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The List


Velvet Vaughn - 2011
    Fourteen men are dead, all from apparent accidents. The only thing tying them together is their names on a list compiled by three teenage girls ten years ago. Only one man remains alive, but time is running out…Jacqueline Sera forgot all about the lists she created with her friends, until the names keep popping up in the obituaries. Suddenly their silly teenaged game morphed into a chilling nightmare. When the authorities refuse to believe her outrageous claims of a serial killer, she turns to the one man the killer hasn't eliminated - yet, the sexy man she's always loved.Matt Dianetti is skeptical of Jacqueline's claims but can't deny the disturbing coincidences. When incidents mount, and with the killer closing in, they must race to stop an unknown enemy who wants to permanently cross Matt's name off The List.

When Christmas Comes


Debbie Macomber - 2004
    Charles Brewster, history professor, curmudgeon and resident of Boston, wants to avoid Christmas altogether. He figures a prison town should be nice and quiet over the holidays — except he’s thinking of the wrong Leavenworth! Through an internet site, Charles and Emily arrange to swap houses for the holiday. So Emily goes to Boston—and discovers that her daughter has gone to Florida. And Charles arrives in Leavenworth to discover that it’s not the prison town — it’s Santa’s village! The place is full of Christmas trees, Christmas music and...elves. Meanwhile, Emily’s friend Faith Kerrigan travels to Leavenworth to visit her and instead finds Charles the grinch. Then Charles’s brother, Ray, shows up at his home in Boston to discover that he isn’t there — but Emily is. Through all the mix-ups and misunderstandings, amid the chaos and confusion, romance begins to emerge in unexpected ways. Because everything changes at Christmas!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A Baby on the Ranch / Ramona and the Renegade


Marie Ferrarella - 2012
    Eli took them in at his Forever, Texas, ranch without hesitation. As a suddenly single mom with nowhere else to go, Kasey expected to feel out of place. Instead, for the first time in her life, she felt as though she was home.Eli has secretly loved Kasey since they were kids; he was devastated when she married another man. Now, he's got a second chance at happiness. The woman of his dreams, and the family he always wanted, are in his reach. But if he reveals his true feelings, it could ruin their friendship, and he'd lose Kasey forever.How long can Eli and Kasey go on pretending to each other—and to themselves—that they're still just friends? And what will happen when Kasey's husband returns?

Wrapped in Ink


Carrie Ann Ryan - 2019
    But when an accident lands him in the ER, Liam meets someone that might just be the distraction he needs.Arden Brady has spent her life in and out of hospitals. But according to the world, she doesn’t look sick. She’s lost jobs and friends because they don’t see beneath the surface, but she’s learned to rely on her family and herself to keep going. And then she meets Liam.With two sets of overprotective siblings and a puppy that can't help but get into everything, Liam and Arden might just fall harder than either one ever expected.

Give the Lady a Ride


Linda W. Yezak - 2011
     Talon Carlson is a rugged bull rider from Texas. He thinks she's too polished. She thinks he's insane. Opposites aren't quick to attract when the lady who enters the cowboy's world is on a mission to sell the ranch. But a box of letters changes her mission-letters of unshakable faith and a love deeper than anything she's ever experienced. Soon she finds his integrity appealing. Her spunk draws him in. He has the faith she craves; she may be the love he longs for. But faith and love aren't achieved in a single weekend. To buy time to explore the possibilities between them, she issues a challenge: "Teach me to ride bulls." From here on, they're in for the ride of their lives. Sweet Christian romance on a ranch, complete with cowboys, cattle, and rodeo fun!

Love Handles


Candi Heart - 2017
    Her boss prefers to promote thinner, more glamorous girls, keeping her in a back office where no one will see her. She keeps herself sane by working on her own projects in her spare time, but even that and a little retail therapy don’t seem to be doing the trick anymore.Then Nicholas Tessaro drops in for a visit.Nick is gorgeous and talented, New York’s newest, hottest fashion designer, and he thinks her sketches are worth a second look. Emilie thinks he’s just plain hot. When he offers her a job, she jumps at the chance. Then one lunch date that goes oh-so wrong threatens to ruin everything. Emilie may just lose her dream job and dream man all in one day.

