Top new romance books out this week: 2 May - 8 May 2021

A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected—and the man she enlists to help her—in this new New York Times bestselling romance by 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 replicate that moment...

My husband. My monster.The truth isn’t always what it seems.Lia doesn’t realize that, but she will. Soon.I chose this life. This road. This twisted arrangement.For her, I made a deal with the devil.For her, I toyed with fate and death.There’s no going back.I stole her and like any thief, I won’t return her.Lia is my addiction. My obsession. My love.Mine...

A short story about Hades and Persephone from Neon Gods, and how their story ties with the Wicked Villains series...

The Brentwood Boys have come together in a three book boxset. Over 300,000 words of delicious baseball players (The Locker Room, The Dugout, and The Lineup) with a LARGE 15,000 word epilogue of where they are now. Marriage? Maybe. Babies? Possibly. Abs? Oh yes, they still have abs...

Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid's stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice...

Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Nick has even found the courage to come out to his mom.But coming out isn't something that happens just once, and Nick and Charlie try to figure out when to tell their friends that they're dating. Not being out to their classmates gets even harder during a school trip to Paris...

What happened after that night in Paris..

Liz Buxbaum has always known that Wes Bennett was not boyfriend material. You would think that her next-door neighbor would be a prince candidate for her romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only proven himself to be a pain in the butt, ever since they were little...

I Want The One Girl I Can’t Have...Zoe Romera is trapped in a marriage contract with the most sadistic psychopath at Kingmakers.She couldn’t be more off-limits. Stealing her from Rocco Prince would break the most ironclad rules of the mafia world.But I have to have her. She’s my soulmate. I want her, or no one at all.I’ll do anything to save her. Rocco will do anything to destroy her...

Enemies From Birth…The Markovs and the Lebedevs have been bloody rivals for generations.Nadia Lebedev is the ultimate forbidden fruit: a mafia princess engaged to another man.From the moment I see her, I want her for myself.Every day that passes, I become more obsessed with her...

Eve, Justin, Susie, and Ed have been friends since they were teenagers. Now in their thirties, the four are as close as ever, Thursday night bar trivia is sacred, and Eve is still secretly in love with Ed. Maybe she should have moved on by now, but she can’t stop thinking about what could have been. And she knows Ed still thinks about it, too...

The new story focuses on two different teens from the large Italian-American family of the first novel. When they swap phones—and life challenges—in the party-circuit run-up to high-school graduation, disastrous but transformative consequences unfold. Publication is set for spring 2021...

While Navy SEAL Vale Butler is overseas, letters from his stepsister have kept him sane. Now he's returned home a hero, eager to match a face to the words, never expecting to be attracted to the girl. Ferociously. Urgently. Dangerously. Lula is off limits, but for the first time in Vale's life, he is breaking protocol and following the orders of his heart, no matter the consequences...

If working at a hotel as a waitress on Christmas Eve wasn't reason enough for Hannah to turn her into a real Grinch, dealing with a pretentious and cocky guest at the Nirvana Resort can truly turn the happiest night of the year into a nightmare.She is ready to sharpen her nails and assert herself, but the guest in question seems to be full of mind-blowing surprises. First of all..

Meredith Fox has been going to Martha's Vineyard for the summer as long as she can remember. But this summer is the first one back since the death of Meredith's sister. It will all be overwhelming, but even more since since the entire extended family will be together for her cousin's big wedding...

Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness.Scratching out a living on the family’s tobacco farm is as tough as it gets...

The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes—one that might just be killer....When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes...

Felix Ever After meets Becky Albertalli in this swoon-worthy, heartfelt rom-com about how a transgender teen’s first love challenges his ideas about perfect relationships.Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There’s just one problem—all the stories are fake...

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off meets Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist in this romp through the city that never sleeps from the New York Times bestselling author of Since You’ve Been Gone, Morgan Matson.Two girls. One night. Zero phones. Kat and Stevie—best friends, theater kids, polar opposites—have snuck away from the suburbs to spend a night in New York City. They have it all planned out...

A Good Morning America featured thriller, 2021  People  magazine "Best Books of Summer" winner and a  Good Housekeeping  "Best Beach Read to Add to Your Summer Reading List"From Katherine St...

On the eve of my eighteenth birthday, I fell in love with a rock god.Light-haired, green-eyed, and carved to heavenly perfection. Oliver. He’s the guitarist of Ritual Disruption, and he writes songs that are as devastating as him.Who would have thought that I, Ivy Abbott, would capture his attention? On tour with my brother’s band, Bleeding Moonlight, I hear what they say about me...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Where Sea Meets Sky and Racing the Sun comes a wildly romantic STANDALONE about a young American abroad in Norway who runs into the man who broke her heart eight years ago...

Save the world or end it.A strange darkness is growing in the Ward. Even Corayne an-Amarat can feel it, tucked away in her small town at the edge of the sea.Fate knocks on her door, in the form of a mythical immortal and a lethal assassin, who tell Corayne that she is the last of an ancient lineage—with the power to save the world from destruction...

