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Whomever said it was all downhill after 40 were most definitely wrong. For Maggie Lynch, divorced at 42, life was just taking her in a different direction. The only thing missing was a little romance, but she was in no rush. Bumping into Jeremy Dawson at the supermarket of all places, was a huge surprise...and it changed everything. He'd been her first crush and her first heartbreak. Now, 20-odd years later here he was again...and single. The girls have bet her that she can't land Jeremy by summer...game on.

Told in alternating timelines, this romance novel with a murder mystery twist takes place on the 16-acre island of Garden Key, the second largest island of the Dry Tortugas, a group of sandbars 68 miles southeast of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s home to Fort Jefferson's hexagonal fortress. Beyond the moat, where you'll find on two sides the docks, primitive camping grounds on the southern part of the island, picnic areas under swaying palms, and immaculate white sand beaches. This is where darkness descends, and then murder and madness ensue.

Samantha Callahan fights hard to succeed in a man’s world. At the top of her game with a promotion nearly in her grasp, nothing can stand in her way, not even greedy competitors or a crashed laptop. So, an overdue and well-deserved vacation to the beach with the girls shouldn’t put her on edge. But, perhaps, Sam’s head has been down in the trenches for so long, she’s forgotten how to enjoy life.

Solange du bei mir bist... Jack und Tess sind wie Feuer und Wasser. Es knistert gewaltig zwischen ihnen, doch auf keinen Fall will sich Tess von ihrem Studium ablenken lassen. Als Jack nach einem schweren Arbeitsunfall auf einer Ölbohrinsel sein Leben neu ordnen will, nimmt Tess ihn, wenn auch widerwillig, bei sich auf. Sie braucht dringend einen neuen Untermieter und Jack braucht eine Bleibe, um wieder auf die Beine zu kommen. Die beiden kommen sich immer näher, doch die Ereignisse der Vergangenheit drohen Jack einzuholen.

Yūko è in grado di vedere cose che gli altri non vedono, e di indovinare i desideri e i pensieri di chi le sta intorno grazie a una sensibilità fuori dal comune. Compiuti quattordici anni, tutto sembra assumere sfumature misteriose, e il mondo si popola di bizzarre creature. Yūko sta imparando ad assegnare un colore a ogni stato d'animo e a ogni emozione; a insegnarglielo è Kyū, il suo maestro di disegno, che ha il doppio dei suoi anni. Quando dal fusto di una pianta fuoriescono degli strani omini verdi, loro sono gli unici a vederli.

When she washes up with no memory of who she is, the last thing she imagined was that she'd end up living with her rescuer - a famous movie star - and his adorable puppy. But someone out there knows her real identity and the more she remembers of her past, the more her new life, and love, are in danger....