Week of August 28, 2023
The first time I met Winter Marks, I almost took her out with my Jeep.
To be fair, she came out of nowhere.
I flirted with her, and she flipped me off and disappeared into the woods on her bike.
But she left me a souvenir: a single hockey skate.
Seemed to me that divine intervention shouldnโt be ignored.
She was my icy Cinderella and I would be her Prince Not-So-Charming.
Winter was more than just a sassy, badass hockey-playing hottie.
Sheโs stuck in a prison of a life. And Iโm the perfect escape.
Neither of us expected to fall.
Or for the truth to shatter us.
Blake Dillon isnโt exactly living the dream. She longs to follow in her grandfatherโs footsteps and make a difference in the world as a journalist. Unfortunately, her current job has her paying-off hotel staff for celebrity gossip. Tasked with shadowing a film star for an in-depth profile, Blake sees it as a chance to finally prove her worth. She never expected the interview to reconnect her with her old college crush.
Oliver Benjamin agrees to move to Los Angeles to work as the executive assistant to his best friend, a rising star. He hopes it will give him some direction. However, he soon discovers the only difference between being a frat boy and a Hollywood heartthrob is the amount of free stuff and the level of media attention. Ollie spends most of his time putting out fires, leaving little time for anything else. When Blake is sent to chronicle their lives, he finds himself face-to-face with the one that got away.
Blake and Ollie are smart enough to recognize the signsโthere are enough sparks between them to melt glassโbut they agree to put a lid on it until the article is finished. Much easier said than done when theyโre forced to spend more time together than apart. Thereโs more going on than a simple interview, but theyโre both professionals. They must resist temptation or risk unraveling both their lives.
From USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling authors Kerrigan Byrne and Cynthia St. Aubin, comes their latest Romcom featuring a quirky cast of characters who represent the hilarious absurdity of life while making you fall head-over-heels in love. This steamy, laugh out loud, opposites-attract small town romance reminds us that we don’t have to be perfect to deserve our own happily ever after!
Gemini “Gemma” McKendrick knows just about everything about everybody in Townsend Harbor. When she’s not serving on one of the many civic positions or leaping headlong into another hobby, she’s hosting the Sunday Stitch ‘N Bitch at her yarn and craft shop, Bazaar Girls. With her quirky boutique in big financial trouble, she makes a snap decision to rent out the basement of her cozy craftsman to Townsend Harbor newcomer Gabe Kelly. A man with a past as colorful as his tattoo sleeves, who has become an urban legend since he blew into town. And who better than Gemma, Townsend Harbor’s own gossip guru, to answer the rumor mill’s most pressing questions? Like whether the silver-tongued mechanic is as good with his hands as he is with a socket wrench.
Gabriel “Gabe” Kelly wasn’t born into a family so much as a criminal enterprise. Taught to lift, chop, and rebuild cars since before he could tie his own shoes, he’s obliged to pay his debt to society before deserting South Boston for Townsend Harbor, Washington. Surely he can stay out of trouble here, right? He immediately finds the only position an ex-con with prison muscles and neck tattoos could easily find in a town like this, and buys the vintage car mechanic shop from it’s retiring owner . Moonlighting as the only tow truck in a thirty-mile radius, he rescues the absent-minded hottie who runs the local yarn shop. But he quickly discovers that a toy-sized car with a dashboard lit up by Christmas isn’t the only thing in Gemma McKendrick’s life desperately in need of maintenance. Gabe, who is uniquely qualified to diagnose and fix complicated mechanisms, finds his sexy landlord is impossible to figure out. Looks like he’ll have to take a peek at her undercarriage to find out what makes her purr before he hits the road again.
Because women of her caliber don’t take home guys with his make and model…
But he knows she wants a test drive.
From #1ย New York Timesย bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and a life-changing journey.
Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where sheโs lived since college still looks like sheโs just moved in. But sheโs got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. Sheโs at peace with her plus-size bodyโat least, most of the timeโand sheโs on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her perpetually dieting mother forced her to attend. Fifteen years after her final summer at Camp Golden Hills, when Abby reconnects with a half-his-size Mark, it feels like the happy ending sheโs always wanted.
Yet Abby canโt escape the feeling that someยญthing isnโt right…or the memories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously. When Abby gets a last-minute inviยญtation to lead a cycling trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, sheโs happy to have time away from Mark, a chance to reflect and make up her mind.
But things get complicated fast. First, Abby spots a familiar face in the groupโSebastian, the one-night stand she thought sheโd never see again. Sebastian is a serial dater who lives a hundred miles away. In spite of their undeniable chemistry, Abby is determined to keep her distance. Then thereโs a surprise last-minute addition to the trip: her mother, Eileen, the woman Abby blames for a lifetime of body shaming and insecurities sheโs still trying to undo.
