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From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession. Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is...

Some bonds break you. Others ignite. After four years with Ragon's pack, I'd fooled myself into believing I belonged. That my unbonded status was temporary, not terminal. That someday would come. Ragon promised that if he didn't find his scent match in five years, he'd bond me into his pack and...

Quand Selma accepte à contrecoeur une invitation pour une semaine d'Halloween dans le manoir de son ami Edward, elle espère simplement souffler un peu et avancer dans ses révisions du barreau. Mais dès son arrivée, tout dérape. Entre sa meilleure amie exubérante incapable d'abandonner son...

Five years. Five years I gave to the pack that promised to love me. Promised to bond me. But they failed me in every way that truly matters. They broke me quietly. Death by a thousand cuts, until I disappeared into the walls of my own home. Until there was almost nothing left of me. They...

Quando Mila Jones lascia Minneapolis alla volta di Butternut Lake, spera soltanto di ritrovare la serenità perduta e lasciarsi alle spalle un passato difficile. Non immagina che il destino la condurrà sulla strada di Reid Ford, segnato nel corpo e nello spirito da un grave incidente in seguito al quale ha allontanato da sé gli amici e gli affetti più cari.

New from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Summers at the Saint and Hello, Summer! This program is read by classically trained actor and Earphones and Audie Award–winning audiobook narrator Kathleen McInerney. "[Narrator Kathleen] McInerney has a finely tuned sense of how to...

This Psych 312 assignment just might send me off the deep end. Determining whether love at first sight really exists with Robbie Moravian as my project partner of all people? He’s the sappiest man alive, so upbeat I could scream, and clearly rooting for happy endings at every turn. How does he not learn from experience considering our own meet-cute last semester almost got us expelled? But we both need to pass this course to graduate. So we’re interviewing five random couples about their meet-cutes and relationships and spending all this time together. Which is certainly...educational.

Sixteen years is a long time. In a marriage, it’s a milestone. On the gridiron, it’s a miracle. Reed Johnson wants more time for everything, but time is funny that way. It can be cruel. With a body that can’t quite take the hits it used to and a heart tired of being torn in two different directions, Reed is faced with a reality he’s not quite ready for - life without the game. He became a man under Friday night game lights and in college stadium tunnels, and without the grit and the glory that’s earned 10 yards at a time, he’s afraid of what kind of man he’ll be.

Anna Snow grew up in an orphanage in Bath knowing nothing of her family. Now she discovers that the late Earl of Riverdale was her father and that she has inherited his fortune. Avery Archer, Duke of Netherby, keeps others at a distance. Yet something prompts him to aid Anna in her transition...

Viscount Rawleigh longs for a little diversion, and beautiful young widow Catherine Winters seems like easy prey. But Rex's target is a lady of virtue, and when she roundly rejects his proposal to become his mistress, Rex finds himself faced with a delectable challenge. Catherine knows she must...

Mary è una donna come tante altre: intelligente, piacente, simpatica e professionalmente stimata, che per una serie di circostanze incontrerà un vampiro... un manipolatore affettivo... un narciso! Attraverso la narrazione di questo legame, si noterà come la protagonista con profondo dolore scandaglierà la propria vita alla luce di questo amore tossico, per poi ritrovare se stessa nonostante i propri fantasmi.

The first contemporary novel by New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney, The Burning Point is a riveting story of the ties that bind two people together—and the incendiary forces that can tear them apart. Kate Corsi always dreamed of working for her family’s world famous explosive...

Per Caroline e sua figlia Daisy le estati a Butternut trascorrono tra il caffè Pearl's da gestire, le nuotate pomeridiane nelle acque del lago e la semplice quotidianità della loro piccola famiglia a due. Quest'anno però la bella stagione sembra voler riservare a madre e figlia diverse sorprese... Daisy è una ragazza studiosa e assennata, eppure il destino ha deciso di mettere sulla sua strada Will, il tipico ragazzo ribelle e sregolato da cui si è sempre tenuta alla larga ma che però, grazie alla sua vicinanza, saprà dare una svolta alla propria vita.

Dopo dieci anni, Allie Becket fa ritorno nella casa di famiglia, a Butternut, sulle rive del lago dove ha trascorso gli spensierati anni dell'adolescenza. Ha promesso a Wyatt, il suo bimbo di cinque anni, che lì saranno felici. Lo ha promesso anche a sé stessa, dopo la morte del marito in Afghanistan.

La casa sul lago custodisce tanti ricordi ed Allie spera di aver fatto la scelta giusta, per entrambi. All'inizio tutto sembra andare per il meglio.

Mary Stoltzfus is 30 years old, splashed with freckles, and unmarried. In her Amish world, that qualifies her to be called an old maid. She is living her quiet schoolteacher life in the Lancaster County Amish community when she gets a surprising invitation in the mail one day. Would she come to Montana to teach?

She’s running a charming Irish pub to find herself. He’s building a new life across the world to prove he’s worthy of her. But when thousands of miles test their hearts, will they hold on, or let go?Anna thought her life in London was perfectly predictable—until she realized her...

Reese Jackson is living her safest life. This polymath is tired of trying to fit in with a small town that never knows what to do with her. She goes from her classes to her room and back - no parties, no dates, and no drawing attention. Until one noisy night, when Reese gets kicked out of her dorm. Fitz Moreland is living his okayest life. He's on his own to pay for college, but he's scraping. Until he gets him kicked out. What happens when there's one single room left for rent in town and they both desperately need it? A money-seeking landlord arrives, making them complete, of course.

Balancing life in Esperance while looking after my four wild siblings? A challenge. Keeping things afloat with two part-time gigs? Harder than it sounds. Flipping burgers at the diner by day and enchanting kiddos as Elsa by night is a grind. Enter Wolfe Rivers, an older-than-me, hotter-than-Hades billionaire with an allure that's impossible to resist. But he's not just any rich guy—Wolfe's secret haven in Raleigh is all about raw passion and dark desires.

Mary and O'Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they'd come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss that had not healed. How likely was it that they could learn to...

E così feci quello che non avrei mai pensato di fare. Soli in mezzo a una distesa di lavanda, nei pressi del vecchio mulino, tolsi il berretto e sciolsi i capelli da quella morsa nella quale li costringevo. Col suo viso magro e aguzzo, mi guardò un attimo e mi sorrise con stupore misto a sorpresa.