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A weekend trip, a sexy billionaire, and my fragile heart. Chance Easton shields me when my dress rips off during an elevator ride. It’s heated in the garden between us later. I think it’s over until... He offers me a PA job and tells his brother I’m his girlfriend. I don’t refuse either. Three weeks couldn’t hurt. Then I discover he’s mega-rich and his family runs the entire Island. I’m growing attached to my fake boyfriend who is also my boss. He is dark, handsome, and ripped. But I’m in worse trouble than I could have imagined. Someone’s stalking me and they carry a gun.

Movies often depict grand romances with epic gestures. Like the story of Raj and Simran from DDLJ, or Jack and Rose from Titanic. Many of us yearn to experience such a love. But is it the only kind that exists? There’s the excitement of first love, and the depth of long-term relationships. There’s a quiet simplicity in going from friends to lovers and the uncertainty of second chances. Love in its varied manifestations, transforms our life.

A sexy agent hounds Wall Street's hottest new wolf in an exhilarating novel from New York Times best-selling author Lauren Layne. Ian Bradley is the definition of a Wall Street hotshot: seven-figure salary, designer suits, and a corner office. His drive off the floor is just as potent. Every woman who knows him has felt the rush. But now he's met his match in Lara McKenzie - a woman with the power to bring Ian to his knees. An ambitious, whip-smart daughter of FBI agents, Lara is a rising star in fighting white-collar crime.

An alpha among the wolves of Wall Street, Kennedy Dawson rose to the top of the pack by striking the right contracts at the right times. But there's one deal that's been giving him a run for his money - a pact to never again let his assistant, Kate, get under his skin. She may be smart, gorgeous, and sharp as a whip, but she's definitely off-limits.

Seit er Emily das erste Mal gesehen hat, ist ihm klar, dass sie etwas ganz Besonderes ist. Doch aufgeben ist für den Bad Boy aus Boston keine Option – er wird um ihr Herz kämpfen. Die Partyprinzessin Emily gibt alles, um ihr altes Leben hinter sich zu lassen und eine fröhliche Fassade aufrechtzuerhalten. Es kommt gar nicht infrage, Sandro an sich heranzulassen, und sie stößt ihn immer wieder weg. Wer wird siegen? Kopf oder Herz? Vergangenheit oder Zukunft?

Frederike Willert kann weder den Herbst noch den Winter leiden, und passend zum Beginn dieser Jahreszeit endet ein Date von ihr mal wieder in einer Katastrophe. Ihre Freundinnen sind der Meinung, Frederike würde schlichtweg immer mit den falschen Männern ausgehen. Daraufhin lässt sie sich auf eine Wette ein, bei der ihre Freundinnen einen Mann für sie aussuchen, mit dem sie auf 21 Dates gehen muss. Die Wahl fällt auf ihren Nachbarn Mats, einen Handwerker mit verdreckten Arbeitsstiefeln, der in seiner Wohnung ständig rumlärmt und mit seinem Lieferwagen den Gehweg versperrt.

Kale Mueez just wants to work on his computer programs and, okay, some not-so-legal hacking. Even though he sold one of his computer software companies for more money than he’d ever need, he wasn’t one to sit back and do nothing. That is especially true since his father is a super soldier known around the world. After spending time in the army, Kale returns home to his small town of Keeneston, working to hunt down The Panther, the one elusive criminal that’s ever escaped Kale. Until a wrong number changed everything.

Donny Steel lives a charmed life. He’s a successful attorney, in love with the woman of his dreams, and a member of the Steel family. But while Snow Creek’s golden family seems perfect on the outside, how many skeletons lurk in the Steel closet? Each day, Donny finds more and more evidence of foul play while dredging up his own past—something better left forgotten.

Eine Liebesgeschichte des 21. Jahrhunderts ist die Chronik zweier junger Menschen kurz vor der Selbstverwirklichung...

