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Caleb Carr might have once been ready for commitment, but when the unexpected slams into him with the force of a two-ton truck, he knows he has to run away from anything that might be important. Zoey might well be his final temptation, but to keep her whole, he’ll walk away. Zoey Wager has loved Caleb since they were eight. And has had her heart broken from afar repeatedly ever since. It doesn’t help that every time she sees him - even when she’s running away halfway across the world - he’s with another woman.

Devin Carr likes his life. He likes his job, his family, the outlook for his future. Then he meets her. Erin. As soon as he sees her, drunk and wearing a sequined dress as her world crashes down around her and she fights to put on a brave face, he knows what he’s been missing. Her. When Erin Taborn finds her husband banging the former head cheerleader of their graduating class at their high school reunion, she tells herself she’ll be fine. She just needs to figure out what fine means. There’s only one problem. Devin. She didn’t plan on him.

Professing her love to her best friend while wearing only her favorite panty set and coat probably wasn’t the best decision Amelia Carr has ever made. In fact, it’s perhaps the worst. But when her family becomes their overprotective selves while encroaching on her life, she makes a rash decision: Her brother’s best friend will just have to be her beard. Too bad he has no idea what he’s in for.

The nice boy from the After series leaves Washington behind to start over in New York City, where new beginnings and an unexpected college romance test his heart and his idea of happily ever after in a spinoff from the worldwide phenomenon After series. “I’m so excited for everyone to get to...

A steamy, coming-of-age, second chance, rock star romance. “She ripped out my heart and threw it away". Tyson Rainier had only one way out - leading his band Less than Zero (LTZ) to the top. Stardom, success, touring the world – all his dreams were about to come true until Zoey Pearson gave him a new dream. And passion beyond anything he thought possible. Absolutely nothing could have prepared him for it to end. Abruptly. Definitively. Crushingly. His songs of heartbreak made LTZ the biggest band in the Universe. Ty does anything he can to put the life he had with Zoey behind him.

Emma and Luke are as different as business suits and dirty gardening tools. Get all the feels as they learn they have more in common than they assume.

Reese is a programmer and tech geek who was confined to a wheelchair at a young age. Since then she has locked herself away from the outside in her virtual world - until a chance meeting with an ex-punk rocker girl, Sarah, teaches her that her world is not defined in five feet or less.

Meet Prinny, Chelsea and Diana. Prinny is the owner of Cosmos, a shop that sells crystals, potions, candles, and hope. It’s also a place where no one turns down a little extra-special cocktail that can work as a romance potion or heal a broken heart. But Prinny is in love with her married...

For Long Island native Humaira Mirza, it’s always been about love – and she has the matchmaking track record to prove it. Having successfully found ‘the one’ for both her aunt and her sister, the twenty-three-year-old is ready to claim a bit of romance for herself. The perfect candidate? The gorgeous Rizwan Ali. But as Humaira employs her unique skills to obtain the perfect match with Rizwan, she’s forced to endure the disapproval of family friend Fawad Sheikh who she’s known forever. 

A steamy, new adult, friends-to-lovers, rock star romance. “She snuck up on me and stole my heart"... Sexy drummer Jace Deveraux used his marketing genius to help propel Less Than Zero (LTZ) to the top. Friends-with-benefits was the only thing he was capable of. Until free-spirited social media influencer Alexandria LeRoux made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Their secret, spontaneous global hookups were decadent, erotic, extraordinary. For the first time in his life, Jace wants it all. Including a future with Alex. Will one fateful night destroy his chance with Alex forever?

An exhilarating story of passion’s unexpected twists and turns from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. Megan Miller didn’t put her own dreams on hold to run the family amusement park just to have some arrogant, sports car-driving, California businessman take it all away. Plus, Joyland Amusement Park is her grandfather’s life—and he’s all Megan has left in the world.

For some, suffering less is as close to being happy as they’ll ever get. Alessa Dean is a girl who’s used to suffering. She was someone’s daughter, sister, niece. She was whole...once. Now, she’s got nothing left to lose and a choice to make that could change her life forever. A choice given to her by three men who belong to the Wayward Kraken motorcycle club. Three men who give her a way out and a chance to start over. Will she take that chance and possibly find the ability to not only love someone else once again, but to love herself?

"I’ve made promises I’m struggling to keep." Because my past is too dark and painful. Zoey is everything to me, my beautiful soulmate. I can’t bear for her to think I’m broken. But pressure’s building and I’m losing control. "My life with Ty is idyllic." This past year has been everything I dreamed about and more. It’s just—I can’t shake this feeling. Something’s going on with my fiancé. I can’t help but wonder, is he hiding something from me? Will his past demons prevent our perfect future? Happily ever after can mean so many things.

“My mistakes nearly cost me everything, including my life.” Carter Pope is a rock superstar on the rise. His band Limelight catapulted him into a world of fame and excess. Meeting his soul mate was not in his plan. Neither was having a son at age 19. When he succumbs to a crippling addiction? It’s all gone in an instant. Now he’ll do anything to redeem himself and reclaim his family.

“I vowed nothing would keep us apart...” Fiona Reynolds is my other half. It’s been that way from the day I was born. I’ve dedicated my life to keep my promise. Fate just laughs in our face. She’s always out of reach, this time for good. I’ll do anything to prove she’s my destiny—if only she’d trust me one more time.

In the bingo card of life, Piper Delmonico did not expect to mark out the squares "widowed" and "sober" before her ten year high school reunion. Pushing 30, designing lingerie for a manager who wouldn't know silk from satin, and constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, she finds herself face to face with someone who witnessed, first hand, the very public demise of her good girl reputation. Thrown together a decade later, Piper expects "Marble Man" Fitz Westfall, the golden boy with the stoic face, to be another person telling her she's too much.

Denny James is a successful composer in Los Angeles. One night at a gig with his progressive rock band he meets a stunning, talented singer, and is surprised at their instant connection. As they spend time together he begins to suspect that she may be a vampire tied to a 400 year old curse. Even more frightening, he may be a part of it.

Everything has always come to Jake West easily. But when Amy, the girl obsessed with him, commits suicide, the entire town of Raynesville is quick to blame Jake. Now Amy's cousin, Dani, has moved into town. And suddenly Jake has an obsession of his own.

Bad Guy oder Mr. Nice? Landons Leben in New York ist ein abgefahrenes Abenteuer. Immer noch steht er zwischen zwei ganz unterschiedlichen Frauen. Mit Dakota verbinden ihn eine lange Geschichte und viele besondere Erfahrungen. Nora zieht ihn magisch an und fasziniert ihn auf eine Art und Weise, die ihn irritiert. Doch für wen soll er sich entscheiden? Ist es seine Geschichte, die zählt, oder sein Verlangen? Julian Horeyseck liest Landon, Bettina Storm den Part von Nora.

Bad Guy oder Mr. Nice? Landons Leben in New York ist ein abgefahrenes Abenteuer. Immer noch steht er zwischen zwei ganz unterschiedlichen Frauen. Mit Dakota verbinden ihn eine lange Geschichte und viele besondere Erfahrungen. Nora zieht ihn magisch an und fasziniert ihn auf eine Art und Weise, die ihn irritiert. Doch für wen soll er sich entscheiden? Ist es seine Geschichte, die zählt, oder sein Verlangen? Julian Horeyseck liest Landon, Bettina Storm den Part von Nora.