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According to the dating service I work for, Zander, fellow matchmaker and self-proclaimed eternal bachelor, and I are statistically improbable. One would think this would make me avoid him like the plague. But no, for some reason I can’t stop thinking about the arrogant man and his gorgeous green eyes that have a way of seeing right through me. To make matters more interesting, Zander approaches me with an unusual proposition. He’s in need of a fake girlfriend. My first thought is, absolutely not. But what if this is the solution to my Zander problem?

Margo Thatcher is supposed to be at work, not Feather Festival. So, she does what any red-blooded American birder would do—plays hooky. Unfortunately, her excuse doesn’t hold when a photographer from the magazine, Exposure, snaps her picture, landing her on the cover. As a nature photographer, Trevor Hansen knew getting attacked by wildlife was a possibility. However, his greatest threat currently stems from a birder who is ready to bludgeon him with her binoculars. She might have a motive, considering his photograph did get her in trouble.

April Baird is determined to finish an Ironman—even if it is 140.6 miles of misery in the form of swimming, cycling, and running. The distance would be daunting enough, but April is certain she has an Ironman curse. What else could explain the events that have caused her to DNF the last three years? Now, her coach has even bailed. When Gabriel Torres discovers his rival, April’s former coach, has dropped her mid-season, he has a choice to make: stick with the plan and a team that’s sure to win or add April to his roster.

Everything is all fun and games until living on the "wild" side becomes the rule instead of the exception. It's good to be bad... within reason, of course. And in this case? It's very, very good.

For better or worse… That was the promise Denver and Kensa made, but it’s a sentiment they’ve somehow lost along the way. What started as a passionate wildfire has diminished to a flicker, all but snuffed out by unspoken fears, perceived betrayal, and a complete breakdown in communication. Can either of them tuck their ego away long enough to rekindle their flame?

Margo Thatcher is supposed to be at work, not Feather Festival. So, she does what any red-blooded American birder would do—plays hooky. Unfortunately, her excuse doesn’t hold when a photographer from the magazine, Exposure, snaps her picture, landing her on the cover. As a nature...

I had trusted him, I had loved him, and even though my body had changed that summer, he'd made sure to help me hold on to who I was inside, regardless of how the exterior altered.

Key Ridge, Colorado—a small, mountain ski town and also Mattie’s last shot at escaping the wreckage of her once-perfect life. Her new job at the local ski lodge feels like the perfect place for a fresh start—except for one thing. Her new boss, Giles Stone might have been a successful pro snowboarder, but that doesn’t make him any less of a jerk. Gruff, cold, and closed off, he's definitely not Mattie's biggest fan.

Tall and broad, a beast with glacier blue eyes, Ben Wylder is a feared mob boss and the owner of a very special club. One where the filthy rich come to find their next hookup. No drama. No publicity. Just consenting adults sharing a good time, then parting ways. All this, in total discretion, NDAs and all the shebang. One night, a woman walks in that Ben’s not about to let any other man satisfy… He’s got to have her!

When my boss brings me back to his hometown in the Pocono Mountains at Christmastime to help him run the business remotely while he looks after his sick grandfather, I'm pretty sure I can keep it together. But the mountains bring out another side of my boss—a side with a manly appetite, a side that chops wood in tight jeans and a flannel shirt, a side that howls at the moon just to make me laugh… And when the rugged widower asks me to wear his ring, I'm basically swooning, even though it's only a pretend engagement. It's only when his daughter shows up that I know I'm in real trouble.

Turns out that being Maddie Foster, heiress to the Foster Christmas Figurine fortune, isn't all it's cracked up to be—especially after my stepmom takes my inheritance and puts me out on the street. But something leads me back to the lodge where Dad and I used to spend every Christmas. When I arrive, I don't exactly get the warm welcome I'm expecting. Especially when I meet Jake Stone, the grumpy new owner, who also happens to be a gorgeous single dad. But his little boy needs my help, and before I know it, I've landed a nanny job keeping an eye on Dylan and helping him write letters to Santa.

Maisie Weathersby is a small town girl. Even from a young age, she knew that her life was to be surrounded by fame and adoring fans. She saw her titles in lights on Broadway and scrawled across the marquee of every movie theater on opening night. At 18, she left her home town in order to chase her big city dreams. Now, just outside of Chicago, Maisie has tried out a stage name that she thinks will stick. She's auditioned, clawed, scraped, and fought for her place in "the biz".

Emily Lane is supposed to be on vacation. Instead, she’s in a meeting where a new hire steals the promotion she’s been slotted for. To make matters worse, the promotion thief is a bit of a jerk both inside and outside cubicle walls. Needing an escape, Emily takes on her sister’s dare to work for her calligraphy company. After all, Emily has been perfecting her pointed pen skills for over a decade. The only caveat: she will have to pretend she’s her sister while finishing the projects for a high-profile client’s wedding.

She’s found an unlikely consultant to help solve the crime. But this speaking pet might just prove purr-fect…Hannah Murphy yearns for a real news story. But after a strange migraine results in an unexpected ability to talk to her cat, she must keep the kitty-communication skills a secret if she wants to advance from fluff pieces to covering felonies. And when she literally trips over a slain body, she’s shocked her feline companion is the best partner to crack the case.

When Jasmine gets the call that her father has died, she immediately heads home to Stillcreek, Pennsylvania. Having been gone for years, she thought she had shed the small town and the insecure girl that she once was. However, returning home opens up all of the old wounds she thought she had mended and brings back her panic attacks and inability to deal with her overbearing sisters. The only thing that seems to pacify her anxiety is Cody Baker. Cody has a way of making her feel calm.

And the pizza has a magical property that makes the denizens of Theza feel some type of way. Slice of Life is a Fantasy Comedy (you guessed it) slice-of-life tale about protagonist Jacob G. Neric filled with adventure, pizza-related humor, and saucy action. After finding the mob boss he worked for sold his soul to a succubus, he's transported to a high fantasy world in a mysterious city carved from a mountaintop. Separated into the Lower, Middle, and Upper Rings, the top lives the life of luxury while the Lower Ring toils in squalor.

Fawn Darling could have written the book on doing what was expected of her. Living in her hometown, where everyone knows and loves her? Check. Working as a nurse, just like her mama, Libby, the mother she remembers only occasionally now, did? Check. Engaged to the nice guy, her lifelong friend, Brandon Sullivan? Check.

Ashley Martin has it all. With a high-paying job, a devoted husband, and impeccable children, the ambitious woman is living the dream life she envisioned for herself. So determined to maintain her perfect existence, she hides her odd vision problems, headaches, and confusion… until one morning she wakes up blind. Diagnosed with a brain tumor, the terrified professional faces two difficult surgeries and a year-long recovery. And as she struggles to cope with her sudden reversal of fortune, Ashley begins to see truths she never had before.

Amelia lived in New York City and had fallen in love with the man of her dreams: a handsome doctor. Her life is interrupted with a phone call offering an endowment from a mysterious benefactor. While inspecting her inheritance Amelia is suddenly thrust back one hundred years. At first she believes it all to be a dream. After realizing it's not, she finds a new life in Brooklyn living with an author in 1912 until she can figure out how to return to her own time to the man of her dreams. Or does she even want to return to her future when she is falling in love with the man in the past?