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For the first time in my life, I'm with the family I choose. Living with my cousin, who happens to be a newlywed, is the best thing ever. There is one pesky downside, and his name is Lucas Clark. He's a spoiled rich boy who was put on this Earth to torture me. He thinks he can intimidate me, keep me in my place, but I have news for him. No way is he man enough.

My so-called brothers in oath have betrayed me. Perhaps they forgot how many of their secrets I’ve been keeping. Tonight, vengeance is mine. But when it comes to heisting a priceless diamond there is no simple plan. There will be blood. After all, there is no such thing as a bloodless coup. I’m not the only one risking it all. At the center of it all is the woman I never saw coming. The woman who owns my heart.

I am many things. billionaire, rogue, rebel. But I never figured myself for a thief. My money can buy power, control, access. Even oaths of loyalty. The one thing it can't buy is her...or her safety. I vowed to protect her...I failed...I can't, under any circumstances, fail again. In order to save her, I'll have to give up the one thing that I value most - control. The Canary Jewel is the key. Tonight I am no longer a billionaire. Tonight I keep new secrets. My name is Ben Covington and tonight, I am a thief.

Having her own successful baking business literally fell into Harper Richardson's lap. She's strong, smart, independent, and well-rounded. Her life has already been figured out, and she is living it to the best of her abilities, along with her year-long boyfriend, Zaire. Harper is given some news that stuns her, leaving her angry with herself for being so naïve. Zaire isn't the man she thought he was. Still reeling from that news, she decides to go and have a great time at the Houston Livestock Show.

Sydney Collins left the small Berkshires town of Rose Bend eight years ago, grieving her sister’s death - and heartbroken over her parents’ rejection. But now the rebel is back - newly divorced and newly pregnant - ready to face her past and make a home for her child in the caring community she once knew. The last thing she needs is trouble. But trouble just set her body on fire with one hot, hot smile.

After surviving an abusive relationship that landed her in prison, Gemma Peyton just wants a fresh start once she is released. Her focus is to create a new life for herself and put men and relationships on the back burner so she can rebuild. Alex Chambers hasn't felt anything for another woman since his wife died a few years ago. His life is his restaurant until the moment he meets his new waitress. Something stirs within him that's been dormant for a long time.

Left for dead in the middle of the vast, wild Grand Canyon, Ruby Lucas is losing the battle to survive. After days without food and very little water, Ruby's time is running out. Just as it looks like all is lost, a tall, dark stranger might be her only hope...

Inverno 1974. Marlene ha sposato Herr Wegener, l'uomo piú temuto del Sud Tirolo, per sottrarsi a una vita di miseria. Ora, però, qualcosa è cambiato. Sa che il marito non le perdonerà mai il tradimento, ma decide lo stesso di scappare da lui, dopo averlo derubato di un tesoro il cui valore va ben oltre quello del denaro. Uscita di strada con la macchina, la giovane viene salvata e curata da Simon Keller, un Bau'r, un contadino di montagna che abita in un maso sperduto.

Nella magica terra di Muirwood, Lia è cresciuta conoscendo servitù e sottomissione. È una miserabile, una reietta cui non è dovuto alcun rispetto e alla quale è precluso ogni segreto custodito tra le antiche mura dell'Abbazia che la ospita. Ma Lia sa che, prima o poi, la sua occasione di riscatto arriverà e che i suoi giorni da serva nelle cucine dell'Aldermaston sono destinati a finire.

When it came to the grueling challenges of a courtroom, Phoebe Alexandria Rose could win her case on any day. As one of the lead attorneys at Rose and Garnet LLC, Phoebe enjoyed collecting information, breaking down the facts, and sealing her victory with an airtight litigation. On the outside looking in, Phoebe appeared to have it all together, but it was her personal life that she struggled to manage the most. Being in love from afar with her brother's best friend had been a prison sentence for as long as Phoebe could remember.

Grieving ER nurse Nessa Hunt is on a road trip with her sullen teen half-sister, Ivy, and still reeling from her mother’s deathbed confession: Nessa’s dad wasn’t really her dad. Seeking answers, they arrive in Rose Bend to find a small town teeming with the kind of Christmas cheer Nessa usually avoids. But then she meets the innkeeper’s ruggedly sexy son, Wolfgang Dennison.

