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FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK AND WE BEGIN AT THE END. Everyone loves Summer Ryan. A model student and musical prodigy, she's a ray of light in the struggling small town of Grace, Alabama - especially compared to her troubled sister, Raine. Then Summer vanishes...

This is not a story of bad things happening to bad girls. I say this because I know you, Dex, and I know how you think. I'm going to tell you a story, and this time, it will be the truth. Hannah Dexter is a nobody, ridiculed at school by golden girl Nikki Drummond and bored at home. But in their...

Lora Weaver is having a bad day. She’s just come from another failed job interview after her recent move from New York to Montréal left her scrambling for work. She’s discouraged, nearly broke, and the dress she wore to impress is wilting in the sizzling summer heat. When she takes refuge in an adorable crowded café to de-stress with her prized Jane Austen novel, she encounters a handsome stranger. A stranger who sets to scribbling secrets in a journal mere inches away from her croissant and mochaccino glacé. Secrets she has no business knowing.

Une auteure de comédies romantiques qui ne croit plus en l'amour. Un écrivain renommé en panne d'inspiration. Lancés dans un défi, ces deux-là pourraient bien voir leurs convictions sur l'amour et le bonheur bouleversées à jamais... Augustus Everett est un écrivain talentueux, un écrivain "sérieux", le nouveau génie des lettres américaines. January Andrews ne compte plus les bestsellers qu'elle a publiés, mais dans un tout autre registre : la comédie romantique.

Eighteen-year-old Hannah Conroy has always dreamed of following in her father's footsteps as a healer. But in 19th-century England, the medical profession is closed to women. She sees midwifery as a back door into that world, but her fledgling career is crushed by personal tragedy. Seeking to escape a possible murder conviction in England, Hannah's world is turned upside down as she boards a boat bound for Melbourne.

For Lora Weaver, PI training is a snap. Literally. Her task is to snap a picture proving some sap is defrauding an insurance company on a disability claim. Easy peasy. Until that snap sets a whirlwind in motion that lands Lora at the picturesque Vieux Port dodging a kingpin crook dubbed Penguin and hoping she doesn't end up swimming with the fishes. On her way to becoming a full-fledged PI, Lora takes on the case of suspected insurance scammer Johnny—a warehouse worker currently collecting pretty cash and about to wed a pretty wife.

A deadbeat dad, a French flirt, and a meddling ex. Lora Weaver's new life is in for a bumpy start! Lora Weaver follows romance from New York to Montréal expecting to find a touch of Paris in North America—cobblestone streets, sidewalk cafés, fabulous shopping, and a little joie de vivre. Not dangerous liaisons. But, when she takes a job at a PI agency owned by a French brother and sister team, her life takes on more twists and turns than a Cirque du Soleil show.

It’s Valentine’s night and rookie PI Lora Weaver is on a case, dining at a secluded château, peering over her menu at another woman’s husband. The man is tall, dark, and handsome. And sitting three tables away playing footsie with a redhead ten years his junior. Lora’s job is to report back to the man’s wife about said goings on. A routine case, her dashing French ex-cop-turned-PI boss and faux date for the evening, Laurent, assures her.

Lora Weaver is throwing her first New Year’s bash in her new digs, and she wants everything to be perfect. She’s planned every detail from the food to the decorations. But what she didn’t plan on was trouble. Just one hour before the New Year is set to ring in, Lora stumbles across a mystery that may just take the fizzle out of the case of champagne she’s bought for the night’s festivities.

It’s three days before Christmas, and Lora Weaver is hefting a body into the trunk of a car. Not exactly how she expected to be spending her first French holiday. But who said playing elf with best friend Camille Caron was going to be easy?