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In my defense, I was left alone with a bottle of single-malt and a lifelong penchant for protecting my baby sister. Still, that's no excuse to send 10 drunk-texts on why her hasty marriage would be a mistake. If only I had just texted my sister. But nope. I accidentally sent the message to her, her groom, and his super hot wingman. I also used the phrase “super hot wingman”, so I’d like to die now.

Drawn together for the first time, this is a collection of Lily’s short stories about the much-loved men from her Mixed Messages and Finding Home series. Follow them through awkward marriage proposals, birthdays, a fraught babysitting job, and a very drunken Eurovision Song Contest party.

""Sebastian proves she is a new force to be reckoned with in historical romances.”--Booklist Some of Ben Sedgwick’s favorite things: Helping his poor parishioners Baby animals Shamelessly flirting with the handsome Captain Phillip DacreAfter an unconventional upbringing, Ben is perfectly...

Rome and Dex's happily ever after is next.

A Friday evening call. My boss, the unattainable Julianna Marcon, needs me in the office. This has never happened before. I should recognize it for what it is. Ms. Marcon wants me. Me. Alessa. An intern who has never been kissed, never been touched, never dared to dream of this. But she doesn’t know that. Nor do I know how to navigate a woman like her—cool as ice, yet blazing with power—in the office… Or the bedroom.

At twenty-one, Eden Sorensen had one last shot at a professional ballet career. During a grueling summer intensive at Metropolitan Ballet Theater, she fell into a passionate secret affair with the company's brilliant principal dancer, Portia Duvall. But when Eden was denied a contract, she left believing Portia had betrayed her to eliminate a rival. Fifteen years later, interim artistic director Portia Duvall is on the brink of divorce, retired from dance, and drowning under the weight of saving Metropolitan Ballet Theater from scandal.

Twelve short stories from the universe of Magdalene Nox, Neve Blackthorne, Vivian DeVor and all their friends . . . January: Neve and Audrey. February: Vivian and Jamie. March: Juliette and Katarina. April: Chiara and Vi. May: Hera and Nemesis. June: Dr. Helena Moore and Neve (Not That Way)...

I should never have taken that DNA test. Then maybe things wouldn't have gone so wrong… 'This is not just a thriller; it's a story that stays with you', Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lily thought she was an ordinary woman with an ordinary life. But when a DNA test seems to reveal she carries...

Twenty-three years ago, a young girl went missing. Two days later her body was found lodged beneath the footbridge over Boulder Creek. The murder shook the town but they soon found it was only the beginning. A serial killer hides among them - a serial killer who strikes twice, sometimes three times a year. Mason Cooper couldn’t wait to leave Gillette Park. At 18, she headed off to college and the bright lights of Los Angeles, thinking she'd never return home to the broken family and forgotten friendships she'd left behind.

Can you imagine falling for a girl so hard that through the years, with no hope of being reunited, that love remains as strong as ever? At 40, Dr. Keegan Wade is the Chief of Trauma Surgery, a rising star at NYC General. She's immersed 24-7 in work that she once loved. No one waits for her at home and she has nothing to offer. Anxiety has her in a choke hold and she'd give anything to sleep more than two consecutive hours.

How much heat can one man handle? Five red-hot stories. Five straight men. Five explosive first encounters with desires they never knew they had—until the right man made them impossible to ignore. This sizzling MM erotica boxset is packed with steamy first-time gay romance, forbidden attraction, and alpha males surrendering to pleasure they never saw coming. Whether you love tension that ignites into scorching passion, or instant heat that burns from the very first page, this collection delivers five unforgettable straight-to-gay stories that will leave you desperate for more.

Owen Flynn never expected to get an invite to his former boy's wedding, and he sure didn't have any intention of showing up alone. Enter Keegan Richards. Keegan had always found Owen attractive, but he had never seriously considered dating a man. But when he overhears Owen saying he needs a date for his ex's wedding, he thinks that sounds like the perfect opportunity to get to know the handsome older man, and maybe to explore a few of the things he's been wondering about.

In the chaotic aftermath of 9/11, Secret Service agent Cameron Roberts and her lover, first daughter Blair Powell, must contend with recriminations from within the government and danger from without as they struggle to uncover those who betrayed the nation and nearly claimed Blair’s life.

After nearly a decade as a professional drummer, Diana Petrell leaves her rock-star life behind to continue her residency in emergency medicine. She's determined not to let anything stop her - not even falling in love with her aloof mentor, Dr. Emily Barnes. Emily has only ever focused on her career as a senior attending in the emergency department, and she isn't happy about having to babysit a resident with a 10-year gap in her resume, no matter how intriguing she is. But every time they work together, it's not just their patients' heartbeat that gets a little irregular.

January Stirling was one of the principal dancers of London's Royal Ballet. Now he's a climate refugee bound for Tharsis, the notorious terraformed colony on Mars. It's a utopia for the naturalised population. For January, as a dangerous Earthstronger whose body is unadjusted to the weaker Martian gravity, it's a life sentence to hard labour and ferocious discrimination. But he will live....

Stockbroker Isabelle Rhodes has a lot of money, a lot of trust issues, and a whole lot of reasons to believe her ex-girlfriend was right when she said that Isabelle sucked at relationships. With that accusation stuck in her head, Isabelle throws caution to the wind and dives into her first one-night stand. Checking that off her bucket list should be something to celebrate - except it turns out that the woman she just spent an earth-shattering night with is actually her newly hired company pilot, Audrey Graham. Ms. Never-See-You-Again just turned into Ms. See-You-Constantly.

Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice normal relationship...and Oliver Blackwood is as nice and normal as they come. He's a barrister, an ethical vegetarian, and someone who has never inspired a moment of scandal in his life. He’s perfect boyfriend material.

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Relationships are complex. Love is ever-changing. And when it comes to rules of the heart, they were made to be broken. That's what Robert Antonio Bianchi was telling himself, anyway. Otherwise, he really had no excuse for what - or who - he'd done. If there was a bad decision to be made, Robbie always had a knack for making it. And thus, begins the story of the priest, the princess, and the prick.

Still grieving the death of his long-time partner, Chase reunites with his dear friend and fellow Anglophile Billie Mondreau for a seacoast holiday of historic sightseeing. Assigned a pair of guides from the tour company Wanderers, Chase and Billie join seven other like-minded Americans looking forward to an English getaway. All except for Ronald Gretz. The wealthy entrepreneur behind the international Golden Sunset nursing-home chain doesn’t like anything about walking, touring, or England.