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In The Rose, award-winning poet Ariana Reines navigates the intersection of power and surrender. Drawing on the history of "romance" as the troubadours knew it and the titular flower's ancient allegories for sexuality and mystery, Reines plunges into feminine archetypes to explore masculine pain: "I have always liked helpless / & terrible men because they break my mind."

At 40, Lan Davis is looking for his damned picket fence and two point five kids. What he doesn't expect is instead of a wife in the picture, his mind keeps conjuring up images of two men. One, his partner in the force, who is as straight as they came, the other an ex, who he'd hurt but never forgot. After an incident leaves Lan injured, the two men rally around him...only maybe they shouldn't have. It seems a medicated Lan is a truthful one.

I cannot stand Bennet Montgomery. His rugged hotness knows no bounds, and his unwavering cheery disposition is maddening. How can someone be that happy all the time? His smile infuriates me. I need to keep my distance from this man and all his Midwest charm. I have my camboy career to focus on, and I can't afford to get attached or bogged down with his nonsense. When Bennet receives devastating news about his mother, his grief consumes him. I don't know what to make of this new sad side of Bennet.

Alice McAllister is a successful solicitor who likes a quiet, disciplined life. But when her business partner, Miranda, forces her to take a vacation at her holiday home in Portugal, the presence of Miranda's daughter, Joy, turns Alice's world upside down. Despite their age difference, Alice and Joy embark on a fiery holiday romance...until they have to return home to London. Will Alice be able to forget about Joy and what she has awakened in her? And how can she face Joy's mother without guilt after such a passionate summer fling?

When 27-year-old free-spirit Taylor Lopez flies back to Miami to attend her high school reunion, she doesn't expect to run into Mrs. Alonso—her former history teacher—at the airport. The fact that Taylor's crush on the intense woman comes roaring back to life is not a surprise, but she wasn't expecting the attraction to go both ways. Raquel Alonso's life is too full for romance. Back in Miami to receive an award from the students she taught a decade earlier, the 46-year-old intends on using the rare weekend away to relax. Her plan is disrupted by her undeniable chemistry with Taylor.

A coming-of-age novel about two women falling in love during the culturally and politically turbulent 1980s. It's 1984 in The Valleys, South Wales, and Eluned Hughes is stuck. The miners' strikes are ravaging her family and community, and her boyfriend of six years, Lloyd, is starting to bring...

In the year leading up to the First World War, four people’s lives intertwine, only to be pulled apart. A landmark of gay and pacifist literature, Rose Allatini’s story foregrounding conscientious objectors and queer love amidst wartime turmoil was banned months after its publication. At a...

Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. When a family rift drives the girls apart, Razia’s heart is broken. She finds solace in Taslima, a new girl in her close-knit Pakistani-American community. They embark on a series of small rebellions: listening to scandalous music, wearing miniskirts, and cutting school to explore the city.

Soms is je droomman niet wie je denkt dat hij is."Jij bent het. Ik wil jou. Ik wil je al sinds ik je de eerste keer zag."Sem volgt me al maanden. Overal waar ik ben is hij ook en voel ik zijn ogen op me. Hij is absoluut mijn type niet. Te groot, te wild, en bovendien: hetero. Zijn aandacht irriteert me. Hij blijft me uitdagen, en ik kan geen nee zeggen tegen zijn stomme spelletjes. Ik kan hem niet laten winnen. Maar wat begon als een weddenschap groeit uit tot veel meer dan dat. Kan ik mijn hart op het spel zetten, of zijn er dit keer geen verliezers

Nur einmal will ich unvergessen bleiben. Drei Wochen auf einem Kreuzfahrtschiff. Stattdessen bekam ich Matthew. Er war der Erste, der mich wirklich sah. Matthew ist die beste Erinnerung, die ich habe. Drei Wochen raus aus meinem Leben als CEO. Stattdessen bekam ich Reed. Er trieb mich an meine Grenzen, bis wir in Gefahr gerieten und ich lernen musste, was es bedeutet, jemanden bedingungslos beschützen zu wollen.

Du bist der Rhythmus meines Herzens. Der Teil in mir, der mich zu dem macht, der ich sein will. Oakley Mein Bodyguard rastet aus und wird entlassen? Check. Ich werde von meinem Manager gezwungen, einen neuen einzustellen? Doppel-check. Dieser ist ein übellauniger und distanzierter Arsch? Jackpot. Will ich ihn trotzdem? Hell, yeah! Blake Einen Pinguin entführen und mir selbst die Zukunft ruinieren? Check. Daraufhin meinen Job beim FBI verlieren und Personenschützer werden? Doppel-check. Bodyguard für den vorbelasteten Frontsänger der Colliding Angels werden? Verdammt.

