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Why do we want to justify our decisions, even if they appear to be irrational? The answer lies in cognitive dissonance, the mental discomfort we experience when we hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time. In A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, first published in 1957, American social psychologist Leon Festinger investigates the problem. Festinger puts forward the idea that we have developed mechanisms to try to deal with the stress brought on by cognitive dissonance.

Im Tierorchester im Wald wird es laut und lustig. Der Löwe eröffnet mit mächtigem Brüllen das Musikspektakel, das flinke Eichhörnchen dirigiert, schwingt den Taktstock, und die aufgeregten Hühner wollen endlich ihren Gesang vortragen. Elefant und Schildkröten tanzen zu fröhlicher Ballettmusik, während Kängurus hüpfend den Takt halten und die Leoparden am Klavier glänzen. Tapfer ertragen alle das Vogelgezeter, bis am Abend ein buntes Sommerfest beginnt.

Über Nacht geht ein TikTok der Schülerin Love Thompson viral. Ihre Followerzahl steigt stündlich und ihre neugewonnene Agentin stellt sie dem einflussreichen TikToker Damian vor, mit dem sie eine vermeintlich perfekte Beziehung eingeht. Als Influencer-Pärchen sind sie unschlagbar. Bis er einen Unfall baut und Love dafür geradesteht. Weg sind ihre Follower, weg sind ihre Sponsorendeals, weg ist ihr Freund. Um ihr Image aufzupolieren, greift sie zu einer Notlösung: eine Fake-Beziehung mit Austin Grey, dem jungen, unscheinbaren Typ, der das Diner seines verstorbenen Vaters retten möchte.

A controlled and highly disciplined billionaire that travels the world doing business and living the life most of us only dream of discovers at auction something that rocks his world, and eventually threatens his very stability and the safety of a country.

In this third installment of the Obsessed Billionaire series, our beautiful young heiress and her dashing, dynamic billionaire not only enter the early stages of a romance, as equals, but they also begin to show us what life in the catacombs entails. Can they make their way through foreign, unfamiliar places while adopting pedestrian lives? Or will it all come crashing down around them, putting both their lives in danger yet again?

A controlled and highly disciplined billionaire travels the world doing business and living the life most of us only dream of, discovers at auction something that rocks his world, and eventually threatens his very stability and the safety of a country. When a woman worthy of his interest appears on the scene, we discover she is unmatched in sexual experience, but is equal in every other measure. And she does not go quietly into the night. She knows her worth and negotiates it well at every turn. Will he earn her heart and the freedom to bed her? Can he keep her safe?

When our billionaire purchases a young heiress in The Brokerage’s auction, he knows she is royalty, third in line to her throne. It would never occur to him this virgin is the adult child of two of his closest friends. Friends who had kept their daughter a secret since her birth, when their country was politically unstable. Groomed to perfection for the royal title to which she was born, she developed veracity and an audacity that was riveting to him. The only problem is that her powerful family did not approve of her consensual participation in the auction and wanted her back.

An aspiring pop star crafts a fake relationship with a small-town boy to rehab her image, until her ex and her real feelings get in the way in this “delightful” (Booklist, starred review) romance perfect for fans of Lynn Painter. Love Thompson went viral. Now she has it all—fifty million...