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After making a bad decision when she was very young, Kia Clementine finds herself in hell. Then, suddenly, within the time it takes for a shotgun to blast, her hell changes. Completely. Then, out of the blue, she sees Sampson Cooper, her celebrity crush. A man the whole world knows is decent. A man the world knows is loyal. A man the world knows is good. All of these very unlike her now dead husband. He's sitting at a table right next to hers.

Big deal, so he kept losing the oar. It wasn't Adexios' fault the Styx monsters were working against him, but tell that to his dad. Charon is determined to make a man out of him - whether his mother likes it or not - and Lucifer has offered to help. Help means sending Adexios in to the wilds of Hell with an Amazon warrior as his companion.

Good thing this Hellcat has nine lives because he's going to need them if he's going to survive Lucifer's latest scheme and land on his four furry feet. Okay, so Felipe ate a few of the Styx sea creatures. In his defense, they were awfully tasty. Depleting the monster reservoir didn't mean Lucifer had to go all lord of hell on him and order him to go on a stupid mission. And to Siren Isle, of all places! Everyone knows males should stay far, far away from that dangerous place.

Wenn zwischen Geheimnissen, wilden Elchen und einem One-Night-Stand das ruhige Leben gehörig auf den Kopf gestellt wird. Ein Kleinstadt-Wohlfühlroman mit Humor und Herzklopfen vor der zauberhaften Kulisse Schwedens. Ebba liebt ihr ruhiges Leben in Lillaström. Sie verwaltet die Bücherei, führt das Bürgeramt und mag die Ordnung ihrer Akten. Zusätzlich hilft sie ihrer Familie, die das gemütliche Restaurant Little Italy betreibt.

Zoe is used to taking care of herself and has long ago accepted that if anything bad was going to happen, it was going to happen to her. So when she loses her job over something most bosses would probably be happy with and her life starts going down hill from there she doesn't expect it to get any better. She certainly didn't expect any help from the loud jerk next door, but then again she has nothing to lose so puts her trust in him and hopes for the best.

Sometimes life doesn’t go the way that we expected. That’s what happened to Devin Bradford when he received the news that turned his life upside down seven years ago. Determined to be there for his children, Devin has put his life on hold, putting his children first even if that meant telling himself that he couldn’t have the only woman he’d ever wanted.

Baylor "Wizard" Chadwick didn't think he'd fall hard and fast for a woman like a few of his club brothers had recently done. Not until the Hounds of Hellfire tech expert saw Thea Drummond's photo during a background check.

Single mom Eden Harwood has a lively daughter, a blooming business—and a juicy secret she’s hung on to for ten years. She doesn’t mind a bit that there’s no room for romance in her whirlwind life . . . until six-foot-infinity, smoldery-eyed, bass-voiced Gabe Caldera reminds her of what...

Connor "King" Kingsley had his hands full running the Hounds of Hellfire MC. Love was the last thing on his mind when Stella Ford came to the compound, needing his help. But it only took one encounter with the feisty beauty for King to know he'd finally met the woman made to stand by his side. Stella's unique upbringing made her slow to trust. Except with King... and not just because her dad sent her to him. There was just something about the club president that had her walls crumbling, even under the worst of circumstances.

Hell hath no hunger like a man let out of a cage . . . Shy and awkward, First Daughter Grace Reeves has always done what she’s told. Tired of taking orders, she escapes her security detail for a rare moment of peace. Except her worst nightmare comes to life when a ruthless gang of criminals...

Sometimes, a girl’s first enemy isn’t the world, it’s her own mother. The verbal jabs, the mental manipulation, the physical torment—each blow chips away at a young girl’s sense of worth, until there's nothing left but silence and survival. That was Aria’s reality. A life of emotional warfare that left her feeling invisible, unloved, and broken. But everything shifted when she tasted the sweetness of Gucci’s love.

