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After finding out that my boyfriend cheated on me, I packed my bags and moved to Sunshine Falls. My uncle's ready to retire, and he has always dreamed of me taking over his partnership at the animal clinic in town. My surprise came when he introduced me to my new partner—and it's the cute guy I was talking to at the coffee shop. It's okay, though. I'm not looking for a relationship. My priorities are my career and starting over. Ivan and I clash at every turn, and our transition is anything but smooth. Throw in the exotic animals that keep showing up, and I think we're doomed.

Ian is...just my best friend. We're extremely close, stuck so deep inside a Jim-and-Pam-style friendzone everyone at work assumes we're a couple - that is until one day, word spreads through the teacher's lounge that he's single. Fair game. Suddenly, it's open season on Ian. He should be reveling in all the newfound attention, but to our mutual surprise, the only attention he seems to want is mine. He's turning our formerly innocent nightly chats into X-rated phone calls. Our playful banter sports a new, dangerous edge.

When I agreed to be his roommate, I had no way of knowing that Cole Anderson was one of my father’s star players. Having transferred to Aldridge University for my junior year, I wasn’t familiar with anyone on campus. If there’s one rule I’ve always been supposed to follow, it’s don’t date a basketball player. Cole is different, though, and I don’t want to stay away. But when he finds out I’m the coach’s daughter, I might not have any say in the matter.

When I try to quit my job working for three demanding CEOs, Ford Kingsley—my cheating ex’s hotter older brother—offers me a deal instead. He needs a fake fiancée to convince a potential investor that he’s settled down, and I need money to pay off my crushing debt. Two weeks of pretending to be madly in love at his family’s estate, and we’ll both get what we want. But being stuck in a mansion with Ford and his unfairly sexy business partners, Gabriel and Hayden, is more complicated than I bargained for.

Rora Stanley hates Christmas. But when her best friend needs a Santa photographer for her family's toy store, Rora is forced to return to her Christmas-obsessed hometown for the holidays. Henry Whitten loves Christmas. And a few weeks in Wintermore, Wyoming, playing Santa is exactly what he needs as he stands at a career crossroads. Henry isn't prepared for the Christmas-hating photographer to consume his thoughts the second he lays eyes on her. And Rora isn't expecting to be so turned on by her best friend's uncle in his Santa suit…

Maybe it was the Shenanigans gift certificate that put her over the edge. When children's librarian and self-professed nice girl Jane Jameson is fired by her beastly boss and handed $25 in potato skins instead of a severance check, she goes on a bender that's sure to become Half Moon Hollow legend. On her way home, she's mistaken for a deer, shot, and left for dead.

Once a devoted children's librarian, Jane Jameson now works at a rundown occult bookstore. Once a regular gal, she's now a vampire. And instead of a bride, she's an eternal bridesmaid -- which leads her to question where exactly her relationship with her irresistibly sexy sire, Gabriel, is headed. Mercurial, enigmatic, apparently commitment-phobic vampires are nothing if not hard to read.

Nach meinem Wechsel zur Aldridge University kannte ich hier niemanden - und die Regeln waren klar: Keine Dates mit Basketballspielern. Als ich zustimmte, Cole Anderson als Mitbewohner zu haben, ahnte ich nicht, dass er einer der Starspieler meines Vaters war. Doch Cole ist anders. Er hat diese magnetische Ausstrahlung, die mich unwiderstehlich fasziniert, und je mehr Zeit wir miteinander verbringen, desto weniger kann ich mich seinem Charme entziehen. Doch wenn Cole herausfindet, dass ich die Tochter des Trainers bin, droht alles zu zerbrechen ...

Millie Parker just moved to a new town with her teen sister in tow. The only romance on her agenda is what she's writing in her secret novel, but sometimes romance can't be avoided. Especially when your new neighbor is the insanely handsome and all around nice guy, Jameson Lane. He's everything a woman could want in a man, but Millie doesn't want a man. Not now; not ever. Too bad her heart didn't get the memo.

