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When I find Rowan Taylor's infant daughter abandoned outside the hospital I work at, both of our lives are instantly flipped upside down. I'm only in Aston until my travel nurse assignment is up in a few weeks, but when I realize the star goalie needs my help, I can't seem to walk away from him. Even though his daughter was abandoned, he finds himself having to prove to the courts that he can provide a stable life for her . . . and to help his case, he convinces me to pretend to be his fiancée. It's the perfect plan to make him look like the family man he needs to be to get custody.

It’s been two years since I left for college; the last time I saw Isla. But when she shows up on my doorstep, the last thing I’m expecting is old feelings to resurface. Growing up, we were friends, until everything started to shift. Our friendship turned into stolen kisses and forbidden touches, but we agreed it could never be anything more. Not when her brother was my best friend.

I didn’t come back to Aston to start something—I came to end it. Fix up my late aunt’s house, sell it, and get back to our lives. But the universe has other plans and I find myself standing face to face with the one person I've tried to forget.

August Whitley was just a fling–someone fun to spend my time with no strings attached. We broke things off before our feelings grew, but it was already too late. After leaving town, I swore to myself that I would never look back. And when I get surprising news, I’m completely committed to doing it alone. Until one night when he walks back into my life…

Falling for my best friend's brother was not a part of my plan . . . especially while I was pregnant with someone else's child. In my defense, I got pregnant by a guy who wants absolutely nothing to do with me or the baby. And, just when I thought things couldn't get worse, I find out that my health insurance covers nothing for maternity care. Being in this alone is scary enough, but trying to figure out how I'm going to pay for my medical care? That's a whole new level of terrifying.

Falling for my brother's best friend was not on my to-do list . . . But neither was kissing him the night before he was traded to a team across the country. Clearly, I didn't think things through and I spent the past decade trying to bury the memory of him. He left and I had no choice but to move on after he seemingly forgot about me. I dove headfirst into my career and after a failed relationship left me a single mom, I had no time for any other distractions that came my way.

In a Results-Only workplace, employees can do whatever they want whenever they want, as long as the work gets done. No more pointless meetings, racing to get in at 9:00, or begging for permission to watch your kid play soccer. You make the decisions about what you do and where you do it.

All Molly wants is to spend her time in Ronan's arms, but when he's away at sea for months at a time, she can't help but get into trouble. Now she'll have to suffer the consequences at Ronan's hand - a punishment she's all too keen on. But with him barely back a week, she's none too happy to hear he'll be leaving for another nine months away on the high seas, searching for a priceless treasure. When Molly hears that her ex-lover, Bjorn, has plans to go after the same treasure Ronan is hunting, she refuses to sit idly by....

Raised by human traffickers, I learned from an early age that the one person I can trust is myself. Rescued and brought to Thornbriar Academy, I've only traded one kind of imprisonment for another. When a scorching hot jaguar shifter and a scandalously hunky water shifter take me in, I start to believe I've found a home and a pack. Until I discover a devastating secret that just might get me - and them - killed.

The last thing that I want to be doing is tutoring Cameron Sawyer. When he asked for my help, I tried to resist, but tutoring another student would look good on my application for med school. That’s all he is—a means to an end. However, the more time that we spend together, the harder it is to ignore his charm. Cam is starting to grow on me, but I can’t get involved with him. We want two different things out of life; we’re on two separate paths. Our dreams can’t coexist and neither can our hearts. Even if they keep playing offsides.

Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It shows how the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) mindset can make you or your organization more entrepreneurial, more connected with the broader trends in your industry, and more willing to take smart risks. It explains how to set clear expectations and focus on the endpoint as opposed to managing the process that gets you there.

After my mother was diagnosed with cancer last year, she has been on my siblings and me to get married. Afraid that her time is running out, she just wants to be here for all of the milestones in our life. I’m the last one left, the one who doesn’t even have a girlfriend. My family knows that my life is invested in hockey, yet they still continue to push. I can’t show up at my brother’s wedding alone and deal with their disappointment. Instead, I need to find someone who will pretend to be my girlfriend for the week. Sydney Phillips is the perfect candidate.

After a nasty break-up with her ex, moving to Orchid Beach was like a breath of fresh air. Harper landed a brand new job as a sports photographer for a professional hockey team. It was just what she needed to get away from everything she had ever known. One drunken night at a club had her sneak into another room with a stranger. But that stranger ended up being no one other than Nico Cirone. The star rookie player for the Orchid City Vipers. The same team that she was now working for.

After experiencing a nasty break-up during my freshman year, there is one type of guy that I refuse to get involved with: anyone from the university’s hockey team. Hayden King is arrogant and has a reputation for being a playboy. There isn’t a single thing about him that I like. Then one drunken summer night turns into a bad decision with Hayden, one that I swear I’ll never make again. But once senior year starts, I can’t seem to get away from him. He’s everywhere I go, everywhere I turn. He’s under my skin and I find myself making mistake after mistake with him.

Qu'on se le dise, qu'on se l'enchante, par les temps qui courent en accéléré-à-reculons, s'adonner au merveilleux constitue un acte politique. Une escouade de résistants poétiques se sont mis à l'œuvre dans le plus grand secret. Réunis plus ou moins télépathiquement pour une mission de la plus haute importance amusante : s'émerveiller suffisamment fort pour que le bleu de la flamme de leurs souvenirs d'enfance puisse éclairer vos nuits.

The last thing I expected was to find my boyfriend in bed with one of my best friends. Their betrayal sent me on the next flight back to my hometown in Vermont. The plan was to take the summer to find myself. No dating and no distractions. But when my brother's roommate asks me to come to Canada with him for the summer, I find myself saying yes. I've never been one to turn down an adventure, and how could I possibly deny Simon Murray with those steel gray eyes and dimples he has?

Transferring schools in the middle of my freshman year wasn't a part of my plan, but I won't let my smile falter. Even when I run into my best friend's older brother, the grumpy hockey player I had a crush on in high school. He threatens to break down every wall I've barricaded myself behind, but I can't let him in. Not when I know that he'll only break my heart. He claims he doesn't have feelings for me, so I'm left with no choice but to move on from the fantasy land I've been living inside my head. But as soon as I meet another guy, Sterling Barrett has other plans.

"Espacio YMCA" llega a su segunda temporada, este es un podcast donde la opinión de todos es válida. Aquí son abordadas temáticas de construcción de paz, voluntariado, acción social y emprendimiento. Podcast realizado por la YMCA Cali

One moment in time, one freak accident, and my entire hockey career was over. Two years have passed since my injury, and I am still mentally struggling with this loss. Mad at the world and everyone in it, I sought solace at my parents' lake house for the summer. It was supposed to be somewhere for me to be alone and heal. When London Hayes walks back into my life, the universe has different plans. I need to find a way to derail them because I refuse to drag her down with me.

Hadley Moore is ready to start a new life now that her drawn out divorce has finally gone through, and what better way to celebrate than to hook up with the gorgeous guy who just saved her from a drunken jerk. Gabe is smoking hot, and amazing in the sack, but when he also turns out to be her client on the new case she's working, she worries her job is on the line - especially when pushing Gabe away seems to have little effect. Someone's gunning for Gabe and his family, but when the consulting investigator turns out to be Hadley, he can't believe his luck.