When a fishing boat is wrecked off the treacherous North Sea coast and the body of a young woman washes up on the beach beside the iconic ‘Marsden Rock’, DCI Ryan cannot ignore the call to duty.With one already dead and more human cargo missing from the wreckage, Ryan and his team race to find the remaining souls — before it’s too late, and their investigation turns to murder...

This set contains all three books in the bestselling Dark Elite series. Dive into a world of violence, obsession, heart-twisting angst, and dangerous romance. Complete trilogy with a HEA!They say the devil goes by many names, and I know four of them:Ciro, Hale, Zaid, and Lucas.My father was once a powerful player in the Chicago underground, but six years ago, he left that life behind...

The Insiders is the first in a brand new, page-turning romance trilogy from New York Times bestseller, Tijan!Bailey is as normal as could be, with a genius IQ and a photographic memory. But still, normal for her. Then, things happen—a guy breaks into her house in the middle of the night to take her hostage...

At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s captivating new novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman–Evangelina Cisneros–who changed the course of history.A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer...

A reserved Bangladeshi teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date her school’s resident bad boy.How do you make one month last a lifetime?Karina Ahmed has a plan. Keep her head down, get through high school without a fuss, and follow her parents’ rules—even if it means sacrificing her dreams...

Quinn keeps lists of everything—from the days she’s ugly cried, to “Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud” and all the boys she’d like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. That is, until her journal goes missing . .

Matrimony meets mayhem in a modern British romcom about a young woman charged with pulling off the biggest aristocratic wedding of the year––and the misadventures that ensue.Sophie Breeze is a brilliant bridesmaid. So brilliant, in fact, that she’s made it her full-time job...

Matrimony meets mayhem in a modern British romcom about a young woman charged with pulling off the biggest aristocratic wedding of the year––and the misadventures that ensue.Sophie Breeze is a brilliant bridesmaid. So brilliant, in fact, that she’s made it her full-time job...

Matrimony meets mayhem in a modern British romcom about a young woman charged with pulling off the biggest aristocratic wedding of the year––and the misadventures that ensue.Sophie Breeze is a brilliant bridesmaid. So brilliant, in fact, that she’s made it her full-time job...

They say you never forget your first.Jagger Cruz, the popular, gorgeous, athletic, heartbreaker, was my introduction to college flings.Over the years, I’ve tried to pay no attention to every wicked rumor I heard about him, even though deep down I knew they weren’t just rumors. Unable to face the consequences of what we’d done, if we were ever in close quarters, I ran in the other direction...

Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised - flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman...

Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised - flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman...

A grandmother-granddaughter duo are eager to spend their summer together on peaceful Nantucket, but the season that unfolds brings about unforgettable surprises in New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer's magical, multigenerational novel.Eleanor Sunderland loves living on the Nantucket cliffside, in a charming home that has been in her family for decades...

Beauty and glamour meet deception and revenge in this electrifying novel by New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick.Investigative apprentice Lyra Brazier, the newest resident of Burning Cove, is unsettled when her boss suddenly goes on a health retreat at an exclusive spa and disappears without another word...

Emmy Award winner, renowned lawyer and journalist, and View cohost Sunny Hostin makes her literary debut with this dazzling novel about a life-changing summer along the beaches of Martha's Vineyard.Welcome to Oak Bluffs, the most exclusive black beach community in the country...

You have the blood of kings and rebels within you, love. Let it rise to meet the call.Isabelle of Kirklees has only ever known a quiet life inside the sheltered walls of the convent, where she lives with her mother, Marien. But after she is arrested by royal soldiers for defending innocent villagers, Isabelle becomes the target of the Wolf, the ruthless right hand of the corrupt King John...

In Blade of Secrets, the first book in Tricia Levenseller's exciting new YA fantasy duology, a teenage blacksmith with social anxiety is forced to go on the run to protect the world from the most powerful magical sword she's ever made.Eighteen-year-old Ziva prefers metal to people...

Eldorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book.A French-language version, translated and adapted by Charlotte and Marie-Louise Desroyses, was also produced under the title La Capture du Mouron Rouge...

“It’s so nice when toxic people stop talking to you. It’s like the trash took itself out.”I had everything I ever wanted, until my life was flipped upside down. Now, I’m suddenly being forced to live in my parent’s hometown, with complete strangers. Like my heart isn’t broken enough. Could I fall any further?Yes. Yes, I could.Why might that be?The Allstars...

Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest examples of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Swedenborg...

Love me like I love you ... it's all romantics could ever want. There's no better feeling than the stir of butterflies at the end of a love story. And this collection is full of just that!Top Shelf Romance is proud to present a collection of happily ever afters in collaboration with a cause dedicated to providing stories for those in need...

Suzume has moved to Tokyo and is living with her uncle. Suzume and Mamura enjoy some much-needed alone time in Okinawa. That is, until Suzume spots a guy who looks a lot like Mr. Shishio. Finally, the time has come for Suzume to confront her feelings once and for all...

