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1) Rush
Author
Series
Breathless trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gabe is one of the richest and most powerful men in the country, used to always get what he wants. When he saw Mia walk into his hotel's grand opening, he knew he shouldn't act on his desires, after all she is his best friend's little sister. Ever since Mia was a teenager she has always had a crush on Gabe. She knows he is too old and too out of her league but she is determined to do something to make him notice her. As Gabe pulls her into his world...
Author
Language
English
Description
Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly-divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Kate Nelson had it all. A flourishing company founded with her husband, John; a happy marriage; and a daughter, Ashlyn. The picture-perfect family. Until John left for another woman. Tish is half his age. Ambitious. She's cultivated a friendship with Ashlyn. Tish believes she's won. She's wrong. Tish Nelson has it all. Youth, influence, a life of luxury, and a new husband. But the truth is, there's a lot of baggage. Namely, his first wife--and suspicions...
Author
Series
Miss Julia series volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Etta Mae is frustrated with her trailer-park life and her no-good family, and she has big dreams for something better. Working as the home nurse for the elderly but wealthy Howard Connard, Senior, she finally sees her chance?with her sexy curves and infectious charm, Etta Mae is determined to become his wife. Unfortunately, Connard?s scheming, money-hungry son and stuck-up daughter-in-law are equally determined to make sure she doesn?t. To make matters...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When a railroad baron falls for a uniform girl at a gambling parlor thirty years his junior, he moves her to New York posing as a well-heeled Southern widow where her shrewd investing instincts build her a fortune"--
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A novel told in three parts, New to Liberty showcases the growth and strength of three unforgettable women as they evolve in a society that refuses to. In lustrous prose, DeMisty Bellinger brings the quiet but treacherous landscape to life, offering a vivid snapshot of mid-century America and keeping readers guessing until the end as to how these three women are connected.
Author
Publisher
Millennial PRINT, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A novel inspired by the hit TV series Younger"--
"A tie-in novel with the sixth series of the Paramount Network hit TV show Younger - A stunning coming-of-age novel about one young man's eye-opening sexual awakening at the hands of an intriguing older woman. Henry Cane knows exactly what he's going to do with the rest of his life. That's the problem"--
Author
Series
Wildflower duet volume 01
Publisher
Micalea Smeltzer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"My future is a big 'what if' at the moment and I'm fine with that. For the most part. When Thayer Holmes moves in next door, the grumpy landscaper both fascinates and amuses me. When he asks me to nanny his kid, it's a great way to make some extra money. It's impossible not to fall in love with Thayer and his adorable son. There's a big problem though. I'm eighteen. He's thirty-one. Falling for someone almost fifteen years older than me wasn't part...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rashid is a young Black man from Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, with a complicated life. Looking for an escape from a neighborhood few ever leave, he finds it in Rachel--married, twenty years his senior, and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. It begins with a flirtation and a tryst. It becomes an intense romance, exhilarating and enriching, that defies the expectations of Rashid's friends and family. What draws Rachel to Rashid is his curiosity, his need...
Author
Series
Harlequin desire volume 2913
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Opposites do more than attract when an older woman falls for a younger man in Reese Ryan's brand-new Harlequin Desire series, Valentine Vineyards! A red-hot romance between a career-focused woman and a determined younger man? Doctor's orders! Dr. Julian Brandon is too charming, too sexy and too young for Chandra Valentine. But after the successful bachelor rescues her-twice-she owes him. Still reeling from life-changing family revelations, Chandra...
11) Alguien como tú
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Just Like You es una nueva novela brillantemente observada, tierna, pero también brutalmente divertida que llega al corazón de lo que significa enamorarse de manera sorprendente y precipitada de la mejor persona posible: alguien que no viste venir.
Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person--someone...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This is the time to run away, she thinks, to call it a mistake, to race back to home and safety. If I don't go home I will never feel safe again. On meeting Micajah Burnett, the son of an old school friend, Eve Armanton is faced with a choice. Years of a miserable marriage means she's as broken as the beautiful antique violin she's just found, and Micajah offers a spark of life, an opportunity to reawaken her sense. If Eve takes a leap into this new...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sir Ecgbert Tode of Tode Hall has survived to a grand old age - much to the despair of his younger wife, Emma. But at ninety-three he has, at last, shuffled off the mortal coil. Emma, Lady Tode, thoroughly fed up with being a dutiful Lady of the Manor, wants to leave the country to spend her remaining years in Capri. Unfortunately her three tiresome children are either unwilling or unable (too mad, too lefty or too happy in Australia) to take on management...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he decides he must have him. Soon they strike up a closeness that falls between the blurry lines of friendship, sponsorship, and love, and August moves in with Aldwych. But eventually August starts bringing home other...
Author
Series
Accidentally paranormal novels volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Being a cougar is totally sexy. Katie Woods never thought she'd be forty-one, divorced, and thrust back into a dating world where women are hooking up with guys half their age. To start fresh, Katie uproots her life and her veterinary practice to upstate New York--not exactly the hottest dating scene on the planet. But when a one-hundred-eighty-pound, unconscious cougar appears on the steps of her clinic, Katie's newly single life gets a much needed...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's in the water where she first sees him: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college, a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Finding herself pulled to Jude, the man in the water, she begins losing herself in the simple, seductive rhythms of his everyday life. As their relationship deepens, life at Sailors Beach offers her the stability she has been craving...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At the age of forty, Desa Rae Jenkins may be classified as over the hill, but with voluptuous curves in all the right places, she attracts Roc Dawson, one of the sexiest men alive, who happens to be almost half her age. He excites her like no other man has, but from Roc's playa-hating uncle Ronnie to the baby mama drama that comes to her doorstep, Desa Rae is forced to make a decision that could set her free from the man she's fallen in love with....
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded - physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she's in danger. Anton is determined to help Edith leave her abusive marriage. Frightened and fifteen years Anton's senior, Edith is slow to trust. But...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A razor-sharp debut novel about an ambitious young opera singer caught between devotion to her craft and an all-consuming affair with an older man"--
Anna doesn't fit in. Not with her wealthy classmates at the selective London Conservatory where she unexpectedly wins a place after university, not with the family she left behind, and definitely not with Max, a man she meets in the bar where she sings for cash. He's everything she's not--rich, tailored...
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
©2022.
Language
English
Description
"A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world's most devious family, for fans of The Nest and Succession. When Alana Shropshire's seventy-six-year-old father, Ed, starts dating Kelly, a saucy twenty-eight-year-old, a flurry of messages arrives from Alana's brothers, urging her to help "protect Dad" from the young interloper. Alana knows that what Teddy and Martin really want to protect is their father's fortune, and...
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