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1 Million für die Liebe. Das perfekte Paar gewinnt. Oder doch der perfekte Fake? Kristie Kavanaugh hat hart für ihren Traum gearbeitet und einen erfolgreichen Cateringservice aufgebaut. Doch nun bedrohen die horrenden Arztrechnungen ihrer todkranken Mutter ihre Existenz. In ihrer Verzweiflung meldet sie sich zu einer TV-Dating-Show an, bei der das Siegerpaar 1 Million Dollar gewinnt. Anstelle eines netten Kerls trifft sie dort allerdings nur Asher Tomlinson. Einen versnobten Serienstar, der ihr bereits auf einer Party negativ aufgefallen ist und nun ihr perfekter Match sein soll.

Dr. Charlie Knight fears life is passing him by. He's in his late thirties, and treading water as a family doctor in the same small town he grew up in. Just as he's planning his escape, something changes. He develops a gift, an extraordinary insight for any doctor: a sense of exactly how many days his patients have left to live. But in a country town like Marwick, his patients are his friends. His own family. The people he grew up with, and the girl he still loves. And Charlie discovers this gift may not be a gift at all.

Two brothers brave a whirlwind summer in this taut and luminous coming-of-age novel A twelve-year-old boy lives with his family in a small, poverty-stricken town in Vermont. His father works at a manufacturing plant, his mother is a homemaker, and his fifteen-year-old brother is about to enter...

Er ist der Typ Mann, der mich fasziniert. Es gibt nur einen Haken - er ist mein neuer BOSS. Um ihrer finanziellen Notlage endgültig zu entkommen, tritt die lebensfrohe Ava Parker einen neuen Job als Assistentin bei einem New Yorker Investmentunternehmen an. An ihrem ersten Arbeitstag begegnet sie ihm - unfassbar sexy, aber mit eiskaltem Blick. Noch ahnt sie nicht, dass es sich bei dem unverschämt attraktiven Fremden um den milliardenschweren CEO der börsennotierten Holding handelt und sie sich von nun an täglich über den Weg laufen.

Laura Hamley has everything: a loving and successful husband, two children and an expensive home. But then she receives a phone call from the mother of a girl Laura bullied at school. As Laura is drawn into the past, she is forced to face the consequences of her cruelty. But, as her secrets are revealed, so too is an even more devastating truth....

Thirteen-year-old Abby Hubble lives in an unhappy home in the Sierra Nevada foothills where her father makes life miserable for her and her mother, Mary. One day Abby witnesses a man dump a litter of puppies into the nearby river. Diving in to rescue all seven, she knows she won’t be able to bring them home. Afraid for their fate at the pound, she takes them to an abandoned cabin, where all she can offer is a promise that she’ll be back the next day.