The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a dynasty of farmers and craftsmen who live in the east Midlands of England, on the borders of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The book spans a period of roughly 65 years from the 1840s to 1905, and shows how the love relationships of the Brangwens change against the backdrop of the increasing industrialisation of Britain...

Life's a birch and then you die in a canal wearing days-of-the-week underpants.Forty-two-year-old Mia Thorne is settling into her new life in the small riverside town of Newberry, Pennsylvania. Part of her misses the bright lights of the big city, but Mia is determined to make the best of the cottage she inherited and its surroundings gardens, as well as her blossoming love life...

One offer. A few fake dates. What could possibly go wrong?All I have to do is pose as the girlfriend of London Hawks player Jake Savage. The bad boy of rugby, he has a reputation both on and off the pitch.Neither of us are interested in a relationship, so our arrangement is perfect. We just have to go on a few dates and pretend to be into each other while we’re photographed for the tabloids...

For fans of Close Enough to Touch and Me Before You comes a poignant and moving novel about two patients who fall in love as they recover from traumatic injuries in the same hospital ward…all without seeing each other.Alice Gunnersley and Alfie Mack sleep just a few feet apart from one another. They talk for hours every day. And they’ve never seen each other face-to-face...

*A Vow of Hate Novella*They say happy endings come after marriage. But my marriage to Julianna was anything but pretty and happy. Our beginning was tainted with lies and deceit.We were poison until we found the cure.The truth liberated us from our hate, and we found our happy ending.Or I thought so…Leaving our past behind has proven to be difficult when we’re surrounded by evil...

They call me the hot headed brother.Mean. Fierce. Disgruntled. Prick.It’s easy for them to judge.They’re not the only one on the ranch left without their mate.They’re not tormented by a furious Kodiak bear.With the heat barreling down on us from our past,They need a vicious bastard like me...

Kennedy Bennett comes from a long line of curse weavers. For centuries, her family has plied their trade in Unstable, Massachusetts, a quirky small town that’s welcomed paranormal practitioners since the dawn of spiritualism. Kennedy has recently struck out on her own, opening an antiques shop in Boston, where her speciality is uncursing and reselling hexed objects...

The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds―and falls head over heels―in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak.Fresh from med school, sixteen-year-old medical prodigy Saira arrives for her first day at her new job: treating children with cancer...

My parents were brutally murdered when I was five years old. Their killer has spent the last twenty five years in prison for his terrible crimes - but I still have unanswered questions. After all, I am the phoenix. When I die, I am reborn in fire and brimstone. It happens again and again and again. I have no idea where my strange ability came from and nobody to ask...

A Blind Date? It could be a match made in heaven. Or a total disaster.I’m Riley Watson, bringing a dash of sunshine here and a drop of positivity there. That’s how I live my life, focusing on the good that’s all around us if we look for it. There’s just one thing missing—Mr. Right.So I agree to try a new dating app and find my perfect match. The catch? No pictures.Fun times..

The Devil is in the details . . . Cletus Byron Winston wishes to marry Jennifer Anne Donner-Sylvester (aka The Banana Cake Queen) posthaste! He’s spent the last year wanting nothing more than for the celebrations to be brief, libations flowing, and BYOB (bring your own blueberries)...

Six years ago, in the dead of night, I woke up to a cold bed and an even colder future without her. I would’ve followed her anywhere and she left. I thought I’d moved on and left all she meant to me behind. But a first love is never easy to forget. Even harder when I once felt our love is inevitable--inescapable. And I’ve been proven right once again...

Volume One includes the first five books in the bestselling Hot-Bites series.Book 1: Bought and Pair ForHe wanted my body.He wanted to own me.I just wanted to be his.Book 2: Ride My BeardI’m all wrong for her, but too damn stupid and hard up to stay away. She can run, but I’ll follow.By the time it’s all said and done she’ll be riding my beard...

Ace Renaldo and Lauren Dunn have known each other since high school, and she’s loved him for longer than she’d ever admit. But the darkness that Ace has in his life has changed the boy she once knew.
He’s harder, damaged. Scarred. And she doesn’t know if any amount of love could penetrate the thick wall he’s built around himself and his heart.
To block the pain in his life, Ace fought...

Sun, sea and inescapable exes...Peach is excited to hear that her sister, Di, is getting married. Of course, she would have preferred her little sister to be engaged to someone she's known longer than a week - and the fact that his name is Charles doesn't bode well - but who is she to judge?! After all, her own love life is non-existent, and who doesn't love a destination wedding..

A woman desperate to turn a new page heads to the Scottish coast and finds herself locked in a battle of wills with an infuriatingly handsome bookseller in this utterly heartwarming debut, perfect for readers of Evvie Drake Starts Over. Thea Mottram is having a bad month...

