I tried my best to escape. But they are after me. These cruel, gorgeous monsters. All five of them.
Sadie
I'd seen Mr. Marcello just once at a prestigious Fashion Show.
His light golden amber eyes made me shiver, but I thought I was not gonna see him again.
I never expected him to get his men to kidnap me, and even share me with his cousins and bodyguards.
Of course, I'm not going to give in.
And damn sure I'm going to fight my way out of this predicament…
But what happens when I begin to fall for the men - my kidnappers?
After getting booted out of China for his book, The Fake Celebrity in China, the author returns with a no-holds-barred account of his final years in the country. He lays bare the corruption, the filth, the lies, and trickery, that exist in everyday Chinese society. The magic years for expats are over, and the Chinese are becoming overly nationalistic, commonly referring to foreigners as, “foreign Devils”. Frankie, his Hainanese Passepartout, and partner in debauchery, returns as his faithful travel companion in this entertaining romp.
Quasselstrippe trifft auf distanzierten Iren.
Eigentlich will Aeryn von der Liebe so schnell nichts mehr wissen, denn sie musste ihre Lektion auf die harte Tour lernen.Aber eine Katastrophe kommt eben selten allein. Und die führt sie zu ihrer Tante ins irische Dorf Derrybridge, die für das kleine Café dringend die Hilfe ihrer Nichte benötigt. Gleich bei der Ankunft trifft Aeryn auf Ronan Magee. Und sie kann ihn nicht ausstehen.
Er ist ein einsilbiger, unhöflicher und leider auch verdammt attraktiver Kerl, der vermutlich den ersten Preis bei einer Sixpack-Challenge abräumen würde. Aber Aussehen ist schließlich nicht alles, oder? Zu allem Überfluss läuft ihr der ungehobelte Typ ständig über den Weg – und fordert sie bei einem Verlobungsfest auch noch zum Tanz auf. Schlagartig bekommt Aeryn weiche Knie und all ihre Vorsätze sind reif für die Tonne. Danach geht ihr Gefühlschaos erst so richtig los, denn in dieser Nacht passiert etwas, dass nicht nur Aeryns Leben auf links dreht.
Wird sie alles gewinnen, wenn sie die Vergangenheit hinter sich lässt? Oder alles verlieren …
Das geht unter die Haut. Großes Gefühlskino, prickelnd, romantisch, heiß und mit Happy End.
Jenny's dreams have turned to nightmares.
Every night, her thoughts are filled with evil. Something is reaching out . . . and she's not so sure she wants to reach back. That is, until someone new appears in her dreams. Someone who protects her, comforts her, and thinks of Jenny as his mate. Imaginary friends aren't real, but Jenny likes to pretend, anyhow.
Then, one day, one of the mindless dragons guarding the fort awakens . . . and Jenny realizes that the friend from her dreams isn't a figment of her imagination. He's a dragon.
And he's looking to claim his female.
Contains mature themes.
Sarcastic. Short-tempered. Definitely not sparkly.
Paramedic and firefighter Hugh Argent is no one's idea of a unicorn, and he's careful to keep it that way. His life depends on hiding his secrets . . . and on never meeting his true mate.
Outcast. Unwanted. Untouchable.
Ivy would give anything to be touched, just once. But as a wyvern shifter, her skin is lethal even in human form. Targeted by a shifter crime boss for her deadly abilities, Ivy finds herself in trouble over her head . . . and pulled out of danger by a cranky, mysterious, and jaw-droppingly gorgeous firefighter. Literally pulled out of danger. For the first time in her life, someone can touch her . . .
Caught between protecting his secrets and protecting his mate, Hugh struggles not to reveal how Ivy penetrates all his spiky defenses. The more he gets to know this brave, fierce, infuriating woman, the more he longs to claim her. But a unicorn can only take a mate at a terrible cost . . .
Contains mature themes.
Joshua ist ein Krimineller mit Migrationshintergrund. Jedenfalls ist das der Stempel, der ihm aufgedrückt wird. Er selbst hat sich nichts davon ausgesucht. In Berlin geboren und aufgewachsen, versucht er seinen Namen Iosua ebenso wie seine rumänische Herkunft zu verdrängen. Aber sein Vater ist der brutale Kopf einer Diebesbande und Joshua steckt tief in einem Strudel von Unterdrückung und Gewalt. Als Taschendieb trifft er auf Isabelle. Wie ein Hoffnungsschein dringt sie in seine Welt voller Dunkelheit.-
"Utterly charming… A Proposal They Can't Refuse is a surefire winner!" -Mia Sosa, USA Today bestselling author of The Worst Best Man
Natalie Caña turns up the heat, humor and heart in this debut rom-com about a Puerto Rican chef and an Irish American whiskey distiller forced into a fake engagement by their scheming octogenarian grandfathers.
Kamilah Vega is desperate to convince her family to update their Puerto Rican restaurant and enter it into the Fall Foodie Tour. With the gentrification of their Chicago neighborhood, it's the only way to save the place. The fly in her mofongo-her blackmailing abuelo says if she wants to change anything in his restaurant, she'll have to marry the one man she can't stand: his best friend's grandson.
