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War is brewing in the fifth book of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas.
The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves increasingly at odds with those who don't.
With her heart sworn to the warrior-prince by her side and her fealty pledged to the people she is determined to save, Aelin will delve into the depths of her power to protect those she loves. But as monsters emerge from the horrors of the past, dark forces stand poised to claim her world. The only chance for salvation lies in a desperate quest that may take more from Aelin than she has to give, a quest that forces her to choose what - and who -she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of peace.
Kingdoms collide in this fifth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series.
KENNEDY
I'm the only woman on staff for the Windy City Warriors baseball team,
and after years of putting up with a sexist lead doctor, I'm desperate
to land my dream job with a new team next year. All I have to do is
maintain my professional reputation for my final season in Chicago.
But a Las Vegas run-in with the team's shortstop threatens it all,
leaving me with a fuzzy memory and a ring on my left hand.
Now, not only am I legally bound to the most persistent man I've ever
met, but thanks to Isaiah's scheme to save my job, I have to pretend
the whole thing was a planned elopement and not a drunken mistake.
Isaiah Rhodes is reckless, impulsive, and frustratingly charming. He's
also my brand-new husband.
They got the saying wrong. What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in
Vegas... sometimes it follows you right back home.
ISAIAH
As the shortstop for Chicago's professional baseball team, I've had my
fair share of fun. But that all ended the day Kennedy Kay became a
single woman.
I've crushed on the team's athletic trainer for years. I've flirted to
no avail, so imagine my surprise when I woke up in Sin City with a ring
on my finger and my favourite redhead in my bed.
We agree to stay married for one baseball season, just long enough to
keep her job safe, but in my mind, I'm using our time together to prove
to her I'm husband material.
Kennedy might be reluctant to join in on our game, but it's one I
refuse to lose.
So come on, wife... play along.
Play Along is the fourth book in the sensational Windy City series
which has gripped over a million readers across the world. But don't
worry if you're new round here, you'll still love it as a standalone!
He has to play by the rules . . . but for her, he'd break them all. As the captain of Blackcastle Football Club and one of the highest-paid athletes in the game, Vincent DuBois should be on top of the world. But when his fame brings danger to his doorstep, he finds himself in his worst nightmare scenario - secretly sharing a flat with his coach's daughter, knowing full well she's far too big a temptation for him to resist. When his new living arrangements escalate into a bet that throws them even closer together, he realizes he's in deeper trouble than he thought. He's always played to win - but for her, he might just risk it all. As a sports nutritionist and the daughter of a legendary coach, Brooklyn Armstrong is used to dealing with hotshot athletes. However, no player gets under her skin like Vincent, her best friend's infuriatingly cocky (and gorgeous) brother. She left California hoping for a fresh start, and he's the kind of distraction she doesn't need. Now, he's sleeping in the room next to hers while her career is up in the air and her defenses are crumbling. But no matter how many sparks fly between them, a relationship between the captain and the coach's daughter could never work . . . could it?
An irresistible modern fairy tale
about a British princess who must decide between her duty to her
family—or to her own heart.
A Reese's Book Club Pick!
It’s New Year’s Day in Australia and the life Lexi Villiers has
carefully built is working out nicely: she’s in the second year of her
medical residency, she lives on a beautiful farm with her two best
friends Finn and Jack, and she’s about to finally become
more-than-friendly with Jack—when a helicopter abruptly lands.
Out steps her grandmother’s right-hand-man, with the tragic news that
her father and older brother have been killed in a skiing accident.
Lexi’s grandmother happens to be the Queen of England, and in addition
to the shock and grief, Lexi must now accept the reality that she is
suddenly next in line for the throne—a role she has publicly disavowed.
Returning to London as the heir apparent Princess Alexandrina, Lexi is
greeted by a skeptical public not ready to forgive her defection, a
grieving sister-in-law harboring an explosive secret, and a scheming
uncle determined to claim the throne himself.
Her recent life—and Jack—grow ever more distant as she feels the tug of
tradition, of love for her grandmother, and of obligation. When her
grandmother grants her one year to decide, Lexi must choose her own
destiny: will it be determined by an accident of birth—or by love?