Ian und ich sind schon lange beste Freunde. Wir verstehen uns so gut, dass die meisten denken, wir wären ein Paar. Doch als die anderen Lehrerinnen erfahren, dass er Single ist, kann Ian sich kaum vor all den Flirts und Avancen retten. Kein Wunder, bei seinem Aussehen. Aber seltsamerweise flirtet er plötzlich mit mir.Nächtliche Telefonanrufe, zweideutige Sprüche und gefährliche Momente im Klassenzimmer machen deutlich: Er will mich! Aber kann ich seinen Gefühlen trauen? Oder laufe ich Gefahr auch noch meinen besten Freund zu verlieren?

When a pyrotechnic engineer discovers her biological father is an international criminal, she must work with a sexy CIA agent to take him down in this thrilling adventure rom-com. Andee Paxton knows she’s good at her job as a fireworks designer. What she doesn’t know is that her biological...

One week with one little girl—an angel, according to my staffing agency. Acting as the short-term nanny for a single dad should have been an easy way to make some extra cash. Until I show up for my first day and face off with a demon disguised as a seven-year-old girl wearing a red tutu and matching glitter slippers. Oh, and her father? My temporary boss? Maddox Holiday. The same Maddox Holiday I crushed on in high school. The same Maddox Holiday who didn’t even know I existed.

Lizzie Donavue went from being the sister of his best friend to the girl Nick Templeton most wants to kiss. On her birthday, he finally summons up the courage to make his move. But it looks like Nick’s missed his chance when he discovers that Lizzie has been offered a modelling contract, which will take her away to the glamorous fashion scenes of New York and Los Angeles.

When Payal Mehra's detached parents insist she marry fellow Londoner and serial dater Ayaan Malhotra in order to save their own company, she has a choice: get disowned from the luxurious life they've funded and put her dreams on hold while she works a soul-sucking day job...or get engaged to save her family's fortune and maybe rescue her own vision of a dream come true.

As the oldest of three brothers, Shane Tyler takes his responsibility to the family ranch seriously - and it's clear to him that the younger man who wants to marry his widowed mother is only looking for a meal ticket. He's determined to stop the nuptials whatever it takes, but the shy wedding planner his mom hired is harder to intimidate than he expected. When Cora Preston worked up the nerve to leave her abusive ex and move with her young son to Gracely, it was a huge step. Accepting the position as wedding planner at brand-new Mile High Weddings took even more courage.

Newly single school counselor Josie Butler just made herself a Sexy To-Do list (featuring Bad Boys only). To her mortification, her best friend's gorgeous older brother Mack finds it...and laughs. But when Josie goes looking for some sexy fun, Mack's nice guy side turns all hot bad-assery, and suddenly she's pinned against an alley wall. Hottest. Sex. Ever.

Just as Jane Jameson’s unlife seems to be stabilizing, fate sinks its fangs firmly into her butt. Despite her near-phobia of wedding planning, her no-frills nighttime nuptials to her sexy boyfriend, Gabriel, are coming along smoothly. That is, until she turns a fatally wounded teenage acquaintance, and the Council pronounces her responsible for the newborn vamp until he can control his thirst.

Nothing sucks the romance out of world travel like a boyfriend who may or may not have broken up with you in a hotel room in Brussels. Jane Jameson's sexy sire Gabriel has always been unpredictable, but the seductive, anonymous notes that await him at each stop of their international vacation, coupled with his evasive behavior over the past few months, finally push Jane onto the next flight home to Half Moon Hollow -- alone, upset, and unsure whether Gabriel just ended their relationship without actually telling her.

Veterinarian Sal Kennedy's lost her mojo and is desperate to get it back. In fact, as the anniversary of the tragedy that destroyed her life looms large, she'll do anything to erase the painful memories, including overdoing the tequila and making a pass at the most annoyingly inappropriate man on the planet.

New York Times bestseller Eric Jerome Dickey revisits the scene of his holiday romp Naughty or Nice, featuring the McBroom sisters, whose romantic adventures make for a white (hot) Christmas. Readers first met the McBroom sisters in Eric Jerome Dickey’s New York Times bestseller Naughty or...