Millionærdatteren, den smukke Elita Garson, vil vise sin tyranniske far, at hun kan klare sig uden hans penge. Hun stikker af og bliver under et andet navn ansat som selskabsdame for en ældre kunstsamler og tager med ham til København. Her hvirvles Elita ind i en række dramatiske og spændende begivenheder omkring tyveriet af et uerstatteligt kunstværk fra Glyptoteket. Og pludselig bliver hun bange for, at den mand hun elsker, er en samvittighedsløs forbryder, ja måske morder.

Once upon a time, Luke Lane loved a little, stubborn, delusional girl, and that little girl was me. My fairy tale happy ever after always included my black-haired, blue-eyed, knight in shining armor, and that knight was Luke Lane. Then I grew up and convinced myself that it wasn't a fairy tale after all. It was Fate. I twisted Fate to make her story come to life, but Fate fought back, and now I am looking at a man I still love, but he doesn't feel the same. I have to walk away.

I've never done the "relationship" stuff in my fifty-plus years, nor have I wanted to. I keep it simple—sex, bikes, booze, and brotherhood. Throw in a pocketful of suckers and consider me satisfied. Now she's here with a secret that rocks the very foundation of my life and an a-s that just won't quit. People will die... The balance must be restored... and I don't know if I can give her more.

When Lucas Brooks was traded to the Nashville Assassins over a decade ago, he was a brash, brawling hothead without an anchor. Well, four kids and a smokin' hot wife will weigh you down real fast, but Lucas wouldn't change a minute of his happily ever after. During an epic, end-of-season quest for the Cup, changes appear on the horizon, and suddenly, there's a plot twist in Lucas's fairy tale.

An heiress to a fortune, Ren’s home-from-home is the Ritz, while the handsome and brooding Sacha has grown up in Paris’ less salubrious suburbs. So when an accident brings them together, romance seems an unlikely outcome. When Ren’s society engagement reaches a very public end, Irena’s over-protective grandmother wants her home in London. Ren needs an excuse to stay in Paris, and so after some persuasion, Sacha agrees to pose as her new boyfriend. But only for the twenty-one days, Ren's grandmother has allowed her to nurse her broken heart before heading home to face the music.

Teri Stokes arrives in Crow Hill, Texas, to help her parents pack up in advance of an approaching wildfire, only to find the one person she never wanted to see again, Navy SEAL Shane Gregor, in charge of the firefighting volunteers.

Recently traded to the Grizzlies, I’m struggling to find my place on the team. I’ve changed coasts, moved away from my best friend, from the Breakers who became family, and. . . I’m alone. And it’s my birthday. A fact that everyone around me seems to have forgotten. Until a knock at the door proves differently. I was in love with Luna when I was a teenager, and now she's on my doorstep, vivacious and beautiful and. . . holding a piece of paper I barely remember. One that says we’ll get married. . . And I think I’m just insane enough to say yes.

Nora Jansson will do anything to save her parents’ beloved bakery from bankruptcy, even if it means allowing a TV reality crew into her kitchen and her life. Not to mention celebrity pastry chef Henrik Eklund, its impossibly rude host who’s happy to point out Nora’s baking missteps—on cue. It’s bringing out her feisty side. Nora’s sourdough starter isn’t exactly Henrik’s biggest worry. His popularity is slipping, and his production team has an idea for making this a blockbuster season: fake flirt.

NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to the town of Henry Adams with a story of family, friendship, love, and second chances. In Henry Adams, Kansas, you can’t start over without stirring things up . . . Many a good woman has had to leave a no-good man, but...

“Returning to Henry Adams, Kansas, is akin to attending a family reunion. The characters are rich, and the kids all have a story to be told.” —Romantic Times “This series is a winner.” —Minneapolis Examiner Bestselling author Beverly Jenkins takes readers back to Henry Adams—a...

An enchanting new Christmas novel from USA TODAY bestselling author Sheila Roberts, brimming with hope, love and humor. Catherine Pine is hoping her Christmas is a bit more jolly than last year’s. That one was her first without her husband, and with her kids and their families absent this year...