This stunning new edition of Fourth
Wing features gorgeous stenciled edges designed to match Iron Flame and
Onyx Storm―bringing all three books together in one striking visual
set. Available as a limited first print run in the U.S. and Canada only.
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the
Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the
commanding general―also known as her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered
Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite
of Navarre: dragon riders.
But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle,
death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to
“fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet
to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just
for being her mother’s daughter―like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful
and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.
She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next
sunrise.
Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the
kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to
rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a
terrible secret.
Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an
agenda―because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or
die.
Dishonestly Yours is the hotly-anticipated new gritty romance from
TikTok sensations and authors of the Addicted series Krista and Becca
Ritchie.
Living honestly isn’t in his DNA. Just like it’s never been in mine . .
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The Graves and Tinrock families live life from one con to the next.
Phoebe Graves has grown up in a world where stealing and seducing are
as natural as breathing.
When a job goes horribly wrong, though, she and her best friend, Hailey
Tinrock, decide to leave their life of crime behind. They head to a
small college town in Connecticut to start anew. But Hailey’s older
brother, Rocky, catches wind of their plans and refuses to let them do
this alone.
Phoebe's past with Rocky is downright messy: he’s everything she wants,
but nothing she can have. And the longer she stays in town, the more
Phoebe has to lose . . . can love survive a web of lies?
Lorenzo
Five months. Two people 'in love'. One fake relationship with an
expiration date.
Sounds simple enough.
The problem is, Lily Muñoz and I have history.
So, when she volunteers to date me so I can improve my public image, I
should say no.
Our past complicates everything, but since my future depends on her, I
agree to her plan.
Faking it for the public is expected, but falling in love in private?
That isn't part of our arrangement.
Lily
Using a dating app sounded like a great idea, up until I discovered
Lorenzo Vittori was my match.
My sister's boyfriend hates him. My mom is wary of him.
And me? I've spent the last year avoiding him.
But when my business is threatened, I'm forced into teaming up with
Lorenzo to save it.
All I need to do is help him win the mayoral election, and he promises
to protect my shop.
It doesn't take me long to learn that I'm not cut out for fake
relationships, but Lorenzo?
He isn't capable of a real one.
Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker.
Jack Stapleton’s a household name―captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid.
When Jack’s mom gets sick, he goes home to the family’s Texas ranch to help out. Only one catch: He doesn’t want his family to know about his stalker. Or the bodyguard thing. And so Hannah―against her will and her better judgment―finds herself pretending to be Jack’s girlfriend as a cover. Even though her ex, says no one will believe it.
Hannah hardly believes it, herself. But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real it all starts to seem. And there lies the heartbreak. Because it’s easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But protecting her own, long-neglected heart? That’s the hardest thing she’s ever done.
Ally D'Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world's most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father's sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father - an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt - has left each of them a tantalising clue to their true heritage.
Ally has also recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair that will change her destiny forever. But with her life now turned upside down, Ally decides to leave the open seas and follow the trail that her father left her, which leads her to the icy beauty of Norway . . .
There, Ally begins to discover her roots - and how her story is inextricably bound to that of a young unknown singer, Anna Landvik, who lived there over a hundred years before, and sang in the first performance of Grieg's iconic music set to Ibsen's play 'Peer Gynt'. As Ally learns more about Anna, she also begins to question who her father, Pa Salt, really was. And why is the seventh sister missing?
Following the bestselling The Seven Sisters, The Storm Sister is the second book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series based loosely on the mythology surrounding the famous star constellation.
This stunning new edition of Iron
Flame features gorgeous stenciled edges designed to match Fourth Wing
and Onyx Storm―bringing all three books together in one striking visual
set. Available as a limited first print run in the U.S. and Canada only.
Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at
Basgiath War College―Violet included. But Threshing was only the first
impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and
the unlucky.
Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll
get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal,
or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain
beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his
personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless
she betrays the man she loves.
Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone
else’s, she still has her wits―and a will of iron. And leadership is
forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon
riders make their own rules.
But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year.
Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath
War College―and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save
them in the end.
Dahlia de Beaumont is the CEO of a high-end perfume and cosmetics
company based in Paris. Cruelly widowed at thirty, she brought her four
children up alone. Now aged fifty, she guards her heart by burying
herself in work, motherhood, and a long-term yet casual relationship
with a married man.
