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| A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by KJ CharlesMajor Rufus d'Aumesty, the new Earl of Oxney, must fend off rival claimants to his title with the help of his attractive secretary, Luke Doomsday, part of Romney Marsh's notorious smuggling clan. Set 13 years after the events of The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, this 2nd in the Doomsday series offers a "steamy Regency romance embedded with a twisty mystery" (Library Journal). |
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| The Beginning of Everything by Jackie FraserTemporarily unhoused after escaping a bad relationship, Jess Cavendish breaks into the seemingly empty home of Gethin Thomas, who offers her his guest room until she can get back on her feet. The strong friendship that forms between the 40-something, newly single misfits takes both by surprise, as do the burgeoning romantic feelings that could ruin everything. |
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Witch of Wild Things
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
With rare plants to find, a dead sister who keeps bringing her coffee, and another sister whose anger fills the sky with lightning, Sage doesn't have time for romance. Sage Flores has an affinity for plants, but it wasn't enough to save her younger sister Sky's life. She ran from the tragedy, only to return to her hometown eight years later. Like slipping into an old, comforting sweater, Sage takes back her job at Cranberry Rose Company and uses her ability to communicate with plants to discover unusual heritage specimens in the surrounding lands. What should be a simple task is complicated by her partner in botany sleuthing: Tennessee Reyes. He broke her heart in high school, and she never fully recovered. Working together is reminding her of all their past tender, genuine moments-and new feelings for this mature sexy man are starting to take root in her heart. But being with Tenn is like standing in the middle of a field on the cusp of a summer thunderstorm-supercharged and inevitable.
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Not My Kind of Hero
by Pippa Grant
Starting a new life in Hell's Bells, Wyoming, a single mother, while learning the ropes on the hobby ranch she inherited, finds her biggest challenge her surly new tenant—and her daughter's math teacher and soccer coach—who thinks she needs to be saved.
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Three Holidays and a Wedding
by Uzma Jalaluddin
Strangers and seatmates Maryam and Anna, confessing their deepest hopes and fears to one another during severe turbulence, find themselves, after an emergency landing, snowbound in a picture-perfect town where festive magic and newfound love make these unlikely friends realize there's no place they'd rather be for the holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, and Ramadan).
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A Perfect Pairing
by Sheryl Lister
Sparks fly when a top realtor in Firefly Lake, Natasha Baldwin, is paired up on an interior design project with her ex, Antonio Hayes, in the second novel of the series following A Table for Two.
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Julia Monroe Begins Again
by Rebekah Millet
With her two boys off to college, forty-year-old Julia Monroe intends to expand her cleaning business in New Orleans, but God seems to have other plans. Samuel Reed, the ruggedly handsome Green Beret who broke her heart more than twenty years ago, has returned to town, and he's determined to win her back.
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| The Wake-Up Call by Beth O'LearyTo save the struggling boutique hotel that employs them both, rival concierges Izzy and Lucas come up with a plan to raise money by selling items from the Lost Property room. The result? A quest to return five lost wedding rings to their rightful owners, leading Izzy and Lucas to reconsider their own relationship. Read-alikes: Alicia Thompson's With Love, From Cold World or Lauren Forsythe's Dealbreakers. |
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The Love Script
by Toni Shiloh
Hollywood hair stylist and makeup artist Neveah loves making those in the spotlight look their best. But when the spotlight is on her after a photo of her and Hollywood heartthrob Lamont goes viral for all the wrong reasons, they suddenly find themselves in a fake relationship to save their careers. In a world where nothing seems real, can Neveah be true to herself...and her heart?
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Hero Debut
by Angela Ruth Strong
Gemma Bennett attends Citizen's Police Academy to research for writing a screenplay, not to mention hopes of writing herself into the role of Lieutenant Zellner's leading lady. If only she could refrain from repeatedly playing the damsel in distress, then he might take her seriously. Karson Zellner already has his fair share of trouble before Gemma shows up. He can't keep rescuing her when there are bigger problems in the world demanding his attention, and he refuses to let her romanticize his career. Will Gemma find the hero her story needs? Or will real life get in the way of true love?
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Main Character Energy
by Jamie Varon
To inherit her late aunt's villa in the French Riviera, Poppy Banks must finish her novel in six months, forcing her to confront her writer's block, family drama, complicated romances and self-doubt that threaten to throw her off course.
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| Cleat Cute by Meryl WilsnerBenched by an injury, veteran soccer player Grace Henderson, star of the US Women's National Team, must watch from the sidelines as her rival, rookie Phoebe Matthews, threatens to steal her spotlight. Worst of all, she's cute. Read-alikes: Chloe Liese's Everything For You; Elena Armas' The Long Game. |
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The Love Plot
by Samantha Young
There's a magnetic attraction when a happy-go-lucky gig worker agrees to a fake relationship with a rich, uptight New Yorker in this steamy romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Samantha Young. Star Shine Meadows is all about freedom, thanks to the hippie parents who raised her. Juggling her jobs as a professional costume character actor and a line sitter, she believes in no expectations, no stressful ambitions, and no-strings-attached relationships. So when she meets a birthday girl's grumpy uncle while working a princess party, she can't help but needle him. She'll never see him again, and honestly, he's pretty hot. Rafe Whitman may be a veterinarian with a great bedside manner, but that doesn't mean his patience extends to anyone with opposable thumbs. His family will not stop nagging him about finding "the one," so when he runs into obnoxiously cheery Star again, he makes her an offer: He'll pay her more than she would make doing her odd jobs if she'll pretend to be his girlfriend at family gatherings. She can stop sitting in line waiting for someone else's new phone, and he'll get his family off his back. When the tension between them heats to a breaking point, Star's desire for "no strings" is tested against Rafe's staunch stability. They say opposites attract, after all...
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