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I didn’t know true desire until the first time I laid eyes on him. Tall, dark, beautiful as a god—completely forbidden. He was the penniless son of the help born in the Lousiana bayou, and I was a pretty southern princess, cultivated like a hothouse flower to become the trophy on some well-pedigreed man’s arm.

Dude, it was just one kiss. One kiss. But kissing in public isn't allowed in Jahwar. And now I've been compelled to give the King of Jahwar my hand in marriage. He's so cold. So polite. But not behind closed doors. "I'm very much going to enjoy breaking you," he says, just moments after we become temporary husband and wife. And now I'm about to find out the very, very hard way...

Over the years with Razo, I've learned to keep my mouth shut. Learned not to fight back. Learned that talking only makes it bad...fighting only makes it worse. I shut down my feelings long ago. Because it’s the only way to survive. But then Razo sells me...to a dangerous biker with zero morals and a sick upbringing. A psycho who makes me feel like I have a flock of ravens inside my stomach. He never hesitates to remind me: I belong to him now.

When a shockingly sexy amnesia patient shows up at my hospital, he flips my heart switch on like no one ever has before. Now I'm happier than I've ever been and seriously considering a future with someone who doesn't have a past. But when the shocking truth about his real identity finally comes out...

The very last thing Willa needs is for Sawyer Grant, the hot jock who made her life miserable in high school, to come roaring back into her life on a Harley. Too bad. The gorgeous bully is now a wounded veteran after his stint in the Navy SEALs - tortured and in need of the kind of care only she can provide with her unique gift. She's trying to keep it strictly professional with him, but he's determined to take their relationship to the next level. She knows if she lets him in, he'll ruin her life. Again.

I was pretty sure my dead ex-boyfriend’s brother hated me...until he asked me to marry him. And pretend his brother’s baby - which I’m carrying, BTW - is really his. So now I’m suddenly the wife of a quirky tech billionaire, and falling in like with him so fast, it’s beginning to feel an awful lot like love.

Him: She showed up in my dark world and pulled me into her light. Then she ran away. For six long years, she kept herself hidden from me. She is my wife. Did she really think I would just let her go? Nyet. She belongs to me, and now that I have found her, I will make her pay for destroying me. Her: He's the domineering monster I had to escape. The only place he and I work right is in bed. And now that he's found me, he's determined to take every scrap of dignity I have left. So why can't I stop wanting him?

After a stalker breaks into her home, internet entrepreneur Bee Langston decides Kelly Connolly is the only man who can help her - but seeking help from the former Marine isn't easy, especially after she made a spectacular fool of herself trying to kiss the sinfully sexy bodyguard. When Kelly spots Bee weaving her way through the Houston nightspot where he's working security, all those feelings he's desperately tried to deny for his best friend's sister come flooding to the surface.

Strong, independent Tami was a survivalist and mountain guide in 2014 when she was flung forward fifty years into a post-apocalyptic future where women are worth their weight in gold. She is taken by four men to be their wife, but when she escapes from them they hire the Tracker, a deadly loner from the Lakota Wolf Clan with a reputation for being able to track anything, to bring her back. But Tami knows how to ride and how to hide, and she leads him on a chase that rouses his admiration.

Pro-tip: Don’t agree to a fake engagement with a ruthless mafia crime lord like me after you catch your real fiancé cheating. I just might keep you. She agreed to be mine for as long as it takes for a business deal to go through. She thinks this is a game. One she’ll win if she plays by the rules. Here’s what she doesn’t understand. When it comes to me, there are no rules. Scruples? Integrity? Playing fair? Nah. Our engagement might be fake, but she’s about to find out...I’m for real obsessed. There’s nothing I won’t do to make her mine.

We met. Our eyes locked. But I wasn’t free, and neither was she. I watched her walk away and her memory has haunted me ever since. We meet again in paradise. But my life has been destroyed. I’m a ruin of what I used to be, and I send her away.

Everyone thinks Colin Fairgood is exactly what his PR machine tells them - a country superstar with a killer smile and dazzling blue eyes. But I met him before his country makeover and fame. Colin has a dark side…one that takes me places I've never been. One that makes me want to do very bad things with him. One that makes me scared of him. And even more scared of myself.I don't know what kind of endgame he's running on my heart, but he's definitely playing for keeps. And if I'm not careful, he's going to win.

Holt Calson was born with an 11-figure spoon in his mouth to one of the wealthiest families in the world. The night we met, I only had 11 dollars in my purse, and it was all the money I had in the world. We were never supposed to meet, much less be together. But Holt didn't care. He just wanted me.

I'm a determined dreamer - at least I used to be. I put all my dreams on hold and withdrew every penny from my savings account to pay the debt my ailing father owes to a local gang. Except, according to the gang's slimy leader, even my life savings won't be enough to pay the enormous debt my dad's accrued. And his leering gaze lets me know exactly how he wants me to pay the balance.

Claire and her friends, taken by a crazy band of cultists, are treated quite well. That is, until the aliens take Claire away. She's abducted by aliens, and the first thing she wakes up to in their spaceship is more restraints. Her alien captor has to follow a strict code: Pleasure Claire, don't get involved with her emotionally, and serve his commanders by impregnating her. The code says this should be done simply, without getting attached. He's been training his whole life for this moment.

Autrice d'une vingtaine de livres, parmi lesquels Elle s'appelait Sarah, Boomerang et Sentinelle de la pluie, Tatiana de Rosnay fait partie des écrivains de fiction les plus vendus dans le monde. Ses livres sont traduits en 30 langues et ont donné lieu à de nombreuses adaptations cinématographiques. Après Manderley for ever (2015) et Poussière blonde (2024), Les Cœurs sont faits pour être brisés confirme le grand retour de Tatiana de Rosnay.

A rip-roaring shout-aloud picture book about a spider who wants to be the family pet from the internationally acclaimed illustrator of Julia Donaldson’s What the Ladybird Heard. Spider wants to be a family pet. But the family whose house she lives in are terrified of her! Whenever she tries to...

He’s handsome, funny, and a real Romantic. Unfortunately, he’s dead. Forced proximity Only-one-bed Time slip romance Age gap romance… kind of Spice He falls first, and harder HEA guaranteed When student journalist Emma goes undercover to investigate a secret society resurrecting long-dead...

Mackenzie, 21 ans, a grandi dans l'ombre de sa célèbre mère, E.V. Renge, autrice de thrillers à succès. Alors quand cette dernière meurt subitement dans un accident, Mackenzie hérite de bien plus qu'un deuil. Le jour des obsèques, elle reçoit une étrange lettre qui commence par ces mots : « Tu veux connaître un secret ? Love, Mom. » Dans l'enveloppe, un extrait du journal intime de sa mère. Ce que Mackenzie y découvre la laisse en état de choc. S'ensuivent une deuxième et une troisième lettre, où s'enchaînent les révélations sordides.

Clementine illustrates transcendent moments of oneness in a venue crammed with people—and then steps off the stage into struggles of self-consciousness, competition, heartache, and loss. In this reflective book, Clementine shines light on how each drumbeat, each moment, offers lessons of awakening, no matter how gritty the path.