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Bon Jovi. Bryan Adams. Presley West. My favorite men of music. Only one of them within reach. The night before Presley West was due to leave our small town of Hollings Hill, all of my high school fantasies came to life. He finally wanted me. Eight years I'd spent pining, and now I, bartending Tessa Lisbon, was going to make damn sure I made that night count before the music industry stole him. Never screw your idols. That's what they say, right? Well, I did, and I did it well. So well, I somehow managed to screw my own heart in the process.

A story about a boy who dreamed of rock and roll. A story about a girl who dreamed about a boy. An epic, all-consuming love story about betrayal, loss and learning, that spans over 20 years. This is the story of us: "I was just 11 years old, but I knew without a shadow of a doubt I was staring into the eyes of the boy I was going to love forever." An edgy coming-of-age love story that breaks all the rules and transcends the decades.

When your world, your life, and all of your hopes and dreams for the future are ripped out from under you, how do you go on? Death without dying is not only the most painful kind of death, it's also the most painful kind of life, and I don't know if I'm strong enough to live it. I spend my lonely days and nights trying to make sense of what my life has become. Do I have the strength to move forward into the light, or should I just let the darkness take me? I'm Georgia Rae Layton McCarthy, and this is the story of me, just me. I'm no longer a part of an us, it's just me. By myself.

So, they want me to write a book? They want to know about my band, my life, my loves and my losses. But they have no idea what they’re asking for. If I give them what they want, they’ll get so much more than the sex and drugs and the rock and roll they’re expecting. They’ll get the secrets that I’ve kept for so long, they’ll get an insight into the person I really am, or at least was. They think they know my story, they know nothing. If I do this, if I write honestly and give them the ugly truth, people will get hurt.

Rhiyan Carson has had a rough go of it lately. After her divorce, she's nearly fired from her job as an executive at a prestigious architectural firm. In an effort to get away and start fresh, she takes a trip to Bali—only to have her plans go awry when she collides with Kendrick Kekoa, the CEO of a successful civil engineering firm.

When divorced Wade Middleton meets wealthy Diana Buchanan, a beautiful horsewoman who relocates to Palo Alto, California, from Texas, he is introduced to the world of horses and the fox-hunt, and a whirlwind romance spins out of control. Problems arise in the relationship when Diana can't let go of her high-horse lifestyle, nor entirely separate from her powerful husband. Wade's love of poetry isn't exactly embraced by Diana, either, and they are worlds apart. Yet for some reason, the two are saddled by an attraction to each other neither understands.

Above an exclusive men's store on Rodeo Drive, there is a private club called Butterfly, where women are free to act out their secret erotic fantasies. Only the most beautiful and powerful women in Beverly Hills are invited to join.

The Phantom Lady is the person many of us wish we could be. Although sometimes exasperating and secretive, she is magic and love and kindness in a time where the world is in despair. A time of turmoil and tragedy with the Vietnam War raging. As with the US, Paris is having its similar issues with the War. Protestors, revolutionaries, teachers, and others come to Paris to find or escape themselves. In Paris, they feel they can find the answers with other like minded.

Sarah Jennings wants nothing more than a quiet life - alone. Raised by an eccentric mother, their life on the road only taught her how to run away from hard times. When she finds herself in an abusive relationship, this lesson serves her well. Eight years later, she’s settled back in her hometown and less fearful then she’s ever been in her life. She’s a first grade teacher, and with few friends and less family around, she has what she wants, a quiet life under the radar where she can be free of her past and live quietly.

Rachel Thomas has spent the last four years running from her past. Forced into Witness Protection and exiled from the rest of the world, she manages to survive, but still lives each day in fear of being found again while trying to overcome her emotional wounds and misdeeds as a criminal. Mark Jacobson wants nothing more than to provide Rachel with the normal life she’s always wanted. Dealing with his own scars and helpless to change their situation, he struggles to maintain his tenuous hold on his anger.

When Dr. Ryan Wallace retreats to the Alaskan wilderness to find peace with his past, the last thing he expects is to stumble across a broken woman barely clinging to life. As he watches her fight her way back from hell, his own problems begin to pale in comparison. When she returns to her world, he finally understands - there are some things you just can't live without.

Victoria et Valentin ne se connaissent pas - pas vraiment. Ils sont tous les deux secrètement amoureux de l'autre. Mais aucun des deux n'a trouvé le courage d'avouer ses sentiments. Leur désir ne s'exprime que dans leurs rêves érotiques et dans leurs fantasmes. Le jour de la Saint-Valentin, chacun décide d'écrire une lettre à l'autre pour lui déclarer son amour. Cette fois, ils trouvent le courage. Mais le moment venu... "Cher Valentin" est une nouvelle érotique, une histoire de désir et d'amour.

The rich, the glamorous, the powerful all come to STARS - to gossip, to make deals, and to indulge luxuriously in their most erotic fantasies. At the magnificent and secluded Palm Springs mountaintop resort, bodies and souls are offered up to save fragile careers - or are used to extract the final succulent and satisfying drops of sweet retribution.

"Il n'y a pas un bruit dans la maison. Jacob et moi sommes les seuls à dormir dans le bâtiment principal. Cela fait des années que Joël et moi ne partageons plus le même lit à cause de ses ronflements. Du moins est-ce l'excuse que nous nous donnons. Je suis habituée à dormir seule ou à rester éveillée plusieurs heures d'affilée, frisant parfois l'insomnie l'été."

"Il n'y a pas un bruit dans la maison. Jacob et moi sommes les seuls à dormir dans le bâtiment principal. Cela fait des années que Joël et moi ne partageons plus le même lit à cause de ses ronflements. Du moins est-ce l'excuse que nous nous donnons. Je suis habituée à dormir seule ou à rester éveillée plusieurs heures d'affilée, frisant parfois l'insomnie l'été."

Abby Tyler is a woman on a mission. For more than 30 years, Abby has been desperately searching for her child - an infant stolen at birth before she even had a chance to see it. To locate her child and end years of heartache, Abby formulates a plan that will bring her face to face with a past she has tried to forget. Elsewhere, three strangers receive word that they've each won a contest that, oddly, they don't recall entering.