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Dripping wet from his shower and wearing only a towel, billionaire cowboy Gage Winchester makes quite a first impression on Suzette Fiftypence. Her first night in his posh Texas resort he dashes from his shower to her rescue when she screams in the night. Now she finds herself alone with this half-naked hunk in her hotel room. Things are looking up. Before meeting him, investigative journalist Suzette would much rather have spent Christmas exposing a crime ring than reviewing a high end resort ranch. Her career was all that mattered to her.

Snowed in on Christmas Eve in her remote Maine cottage, Lisette Quentin was grateful for the peaceful and quiet break from her hectic life. It was just what she needed, but what she wanted was another matter. There was only thing on her Christmas wish list, a sexy hunk with a heart of gold who was crazy about her and knew how to satisfy her. Too much to hope for, she knew. But on Christmas, magic can happen and anything is possible.

When bookish Penny Collins reluctantly lets her sister drag her to an estate sale at a neighbor’s house, she’s hoping for a little diversion rummaging through dusty antiques. Instead, she ends up in a public squabble over candlesticks with the deceased owner’s nephew, Anthony—right before a dead body tumbles out of a closet.

Torture porn, shock-for-shock’s sake, violence that doesn’t serve the plot, and characters you hate — what was going on in the 2000s in horror cinema? And why were audiences hungry for it? Millennial Nasties takes a critical but appreciative look at an oft-ignored subset of horror. This book dissects the English-language horror films of the 2000s and the cultural events they were responding to.

Every time we get close, something threatens to break us. Half-sisters, town gossips, and jealous exes throw punch after punch, but we hold on tight to each other as we attempt to navigate the chaos. With his life in the spotlight as a professional football player, I'm starting to feel like it might always be like this. All I can do is pray there's no mistake so big we can't overcome it together.

The making of the Oscar® Award-winning classic Rebecca is detailed in this enlightening and fascinating book which delves into the behind the scenes drama, struggles, and passion that went into the filming of this iconic movie. Biographical sketches of key figures such as author Daphne du Maurier and leading actors Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier are included.

All Samantha wanted for Christmas truly was a hot guy who would love her with all his heart and every inch of his hard body. Instead, she got a box set of Game of Thrones. She is fed up with her job and with being single. Her plan to spend her vacation watching TV and doing nothing else (she needed some down time) changes when she has the impulse to visit her friend Lisette in Maine.

It is the Roaring Twenties and Monica Woodard bobs her hair and raises the hem of her dresses, but she doesn't feel liberated. The last lavish party of the season at aloof tycoon Jared Fitzgerald's "Mansion on the Rock," an event not to be missed, is that night. Reluctantl,y Monica agrees to go along with friends to crash it.

Snowed in while a storm dumps three feet of snow on her house in Maine, Alyssa Silva doesn't really mind that the road isn't plowed yet. It means that she has to stay home from work, and with the internet out she can't even work from home. She needed a break from her busy routine. She wanted some down time to relax, but truly what she wanted more than anything else was a hot guy in her life, who was crazy about her and wanted nothing more than to pleasure her and be with her.

The Princess and the Huntsman is an erotic romance, a fairy tale of true love and destiny. Crown Princess Naysa, the only heir to the Sentauran throne, by tradition must marry a king on her twenty-fourth birthday to become queen. It is forbidden to kill her before that day, but afterward without a king at her side, her kingdom is ripe for conquest and herself destined for assassination. As this fated day approaches, the princess discovers her true love is a huntsman. Will she risk losing her kingdom and her very life to be with him?

If there's room in her heart for anything more than literature and controlling those around her—Renee hasn't allowed herself the chance to discover that possibility. Her life is perfectly in order until one fall weekend, when her world collides with possibility and the past, setting off a tidal wave of changes she could have never predicted.

Do you often feel weighed down by life? Is it hard to find time for yourself? Do you often feel that you’re putting the needs of others above your own? Then it’s time to try the self-love workbook! Inside, you’ll find everything you need to revitalize your self-love and stop feeling like you’re neglecting your own needs for others. In the modern world, it can be very easy to forget about our own basic needs, running around after others and never taking time for ourselves.

FEAT DESC 1617, Vardø, au nord du cercle polaire, en Norvège. Maren Magnus-datter, vingt ans, regarde depuis le village la violente tempête qui s'abat sur la mer. Quarante pêcheurs, dont son frère et son père, gisent sur les rochers en contrebas, noyés. Ce sont les hommes de Vardø qui ont été ainsi décimés, et les femmes vont désormais devoir assurer seules leur survie.

Claire Silk needs ransom money for her husband, kidnapped while working in Columbia. His billionaire boss won't pay it unless she is willing to perform certain acts to satisfy him. Claire is reluctant, but she can't refuse doing everything in her power to get her husband back. He never has to know. Right? The billionaire's secret needs are more wicked than she expects. He doesn't want to have sex with her. He just wants to watch. What he wants her do, and with who, shocks Claire even more. But she will do whatever he wants while he watches. She has to.

I walked away from my billion-dollar inheritance. But I guess I didn’t walk far enough...because yesterday my inheritance came back to me. In order to claim it, I need to find a fake fiancée to satisfy my family’s demands. That’s where my tyrannical, uptight boss Nancy comes in - a royal pain in the seat of the secondhand jeans I’ve worn since the day I became her bartender. The truth is I’ve been lying for seven years. I figure I can lie for one more weekend. But what I can’t lie about is how I’ve started to see the usually buttoned-up Nancy in a whole new light.

After spending my entire childhood moving wherever the military told us to, I put down roots in Tyson's Creek. My plan was simple—start a business and live a peaceful, fulfilling life with my friends. That is until Seth Williams walked into my yoga studio and turned my world upside down. I swore that I'd never fall in love with a military man, but the more time I spent with him, the more I started to fall. One night, I let my guard down, allowing the walls around my heart to crumble to the ground. After spending one amazing night together, he was shipped off to defend our country.

Do you sometimes feel that you were born into the wrong life? A life where you don’t fit in? Duke of Earl looks at the 1960s through the eyes of Lila Naimark, who was a young girl at odds with her parents. In their view, adhering to strict Pentecostal doctrine was the only way for their daughter to avoid eternal damnation. The author’s quest to understand “Why doesn’t this seem right to me?” forced her to choose between keeping to the safe-and-narrow road prescribed by her religion or chasing her dreams of a bigger life.

A Star is Born meets Good Girl Complex in this angsty, deeply emotional, heated romance perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover. Broken hearts and hidden pasts collide in a symphony of passion and redemption. Skye Jordan thought she had it all figured out. Eighteen months ago, she was in college and...

He's not the boy next door anymore, and I'm not the girl I used to be, either. His life is in the spotlight as one of the most popular professional football players on the Vegas Aces, while I can't afford to have my secrets exposed. As we work together on a project benefitting our small Midwestern town, we easily slip back into the friendship we once shared. He introduces me to the people he's closest to now, and I find myself fitting into his new life as he works to fix the mistakes of his past. But somebody's digging into my history, threatening to break us before we even get started.

J’ai rencontré Owen Mordret par hasard, et il a chamboulé ma vie trop tranquille, mon union malheureuse et mes désirs endeuillés depuis longtemps. Il a tout pour que je succombe à ses charmes : il est beau, adorable, intelligent. Bref, l’homme parfait. Du moins, c’est ce que je croyais... car Owen Mordret est un menteur-né. Il n'est pas du tout celui que j'imaginais ! Alors, à moi de mettre au jour tous les mensonges qu'il distribue comme autant de bonbons empoisonnés, et de découvrir qui se cache derrière ses artifices. Quitte à me brûler les ailes.