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In high school, I was Little Miss Brainy Rebel Girl to my twin's athletic Mr. Popularity. That also meant I avoided wading into the dating pool. Like a shark, it didn't help that my protective brother probably scared away potential suitors. Fast forward: He's engaged, but our parents won't let him tie the knot until I find a boyfriend. Now, he has guys lining up to date me. This only becomes an issue when his best friend, Redd, gets a hero's welcome when he returns to play hockey for the Nebraska Knights.

While both Kitty and Dallas were at the top of their game professionally - she, a high-powered executive assistant, and he, one of the best tattooists in the city - their personal lives had become a dumpster fire. No one in their right mind would have suggested they join forces to help each other wade through the crazy. Surely that’d be a recipe for disaster? But without reason, logic, or even sanity on their side, they decided to do it anyway.

I thought I knew evil. I thought I knew love. But here, locked within the rotting walls of an abandoned manor, something much darker unfurls—something that makes my previous life seem like a childhood fairy tale. Morgan, Rio, Xavier. Each one a jagged puzzle piece that somehow fits perfectly into my shattered life. Rossi. The man I can't figure out, yet the one who holds the key to the riddle that surrounds us all. In this house, every whisper becomes a scream, every touch leaves a burn. We share secrets, tangled sheets, and rituals too dangerous to utter aloud.

After John is introduced to Bridget, the woman his dad is going to marry, he quickly discovers that there's something wrong with her, something his dad knows nothing about. John decides to make it his quest to help her in any way he can.

A wildfire rages in the foothills outside Evangeline Everhardt’s hometown, and the power utility company has accused Eve’s brother of starting it. Aaron Ashe seems like the type: a long-time drug addict, a disgruntled former employee, and recently killed resisting arrest by a sheriff’s deputy. He’s not even buried before SE&G is pointing the finger. When Eve’s husband, Sergeant Deputy Hank Everhardt, won’t fight to clear Aaron’s name, Eve takes the investigation into her own hands.

Those were the words used to describe Eve Thorton’s exhibition. Not even a fine-arts degree from Yale or her daddy’s bank account could save her from the scathing reviews. And failure was a word Eve would never be comfortable with - not even close. Plotting the demise of every critic who’d written her off was her first instinct. But that would come later. Instead, she would show them that she wasn’t a bored socialite with more money than talent. She would prove everyone wrong, and she wasn’t afraid to get her hands dirty.

Archer Hawkins and Mallory Halston literally run into each other and a true love story is born. Archer pursues Mallory, with absolute determination making him fall hook, line, and sinker. But just when they’re about to get everything they ever hoped, tragedy strikes, leaving Mal alone and adrift. Putting his past behind him, Mal stumbles upon Cooper’s Ridge. Changing his name to Carter, he takes a chance, becoming a bartender at The Last Drop Inn, and embarking on a new life....

People fall in love with their best friends all the time. But for me, the circumstances of this unrequited attraction are even more agonizing. I am gay. My best friend, Sawyer, is not.

What happens when the football player is also a single dad and recognizes the exotic dancer at the club as his new nanny? Rylie Reynolds is a defensive lineman recruited by the very man he nearly paralyzed on the field five years ago. After a messy divorce from a woman who no longer wants to be a mommy, he and his daughter are starting fresh in Spring City. All they need is the perfect live-in nanny, which he thinks they have found in an elementary school teachers aide—the cutest twenty-three year old Rylie has even been tempted by. Things are looking up for Sunshine Mitchell.

What happens when the star quarterback recognizes the new sports reporter as a weekend fling from college, only to meet her five-year-old son with blue eyes like his? Declan Scott, star quarterback for the Rocky Mountain Rangers and heir to his family’s football team, has the perfect life. Money, star-power, and gorgeous women aplenty, with the football season going well and a championship ring teasing his future, nothing will divert him from the road to success. Nothing.

What happens when it takes two men to be your perfect man? One man wants her heart, the other her mind, but both play her body perfectly. Polar opposites, these twins agree on one thing, they want to make her happy. Will she have to choose between them, or can they forgive the past and form a non-traditional family? Maryanne Merryweather is the quintessential girl next door—always ready with a kind word and a helpful hand.

What happens when the one woman you've loved for the last ten years runs out of excuses as to why you can't be together? I’ve been in love with a man I couldn’t claim as my own for ten years. Instead of giving into my heart’s desire, I broke his and married another. Now, I’m divorced and the owner / operator of a kennel catering to military members. I’ve recruited most of the K9 handlers I served with—all of whom are now veterans—to come partner with me as we build a premier working dog training facility. Last recruit on my list: the man whose love I refused.

What happens when the search & rescue veteran and his K9 get trapped in a remote mountain chalet with a gorgeous older woman from Arizona during a freak blizzard? My first time on a ski slope in twenty years, I overestimated my abilities and got lost in a blizzard that hit the mountaintop faster than anyone expected. Trapped in the trees with a twisted knee and zero visibility, I’m quickly losing consciousness when an insistent wet nose and a pair of strong arms save me. Now I’m in a mountain cabin in front of a roaring fire and a muscle bound shirtless man who insists on getting me naked.

I’d never hidden the type of guy I was to anyone. Geeky, nerdy and unashamed of the presence I brought to a room. It was meant to be only one night. Hot, steamy and passionate… Where the geek actually got the unattainable god. Except he changed the rules and decided that he wanted more. I never expected when I jumped at the opportunity of my dream career that he’d be there. It was as if the stars had aligned up in the sky and were giving me a sign. But am I truly enough for this… for him even?

Things haven’t been easy for Aiden Cisneros. His beloved wife passed away five years ago, and their pride and joy, the Happy Valley Bed and Breakfast, has been falling apart ever since. With his daughter getting ready to move away to college, Aiden is finally ready to let go. All he wants to do now is sell the place and move on with his life. There’s just one problem … And her name is Rebah Reynolds.

Corporate lawyer Nicolo DeLuca is a made man. After the death of his beloved grandfather, he is sent by his cousin to live in Charlotte, NC, to head the mergers and acquisitions division of the DeLuca family business. As a condition of his new promotion, he must take a bride. Not any bride will do. He must take the hand of the daughter of the Baldwin family. Plus-sized diva Simone Baldwin will do anything for family, including marry a man to keep the peace. When a rogue FBI agent targets Simone, she will need the family’s support to save her.

See You At San Diego is the comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless stories by nearly fifty of the most integral members of the Comic-Con and fandom scene. This full-fledged oral history—bursting with intimate reflections, hilarious observations, and at times, heartbreaking stories—is about how the geek at last inherited the earth and the story of the transformation of mainstream American pop culture into comic book culture over the past century.

In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation of creators set out to subvert the medium, and with it, American culture. Their “comix” presented tales of taboo sex, casual drug use, and a transgressive view of society. Dirty Pictures is the essential exploration of a truly American art form that re-contextualized the way people thought about war, race, sex, gender, and expression.

Delinquents meet at an asylum with paranormal activity. Some escape, some move on, and some run into the staff on the outside. In the second part, one of the main characters marries Mariposa, a transgender. Mariposa develops multiple personality disorder from the abuse and meets escapees from the gypsy genocide, who are hiding as female impersonators at nightclubs.

Sensation. A sacred place free from judgment or inhibitions. The only rule: Ask before you touch. Sensation is an exclusive black-tie party attended by at least 150 of the clubs most privileged members, and held once a month at an undisclosed mansion in Beverly Hills. You may watch. You may interact. You can come together or you can choose to come alone.