Over two weeks and more than seven hundred miles, strangers become friends, hidden truths come to light, a teenage girl with a secret unites the riders in unexpected ways…and Abby is forced to reconsider everything she believes about herself, her mother, and the nature of love.
Thereโs 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 fromย New York Timesย 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 girlโs grumpy uncle while working a princess party, she canโt help but needle him. Sheโll never see him again, and honestly, he’s pretty hot.
Rafe Whitman may be a veterinarian with a great bedside manner, but that doesnโt mean his patience extends to anyone with opposable thumbs. His family will not stop nagging him about finding โthe one,โ so when he runs into obnoxiously cheery Star again, he makes her an offer: Heโll pay her more than she would make doing her odd jobs if sheโll pretend to be his girlfriend at family gatherings. She can stop sitting in line waiting for someone elseโs new phone, and heโll get his family off his back.
When the tension between them heats to a breaking point, Starโs desire for “no strings” is tested against Rafeโs staunch stability. They say opposites attract, after all….
What are you supposed to do when your best friend’s little sisterโa classic good girlโasks you to help her go bad?
You should say no.
You shouldn’t pretend to date her so she can piss off her parents.
You definitely shouldn’t agree to take her virginity and show her all the experiences she’s been missing out on.
And you really shouldn’t keep it a secret from her brother, the one who’s your best friend and business partner.
But I don’t always make the best choices. In fact, I can be kind of a dick sometimes.
And I know if I don’t do it, someone else will . . . and I can’t have that. If anything, it means I get to be the good guy for once.
I just wasn’t prepared for how gifted this good girl would be at going bad.
Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.
Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author ofย Daisy Darkerย andย Rock Paper Scissorsย Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises.
Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth.
Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty-years-young, sheโs planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning messes and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything.
Edithโs own daughter, Clio, wonโt speak to her. And someone new is about to knock on Clioโs doorโฆand their intentions arenโt good.
With every reason to distrust each other, the women must solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. If they do, they might just find out what happened to the baby who disappeared, the mother who lost her, and the connections that bind them.
In the style ofย Daisy Darkerย andย Rock Paper Scissors,ย Good Bad Girlย is a thriller in which nobody can be trusted and the twists come fast and furious.
BURY YOUR SECRET OR DIE FOR IT.
17 year-old Quell has lived her entire life on the run. She and her mother have fled from city to city, in order to hide the deadly magic that flows through Quellโs veins.
Until someone discovers her dark secret.
To hide from the assassin hunting her, and keep her mother out of harmโs way, Quell reluctantly inducts into a debutante society of magical social elites called the Order that she never knew existed. If she can pass their three rites of membership, mastering their proper form of magic, sheโll be able to secretly bury her forbidden magic forever.
If caught, she will be killed.
But becoming the perfect debutante is a lot harder than Quell imagined, especially when thereโs more than tutoring happening with Jordan, her brooding mentor andโ assassin in training.
When Quell uncovers the deadly lengths the Order will go to defend its wealth and power, sheโs forced to choose: embrace the dark magic sheโs been running from her entire life or risk losing everything, and everyone, sheโs grown to love.
Still, she fears the most formidable monster sheโll have to face is the one inside.
A queen’s life hangs in the balance, and her siblingsโ decisionsโabout what to do, and most of all, who to loveโcould change the course of history. Romance. Duty. Power…only one can triumph in this stunning conclusion to theย New York Timesย bestselling American Royals series.
America’s royal family is in shambles. Queen Beatrice is in a coma and Princess Samantha has gone missingโfrom the look of things, she ran away with her boyfriend, Lord Marshall Davis. Which means that Prince Jefferson is currently on the throne. For some in America, it’s exactly what they wanted: aย Kingย ruling the country. And for Daphne Deighton, who has tricked Jefferson into dating her again, it’s the ultimate dream come true.
Surely this is all just temporary. Wonโt Beatrice wake up and reclaim her rightful place? Samantha can’t really be goneโฆcan she? And Prince Jefferson will never truly be over his childhood crush, Nina Gonzalez. Right?
For the Washington family, the stakes are higher than ever. Love might save the throneโฆ.if secrets donโt destroy everything first.
TURNER THE TYRANT HAS MET HIS MATCH
I was done for. Profoundly screwed.
The issue, of course, was my assistant, Devereux.
She was slowly but surely driving me crazy.
It wasnโt supposed to be like this. Hiring her was supposed to bring order to my life.
Instead, sheโd brought disorder.
Chaos. Irritation. Malaise.
Comfort. Exuberance. Delight.
I was obsessed with her.
Truly, irrevocably obsessed.
She was stubborn. Standoffish. Painfully honest.
Take no prisoners efficient.
In summary, a termagant — much too young for me.
And even I, oblivious bastard extraordinaire, was aware in some corner of my mind, of every well-laid plan Iโd ever had slowly crashing down and exploding into dust.
I was simply no match for Devereux Laurent.
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