What do you get if you cross a dozen drunk hens with one shiny Butler in the Buff? Meet Lilah Fox. She's on the hen do from hell. Then she gets a message (44 of them, actually) from her best friend with big news: she's getting married in six months. Oh, and Lilah's her maid of honour. Which means she just got signed up for a military schedule of wedding fairs and weekly planning meetings, Excel spreadsheets and endless hen emails, and all the enforced, expensive fun you can imagine....

I have my fresh start in a new town, this time a widow with a preteen daughter who rolls her eyes enough to make them stay that way. Too bad my past mistake is also here to greet me. Daxon Hellman. Town a----e. Hot young contractor hired to build my house in the woods. It's only when I'm face-to-face with him for the first time that I realize he's the mystery man from two years ago. It's a long story of too many drinks, grief that made me resort to acting out, and an encounter in the dirty bathroom of a bar. Try as I might, I can't forget that night.

Dina lebt in einer Wohnung in Eckernförde, direkt am Meer, zusammen mit ihrer Oma, ihrer Kamera und einem vagen Gefühl von Stillstand. Aus heiterem Himmel bittet sie eine ehemalige Schulkameradin, nicht nur Fotos zu machen, sondern gleich eine komplette Hochzeit zu organisieren. Zu allem Überfluss beginnt auch noch ihr mürrischer Nachbar Arne, ihr rätselhafte Botschaften in den Briefkasten zu legen.

People like to say the devil made them do it. And they would be right. I can bend anyone to my will. After all, I am the devil of Pembroke Prep. Only one person dares defy me. The one person I've ever wanted to be an angel for. But she despises me almost as much as I crave her. Serafina van Doren is the one temptation I can't indulge, not with the secrets that I keep. But with the clock running out, maybe it's time to tempt her to the dark side.

Was tust du, wenn du zur Beerdigung deines besten Freundes heimkehrst und dir ausgerechnet deine Jugendliebe als trauernde Witwe gegenübersteht? Der erfolgreiche Geschäftsmann Cole Sullivan hat sich ein Leben in New York aufgebaut. Als er zurückkehren muss in sein kleines, verschlafenes Nest in Arizona, will er Antworten von Macey – der Frau, die ihn einst eiskalt abserviert hat. Schnell wird klar, dass das Schicksal Macey übel mitgespielt hat und in ihrer Vergangenheit Geheimnisse verborgen liegen, die auch Coles Leben für immer verändern könnten.

It was time to move on. Granted, Cayley would have preferred to wait until after Christmas, but with her best friend somehow managing to get her fired and evicted in the same day, she had no choice but to move into the apartment across from the man who really didn’t seem happy to see her. That was fine. More than fine because if she could handle her best friend making her life a living hell and an ex-fiancé who was determined to get her back, then she could handle the man who was willing to do whatever it took to let the past destroy them both.

I'm unemployed and down to my last dollar—thank you, stranger, who bought my coffee when my card was declined this morning. If that wasn't bad enough, I just T-boned the truck belonging to the guy I was meeting on a first date. Ethan Hellman, small-town sweetheart with a secret, and an instant—unbelievable—love for me despite the condition of his truck. It's not that I don't believe in love per se. It's just that I've done the calculations—it won't happen to me. And especially not now when I'm bouncing off rock bottom with the bruises to prove it.

Callan Hellman. Mr. Nice Guy paramedic. My best friend. He buys my friends flowers when he knows they've had a hard day. Who does that? Callan's the guy every girl wants to date and take home to mama. Not me though. We're just friends. Have been since elementary school. I was the weird girl who kept him laughing with my antics, even when his father abandoned his family and Callan hid those scars behind his smile. But due to my sudden medical diagnosis at twenty-four, Callan insists I move in with him.

I was kind of a genius normally. I'd managed to graduate early and was about to open my own veterinary clinic in my home town of Hell. I clearly had my life together. Until Blaze came back to town, moving slower than a sloth on crutches, more wounded emotionally than physically. We ended up bonding over stray dogs, exes from hell, and oddly enough, shared grief. But helping him get his life back together could cost me my heart . . . and destroy his friendship with my brother.