Set in a charming little Scottish town, The Bookshop of Second Chances is an uplifting story of fresh starts and new beginnings by a hugely talented debut author.   Thea’s having a bad month. Not only has she been made redundant, she’s also discovered her husband of nearly twenty years is sleeping with one of her friends. And he’s not sorry – he’s leaving...

They say the show must go on, but how can it when one of the competitors is dead and I'm forced to eliminate a couple more?The mysteries surrounding the show and the Red Eyes are expanding every single day, and I'm terrified of what will happen when the director yells cut...

I’ve never been a stranger to the darkness. But when darkness comes knocking and looks that good, who wouldn’t invite him in?Draven is mysterious, evasive, and hot as sin. The only thing more infuriating than how much he won’t say is how obnoxious he is every time he does open his mouth...

Dao Divinity! I continue blending cultivation and fantasy with my latest series.It is a fantasy world, where the progressive magic system follows the cultivation concept of dao.Dar’s life was simple. Till a driving accident brings him to a new world filled with magic and creatures from fantasy.He has a fresh chance in a new world, but not everything is peaceful in Granterra...

Lone wolf life is good for Jasper King. No mate, no pups, just him and his brothers working on their handyman business together. Until he stumbles across Grim, an omega deer. Suddenly, things Jasper once had no desire for, come crashing to the forefront...

He’s a legendary dancer. A man of unmatched skill. And he won’t stop staring at me. It’s a huge opportunity when the famous dancer visits our class. I know that we’re lucky, but it sure doesn’t feel like that when I keep tripping and missing the music.I’m just so nervous. A jittery wreck. And every second his eyes stay on me makes it worse.He doesn’t bother watching the rest of the dancers...

From Melissa Foster, the New York Times bestselling author of She Loves Me, comes a sexy and heart-warming novel about finding love—and family—where you least expect it...

SERIES BLURBWhen powers clash between the powerful, elite American families and billionaire mafia men. ✅ Mafia romance ✅ Hot Billionaires✅ Steamy sex✅ Violence Three orphans that grew up on the streets of Moscow among Bratva. Their experiences made them brothers. Their strength made them leaders.Three best friends on an unforgettable summer vacation find more than they bargin for...

Reid Mason broke my heart once. I won't let him do it again.I left my sneaky family behind, determined to go back to California. The storm hit at the worst time. Now stuck in the cabin with Reid, our passion ignited once again...

Bestselling poet Bridgett Devoue shares insight and advice into the powerful world of unrequited love and abuse.  Soft Thorns Vol. II is a continuation of the deep and emotional journey author Bridgett Devoue started with her debut poetry collection Soft Thorns. Similar to her first book, Devoue’s lyrical and comforting writing is perfectly complemented by gorgeous illustrations...

A modern woman scares people. Her drive, her ambition, her independence. She’s an enigma, and people often hate what they don't understand. But, to William, she's the perfect woman, and he will stop at nothing to solve the mystery of her.Cara is a top law student in London...

“The book-equivalent of a perfect first date... Highly highly recommend...

Cold. Ruthless. Violent. And magically powerful. Crossing a supernatural syndicate could cost you your life—or more.When crime lords and mafia bosses top the hierarchies of vampires, shifters, mages, and more, the usual rules don’t always apply—their determination to control and influence these magical worlds only grows stronger...

Tilla has spent her entire life trying to make her father love her. But every six months, he leaves their family and returns to his true home: the island of Jamaica.When Tilla’s mother tells her she’ll be spending the summer on the island, Tilla dreads the idea of seeing him again, but longs to discover what life in Jamaica has always held for him...

The author of the “emotional, hilarious, and thought-provoking” (People) novel The Bucket List returns with a witty and heartfelt romantic comedy featuring a wedding planner, her unexpected business partner, and their coworkers in a series of linked love stories—perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Casey McQuiston...

A crucial misunderstanding causes Hari to doubt Taemu’s intentions, but before she can mope about where it all went wrong, disaster strikes-her parents are hospitalized following an accident at the restaurant. Hari is in a state of panic, but thankfully, Taemu is an expert at dealing with crisis! The incident also brings Yeongsuh and Sunghoon together for the first time since their falling out...

For centuries, my kind was thought to be extinct. We aren't, but I'm the only one. I was chosen for reasons that I don't understand, but I'm going to have to prove myself worthy when madness overtakes my species. It's up to me to save them, and I'm going to need Lachlan's help. I still can't allow myself to fall for the Alpha werewolf who is my mate, but that's not stopping me...

I fled Boston and my cheating jerk of an ex with three hundred dollars and a lip gloss in my pocket. Waking up the next day in Burlington, Vermont, with a crick in my back and a frozen ass wasn’t exactly in the plan. If there was one. Which there wasn’t. Story of my life...

It’s time to meet my destiny. Kymaris has everything she needs to bring down the veil between Earth and the Underworld. If she’s successful in completing the ritual, Earth will be darkened by evil. Demons will swarm our lands and the human race will be decimated.It’s up to me to stop her. My fate is to thwart the prophecy, but I’m not sure what to do...

