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21) Midnight ride
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As a rule, Janie should be dating a man her own age, like her handsome neighbor Rohn and not the twenty-four-year old ranch hand he employs. But once Tyler gets Janie alone, the widow realizes that some rules, like broncos, are meant to be broken...
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Cover girl Cat St. James's picture-perfect life is anything but flawless. Luckily, she's a master of hiding the truth from the camera. Relying on that skill, she conceals her latest secret from her family while attending her brother's wedding. Her only trouble now is Hank Mitchell--the soft-spoken carpenter she'd once brushed aside. Seeing him at the reception underscores her private heartache and ignites unwelcome longing, which she promptly drowns...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Studies keep showing that love after fifty is more satisfying than at any other stage in life, and it makes sense: at this stage, you are more emotionally stable and more focused on the present; you know what you absolutely have to have, but also what you can live without; partnering is no longer about building family and fortune it s about sharing intimacy as grounded individuals. And sex isn t pass/fail anymore, but about becoming erotic friends....
24) Cover your eyes
Author
Series
Morgans of Nashville volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
At first, they struggle to escape. Then a torrent of blows rains down upon their bodies until their eyes cloud over in final agony. The killer shows no remorse--just a twisted need to witness each victim's last terrified moments. Public defender Rachel Wainwright is struggling to reopen a decades-old case, convinced that the wrong man is in prison. Homicide detective Deke Morgan doesn't want to agree. But if Rachel's hunch is correct, whoever fatally...
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Language
English
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Description
"Leo Ricci's already handling all he can, between taking care of his little sister Gabby, driving a cab, and being the super of his apartment building in the Bronx. But when Gabby spots a 'princess' in a gown outside of the UN trying to hail a cab, she begs her brother to stop and help. Before he knows it, he's got a real-life damsel in distress in the backseat of his car. Princess Marie of Eldovia shouldn't be hailing a cab, or even be out and about....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he's poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind, along with the devoted, ambitious, and well-connected woman he's been in love with for the last four years. Will expects nothing more than a year off before resuming the comfortable life he's always known, but he's...
27) Best laid plans
Author
Series
Garnet Run volume 2
Publisher
Carina Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlie Matheson has spent his life taking care of things. When his parents died two days before his eighteenth birthday, he took care of his younger brother, even though that meant putting his own dreams on hold. He took care of his father's hardware store, building it into something known several towns over. He took care of the cat he found in the woods... so now he has a cat. When a stranger with epic tattoos and a glare to match starts coming...
29) Hold your breath
Author
Series
Search and rescue (Katie Ruggle) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the captain of Field County's ice rescue dive team, Callum Cook is driven to perfection. But when he meets new diver Louise 'Lou' Sparks, all that hard-won order is obliterated in an instant. Lou is a hurricane. A walking disaster. And with her, he's never felt more alive...even if keeping her safe may just kill him"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Ask a Queer Chick is a guide to sex, love, and life for lesbian, gay, bi, and queer women. Based on the popular advice column for Fusion.net, but featuring entirely new content, Ask a Queer Chick cuts through all of the bizarre conditioning imparted by parents, romantic comedies, and The L Word to help queer readers and their straight/cis friends navigate this changing world. Offering advice on everything from coming out to getting your first gay...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"He's in it to win it. Until he falls under his neighbor's spell. Bram Larkspur's rugged, sexy looks belie his fear of all things horrifying. But as Casper Road's newest resident, he's excited to join the annual Halloween decorating contest. The competition is keen, epecially from six-time champion, architect Zachary Glass. But when enigmatic Zachary sparks a prank war, it's game on -- until one sizzling kiss turns these rivals into allies. Now only...
33) Early work
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"What a debut! Early Work is one of the wittiest, wisest (sometimes silliest, in the best sense), and bravest novels about wrestling with the early stages of life and love, of creative and destructive urges, I've read in a while. The angst of the young and reasonably comfortable isn't always pretty, but Andrew Martin possesses the prose magic to make it hilarious, illuminating, moving." --Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask and The Fun Parts For young...
Author
Series
Twilight, Texas novels volume 14
Twilight Texas novels volume 14
Twilight Texas
Twilight Texas novel volume 12
Twilight Texas novels volume 14
Twilight Texas
Twilight Texas novel volume 12
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
" Wedding planner Aria Alzate has one goal: to give her best friend a perfect day. But after a bump on the head, she's under doctor's orders not to travel on her own. So she's stuck on the road to Twilight with upright, uptight Remington Lockhart in the driver's seat. True, Remy is one long, tall, Texas male, but the ex-military man never saw a rule he didn't like - making this one long road trip . . . Remy has left the military, but the military...
Author
Series
Heart of the Rockies novels volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Ben Noble hires her to guide him through the mountains of Colorado, Paige Harper, who had once fallen for this playboy cowboy, refuses to mix business with pleasure, but the infuriatingly sexy rancher has other ideas.
36) Twice tempted
Author
Series
Drake's rakes volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It feels like a lifetime ago that Alex Knight saved Fiona from certain doom... and stole a soul-shattering kiss for good measure. Wanting nothing more than to keep her safe, he left her in the care of her grandfather, the Marquess of Dourne. But Fiona was hardly safe. As soon as he could, the marquess cast her and her sister out on the streets with only her wits to keep them alive. Alex has never forgotten that long-ago kiss. Now the dashing spy is...
Author
Series
Amish brides of Pinecraft volume 4
Language
English
Description
"When the Orange Blossom Inn is broken into, Beverly Overholt calls Eric Wagler, the owner, who comes immediately. Both have fought attraction to the other because of their different backgrounds. As they work together to restore the inn, the trust and love between them grows. Will they have the courage to follow their hearts?"--
Author
Series
Werewolf series (Terry Spear) volume 13
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gray werewolf Tom Silver searches the Rockies for the wolves responsible for killing local livestock, but soon must rescue an imprisoned female werewolf/coyote shifter mix from a plane crash and hide her from her captors.
Author
Series
Kiss quotient novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected-and the man she enlists to help her-in this sizzling new romance by USA Today bestselling author Helen Hoang. When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to be perfect in other people's eyes. If Anna ever wants to move forward, she has to learn to listen to her own heart, but...
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