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A sumptuous collection of five spicy standalone romances that’ll curl your toes and melt your nights! With performances by Elena Wolfe, Teddy Hamilton, Joe Arden, Vanessa Edwin, Jacob Morgan, Emma Wilder, and Shane East.

Nella campagna inglese di inizio Ottocento, la tranquilla vita della famiglia Bennet prende una svolta decisiva quando il ricco e affascinante Charles Bingley si trasferisce a vivere nelle vicinanze. La primogenita Jane, bella e sensibile, s'innamora del giovane scapolo, ma si ritrova presto sola e confusa quando Bingley parte improvvisamente per Londra senza dare spiegazioni. Secondo Elizabeth, la sorella più giovane dallo spirito vivace e intelligente, la rottura tra i due è da attribuire a Darcy, un aristocratico amico di Bingley.

Un uomo ambizioso è generalmente percepito come un leader carismatico. Una donna ambiziosa, invece, come un'arrivista senza scrupoli, di sicuro anche un po' perfida. È questo che ci è stato insegnato: che volere troppo per una donna non è opportuno, non è elegante, non le si addice. Meglio stare un passo indietro, ridimensionarsi, brillare di una luce un po' più fioca. E così, giorno dopo giorno, ci hanno tolto i nostri sogni più audaci. I nostri superpoteri. Ma è ora di riprenderceli.

We are told God will punish the wicked; that sinful men will reap what they sow. We are told to scourge our souls with prayer and pain to become clean once again. Well, here I am. Wicked and sinful. Desperate to become clean - even though it feels so good to be dirty. But even I never expected what came next. Even I never expected my punishment to come so soon.

He was gorgeous, older and guarded. I knew he was trouble from the moment we locked eyes. We met at work, on my first day as a barista. He smiled, I melted...then he tasted my coffee and threw it away. Again, the next day, and the next. He hated the coffee, yet still came back. I knew his game. He called my coffee death in a cup. I called him god’s gift to women. I wasn’t lying.

Their union started with a simple plan: to fake a marriage that would allow Elizabeth to take over her father’s company and merge it with Weston’s holdings, creating a vast media empire. But what began as a pretend marriage has become all too real.... Now a bombshell about Weston’s past is keeping him rooted at home while Elizabeth must travel across the globe to take up the company reigns. But their intense connection could bring the entire game crashing down as they’re forced to choose power and family...or the love of a lifetime.

Desde que fue forzada a meterse en el Caldero y se convirtió en alta fae en contra de su voluntad, Nesta Archeron lucha por encontrar su propio lugar dentro del extraño y letal mundo en el que habita. A su temperamento irascible se suma la dificultad para superar los horrores de la guerra con Hybern y todo lo que perdió en ella.

Mi chiamo Jacopo Serristori, sono un ingegnere, avevo un progetto di vita e ho fallito. Mi chiamo Clara Francalanza Visconti Baker, sarò un architetto e ho appena fatto una Scelta Ponderata: voglio buttarmi nel mondo delle relazioni stabili. Nella magia di Trastevere, tra le calli nebbiose di Venezia, sulla bianca neve di Cortina, nella frenesia di Milano, Jacopo dovrà fare i conti con se stesso, con quello che non riesce a perdonarsi e con quella ragazza che da sempre ha guardato al di là della sua perfezione, arrivando ad abitare quella Casa che nemmeno lui pensava di voler costruire.

After Ember Brycin finds her mother brutally murdered, her mind begins to see things that shouldn’t exist, like creatures that belong in scary fairytales. The more she feels her sanity slipping, the more bizarre and inexplicable things start happening around her, even burning down one of her schools, turning Ember into an outcast. When she and her stepfather, Mark, move to Olympia, Washington, they think it will be a new start. However, things only continue to get worse.

Maud Demille is a daughter of Innkeepers—a special group who provide ‘lodging’ to other-planetary visitors—so she knows that a simple life isn't in the cards. But even Maud could never have anticipated what Fate would throw at her. Once a wife to a powerful vampire knight, Maud and her young daughter, Helen, were exiled with him for his treachery to the desolate, savage planet of Karhari.

Leopoldo Estuardo, detective retirado, es contactado por Inés Polti para que investigue el asesinato de su hermano. Estuardo se hace cargo de la investigación de Jerasmus Polti, un reconocido multimillonario, cuyo presunto asesino confeso es David Polti, su hermano psicópata. Con la ayuda de Nina, su centenial asistente, el investigador tendrá que interrogar a los testigos, hacer sus pesquisas y detectar las pistas y mentiras, sólo a través de una pantalla.

Running. Putting distance between himself and the relentless Night Brigade has been Nomad’s strategy for years. Staying one or two steps ahead of his pursuers by skipping through the Cosmere from one world to the next. But now, his powers too depleted to escape, Nomad finds himself trapped on Canticle, a planet that will kill anyone who doesn’t keep moving. Fleeing the fires of a sunrise that melts the very stones, he is instantly caught up in the struggle between a heartless tyrant and the brave rebels who defy him.

I did it. I married a billionaire. My reasons are my own, but the last thing I expected was to feel owned. I may have taken vows, but I'm still determined to be me. Now his rules are taking over my world, but I'm not the kind of girl to just obey. There's only one problem: I might actually be falling for him.... I have no idea how this marriage is going to go, but holding on to a piece of myself while succumbing to his dirty pleasures is shaping up to be the ride of a lifetime.

The night is not safe for mortals. Denise MacGregor knows all too well what lurks in the shadows—her best friend is half-vampire Cat Crawfield—and she has already lost more than the average human could bear. But her family’s past is wrapped in secrets and shrouded in darkness—and a demon shape-shifter has marked Denise as prey. Now her survival depends on an immortal who lusts for a taste of her.

I was a basic bitch. My job was fast-paced, stressful, and a time suck, but I loved it. What I didn’t love was there was little time for the best kind of stress relief. I was looking for a little D in my life. Okay, I was looking for a big D, but only for a limited time. Because I needed three things. I needed someone who didn’t know me professionally. I needed nothing but casual, and, most importantly, I needed to come.

Alex Sebastian is the billionaire who knows exactly how to re-launch the pop career I walked away from to raise my little sister. He knows everything, apparently, about what’s good for me. For my image. Even for my lingerie. Everywhere I turn, he’s there, smirking. I cannot stand him. So why can’t we stop sneaking around?

Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefacto que inventamos para que las palabras pudieran viajar en el espacio y en el tiempo. La historia de su fabricación, de todos los tipos que hemos ensayado a lo largo de casi treinta siglos: libros de humo, de piedra, de arcilla, de juncos, de seda, de piel, de árboles y, los últimos llegados, de plástico y luz.

What if the most important work of your life isn’t something you chase—but something you uncover, slowly, in stillness? What if your presence is the greatest offering you can make to the world? This book is an invitation to come home to yourself—gently, honestly, and with great love. As an evolution of, and a departure from, her best-selling journals, Practice You, and Being You, Brower draws on her memories and life experiences, her practice of yoga and Nonviolent Communication, and more recently, her study of Zen, to offer us a road map for living with presence and reverence.

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Rowan Callahan is a career-climbing attorney. But vicious - and false - rumors are destroying her professional life. That all ceases to matter when a plane crashes in downtown Chicago and the entire city goes dark, and she realizes she’s just witnessed the kick-off to the apocalypse. Armed with a backpack of supplies, she leaves Chicago, intent on resetting her skewed priorities and seeking shelter at the family farm with her father and sister. She’s injured and running for her life when she stumbles directly in the crosshairs of two men who just might be her salvation.