After years of wandering around the country, car trouble stopped Stoffer in Rojo, Texas, and he quickly realized he never wanted to leave. Not one to share much of himself, Stoffer has found a place to fit in with the Texas Kings even while he holds most of himself back from the men and women around him...

In the third installment in the USA Today bestselling Heirs of Chicagoland series, the vampires in Elisa Sullivan's world are out for blood.Elisa Sullivan is the only vampire ever born, and she bears a heavy legacy. After a sojourn with the North American Central Pack of shifters in the wilderness—where she turned a young woman into a vampire to save her life—Elisa returns to Chicago...

Nadine Bayani was at the top of her game. The brilliant, ruthless lawyer was in line to be White House chief of staff—until she confessed to campaign finance crimes that cost her party the election.Now Nadine’s out of prison, broke, hated by millions, and stuck doing a menial retail job in rural Virginia where she barely earns enough to survive...

When the oracle predicted that Mirra would need to be rescued…Mirra is shocked to find the premonition unfold literally. When Silas Somerborne races to save the day, and rescues Mirra from certain death, she knows immediately that he’s the one she’s been waiting for. And yet, no matter how hard she tries, Silas pushes Mirra away...

At a young age, Andreka Nicholas was thrown into a dangerous world she knew nothing about, taking her from a normal teenage girl to the main chick of a street soldier overnight. What initially seemed to be the worst night of her life, turned out to be what Andreka thought to be a blessing in disguise. She had everything a girl could ask for until she didn't anymore...

Magic is real. The supernatural world is real. And the creatures hunting me… they’re real too.When a strange night changes me forever, the last thing I expect is to be drawn back to the four men from my childhood who’d abandoned me. They make me feel things I’ve never felt with anyone else. They look at me like I’m there everything.And yet, we’re no longer human...

An own-voices LGBTQ novel from the acclaimed author of Hurricane Season , about eighth-grader Brie, who learns how to be true to herself and to her relationships with family, friends, and faith.Introducing Brie soap opera super fan, aspiring actor, and so-so student at her small Catholic school. Brie has big plans for eighth grade...

“I don’t want to have him. I want to be him.”Caspian. Gunner.Big. Small.Rich. Poor.Top. Bottom.Bully. Victim.Dominant. Submissive.College graduate. High school dropout.Organized and diligent. Complete walking disaster.Which one is which when they swap bodies?..

True Mate is the first book in the Prosper Woods Chronicles, but don't miss True Knight, the incredible prequel to the series!When I moved to Prosper Woods, California, a couple of weeks ago, I’d had big plans for a quiet life. Let’s just say, things haven’t exactly turned out the way I expected they would...

There are three rules for being best friends with a mafia princess:1. Don't ask any personal questions.2. Don't show up at her house unannounced.3. Don't ever, ever let anyone know you're friends.For three years, I followed the rules. Vicky and I met once a week at the diner where I worked. I was her slice of normalcy, she was the one person I could confide in...

The final book in the Victor Trilogy.DAWN:Three dates with the monster.That's the price he's demanding for my freedom.With a growing secret inside my womb, I have no choice but to accept his deal.But can I tangle with the silent beast without losing myself again?VICTOR:She's escaped, and I'm undone.A crime lord brought down by one woman.They're saying that I must let her go...

The beloved author returns with a remarkable novel of both raw suspense and lyric beauty— the story of a lost pilot and a wartime photographer that will leave its mark on your soul...

Finally, he's mine, and I can say that out in public.Luke McDowell, one of the most beloved public figures in America, is my forever. At least that's what we said.But love is different in the harsh glare of the spotlight. Sometimes it feels like the whole world's against us. Now our unofficial honeymoon is over. Luke is back at Evermore, trying to live the life he had before he met me...

Nova Rossi wasn’t happy when the Silver Saints MC president assigned him a babysitting job. Not until he saw Rylee Nelson’s picture. All it took was one look for Nova to realize that his sister’s friend was meant to be his, and he’d do whatever it took to keep her safe.Rylee wasn’t expecting to be rescued in middle of the night. Or for Nova’s caveman attitude to turn her on...

Harper Harlow, ghost hunter extraordinaire, has seen it all.Ghosts, back-from-the-dead boyfriends, and parents ping-ponging between divorce and reconciliation are the norm for her.Finally, though, she’s about to get everything she’s ever wanted … if the ghosts don’t get in the way first.Join Harper and her motley crew of friends as they solve mysteries and a have a heckuva lot of fun...

I won’t let anything happen to you. Fourteen years ago, Braxton Kane’s feelings were forbidden.As an officer, he couldn’t fall for an enlisted… no matter how much he longed for Holt Madigan.Now—as a police chief in love with a digital assassin—his promise to always protect Holt is becoming harder to keep. I’ll protect you...

My mother taught me to embrace my gift.I was special, she said, and one day I would change the world.But that was before they murdered her and forced me into a cage.All those things that once made me special became my curse.And the gift I’m blessed with became a weapon to use against me.When the chance of freedom presents itself, I take it,Seeking to reclaim the life they stole from me...

