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Brilliant baker Rosie Hart is busier than ever as she prepares for Airlie Falls’s famed Valentine’s Day Farmers and Craft Market. The last thing she needs as she races to frost her cashew-nut cakes is the mysterious appearance of a dead body on her new fiancé’s property. To add icing to the cupcake, another long-dead body is found buried underneath it. For goodness bakes!

Melanie is delighted at the prospect of three uninterrupted days alone with Sam (and, of course, her prize-winning Standard Poodle, Faith). They're booked at the White Birch Inn, a picturesque New England resort nestled at the foot of a snow-covered mountain. The inn has a full slate of couples' activities planned for the busy Valentine's weekend—from the bubbly to the bubble bath, the resort is a perfect match for Melanie and Sam's vacation. But the first night of festivities feature an event that isn't on the program: murder.

Ava Harper’s life has taken more twists and turns over the last few months than a mountain highway. It started when she arrived back home in Shipton Harbor, Maine. She wears many hats: Part-time bookstore clerk, part-time author, necromancer in training, full-time caretaker of a ghoul, soon to be girlfriend to the town sheriff. She’s still in denial of the latter. Now she has to add neighbor to Lucifer himself to that list.

Alex Parkinson is in love with his writing tutor, Siobhan. He has never loved anyone like this, but how can he convince Siobhan that they are meant to be together? So Alex stalks her on Facebook and finds out where she lives, buys her presents using her own credit card and sends her messages telling her exactly what he wants to do to her. He breaks into her house, reads her diary and secretly listens to her while she takes a bath. Isn't that what all lovers do?

Love - and murder - are in the air.

It took Joe Grey’s human, Clyde Damen, nearly forever to pop the question to his girlfriend, Ryan Flannery, and what more romantic time to tie the knot than on Valentine’s Day? But dark secrets from the past soon threaten to destroy everyone’s happiness. First, a body discovered many miles away reopens a 10-year-old cold case involving a man who disappeared days before his own wedding. Then another body is found closer to home, on the grounds of a ruined estate, deserted save for a band of unusual feral cats.

TenHuis Chocolade is wall-to-wall with chocolate hearts for Valentine's Day. But Lee is getting no love from Private Detective Derrick Valentine. He's looking for their employee - a woman Lee and her Aunt Nettie have been harboring for an underground railroad-type organization that aids abused women. Luckily, they manage to not spill the cocoa beans and clue him in. But the situation becomes a complex confection when Valentine meets his end. And it's Aunt Nettie who becomes a suspect.

Finding Vincent Kramer, the colonel-in-arms of the French Protectorate, has become a must-do on Mina’s task log, but that’s before she discovers Veritus is planning a deadly vendetta against the city. The killing ring is still operational and finding them takes precedent over locating the colonel. According to the intel, Mina and her team have less than 24 hours to complete the task.

Shelby Morris decided to buy the Bistro at Holiday Bay after receiving a huge inheritance from a woman she'd never met. She knows she'll need help, so she enlists the help of new chef and frequent guest to The Inn at Holiday Bay, Amy Hogan, as well as parttime waitress and longtime local Nikki Peyton. Together with the staff and regular customers that seemed to have come with the place, Shelby is certain she'll be able to create something special.

Callie moved all the way to Chicago to find love, and it's been failure after failure. Almost ready to give up on the notion, she stumbles across a new dating website with an incredible promise: true love with a million-dollar satisfaction guarantee. Determined to make this her last attempt at finding her match, Callie signs up. When the results turn out to be nothing like she expected, she decides to call the whole thing off and abandon romance for a while.

Have you ever been in love? Have you ever been with someone who you knew to be your soul mate? Did you ever get your heart ripped out of your chest by that same person? What did you do? Cry? Yell? How about seek revenge Alexandra Easter wanted nothing more in life than to be a detective like her mother, and after her mother passed away, she wanted to be her legacy. That seemed to change when her dad decided that it was time for a change and moved from bustling California to deserted Kansas her senior year of high school.

When Jaine lands a job writing web copy and brochures for matchmaker Joy Amoroso, she's excited for a chance to help the lovelorn - until she realizes Joy is a ruthless taskmaster who screams at her employees for the smallest infractions, pads her website with pictures of professional models posing as clients, and offers up convincing but empty promises of love.

When Cupid comes to town it seems everyone’s relationship is in for a challenge. Not only does Zoe suspect that her dad’s new girlfriend is really a killer, but Zoe is the only one who believes that her soon-to-be evil stepmom is guilty of such a dastardly deed. Add that to the fact that Zak clearly has a secret, Jeremy’s baby mama is making his life as miserable as her pregnancy is making hers, Levi’s girlfriend Barbie is on a rampage, and Ellie is caught in a brotherly love triangle, and you have a Valentine’s Day disaster in the making.

Radhika, a pretty and fun-loving girl, has a best friend, Nishi, a vexatious short girl she met on the very first day of college. At the same college she met Siddharth, a happy-go-lucky guy who is desperate for a girlfriend; Manas, a one-woman man; and Sameer, the college hunk, who is never single for too long. All fortunately end up being in the same class. This college romance is about these five friends and their love stories.

How is one to start again after losing the one thing that speaks to your heart and fuels your passion? After a serious accident leaves Calliope Rose Collins unable to continue with the career that has owned her soul for most of her life, she returns to Foxtail Lake, Hollister House, Great Aunt Gracie, and childhood friend, Officer Cass Wylander, where she begins to rebuild her life from the ashes of what she once had. In book number three of The Cat in the Attic series - It's Valentine's Day and Callie has finally been made a full time reporter for the local newspaper.

NYPD criminal profiler Catherine Farrows knew her life would change forever when she committed herself to covert billionaire Thomas Ambrose - and his violent vigilante alter ego, the Black Mask Killer. Together they work to protect the children of New York City and abroad from the predations of the Ganymede Society, a secret cabal of one-percenters who sexually exploit and murder children. Morally-conflicted Catherine has never had to wrestle with her conscience and convictions so much in her life.

Condemned to work on a Texas ranch alongside Phobos, Deimos, and Cupid, Ellie tries everything within her power to win over the hearts poisoned against her, to no avail. Frustrated and jealous of the rancher's daughter, Ellie's love turns to hate. The tension in the old shack they're forced to call home rises along with their passions, and a series of tense sexual encounters with the brothers begets Ellie's despair.

First it was a magnificent castle on the outskirts of Mount Olympus. Then it was a primitive shack on a west Texas ranch. Now, Ellie hides with Deimos and Hecate from Zeus and his loyalists in the enchanted cave of the moon goddess, Selene. However, when Hecate reveals her vision of Ellie's unborn twins, Ellie is spurred into action. She'll do whatever it takes to save her fledgling family and its rightful place in the pantheon.

With shocking secrets from Jake's renowned family and the ghosts of my past clashing violently, one question looms: Can we even trust each other? The rules of the corruption vs. justice game change drastically when I join forces with Jake Bennet— the scarred defense attorney from a lineage of unparalleled influence. As an ex-military hacker haunted by the demons of war and addiction, I find myself sinking deeper into a case that's more treacherous than I realized.