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Après l'incendie ayant ravagé La fièvre du samedi soir, mon jardin s'est une nouvelle fois retrouvé envahi par les vampires. Ma stupidité me perdra, j'aurais dû savoir que j'allais encore me mettre dans le pétrin en acceptant de les héberger.

"Prepare to have your heartstrings tugged! Pure Christmas delight."—Lori Wilde, New York Times bestselling author on An Alaskan Christmas Can a hometown Christmas bring together these two polar opposites? After traveling to all corners of the globe, Isla Wakefield has returned home to...

L'assassin est parmi eux. Pour le trouver, il faut jouer... Angleterre, de nos jours. La première fois que Jemma s'est rendue dans le manoir de Polskirrin, c'était en compagnie de Matt, son époux, pour célébrer le mariage du richissime Lucas Jarrett. Jamais Jemma n'oubliera la vue saisissante de cette demeure dominant la mer, perchée sur un éperon de Cornouailles.

C'est le cœur brisé que Ceony Twill, 19 ans, débarque chez le magicien Emery Thane. Sortie major de sa promotion à l'école Tagis Praff, elle se voit contrainte d'embrasser la magie du papier, elle qui rêvait de travailler le métal. Or une fois qu'elle sera liée au papier, matériau qu'elle dédaigne, elle sait que c'est pour le restant de sa vie. Dès le début de son apprentissage chez l'excentrique mais si charmant Emery, Ceony découvre un monde merveilleux qu'elle ne soupçonnait pas : animer des créatures de papier, donner vie à des récits grâce aux images qui les illustrent, prédire l'avenir.

The job was simple. Answer the phone, solve the single dad’s dilemma, and move on. I’m the temporary solution. The fill-in. The short-term Single Dad Hotline Helper until a more suitable one can be found. I don’t get attached, I don’t stick around, and I certainly don’t fall for the single dad. Until the job said, “Hold my beer,” and tipped my world upside down.

First comes love. Then comes marriage. We all know how the rhyme ends. Except I don’t want love. I sure as heck don’t want another marriage. But a baby? That I’m desperate for. And I know exactly who can help me with that. Simon has always been there for me. He listens to me. Supports me. Makes me feel like maybe I’m not as broken as I think I am. He wants me to be happy. To move beyond the pain of my past.

A brutal serial killer known as "Dead Eyes" is lurking in the backyard of the famed Virginia FBI Profiling Unit. Despite the gifted profiling skills of Special Agent Karen Vail, the psychopath is always one step ahead with uncanny knowledge of the FBI's detailed strategy of pursuit. Threatening to derail the investigation and her career is Vail's contentious divorce from an abusive husband and an ugly custody battle. As Vail fights to find the killer before he murders more young women, she must battle forces determined to bring her down.

Être la dernière recrue sur une chaîne de télévision en perte d’audimat, ça n'augure jamais rien de bon. Exiger de l’homme, qui vient de renverser son café sur vous, de vous donner sa chemise, passe encore... Sauf s’il s’agit du nouveau boss qui vient remettre la boite sur les rails ! America Landorf ne pouvait pas faire pire comme première impression auprès de son nouveau patron. D’autant plus qu’Aston Cordell a la réputation de licencier plus vite que son ombre dès qu’il rachète une entreprise.

»Lauf, mein kleiner Engel, lauf! Je schneller du vor mir fliehst, desto mehr will ich dich einfangen. Dir deine Flügel stutzen und dir deine reine Seele nehmen.« Evelyn wollte eigentlich nie auf diese Halloweenparty. Doch ihrem Freund zuliebe geht sie mit – nur um ihn dort inflagranti mit einer Anderen zu erwischen. Geschockt flieht sie in den angrenzenden Wald, verliert jede Orientierung und findet sich schließlich in ihrem schwarzen Engelskostüm vor einem abgelegenen Kloster wieder. Ohne andere Optionen bittet sie verzweifelt um Einlass.

He's my brother's best friend. My first crush, my first love, and my first time. But I had to break his heart to save us both. Ten years later, my life is in danger, and Aiden is the only one who can offer the protection I need. I don't have a choice, because the man and the life I chose instead . . . They're about to cost me everything. I know Aiden hates me, and he has every right to. But maybe this is my chance to tell him the truth.

Lina Ragelis prides herself on her bravery and strength, two traits that have served her well in her career in the US Army. Having been disconnected from her family since she turned eighteen, Lina has learned to rely solely on herself—and her slightly overbearing best friend—and she swears she prefers it that way. It's an easy lie for someone who has spent her entire life dodging love. Lina's pretty certain that she's damaged goods. But the truth is, she's the kind of person everyone wants in their corner, and the kind of woman many women want to love.

There are lots of assumptions people make about rock stars. Shallow. Player. Addict. The truth? I'm none of those. The even bigger truth: The only opinion I care about is hers, and she hates me. Her, as in Gwen Matthews, my twin brother's best friend, the unrequited love of my life. She thinks I'm a liar and a jerk, which is why I pretend to be my brother when she needs help one night. Except that Gwen is a genius. Literally. So it doesn't take her long to figure out it's me and not my brother, but maybe, just maybe, she's willing to give me a second chance.

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.

She was never mine to keep, still I took every second that girl was willing to give me. I always knew she'd go back to him. But I never expected she'd take a piece of me with her.

According to Hollywood insiders, Harper and Brett Kennedy have the perfect family life—an image that has been carefully cultivated by an army of PR experts at Galaxy Studios. The truth is, their relationship has been on the rocks since Brett cheated when Harper was pregnant with their youngest child. Four years later, he's still cheating, but this time with the nanny.

Du suspense, de l'émotion et une pointe de romance. La vie de Lyanne n'est plus qu'un champ de ruines. Tout s'est écroulé autour de la jeune femme depuis son accident. Elle est rongée par la peine et la culpabilité, tentant de donner du sens à ce qui n'en a pas. Jusqu'à ce que Samuel la contacte pour lui faire part d'un projet un peu fou, le projet d'une vie. Lyanne hésite, est-elle prête à renouer avec les autres ? Et si, finalement, c'était sa chance ?

The Irish author of TransAtlantic presents his first collection of short fiction in over a decade. With unsurpassed empathy for his characters and their inner lives, Thirteen Ways of Looking explores the territory of chance and the profound and intimate consequences of even our smallest moments. In conversation with Lila Azam Zanganeh ( The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness).

Née à Téhéran, exilée à Paris depuis ses dix ans, Kimiâ a toujours essayé de tenir à distance son pays, sa culture, sa famille. Mais les djinns échappés du passé la rattrapent pour faire défiler l'étourdissant diaporama de l'histoire des Sadr sur trois générations : les tribulations des ancêtres, une décennie de révolution politique, les chemins de traverse de l'adolescence, l'ivresse du rock, le sourire voyou d'une bassiste blonde.

Sarah Todd is pregnant. She doesn’t believe in cravings, and is determined to live the next seven months giving her baby all they nutrients it needs to grow into a healthy boy, or girl. The baby, however, has other plans. How far is she willing to go to succumb to her… CRAVINGS?

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.