To understand me, you have to understand my pain. You have to understand where it all started...I see her differently now. My friend, Michelle Douglas. It's the summer of 1994 where the love of the 80's still holds on for dear life.She's wearing a black ACDC shirt that hangs over the shoulder and she is hanging out with a group of friends...

EVE OF WARFARELycans, vampires, and cherubs... oh my.All Evangeline Hollis wants is to stay out of trouble long enough to lose the Mark of Cain, which drafted her into hunting demons for God. A former agnostic, she's still recovering from being the latest point of contention between the two men in her life--Cain and Abel...

I just moved in with my billionaire best friend (and secret crush), Oliver Humphries. He’s the all-star. The jock. The golden boy—and I’m no match. I’m the nerdy, frizzy-haired, not-so-skinny friend. The moment I met him at fourteen, I was in L-O-V-E.I’m under no illusion I stand a chance.Living with him? Not a problem. In fact, it’s a brilliant idea. I’m good at hiding my feelings...

To find temptation, we must lay our own path.For the last ten years, I thought I was nothing special. I was just another priestess in the Temple of Temptation. One of many. Little did I know that my god has plans for me. He intends to make me powerful.But what I will become is up to me.For centuries, things here have always been done the same way - and the gods are now paying for it...

“Not the best of ways to introduce myself to you…A gentleman would have at least greeted you first…… but I’m no gentleman.”He’s the Bone Crusher. A man in a mask.His face is hidden alongside his intentions.He doesn’t do things for free…or to be nice.So just how did Nia end up stuck on a ship with him by her side?She’d wanted adventure, but Ka’Cit Urgmental was SO. MUCH. MORE...

Shirayuki is headed to Lilias to work as an herbalist and researcher. However, she can’t hold back the tears when she realizes how much she’ll miss everyone. Luckily, Zen knows just what to say to her! And later, Obi makes a stunning confession to Zen...

From the author of The Widow of Rose House comes Diana Biller's witty and romantic novella A Christmas Spark, an office romance sure to bring cheer to any season!Winnifred can’t believe her luck! She’s been hired to work for renowned scientist John Moore - which in 1843 is the next best thing to being one herself...

Manchester, 1850Isabelle Rackham knows she will not marry for love. Though arranged marriages have fallen out of fashion, hers has been settled for some time. Alexander Osgood is handsome, well-known, and wealthy, but he is distant and aloof, spending much of his time at his textile mill...

Manchester, 1850Isabelle Rackham knows she will not marry for love. Though arranged marriages have fallen out of fashion, hers has been settled for some time. Alexander Osgood is handsome, well-known, and wealthy, but he is distant and aloof, spending much of his time at his textile mill...

I’m not Mr. Settle-Down-and-Start-a-Family.Tried it. Failed at it. Don’t want it again.I like my solitary life in the mountains.I mind my business and I keep to myself.I learned the hard way that life ain’t easy or fair.One minute you think you’ve got it all figured out and the next, you find your wife in your bed with your own best friend...

Cursed. Betrayed. Banished.Fifteen hundred years is a long time to wait to get revenge. The Fae know how to nurse a grudge, and now they have returned to England to claim their rightful place.This boxset collects the complete trilogy of 'The Wrath of the Fae,' with each book following three fae princes as they journey to break their curses and find their fated mates...

Rangetsu knows she must keep a low profile in the palace if she’s to have any hope of tracking down her brother’s killer...

Three women. Three different stages of life. United by one thing: the chance to start again.'Uplifting, emotional and brimming with warmth and humour' – Cathy BramleyWhen Elizabeth's husband dies, leaving her with crippling debt, the only person she can turn to is her friend, Jo. Soon Jo has called in her daughter, Lucy, to help save Elizabeth from bankruptcy...

Three women, three different stages of life, united by one thing: the chance to start again.When Elizabeth's husband dies, leaving her with crippling debt, she must turn to her friend, Jo for help, who calls in her daughter, Lucy to run the village surgery. Leaving her city life, and past demons, behind, Lucy is determined to make the most of her fresh start...

What is a Pakhan without an empress?Three years have passed since the end of Kingpin's Foxglove. Elena Falcone has left her new family and the man she loves, destroying her own heart in the process...the only thing she has left is the blond-haired, green-eyed boy who calls her 'mama'...

From London to Ireland during the 1920s, this glorious, gripping, and richly textured story takes us to the heart of the remarkable real-life story of the Guinness Girls—perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and Julian Fellowes' Belgravia .Descendants of the founder of the Guinness beer empire, they were the toast of 1920s high society, darlings of the press, with not a care in the world...

Two childhood rivals reconnect during jury duty—and are forced to navigate their complex feelings for one another—in this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Caroline Lomax is eager to exercise her civic duty and report for jury duty...

