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Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, but tragedy grounded his dreams. Now the dust has settled, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But when he meets Morgan Lee, his world is turned upside-down, and Colby can't help but wonder if the responsibilities he has shouldered need dictate his life forever. Morgan is on her way to Nashville with plans to become a star and she wants Colby to come with her. While they are falling headlong in love, Beverly is on a heart-pounding journey of another kind. 

#1 New York Times bestseller Kelley Armstrong returns to the captivating town of Rockton in The Deepest of Secrets, the next installment in one of the most imaginative crime series on shelves today. "This is a series that covers all the bases.” —St. Louis Post Dispatch It’s not always easy...

Eleanor Sharpley has been living a lie. Needing to escape her London life quickly, Eleanor throws her things into the back of her car, and heads to her erstwhile best friend Charlie’s family farm. But Charlie isn’t there. Instead she finds Charlie’s grieving brother, Daniel, her eight-month-old daughter, Hope (a daughter Eleanor had known nothing about) and a crumbling and unloved Damson Farm.

Number one New York Times bestselling author Jocko Willink’s fast-paced thriller Final Spin is a story of love, brotherhood, suffering, happiness and sacrifice – a story about life. Johnny . . . Shouldn’t be in a dead-end job. Shouldn’t be in a dead-end bar. Shouldn’t be in a dead-end...

Julian Remington kennt tausend Gründe, warum Liebe scheitert. Isla Santana liefert ihm den einen Grund, es trotzdem zu versuchen. Die neue Serie von Bestsellerautorin Marie Force Julian Remington ist einer der erfolgreichsten Scheidungsanwälte von Los Angeles – und überzeugter Single. Aufgewachsen im Kreuzfeuer eines jahrelangen Sorgerechtsstreits seiner Eltern, hat er geschworen, sich niemals auf die Liebe einzulassen.

Fasziniert beobachtet Dameon von seinem Hotelfenster aus eine bezaubernde Frau im Abendkleid. Sie wechseln Blicke, dann ist sie verschwunden. Der attraktive Bauunternehmer ist mehr als überrascht, als er die schöne Unbekannte unter ganz anderen Umständen wiedersieht – als selbstbewusste Ingenieurin, die über sein neuestes Projekt zu entscheiden hat.

Annikas Leben steht Kopf. Eine unbekannte Tante hat sie als Alleinerbin eingesetzt – aber nur, wenn sie in den kleinen Ort Maasholm an der Schlei zieht und die Bonbonkocherei der Familie weiterführt. Sie entscheidet sich für den Neuanfang, obwohl ihre Tochter in Stuttgart bleibt. Bald wird Annikas Laden zu einem Anziehungspunkt, denn es spricht sich herum: Hier erhält jeder die Bonbons, die er gerade besonders braucht.

Cal Stephanides, amerikanischer Diplomat, lässt uns an seiner ungewöhnlichen Lebensgeschichte teilhaben. In einem griechischen Bergdorf fängt alles an. Ein junger Mann und eine junge Frau, Bruder und Schwester, fliehen vor den Türken nach Smyrna und, als die Stadt brennt, weiter nach Amerika. Es ist das Jahr 1922.

Secrets lie on the bookshop shelves in this cozy, compelling family mystery for readers of The Lost Bookshop and The Keeper of Stories! ‘I didn’t want to stop reading this book. It had me hooked’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A gorgeous, emotional, and uplifting literary mystery perfect...

Three men. One freezing night. Zero chance I'm walking away from this unscathed. When a brutal frost threatens to wipe out my flower farm, my neighbors show up at 2 AM like they've been waiting for an excuse. Tarps. Heaters. Flashlights cutting through the dark. And three bodies I've spent a...

One dead millionaire, one dead intruder, and a detective whose only path forward means exposing the secrets of Bar Harbor's wealthy elite. Detective Brock Justice never imagined the glittering coastal town of Bar Harbor would be his next battleground. When multimillionaire Granville Warren and...

I ran from my past...straight into the arms of a pack of cowboys. When my best friend wanted to go on a road trip to find her father, I jumped at the chance to leave my parents in the dust. By the time we land in the town of Brackenridge, we're broke and have to do the last thing I've ever...

In a small fictional town, a highway patrol officer for years, helped enforce an unwritten script one that judged vehicles not by the driver’s actions, but by the color, style, and assumptions attached to them as they rolled down the highway. What looked like routine traffic enforcement was often something far darker: prejudice disguised as policy, bias dressed up as training, and white supremacy hidden behind a badge, a clipboard, and the language of public safety. But on one bright afternoon, when the rubber finally meets the road, a so-called routine traffic stop becomes a moral collision.

Retribution on Tap is a hard-edged noir novella steeped in neon light, stale smoke, and bad decisions that echo long after last call. When an old wound reopens behind the bar of a neighborhood dive, what starts as a quiet night spirals into a reckoning soaked in memory, regret, and blood. Every pour carries a price. Every choice leaves a mark.

From the award-winning author of Dearborn, a tragicomic story collection that moves between Lebanon and Michigan, exploring migration, war, family, and the enduring pull of home. In a village haunted by unexploded cluster bombs, a chorus of matriarchs obsess over a poet-turned-mayor who...

While fishing in a remote Canadian wilderness park, a former U.S. Army captain, Roger Cummings, witnesses the murder of a man and the abduction of a woman. The woman escapes her captors and asks for Roger's protection. Roger and Janeene flee by canoe but are pursued by a killer. In a gruesome battle the killer is critically wounded, but vanishes into the wilderness, while Roger and Janeene are rescued by U.S. Park Rangers.

Eine geheimnisvolle Liebesgeschichte zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit – ungekürzt gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Über das Hörbuch: Mit „Germelshausen" schrieb Friedrich Gerstäcker eine der berühmtesten deutschen Sagen-Novellen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die kurze, eindrucksvolle Geschichte inspirierte später sogar das Broadway-Musical Brigadoon. Ein junger Maler gerät auf einer Wanderung zufällig in ein abgelegenes Dorf namens Germelshausen – und verliebt sich in die schöne Dorfbewohnerin Gertrud.

Gayle is a highly successful and motivated business woman, but her success has come at a price - she hasn’t spoken to her daughters, Ella and Samantha, for years. But when Gayle has an accident at work, she realises she needs to make amends with her family. And so she invites herself to join Ella and Samantha for their Christmas in the beautiful Scottish Highlands. The sisters are none too pleased that their mother has inserted herself into their Christmas plans. They have each other - and don’t need their mother back in their lives. Or so they think....

Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain, unwilling to let summer's partying end. American heiress Amanda Fortini is one such thrill-seeker - until she heads out for a morning swim and doesn't return.

Layla Dupree has given up on love. She’s waded through all of the fish in the sea, each one more disappointing than the last. Apparently owning the bakery at Inglewild’s most romantic destination does not help one’s love life—despite her best efforts. All she wants is a partner who gives her butterflies, not someone who ghosts her at dinner and leaves her with the check. Good thing Caleb Alvarez has the perfect solution. After saving Layla from another date gone bad, he has a simple proposition: one month of no-strings dating.