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Sometimes opposites don't just attract--they catch fire and burn the city down. Is it true that you can't always get what you want? Shaw Landon is a good girl from a nice family. She knows what she should want: top grades and then a steady job and, someday, a nice guy to take home to her parents. She also knows what she shouldn't want…but it's hard to stay away from a guy like Rule.

The definitive cult, post-modern novel - a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead man's wife, he finds himself drawn, with increasing intensity, to the mangled impacts of car crashes.

The fourth book in the scorching hot New York Times bestselling Marked Men New Adult series. Nash Donovan, tattooist and good-time guy, never knew his father. Instead, he was brought up by his Uncle Phil, the best role model and mentor a guy could have. But when Phil is rushed to hospital and reveals he's at the end stages of lung cancer, he wants Nash to know the truth.

Imagine on honeymoon, lulled by sultry heat and the promise of a lifetime’s happiness, you discover a shocking secret about your husband. But instead of destroying you, the knowledge brings freedom; the freedom to bare your soul, explore your deepest desires, and discover what you really want. The Bride Stripped Bare is the story of a passionate sexual awakening, as erotic as it is dangerous....

Stunning Brooke Asgill is about to marry into one of the richest and most powerful families in the United States, and matriarch Meredith Asgill is determined that her daughter will walk down the aisle at whatever cost. But the Asgill’s are not all they seem, and their past is riddled with secrets, lies, and tragedy. Enter Tess Garret, a renowned publicist hired to keep the Asgill family ghosts well and truly locked away - at least until the big day is over.

Laugh-out-loud funny, Fiona's writing deals with the real life cringe-worthy moments we all know so well… Perfect for fans of Jane Costello, Kate Long and Tess Stimson.

The first in the new Saints of Denver series from NYT best-selling author of the Marked Men series, Jay Crownover. Sometimes you have to tear everything down to build something new.... Sayer Cole is frozen inside. At least that's what it's felt like for as long as she can remember. She's yet to let anyone past her icy exterior - and the one guy she thinks might melt her heart couldn't possibly be interested in someone so uptight.

The third book in the Marked Men series. Somewhere between the perfect fairytale and a broken heart lies a happy ending…Loud and colourful, Cora Lewis is used to keeping her rowdy colleagues at the tattoo shop in line, but all her fiery bluster hides a heart that's been mistreated too many times. After her supposed happy-ever-after went out of the window, she's become fixated on nothing less than ‘perfect'.

The second book in the Marked Men series from Jay Crownover. It's what's on the inside that counts.... Doesn't every good girl want to tame the bad boy? Ayden Cross is a good Southern girl from the tips of her cowboy boots to the depths of her country-music soul. With a troubled childhood behind her, all she wants is a life laid out on the straight and narrow--and a bad boy like Jet is definitely not in the plan. So what happens when the bad boy picks you?

The sixth book in the scorching-hot New York Times best-selling Marked Men New Adult series. Royal Hastings has been a cop, first and foremost, for most of her adult life. When a call-out goes wrong and her partner ends up in hospital, she finds herself suspended from the job indefinitely. With too much time on her hands and a heavy load of guilt weighing her down, she seeks solace in oblivion - otherwise known as a golden-eyed bartender with a rap sheet as long as her arm.

With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany.

Avery knows she should stay away from Cam Hamilton: He might be the hottest guy on campus but she really doesn't need that sort of drama right now. Love is best left in the past - along with her troubles. But sometimes, the last thing that you want is just the thing you need.…

Another outstanding New Adult novel from the best-selling author of Wait for You - a New York Times best seller. Not all scars are visible on the surface. Calla Fritz is used to hiding. Hiding the scar that she believes mars her beautiful face. Hiding the burns that cover so much of the rest of her body. Hiding her past and her family secrets from her new college friends.

There are a lot of reasons why Teresa and Jase should steer clear of each other.…Firstly, Teresa is Jase's best friend's little sister - and Jase has a pretty good idea of how Cam will feel about anyone messing her around. Secondly, Teresa's dreams of being a dancer have just been put on hold - maybe permanently. The last thing she needs is a player like Jase distracting her when she needs to find direction. Thirdly, Jase has a secret. A big one. And he's not ready to risk sharing it with anyone apart from the people closest to his heart.

Being married to a celebrity isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when that celebrity has a very public affair with his co-star.... Alice McBride is determined that the one thing she won't lose in her marriage breakup is Borne Manor, her beloved home, but she gets more than she bargained for when she rents it out for the summer and a sexy cowboy comes to stay. Country music star Robinson Duff has had his own share of heartbreak and needs somewhere quiet to hide out for the summer.

Harper, a buttoned-up banker, is a tattoo virgin before Vik draws her first ink. And once the bad-boy biker lays his hands on the beautiful canvas of her body, he's addicted! Harper says the two of them could never mix outside of the bedroom - but she's finding Vik's touch is a feeling she wants to last forever.

Nikki Gemmell’s concluding instalment is a modern-day version of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, set in Notting Hill, involving a banker’s wife and the gardener of a local communal garden. It begins by describing with scorching honesty and delicious cheekiness a couple in the thick of marriage - people who still fancy each other rotten, and how they find a way of keeping the sex aflame amid the demands of work/family/life. And yet this wife, safe within her marriage, is bursting with unfulfilled desire. Unfulfilled, that is, until the communal gardener enters, and their affair accelerates to its tense, shuddering conclusion.