Rys awakes to the smell of blood and nearly two thousand years of dust. Maybe he overslept a little too long. Once, he was a great champion and general in the demonic empire that ruled the world. Now, he's been erased from history.He'll need to remind the world of the price of forgetfulness.Now is the time to build his own empire, as the ancient powers of his time are long gone...

Being on the run leaves no time for distractions. Unless your new boss is alpha, Scottish, and built Autumn has taken her baby nephew and is fleeing for their lives. Almost reaching the safety of a small wintery Washington State town, she narrowly avoids a collision as her car spins out on ice. The other driver is a huge mountain man who speaks only in glares...

For years, I watched her. Drank her in as she performed in front of an empty theatre, pretending every seat was occupied, the cello settled between her legs as her dainty fingers made love to the strings…one beautiful note after the other. She thought she was alone, that no one heard her play. But I did. I heard every note, every tune, every vibrato. It drowned out the voices. Silenced the demons...

When Mia wakes up in the hospital with no memory of how she got there, she braces herself for bad news.But nothing can ever prepare her for the truth.Betrayed by the very people who were supposed to protect her, Mia no longer knows who to trust.All Bexley wants is to fix things for the girl he loves, and keep those around him safe.Even if it means embracing his legacy...

Dive into five thrilling, steamy, and bestselling paranormal reverse harem series in one box set at an incredible price! Strong women, hot men, and all the action and romance you could desire.Possessive demons. Alpha shifters. Sexy Norse gods. A college of villainous magic. A witch uncovering her powers...

A rookie cop. A team of supernatural detectives. A power hungry witch on a killing spree.My name is Cat McKenzie, and I’m in over my damn head. I’d finally come to grips with the fact that not all Supernaturals are a**holes when the witch downstairs is murdered and I’m rescued from certain death by the fae assassin responsible for revealing the existence of Supernaturals to humans six months ago...

Captain Charles Bassington of the 13th Light Dragoons is famed for his good luck, high spirits, and devil-may-care attitude. He escapes serious injury at Waterloo only to succumb to an inflammation of the lungs. When he returns home to recuperate, cracks begin to appear in his cheery facade...

For the first time, Hailey Turner’s Metahuman Files and Metahuman Files: Classified Novella series have been brought together in three epic box sets! Please note, no new content has been added.Volume Two:In the ShadowsStaff Sergeant Alexei Dvorkin doesn’t trust easily, and he most certainly doesn’t trust spies, but Agent Sean Delaney is proving to be the exception to the rule...

Not all girls want a hero, some want the villain.Instead of running from the tattooed bad boys who lurk in the alleyway, we run toward them. There’s something irresistible to their power, their dangerous edge. Instead of searching for Prince Charming, we long to be seduced by the enemy and find ourselves falling at the feet of the mafia king...

With Tarnil free, Blue and his Companions, friends, and allies consolidate and recover from the mage-king's depredations. As he establishes himself for firmly at home, he starts reaching out to the world that he is now a part of. There is a lot of work to be done to prevent further war, or worse. Book two of the Blue Core series. This story contains occasional scenes of explicit consensual sex...

Two women hold the keys to his heart. Only one will survive that fateful night...When Ava O’Reilly is wrongly accused of stealing from her employer, she has no option but to flee Ireland. The law is after her, and she has only one chance at escape - the Titanic...

The geek, the jock, and a new set of rules…Topher-My friend’s brother needs an academic assistant and I need a job. Problem…jocks are my weakness. Seriously. I lose my ability to speak coherently around muscle-bound hotties. Oh yeah, I lose my inhibitions too—not a good look for a guy with a genius IQ...

A bestseller in its time, it recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child growing up in the "Old Jago," a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol, a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London. The novel described in graphic detail living conditions in the East End, including the permeation of violence into everyday life...

A fae beast. An enchanted forest. A beauty destined to break the curse upon them...As town greenwitch, Aster’s spent her whole life defending her people from the nightmarish fae of the forest. Yet despite her best efforts, each year a girl is taken by the fae Beast who rules the Folkwood, sacrificed to the ancient faerie magic of the Tithe.And this year, the Beast claims Aster...

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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Sheik by Edith Maude Hull The Sheik is a 1919 novel by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century...

Dungeon: A place full of monsters, traps, treasure, and death. Those are the Great Dungeons, with unplumbed depths below the roots of the mountains. That's not for me. Dungeon: A place of rape, torture, and death, to control and corral enemies and slaves. These are the Red Cores, from which the mage-kings draw their power. That's also not for me. I don't like monsters. I don't want adventurers...

Sex pulsed through the Japanese brothel. It was this intense heat, vibrating through my bones and causing my nipples to stiffen under my shirt.Don’t forget the book, Nyomi. This is work, nothing more.Debt-ridden author, Nyomi must complete her book on Tokyo’s underground sex industry in order to revive her stalled career...

Vik Bedi was not supposed to be the one.Arrogant, smooth-talking surgeons—who also happen to be Geminis—are bad news. Our chemistry might be off the charts, but I’ve been burned by guys like him before.You’d think I’d have learned my lesson . . .But in a moment of weakness, I foolishly allowed a one-time fling to get him out of my system...

