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Since aging out of the foster care system and becoming a nurse, all I dreamed of was marrying a nice doctor and moving to a two-story house in the suburbs. So how did a dangerous biker gang criminal end up handcuffed to my bed? And why did I agree to let that animal teach me how to...ahem...do things. Wicked things. In the very same bed he’s been handcuffed to in order to keep me safe? Long story. And I’m truly scared to find out how it will end.

Following her mother’s tragic death, Paige is preparing to scatter Ellen’s ashes in the heart of the Welsh mountains with her dad, grandmother, aunt and uncle by her side. But when a blizzard descends over the hills, the family have no choice but to abandon their quest and seek refuge in a remote mountain inn.

The very last thing Willa needs is for Sawyer Grant, the hot jock who made her life miserable in high school, to come roaring back into her life on a Harley. Too bad. The gorgeous bully is now a wounded veteran after his stint in the Navy SEALs - tortured and in need of the kind of care only she can provide with her unique gift. She's trying to keep it strictly professional with him, but he's determined to take their relationship to the next level. She knows if she lets him in, he'll ruin her life. Again.

"Je vous souhaite d’être follement aimée", écrivait André Breton. Dans ce recueil de poèmes qui constituent autant de microfictions incandescentes, publiées au fil des années sur Instagram, Nicolas Mathieu dessine les visages de cet amour fou et donne à voir un monde de coïncidences, d’analogies et de banalités transformées en trésors : les villes entrevues, la mer, les rencontres et les commencements, le désespoir et les joies, le bonheur intenable, les saisons, les matins au lit et les dîners avortés, les gueules de bois, l’attente, la désertion, l’enfance et la fin qui viendra.

An up-and-coming influencer, Gracie's job revolved around her relationship - without it, who is she and what is she supposed to show her viewers now? Weston is acting the part of the good son, in police officer training because that's what his dad wants, but playing life safe for fear of failing has cost him his relationship. Dragged out by their friends to forget their heartbreak in San Francisco, Gracie and Weston's worlds collide in a bar fight. Adrift in their shared romantic woes, they gravitate towards one another; after all, if they have to be alone, why not be alone together?

Seriously, my name is Bernice. But then came that one month when I pretended to be somebody else entirely while working at a roadhouse biker bar. Who knew one month pretending to be an interesting bad girl could ruin a boring good girl's life? When I saw her, I knew she'd be mine. My old biker crew told me she was untouchable—that I'd never be able to land her without my fame and last name. So I did what any rock star with a big, ahem, ego would under the circumstances—wagered five figures on me seducing the untouchable girl behind the bar.

"J'en ai ras le bol des mecs. Vous me gonflez ! J'en ai plus qu'assez de vos sales coups ! C'est votre tour de souffrir ! Ma voix résonne dans tout le quartier. Et là, trempée, titubante, épuisée, je prends une décision sur laquelle je jure de ne jamais revenir : je ne vais plus rien leur passer. On remet les compteurs à zéro. On renverse la vapeur. Je vais faire payer ce fumier. Chaque joueur doit vous donner mille baffes. Je vais me venger de tout."

After a stalker breaks into her home, internet entrepreneur Bee Langston decides Kelly Connolly is the only man who can help her - but seeking help from the former Marine isn't easy, especially after she made a spectacular fool of herself trying to kiss the sinfully sexy bodyguard. When Kelly spots Bee weaving her way through the Houston nightspot where he's working security, all those feelings he's desperately tried to deny for his best friend's sister come flooding to the surface.

Holt Calson was born with an 11-figure spoon in his mouth to one of the wealthiest families in the world. The night we met, I only had 11 dollars in my purse, and it was all the money I had in the world. We were never supposed to meet, much less be together. But Holt didn't care. He just wanted me.

I'm a determined dreamer - at least I used to be. I put all my dreams on hold and withdrew every penny from my savings account to pay the debt my ailing father owes to a local gang. Except, according to the gang's slimy leader, even my life savings won't be enough to pay the enormous debt my dad's accrued. And his leering gaze lets me know exactly how he wants me to pay the balance.

