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Olivia Duran has made being a TV fangirl her life. Creating fan art sure beats her job as a parking lot attendant, and immersing herself in fictional worlds where girl gets girl helps her cope with her less-than-happy reality. If anyone deserves a little escapism, it’s Olivia. Queer entertainment influencer Riley St. James has a huge following and an even bigger secret that could tank her career. Somewhere along the way her love for TV turned into a job that pays the bills. She’s never told anyone she sometimes has to fake it.

Taylor, a physical trainer, has just inherited her grandfather’s B&B on Maui, but there’s a catch. She can’t have the deed until the day after her one-year wedding anniversary. She’d rather stick a fork in her eye than get hitched, but the B&B is a dream come true. So all she has to do is find a woman who will agree to fake a marriage. How hard can it be?

One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating social and economic costs of job insecurity. It is also false. In this book, leading expert Pavlina R. Tcherneva challenges us to imagine a world where the phantom of unemployment is banished and anyone who seeks decent, living-wage work can find it - guaranteed.

There's only one person who would take me in after leaving my fiancé—my brother Axel. Unfortunately, he’s not the one who answered the door on that wintery Valentine’s night. That was his best friend and roommate, Reid Wilder. Copper-colored hair, dark eyes, and the number eight tattooed on his bicep. I should have turned around when he mistook me for a puck bunny and invited me in. I definitely should have said no to the drink he offered while I waited. But the biggest mistake I made was climbing into his lap and kissing him.

We each have contact—however fleeting—with countless people each day about whom we know little to nothing. Join award-winning author Georgia Beers as she explores this very concept in Slices of Life, her first collection of connected short stories. Each story gives you a glimpse into the life of a character who happens to be a lesbian. Some are in love. Some are in trouble. Some are just going about their day. And at some point during that day, each character will cross paths with another, and then you’ll get a glimpse into her life.

When it comes to mistakes, social worker Madison Hewitt doesn’t do anything halfway. Her last relationship managed to break her heart and her professional prospects. Coming home to Providence is her chance to regroup, even if she’s always waiting for the other shoe to drop, in life and in love.

Following her turbulent divorce from her celebrity-chef ex-husband, Hannah Newsome is set on bringing about the change she knows her life needs. She’s a professionally trained chef in her own right, but the years she spent married have left her personal ambitions thrown to the wayside. When an opportunity to cook for an on-location camp of mountain loggers comes up, she can hardly find a reason not to take it. She knows that it may be a little below her skillset, but she also knows that this might just be the fresh start she’s been after.

A tortured antihero bound to a brutal contract. A broken heroine with a sharp tongue. A relationship that could save them both if she’ll allow it.

Lochlan Paige is one of the biggest stars in Nashville. With her gorgeous stage presence and pitch-perfect voice, she’s earned her countless awards and sold out shows. But being famous hasn’t changed the fact that her favorite place to write music is in the quiet confines of libraries. Everything changes the moment she meets college student Vanessa and her fast-paced, very closeted world of country music is turned upside down.

Chef Stef's passion for cooking is being severely tested. After a disastrous appearance on a cooking competition show, she is now known to the entire Internet as the Kitchen Bawler. Her ascent through the fine dining kitchens of New York City has been thoroughly derailed, but she's come up with a plan to get her career back on track. She'll make cooking videos on YouTube to foil the algorithm and overhaul her search engine results. One problem: she knows nothing about creating video content.

When Rowan Marks signs up to be a research subject in a study on sexual fantasies, she's not looking forward to baring her soul to PhD candidate and head researcher Genevieve Fielding. But she's running out of choices. Her fantasies are as unsettling as they are arousing, and she has to make them stop. Who better to help than the quietly gorgeous, future Dr. Sex-Fantasies-Are-My-Specialty?

I've spent my life under the control of one man, the leader of Serendee. What I eat. How I dress. When I sleep. I thought he knew best, that only he could lead me to Enlightenment. But after I learn about the truth of Serendee, what lies beneath the perfect surface, I see him for who he really is—a monster.

You deserve to have a relationship that meets your needs, helps you to grow, and forms a solid foundation for everything else in your life. If our relationships are unstable, we will struggle with many other areas in our lives. If, up until this point, you have struggled through the rocky terrain of relationships not knowing how to fix the problems you encounter, you might appreciate a map to show you the way.

Stevie Adams doesn’t believe in fate, not after losing her parents in a car crash. Now 28 and a star in the Chicago improv scene, Stevie puts career first. No one’s going to get in the way of her New York City dreams. When her friends beg her to tag along to go see Constance Russo, a deaf psychic, Stevie begrudgingly agrees, as long as no one makes her get a reading.

A tortured antihero bound to a brutal contract. A broken heroine with a sharp tongue. A relationship that could save them both if she’ll allow it. From Jordan Grant comes an enemies-to-lovers, 94,000-word romance that takes the listener on a wild ride of epic clap-backs, grade-A dirty talk, addiction, and loss.

Jenna’s ex-husband, Kevin, did a number on her when he filed for divorce, leaving her for another woman, turning her entire world on its head. Finding it difficult to get over the pain, Jenna resolves to get out of her own head by doing something for someone else begins to write letters to a soldier overseas.

Soon enough, her correspondence with Christopher slowly takes on a sensual tone as they begin to open up to each other about their innermost desires.

Here, presented in one volume, are the four stories that comprise the Owned Series, a seriously hot and provocative romance by Lucia Jordan, written in her signature style of high passion and emotion. Jennifer Klaus stares down, flustered, at the business card in her hand.... Mason Carmichael's name, a mysterious and sexy stranger, captures her gaze just like his gray eyes had captured Jennifer in the restaurant where she went looking for a new job. She can't bring herself to call him - he was both confident and intimidating

Lucia Jordan’s ultimate 10-book compilation includes: Dirty Secrets, Nights of Sin, Hidden Pleasures, Destiny, Bad Girl, Wild Hearts, Trembling, Hard Domination, Finding Passion, and Truly Irresistible. Buy Lucia Jordan’s Ten Dirty Secrets Book Set and get started on your journey to these romance stories.

Seriously...no...it can’t be. He always treated me like a dirty little secret. And now he’s my boss. Twelve years ago, John McQueen promised we’d stay friends after one delicious night together. It’s impossible to forget his godlike body and piercing blue eyes. But after being bullied so much, I couldn’t. Getting your heart broken time after time never feels good. What’s that saying? It hurts me to hate him, but loving him is worse. And now I have to work for him. I wonder if he’s still the same tempting, awful jerk I fell for.

Wealthy tech whiz Sena Abrigo has deep roots in the Arizona-Mexico borderlands. But when she marches into Owen Station on red-soled stilettos like she just walked off the cover of Vogue, she plans to pull this little town into the future. And she is used to getting exactly what she wants. First, she has to get past Hazel Butler.