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Hidden Love by Henna Vale
My best friend Ian saves the day when my world turns upside down and I need a place to live in for a few months. It all starts out perfectly, but when an accident leads me to a fake relationship with my oh-so-hot best friend, things start to crumble and fake starts to feel too real. As the summer of Lappland turns into autumn and the house starts to reveal its secrets, we have to choose what’s important to us – friendship or the possibility for something more.
Long Flight Home by Cassandra Cripps
TK
I live my life by rules – too many fucking rules. But, it’s the only way. I messed up once. I slept with the wrong girl.
Never again.
The rules are my life, my guide. Until she walks in, and one by one, they all crumble.
She doesn’t slowly creep her way in like a worm. No, she soars in, like an eagle, refusing to be ignored and digging her claws into my heart. Leaving me vulnerable, wanting more.
Wanting her.
Gracie
Home. Happiness. The words used to mean something.
Until that night – over a decade ago. When they were stolen from me and my parents forced us to move.
Now, I’m back in Alaska, flying bush planes for Homer Air. And, I’ll fight every step I take until they are real again. The only problem is the reclusive fisherman whom I can’t stop thinking about, despite us fighting every time I see him. Finding Home Ever After by Stacey Komosinski
Returning to her small hometown to help her mom recover from cancer, a scared and lost young woman embarks on a journey of self-renewal. A recently rekindled childhood friendship with a now reformed playboy, complicates her transformation when he professes his undying love for her on one hot and tempting summer day.
Life isn’t what Gabriella Rodriguez imagined in her mid-twenties. But she’s working on embracing change and building a new life she can be happy living. Back in the small town of Harmony, Texas with her family and friends by her side, Gaby hopes to trump the cards fate has dealt her and stop looking over her shoulder for the other shoe to drop.
Although she has sworn off men until she can sort out her life, there is one man Gaby might allow to get closer—Bradley Klein. Especially since his towering frame, chiseled features and all-encompassing hugs make her feel something she thought was gone. When Gaby lets her body do the talking, will the prior arrogant, self-absorbed teenage boy who now wants to protect her at all costs let her run free with his heart?
Academy of Protectors by Gray Holborn
You know what’s annoying? Having your first real date interrupted by a werewolf and a hellhound.
I’ve lived a pretty boring, secluded life, hiding amongst humans on the outskirts of a small town. But when the demons I’ve heard stories about show up at my front door, everything changes. Suddenly, I have to trade in my quiet life for a whole new world filled with violence, secrets, and magic.
As if enrolling in The Guild wasn’t difficult enough, I’m forced to work with a team of mysterious protectors who think I’m as repulsive as the demons they’re training me to kill. They don’t seem to want me around, but I can’t deny that something beyond my control is drawing us together—even when I try to escape them, I just get pulled closer into their orbit.
Icing on the cake? For some reason, the demons I’m supposed to be hunting down are coming after me instead. Nothing about this new life is at all like how I thought it would be. If I can’t figure out who to trust and fast, I’m screwed.
Reinventing Fate by K.C. Ale
The bored, rich guy wants to own me.
An envelope with ten thousand dollars. Cash.
That’s just for one week. For every week of the arrangement, I get a fresh one.
What does he get in return?
He will shape me into his idea of the perfect woman. His ultimate creation to appease his god-complex.
Eloquent. Refined. Confident. Tasteful.
I’m not that woman.
Only, when he looks at me, I believe I am.
He doesn’t know it, but my fate was set long before him.
This arrangement, it just might ruin us. Finding It All by Stacey Komosinski
Best friends, dreams and happiness. They believe in it all, and their sacred Friday nights. Find out how love fits — or doesn’t fit in their plans.
Twenty-five-year-old Chloe Larson has never had a relationship or been really kissed by someone. After a rough childhood spent hiding a secret and being ridiculed, Chloe believes she’s better off with only friends around her. That way she can’t get hurt or misused.
She spends weekends living life to the fullest with her best friends and roommates Gaby and Jess and weekdays proving her worth as a newly promoted reporter. The thing is, she doesn’t have time for anything romantic. But secretly she longs for that special connection with someone.
