Showing results for "The Last Romantic" in Contemporary

From the moment I first picked up one of Jade Jackson's books, she's had me in a chokehold. But when we start talking and flirting online, I end up with a very real crush on her. And when we finally meet in person, the sparks between us could start a forest fire. When Jade reveals that she needs surgery that will impact her life as an author, and her insurance company refuses to pay, the solution is obvious—we should get married. While Jade thinks I'm doing it all for her, she doesn't realize she's giving me everything I've ever wanted. Someone to care for and somewhere that feels like home.

*Instant New York Times Bestseller* *Instant USA Today Bestseller* *Instant #1 Indie Bestseller* From Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes One Last Stop, a big-hearted romantic comedy that will stop you in your tracks. . . Moving to New York City is...

After 10 years in foster care, 18-year-old Ronan is finally reunited with family. His uncle gives him a roof over his head and puts him to work, managing a shabby apartment complex in Santa Cruz, California. But a second chance is still a second chance. Ronan becomes a solitary hunter, a vigilante, walking the streets at night to keep the nightmares at bay. If he can use the anger burning in his tainted blood to protect instead of hurt, maybe then he’ll find the absolution he seeks. Then he meets Shiloh.

There are two things Joey Greer is great at: Raising horses and holding grudges. Eight years ago, her high school sweetheart abandoned her, skipped out on his family, and fled to Hollywood, of all places. She vowed never to forgive or forget. Now big-shot screenwriter Jackson Pierce is back in Blue Moon demanding another chance. No matter how good it feels when he sneaks past her defenses to land a kiss or a compliment, she is determined to pretend he doesn’t exist. Except maybe when he’s naked in her bed.

“Marry me.” They were the last words I expected to say to my fake fiancé, but I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t back down from a challenge. Pretend I’m engaged to my gorgeous and talented business partner to secure a business deal? No problem. Agree to a no-touch rule even though she’s been driving me wild since I met her? Challenge accepted. Resist grinning like a damn fool every time that same big-hearted, sunshine-y woman laughs with my little daughter? Done.

CEO millionaire Max Fletcher is a single dad in desperate need of a nanny. Cozy Barlow is in the middle of her self-appointed “gap year” and doing everything she can to detach from her past. But when her sister begs her to interview for the nanny position of a high-maintenance client, she doesn’t have a good enough reason to say no. And when Max locks eyes on the 20-something in a tie-dye sweat suit who pitches the idea of daydreaming all summer—he prepares to give this bad nanny the boot.

Bronwyn Pierce has poured everything into The Haven, her family's exclusive mountain resort in Gossamer Falls. But when financial discrepancies surface and the numbers suggest something far darker than simple mismanagement, she's forced to call on the one person with the skills to help her: Mo Quinn, a former Army Intelligence officer, her first love, and the last person she ever wanted to trust again.

From the moment Kennedy Baker moved in next door to me in middle school, she's been my best friend. After a failed attempt at a kiss in eighth grade, nothing has ever happened between us. We've never come close to crossing that line. But since I moved back home—and away from Kennedy—two years ago, my feelings for her have only grown. When she shows up at my door two weeks ahead of schedule because she needs me, I decide to test the waters and see if fate is finally pulling us together after all these years.

Captivatingly read by Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner, and Oscar nominee, Jessie Buckley (Hamnet, Wicked Little Letters) and featuring a foreword read by Harry Whittaker. This audiobook also includes a song composed and performed for this edition. Falling in love could be the biggest risk...

Emmy lebt nach drei Regeln: keine Dates, nichts Privates während der Arbeit und Baseball über alles. Als einzige weibliche Datenanalystin eines Profi-Baseballteams steht sie ständig unter dem Druck, sich zu beweisen. Vor allem ihr attraktiver, aber äußerst arroganter Kollege Gabe macht ihr das Leben schwer. Als die Stelle der Teamleitung ausgeschrieben wird, schwört Emmy sich daher, dieses Mal nicht den Kürzeren zu ziehen.

