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Innkeeper Eden has got it all. Well, mostly. She’s cornered the hospitality market in Blue Moon offering visitors a place to stay in her hippie-dippie hometown. Business is booming, she’s close—but not too close—to family, and she’s got her dogs and her friends to keep her company.

Two people, two lives, one unfulfilled promise . . . She, smiles wide, and her happiness brightens up the world around her. Elusive, charismatic and incredibly rich, He runs away from his past and the grief it brings with it. She is capable of breaking down all his barriers, imploring his heart...

Years in my country’s most elite military unit left me scarred and damaged. Now I’m more beast than man, and I keep myself locked away—even though I'm the crown prince. That is, until Isabelle Marchand walks into my palace, demanding her father’s freedom. She’s fiery, bold, unafraid…...exactly the kind of woman whose submission I crave. I’m going to take her. Keep her. Demand her sweet surrender while I dominate her in every way I know how. And I’m going to make her scream my name with pleasure.

Lucy Silchester keeps receiving this strange appointment card and sweeping its gold embossed envelope under the rug. Literally. She busies herself with a job she doesn't like, helping out friends, fixing her car, feeding her cat, and devoting her time to her family’s dramas. But Lucy is about...

Brought to you by Penguin. A quirky, joyful queer love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus Rika Horauchi’s new part-time job is to converse with a statue of Venus – in Latin – every Monday, when the museum is closed. Initially reluctant, Rika starts...

Grant Campbell was a loner - rude and impossible! Yet as soon as he opened the lighthouse door to Genevieve Grandeau on that stormy night, she was lost. Underneath his gruff, handsome exterior, he was intelligent, sensitive...and slightly scarred. To Gennie, loving meant sharing, trusting. But Grant was hiding in the shadow of the past, afraid to move beyond it. She'd have to convince him that their love was a beacon for the future - but how?

Brought to you by Penguin. Over a hot summer in New York a painter falls for a priest, in this captivating modern love story from the Booker-Prize shortlisted Brandon Taylor Wyeth is a newcomer to New York, a young Black painter who is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art...

J'étais le dernier de mon groupe d'amis à ne pas avoir encore trouvé « la bonne ». Les autres me taquinaient tout le temps, à me dire de me dépêcher et de me poser. Mais je n'étais pas pressé. Jusqu'à ma rencontre avec celle qui m'a donné envie de passer à la vitesse supérieure. Alex est bénévole le week-end à Ryan's Hope, l'association que j'ai créée pour construire des logements près des hôpitaux. J'étais loin de me douter que c'est avec elle que je me suis pris la tête par e-mail avant le début du projet. À ce moment-là, je pensais qu'Alex était un homme.

I admit it was me who shouted, “Looking good, hot stuff!” at Mr. Richmond this morning, but I didn’t mean it like that. Yes, Mrs. HR Lady, I know how it looks. Believe me, I am totally anti-catcalling, but that’s not what that was. Honest. I was paying him a compliment! That’s kind of what I do: I’m a proud, small-town Floridian, and Manhattan is craving some Florida sunshine—nothing like a sincere compliment to turn those New York frowns upside down!

Devorah Campbell’s life falls apart under the pressure of one truth: her husband is having an affair with her best friend. So Devorah packs up her daughter and their shared heartbreak for small-town Oyster Bay, where she grew up. Her relationship with her father is still on the rocks, but Devorah has her brother there—and, unexpectedly, her brother’s best friend.

Falling in love wasn't the plan. But how could I resist his promises of hope? Of forgiveness? Of a future I had stopped dreaming of? We were shattered. We were scarred. We were something strange and beautiful. We were two lost souls holding on to the only thing that could keep us together. Each other.

“[Ahern] gives us full permission to believe in magic.” —Redbook Magazine One of the world’s most popular writers of women’s fiction—author of the beloved international bestseller, P.S. I Love You, basis for the popular film starring Hilary Swank—Cecelia Ahern now gives us Thanks...

Karen “Mack” Mackenzie is just beginning to live again after her nightmarish relationship with Mason Hughes, one that left her far from home and carving a path forward while looking over her shoulder. Now residing in the Boston suburb of Quincy, her Southern sass sets her apart, instantly drawing the attention of local hometown hero, Terrell Kitsch.

From number-one New York Times best-selling author Nora Roberts comes a classic tale about the promises we dare to keep…to those we dare to love! He has supposedly come to her father's estate looking for respite. But Kirby Fairchild can't shake the feeling that handsome Adam Haines isn't quite the man he pretends to be. She couldn't be sure. But what she does know without a doubt is that as the days and nights wear on, the attraction she feels for this man is only growing stronger.…

While following her father’s ghost, Gia meets musician Cal Webb. Cal is gorgeous, sweet, and has his life (and piano) planted firmly in Boston. The two fall recklessly into a relationship knowing there is an expiration date. As the unlikely couple draws closer, Gia starts to wonder if she’s chasing one dream only to abandon the possibility of love.

When feisty twin Anna-Jane Wyatt moves back to her hometown to take up her position in the new family business, she doesn’t quite know what to expect. But AJ, as she’s lovingly known, is an artist and has never been afraid to face a brand-new blank canvas. What she doesn’t expect to find in her little mountain town of Serenity Falls, Colorado, is a heavenly cappuccino served at a great new coffee spot…or her adorable former classmate, Cody Woods, running the place.

Alex a une vie des plus monocordes. Elle a un petit ami. Elle a un travail. Et elle n'a que vingt ans. Si sa vie était un tableau, il serait tout en noir et gris. Fade. Morose. Triste. Mais un jour... Elle rencontre Aurore. Aurore et toutes ses couleurs.

Vi Keeland et Penelope Ward, autrices de best-sellers au classement du New York Times, reviennent avec une romance contemporaine dans ce nouveau standalone. Tout a commencé lorsque j’ai organisé une petite soirée avec l’ensemble de mes nouvelles amies. Enfin, " amies " n’est peut-être pas le terme approprié, puisque les invitées étaient toutes les femmes avec lesquelles mon petit copain discutait derrière mon dos. Quand l’invité d’honneur est arrivé – celui qui est désormais mon ex –, la situation a tourné au vinaigre.

Musik, Tanz, Schauspiel: In Susanna Schobers "College of Arts" Trilogie träumen die Hauptfiguren vom Erfolg auf den Bühnen dieser Welt. Um sich seinen Traum am College of Arts, der Kunsthochschule für Schauspiel, Gesang und Tanzkünste in Chicago angenommen zu werden, zu erfüllen und gleichzeitig seine vier jüngeren Geschwister zu ernähren, beklaut Ash Evans regelmäßig reiche Passanten. Nie wird er dabei erwischt, bis er schließlich ausgerechnet die Halskette Alexa Jones' stiehlt.

Bei diesem Buch handelt es sich um eine Sammlung von 14 Kurzgeschichten basierend auf den Büchern Drei Arten Schuld und Drei Arten Liebe. Es sind Geschichten rund um die Familie Sommerfeld, die hinter den Kulissen der Hauptstorys spielen.