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They are the Perfect Gentlemen of Creighton Academy: Privileged, wealthy, powerful friends with a wild side. But a deadly scandal is about to tear down their seemingly ideal lives. Maddox Crawford’s sudden death sends Gabriel Bond reeling. Not only is he burying his best friend, he’s cleaning up Mad’s messes, including his troubled company. Grieving and restless, Gabe escapes his worries in the arms of a beautiful stranger. But his mind-blowing one-night stand is about to come back to haunt him...

How many times have you walked past your soul mate before you noticed her?College senior Leah McAllister is quickly approaching a new chapter of her life, and she’s not ready for any of the things that come after graduation. The job market is grim, adult responsibility looms, and when her job writing for the school paper sends her to interview the magnetic Morgan, she even begins questioning her sexuality.

Gayle was the beauty who believed that a man could make her life complete. Patricia was the intellectual who thought that rising to the top of her career would make her happy. And then there is Marcus Carter, who has been linked to both Gayle and Pat since the tragedy that occurred when they were all children. Can either one save him from himself? Can friends survive a love that comes between them? Each of them gets what she wants, but no one counts on the price they have to pay.

Two books in one by New York Times best-selling author Heather Graham.

It’s not that Micayla Lange is afraid of the clinking she hears coming from the first floor of the empty McMansion she’s housesitting for her uncle Nicco. She’s a cop, after all. It’s just that finding out her boyfriend was cheating on her was enough drama for one night. Now she’s alone on New Year’s Eve, wearing flannel pajamas and wielding a Glock 22 as she zeroes in on the unmistakable source of the sound: Uncle Nicco’s private office.

No es ningún secreto que tengo una profunda aversión a los ascensores. La idea de quedarme atrapada y asfixiarme miserablemente hace que normalmente prefiera utilizar las escaleras. Pero hoy hago una excepción. Porque el atractivo desconocido que me abre las puertas del ascensor me hipnotiza literalmente con sus deslumbrantes ojos azules. No puedo resistirme y entro. Un error fatal. Las puertas se cierran y quedamos atrapados.

She’s a rookie cop. He’s a professional crook. She catches him in the act of stealing big bucks from a mob boss’s safe. He manages to embroil her in a crime so explosive it could cost both of them their lives. Natural adversaries, their only common ground is mutual dislike and distrust—and the fact that the same killers are now hunting them both. Sparks fly and passion flares as they run for their lives, knowing that teaming up is the only chance they have to survive.

When breaking and entering turns into happily ever after.... Amelia, an independent and feisty hair stylist, is sleep deprived - horribly so. Thanks to her raucous neighbors down below. Not to mention the handsome doctor next door who brims with attitude and can’t seem to control his blaring car alarm. Gabe is a neurosurgeon from the city and a stressed single father who enjoys escaping to the country. He does not, however, enjoy being berated by his little flaming-haired neighbor, a young woman who is as outrageous in her behavior as she is in her appearance.

En apparence, Émilie et Jake n’ont rien en commun, sauf leurs blessures béantes au cœur et leur travail à la pizzéria du coin. Et pourtant, au fil de leurs soirées Sprite et placotage, une relation précieuse se tissera entre eux, empreinte de l’espoir que l’aube revient toujours, même après la plus sombre des nuits.

Being the daughter of the local pastor, Savannah Gideon should have known better than to get involved with an outlaw. However, the ruggedly handsome Jake Parsons was just too smooth to resist. She knew he was bad but she really had no idea just how bad he really was.

From the author of a Top 100 Free for Kindle Story "The Killing of Train-Man Brown" comes As An Angel Might Sleep: Never Turn Away.

A lost love story...brought together again in a beautiful snow....

When 25-year-old Samantha Briggs invites her best friend Juliana over for a sleepover, Juliana's daddy drops her off at Samantha's house with stern instructions to be a good girl and obey Samantha's daddy. The evening is filled with coloring, cartoons, baking cookies, and giggling, and when it's time for bed, Samantha and Juliana decide they aren't done having fun. But after they're caught jumping on the bed late at night, they soon find their bottoms bared for a sound spanking, as they are reminded what happens to naughty girls who disobey their daddies.