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Author
Series
Sisters in Paradise volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ophelia Simmons is back home at the Paradise -- the former brothel where her mom raised her and six sisters -- contemplating her next career move and dodging Great Aunt Bernie's matchmaking attempts. She is about to meet her match in Jake Brennan, the ruggedly handsome owner of a local winery where Aunt Bernie convinces her to take a job for the summer. At first Ophelia and Jake's personalities clash, but soon enough sparks start flying. Meanwhile,...
62) Outdrawn
Author
Publisher
[Deanna Grey]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Noah Blue's finally got her foot in the door. After clawing her way to the top of the charts with her webcomic, she's garnered enough attention to earn a full-time position at a comic company re-launching their cult classic comic: Queen Leisah. Queen Leisah is predicted to be an instant bestseller with movie deals already in the making. Things are falling into place. There's nowhere to go but up ... as soon as she gets one person out of her way....
63) Out of office
Author
Publisher
Afterglow Books
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"Genevieve Raymond was born an overachiever. After opening a hot new hotel chain location in Panama, she's on track for a major promotion. But first, she desperately needs a break, even if her overbearing mother doesn't approve. For two glorious weeks, Gen's giving herself permission to explore the beautiful beaches of Colón -- and the stimulating attraction she shares with her sexy-as-hell driver, Adrián Nicolas. After a family tragedy, Adrián's...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Librarian Chloe Sampson has been struggling: to take care of her three younger siblings, to find herself, to make ends meet. She's just about at the end of her rope when she stumbles across a rare edition of a book from the 1960s at the local flea market. Deciding it's a sign of her luck turning, she takes it home with her-only to be shocked when her cranky hermit of a neighbor swoops in and offers to buy it for an exorbitant price. Intrigued, Chloe...
65) NEVER FALL AGAIN
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Landry Hutton has spent three years rebuilding her life behind the secure gates of The Haven, an exclusive resort on the outskirts of Gossamer Falls, North Carolina. As the artist-in-residence, and with her pottery prized by The Haven's guests, Landry isfinally ready to settle in permanently. She wants to give her daughter, Eliza, a safe home to grow up in and hires former Marine Callum Shaw to handle the construction. Cal grew up in Gossamer Falls...
Author
Publisher
Podium
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"When Finlay Ashowan joins the staff of the King and Queen of Daxaria, he's an enigma. No one knows where he comes from or how he came to be where he is, which suits Fin just fine. He's satisfied simply serving as the royal cook, keeping nosy passersby out of his kitchen, and concocting some truly uncanny meals. But Fin's secret identity doesn't stay hidden for long. After all, it's not every day a house witch and his kitten familiar, Kraken, take...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"His name is Joshua Knight. Once a respected explorer, the press now calls him the Tarnished Knight. He took the fall for a disaster in the Underworld that destroyed his career. The devastating event occurred in the newly discovered sector known as Glass House--a maze of crystal that is rumored to conceal powerful Alien antiquities. The rest of the Hollister Expedition team disappeared and are presumed dead. Whatever happened down in the tunnels scrambled...
68) Fake flame
Author
Series
First Responders (Adele Buck) volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin, Afterglow Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"To an observer, hauling a baby grand piano onto a college quad to publicly serenade an ex might seem like a romantic gesture. To literature professor Eva Campbell, it's the latest manipulative move by a cheating jerk who won't take a hint. Plus, she never liked that song anyway. Setting the piano on fire might be an overreaction, but Eva's at the end of her rope, at least until hot young firefighter Sean Hannigan talks her down. And that's not all...
70) Wild love
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Forbes may have labeled Ford Grant the World's Hottest Billionaire, but all he cares about is escaping the press and opening a recording studio in gorgeous small town Rose Hill. Something that comes to a screeching halt when he ends up face-to-face with a young girl who claims he's her biological father. Now, he spends his days balancing business with parenting a sullen twelve-year-old, all while trying desperately to keep his hands the hell off his...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Liska knows that magic is monstrous, and its practitioners are monsters. She has done everything possible to suppress her own magic, to disastrous consequences. Desperate to be free of it, Liska flees her small village and delves into the dangerous, demon-inhabited spirit-wood to steal a mythical fern flower. If she plucks it, she can use its one wish to banish her powers. Everyone who has sought the fern flower has fallen prey to unknown horrors,...
