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USA Today Bestseller What would you do with a second chance at your first time? Following a bad breakup, Willow Lewis tackles a re-do list with the help of her brother’s best friend in this sweet and sexy romance. Willow experienced all her big firsts with her high school sweetheart. Now...

Kaiya once crossed the world for her dream of becoming a music producer, but when reality set in, she realised she wasn't sure what that dream was anymore. Now she's crossed the world again—this time for love—but she's discovering that sometimes, it takes more than love to build a life worth living. As Kaiya begins to unravel under the weight of invisibility and devastating revelations from Jihoon's past expose cracks in their relationship, will it prove too much?

I'm not the kind of guy who lusts after strangers, but the man pulling up next to me on his bike is muscular and hot as hell. I let myself look, and he gives me a scorching grin in return. Then the light turns green, he peels away, and I figure I'll never see him again. Except he almost gets hit by a minivan, and I stop to make sure he's okay. Inviting him back to my place to make sure he has no lasting damage is just professional care, but damn, Ulysses can kiss. Pretty soon, we're burning up the sheets together. Sadly, when I wake up, I find myself alone.

I’m overworked, overwhelmed, and I have zero time for shenanigans...like waking up in Vegas drunk-married to my ex? How did this happen? No idea. But now Yom wants me to stay on as his fake wife for 90 days—while he buys my estranged father’s hockey team. And he's offering me five million dollars for the possibly life-ruining inconvenience.

He’s an amiable young man on his Grand Tour. She’s the spitfire he can’t soon forget. Will he have to become a rake to tame the shrew? When the always amiable and well-behaved David, Viscount Penton, departed England with his relatives for a Grand Tour, he didn’t expect to be the only bachelor when they reached their final stop—Rome. Now that everyone but him is married, he’s determined to break out on his own. First he has to attend the come-out ball for his brother’s niece-by-marriage, though. Perhaps this is where he can be a bit of a bad boy. Where he can act like a rogue.

Billionaire. Single dad. My sworn enemy. Ryotaro Sazuki is the Japanese music legend who embarrassed me on the biggest stage of my life. Cold. Ruthless. Eyes of pure steel. He’s the last person I ever want to see again. So why is he the one running to me after I save an adorable little girl from bullies? Turns out, the sweet kid with the tawny-brown skin is Sazuki’s daughter.

One night. Two lines. Three lives changed forever. I swore off hockey players after my ex-husband's betrayal. So, when I hooked up with a cocky stranger at a party, I had a few expectations: No strings. No repeats. Because the guy I chose was Tucker Stag—Pittsburgh Fury enforcer and my ex's teammate. Oh, and those condoms he endorses? They don't work. Now I'm facing co-parenting with a man whose entire family smothers us, and I feel my hard-won independence slipping further away with every casserole and helpful suggestion. Tucker fights hard on the ice and plays harder off it.

Raven shifter Alan Petrov has faced down crime bosses in cities and fought ancient magical creatures in the far frozen north. Now he's taking his toughest assignment yet: going undercover at a day care for shifters in a sleepy town in Montana. Single mom and snowy owl shifter Kendra knows there's something off about the new help at Tiny Paws. Not only does he look more like a bouncer than a babysitter, he clearly doesn't understand diapers or dawdling. Instinct says her daughter is safe with him, but her heart definitely isn't.

They say youth is fleeting, but what if you could fake it for a little while longer—even forever? It’s possible thanks to the Crown Serum. As the twentieth anniversary for the world’s only legitimate wrinkle wonder cure approaches, newspaper reporter Goldie Hays lands an interview with its elusive maker, Sarah Crown. Too bad Goldie’s dealing with a broken heart at the same time. And to think, it was only a month ago on her fortieth birthday that she was saying “I love you” for the first time to her much younger boyfriend.

What happens when the secret you've kept for thirteen years walks through your door with a camera crew? ESSENCE: I've kept two secrets for thirteen years. The first: my grandmother's Christmas cookies contain actual magic—the kind that makes grown men cry memories and sick children smile miracles. The second: my daughter's "dead" father is Stefan Andersson, the celebrity chef who just walked into my bakery with Food Network cameras and enough sexual tension to melt snow in Vermont winter. One look at Maya and he knows.

Sheikh Khalid Al-Qasimi’s playboy ways have finally caught up with him. After creating a scandal during a diplomatic visit to America, Khalid is given a choice by his father—marry or face banishment. Rather than lose his family, Khalid bows to his father’s wishes but an outspoken American interrupts Khalid’s would-be wedding. Now Khalid has a new plan that might please his father, secure his inheritance and leave Khalid still able to go on with his life … he’ll take the beautiful American as his bride—and then his father will hate her so much he’ll beg Khalid not to get married after all.

