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There are many reasons I should have handed in my resignation the day I met my new boss, Hudson Case. First off, he's the reason I lost my first waitressing job. Secondly, he's gruff, grumpy, and another inconvenient g-word... gorgeous. And to top it off, he's my good friend's dad. Oh, and did I mention, he's also my new roommate? Yeah, we'll get to that in a sec. It all started when I begged my friend to get me a temp position working as her dad's admin until my big move at the end of summer. Little did I know, her dad was the same jerk who callously fired me from my previous waitressing gig.

As the Vice President's daughter and his current assignment, Leya Singh is completely off-limits to Special Agent Holden Kent. He refuses to let his desire for the Painted Daisies singer and sitar player cost him the future he's worked his entire life to achieve. Not when his goal of working on the Presidential detail is finally within his grasp.

Die Bestsellerautorin in Bestform: ein Familienepos voll Liebe, Geheimnissen und überraschenden Twists. So viel Liebe und Kraft hat Posy Montague in ihren zauberhaften Garten investiert - und jetzt heißt es Abschied nehmen. Sie ist bald 70, lebt noch immer an der englischen Ostküste in dem reizenden Anwesen ihrer Familie. Doch das große "Admiral House" verfällt mehr und mehr. Posy muss sich entscheiden: Verkauft sie das Anwesen, in dem sie schon als Kind mit ihrem Vater Schmetterlinge bestaunt hat?Allein bei der Idee streiten Posys eigene Söhne unerbittlich.

When psychic travel agent Leda Foley is approached by a man searching for his sister, she quickly agrees to help. The missing woman disappeared with a vintage orange car, a fat sack of her employer’s cash, and a grudge against her philandering husband—a man who never even reported her missing. Meanwhile, Seattle PD detective Grady Merritt has temporarily misplaced his dog. While he’s passing out bright pink “Lost” flyers at the Mount Rainier visitor’s center, the wayward pooch appears—with a human leg in his mouth.

Este audiolibro proporciona una investigación informativa sobre la formación de la cultura extrovertida de la sociedad moderna, donde la timidez, la sensibilidad y la seriedad se perciben a menudo como algo negativo. Utilizando los ejemplos de muchas personalidades famosas, la autora demuestra de manera convincente que, la naturaleza introvertida de aproximadamente la mitad de la humanidad hace posible alcanzar el éxito donde los extrovertidos no pueden.

HMP Bronzefield, the UK’s largest women’s prison: notorious for bent screws and drugs: but what’s the truth behind the headlines? Forced into signing an NDA when she arrived there on remand, former public schoolgirl Sophie risked extra time on her sentence by documenting her experiences of life inside. Backed up by recent research and statistics, Breakfast at Bronzefield offers a powerful glimpse into a world few see: riots; unethical medical prescribing; and prison barons - key figures behind prostitution and drug-smuggling.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? Well, except for when it doesn't. And while for Linda Carter, that was a night she will never forget, for Asher Sloan, it was a night he couldn’t remember. A year later, their paths cross once more. Their chemistry is still combustible, but Linda has learned her lesson when it comes to Asher all too well, and she doesn’t plan on getting burned again. Refusing to take no for an answer, Asher comes up with a solution: a three-month deal where they can both get what they want.

Viele Jahre sind vergangen, seit Helena Beaumont als junge Frau einen wunderbaren Sommer auf Zypern verbracht und dort ihre erste große Liebe erlebt hat. Nun kehrt sie zurück in das schöne alte Haus, um dort mit ihrer Familie die Ferien zu verbringen. Unbeschwerte Tage sollen es werden, verträumte Stunden am Meer und lange Nächte auf der Terrasse, doch schon bei ihrer Ankunft empfindet Helena ein vages Unbehagen. Sie allein weiß, dass die Idylle bedroht ist - denn es gibt Ereignisse in ihrer Vergangenheit, die sie ihrem Mann und ihren Kindern stets eisern verschwiegen hat. Als sie dann plötzlich ihrer Jugendliebe gegenübersteht, ahnt sie, dass dies erst der Anfang einer harten Bewährungsprobe für sie alle ist.

Nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag kehrt Julia Forrester in ihre alte Heimat Norfolk zurück, wo sie im Orchideenhaus von Wharton Park als Kind viele glückliche Stunden verbrachte. Der Besitzer von Wharton Park, Kit Crawford, überreicht ihr ein altes Tagebuch, das bei den Renovierungsarbeiten gefunden wurde und womöglich Julias Großmutter gehörte. Mit dem Tagebuch drängt sich ein jahrelang gehütetes Familiengeheimnis ans Licht - ein Geheimnis, das auch Julias Leben komplett verändern wird...

