Showing results for "In Secret" in Contemporary

Gracie Reed is doing just fine. Sure, she was fired by her overly “friendly” boss, and yes, she still hasn’t gotten her mother into the nursing home of their dreams, but she’s healthy, she’s (somewhat) happy, and she’s (mostly) holding it all together. But when a mysterious SUV pulls up beside her, revealing Chinese cinema's golden couple Wei Fangli and Sam Yao, Gracie’s world is turned on its head. The famous actress has a proposition: Due to their uncanny resemblance, Fangli wants Gracie to be her stand-in.

The last thing Beck Foster wants to do is attend a party for her estranged aunt in the Florida Keys. One month earlier, Beck’s seemingly ideal existence imploded when her husband of 34 years announced he was leaving her. Now, so she has to sell her house, get a job, and somehow put her broken heart and life back together. She can’t do all that if she runs off to visit a woman she barely remembers. Or can she? Accompanied by her grown daughter who also longs for an escape, Beck heads to Coconut Key, where she’d lived the earliest years of her life.

Tae-sung Choi. Vom ersten Moment an fühlt sich Olivia zu diesem attraktiven und geheimnisvollen jungen Mann hingezogen. Der neue Austauschschüler aus Seoul scheint so ganz anders zu sein, als die anderen Jungs, die sie bisher kennengelernt hat. Doch wie alle anderen aus ihrer Klasse steht Olivia kurz vor dem Abschluss und muss sich voll auf das konzentrieren, was vor ihr liegt. Auch Tae-sung kann sich Olivias einnehmender Ausstrahlung nicht entziehen.

Faith changed her name to escape a life she never chose. Now a second-grade teacher in small-town Idaho, she’s traded runways and deadlines for quiet mornings and snow-dusted streets. Life is finally her own—until Adam Peters walks into her classroom. But Adam’s heart is still guarded, and Faith’s secrets could shatter everything. In a town blanketed by snow, falling in love might be the one risk neither planned to take.

Nach ihrem Einbruch in Dracon Rock ist die Reitergilde hinter den Rebellen her. Eine Chance, sie zu besiegen, besteht nur, wenn es ihnen gelingt die restlichen Geheimnisse der Gilde zu ergründen. Doch als der wahre Grund, aus dem der Aufstand vor fünfzehn Jahren scheiterte, ans Licht kommt, droht die Rebellion zu zerbrechen. Lys und Azura müssen die Fähigkeiten ergründen, wegen derer die Gilde sie jagt. Rowan und Verior sich gegen alles stellen, was sie kennen. Ash und Dina müssen mit dem Erbe umgehen, das ihre Mutter das Leben gekostet hat.

Eines Tages veröffentlicht sie einen Artikel über den Star-Anwalt Robert Lewis und enthüllt, dass dieser sich von seiner Verlobten getrennt hätte, weil sie eine Affäre mit seinem Bruder haben soll. Daraufhin wird die Zeitschrift von Mr. Lewis verklagt! Dann läuft ihr ausgerechnet Robert Lewis über den Weg! Was hat er in Waydine Hill zu suchen? Und wieso unternimmt er eine romantische Kutschfahrt ohne seine Verlobte, mit der doch alles in bester Ordnung sein soll? Stacy beschleicht das Gefühl, dass Robert mit seiner Klage ihrer Karriere völlig zu Unrecht einen Dämpfer verpasst hat!

As June rolls around, Alissa Lewis has never been happier. She and Dane are working together to turn The Outlet into a premier newspaper and magazine, and her debut novel is in bookstores around the country. She's eager to take part in the upcoming summer festival that's been the talk of the town. But the closer the festival gets, the more she notices Dane is acting strangely, prompting her to wonder if their relationship isn't as solid as she thought it was. Is there trouble in paradise, or is there some other reason for Dane's odd behavior? What secret is he hiding?

Ein gefallener Rockstar. Eine aufstrebende Event-Managerin. Ein Deal, der für jede Menge Herzklopfen sorgt ... In der Rockstar-Romance Like Secrets in the Dark von Jennifer Wiley trifft Lennon auf den von Skandalen und Problemen gebeutelten Rockstar Blake. Eine mitreißende Slow-burn-Liebesgeschichte und der zweite, unabhängig lesbare, New-Adult-Liebesroman der New York Love Songs-Dilogie.

Growing up, the ice was my safe space. I excelled at playing hockey. However, these days, it's hockey players who provide sanctuary—one bed at a time. We have an arrangement. I offer them a night of pleasure, and in return, they grant me all the temporary, artificial love I can get my hands on—a chance to feel whole. Happily ever after doesn't exist where I come from, but I crave it just the same. It was a foolproof system. Until Barrett. One night with him was all it took to tear down walls and crack the facade I worked so hard to build.

