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Avery has always been shy. So shy, her best friend, Jess, convinces her it’s to her detriment and that she should sign up for the confidence retreat Jess attended last year. But when Avery reluctantly allows Jess to sign her up and shows up at the hotel, she realizes Jess left out quite a few important details about the retreat. For example, that Avery would be sharing a room with one of the retreat hosts for the duration. And more importantly, that those hosts are strippers.

Why was he here? It could only mean one thing . . . They were coming for me because Liam was never supposed to find me . . . ever. I'd been a puff of smoke for so long. A ghost. Now . . . Yesterday, I had this hope I could have a future with Raid and the Ravage MC. Today, my world is shattered by his arrival. One man from the past and one man from the present colliding in an explosion of jealousy, possessiveness, and maybe . . . love? Both want nothing more than to protect me and I could be their very demise. Except, these two men aren't strangers. Raid and Liam share a past all their own.

Ich wollte nie jemanden verletzen. Chloe war meine beste Freundin und wir sind nie vor einer Pflichtaufgabe zurückgeschreckt. Doch das eine Mal, dass sie es tat, habe ich es nicht zugelassen. Auch wenn es ein Unfall war, glaubt mir niemand. Ihre Bestrafungen schmerzen. Besonders seine. Ihr Bruder, der Eishockey-Captain, bei dem ich einst dachte, aus uns könnte eines Tages mehr werden. Jetzt hasst Wes mich auch. Und er macht keinen Hehl daraus.

Everyone knows the golden rule of business—don’t bang your business partner. Especially if he’s your brother’s hot-as-sin, hockey-star best friend. But when the sexy single dad athlete saves me from a cake contest catastrophe—and shows me how good he is with his hands—I blurt out the world’s worst business pitch: Want to invest in my bakery?

When Dallas Westbrook is forced to the dugout after an injury ends his professional baseball career, he’s offered the position of head coach for the team that built him. But he’s barely able to find his footing before a brutal season puts him on temporary leave. Dallas is known for impulsive decisions both on and off the field. So when the opportunity arises to be the father to his daughter he always wishes he’d had, he decides to take it...even though it means picking up his life and going to Wyoming. Living in Bluestone Lakes was never supposed to be permanent—until he meets his neighbor.

It was supposed to be an easy job: keep an eye on Myles until I'm sure he's not a threat to us, then forget he exists and go back to living my life. But the more I observe him, the more I realize that Myles is unlike anyone I've ever known, and toying with him is just as much fun as watching him. I want things from him I've never wanted before, and the more I watch him, the more I'm sure he wants them too. He just doesn't want to want them.

Caitlin Hewitt has been engaged to Brandon Dodds for what feels like forever. She is in love and believes he loves her. The night before the wedding her best friend, Sophie, tells her something that changes everything. It was a normal Saturday for paramedic, Jay O'Connor. If he ignored the fact that Caitlin Hewitt, the woman he loved was, at that moment, marrying another man. Jay expected the call-out to attend a young woman who had crashed her car in the middle of Leytonsfield town center, to be routine. The last person he expected to see was Caitlin—in her wedding dress.

Charley Meadows has lost nearly everything she loves. Needing to calm her mind and get away from the heartache, Charley abandons the place she’s always called home. But she never expected to have her newfound peace disrupted by Wes Blackman. Snowboarder extraordinaire turned business owner, Wes has been putting in hours to keep his company as the industry leader in snowboard production. With a board launch on the horizon, Wes finds himself back on the mountain. What he hadn't expected to find was a mysterious girl with a battered heart.

Dar Roberts, corporate raider for a multi-national tech company, is cold, practical, and merciless. She does her job with razor-sharp accuracy. Friends are a luxury she cannot allow herself, and love is something she knows she'll never attain. Kerry Stuart left Michigan for Florida in an attempt to get away from her domineering politician father and the constraints of the overly conservative life her family forced upon her. After college she worked her way into supervision at a small tech company, only to have it taken over by Dar Roberts's organization.

I need this job. Not for ambition or pride—but because my father’s medical bills don’t pay themselves, and I stopped believing in safety nets a long time ago. Becoming assistant to Roman King—billionaire CEO, untouchable powerhouse, and emotionally walled-off—isn’t a dream. It’s survival. He thinks I’m too young. Too soft. A risk he didn’t sign up for. But I’ve spent my whole life being responsible, making the careful choice. And working for Roman? It’s the first time I’ve ever felt reckless. Because when his gaze lingers, when his control slips, something breaks open in both of us.