Liam Kane spent a decade working to turn his family's distillery into a contender. But just as he and his grandfather are on the verge of winning a national competition, Granda hits him with a one-two punch: he has cancer and has his heart set on seeing Liam married before it's too late. And Granda knows just the girl…Kamilah Vega.
If they refuse, their grandfathers will sell the building that houses both their businesses. With their futures on the line, Kamilah and Liam plan to outfox the devious duo, faking an engagement until they both get what they want. But soon, they find themselves tangled up in more than either of them bargained for.
Two best friends have one week to return a lost love letter found in a candy store-and to work up the courage to confess to the deep feelings between them-in this romance novella from the acclaimed author of How To Fail at Flirting.
Teagan's job in an airport candy store pays the bills but she dreams of traveling the world. With one week until she boards a plane for an international adventure, she finds an abandoned love letter in the store and talks her BFF into helping her figure out who it belongs to.
Silas solves problems for a living as an airline customer service representative. One problem he can't solve is how to reveal a big secret to his best friend that would risk changing their entire relationship. When she proposes they work together to get the love letter back to its owner, he jumps at the chance.
Teagan and Silas stumble on romantic clues, old stories, and more than a few dead ends along the way while trying to play Cupid, all of which bring them closer together. With only a few days before Teagan's transatlantic move, the two of them must decide if the sweet temptation of falling for their best friend is worth the potential heartbreak or if either can stand to keep their feelings wrapped up.
My next door neighbor Parker Jax is not my type. He's covered in tats, rides a motorcycle, and his parties keep me up all night. The fact he's sexy as sin doesn't change the fact we are oil and water.
I'm a quiet artist. He's a rowdy marine. I've got a broken heart. I'm convinced he doesn't have a heart at all.
Thankfully, my bad-boy neighbor is on leave from the Marines for only thirty days. But then the jerk has to go and show me that he has a soft side beneath all those hard muscles. He actually leaves his own party to help me, and he didn't even have to.
Fantastic. Now I owe him.
I'm not worried, though. What are the chances he'll need me to do anything before the month is up?
But when a woman shows up with a kid at her side, knocking on Parker's door, it turns out those chances are pretty good . . .
Contains mature themes.
One unexpected kiss . . .
Successful romance author Gaia Anders has a secret: anything she dreams at night is magically written into her bestselling novels. After a lonely childhood in foster care, her dream life is the only one she trusts. Gaia's waking life just can't compare-until she gets caught in one utterly surprising, crazy-passionate, real-life kiss . . .
One near-perfect guy . . .
Workaholic businessman Jacob Scott has had a crush on his brother's best friend, Gaia, since forever-but he never expected to literally share her dreams. Living out their magical nighttime fantasies is explosive, but it's their waking desire turning his single-minded ways upside down. It's making him want a future he didn't think was possible . . .
One dream that could come true . . .
But Gaia has secrets from her past she won't reveal. And Jacob's attempts to keep the peace in his own fractured family puts him up against her deepest fears. Soon, they're facing hard truths about who they are and what they're running from. And the only way to break this curse is realizing true love's real-life power . . .
She thought her work would help her forget; his work still haunts his nightmares. Can they leave their painful pasts behind and come home to each other’s hearts?
Agata Selvaggio left the family law firm for good reason and is now the proud owner of a thriving cafe at the heart of her village. She knows her family’s judgment is the price she’s paid for her independence, and all she wants to do is forget and move on. That’s not as easy as it sounds, especially when an unexpected stranger arrives who makes Agata want to live in the present more than ever. Can she finally forgive her family and make room in her heart for someone who cares?
Matu Samuelson is good at taking care of people, at least he was when he worked as an adventure tour guide in the New Zealand wilderness. Everything changed when a volcanic eruption turned his life upside down, and now he’s not sure he’s good at anything anymore.
So helping out a friend of a friend and a change of scene is a no brainer right?
What he hadn’t expected was Agata—resourceful and independent—so independent she’s reluctant to let him get close. Gaining her trust is something he knows he could be good at, if only she’d let him.
Will the past and the present collide to create a whole new reality for Agata and Matu?
After a tailspin in her late teens, Lauren Anderson's life is finally back on track. Her battle with bulimia is under control, her career is taking off, and she's surrounded by a loving family. Then a chance meeting with Carter Douglas, her first love and the man who broke her heart leads to old feelings returning with new strength. And suddenly her well-balanced world is thrown off kilter.
Now a TV meteorologist, Carter is determined to make amends with Lauren. After all, she still owns his heart. But the reasons they broke up aren't lost-and those old demons are forcing him toward the same decision he faced in the past. He isn't sure he's courageous enough to make a different choice this time around.
When Lauren's elderly grandmother, Rosie, begins having nightmares about a man named Ephraim-a name her family has never heard before-a fascinating and forbidden past love comes to light. As Lauren and Carter work to uncover the untold stories of Rosie's past in 1950s Wichita, they embark on a journey of forgiveness and second chances that will change their lives-and Rosie's-forever. Along the way they'll learn that God wastes nothing, his timing is perfect, and nothing is beyond his grace and redemption.
