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I should have just gone back home and played it safe. But, I couldn’t walk away. None of the Country Club boys I knew had ever made me feel this way. Those eyes…those lips…those hands…I wanted him like I’d never wanted anyone else. My parents would disapprove, but I didn’t care. I’d moved to the bad side of town to make a difference. But I didn’t expect that the one who was going to change would be me.

Cole Ashby will seiner Tochter ein stabiles Zuhause bieten, deshalb tut der sexy Single-Dad alles dafür, die Stelle als Sheriff von Laurel Creek zu bekommen. Dann droht eine wilde Partynacht in Las Vegas alles zu zerstören: Betrunken hat er ausgerechnet Ginger Danforth geheiratet! Der Tochter eines Abgeordneten würde ein solcher Skandal schaden, erst recht eine Trennung. Cole und Ginger schließen einen Pakt: Sie bleiben verheiratet, bis Gingers Vater die Wahlen gewinnt und Cole den Sheriffjob in der Tasche hat – doch die Fake-Ehe beginnt schnell, sich gefährlich echt anzufühlen.

After Ellie Broussard saves Sean McDougal’s son from drowning, she walks away, unwilling to involve herself with the rakish Irishman and his charming boy. Ellie has suffered a devastating loss, and her world is one of chosen isolation and calculated vengeance. Sean can relate. Having lost his wife to cancer, his sole focus has become raising his boy. Love can take a long walk. He’s in Louisiana to locate a cache of stolen art. But when they’re thrown together on an assignment to recover the cache, Sean and Ellie have no choice but to put aside their mutual misgivings.

At the centermost point of the United States, lies the tiny town of Divine, Kansas, boasting a population of just over 1,200, and yet, thousands of tourists flock there every year. So what's so special about this mysterious little town smack-dab in the middle of nowhere? For newcomer and businesswoman Jo Pepperdine, it's the perfect site for not only a home for women to get back on their feet after being released from prison, but also her Second Chance Mercantile and Divine Baked Goods Shop.   

The ultimate escapist adventure story, The Prisoner of Zenda transports the listener into a bygone era, awash with swashbuckling heroism, cunning plots and courtly love. The popularity of Hope’s tale of intrigue was such that it spawned an entirely new genre known as the ‘Ruritanian romance’. When the King of Ruritania is kidnapped, the onus falls on a British tourist, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the King, to stand in for him and to avert disaster by coming to his rescue.

Recent college graduate Sierra Lopez has no idea what she wants to do with her life. With a degree that’s useless on its own, Sierra decides to complete a one-year master’s program at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Alone in a new city, Sierra downloads Tinder, expecting to go on a few casual dates during her study of human aging and fragility. But then she meets the mysterious and brooding Aodhan De Thuaidh, who doesn’t seem to be at home in Dublin either.

After being abducted by aliens and rescued by the Arcav, all Peyton wants is revenge. Well, that, and a trip straight back home to Earth where she belongs. She’s not interested in the handsome Arcav Guard who stares at her so intently. Even if he does make her wish she’d met him before her captivity. When the Arcav King offers her a deal, Peyton knows she has to accept. Six months in Arcavia, one date a week with Vazta, and the revenge she needs so she can move on. But with evil approaching from all sides, will Peyton be able to achieve her revenge?

After leaving Pine Creek—along with his family and the rest of their Amish community—four years ago, Caleb Weaver has returned. He's come back to help his parents with their struggling candy shop, and everyone in their small town is buzzing with the news. But no sooner does he return than he's flagged down by the last person he wanted to see . . . with a helpless, abandoned kitten.

A weekly invitation to be disappointingly normal as we strengthen our relationship with Jesus beyond Sundays through humor, stories, theology, and reflection. A podcast by Hope Community Church - North Lakes.

Rose desperately wants Daniel, but there are just some things a woman in Victorian England cannot do. She appeals to her friend Andria, who arranges a secret rendezvous, and the results are steamy! A night of passion follows with real love culminated in a blaze of glorious and lusty sensuality follows!

At the cozy, family-run Snowberry Lodge, the Christmas season stirs up more than just festive cheer. For Cindy Kessler, it brings the shocking arrival of her ex-husband Jack—along with the return of his world-famous sleigh rides and the spark they never quite lost. Could this be the second chance at love or just one more goodbye?

This episode of Bob Hope's classic NBC radio show, broadcast from a US Army facility in Arcadia, California, originally aired on February 9, 1943.

What’s worse than being stuck on an alien planet? Being stuck on an alien planet when you’ve made an enemy of the local tribe king. Okay, so I may have stolen his favorite misua and snuck away to find my friends. But he should’ve known better than to forbid me to go. I’m a marine, and we leave no man - or woman - behind. Besides, putting distance between us is a good thing, especially since I’m sure he’s coming after me.

An Weihnachten werden verruchte Wünsche erfüllt, Dark Santa sorgt für eine besondere Bescherung, und eine Weihnachtsfeier führt zu einer verbotenen Begegnung zwischen Feinden. Doch wer im flackernden Schein der Festbeleuchtung nicht aufpasst, landet vielleicht im Visier eines verführerischen Auftragskillers, sieht sich mit sexy Geiselnehmern konfrontiert oder spielt mit Stalkern ein feuriges Katz-und-Maus-Spiel.

With a traitor in our midst, I shouldn’t be consumed with memories of our night together. And I definitely shouldn’t be thinking about just how well he lit my fuse. Especially when that traitor’s attacks are getting deadlier and hitting closer to home each time. Can I protect both the academy and my heart? Or will they end up shattered beyond repair?

As Commander of the Arcav forces, Jaret is ice-cold and remote. So one is more surprised than Jaret, when he insists on leading the mission to rescue the humans kidnapped for slavery. The mission is well below his pay grade, and humans are little more than savages. But every bone in his body compels him to take the trip. Jaret has been completely dedicated to the Arcav race for centuries. He has one goal: Destroy the Grivath and avenge his parent's deaths. The problem? One small, terrified human with defiance written all over her face.

Anthony Hope's swashbuckling historical novel The Prisoner of Zenda was first published in 1894 and was an instant hit, spawning an 1898 sequel, Rupert of Hentzau, and launching the Ruritanian romance genre. Included here are the radio dramatisations of both thrilling novels, starring Julian Glover as Rudolf Rassendyll and King Rudolf, Martin Jarvis as Rupert of Hentzau and Hannah Gordon as Flavia.

The survivors of the shipwrecked 18th century vessel Glen Carrig fight for their lives amidst a vast continent of weeds. Mysterious wrecks, horrific monsters, and swashbuckling adventure!

Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to "The Prisoner of Zenda", written in 1895, but not published until 1898. This story commences three years after the conclusion of Zenda, and deals with the same fictional country somewhere in Germanic Middle Europe, the kingdom of Ruritania.

Fly or fall. An epic and unputdownable YA fantasy debut from an incredible new voice In the glittering city of Aligera, built on towering stacks above a broken land, residents fly using solar-powered wings. At graduation, Zerene, Thoosa, Vesper, Jac and Iora must choose the wings that will...