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For the past few years, Lilah Mason has watched her sister find love, get married, and have children, while she's been more than content to channel her energies into her career. A physical therapist with an unsinkable spirit and unwavering compassion, she's one of the best in the field. But when Lilah takes on a demanding new case, her patient's life isn't the only one transformed. Her new patient, Adam, challenges her methods and authority at every turn. Yet Lilah is determined to help him recover the life he's lost.

The modeling world called it the Rana Look: the exotic, one-of-a-kind allure that only supermodel Rana Ramsey could deliver. With her green eyes, olive skin, and wildly lustrous auburn hair, Rana posed for ad campaigns and strutted down runways all over the world, naming her own price to sell everything from cosmetics to women’s lingerie. But all of that suddenly ended one day when she looked her demanding mother-manager and said, “Enough.” That was the day Rana left New York - and modeling - forever.

Plain, soft-spoken Nell Calder isn't the type of woman to inspire envy, lust - or murderous passions. Until one night on an exotic island in the Aegean Sea, at an elegant gathering that should have cemented her husband's glorious career in finance, the unimaginable happens...and Nell's life is shattered by a spray of bullets and the razor edge of a blade.Though badly hurt, Nell emerges from the nightmare a woman transformed. Delicate surgery gives her an exquisitely beautiful face, and rehabilitation gives her a strong, lithe body. Nicholas Tanek, a mysterious stranger who compels both fear and fascination, gives her a reason to go on living: revenge - at any price.With his shadowy past and more secrets than Nell could ever imagine, Tanek knows far more about the attack than he's willing to confess. Yet when he divulges the identity of her assailant, he makes the biggest mistake of his life. For as Nicholas gets closer to his quarry, he'll find his carefully laid plans jeopardized at every turn by a bold woman daring to strike out on her own. And Nell will find her mission imperiled by Tanek - a temptation to which she cannot afford to surrender.

Not all love stories are meant to have a perfect ending. I Too Had a Love Story is one such saga. It is the tender and heartfelt tale of Ravin and Khushi - two people who found each other on a matrimonial site and fell in love...until life put their love to the ultimate test.

CeCe Ashby kehrt nach einer harten Trennung nach Laurel Creek in Kentucky zurück. Auf der Silver Pines Ranch ihrer Familie möchte sie Kraft tanken und sich endlich mal ganz auf sich selbst konzentrieren. Sie wird aber schnell von Nash Carter abgelenkt, dem Ex-Eishockeyspieler, Frauenheld und besten Freund ihrer Brüder. Er packt als "Teilzeit-Cowboy" oft auf der Ranch an, und bei CeCes und seinen Begegnungen knistert es gewaltig! Nur darf das niemand wissen, schon gar nicht die Ashby-Söhne, für die Playboy Nash wie ein Bruder ist und die ihre kleine Schwester stets beschützen wollen.

Blair Simpson embraced a life most merely dream about. Nearly 30-years-old, she devoted her nights as well as her days to dancing in the chorus line of Broadway musicals and in an occasional high-paying TV commercial. She'd never considered another career, believing that this was what she'd been born for. But when an injury sends her to a small town for 6 months of recuperation, she finds herself surrounded by couples her own age, raising families and building dreams together. And there she meets a man who forces her to come to terms with a part of herself she has long denied.

In a clash of light and darkness, can courage prevail? Rescuing a toddler from the jaws of a mountain lion, Trevor MacDaniel, a high-country outfitter, sets in motion events he can’t foresee. His act of bravery entwines his life with gifted sculptor Natalie Reeve—and attracts a grim admirer.

Dani Quinn walked into her high school reunion with dread and anticipation. She knew Logan Webster would be there, and she had no idea how she would react the first time she saw him. She had left both Logan and the small Texas town years before. Her departure had been abrupt, painful, and not of her choosing. She'd never had the chance to tell Logan the truth. Handsome, charming, and dangerously charismatic, Logan has grown into a man who exudes all the power and confidence of self-made success.

Daksh and Aanchal meet under improbable circumstances in the most unlikely of places—a posh resort in the Andamans. While Aanchal is fighting hard to escape the shackles of a lower middle-class existence, Daksh is aimless and unsure of what his future holds. Strangely, they are drawn to each other.

It’s been a decade since Merritt Valentine’s peak as a celebrated singer-songwriter… and her subsequent career-ending mental breakdown. Since then, she’s abandoned the glitz of Los Angeles to move in with her sister, Olivia, in the sleepy Colorado ski town of Crested Peak, hoping to heal her lingering emotional wounds of the spotlight. Life in Crested Peak would be uncomplicated if not for Merritt’s inconvenient crush on the local contractor and handyman, Nikolaos Petrakis.

Superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe needs to unwind after a grueling book tour, and visiting her sister, whom she hasn't seen in months, seems the perfect solution. But Grace is surprised to find the fastidious Kathleen living in a grungy Washington, D.C., neighborhood. Kathleen, reeling from a bitter divorce and the loss of her son, is saving every penny of her teacher's salary to hire a hotshot lawyer for a custody battle.

Als Noah und Allie sich nach Jahren der Trennung wieder sehen, fühlen sie sich sofort wieder leidenschaftlich zueinander hingezogen. Aber Allie ist mit Lon verlobt, der zu den oberen Zehntausend gehört, während Noah aus kleinen Verhältnissen stammt ... Ein außergewöhnliches Romandebüt über das Leben und die Kraft einer großen Liebe.

They say that each of us becomes an entirely new person every seven years. But Rebecca Bradshaw doesn't feel any different when an old lover shows up severely injured at the hospital where she runs the physical-therapy department. Seven years ago, baseball player Jace Cooper left her without a second thought or the chance to share the life-changing secret she swore she'd keep from him forever. Now he was back, wanting both her help and a second chance.

With her frayed jeans and cascade of tousled dark hair, Lynn Shaw looks more like one of the teenage residents of Horizon House than their counselor. So it's no wonder State Senator Erik Gunther mistakes her for one. Not that he exactly fits the description of a politician, with his movie-star looks and athletic build. Even Lynn, cynical, stubborn, and decidedly not looking for a relationship, can't ignore her body's response to the man.

Steve hat sich scheiden lassen und führt in einem Küstenstädtchen in North Carolina ein ruhiges Leben. Seine Tochter Ronnie hat ihm die Trennung von der Familie nie verziehen, und es passt ihr überhaupt nicht, dass sie die ganzen Ferien bei ihm verbringen soll. Dann lernt die 17-Jährige dort Will kennen und verliebt sich unsterblich in ihn – aber die Liebe steht unter keinem guten Stern. Ausgerechnet bei ihrem Vater findet Ronnie schließlich Trost, doch bevor es zur Versöhnung kommt, geschieht etwas Schreckliches.

As a trauma nurse, Julia McCarver is accustomed to dealing with life-and-death emergencies. But she is the one in shock when she answers the door and finds the past standing there in the person of S. T. "Storm" Dalton. Julia had painstakingly put her life together not just once but three times in the wake of his abrupt and devastating departures, and she has no intention of doing it a fourth time.

Tiffy braucht eine günstige Wohnung in London und zwar sofort. Leon arbeitet Nachtschichten und braucht Geld. Ihre Freunde halten sie für verrückt, doch es ist DIE perfekte Lösung: Sie teilen sich ein Zimmer. Die Regeln sind klar: Tagsüber gehört das Appartment Leon, nachts ist es allein Tiffys Reich. Doch angesichts obsessiver Exfreunde, Brüdern, die zu Unrecht im Gefängnis sitzen und natürlich der Tatsache, dass sie einander noch nie begegnet sind und nur über Post-Its kommunizieren, müssen Tiffy und Leon erkennen, dass sich das Leben nicht an Regeln hält.

Das neue Hörbuch der Platz-1-SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin endlich auf Deutsch! Seit ihrer Kindheit sind Adena und Paedyn ein unzertrennliches Gespann. Gemeinsam trotzen sie dem rauen Alltag auf den Straßen Ilyas – bis Peadyn zur Kandidatin für die Säuberungsspiele wird. Adena bleibt allein in den Slums zurück und muss um das Leben ihrer Freundin bangen. Doch dann trifft sie auf Mak. Der geheimnisvolle Mann besitzt eine dunkle Gabe, die Adena helfen könnte Paedyn zu retten.

When Jordan D’Amato becomes the first woman named head coach of a top-level men’s college basketball team, journalist Caroline Beck is determined to get the story. After years of scraping her way into the world of sports reporting, Beck knows that snagging the first one-on-one interview with the elusive head coach could be her big break. But Jordan is wary of the media and the attention her historic new appointment attracts, especially as her boss makes it clear that it’s a temporary assignment—and if she doesn’t lead the team to victory, it won’t become permanent.

Never. Sunny Chandler always said she’d never go back to the tiny town where she grew up. It was just three years ago that she was at the center of a notorious scandal - and the good folks of Latham Green, Louisiana, made it clear they’d never let her forget it. So Sunny packed up and headed for New Orleans, and now she wouldn’t give up city life for the world. But when she’s invited to her best friend’s wedding, Sunny has no choice but to go home. And with her return come the whispers...the looks... the rumors she tried to escape.