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Dear Grumpy Horrible Boss, You suck as a lawyer. I don't even know how you passed the bar. Or how you sleep at night taking clients like Jack Whittington. Just in case you didn't know, you can't fire me just because I have a part-time job working bachelor parties. What I do on the weekend is none of your business and not a part of my employment contract. If I want to go back to wearing coconut bikinis and popping out of cakes, I can. As soon as I get my big break as an actress, I will be leaving your employ. I am literally counting down the days.

I'm not supposed to do this job without Boone. We may not share genes, but it's been us against the world since his mom took me in as a toddler. The rowdy O'Sullivan boys who raised all the hell that Vegas could handle. Not that all my memories are wild and make my heart race. After all, I realized I was in love with the bastard at some point, so there's been plenty of pathetic yearning and jealousy too.

A laugh-out-loud, escapist summer holiday rom-com, perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Beth O’Leary and Sophie Kinsella. Chloe needs a holiday. She’s invisible to her boss, overworked and burnt out. What she gets is a chaotic wellness retreat at a sun-drenched Ibizan villa, run by a man whose...

'SO much fun' MARIAN KEYES, author of GROWN UPS 'Fresh and funny' BETH O'LEARY, author of THE ROADTRIP 'A sunny caper set in the Scottish Highlands...a real spritz' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Perfect sweet spot of funny and moving' STYLIST STYLIST 'BEST NEW FICTION' COSMOPOLITAN 'BEST BOOKS'...

YOUR NEW FAVOURITE SECOND-CHANCE ROM COM FROM ROMANCE AUTHOR, SOPHIE JO. Jonah and Liv haven't said a single word to each other since their university break-up five years ago. Jonah doesn't need control-freak Liv in his life, and Liv certainly doesn't need hyper-independent, stubborn Jonah in...

Top-tier lawyer Zev Brady is not in control. Ever since a half-naked heiress fell out of a tree and onto his head, the carefully crafted order in his life has gone berserk. One moment, he was at a wedding his bossy sister, Azura, had forced him to attend, and the next, he had Isla Valehart in his arms. Now, the paparazzi have popped up out of nowhere, and they've caught him with a mostly naked millionaire darling in his arms. And if that wasn't bad enough, Azura insists there's only one solution to the problem: Fake date Isla Valehart until the paparazzi leave her alone.

Mattie Thorne has been on the run from her parents for almost two years. She's being chased by a ruthless mercenary named Ghost, but somehow, she always manages to escape his capture attempts. Until one day, her time is finally up. Mattie "The Bunny" Thorne ends up well and truly captured by the enigmatic, blue-eyed Ghost, and it seems like her freedom might be lost. But then she glimpses something unexpected in her handsome captor—empathy. Taking a chance, Mattie offers him a deal: Help her ruin her billionaire parents, and she will pay him four million dollars.

Azura has to chase down a crime syndicate of lumberjacks. As bizarre as that sounds, it's her only lead to help her brother, Dr. Amos Brady, and some of her wealthiest clients. Despite her deep misgivings about nature and relaxation as a whole, she goes all in and rents a cabin in a Colorado national forest to go undercover. But when a hiking excursion goes wrong, she stumbles right into the arms of a masked man who is as terrifying as he is enticing. 

Kate is enjoying being engaged - that it's a hoax is beside the point. To succeed at her ultra-conservative finance job she needs to reform her flighty, party-girl reputation, and a good old fashioned marriage of convenience is exactly what she needs to put her one step closer to the promotion of her dreams. But when Adam, Kate's best friend from high school, arrives for a visit, her perfect arrangement suddenly isn't so perfect anymore.

Sebastian Prescott once had it all. A promising career as an Olympic-bound snowboarder, money, and a bright future. But a devastating knee injury sent him on a decade-long downward spiral, capped off by losing his prestigious job. And Sebastian places the blame for getting fired entirely on the shoulders of Kayla Bristowe, the woman who worked directly under him—and the subject of his fantasies.

Josy hat es geschafft - sie hat den Job bei einer großen Agentur in Tokio bekommen. Prompt verlässt sie Los Angeles und fliegt nach Japan. Doch die Zusage stellt sich als Missverständnis heraus. Eigentlich soll der 32-jährige Joe, Sohn eines britischen Milliardärs, die Stelle besetzen. Da hilft nur eins: Die beiden müssen gegeneinander antreten. Wer die bessere Werbekampagne entwirft, darf bleiben. Josy ist fest entschlossen und will diesen Schnösel Joe schlagen. Doch so schnöselig ist Joe gar nicht.

Texas 1893: Neill, der jüngste der Archer-Brüder, träumt davon, finanziell endlich auf eigenen Füßen zu stehen. In dem kleinen Ort Dry Gulch will er sich genug Geld für eigenes Ackerland verdienen. Doch es ist gar nicht so einfach, das Vertrauen der Einheimischen zu gewinnen und einen Job zu finden. Zum Glück spielt ihm ein Unbekannter einen Zettel zu: Dachdecker benötigt, um Heim von Witwe zu reparieren. Da ihm jede Arbeit recht ist, beschließt Neill, die Frau aufzusuchen. Leider gestaltet sich der Empfang alles andere als vielversprechend.

Lust - or is it love - at first sight. Ex-police detective Mike Carlton considers bodyguard work a necessary evil - it pays the bills. But he changes his mind as soon as attorney Gwyn Wells waltzes into his office. A stalker? Yes, he'll guard her all night long if necessary. All he has to do is convince this uptight attorney with a fondness for Italian shoes and a propensity for getting in trouble, that he's The Man for the Job...and the man for her.

“My perfect summer read! Sure to be one of the sweetest, funniest, and sexiest books of the year.” —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation Named a Best Beach Read by Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, Bustle, Country Living...

Da in der Kanzlei Annas unmittelbare Enttarnung als Telefonsexgöttin durch den F...-Harald droht, macht sie sich kurzerhand auf die Suche nach einem neuen Job. Aber das entpuppt sich als ziemliche "Mission Impossible", denn gute Jobs sind ebenso rar wie Millionäre mit Hang zu ausgefallenen Sexspielchen.

Covenant Gap left Marcella in a very dark place. Is it all Captain Mike Phelan's fault? She has decided to live with her choice to marry him. Can they work it out, just the two of them?

Lindsay has never been so alone in her life. After a private investigator exposes her, she's on the run once more. Her bottomless bag of tricks is empty, and she's filling it to the brim with regrets and mistakes. As danger builds, Lindsay can't stop thinking about her dominant bosses. Maybe Romeo, Hawthorne, and Slade could save her.

Faye is laser-focused on one thing, and one thing only. Her dream job of becoming a fashion designer. In the meantime, to pay the bills, she'll have to keep juggling multiple odd jobs—one of which she's a wedding stopper. So, when her best friend Ralph tells her he's been lying to his boss about Faye being his girlfriend, she wants to strangle him. She has no time to play a rom-com plot, let alone go to a destination wedding for a whole weekend. Still, she agrees to play the role because, well, that's what friends do.

Paige, la productrice de l'émission, est ambitieuse, têtue, et elle déteste Gannon, ses œillades pseudosensuelles et ses caprices de diva. Mais Paige s'est jurée de rester professionnelle coûte que coûte.

Click is a contemporary romance set in the world of international modelling, where you can never be too beautiful or too skinny. But ask yourself, is beauty really only skin deep? Jay Miller is the hottest thing on the planet right now; photographer’s assistant Mia, is done with pretty boys, until she finds herself stranded on a deserted island with the sex-god himself, that is.