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When hopeful fashionista Meg Julliard must return to her hometown of Chicago to manage her late father’s apartment building, she thinks her dreams of making it in the fashion business are over. Ellie Wade, one of the building’s longtime residents, is also not feeling the Christmas joy this year. Ellie and Meg strike up an unlikely friendship, and the story of Ellie’s dress comes out. Ellie gifts the gorgeous dress to Meg, hoping that it will bring her more luck, on the condition that she wear it to the building’s Christmas party.

Piper McCaulley doesn’t know which way is up or down. Her gran, her last remaining family, died two weeks before Christmas, leaving Piper to reevaluate her life. Did she really want to stay chained to the family business just to hang on to this old house? She didn’t care that her great-great-great grandpa had built it with his own hands. How could she make huge life decisions if she’d never even been outside of Alaska?

Twenty-four-year-old Pax Tate is an asshole. Seriously. He's a tattooed, rock-hard bad boy with a tough attitude to match. His mother died when Pax was seven, leaving a hole in his heart filled with an intense guilt that he doesn't understand. What he does know is that he and his dad were left alone, and they have never been close. Now, he uses drugs and women to cope with the black void in his soul. He pretends that the emptiness isn't there and this has always worked…until he meets Mila.

After getting caught in an affair months ago, Ethan ended things with Lindsey in an attempt to win back his wife. Lindsey refuses to let go of the relationship so easily and begins stalking Tessa. Tessa, still shattered from Ethan’s infidelity, finally hits her breaking point and snaps, devising a plan to lure Lindsey to her home one weekend when her husband is away.

One dark moment was all it took to turn 24-year-old Dominic Kinkaide's world black. On the night of his high school graduation, a single incident changed him forever, and he became a hardened man-famous in the eyes of the world, but tortured inside. Now all he cares about is losing himself in the roles that he plays.

Noel Blake is not in a great place. After several years of marriage, she and her husband Jonah are quietly drifting apart. The only time they really talk at all anymore is when they walk their dog, Elliott. And even then it usually ends in bickering. When, one snowy day, Elliott manages to slip his leash, they find him blocks away in the care of a mysterious old man who asks them to make a wish on an old snow globe. Eager to get their dog safely home, they agree to his strange request. Neither one realizes that the wish they’re about to make will change the course of their lives.

Cookery is a culinary conversation about food, food history, and other food stuff with husband and wife co-hosts Cole and Courtney.

There comes a time when offering your life for your child’s doesn’t work, when you realize that it’ll never be enough. The cold needle in his warm vein was a welcome comfort to my son at first. But then it became the monster that kept us apart. Heroin lied, and my son believed. It took him to a world where the last year didn’t happen, to a place where his father was still alive. What Beck didn’t understand was that it couldn’t bring his father back from the dead. It couldn’t take away his pain, not permanently.

Seit dem Unfalltod ihrer Eltern hält die 22-jährige Mia zusammen mit ihrer Schwester das Familienrestaurant am Laufen. Nebenbei hat sie ein kleines Atelier als Künstlerin und ist überzeugte Single-Frau. Das ändert sich, als sie den 24-jährigen Pax Tate kennenlernt. Pax ist auf den ersten Blick alles andere als ein Traummann: Tätowiert, knallhart und mit schlechtem Benehmen. Doch ausgerechnet Pax bringt in Mia eine Seite zum Schwingen, die sie vorher noch nicht kannte - und sie in ihm auch.

Als Ex-Soldat Brand in seine Heimatstadt zurückkehrt, muss er sich wohl oder übel der Vergangenheit stellen, vor der er vor Jahren geflohen ist: Seiner Mutter, die ihn nie geliebt hat - und der jungen Nora, die sich seit der Highschool nach ihm verzehrt. Noras feuriges Temperament überwältigt Brand, doch sie hat ein dunkles Geheimnis, das ihrer beider Liebe zu zerstören droht.

Te Arepa is an adventurous Maori boy, bound to the history, customs and rituals of his people. Yet when he comes upon a giant eel while fishing, he is convinced the creature is a taniwha, or water demon, and follows it. Yet what Te Arepa finds in the river is far different, far more sinister. And it will change his life forever.

Nach außen hin führt Dominic ein beneidenswertes Leben: Dem gefeierten Jungschauspieler liegt die Frauenwelt zu Füßen. Doch innerlich ist er gelähmt, tiefe Gefühle lässt er nicht zu. Das ändert sich, als er Jacey kennenlernt, deren Kraft ihn schwer beeindruckt. Aber auch sie hat Narben auf der Seele. Werden die beiden einander heilen können?

Ex-Army Ranger Gabriel Vincent is a badass hero. Or he used to be. Home from Afghanistan, Gabe can't stop thinking about that one horrible night on the battlefield, a night that changed his life forever. He knows he's messed up, but with the help of a little beer and a lot more women, he's keeping it together. Until he meets Madison Hill. Madison is happily single - or so she thinks. After the tragic death of her parents, she took on the responsibility of running the family restaurant, and that's just about all she has time to worry about. Until she meets Gabriel....

Madison führt seit dem Tod ihrer Eltern das kleine Familienrestaurant. Dieses in schwierigen Zeiten geöffnet zu halten, erfordert all ihre Zeit, daher spielen Männer in Madisons Zukunftsplanung keine Rolle. Doch dann tritt ein Mann in ihr Leben, der das verändert: Gabriel Vincent. Aber sowohl Madison als auch Gabriel haben in der der Vergangenheit schwierige Zeiten durchlebt, und sie müssen beide erst lernen, dass sie nur mit Hilfe des Anderen diese überwinden können...

My name is Calla Price, and I’m drowning. My new world is a dark, dark ocean, and I’m being pulled under by secrets. Can I trust anyone? I don’t know anymore. The lies are spirals. They twist and turn, binding me with their thorns and serpentine tongues. And just when I think I have it figured out, everything is pulled out from under me. I’m entangled in the darkness. But the truth will set me free.

Let there be light. My name is Calla Price and I'm broken. My pieces are all around me, floating on the wind, even as I desperately try to grasp them. Who is dead? Alive? Insane? What is the truth? I don't know. I do know this: The darkness is strangling me. With every breath, I choke on another lie. My mind has protected me, but that shield will soon be lowered. All will be revealed. Every answer to every question. It's all been leading to this. Don't be afraid. Be terrified.

My name is Calla Price. I'm 18 years old, and I'm one half of a whole. My other half - my twin brother, my Finn - is crazy. I love him. More than life, more than anything. And even though I'm terrified he'll suck me down with him, no one can save him but me. I'm doing all I can to stay afloat in a sea of insanity, but I'm drowning more and more each day. So I reach out for a lifeline. Dare Dubray. He's my savior and my Antichrist. His arms are where I feel safe, where I'm afraid, where I belong, where I'm lost.