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I can’t have Elijah Iverson. I can’t have him because he’s my older brother’s best friend. I can’t have him because I broke his heart five years ago; because he’s now engaged to someone else - someone kind and dependable who deserves his whiskey eyes, his soft mouth, his fierce intellect.

After being a soldier, working as a bodyguard should have been simple: Keep the owner of DC’s ultra-secret club safe, don’t think about his midnight eyes or his devil’s smile, don’t surrender my body to his wicked desires. But I underestimated Mark Trevena and the power of his dark, seductive world. I underestimated the hold he’d have on me, the way I would do anything for him at all. And so when he asks me to escort his soon-to-be bride home, I can only—miserably, broken-heartedly–say yes.

I'm not a good man, and I've never pretended to be. I don't believe in goodness or God or any happy ending that isn't paid for in advance. What do I believe in? Money. Sex. Macallan 18. They have words for men like me - playboy. Womanizer. Skirt chaser. My brother used to be a priest, and he only has one word for me: sinner.

Former presidential aide Ryan Belvedere has been drifting in a fog of misery ever since his president was killed, but he reluctantly agrees to do a favor for a friend--fetching a rare book from a crumbling manor house in England. There he meets Sidney Blount--a cold, sophisticated, Dominant--who's at the same house to appraise the family art. It doesn't take Sidney long to appraise Ryan too, and decide exactly what Ryan needs. Which just so happens to be the one thing Sidney wants to give...

When librarian Poe Markham takes the job at Thornchapel, she only wants two things: to stay away from Thornchapel’s tortured owner, Auden Guest, and to find out what happened to her mother 12 years ago...As Poe begins uncovering the house’s secrets, both new and old, she’s also pulled into the seductive, elegant world of Auden and his friends-and drawn to Auden’s worst enemy, the beautiful and brooding St. Sebastian.

Fate wasn't supposed to have plans for me. I'm an outcast, a loner. The boy named for death who never quite started to live. But then, Poe came back - the girl I once kissed in a thorn-covered chapel in the woods. She brought back memories long buried, and I could no more resist her than I could pry out my own heart. She brought up secrets and set rituals into motion. She brought me to the man who owns Thornchapel, Auden Guest. And then, she found the bones.

After being left at the altar by her cold and brilliant professor, Church Cason, Charlotte Tenpenny had to leave school to take care of her younger brother. But a fateful night brings Church—and his delicious, drugging kisses—back into Charlotte's life. And it stirs up a reckoning years in the making. . .

Frida ist fassungslos, als Kai sich von ihr trennt. Zum Glück kommt ihre Mutter Helli, die auf Nortrum lebt, zu Frida und nimmt sie mit auf die Nordseeinsel. Dort geht es Frida endlich besser und langsam heilen ihre Wunden. Auch die Nortrumer Männer interessieren sich viel mehr für Frida, als das jemals auf dem Festland der Fall gewesen ist. Dann taucht auch noch Kai wieder in ihrem Leben auf und Frida überlegt, ob sie ihm oder doch einem ganz neuen Leben auf Nortrum eine Chance geben soll.

I stand with Maddie and the rest of the Cole Corporation employees, waiting for whatever is about to happen next. I've never done any kind of team building before, and it fills me with a sense of dread. I don't know if it's my Englishness that makes me hate the forced bonding and too close contact or if everyone is feeling the same way, but I cannot wait for it to be over!

Simone: Adventures in Dating (Books 1-5) includes: Book 1 (The Billionaire): Simone meets a mysterious and charming billionaire who sweeps her off her feet. He might just be her perfect date - and more. But does he have a secret side? Book 2 (The Billionaire Revealed): Simone discovers the billionaire's secret, and it could be a deal breaker. Luckily, there's a sexy, down-to-earth cowboy waiting in the wings. But will his big, er…. hat be enough to keep her interested?

Grace weigert sich, ihre Zukunft von einer traumatischen Erfahrung bestimmen zu lassen. Sie will ihr Leben wieder in die Hand nehmen: auf Partys gehen, Männer daten und Spaß haben. Je besser sie ihn kennenlernt, desto mehr stellt sie fest, dass Cal charmant und verantwortungsbewusst ist. Doch Cal hat keine Zeit für die Liebe, er hat andere Prioritäten.

Love had cost her too much, so she poured everything into her career, building a name for herself as a sought-after private chef. Now, with her own kitchenware line on the verge of launching, she finally has the success she's worked so hard for. The past is behind her... until Kentrell Latimore walks back into her life. Kentrell made a painful decision years ago, one he thought was best at the time, but ultimately shattered the only love he'd ever known.

To family and friends, Simone Woodson has the perfect life. What else could she possibly want? Her husband, Jackson, is an accountant at a prestigious DC law firm. He provides for all her worldly desires. But behind closed doors brews a perfect storm. Betrayal and an insatiable need for intimacy are ripping Simone’s marriage apart.

It’s always easier giving advice than it is taking it. For Erica Brown, it’s no different. However, when you are a certified life coach and relationship expert, it might be a good idea to practice what you preach. Erica has learned one thing for sure...she knows what she doesn't want! About 99 percent of her clients all agree on one thing: "If they had known then, what they know now...they would not have gotten married". Things change when this tall, dark, and obviously financially anorexic stranger enters her life, showing her you should never judge a book by its cover.

Without love, marriage is just business. At least that's what Claudia Mason tells the women who seek her firm's unique services. With wealthy husbands who see their wedding rings as meaningless pieces of jewelry, they trust Claudia to do whatever is necessary to gather the hard evidence needed to shatter an ironclad pre-nup.

Budding musician Erin James knows all too well the noise of neglect and tragedy and that her infatuation with her best friend Sheridan’s brother, Sean, is doomed never to blossom into something more. Young builder Sean Murphy isn't really in the market for a relationship. He's more interested in helping build his father's construction company. Even if he were, his sister's best friend isn't on his radar. After Sheridan plays matchmaker, a date quickly flares into irresistible passion.

“Shouldn’t we introduce ourselves before we get divorced?” With these words, American grad student Breanne Smith cemented the attraction of Nicolas Brassard, French banker. But how can these two, with their diverging futures, make a life together? Through tragedy, heartbreak, and fear, Nick and Breanne forge an unbreakable bond that takes them from the American Midwest to the shores of France, and into a whirlwind romance that defies sense or reason.

From her first days at Virginia’s Hampton University, impressionable, creative Nia falls smitten with Chris Eidos Alleyne, an athlete and a scholar. “Love is sweet nothings and beautiful promises”, Nia writes in her journal. What her girlfriends know, and her mother doesn’t, is that Chris’s expression of love is deeply physical. Wielding powerful charisma, Chris soon has Nia abandoning innocence for experience.

Jake Stryker is the bad boy of country music. Tall, dark, and ruggedly handsome, he has the reputation of a party animal and enjoys all the perks of celebrity. His idyllic lifestyle was rocked by the news of his sister's death at the hands of her husband, Bobby. Jake took responsibility of his sister's twins, whilst Bobby was sent to jail.

Meet Yasir Patterson. He is an attractive Black business owner. He, along with his wife Taquia, run a tight ship not only regarding their businesses but their home life as well. At least that is what Taquia thought until Krista Coche steps on the scene. It's like living out a real-life Fatal Attraction. Find out who wins and who fails in this interracial urban drama.