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Caroline isn't a Scrooge, but the weeks leading to Christmas are not her favorite. The personal shopping department where she works is insanely busy and the clients have crazy requests. Plus, this is her first holiday being single after a bad breakup. When her last appointment of the day is a gorgeous, blue-skinned alien, she isn't too surprised. After all, everyone knows that aliens are real since a species of interstellar warriors revealed themselves and the fact that they'd been defending Earth for decades.

Meet Olivia, a savvy personal shopper with a knack for avoiding commitment and a dreaded annual party to dodge. Her mother's swanky New Year's Eve bash is as unavoidable as her parents' questions about her personal life. Enter Ruune, a charming alien prince with a reputation for loving and leaving across the galaxy. His arrival in New York could cause issues for the Valorian's new treaty with Earth, especially if he starts breaking hearts.

These four MMF short stories bring the heat with the kind of immersive writing that takes you right into these characters’ worlds, from the hard streets of the LA underground crime scene to an Australian vacation, to a London college town and a luxury NYC loft. Each story is completely different from the next, but they all share one thing—whether it’s their first time or a long-term thing, these guys are bi and they don’t hold back.

Morgan de Rohan-Chabot is Monaco's most notorious yacht designer. Young, talented, and a flirtatious rogue, his reputation for leaving a trail of broken hearts in his wake has finally caught up to him. He needs my help—the magic touch of a PR superstar to overhaul his tarnished image. A lucrative contract with a Saudi Prince is up for grabs, and Morgan insists I join him on the glittering shores of the Riviera to help him secure it.

Winifred Kimball was happy living in Kansas City…until the Council killed her best friend and kidnapped the only father she’s ever known. Now, the girl with superstrength and lightning speed is determined to return to San Francisco and make the government pay for what they’ve done. But the Council has other plans. Armed with secret weapons of their own, they are set out to destroy Winnie, and The Enterprise, for good. Winnie’s own telepathic abilities grow stronger every day, but will it be enough to save the lives of those she loves and the freedom of those she fights for?

Unflinchingly honest and darkly funny, this memoir will resonate with anyone facing the complicated reality of aging and illness in the United States. Elizabeth and her mother Judy have always had a complicated relationship. Now, they face a confounding illness treated in a labyrinthine health care system at a complicated stage of life. Nothing is as it first seems in this riveting account of an unconventional mother-daughter journey, a journey that from the start poses questions about love, life, family, aging, health care, sex, and death.

Against all odds, Winnie managed to escape San Francisco…but now she is being stalked by Mutants that roam the Wasteland. Once human, exposure to radiation has rendered them more beast than man. But it has also made them incredibly strong and shockingly fast, putting Winnie’s own supernatural abilities to the test. If that weren’t enough, the people she cares about most are missing. The Council continues to hunt them down and will stop at nothing until they are destroyed. Will Winnie and her allies make it to Kansas City? If they do, will it be anything like they imagined?

Rowan MacLeod is tough as nails. Life was hard on Earth, but she's determined to let nothing hold her back...even after ending up on a rusty bucket of a spaceship surrounded by barbarian aliens. A special mission to resurrect an old fighter craft for the rebels is her best chance to prove herself...until disaster finds her again. As the medic on the Galaxos, Mrax has to be quick on his feet. He doesn't have time for anything else, especially a feisty Earther female. Until the intelligent and beautiful Rowan ends up in his sickbay.

Moody lighting, intimate corners, and pulsing, magnetic energy is what makes a club the place to be for a hot night. You're invited to four different club experiences where secrets are kept and nothing is off-limits. Have a hot minute? Drop in on these sexy shorts from Alyssa Turner, Kate Briggs, Gwen Dylan, and Stacey Wallace.

Before the century ends within an always connected world, the global information technology company Enclosure Cloud Systems controls the content we consume, and the value we place on privacy, or lack thereof, in this future society. Information is power, and Enclosure has all of it. To escape this lack of privacy, Enclosure has presented the option of time travel, a way to leave the present and live in the past anonymously. The data footprint that is your life is then reset. A time travel relocation error occurs, and a couple is killed as they are removed from time.

Better than a bag of treats, this Halloween romance variety pack brings home the heat. Grab some quick and satisfying tales on the winding path to happily-ever-after that deliver shivers of a different kind. Steamy romance shorts from best-selling romance authors Alyssa Turner, Sue Lyndon, Allyson Lindt, and Brigham Vaughn.

On the set of a movie, Cass, 30, calls her assistant, Kristin, 20s, to tell her to pick her up from set and take her out after work. At a club, Cass meets Nic, 40s. Instantly attracted, Cass decides to take a role acting next to him in an upcoming feature. The two begin a romance and have their pictures across tabloid magazines as the hot new celebrity couple. This is the Hollywood that Hollywood fantasizes about.

Azria is free for the first time in thousands of years. Though she is not bound to the mountain being punished by Aetos or watching her lover Prometheus suffer, she instead finds herself in yet another crisis. This isn't exactly what she pictured freedom to be, fused to a man named Kyros. Together with making the person named Asylia, they work to free the city from the Rogue tallents that disrupt the city.

Jess Barnes was a rising star in the Information Ministry before she and her crewmates were kidnapped by Xaravian barbarians. She longs for her old life and friends. She can also live without bounty hunters chasing her down in every part of the universe. When one poisons her, Jess is in a race against time to find a cure for the odd condition that sets her heart racing - made worse by the attention of sexy second-in-command Trazzak.

You've thought about just up and running away. Faced with a loss that destroys strength, purpose, and hope, who could blame you? Life is hard. Sometimes, too hard. This is one woman's candid and compelling journey across Canada, on a road to discovery, a road to the other side of grief, a road to joy. With a sharp tongue, gut-wrenching honesty, side-splitting hilarity, and the raw emotion of her own experience, Alexandra Stacey has the listener wondering how anyone can feel so much, so strongly. This audiobook isn't a story that one listens to; it's an adventure that one experiences.

Fleeing an abusive home in famine-scarred Ireland, a desperate young girl ventures alone across the ocean — chasing the fragile hope of finding her only remaining family (an estranged Uncle) and a future she'd only been allowed to imagine. America is meant to be her salvation, but when she finds her Uncle's mansion, it becomes a gilded cage. The girl learns that wealth can hide rot, as she finds herself trapped under the watchful control of the house's volatile master: a man whose charm masks a growing darkness.

Recently married, Victoria and Jeremi Terryn travel to the sordid City of Ends, where Victoria receives a first-hand look into Jeremi’s estranged family business. However, one split-second decision in an underground auction house will change their marriage as they know it. With the addition of a third person to their dynamic, they must rediscover the limits of their affections.

A collection of original contemporary love stories set during life in lockdown by some of today's most popular YA authors. Erin Craig "delivers" on a story about a cute pizza delivery boy, Auriane Desombre captures a girl trying to impress her crush on TikTok, and Bill Konigsberg takes readers...