I thought I could run from daddy. I was wrong.Dean Waterhouse was supposed to be a job. Get in. Get married. Take his money and get out.But he came after me.Now I'm bound to his bed, about to learn what happens to naughty girls who play games.The man who put his ring on my finger was gentle. The man who tracked me down is not.He's going to make me blush, beg, and scream for him...

Welcome to the Enchanted Forest, where the damsels are only in moderate distress and happily ever afters are the norm.Lina has been raised in a world far too big for her. When her mother dies, she is forced to decide between being alone forever, or betting her life on a legend that may not even exist.Edrich was a simple farm boy until he made a deal with the wrong man...

It began as a harmless prank.Then the next thing I know, I'm in the hospital parking lot with a looming deadline and a flat tire when Liam Dailey sidles up on a Harley, all brooding intensity and shaggy blond hair.He's determined to be my savior.But I make a terrible damsel in distress.The verbal sparring is delicious foreplay and in a weak moment, I give him my number.It's a mistake...

Behind the ivy-covered walls at Stonewall University, the future of the world is in the hands of a very select few.The Scorpio SocietyEven the name is enough to bring the strongest of men and politicians to their knees...

Chrissy Henderson has endured more hurt and heartache now more than ever. Finding out her husband of over twenty years isn’t the man she thought him to be has taken a toll on her mental health and stability...

A sinner met a saint,Two worlds collided,And everything burned. LanaI’ve done everything right.Playing the part of the demure famiglia daughter,And hiding my pain beneath makeup and pretty dresses.But marrying a man ten years my senior?Whose words cut like knives,And lips taste like poison.This is the one thing I can’t do. NazI’ve done nothing right...

I knew he would be my Daddy one day. Now I have to convince him.My vision board has three things on it:Move to LABecome a popular directorMeet my idol and make him fall for meWhat can I say, I’m a dreamer. My chances of making that last one happen were slim to none, until one day, fate shined upon me and I was standing face to face with the man himself, Legend...

A SciFi Alien Romance. Can my fated mate save me from an malevolent sorcerer? King Varoz is evil. I'm his victim and his queen. I'd do anything to see him fall. When Zandro appears, I have hope for the first time in years. He's nothing like the cruel king, and my body reacts with a desire I barely understand. We're trapped together, pawns in the king's vicious game...

1906Lady Elizabeth "Libby" Sinclair, with her love of microscopes and nature, isn't favored in society. She flees to the beautiful Isles of Scilly for the summer and stumbles into the dangerous secrets left behind by her holiday cottage's former occupant, also named Elizabeth, who mysteriously vanished...

1906Lady Elizabeth "Libby" Sinclair, with her love of microscopes and nature, isn't favored in society. She flees to the beautiful Isles of Scilly for the summer and stumbles into the dangerous secrets left behind by her holiday cottage's former occupant, also named Elizabeth, who mysteriously vanished...

The one thing Kicks doesn’t need in his life is to fall in love…The night Kicks woke in the hospital with fresh scars and a missing eye was the night he promised he would never, ever let himself be vulnerable again. And as the Road Captain of the Broken Chains MC, he managed to keep that vow for five long years...

What happens when your high school ex becomes your fake boyfriend?Giselle Stone is best known for her smoothie truck and her love of K-pop, but one of those things is not acceptable to her mother.After she’s pushed to the edge of her patience—thanks, Mom—she concocts a lie that’s sure to get the parents off her back.A fake long-distance relationship with her ex.It’s a foolproof plan...

The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop Café invites literature lovers to run their very own bookshop … for a fortnight.Spend your days talking books with customers in your own charming bookshop and serving up delicious cream teas in the cosy café.Bookworms, what are you waiting for? Your holiday is going to be LIT(erary).Apply to: The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop Café, Down-a-long, Clove Lore, Devon...

Roman Hawthorne is tall, devastatingly handsome, and has a jawline that is so sharp that it cut could glass. He’s my dream guy on paper but let’s just say Roman is arrogant with a capital A.When I meet him in a bar on a random Tuesday, I think I’ll never see him again.But I do.Every time I show up at that bar, Roman is there with his perfectly styled hair, dark brown eyes, and megawatt smile...

After fleeing her hometown for ten months due to her broken heart, Danaë Westbrook is summoned home and forced to get her act together. No longer fond of her free-spirited nature, Danaë’s father wants the apple of his eye to put her brains to use and makes her his newest employee...

Having graduated college at 18, Sebastian Grant has continued to leverage his intelligence and determination to become a pediatric heart surgeon. The more accolades he receives, the more he's driven to pursue. Then he meets high school math teacher Leah Montgomery, and his fast-spinning world comes to a sudden stop...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Secret OrphanA world at warA secret from her pastA chance to be together…A moving and compelling historical novel about love, second chances and resilience in the darkest of times...