My life is a prison of protocols and paparazzi—an occupational hazard of being a princess of England. When I publicly refuse the “perfectly suitable”–and painfully boring match my parents are pushing on me, I’m banished to our family’s remote Irish estate until I come to my senses… Unfortunately for my pearl-clutching mother, I’m exposed to a whole different type of senses when I accidentally stumble upon Reveal, Ireland’s most exclusive “club”–and straight into the hands of its darkly devastating owner.

Kate Ardleigh is everything the Victorian English gentlewoman is not - outspoken, free-thinking, American...and a writer of the frowned upon penny dreadfuls. Soon after her arrival in Essex, England, a body is unearthed in a nearby archeological dig - and Kate has the chance to not only research her latest story but to begin her first case with amateur detective Sir Charles Sheridan.

Jamie Fraser knows from his time-traveling wife Claire that, no matter how unlikely it seems, America will win the Revolutionary War. But that truth offers little solace, since Jamie realizes he might find himself pointing a weapon directly at his own son - a young officer in the British army. And Jamie isn't the only one with a tormented soul - for Claire may know who wins the conflict, but she certainly doesn't know whether or not her beloved Jamie survives.

Never Have I Ever been so infuriated by a man I wanted to kiss. They say opposites attract, but I beg to differ. Combust is more like it. Because every single time I talk to Zach Nolan, I see red. The too-good-looking, too-smart, too-effortlessly-charming single dad who works down the hall from me has turned getting under my skin into a sport. Call it the battle of wits between the wedding planner and the divorce attorney. Trouble is, when we’re forced into closer quarters, planning an engagement party for our best friends, I start to see his other sides....

Even before they fell in love, Sacha “Joker” Wilder had already changed Giovanni Galanos’s world—protecting him, making him laugh, and forcing him to face a truth he’d been avoiding. When violence erupts on the red carpet and their world is turned upside down, Gio is left reeling with guilt and fear that he could lose the man who means everything to him. But when the danger returns, Gio discovers a strength he never knew he had, because this time, he’s the only thing standing between Sacha and the man determined to destroy everything they’ve built together.

Ever since Colin Firth's Mr Darcy emerged from the lake in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, the novels of Jane Austen have become more popular than ever, delighting millions of fans all over the world. Now, Alison Larkin's critically acclaimed narrations of Austen's six completed novels are brought together in this very special 200th anniversary audio edition. "Alison Larkin's narration will captivate listeners from the first sentence" raves AudioFile magazine about the Earphones Award-winning recording of Sense and Sensibility, which starts the collection.

One girl, two lives. Dutiful daughter of the Duke of Elverston, on the one hand, a willful girl who learns to fight on the other. Her father has let her run wild as long as she never embarrasses him. And if she does? Consequences are likely to be swift and brutal. The wargen are fierce men who wear two faces: one wolf, one human. They're the monsters mothers warn their children about in Grania, and now four wargen princes have been sent there to strike a deal with the duke. But when they catch sight of the wild Darcy, everything changes.

What do a cocky biker and a businesswoman who has sworn off dating bad boys have in common? According to Chloe Mallery, not much. But Justin Wicked has had his eye on her for a long time, and he is sure the inescapable heat between them runs far deeper than just physical attraction. Could their difficult pasts be drawing them together, or will Justin’s protective nature be too much for Chloe’s independent heart to accept? Buckle up for a spectacular ride, and fall in love with Justin and Chloe in A Little Bit Wicked, a fun, sexy standalone romance.

London, 1664. Seventeen-year-old Elise de Lesseps wakes on the morning of her wedding, knowing her life is over. Sold into marriage to settle her father’s gaming debts, she’s bound to Lord Edward Asher—a man old enough to be her father and who harbors a twisted secret that will shatter her innocence forever. But when Elise meets James, Edward’s illegitimate son, her life is transformed by something neither of them expected: a love so powerful, it will cost them everything…

Creighton was a dangerous crime boss with a growing empire. And he’s a psychopath. He’s also obsessed with Blake. She wanted a normal life. That meant new friends and a life without Creighton. Except when Blake moves to New York for her senior year of college, Creighton follows because he knows that danger is close behind. He has always protected Blake, and he always will protect her, even if Blake hates how ruthless Creighton has become for her.