling author of the comic classics The White House Mess and Thank You for Smoking, returns to the funniest place in America: Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Tyler MacMann, the First Lady of the United States, has been charged with killing her philandering husband, the...

Als Lóa sich nach einem ausgelassenen Pub-Abend auf einen One-Night-Stand einlässt, ahnt sie nicht, dass sie Alex nicht so schnell wieder loswird. Der Frauenschwarm hat in der Nacht seinen Pass verloren. Gestrandet auf den Färöern bleibt ihm nichts anderes übrig, als in Lóas Tiny House eine Lösung zu finden. Doch sein Plan, ein paar heiße Nächte mit ihr zu verbringen, um dann zu verschwinden, schlägt fehl, als er bemerkt, dass sie eine große Gemeinsamkeit haben: eine Lüge, auf der sie ihr ganzes Leben aufgebaut haben.

Sie ist Kellnerin, er ist Chefkoch. Früher waren sie befreundet, aber jetzt sind sie verliebt und leben zusammen in einem kleinen Appartement. Als er sie bittet, ihn zu heiraten, gerät Hero in Panik. Denn eines will sie auf keinen Fall sein: die Frau von.