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When in Rome (Sarah Adams) volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When the owner of the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky, makes a questionable agreement with a tattooed bad boy, a delightful friends to lovers romance begins to bloom--from the author of When in Rome and The Cheat Sheet. Annie Walker is on a quest to find her perfect match--someone who nicely compliments her happy, quiet life running her flower shop in Rome, Kentucky. Unfortunately, she worries her goal might be too far out of reach when she overhears...
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Series
Palace insiders volume 2
Language
English
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"Petunia De Vere enjoys being the personal assistant to lovable, bumbling Johnny Marchmont. But the job has its share of challenges, including the royal's giant, intimidating bodyguard, Matthias. Pet and Matthias are polar opposites--she's spontaneous and enthusiastic, he's rigid and stoic--but she can sense there's something softer underneath that tough exterior ... For Matthias Vaughn, protecting others is the name of the game. But keeping his royal...
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Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ordered to protect TV news personality Amelia Chess, an unapologetic Black conservative who has been receiving death threats, Silence starts to see what lies beneath her villainous persona, but when the threats turn real, he is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy where he must fight his personal demons to survive.
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Publisher
Grijalbo, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta es la historia de un guardaespaldas y una escritora convencida de que no necesita protección. Kobo cree que será un trabajo fácil; Eva está más que dispuesta a ser su siguiente problema con tal de conservar su libertad. Sin embargo, cuando la tensión y la atracción entre ellos crezca hasta convertirse en un deseo irrefrenable, ambos deberán decidir si se dejan llevar o si ponen punto final a la aventura que acaba de empezar. Un trabajo...
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English
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Jillian Moorewood, the oldest child of a con man and an heiress, returns home after thirty-nine months in prison and discovers her scheming family ignored her go-legit-or-else ultimatum, and confronts them with demands to clean up their act while she attempts to get her own life in order.
Series
Sugar apple fairy tale volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Every autumn, the royal family sponsors a candy-crafting competition in the capital, and--following in her late mother's footsteps -- Anne's got her eyes on the prize. To that end, she sets off with her bodyguard and two companions in tow, but her plans go awry when the silver sugar she refined to present at the event suddenly goes missing..."--
7) The takedown
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"An undercover CIA agent is sent home to investigate her sister's criminal fiance but the last thing she expects is to fall in love with his bodyguard along the way in this sexy romantic comedy. It's been a long time since Sydney Swift has gone home. An unrelentingly successful CIA field officer, she has spent the last five years pretending to be someone - anyone - other than herself. But this year, the festive season is coming with some added surprises....
Series
Sugar apple fairy tale volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In a world where fairies are caught and sold to the highest bidder, humans aren’t exactly on friendly terms with the fae folk. But friendship is exactly what Anne Halford seeks with Challe, her new fairy bodyguard, though he’s not so keen on the idea. As his master, Anne tasks him with escorting her through a particularly dangerous area, but with a reluctant fairy bodyguard eager to escape a life of servitude, she’ll have to deal with a lot...
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Series
New Orleans (Karen Rose) volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Deadly secrets lie beneath the murky waters of the Louisiana bayou in this pulse-pounding new romantic suspense novel from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose. There's no safe place for a child to hide when the danger comes from every direction. Public prosecutor J.P. "Kaj" Cardozo has lived in New Orleans for only six months, and he's already working on a high-profile celebrity sexual assault case that has made headlines all...
10) American gunner
Author
Publisher
Black Odyssey Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When his street boss goes missing, Raphael is hired by Alex to be her bodyguard and the pair spark an unexpected friendship and work together on an international business deal that goes awry and leaves him holding the bag.
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Series
Lords of the Armory volume 6
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
General Clayton Elliott, Home Office Undersecretary and new viscount, gets suspicious when London is too quiet. Everyone says that the anarchist group he's been fighting died along with its leader, but his instincts say just the opposite. Then he meets Her Serene Highness Princess Cordelia of Monrovia. Resigned to doing her duty for her country, she is in London to make a match with a royal duke--and as a royal princess, she has no say in which duke...
12) Broken vow
Author
Series
Brutal birthright romances volume 5
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Riona Griffin is gorgeous, intelligent, and iron-willed, determined to carve her name in the family ledger without a man at her side. But when she barely survives an unexpected attack on her life, her family hires Raylan Boone as her bodyguard--a rancher, a soldier, and a southern boy with plenty of charm to burn. And Riona hates his guts. She doesn't think she needs anybody, but Raylan is pretty sure she needs him. After all, she's being hunted...
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English
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"The latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin travels from Hollywood to rural Montana as one man answers the question: How far would you go-really-to save someone you love?"--
When MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren't working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A. to work as the...
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Despite Rust Byrne’s warnings that their opponent is one of the powerful Adjutants of legend, Princess Octavia; her bodyguard, Klifford; and the young lord Derek follow the secretive noble through the passageways below the Sky Chamber, hot on the trails of the intruders who kidnapped Sil. Even during their rush, however, Octavia notices how clean the tunnels are, which begs the question—who could be using them and to what end? Meanwhile, Prince...
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Princess Octavia finally meets Rust Byrne--candidate number one for the role of (fake) boyfriend--but is taken aback by his close resemblance to the entity who sent her into the world of The Noble King! Confronted with the memories of her reincarnation she'd been suppressing for so long, Octavia flees the room in terror. Though she pulls herself together with Klifford's support, Octavia is forced to put her search for a pseudolover aside when she...
16) Lumine
Author
Publisher
WEBTOON Unscrolled, a division of Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Description
"In a world where weredogs, witches, and humans live side by side, Lumine is a down-on-his-luck weredog with nowhere to turn...until he meets antisocial witch boy Kody. Lumine also has a big, fluffy secret--he is actually a werewolf, a rare and powerful type of magical being thought to be extinct. Except...he can't transform properly. When robbers attack the two boys, Lumine shifts into his other form: a tiny, fierce, and ridiculously cute puppy dog....
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