Caitlyn aus Colorado ist wild, frei und lebt für die Berge. Lan aus Qingdao ist diszipliniert, zurückhaltend und gefangen zwischen Erwartungen, Prüfungen und Pflichtgefühl. Was mit einer höflichen E-Mail beginnt, wächst schnell zu langen Nachrichten, heimlichen Mitternachts-Videochats und einer Nähe, die weder von Eltern noch von Schule vorgesehen war. Zwischen Fotos, Gesprächen und Geständnissen entsteht etwas Zartes, Intensives und Verboten-Schönes.

“Big Country.” That name—my name—had Dodger Stadium shaking when I won the World Series. Now they’re talking suspension? Please. I’m a national legend. The pride of NOLA. But the only thing dragging my six-foot-four frame into my Creole restaurant is her…Journey. That woman’s a walking challenge—sharp tongue, soft smile, and eyes that promise trouble. One look from me and she fumbles that cool facade. One look from her and suddenly I’m reconsidering every rule I’ve ever followed.

Luca DiBlanco has known me since I was a kid—and that’s all he’s ever seen me as. Until he shows up in Chicago when my world is crumbling and helps me piece it back together. Moving home to Valencia, Spain should have been a fresh start. Instead, it throws me right back into Luca’s orbit. Only now, the reliable, steady guy who’s always looked out for me… is looking at me. Differently. Closer. Like he’s tempted.

A spicy small-town enemies-to-lovers romance between a strong Black woman and a blue-eyed rancher with way too many secrets. Imani arrives in this dusty little town as part of her government-contracted job: Discover this small town’s scientific secrets—and keep it quiet. Then she meets him. Ajax. Six-foot-three of pure trouble with blue eyes, a busted-up heart, and enough family drama to fill a country song. He’s the oldest brother in his family of local celebrities—the one everyone warns her about. He glares instead of smiles.

Sanaa Baptiste grew up around violence. She knows how to stay alive, how to follow the rules, and when to break them. When she is forced to marry Mikhail Smirnoff, the heir to a Bratva empire, she plays along to stay safe. He does not trust her. He watches everything. Tests her limits. Tries to control her. But Sanaa is not easy to control and the more he tries, the harder it becomes to let her go. What starts as a power play turns into something messy, consuming, and dangerously addictive.

She’s a late-blooming Omega. They’re the three Alphas she was never meant to bond with. Now the academy that’s supposed to protect her might tear them apart. At twenty-one, Hope Whitmore is the oldest unregistered Omega in the country—flagged, marked, and transferred to Sanctuary Academy before she even understands what’s happening to her body. She doesn’t want a bond. She doesn’t want an Alpha. And she definitely doesn’t want three. But the moment she steps into Sanctuary, something shifts. A guarded professor. A quiet, commanding doctor. A loyal, rule-breaking student.

Plus-size Puerto Rican woman just trying to de-stress, but fate said “here, fall for the EMT.”

Fans of Jasmine Guillory and Helen Hoang will adore this irresistibly engaging story of two Filipino celebrities caught between everything they want…and everything they are. How do you follow your heart when it’s in two places? Filipino musician and producer Mon Mendoza has been in New York...

She thought she was just another woman trying to make sense of her life. She never imagined she was born to rule. When Ayana Brooks inherits her great-grandmother’s estate in rural Georgia, she uncovers a secret buried beneath generations of silence—her bloodline traces back to Ghana’s royal Ashanti dynasty. With only a letter, a pendant, and a journal of memories, Ayana sets out on a journey across the ocean to reclaim the truth of who she is. In Ghana, she is received not as a visitor, but as a long-lost heir to the Obeng throne.

“A delightful romantic comedy debut!” —Olivia Dade, USA TODAY bestselling author of Zomromcom and Spoiler Alert “An excellent and unique premise...San Andres’s love for Regency romance comes through.” —Library Journal Fans of The Regency Vows and For the Love of Austen series will...

Gordon Parker is just an eager 18-year-old Australian boy desperate to fight for his country, and Nobuko 'Cherry' Sakuramoto is a 16-year-old girl struggling to survive in Japan in the aftermath of World War II. But when they fall in love, they change the course of history. When Gordon arrived in Japan, he expected ruthless samurai, angry Japanese men ready to kill Australians at every corner. Instead, he found Cherry, terrified of ex-enemy soldiers, a 16-year-old survivor of the atomic bomb. Against all the rules and against all odds, they fall in love.

Marcus Tate has it all — a high-paying executive job, a white C8 Corvette, a winning smile, and a new life in Northern California that seems built for pleasure. At twenty-nine, this ambitious Black bachelor leaves the flatlands of North Florida for the rolling hills and wild passions of the Bay Area.

When blacksmith Leif Thorinsson quite literally falls into her life through a mysterious rift, her carefully ordered world begins to unravel. With calloused hands and smoldering eyes, Leif is everything Mei shouldn’t want…and everything she’s never dared to crave.

It's been five long years since we last saw one another. Five years since I threatened him with divorce papers that never materialized. Five years since, he torched my body, tortured my soul, and walked out, leaving me alone. Though I have gone on with my life with another, I will never forget how he breathed life into my body, made me cry with the faintest thrust, and brought a smile to my lips on the hardest days.