As the winter snow falls on the small Irish village of Ballybray, Roisin O’Connor and her young son, Ben, are saying goodbye to their beloved neighbour Mabel Murphy. Mabel lived a bold and colourful life, but the arrival of her brooding nephew ‘blow-in’ Aidan Murphy just makes life more complicated for Roisin. However, in one final act of love, a message arrives from Mabel that changes everything. And as winter turns to spring and the cold snow melts, the secrets both Roisin and Aidan are hiding must be revealed at last....

I grew up in a family full of wealthy celebrities. My father, Luke Williams, is the celebrity of all celebrities. A superstar actor and producer, my father knows the downside of living in the spotlight. And because of that, he sheltered my siblings and me from everything Hollywood entailed. We didn’t attend premieres. We weren’t photographed. There were no friendships with other celebrities’ children. But now, at 25, I’m ready to start my life, working for my father’s production company in downtown Seattle—until Vaughn Barrymore walks through the door.

Time doesn't always heal wounds, and no one knows that better than Angel Conrad. When she left her hometown in Oklahoma, she never expected to see it again. There was nothing there for her anymore: The love of her life had left her for someone else - not to mention the baby she'd been keeping a secret. Now she's headed back to Oklahoma to prove that she deserves to be the last one laughing.

When newly minted attorney Carly Bertrand returns to Cypress Bayou, Louisiana, to be close to her family, her first priority is finding a job. She's shocked to get an offer from her childhood crush, Tanner Carmichael, whose town roots are as deep as hers. Carly accepts, confident she can help Tanner get his new law practice up and running, and keep her attraction to him under lock and key. She's no longer a starry-eyed teen admiring from afar.

Sicily, 1977. Ten-year-old Lily and family arrive for their annual summer holiday in Sicily. Adopted as a toddler, Lily's childhood has been idyllic. But a chance encounter with a local woman on the beach changes everything.... Ten years later... Ever since that fateful summer Lily's picture-perfect life, and that of her family, has been in turmoil. The secrets of the baking hot shores of Sicily are calling her back, and Lily knows that the answers she has been so desperately seeking can be found only if she returns to her beloved island once more....

From high school up until he became a successful attorney, Jacob Snowden was convinced that love had it out for him. "Everyone left" were the words he lived by. His mother, his high school sweetheart, his father, and his fiancé - they all left Jacob just when he felt it was safe to let down his guard. Not any longer. Jacob was a determined man, set at keeping people at a distance. If his six-foot-one, military-made body didn't scare people off, his permanent scowl surely did.

I like to think I’m a practical person. Car stop working? Thank God for mechanic boyfriends. Goldfish floating upside down? Well, I clearly shouldn’t have a fish. Irrefutably attracted to one of my new roommates? I’ve lost my mind, obviously.

There are moments in our lives that can change the course we’re on. I believe when faced with those moments, we should take the unknown path. The night I stumbled into a burlesque club in downtown Los Angeles, I took one of those paths and changed my life. I found a home I’d never had with my own parents. I found a confidence I’d never known as a prima ballerina. I found my passion. And it inadvertently led me back to the one moment I’d let slip away - to him. To a love so pure and whole and carnal, I thought it could withstand anything.

A must-listen holiday romance from the author of The Little Cornish House and Summer in the Scottish Highlands.

Thirty-year-old Holliday Harrison is throwing herself into the festive season to give her life some purpose after losing her fiancé three years ago. Working at Christmas Resort, an all-year-round holiday village, with its sparkling lights and community of quirky characters, is the warm environment she needs right now. But everything is about to change… When handsome, blue-eyed businessman Damon MacAndrew arrives to stay in one of the cute log cabins, at first Holly is intrigued. Why has this serious stranger come to such a jolly place? But then he makes his plan clear.

Kann es etwas Schlimmeres geben, als von dem heißesten Typen in New York vor die Tür gesetzt zu werden? Clara will als Malerin durchstarten und wenn dieser eiskalte Immobilienhai jetzt die Miete ihres Apartments anhebt, dann ist ihre Karriere vorbei, bevor sie überhaupt angefangen hat. Das kann Clara einfach nicht zulassen. Sie hat zu hart dafür gekämpft, ihren Traum zu verwirklichen. Nikolai muss eine Schwachstelle haben und Clara wird sie finden, koste es, was es wolle.