Fresh out of a relationship, Shawnna Green is heartbroken, lost, and almost penniless. She decides to start over in New Orleans to find a new sense of self, despite her ex hampering her progress. With the help of her best friend, Veda, she finds employment at Stumpy's Sex Emporium where she deals with customers that range from the strange to the hilarious. At the same time, Shawnna discovers that women, sex, and dating, are not what they used to be, but neither is she. In finding herself, she uncovers a part she didn't know existed, and that's not always a good thing.

Tomaś Martinez has had a crush on his best friend’s mother, Darcy MacFarland, for longer than he’s willing to admit. Would it be wrong to make those feelings known the weekend of his best friend’s wedding? Or would that a big-time party foul?

La prima volta in cui Rosa Sauer entra nella stanza in cui dovrà consumare i suoi prossimi pasti è affamata. "Da anni avevamo fame e paura," dice. Siamo nell'autunno del 1943, a Gross-Partsch, un villaggio molto vicino alla Tana del Lupo, il nascondiglio di Hitler. Ha ventisei anni, Rosa, ed è arrivata da Berlino una settimana prima, ospite dei genitori di suo marito Gregor, che combatte sul fronte russo.

Alice Allevi ha imparato a resistere a tutto, o quasi. Da brava allieva, resiste alle pressioni dei superiori, che le hanno affidato la supervisione di una specializzanda... proprio a lei, che fatica a supervisionare se stessa! E lo dimostra anche la sua tortuosa vita sentimentale. Alice, infatti, soffre ancora della sindrome da cuore in sospeso che la tiene in bilico tra Arthur, diventato l'Innominabile dopo troppe sofferenze, e Claudio, il medico legale più rampante dell'istituto, bello e incorreggibile.

Mi chiamo Alice Allevi e ho un grande amore: la medicina legale. Il più classico degli amori non corrisposti, purtroppo. Ho imparato a fare le autopsie senza combinare troppi guai, anche se la morte ha ancora tanti segreti per me. Ma nessun segreto dura per sempre. Tuttavia, il segreto che nascondeva il grande scrittore Konrad Azais, anziano ed eccentrico, è davvero impenetrabile. E quella che doveva essere una semplice perizia su di lui si è trasformata in un'indagine su un suicidio sospetto. Soltanto Clara, la nipote quindicenne di Konrad, sa la verità.

Wisdom is the path to a more meaningful life. Common Wisdom describes the findings of the research-based scientific study titled, The Wisdom Research Project, which was created to answer the age-old question: What is Wisdom? Defining wisdom has been a challenge for every culture and civilization for millennia.

Billionaire CEO Alexander Wolfe has spent years putting in 120-hour weeks in the office and adding zeroes to his net worth. But lately, work has left him feeling burnt-out and uninspired. Then, he is given the chance to go head-to-head with a legendary corporate raider and the man he’d idolized his entire career. He seizes the opportunity, immediately jumping on a plane for Barbados to close the deal in person.

Torna Alice Allevi in tutta la sua splendida e perfetta imperfezione. Torna Claudio Conforti, per tutti e tutte ormai solo "CC": mente brillante, parlantina spesso caustica, cuore solo all'apparenza ruvido. Torna il cast di comprimari che per dieci anni esatti ha entusiasmato lettrici e lettori, facendo innamorare, sorridere, disperare e a volte perfino arrabbiare. Alice è tornata dopo un intenso periodo vissuto a Washington insieme a Claudio Conforti, e c'è una ragione precisa dietro la decisione della coppia più scintillante della medicina legale.

Dall'autrice de "L'allieva", amata da oltre 1 milione di lettori in Italia, un nuovo inizio, una nuova protagonista, una nuova formidabile serie. Verona non è la mia città. E la paleopatologia non è il mio mestiere. Eppure, eccomi qua. Com'è potuto succedere, proprio a me? Mi chiamo Costanza Macallè e sull'aereo che mi sta portando dalla Sicilia alla città del Veneto dove già abita mia sorella, Antonietta, non viaggio da sola. Con me c'è l'essere a cui tengo di più al mondo, sedici chili di delizia e tormento che rispondono al nome di Flora.