Seit Samantha denken kann, ist Josh ihr Rettungsanker, wenn ihr Stiefvater mal wieder gewalttätig wird. Doch nach einem Vorfall auf einer Party, verschwindet Sam spurlos und wird für tot erklärt. Zehn Jahre später sitzt Josh bei einem wichtigen Geschäftsessen, als er in der Kellnerin seine totgeglaubte Jugendliebe wiedererkennt.

Ice dancer Piper Wyndell-Hamilton has only ever wanted one thing: a gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games. But when she and her partner are ripped off at a regular season competition, she can't hold back her emotions. She absolutely loses it, screaming that she hates figure skating and crying that the results were rigged.

Seit einem großen Streit ist Funkstille zwischen der eigensinnigen Jodie und Harry, dem Mann, der ihre Seele berührt hat wie kein anderer. Jodies YouTube-Kanal, auf dem sie über ungelöste Kriminalfälle berichtet, läuft unterdessen weiter und Jodie beginnt den rätselhaften Fall der jungen Samantha Feldman zu recherchieren. Vor Jahren ist sie spurlos verschwunden. War es Selbstmord? Nach einer leidenschaftlichen Versöhnung mit Harry kommt Bewegung in den Fall: Er kannte Samantha und war sogar mit ihr auf der gleichen Schule. Überdies war Samanthas einzige Freundin Chloe Harrys erste Liebe.

I've been through a lot with my brothers—from sinister politicians to stalkers and serial killers. The craziest of all has been watching them fall in love with their soulmates. Our lives are dangerous, so it's a miracle one of us found love, let alone four. As the only one still single, I've accepted a future of loneliness. Until one night, a drag show changes everything. With a voice like an angel, legs for days, and eyes that sweep me away from my own heavy thoughts, Kona intrigues me. Everything about him makes me want to know more. He's also in serious need of saving.

Harper Ross has always dreamed of working on one of the magnificent brownstones of Park Avenue. Now one of her closest friends has bought the house of her dreams and hired Harper to do the construction work. She wants to showcase the renovation on a television show for her brand-new production company. It’s the same grand home she and her friends promised themselves they would be able to afford one day.

Opposites attract when a real estate developer's quest for a promotion returns her to the coastal hometown she loathes—where she's reunited with her teenage crush turned town golden boy. ​ “Fresh, funny and crisply written, As a Last Resort is a rom-com for lovers of second chances and...

Cait is a bookshop owner and book nerd. Her social life revolves around her mobile bookselling service, which hand-picks titles for elderly clients, particularly the grandmotherly June. After a tough decade, Book Fiend is the last bookshop in the central business district and the last independent retailer on a street given over to high-end labels. Profits are small, but clients are loyal. When James breezes into Book Fiend, Cait realises life might hold more than her shop and her cat.

Avery Lawrence thought she had it all—a charming fiancé, a Broadway-themed star-studded engagement, and a picture-perfect life. But when her fraudster of a fiancé’s true identity is exposed and he’s hauled away in handcuffs, Avery’s world comes crashing down faster than the chandelier in Phantom of the Opera. Left stranded on Christmas Day outside the federal prison without her cell phone or wallet, Avery stumbles out of the cold and into the last phone booth in Manhattan.

There’s no redemption for a man with his past. No future for a relationship built on stalking and kidnapping. At least, that’s what he believes. When he meets Daphne again, she’s not a piece of art. She’s a woman determined to paint a new path. For herself. For him. Except the ocean holds more than shadows. It holds danger that could ruin them both.

With his ranch one bad day away from foreclosure, he can't afford to turn away a paying customer. But no way is this cowboy getting involved with a woman like Jordana Lawton - no matter how pretty she looks in a saddle. Yet everything can change in an instant. A terrifying run-in with an angry bull tilts Slade's world off its axis, leaving him wounded and unable to compete in a race that could change his future, for good.