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When Aurora Bennett witnesses a murder by a ruthless Los Angeles crime boss, she ends up stuck in her apartment like she’s the one who committed the crime. Then a sexy new neighbor moves in, and he’s just the sort of bossy, broad-shouldered male that makes her crazy—in more ways than one. Devon Whitestone can’t tell his neighbor Aurora the truth—that he’s actually a personal bodyguard hired by her brother, the owner of Bennett Security. Rule number one: don’t touch.

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award-winning authors of such best sellers as Footfall and The Legacy of Heorot, return us to the Mote, and to the universe of Kevin Renner and Horace Bury, of Rod Blaine and Sally Fowler. There, 25 years have passed since humanity quarantined the mysterious aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system. They have spent a quarter century analyzing and agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens mankind has ever encountered - a race divided into distinct biological forms, each serving a different function: Master, Mediator, Engineer, Warrior.

Born into a driven and successful family, Winnie Knox tries—and fails—to impress her parents and siblings as she bounces from career to career, year to year. In a last-ditch effort, Winnie takes on consulting work at a stately home in England, hoping to gain a nice bit of prestige as she improves the massive British estate.

Aus Sorge um ihre Sicherheit engagiert er Milosh Petrov: diszipliniert, entschlossen und absolut unbestechlich. Für Milosh ist der Auftrag reine Routine. Doch schnell wird klar: Daphne ist alles andere als eine gewöhnliche Klientin. Er würde alles tun, um sie vor Gefahren zu beschützen und lässt sich dabei sogar eines Tages darauf ein, sich als ihr Freund auszugeben.

When hot-as-hell Danielle Lang showed up and asked me to teach her about sex, I thought I was hallucinating. Turns out the beautiful psychologist needed an extra bit of schooling in all things sexual so she could teach a class. I'm always up for helping a friend. I mean, it's the least I can do. What I wasn't expecting is for her to turn the tables and teach me a few things. Only this short-term promise of two weeks in her bed is going by a little too quickly. Not that I'm thinking forever or anything.

Two strangers save a life on a plane and then share one tender Singapore night en route from London to Sydney. Dr Ailee Green knows a relationship is not an option before she gives the gift that will save her brother's life. But surgeon Fergus McVicker has other plans, plans that don’t include Ailee walking out of his and his daughter's world, and he offers her something she's always wanted.

My Angel is the one who got away—the only person in the world I love. When she is caught in an unsanctioned bank robbery in my territory, only my reputation protects her. She should have stayed away. Instead, she charges back into my life like a shining beacon in my otherwise bleak existence. She has no place in my world where hardened criminals toy with the lives of the innocent.

Cenk Yavuz Aydin, um CEO turco, poderoso e arrogante, é implacável em suas conquistas, sejam elas nos negócios ou na vida amorosa. Ao se deparar com sua nova funcionária, a inglesa Ophelia Corbyn, teve certeza de que a seduziria. O que era para ser um relacionamento temporário, como tantos outros que já teve, no entanto, acaba se transformando em um caso a longo prazo e por um ano, eles saciam o desejo recíproco nos braços um do outro. E então, sem qualquer aviso, Ophelia vai embora de sua vida. Quando o magnata descobre a razão dela ter partido, ele jura vingança.

My husband sold me. Not only did he sell me, but he told me he loved me while doing the deal. What lies he tells. Only fools believe him. Unfortunately, one of those fools was me.

Can a Mail Order bride find love with two husbands? It doesn’t take long for Julie Baptiste to realize she yearns for more than the non-stop engagements and niceties dictated by New York high society. So, she decides to do something bold and answers an advertisement for a mail-order bride in Gold Sky, Montana. Ex-Union soldiers Forrest Wickes and William Barnes have been inseparable since the War. They share everything, including the desire to find a wife. A woman who is willing to marry them both and provide the isolated town with a much needed teacher.

For more than a decade, while the First War of Scottish Independence rages, fierce warrior Conall MacGregor has dreamed of the revenge he will have against the man who robbed him of his family and home. To this end, he abducts the daughter of his enemy, hoping to force a marriage and reclaim what is rightfully his. He has no idea that the stubborn lass will turn his world upside-down, and that he will be the one held captive.

Romantisch, mitreißend und absolut einzigartig. Die 19-jährige Arwa ist gerade erst für ihr Studium nach Wien gezogen. Doch statt Freundschaften zu knüpfen, isoliert sie sich in ihrer Kunst und meidet den Kontakt zu anderen, wo sie nur kann. Das ändert sich, als sie auf Tariq trifft, der vom ersten Augenblick an nie gekannte Gefühle in ihr weckt. Doch Tariq, dem es zunehmend schwerer fällt, die Traditionen seiner Familie mit dem Wunsch nach Freiheit zu vereinbaren, kämpft gegen seine eigenen Dämonen.