In Almost Worthy, Simone Atkinson shares a raw and personal journey of what happens when awards and applause feed self-doubt instead of purpose. What begins as a pursuit of success spirals into insecurity, comparison, and internal silence.

I know what they say. Grief makes you do things. After the year I've had, I'm bathing in it. Dad's dead. Mom is . . . mom. My boyfriend and best friend are too busy screwing to comfort me. When a letter arrives with no return address telling me where to go for a new start, I don't hesitate. I pack some clothes and what's left of my life and run. But I didn't expect the fire waiting for me when I arrived. I didn't count on the burn. Rowdy Wray. They call him the lion of Idlewild. Me . . . I call him boss.

It’s 1949 in Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood, and there’s no better place to hear or play jazz than Paradise Club. Blue (Emmy and Grammy Award winner Blair Underwood), club owner and trumpeter, can wail like no other, but as forces outside the club conspire to irreparably change life inside and outside Paradise’s walls, he must decide whether to stay or sell. Beholden to his girlfriend (Grammy Award winner Kristolyn Lloyd) and fellow bandmates (André Holland and Keith Randolph Smith), Blue faces an uncertain future as he reckons with his troubled past.

Being kidnapped by a deadly - and dead sexy - brothel slave wasn't exactly what Kiehle Xochis signed up for. His instructions had been simple: Watch over the human female until his brother and his mate arrived to rescue her. Instead the slave has decided to liberate herself. She's proving to be more than Kiehle can handle - and he kind of likes it.

Mit ihrer STIMME erobert sie die HERZEN der Menschen... doch wo bleibt ihr EIGENES HERZ? Rosanna Menici ist elf, als sie zum ersten Mal dem Mann begegnet, der ihr Schicksal bestimmen wird. Der junge Tenor Roberto Rossini ist in seiner Heimat Neapel bereits ein umschwärmter Star und schenkt dem schüchternen Mädchen, das bei einer Familienfeier singen soll, kaum Beachtung. Doch als die ersten Töne den Raum erfüllen, kann er seine Augen nicht mehr von Rosanna lösen.

Völlig aufgelöst kommt die amerikanische Schauspielerin Rebecca Bradley im englischen Dartmoor an, wo ein altes Herrenhaus als Kulisse für einen Film dient, der in den 1920er Jahren spielt. Vor ihrer Abreise hat die Nachricht von ihrer angeblichen Verlobung eine Hetzjagd der Medien ausgelöst, doch in der Abgeschiedenheit von Astbury Hall kommt Rebecca allmählich zur Ruhe. Als sie jedoch erkennt, dass sie Lady Violet, der Großmutter des Hausherrn, frappierend ähnlich sieht, ist ihre Neugier geweckt.

Italian billionaire Lorenzo Santangeli is expecting his money’s worth from his innocent wife on their wedding night. But Marisa flees; how can she share the marital bed with the man who married her solely to produce an heir? Lorenzo vows to fetch his virgin bride home - you do not say no to a Santangeli! Once she’s back she’ll be his completely - and he is determined to enjoy every minute of it...

Megastar Whitney “Sahara” Richardson is at the top of her game. With four Grammys, an Oscar nod, and a half billion-dollar clothing line to her name, her career is more than she could ever ask for. Even her dating life is looking up with a man newly arrived on the scene, but marriage and children are still years away for the thirty-year-old beauty. And it is going to come in that order. However, fate has something else in store for her. A mix-up at the fertility clinic where her frozen eggs are stored puts the cart before the horse, upending her life in ways she couldn’t have imagined.

Four months postpartum with her second child, Catherine Simone Gray is back at her doctor’s office, surveying a childbirth wound that refuses to mend. Proud flesh: tissue that overheals to become its own wound. Pregnancy and motherhood had been physically vulnerable for Gray, but this renders her most intimate parts unrecognizable—like her body is no longer her own. Has it ever been her own? As she gets to know her body in its new form, she encounters, too, the girl she’d been at seventeen.

The world was in a loneliness crisis long before Covid-19. As human beings, our brains are wired for connection. The feelings of disconnectedness people are facing today—isolation within our families, digital addiction, emotional trauma—hold worrying consequences for our mental well-being. We’ve lost touch with the human tribe we were born into. In this compelling guide to navigating connection in our modern world, human connection phenom Simone Heng walks you through the meaning of human connection as it relates to every aspect of life.

I knew Erik Chenault was dangerous the moment I saw him. Everything about him should have warned me away, from the scar on his face to the fact that mobsters call him Blade. But I was drawn like a moth to a flame, and I ended up burnt...and blushing, sore, and thoroughly used.