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Grief. I’ve never battled with the raw, debilitating pain that comes with it. Then a twist of fate hits me out of nowhere, and I can barely keep from drowning. It’s like weights tied to my ankles in the middle of a raging ocean. I’m helpless, with no way to swim back to the surface. But fate is crueler still, bringing my stepbrother back for the first time in years.

Professor Kate Walker is a tenured, world-renowned engineer. She has a job she loves, a daughter she adores, and friends who've been with her through thick and thin. It's a fulfilling life that doesn't really need anything—or anyone—else. Especially not a charming, downright amazing woman who happens to be twenty years her junior.

Meet Patrick Cleary: party boy, loser, and spaz. Patrick’s been trying desperately to transform himself, and the results have been so spectacular, they’ve almost killed him. Meet Wes “Whiskey” Keenan: he’s a field biologist wondering if it’s time to settle down. When the worst day of Patrick’s life ends with Whiskey saving it, Patrick and Whiskey find themselves sharing company and an impossibly small berth on the world’s tackiest houseboat. Patrick needs to get his life together and Whiskey wants to help.

Annie Harland is rich, successful, and very single. So when an invitation to her 10th-high-school reunion drops on her mat, she's determined to skip it. Until a drunk evening with her best friend results in an appointment with an escort named Robin. Robin is supposed to be bookish, well-muscled, and the owner of a golden retriever. Robin is actually tall, curvaceous, and very, very female.

Abi, a 49-year-old widow, meets a naked woman on the shore of Lake Ginninderra, and it turns her life upside down. Feelings she can’t understand overwhelm her. There’s more to this woman than meets the eye, and Abi must navigate a situation she could never have imagined. When a second naked woman turns up at her home, Abi becomes embroiled in an out of this world situation.

It's not a good Monday for DI Daniel Owen. A body in a wheelie bin. Missing teenagers. His ex turning up as his new boss. A secretive teenager, a nosy secretary, an idealistic social worker, and a dodgy fruit and veg salesman all have pieces of the jigsaw. If Daniel and Maldwyn can trust each other again, they can put the pieces together. But time is running out, and at least one child's life is in danger. It's been raining for weeks, and the flood waters are rising, threatening to engulf them all.

Ein neuer Job, ein mürrischer Partner – und jede Menge Chaos. Nachdem Detective Dexter J. Daley mit seiner Aussage vor Gericht seinen eigenen Kollegen hinter Gitter gebracht hat, ist sein Leben ein Trümmerfeld. Sein Ruf ist ruiniert, seine Beziehung zerbrochen, und plötzlich ist er das schwarze Schaf bei der Polizei. Doch statt gefeuert zu werden, landet er dank seines Adoptivvaters bei den THIRDS – einer Spezialeinheit, in der Menschen und Gestaltwandler, die Therianer, Seite an Seite kämpfen. Dex ist fest entschlossen, sich zu beweisen, doch sein Start verläuft … holprig.

Eleanor Brewster is a proper English lady with a crumbling manor to prove it, and one inconvenient problem: she needs to marry to keep her family estate. Danni Franks is a no-nonsense farmer with a newly acquired (and deeply in debt) farm, a complicated family, and precisely zero interest in aristocratic drama. But when Danni's tractor collides, literally, with Eleanor's sports car, she somehow ends up engaged to a woman who considers tweed a fashion statement.

A mission gone wrong leads to rising-star CIA operative Annie Weaver quitting her job and reinventing herself as a college student. But the CIA, desperate for her skills, refuses to let her go without a price. Annie finds herself juggling classes in criminology and falling for her beautiful landlord, Professor Helen Everton, while dealing with off-the-books secret missions for an increasingly controlling ex-boss. As the perceptive Helen circles ever closer to the truth, Annie has to figure out how to keep her freedom without putting Helen in danger—and without revealing her own past.

Louise Hamilton has returned to Sydney after her long-term relationship broke down in Brisbane, and she's loving her new job at Glow, Darlinghurst's freshly opened yoga studio. She's found new friends in her boss Amber and the gang at the Pink Bean and feels like her life is finally back on track. Until a figure from her past unexpectedly comes back to haunt her.

When Jaye Callaghan's dubiously clairvoyant best friend predicts that her soulmate is on the horizon, Jaye isn't exactly persuaded. But when she walks into Lanport clinic and meets Charlie, she starts to think that maybe her luck is changing.

Dumped and depressed, Lil Bradley is left running her dream bookshop without her dream woman. All that's left of her fiancée is the half-finished coffee shop in the corner of the store. And then Riley Winters reappears. Riley is convinced that she's dying. So she's come back to Amberly, the home that she's been avoiding for fifteen years. And when she walks into Lil's store it's like turning back the hands of time. Except it's a clock that neither one of them really wanted to mess with. Until Riley's diagnosis isn't quite as fatal as she thought.

He's the most infuriating, immature frat brat I've ever had the misfortune of coming across. He's also the guy I dumped in high school when I realized I was straight. And he just so happens to be the intern at his dad's company; the very same one I work for. A terrible misunderstanding puts Justin Lewis into my care. I'm supposed to teach him how his father's business works. But he's determined to do it the hard way.

When Archer Navarro escapes his emotionally abusive boyfriend in the middle of the night, he hopes to step into a better life. A turn of bad luck ends Archer's flights as soon as it starts, but the kindness of strangers brings him to an LGBT shelter. And it brings him to Brooklyn. He's the moody, drop-dead gorgeous tenant in the apartment next door, and he soon becomes the source of Archer's hope.

I've fought tooth and nail to enter the ranks of knighthood. I deserve to be there. But as a princess, the only place I'm allowed is the training yard. That is until our enemy, Grand Clarak Zarios of Valcor, shows up with an opportunity to save the entire nation from someone in his court trying to dethrone him. It's just what I need to prove my worth.