Texas Cowboy's Family (Don't Mess With Texas Cowboys #7)


Barb Han - 2019
    He doesn’t want to be drawn to the newcomer in town who shows up with a newborn and a dangerous secret. Emery Young will do what it takes to protect her sister and her niece, even when it could cost her everything.

The Existence Of God Is Self-Evident


Choa Kok Sui - 2012
    Such a straightforward book that has multiple layers of energy and helps develop spirituality just by daily reading. This treasure reveals: The path of knowledge & understanding Union of spirituality and science The I Am Spiritual Findings Spiritual evolution and its cyclical trends

For Now and Always


Sarah Bates - 2011
    Ana Lund never knew how true this was until she went away to college. Now, back for winter break just after her first semester away, Ana desperately wants to stay home, but doesn’t know how to tell her parents. Then one day an old friend is in need of a last-minute babysitter, and Ana volunteers.Divorced at twenty-one with a three year old son, Caleb understands Ana’s fear of disappointing her parents, but he also knows that the sooner she talks to them, the better. With his encouragement she’s able to talk to her parents about what she wants, and as she settles back into her life on the island, she and Caleb start to grow closer. Both of them homebodies, they share the same desire for a quiet, uncomplicated life filled with family and friends. But after his disastrous relationship with his ex-wife ended in bitter divorce, Caleb is in no hurry to repeat past mistakes. In the end is love enough? Or are some things just meant to be repeated?

HITMAN’S SURPRISE BABY: A Bad Boy Mafia Romance


Kathryn Thomas - 2017
    AND HE JUST PUT A BABY IN MY BELLY. It all started with a lie. I’m terrified of how it’s going to end. Because I let myself fall for the hitman… And now I’m pregnant with his baby. LILY He said he was my blind date. I guess I just wanted to believe him. He was tall, dark, handsome – and dangerous. So I let him take me to bed. But the best night of my life turned into the worst morning. Because Roman is gone… But he left his baby in my belly. ROMAN A gorgeous girl alone at a bar? I’ll be whoever she wants me to be. It’s not the first time I’ve lied. And it sure as hell won’t be the last. Because lies are my profession. I hurt. I torture. I kill. Compared to all that, lying is the nicest thing I do. Lily doesn’t have to know all that, of course. After all, she’ll only know me for a night. I plan to disappear as soon as the sun’s up, never to be seen again. But when I end up on her operating table a month later with a bullet in my shoulder, I realize what I left behind with her. From now on, I won’t let her out of my sight. She belongs to me now. HITMAN'S SURPRISE BABY is a full-length, standalone, bad boy baby mafia heist romance. Includes additional bonus content so you can keep on reading 'til you've had your fill of hot sex, thrilling action, and HEAs that will melt your heart!

Bound by Love


Bella Andre - 2004
    But after a lifetime of control, she's begun to dream of letting her walls fall down. Gavin Ross didn't expect to be dragged before the Queen and placed in the stocks. When his punishment ends, he slips into the castle to teach her a lesson. But what he finds shocks him.As they move from courtrooms to wicked game rooms, through secret passageways and cool lake waters, their battle for supremacy just might give way to the most powerful force of all...a love that will bind them together forever.Warning! This novella contains light bondage/submission, creative use of leather, and multiple partners.[BOUND BY LOVE was previously published in 2005 as What A Queen Wants. Completely revised and rewritten in October 2010.]

Closer Than She Thinks


Meryl Sawyer - 2001
    But when her successful costume jewelry company is acquired by TriTech, her only choice is to leave Italy-and return to the scene of a crime that nearly destroyed her life...A Mystery UnsolvedTriTech CEO Jake Williams is all business-and determined to find out the real reason why his partner acquired Rossi Designs. His investigation uncovers a first love's betrayal, a missing baby.and the mysterious Alyssa in the center of a storm of gossip and controversy that has raged for more than a decade.A Deadly ObsessionShunned by New Orleans society, yet coveted by her former lover, Alyssa tried to focus on her jewelry...and Jake. But her past-and a new murder-haunt her every waking moment. Now, amid the chaos of Madri Gras, Alyssa and Jake's attempts to uncover the truth bring them closer to one another-and to a killer who will stop at nothing to destroy them...

Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven | Summary & Analysis


Book*Sense - 2015
    John Mandel | Summary & Analysis This is a Summary & Analysis of Station Eleven. Although the field of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is crowded, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven is a noteworthy addition to it. Focusing away from the usually treated deeds of the high and mighty, it presents a narrative that can be taken as representative of scenes around the planet in which the everyday people of the world deal with the aftermath of world-girdling disease and death and try to eke out some semblance of sanity and civilized life. The novel relates the story of the end of modern civilization by the hyper-pandemic Georgia Flu and the first decades following its elimination of more than ninety-nine percent of the planet’s human population. This companion to Station Eleven also includes the following: • Book Review • Story Setting Analysis of Station Eleven • Story elements you may have missed as we decipher the novel • Details of Characters & Key Character Analysis • Summary of the text, with some analytical comments interspersed • Discussion & Analysis of Themes, Symbols… • And Much More! This Analysis of Station Eleven fills the gap, making you understand more while enhancing your reading experience.

Collie's Cupids (Curvy Girls Holiday Book 5)


Rosa Mink - 2020
    From Halloween to Valentines this group of friends will find everything they’ve wanted. Tami, Layla, Penny and Keke have been friends from the beginning of their freshman year in college, but in the three years since they’ve become closer than just friends, they’re now family. Their lives are about to change as they meet just the men to handle their curves. Collie My life was falling apart just weeks ago, and now, I’ve met the most amazing women that have taken me in and made a spot for me in their lives. No one has done that for me since my parents died and it makes me hope that someday I’ll meet someone the way they’ve all met men they adore. I mean, they all feel hard in the last few months, and while I’m curvier than they are, they give me hope it’ll happen. I’m happy helping take some of the workload off Tami, even if it means waking up at three in the morning on Valentine’s Day to serve people that likely are going to be as over the top as Tami and the others are with their men. It’ll keep me busy and hopefully not remind me that I’m still all alone at night when the others leave. I just wasn’t quite prepared for the girls to play cupid, or that the cinnamon roll loving Mike would be such a hunk. What’s a girl to do but go along with it and hope, her heart doesn’t get shredded in the process? Mike I know I’m the butt of the guy’s joke, their claims that the only thing I love are the cinnamon rolls at Tami’s shop, but hey, I’ll take their yummy goodness over women that are heartless. I have my reasons why I don’t date, ones that my friends don’t know about, and ones that not a single woman has begun to change in six years. So what if that curvy blonde makes me want to take a bite out of her, taste her sweetness rather than Tami’s cinnamon rolls for once? Learning that blonde is Tami’s new hire here at the shop, not to mention knows how to make these cinnamon rolls is all it takes to break my resolve, but one kiss is all I need to know she’s mine. The guys think I’m obsessed with these rolls, that’s nothing with the obsession with Collie’s that hit. The others all got their curvy girls and I’m claiming this one as mine, plus get my favorite treat on top of it. How’s that for a sweet Valentine’s treat? Collie’s Cupids is book 5 in the Curvy Girls Holidays Series. If you’re looking for a quick read with alpha men, curvy girls, strong language, no cheating, and HEAs, you’ve found the right book. It's intended for an adult audience that will leave you longing for friends to play cupid and bring you an obsessive, sweets loving man this Valentine’s Day.

All Big-Things On Me: A Romance Compilation


Myra Brightholme - 2018
    I like to have big things. The bigger, the better. But they tell me there are some things I cannot handle. Some things that are too big for me. Too much for me. Doubting myself has never been an option. So I decide to take the challenge… My biggest issue? I am not experienced …But no one knows that. Now it’s too late to back off. Backing off is only for cowards. Right?! Damn it. Inside this compilation you will find: Bought By Three Hard Devils - A reverse harem novel. Savages Next Door - A ménage romance novel. Owned By The Casanovas - A reverse harem novella.