Chris Sherman is bored of the selfish women who flock to him. Recently out of a relationship, he isn’t looking for love. But everything changes when he meets Chloe Larson. She has a way about her that excites and intrigues him, leaving him desperate to get to know her.
Will they both find the courage to let each other in and experience the joys and pains of love, life, and happiness to find it all?
Welcome to the Finding Happiness in Harmony series’ first journey celebrating the bonds of friendship, love, and life. This feel-good story of first love and best friends will have you believing you too can find it all.
Broken Disciple by Jules Crisare
Finley doesn’t want or need a mate. Broken Peak isn’t safe for a female or pups. But when a female he’s never met is threatened, he’s convinced the only place where she’s safe is at Broken Peak. Living with the Pack and him. As his mate.
Maggie Iotor is running for her life to a rumored place of safety and finds a sanctuary she didn’t think existed for shifters. But she needs to leave Broken Peak behind to keep the shifters who live there safe from the deranged leader of her clan set on finding her and bringing her back at whatever cost.
Can Maggie accept everything Finley and Broken Peak can give her or will she walk away from it all and turn her back on the wolf her animal has claimed as her mate?
The Mess You Left Behind by V.T. Do
Emery
There are some things you just don’t do, and falling for a man like Wyatt James is one of them.
The man is obviously too old for me, far too experienced, and as unattainable as the stars in the sky. Yet, I can’t stop the fluttering of excitement low in my belly every time he looks my way, or this incessant need I have to be near him.
Falling for Wyatt is easy. It’s everything that comes after that’s hard. Sometimes, the choice to stay with the man you love is out of your hands. Sometimes, the past mistakes of other people can leave an impact, even generations later. Sometimes, trying to be with the man you love can only end in heartbreak.
Sometimes, I don’t care.Wyatt
There are very few things in my life I can’t control. Loving Emery is one of them. What started as a chance meeting turned into a defining moment I can never turn back from. There’s no denying that this tiny girl got to me in ways no one else has ever done before. Falling for her is easy. It’s trying to convince her to stay that’s hard. Sometimes, love isn’t enough. Sometimes, the past mistakes of other people can take away the one thing you cherish most. Sometimes, stories are written down to end in tragedy.
Sometimes, I don’t care. Soothsayer by Kathryn Amurra
Aurelia has always valued love and happiness over titles and power. Though her kind-hearted father has allowed her to turn away suitor after suitor in pursuit of a love she cannot yet define, when he dies her choices die with him. Knowing that marrying the elderly governor of a neighboring province can secure her mentally challenged brother’s safety, she gives up on her dream of finding love in return for his protection.
Cassius is the ill-fated captain of the governor’s guard tasked with escorting the Lady Aurelia and her unpleasant aunt to the governor’s estate. Since the soothsayer Tullia foretold an early death for him, Cassius wants nothing more than to keep his hands busy with labor and his heart free from any connections to the world he believes he will be leaving soon. As they work through a series of misfortunes on the road to the governor’s province, the words of the soothsayer start to make sense, and together they find the courage to allow their true destiny to unfold.
Exposure: A Love Story by Tracy Ewens
If only life were as simple as smiling for the camera.
After years of braving the Arctic’s frigid temperatures or endless hours tracking the Spirit Bear to capture the perfect shot for National Geographic, Meg Jeffries decides to move back to the city—San Francisco. She wants a life with more stability. The kind that lets her see her family more than once a year and comes with owning a toaster or a full-sized tube of toothpaste. But creating her new “normal” is not without its obstacles. Meg is confident and successful behind a camera. A little extra publicity can’t change that… until it does.
Westin Drake is famous for fast cars and box office sales. Yet he’s a terrible driver and secretly hopes his fifteen minutes is almost up. West moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco, looking for some substance and time near his family. But now that the buzz of his next film, Full Throttle – Floor It, is hitting maximum fervor, West keeps everyone at arm’s length so he can protect the people he loves… until he can’t.
When the public mistakes a simple kiss on the cheek for a budding romance, Meg and West are caught in a media frenzy. Somewhere amid the backseat getaways and plastered smiles, Meg discovers the man behind the glossy photographs, and West wonders how he’ll ever let her go once the cameras stop rolling. Love is never simple, especially when the world’s watching. How much are two people willing to expose for a chance at a true happily ever after?
