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Josie Lockner scores big when she’s awarded a summer artist-in-residence in the small beach town of Goda, Massachusetts. The Wellingtons are the perfect host family, and Revere Estates the best backdrop. She’s more than ready to capture the beauty of nature with her pencils and brushes. Falling for the Wellingtons’ quiet neighbor, Olivia Monteclair, isn’t in the picture, but just because it won’t last forever doesn’t mean she can’t have some fun. Olivia’s peaceful days are interrupted when Josie, with her infectious grin and sunny disposition, crowds her space.

Zak Chambers is a disillusioned hired gun who longs for a connection with life beyond her sat-phone and assignments she can't share with anyone. Her boss lines up a cushy escort job to Africa to give her time to refocus. But the country she loved as a child holds memories she isn't ready to face.

It should have been easy money: deliver the cargo to the Proxima Colony via the Jump Gate, don't ask questions, collect the pay check. But a freak accident, one that shouldn’t even be possible, sends the tramp freighter Calypso to an uncharted star system.

Dress for success takes on a very different meaning. CFO Riley Stephenson finds herself in a particularly difficult position when the stripper she's fallen for shows up at her office - as her new employee.

Hiding out in another country, she believes she's finally escaped the Organization and has a chance at a normal life. Maybe, this time she can finally start over and leave her violent past behind. But unbeknownst to her, someone close to her has a connection to her past. And when he finds out what she's done and the people she's killed in the name of justice, he won't stop until she pays.

When love comes knocking, a door gets slammed in its face. Romance author Dana Lawson writes happy-ever-after endings for her characters, but when it comes to her own love story, she has writer’s block. Determined to get a break from life and heal her broken heart, she escapes to Emerald Bay. Her evening out at the local bar where she meets a gorgeous redhead ignites a fire she’s afraid to feed and desperate to fuel.

Finding the Kingdom of the Centaurs follows the lives of three teenagers: Oliver Hamilton, Jason Garrett, and Jessica Thomas. They started out as your average high school students...sort of. Oliver is a school fanatic, Jason’s world revolves around movies, and Jessica is obsessed with the universe. Then one evening, after an encounter with an extraterrestrial, Oliver finds himself trapped in a world of centaurs, fauns, and mermaids. Now it’s up to his friends to help him escape. Before it’s too late....

Hope is not your typical teenage girl. After a tumultuous childhood, she is once again in a new town and a new school which her mother has dragged her to. As is often the case, she is one of the only Asian kids in an all-white school and is still dealing with family issues. Hope is struggling to adjust to her new environment as a freshman in high school, where she meets a school counselor who helps her wade through the entire school year as well as pushes her to explore her past.

Hope Jones left North Carolina in the rearview mirror. She'd kept a low profile, refused to watch the news and focused on surviving. Healing. But when people start getting sick due to tainted meat in a grocery store, Hope can no longer pretend she's normal. As she tracks down those responsible, she uncovers a conspiracy, angering powerful people who will stop at nothing to protect their interests.

After a lifetime of moving and change, Jan Carroll wants nothing more than to settle down and build a home. Then her father gets sick, and the stable life she's made as a high school geometry teacher threatens to crumble around her. She wants little to do with newcomer Tina Nelson, a shallow and unreliable playgirl. Especially since their mutual friend Brooke Stanton has been not-so-subtly matchmaking. Sometimes, though, love makes you throw away life's careful script. Can these women learn to improvise?

Katherine Hope Jones is a seemingly normal woman with a well-paying job. The horror of her childhood carefully hidden away. But after she witnesses an act of animal cruelty, her tightly constructed world comes crashing down as past and present collide.

Rebecca Anderson always dreamed of happily-ever-after, but those dreams were shaken when she had to leave vet school to nurse her dying mother. They were completely shattered when her boyfriend betrayed her in the cruelest possible way. Crushed and lonely, Becca seeks out the one person she knows she can trust - her best friend, Ethan.

In 12th-century Japan, Yamabuki, a woman samurai 17 years old, travels deep into the Oku wilderness. Along a lonely road, at a forgotten inn, she seeks shelter, warm food, and cold saké. But as darkness falls, she ends up fighting for her life, and she finds that there are terrible things under heaven that no weapon can vanquish, and that her only way to survive is to heal that which cannot be healed.

After what Matt did to me, I had to leave LA. It was just too hard to stick around, even if I knew that I'd disappoint my team and fans. So, I returned to the south to lick my wounds, and ran straight into Charlie. My how time has changed. He's no longer the average kid from school. He's a Marine, a police officer and everything in my fantasies come alive to torment me. Worst of all? He sees through all my nonsense. I never thought I'd find someone who was worth risking it all. Will he do the same for me?

Adele. I had no idea that meeting a man like him would change me forever. It's already hard enough chasing reports throughout London. Now I have to deal with those piercing blue eyes and the danger that lurks nearby. Maddox. The beautiful journalist sent to me was quite a surprise. Smart, strong, and independent, I've never met a woman like her in or out of the boardroom, bedroom or anywhere else. I'll never fight for something as badly as I'll fight for her.

A billionaire interracial romance collection full of your favorite authors from the Scribble XO Book Club! Hunky billionaires, bad boys, models, military men, and more! A fantastic collection full of sizzling minutes of love, suspense, and captivating romance.

It's been a long few months for me. Between juggling my recently engaged sister and opening up my own PR firm, I've had no time for myself. Well, that's about to change! I've booked myself on a cruise to the Mediterranean and am planning to do nothing but lounge in the sun. I had no idea that my ticket included a visit from the one man I despise the most.

Emma Watson couldn't ask for a better life. Employed by Chicago's prestigious Arthur Fletcher Architecture firm, she has a good job, an apartment, lots of friends and a promising future. Suddenly summoned to her boss's office, her life is about to change. On a moment's notice and with no chance to refuse, she finds herself on a business trip to San Francisco in the company of the dashing Phillip Baldwin. Under the guidance of millionaire heiress, Maisie Hamilton, she embarks on an emotional journey of self-discovery.

I haven't seen Micah in five years, and now he suddenly shows up in town. He wants me back, and I still have feelings for him...but I don't know if I can let him back into my life after he left me like that. And what will he do when he finds out my son is his?

Pullum took a step back and gave Shondra the once over, from her curly hair, to her chest, to her bare knees, down to her stilettos. Her eyes were neutrally discerning, as though appraising an empty wall. Mostly, Pullum stared into Shondra's eyes, trying to bring out words and thoughts Shondra had never dared express aloud. Instead of answering, Pullum turned her gaze from Shondra back to the painting.