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I never expected to be getting married, but when a business opportunity lands in my lap, I know I have to take it. After all, my family means the world to me. I’ll do anything to keep them safe, even if it’s entering a marriage that’s nothing more than convenience so I can pop out an heir. However, that’s not what happens. The Hayashi’s pull a fast one and I’m left with a snarling godd*mn hellhound on my hands. Harlow is nothing like the demure, sweet woman I signed up for. No, he’s got teeth and he knows how to use them. There’s no going back. I’ll either fall in love or bury another lover.

Adam is many things, but a single dad was one that he never planned on becoming. He was twenty-three when the plan he had for his life crumbled at his feet. He went from a playboy to a struggling father of a two-year-old boy. Still, he did it. Adam accomplished what he thought was impossible. And now, at thirty-three, he doesn't think that his life can get any better. His son is his world, and his business is one of the most known hockey training facilities in Vancouver. But when he posts a job listing for a new hockey trainer, he gets a response that lights a flame inside of him.

I’m used to my life being insanity. A family of a-holes, being locked up, and a few loose screws? Yeah anyone would go crazy. (Not that I am. I’m different, that’s all). My brothers say I’m the loose canon of the family. The truth is that I’m the life of the party! The party comes to a screeching halt when I meet Ash. Shy, younger, virgin. He’s everything I’m not attracted to. Give me an experienced partner anyday.

For 21-year-old Sydney, being in love with Kyler isn't anything new. They'd been best friends ever since he pushed her down on the playground and she made him eat a mud pie. Somewhere over the years, she fell for him and fell hard. The big problem with that? Kyler puts the man in man-whore. He's never stayed with a girl longer than a few nights, and with it being their last year in college, Syd doesn't want to risk their friendship by declaring her love.

Un amor prohibido. Un pasado que lo destruyó todo. Un viaje que hará tambalear los cimientos de una relación vetada. Los lazos de la familia atan, y los de la pasión pueden hacerlos saltar por los aires. Traiciones, secretos, intriga y mucha mafia te sumergirán en un mundo que no te permitirá salir indemne.

I used to have a great life. My little world was bright. I had no complaints. My perfectly simple life made the fall from grace that much more devastating. I plummeted from the heavenly little bubble that I shared with Jake. I fell fast and hard straight into the fiery pits of hell. The knowledge of how things used to be is a bittersweet torture that refuses me even one moment of respite. I live in a painful reverie that I can’t escape. I had it good once. That’s gone now. All of it disappeared like vapor into the ether.

Helena Conway has fallen in love. Unwillingly. Unwittingly. But not unprovoked. Kit Isley is everything she's not - unstructured, untethered, and not even a little bit careful. It could all be so beautiful...if he wasn't dating her best friend. Helena must defy her heart, do the right thing, and think of others. Until she doesn't.

Anya Volkov was everything I wanted and nothing I could have. I was never supposed to love her. My future has been set in stone since birth, down to who I am expected to marry. With our inner circle now compromised from my bastard of an uncle, it looked like my future had arrived earlier than expected. Cristiano Vitucci walked away from me without a backwards glance, deciding power was more important than me. I accepted that and moved on. Now he was back, ready to take over for his sick father, and no longer someone else’s husband. He says he wants me back.

Bevor er die Familie De Luca regierte, bevor er der Mann wurde, den alle fürchteten, bevor er auf der Suche nach mir ein ganzes Reich durchkämmte, wählte er mich aus, um mich zu ruinieren.

I am Caresa Acardi, the Duchessa di Parma. A blue blood of Italy. I was born to marry well. And now the marriage date is set. I am to marry into House Savona. The family that would have been the royals had Italy not abolished the monarchy in 1946. But to the aristocrats of my home, the abolition means nothing at all. The Savonas still hold power where it counts most. I am soon to become Prince Zeno Savona's wife...or at least I was, until I met Achille. And everything changed.

Bristol Scott has a dirty little secret about her first husband’s unfortunate passing. And now that she’s arranged to marry Lorenzo Vitale, a man who’s strikingly like the deceased, she finds herself back in the thick of the action.

Salvatore Vitale met Isabella through a chance first time encounter, but that’s all it took. One night with the blonde bombshell, and he was hooked. That is, until someone in the family said they would pay him good money to track her down.

Autumn: I know the Gallaghers and the Vitales are at war. But I can’t help my fantasies. My neighbor, Matteo, is everything I’m looking for. Dark, handsome, and mysterious. My father would kill me. My brother would kill him. But I need Matteo. I need a new life. I need my freedom. Matteo: I’ve never seen a woman quite like Autumn Gallagher. Full of innocence and purity. So evocative that some days I can’t breathe. I want to steal her away from her family. She is trapped in suburban Vegas. But not for long. Not with me around.

Anni Ottanta, in una cittadina sulle rive di un lago del Nord Italia, al confine con la Svizzera: un aspirante medico condotto si invaghisce di una misteriosa ragazza incontrata a una festa. Per un dottorino neolaureato, con le tasche vuote, dedicarsi a un corteggiamento serrato può risultare oneroso e parecchio frustrante. Soprattutto se la donna dei propri sogni si rivela un tipo complesso, una "bisbetica indomabile" refrattaria alla poesia, benestante ma poco incline a spendere e che regge l'alcol come un carrettiere.

Tutti abbiamo un segreto da nascondere. Alcuni ne hanno di inconfessabili, altri di pericolosi, altri ancora di innocenti. Ma una cosa è certa: rivelare un segreto può cambiare per sempre le nostre vite, guarire i mali del nostro animo, oppure crearci un bel po' di problemi... Kate Sedgwick non è mai stata molto fortunata, ha sopportato durezze e tragedie, ma nonostante ciò si è sempre sforzata di guardare l'aspetto positivo delle cose, tanto che per Gus, il suo amico del cuore, lei è il lato luminoso della vita.

Aspiring cartoonist Catherine "Cat" Gold earns her living as a celebrity assistant in uptown Manhattan, while navigating the cramped downtown spaces of life, love, and alternative art. Her boss is Rochelle "Rocky" Love, a celebrated 1970s feminist and has-been '80s radio and television star who is convinced she can forge a '90s comeback with an autobiography. But the ghostwriter hired to glorify her life instead reveals a battleground of treachery and hypocrisy, littered with lies and sex that cross all the boundaries. When Cat herself experiences Rocky's duplicity and learns that the icon is a fraud, she is fueled by a sense of disappointment and conspires with the ghostwriter....

The biggest story of her life is the one he wants to hide. I’m homeless by choice. I have no intention of returning to my former life after what I’ve done. This - living among the filth and discarded remnants of others - is what I deserve. As atonement for my sins, I give back; I help those who cannot help themselves. But it’s always under the guise of anonymity. Newspaper headlines throughout the city are clamoring to discover my identity. Including the beautiful woman who manages to see through my “armor.” She has the capability to put my entire life at risk.

Elizabeth Martin has endured an abusive marriage for many years. In a twist of fate, she stands on a New York City street staring in horror as her office collapses on 9/11. Urged away from the devastation and unable to receive cell service to call her husband, Beth takes the opportunity to run from her life of terror and sequesters herself outside Minneapolis, quietly working as a cleaning lady.