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Flora Buchanan doesn’t think a relationship is an option. A variety of mental health issues - anxiety, OCD, and PTSD - make it seem impossible to find love. Instead, she seeks joy in the one thing that is safe and ordered: her sweet shop in Glasgow. Mac Sharkey is ready to start a new life after being released from jail. As part of the infamous Sharkey family, she took care of business on the edge of the law for the once criminal, and now legitimate, empire. After being sentenced to jail time her cousin should have shared, she’s promised a quiet life running her dream barber shop.

Former Protection Command Officer Eve Webb quit her job when a terrorist incident revealed that internal communication failures had caused multiple deaths. Now her former commanding officer and mentor has asked for a favor, and Eve can’t say no. It should be an easy job. All she has to do is guard one female civilian.

Ashling O’Rourke has always seen love through the prism of her vintage romance novel collection. The dukes, the duchesses, and the corsets and carriages help her to experience different kinds of love. She’s content living a sheltered life in a small village and even gets a job working for the Rosebrook Village Trust. Ash’s newly exciting life is only marred by the arrogant Archie, who thinks she’s the office tea girl.

Fraser Park, the award-winning Scottish nature reserve and theme park, means everything to Beth Fraser. She’s more than a little preoccupied saving her family’s legacy and struggling against a board of directors who all seem to hate her. The last person she wants to need is selfie-obsessed, filtered to perfection social-media influencer Jemma Johnson. But she’s got to protect Fraser Park from a corporate takeover, and according to her brother, that means boosting their online presence.

Emily White works an exhausting transatlantic schedule for Crown Airlines. Crippling debt means she spends more time in the air as a member of the first-class cabin crew than she does on the ground being a mother, and she desperately misses her young son. Fastidious passenger Olivia Lewis is used to things being a certain way. When her routine is changed, she attempts to reach out to Emily. Unfortunately, Olivia is famous for her terrible social skills, and things quickly go oh-so-wrong. When disaster strikes for her son, will Emily be able to swallow her pride?

High-flying executive Celia Scott is on her way to Tokyo to accept a prestigious award, heavy with emotional baggage. She’ll make the trip, but she doesn’t have to like it, and she certainly doesn’t have to make nice with a stranger on a plane. Artist Lily Andersen is excited to finally meet her online crush, the only person in the world who truly gets her. She just needs to survive the 11-hour flight from London to Japan with a testy seatmate who by turns annoys and fascinates her.

Where love is concerned, the smallest steps are often the hardest to take - especially when you’ve guarded your heart as carefully as Iris Miller has. Still bruised from a relationship that crashed and burned, and all the meaningless hookups that followed, Iris has given up on love and buttoned her feelings up tight. But when Cameron Hansen joins Iris’ law firm and her soccer team, and even starts hanging out in her favorite bookstore, everything gets turned upside down.

Nikki is on a high - she is about to be promoted to her dream job! Jo is her nemesis, brought in by Nikki’s manager to restructure the struggling company. As dramatic life events change the course of both women’s future, they are thrown together unexpectedly. The tension between them is palpable, but will they both overcome it to build a future together?

He's a duke in need of a wife. She was thrown back in time until the next full moon. Will his secret push her away? Cora Rey wanted a fresh start in life, but being thrown back in time to 1850 isn’t how she expected to do that. She discovers that Victorian England isn't the pleasant social whirl Jane Austen led her to believe, but when in Rome - or in this case Twickenham.... She’s determined to have the vacation of a lifetime, especially in the company of a certain duke.

There are two sides to every story. And then, there’s the truth. Divorce is rarely pretty and never fair. When successful divorce solicitors Harper Anderson and Dylan Blue find themselves on opposing sides of a bitter separation, they become uncontrollably consumed by more than just the case. Dylan is fiercely ambitious; Harper a crusader for justice. So, when the adversaries lock horns in professional combat, the tension is overwhelming.