I didn’t know true desire until the first time I laid eyes on him. Tall, dark, beautiful as a god—completely forbidden. He was the penniless son of the help born in the Lousiana bayou, and I was a pretty southern princess, cultivated like a hothouse flower to become the trophy on some well-pedigreed man’s arm.

Pro-tip: Don’t agree to a fake engagement with a ruthless mafia crime lord like me after you catch your real fiancé cheating. I just might keep you. She agreed to be mine for as long as it takes for a business deal to go through. She thinks this is a game. One she’ll win if she plays by the rules. Here’s what she doesn’t understand. When it comes to me, there are no rules. Scruples? Integrity? Playing fair? Nah. Our engagement might be fake, but she’s about to find out...I’m for real obsessed. There’s nothing I won’t do to make her mine.

When Chloe Adams was four, she was abandoned on the side of the road by her shiftless shifter parents. But now she's a DIY domestic goddess, and engaged to the hottest alpha in Colorado - that is until a time-traveling Viking werewolf shows up to claim her as his fated mate. Wait, what?!?! Hold on listeners, this audiobook contains not one, but two alpha males, sizzling hot mating, and nothing less than the adventure of a lifetime.

Since aging out of the foster-care system and becoming a nurse, all I dreamed of was marrying a nice doctor and moving to a yellow two-story house in the suburbs. So how did a dangerous biker-gang criminal end up handcuffed to my bed? And why did I agree to let that animal teach me how to...ahem...do things? Wicked things. In the very same bed he’s been handcuffed to in order to keep me safe? Long story. And it didn’t end well. Now it’s time to marry my doctor fiancé and make all my former foster kid dreams come true.

I was born a few moments after midnight on January 1st. On my 21st birthday, my father throws me the most lavish New Year's Eve birthday party Baton Rouge has ever seen—then he tells me I'm a woman now, and that means I belong to a man he owes a blood debt.

How does a feminist raise a son in a world that conditions boys into entitlement, privilege and power at the expense not just of girls' humanity but also their own? All boys start innocent, but by the time they are adolescents many of them will subscribe to a view of masculinity that is openly contemptuous of women and girls. This explosive new work will look at toxic masculinity and the closed ranks of brotherhood that shape an entitled, disrespectful and potentially dangerous idea of manhood.

Every server at the roadhouse I work at knows that Vengeance is a package deal. The three enforcers for the Ruthless Reapers don’t just share a job; they share you for one night if you dare to go to one of the rooms upstairs with them. Whenever they come into the roadhouse, they stare at me. Hard pass. It doesn’t matter if they make my stomach flutter and my seriously neglected nether regions stir with some very bad thoughts. But then my aunt’s boyfriend attacks me. One moment I’m calling Vengeance as a last resort. And the next I’m waking up in their bed.

"Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé combien de fois dans votre vie vous aviez réellement dit merci ? Un vrai merci. L'expression de votre gratitude, de votre reconnaissance, de votre dette. À qui ? On croit toujours qu'on a le temps de dire les choses, et puis soudain c'est trop tard." Après "Les Loyautés", Delphine de Vigan poursuit dans "Les Gratitudes" son exploration des lois intimes qui nous gouvernent. Une lecture dialoguée réalisée par quatre comédiens, qui donne toute leur épaisseur et leur sensibilité aux personnages.

In the first six weeks after her son was born, Jamila Rizvi felt isolated, exhausted and frustrated - as if the world she knew had disappeared forever. Then her salvation came in the form of a letter. A dear friend - who had been there herself - wrote to tell her that she would get through this. That she was seen and supported. That she was not alone. Now Jamila wants to pay it forward to other new mothers.

When pawn broker Abby Kirkwood discovers the evidence of a chilling drug cartel hit on one of the video cameras hocked in her store, she turns to the only man she can trust - Jack Connolly. The smolderingly sexy former Marine runs a successful gym down the street and coaches her brother's special needs baseball team. He's the one man who is always there when she needs him. If anyone can protect her family, it's commanding, capable Jack.