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In his three novellas, In Short Measures, Strong Conspirators, and Sally Forth, Michael Ruhlman delves deeply into the nuanced complexity of romantic and sexual love - and the inevitable evolution of the heart over the span of years and decades. Each novella asks questions about the nature of love in terms of loyalty and fidelity - what are one's obligations toward one's spouse, one's family, and one's heart?

Suffused with warmth and passion, the stories in Falling in Love Again showcase the myriad variations of romantic love - fleeting, intimate, joyous, heartbreaking. Featuring classic stories by Ruskin Bond, such as 'The Eyes Have It' and 'The Girl from Copenhagen', this stirring collection captures the range of feelings that are indubitably part of the infinite spectrum of love.

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.

A teenage Anita fights with her first wave of infatuation, a grown-up girl goes through crests and troughs of her various firsts, a married woman struggles with the meanderings of her mind at various stages of her married life, a love story told from a child observer's perspective, and a story of a man's yearning to feel his roots in another part of the globe. Mundane details of ordinary lives and the darker recesses of the minds of these marginalized characters are played with strokes of myriad colours to bring forth the strangeness, unpredictability and adventure that life holds.

భార్యాభర్తల మధ్య జరిగే సంభాషణే ఈ కథ. రాత్రిళ్లు కష్టపడి నాటకాలు రాసి , నిద్రలేక తెల్లవారుజామున నిద్రపోతుంటాడు భర్త. అతని తెల్లవారుజాము నిద్రకి భంగం కాకుండా నడుచుకునే భార్య . వారిద్దరి మధ్య జరిగే సంభాషణలు వినండి.

In this collection are updated stories from some of your favorite Valentines.

In this collection are updated stories from some of your favorite Valentines.

This anthology is the latest collection of time-travel romance sci-fi short stories from prominent, award-winning sci-fi authors including Nina Allan, Carrie Vaughn and Seanan McGuire. Follow time travellers of all genders as they go backward and forward in time, sometimes to save the one they love, other times as a sacrifice and others simply because it's their job.

Travelling from the UK to Nashville, Tennessee, for a week of honky-tonks, karaoke and cowboys, is definitely not Claire Buchan's idea of a good time. But she can't avoid her sister's hen party. Then she meets Rafe Castello, a handsome, roguish cowboy, who seems to have far more to him than meets the eye. Can Claire keep the holiday mantra of 'what happens in Nashville, stays in Nashville' or are some things are too difficult to leave behind?

The ancient jungles of the Yucatan hide a world of secrets ... the secrets of wealth, love, and fate. Now daredevil pilot Kurt Reid is about to tempt fate and fly into the heart of that jungle in search of his destiny—an adventure as daring and dangerous as any undertaken by Indiana Jones. He’s looking for gold, but not just any. He’s after one particular nugget—flying blind into a tropical haystack in search of a very valuable needle.

Drawn to a castle in the forests of Ireland, a beautiful young woman becomes the link to a stranger’s past – and the curse that has trapped him forever in the eternity of his own dreams…

Debbie Macomber’s heartwarming new series, set at the Rose Harbor Inn in picturesque Cedar Cove, displays the author’s signature talent for creating characters who feel like friends, and small towns that feel like home. In this original short story, Jo Marie Rose readies her inn for spring...

Alisha wouldn't have known what a beautiful story she will be part of at her school friend, Pooja's wedding in Phuket. Her heartbeat was accelerating, when Sameer said, "Wouldn't I get a goodbye kiss?" It has been only 24 hours that they have met. Alisha, dressed in her fairytale light golden lehenga, slowly and carefully placed herself on his lap, her feet dangling in the air on one side, sways her way to kiss this stranger who had officially stolen her heart. But does every story needs to go on and on? Some are just short and sweet.

Emma Milsom thought a job with director/playwright Teddy Winters would help her put her life back together. She hadn’t counted on the presence of British actor Sebastian Brand in the dilapidated old theater. Sebastian was the foremost actor in horror films, adept at playing monsters of every sort, and his behavior in real life wasn’t much of an improvement. Rumors of accidents and death followed him, and Emma should have had enough sense to keep her distance. But Sebastian was mesmerizing, and just as obsessed with her.

A short story about a woman who loves reading the cup without knowing anything about it, until one day she saw the face of a young man in it, so she met him, not knowing whether she was delirious or living the truth.

Fenella Wilkinson ist völlig aus dem Häuschen. Ausgerechnet ihr Lieblingsautor Fergus MacIntosh hat in ihrer Pension für zwei Monate ein Zimmer gebucht, um seinen neuesten Roman in Ruhe zu Ende schreiben zu können. Ihre Freude währt jedoch nur solange, bis er ihr gegenüber steht und sie feststellt, dass MacIntosh in Wirklichkeit Shaw Douglass ist. Der Mann, über den Fenella nie spricht: Lucys Vater!

Lola McInnis has hit rock bottom after catching her fiancé cheating with his personal trainer. In a desperate attempt to make a fresh start, she sinks the last of her savings into renovating two houses in an up-and-coming Atlanta neighborhood, but the project hits the skids when her contractor bails.

Amy Wilkinson kommt aus New York zurück auf die Isle of Skye. Sie hat es geschafft. Ihr eigenes Mode-Label hat einen guten Namen. Bereits mehrere Hollywood-Stars trugen auf der letzten Oscar-Verleihung ihre Kleider. Im Schlepptau hat sie einen der berühmtesten Football-Stars Amerikas. Die beiden werden heiraten, und seine Agentur befand, dass die Hochzeit wegen der größeren Publicity in Amys Heimat, in Balnodren, stattfinden soll.

Striking, raven-haired Cecile produces the finest lemons on the Riviera. Her ice creams and lemonades, sold at her stall at Cannes market, are as renowned as the Mediterranean city itself. But Cecile is a woman with a secret. When she was nineteen, Cecile travelled south to a lemon festival on the borders of Italy and France. But she was not anticipating the enigmatic Italian who offered her a future....

William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him. He was a member of several singing and dramatic groups when he met 17 year old Athol Estes, daughter of a wealthy Austin family. Despite her mother’s objection owing to Athol’s tuberculosis, they began courting and in July 1887, they eloped and soon married.