Henry Stoepel, Earl of Saalfeld, has loved Lady May Cottrell since they were children. He's proposed three times. She hasn't said no, but she hasn't said yes. He decides to give it one more try at his friend's Christmas ball, knowing this time he might get the answer he dreads. Mr. Everett Hawley and Lady Lucy Radnor have been engaged for several months. The banns have been read, but her parents invent flimsy excuses postponing the wedding date. Everett is determined to force her parents to fulfill the marriage contract at the Christmas ball.

As the only surviving member of the reigning noble family, the Plague has taken everyone from Isabel. All she has left is the chateau and her honor. As the Heiress of Cassis, she is betrothed to an enemy and vows to uphold her father’s promise and the marriage bargain he made. But when a man from another time invades her home, her heart betrays her and she must choose between loyalty and love. 

Do you know how it feels to run for 1,900 miles? Or to look down at the Earth from a space station? Or to swim alongside a hungry shark? Fantastic Female Adventurers by Lily Dyu is a collection of 14 exciting and inspirational stories about the women that do. Follow them on their incredible journeys around the globe.

Communicating with an audience is essential for professionals in almost every field. And while some presenters light up the floor and leave the audience wanting more, others fall flat and leave attendees wondering why they are even there. In Present Naked, author and award-winning speaker Brad Waldron offers an essential resource that will help you develop your presentation skills and present with substance, style, and sizzle.    

With university behind him, Lord Gerard Morrow, the Earl of Norham, is preparing for a grand tour to the future with a fellow time traveler. His first night home, he receives a summons from his father, the Duke of Kyloe: Come to Scotland, or their family will be ruined. Lady Layla Colvin is roused from her sleep to marry the duke’s son as part of settling of a gambling debt. Everything she has looked forward to vanishes with the words, "I will." She will never have a coming-out, or a suitor, or a wedding dress - and, apparently, not a husband, either. 

There’s a Thingamanose stuck up Rose’s nose but nobody believes her - especially Dad! He thinks he "nose" best! A comically illustrated, rhyming children's audiobook for those with a nose for mischief. Contains slime! A story about a thing-up-a-nose and how sometimes it's very annoying when adults don't believe you. Part picture book, part comic, part chapter audiobook for listening alone, for listening at bedtime, or listening accompanied by a teacher. A rhyming, illustrated, comic-style, funny story for children. Ideal for ages five to eight.

A ruthless executive. A destitute woman. Both on the way up. Selina Hale is on her way to the top. She's been working towards a boardroom position on the 13th floor for her entire career. And no one is going to get in her way. Not her clueless boss, her soon to be ex-wife, and most certainly not the homeless person who has moved into the car park at work. Kate Morgan fell through the cracks in a broken support system and found herself destitute. Determined and strong-willed, she's not about to accept help from a mean business woman who can't even remember the names of her own nephews.

Twenty-five years after a young girl goes missing from her home in South-East England, most have given up hope of ever finding closure. But when a renowned psychic has visions of a murder the police reopen the case, placing the puzzle of the "woodlands killer" in Ashley McCoy’s capable hands. Firmly set in the harsh reality of a world where the young and beautiful are not safe from dangerous hands, A Walk Into Darkness navigates the ups and downs of Ashley’s life; desperate to solve the cold case without letting the trials and intrigues of life get in the way.

First love is never easy, so when teen sweethearts Jessie and Toni’s secret affair is dramatically exposed at school, their world falls apart. Bullied by her peers and betrayed by Toni, Jessie has no choice but to move on, vowing never to trust again. Ten years on, in a strange twist of fate, the two women's worlds collide once more. This time, it is Jessie who holds the power. Now a prominent lawyer, she is called upon to assist the very person who betrayed her ten years ago

When Emma witnesses a burglary in the apartment opposite, she has every intention of doing the right thing: report it and move on. However, things don’t go quite as planned. Emma is stunned to discover the apartment belongs to Lauren, her first crush who she hasn't seen in 14 years. The return of her old amour reawakens a latent desire. Can Emma reignite the passions of her past, or will the reason Lauren left, all those years ago, tear them apart once again?