The UNS Women's Lacrosse team doesn't have an official policy against inter-teammate relationships, but those words might as well be carved into stone tablets in the middle of the field. After witnessing way too much drama in the past, Captain Becca Moore is intent on keeping her players' love lives out of the locker room. Becca has no time or tolerance for any distractions from the game. Unfortunately, that's exactly what Hope Hastings has been since the day she showed up for tryouts: charismatically dorky and kissable distraction.

As the eldest of the Rivers sisters, she's too focused on keeping her family's campground running in the wake of a devastating tragedy to even think about romance. When Kim Jefferies shows up at the local small town bar looking like a lesbian snack on a stick, Emily writes her off as yet another tourist just passing through-no matter how much the butterflies in her stomach try to tell her otherwise.

Vielleicht zogen Wolken an mir vorbei, während ich nicht hinsah, weil ich es nicht ertrug, wie die Welt sich weiterdrehte. Nathan wollte in Seattle seinen Frieden finden und traf stattdessen auf Miles. Miles Callahan, sein neuer Nachbar, der zu oft lächelte und zu viel sprach. Der es schaffte, Nathans Herz aus seiner Starre zu befreien und ihm zeigte, dass es Sekunden im Leben gab, in denen die Zeit nicht stillstand. Zusammen erschufen sie Glasbauwelten, in denen Nathan seine Angst für ein paar Augenblicke vergessen konnte.

Als Kinder waren sie die besten Freunde, bis ein schrecklicher Unfall alles veränderte und Emery ohne ein Wort aus Bar Harbor verschwand. Nun ist er zurück in der Kleinstadt, doch Jasper erkennt seinen ehemals besten Freund kaum wieder. Doch trotz seiner abweisenden Art kann Jasper seine Gefühle für Emery nicht abstellen. Wären da nicht die Alpträume, die Emery so unglaublich wütend machen, ihn jede Nacht um den Schlaf bringen und ihn bis in den Tag hinein verfolgen.

Hör auf die Bridge, sie ist die Verbindung, die alles zusammenhält. Seit einem traumatischen Erlebnis fehlt Kit Bellamy, dem Sänger der Last Acts, jegliche Inspiration. Bis er eines Tages den Straßenmusiker Brooks Turner trifft. Seine Leidenschaft für die Musik und der Schmerz in seiner Stimme berühren Kit zutiefst. Nur wenn er Brooks zuhört, schafft er es auch, selbst wieder zu komponieren. Kurzentschlossen bietet er Brooks viel Geld, damit er ihn auf die anstehende Welttournee begleitet.

"Mit dir habe ich Lyrics geschrieben. Das eine Set, das alles ist." Zwei Männer die sich hassen, die dunkle Macht der Musik und der gnadenlose Absturz eines Rockstars. River Lost wurde von seiner Band verstoßen und kämpft sich nun als Solokünstler durchs Leben. Zwischen der bunten Glitzerwelt und den Schattenseiten von Las Vegas verbirgt sich nicht nur eine schmerzhafte Vergangenheit, sondern auch jede Menge Skandale. River verliert sich immer mehr selbst und als sein Label ihm nun Canyon als Escort aufzwingt, droht seine Welt endgültig zu zerbrechen.

Margerit Sovitre did not expect to inherit Baron Saveze's fortunes—even less his bodyguard, a ruthlessly efficient swordswoman known only as Barbara. Wealth suddenly makes Margerit a highly eligible heiress and buys her the enmity of the new Baron. He had expected to inherit all, and now eyes her fortune with open envy. Barbara proudly served as the old Baron's duelist, but she had expected his death to make her a free woman. Bitterness turns to determination when she finds herself the only force that stands between Margerit and the new Baron's greed.

Meg Doyle did not intend to return home from college with a suitcase and nowhere else to go. Ideally, she would have rolled up to her tiny home town in a limousine and jumped out wearing a designer tuxedo. She would have shaken a few hands, signed a few autographs, and maybe kissed a few girls before riding off into the sunset of her glorious post-grad future in set design. Instead, she's stuck spending the summer in her childhood bedroom, trawling the internet for job listings after a last minute internship cancellation in Europe.

Some couples are a match made in heaven. Moira and Kenzie are convinced the only place they're a match is in hell. Raised as the shining prodigies of warring highland dance schools, the two grew up with blaring bagpipes as the backing track for a feud that took them all the way to the world championships. Moira could never keep Kenzie's icy glares from getting under her skin, and Kenzie could never hold back an eye-roll as she watched the crowds fawn over her rival's happy-go-lucky charm.