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Melody
by Helen Hardt
He’s the melody in her mind… Beautiful Brianna Steel has her life planned out. Graduate college early. Check. Work with her father in the Steel family orchard. Check. Marry Jesse Pike. No check there. Jesse has never given her a look. Finagling her way onto a rock and roll tour with Jesse and his band, Dragonlock, should help move her final goal along. At least Brianna hopes it will. She’s been in love with Jesse since she was fourteen years old, and though she’s had several relationships, no one compares to the darkly handsome rocker. Jesse Pike and his band just got their big break. Opening for Emerald Phoenix on their Europe tour could lead to fame and fortune, and his family desperately needs the money after a fire destroyed their livelihood. He can’t let them down, and he’s determined not to let anything distract him—certainly not vivacious cowgirl Brianna Steel, even if she is the most gorgeous woman he’s ever laid eyes on. In the end, though, it’s not just his attraction to Brianna that puts the tour in jeopardy.
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Juliette and the Billionaire Boss
by Serenity Woods
I’m pregnant by one man. And in love with another. I’m in ten kinds of trouble. I’ve always had a secret crush on Henry West. He’s my kinda guy. Tall. Big. Quiet. Gentle, but with muscles that tell you he could wrestle a bear for you if he had to. I met him when I was twenty-one, but he was engaged, and I was with Cam. So nothing has ever happened between us. Despite the fact that we work together. That when he thinks I’m not watching, he looks at me as if he’s picturing me naked. As if he’s debating what position to take me in. As if he’s thinking about how I might taste. Fast forward seven years. Henry was unable to give his wife the children she wanted so badly, and now they’re divorced. My miserable relationship with Cam has crumbled to dust. And, on Midsummer Eve, Henry and I finally give into the desire that’s been brewing between us for so long. It’s everything I’ve ever dreamed of. But now I’m pregnant by one man. And in love with another. Cam wants to get back together for the child’s sake. He says we owe it to the baby to try and make a go of it. So I tell Henry I need time to decide what to do. He says if I expect him to sit back and let me go, I’m going to be disappointed. He says he wants me, and he’s going to have me if it’s the last thing he does. He says he loves me, and he’ll treat the baby as his own. Oh holy sh!t! What am I going to do?
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If we ever meet again
by Ana Huang
During her year abroad in Shanghai, 19-year-old Farrah Lin finds herself falling for her new friend's boyfriend, a fallen college football star, in the second novel of the series following If the Sun Never Sets. Original.
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The Emperor and t he Endless Palace
by Justinian Huang
“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?” In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor—but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex and intrigue. In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare medicine, only to unleash an otherworldly terror instead. And in present-day Los Angeles, a college student meets a beautiful stranger and cannot shake the feeling they’ve met before. Across these seemingly unrelated timelines woven together only by the twists and turns of fate, two men are reborn, lifetime after lifetime. Within the treacherous walls of an ancient palace and the boundless forests of the Asian wilderness to the heart-pounding cement floors of underground rave scenes, our lovers are inexplicably drawn to each other, constantly tested by the worlds around them. As their many lives intertwine, they begin to realize the power of their undying love—a power that transcends time itself…but one that might consume them both.
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My Dark Desire
by L.J. Shen
She’s his sweetest desire... and his darkest secret. The task was simple. Sneak into Potomac’s most heavily guarded manor. Steal back my pendant. Slip out. Problem number one? America’s most unattainable bachelor caught me. Problem number two? He decided to keep me. As the help. Zachary Sun’s winter may be the coldest I’ve ever felt, but he makes my skin burn. Reserved, calculated, and savagely cruel, he thrives on the weaknesses of others. Little does he know, he just met his match. He may be American royalty. But this peasant will rise to become Queen.
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Five brothers
by Penelope Douglas
"On the other side of town, in the dark glades, under the rain... Macon is the oldest. Thirty-one. Ex-Marine. I don't think I've ever seen him smile. Army is twenty-eight. A single dad with the most beautiful green eyes. He has no idea who he is, if not a Jaeger brother. Iron will be in prison soon. You'd never think it to meet him. He's a nice guy, actually. But he can't stop reacting to everything. Dallas is the one I hate. Twenty-one, cruel, and selfish. He takes and then throws away whatever's left. And Trace is mine. Or he was for about two seconds. No one can tame him for long. Not that I ever wanted to. It was fun, but now I need to go home. Back to my side of the tracks. Away from the swamps and these men. To my parents' big house. On my clean street. Where I'm never dirty or messy or hot. And I will. I'll leave first thing tomorrow morning. I just want to crash on the couch tonight. Their house is dark and quiet, everyone else is asleep. Except for one. He sees me crying and comes at me from behind. I let him wrap his arms around my body and hold me tightly. His breath is on my neck, his fingers are in my hair, and he doesn't stop there. I don't think it was Trace"
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