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Luca Asher is my brother's ex-best friend, the best contractor in our small town of Lovers, a walking dream when he doesn't have a shirt on—heck, with it on, too, and he was the first boy I ever loved. He just doesn't know that last part. On the rare occasions I converse with him, I get a comeback for everything. Our banter is my favorite thing. He's so clever and quick and, again, sexier than any man I've ever met. But none of that changes the fact that he betrayed my brother. My family. Me. And none of those facts would matter except for my one little problem.

Online dating in your thirties will make even the most optimistic person skeptical. When Margo comes across Adam’s profile with a bit of scrutiny, she takes a chance on the extremely handsome pharmacist. Meanwhile, all Adam needs to swipe right is Margo’s chestnut brown eyes and her occupation as a community college professor. Through flirty texts, their connection is magnetic—almost too good to be true.

As the starting goalie for a professional hockey team, I should be oozing confidence and swagger. Too bad I'm as awkward as they come. Things go from bad to worse when I want my teammates' help to set me up. Especially when the team's general manager is there to witness the train wreck of a date. Until she proposes dating lessons . . . mutual dating lessons. How can the most confident, self-assured woman need my help? What starts off simple and uncomplicated quickly turns into more. A lot more.

Being married to Jim meant champagne toasts, luxury empires, and billion-dollar deals. But this Christmas? It meant being married to a man who signed off on a charcuterie board and called it a holiday. No party. No magic. Just Scrooge in a Tom Ford suit. And I'd had enough. With a little help from my friend, Cat Veléz, the most ruthless luxury event architect in California. I was determined to remind my husband that Christmas wasn't a line item. It was something you felt.

Her brother's best friend was supposed to be a shield—not a temptation. Teagan Madden worked hard to bury her reckless past and is weeks away from college graduation. But when a dangerous mistake—Eric McKinnon—returns with threats and ties to the mafia, her carefully rebuilt life starts to crumble.

I honestly thought there was no harm last summer in naming Miles Asher as my boyfriend. I was convinced my friends from that part of my life would never meet him. I mean, come on, I'm a travel influencer constantly moving from one beach to the next, and Miles is a small-town mechanic. He loves his family and friends, and he's a nice guy. Or so they say. Miles has never cared for me. But now I'm staying in his town of Lovers for the summer, and—surprise!—my vacation friends are too.

One accident later, and I can't remember the last three years or the exact reason why my childhood nemesis and I still refuse to hold a civil conversation. Heck, I didn't even know he had moved back to our small town of Lovers until I woke up in the hospital and he was the only one sitting next to my bed. Suddenly, I'm living a life that doesn't sound like me. My brother is an overprotective babysitter, and I only want to be treated normally. There's only one person who doesn't treat me like broken glass: Hudson.

Astrid Anderson Bouchard, a creative free spirit, has one last item on her birthday bucket list before she starts graduate school. She’s determined to hookup with Jesse Lambert and get over her long-standing crush once and for all. No more fantasizing about the guy who saved her very clumsy teen self from public humiliation at hockey camp. No more comparing him to every man she dates. One and done, and she can move on with her life.

A successful businessman, a demonic ritual, and the rise of the first horsemen of the apocalypse. Breena had one job to do. Stop the ritual that would break the first seal and release the horseman conquest on the world. She failed, and it cost her sister her life. Now, she must find the first horseman and kill him before he completes the change. The only problem? She’s his mate, and nothing will ever be the same. Connell Bailey was a successful businessman who knew nothing about the supernatural world until he dreamt about a demonic ritual and started to change.

The Piper's music is alive, drawing souls from the world of the living to the lands of the dead. Those who hear him have no choice but to follow - when the Piper calls you, you will do as you are told. Autumn is on the run from the Cult of the Hundred after witnessing something she should never have seen. She's fighting for survival; she doesn't have time for distractions. That is, until she meets a man nobody but she can see.

When part leprechaun Bradley Flynn is charged with finding Kate’s true love, he calls on the retired matchmaker Essie O’Callaghan, who happens to have a mission of her own. Dr. Michael Walshe had a ring in his pocket when he walked in on his girlfriend sleeping with her costar. He wants no part of Essie’s plan to find him a wife.

Love is not for me, but if marriage is what it takes to become my father’s successor and save my family’s fortune from ruin, so be it. This is all for show. I just need to play it safe until the fake wedding fuss is over. But then she shows up. The cute pianist, hired to play at my engagement party. Sweet Elodie. Shy, innocent, and virtuoso - off limits and impossible for me to claim. Elodie is a sweet risk and a challenge like no other. Her weak attempts at fending me off only fuel my greedy hunger.

When his family decides to sell a home that’s been part of their history for more than a century, Lowe Mancinkus is madder than a hornet. To add insult to injury, the woman who purchased it is some fancy-pants city girl looking to fix it up and sell it off. Doesn’t matter that she’s sexy as hell or that just being near her gets his blood racing like never before. That home belongs to his family, or at least it did until she came to town.

One destined meeting. It alters journalist, Charlise "Charlie" Carter's course. When asked to work on a Republican candidate's campaign, she's unprepared for the intense reaction she has toward the young, handsome presidential hopeful, Colin McKenna.

She was running toward her future. He was running from his past. When their worlds collided, nothing could prepare them for what was to come. Reeling from Luke's betrayal, Embry Jacobs is lost and looking for answers. His lies have ripped them apart, forcing her to question everything she thought she knew about the man she loves. But to give Luke another chance, she'll have to forgive his lies and risk her already fragile heart. When the truth comes out, will it set them free or break them both?

She ran from a past that still hasn't let her go, but her dream of becoming a lawyer is stronger than her fear of confronting that past. Embry's sole focus is to get through law school, with the help of her best friend, Morgan, and make something of the broken girl she became. Not thinking about falling in love, being in a relationship or even entertaining the idea of romance, Embry is moving forward one day at a time.

When a gorgeous guy makes Kayla Crawford an offer she can't refuse, she feels the super sexy stallion must be too good to be true. Millionaire Richmond Spaulding has never gotten over the loss of his wife. Richmond thinks his life is okay just as it is - until he meets her. Beautiful Kayla stokes a burning fire in Richmond that he thought had vanished long ago. Kayla made a vow never to trust a man again, but with every tender kiss from Richmond's eyes, and every sinful touch he places upon her, sparks fly between them.

Sidney Halston returns to steamy Tarpon Springs, Florida, where a hell-raising bad boy prepares to get down and dirty for the woman he loves.

Clifford and Harold left shortly after and drove back to their own homes, talking the entire way about where to take the women. They finally decided on a villa they could rent on a private Caribbean Island. Over the week prior to the Friday night pickup, emails were exchanged and arrangements were made for a chauffeured limousine to pick up the women at seven Friday evening. As they stood in the front hallway looking around, Clifford came up beside Alison and put his arm around her.

Sex with Gerard was a never ending series of almost there but never arriving. Kate decided to follow her line of thinking just to see where it took her. She needed good sex, good lovemaking, and good fun. She wanted to get down and dirty, to revel in the sheer naughtiness of sex.