Author
Publisher
Contraluz
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
"Dos físicos rivales chocan en una vorágine de disputas académicas y relaciones falsas Las múltiples vidas de la física teórica Elsie Hannaway han acabado atrapándola. De día es profesora adjunta. Se afana en corregir exámenes y enseñar termodinámica con la esperanza de, algún día, conseguir la titularidad. De noche, complementa su inexistente sueldo ofreciendo el servicio de ser una novia falsa, lo cual lleva a cabo con éxito gracias...
Author
Publisher
Plaza y Janés, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Nisa y Jose viven en la isla de La Palma. Nisa, cansada de su familia, pasa las horas en un apartamento turístico vacío donde se cuela cada tarde. Un día, Jose, el hijo del propietario, la descubre y queda fascinado con ella. Junto al fuego de las hogueras, comienza una relación apasionada y turbulenta. La trágica erupción del volcán de La Palma y sus problemas familiares llevan a la pareja a Madrid, donde su amor se enfrentará a nuevas preguntas:...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Beatrice Leal's personal life is complicated between her divorce and her precocious six-year-old. But the job she loves is the one thing she counts on to be straightforward -- that is, until her boss's own divorce prompts a move from NYC back to Ireland. Now Bea is in Ireland twice a month for work. It's wreaking havoc on the custody agreement she and her moody ex are sorting out while he lives downstairs in the brownstone they co-own. And to top...
75) IF THE BOOT FITS
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Determined to prove that cattle king Eli Dearing has no justification for evicting his stepmother and half brothers, Asher Ellis uses the cover of a fancy ball to break into the Three Cedars ranch house to search for proof of wrongdoing. On the verge ofdiscovery, he flees, but a boy's cry compels him to make a daring rescue. Spunky and independent, Samantha Dearing balks when she learns the ball her father is hosting in her honor is nothing more...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When her college best friend, Garrett, admits he's in love with her, Maggie, a lawyer searching for Mr. Right, finds her world turned upside down and must choose between the perfect guy and a friendship that's the foundation for everything she's ever wanted.
Author
Series
Elements (Brittainy C. Cherry) volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A broken shell of a man who angrily lashes out at anyone who comes to close, Tristan, when he meets a woman whose heart is just as shattered as his own, he is no longer lost alone in the dark.
78) Final offer
Author
Series
Dreamland billionaires volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tasked with selling his grandfather's Michigan lake house in order to receive his inheritance, CALLAHAN "CAL" KANE is determined to do right by his grandfather, but standing in his way is ALANA CASTILLO, Cal's childhood friend and now co-owner of the lake house. Alana's mother was the caretaker of the lake house and Alana share fond memories there, not only with Cal's grandfather but with Cal himself. While Cal's destructive ways stood in the way...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
"Jo March está muy feliz por empezar la universidad. Este año su objetivo es vivir la experiencia a tope. Para ello, tiene claro que irá a todas las fiestas, conocerá a personas interesantes y se liará con quien quiera y cuando quiera. Solo se ha autoimpuesto una norma: no va a enamorarse, de eso ya ha tenido suficiente. Sobre el papel todo está claro, pero cuando empieza a poner en marcha el plan, sus ligues van de mal en peor. Y por si fuera...
Author
Series
Magnolia Parks universe volume 4
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Daisy Haites thought she'd left everything about her old life in the past: the crime, her family, and the man she loves. But when her safety is threatened once again, she finds herself back under the watchful eyes of her gang-lord brother, Julian, and her ex-boyfriend, Christian, both desperate to keep her safe. Everything gets more complicated when beautiful, broken-hearted socialite Magnolia Parks enters the scene and Julian finds himself entangled...
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