Travelling for business, Dahlia is left stranded in San Francisco when
terrible wildfires break out, causing widespread death and destruction.
Moved by the tragic stories of injured animals, Dahlia volunteers at a
pet rescue centre in Napa Valley, where she meets Mark Hamilton, a
handsome lawyer who has also been wounded by love in the past.
When Dahlia seeks Mark’s legal counsel, they grow close, feeling a
spark that both thought they never would again. But as black smoke
fills the air, and the raging fires move ever closer to San Francisco,
their lives remain in grave danger.
With everything at stake, is Dahlia willing to take a risk, and put all
her cards on the table once more?
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Caught Up
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Navessa Allen
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I want this woman, and I'm a man who
always gets what he wants.
Nico 'Junior' Trocci knows Lauren Marchetti is off limits. Men like him
don't get to have women like her. It's why he pushed her away in high
school and still keeps his distance. But Junior follows Lauren online,
and now that the shy, bookish girl he remembers is gone, he can't stop
obsessing over the strikingly beautiful woman who has taken her place.
He's ruthless; a walking red flag. Good thing red is my favorite color.
Lauren 'Lo' Marchetti knows Junior is dangerous. He broke her heart
once and she won't let him do it again. But as their flirtatious
encounters escalate, Lauren starts to remember why she fell for the
brooding antihero all those years ago.
As old obstacles resurface, Junior and Lauren are forced to face their
true feelings for each other and decide just how far they're willing to
go for a second chance at love.
Caught Up is a fast-paced dark romance
with a morally grey male lead. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing
to readers. Please check the content warning at the beginning of the
book.
18+ mature content. Not suitable for
younger readers.
Deep in the Australian Outback, two facilities operate side by side, separated by a fence.
Amanda Richardson works in a top-secret US intelligence gathering facility. Lucas Kahn works in the neighbouring Australian satellite tracking observatory. A chance encounter through double-glazed windows, and the realisation they can communicate with Auslan sign language, develops into a complicated romance.
What they learn from each other reveals a terrifying political endgame - and people will kill to keep that a secret.
Deluxe vintage-inspired collector's edition features a foil-stamped slipcase; stunning new cover, interior, and endpaper art; ribbon marker; and a one-of-a-kind interactive gilded edge design! Fall in love with the addictive, suspenseful love story between a teenage girl and a vampire with the book that sparked a "literary phenomenon" (New York Times) and redefined romance for a generation, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephenie Meyer.
Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. So far, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the genre-defining tale, this vintage-inspired collector's edition features a foil-stamped slipcase and cover with lush, romantic artwork; new chapter opener art and beautifully illustrated endpapers; a ribbon marker; and a one-of-a-kind gold gilded edge design that shows a portrait of either Bella or Edward, depending which way you spread the pages. It's a must-have edition for any die-hard or newly minted Twilight fan.
Oona Kelly Webster is an editor at a prestigious New York publishing
house. Married with two children, her twenty-five-year relationship
falls apart when she books a silver wedding anniversary getaway at a
luxurious château in France and her husband Charles suddenly drops a
bombshell which will shatter her carefully built world.
Although devastated, Oona decides to travel to France without Charles,
but soon after her arrival in the charming village of Milly-la-Forêt,
the world comes to a standstill due to a terrifying pandemic and all
travel is forbidden. Isolated and fearful, Oona then receives another
shock when she discovers her job has been made redundant. The only
thing which helps her to face the tragedy taking place across the world
is that she can remain in France, where the beautiful surroundings and
slower pace of life will slowly begin to heal her.
And when a chance encounter with her new neighbour, a well-known
Hollywood actor who is also stranded far from home, blossoms into
something deeper than friendship, Oona wrestles with the risks of
opening her heart again— especially to a younger, very famous man who
has two young children grieving for their mother.
With a second chance at happiness before her, Oona must be brave enough
to stay open to even greater life changes at a time when the world is
experiencing great fear and turmoil . . .
RYAN
She's a distraction, that's what she is.
I'm the newest Captain of the Devils, Chicago's NBA team, and the last
thing I needed this year was for Indy Ivers, my sister's best friend,
to move into my apartment. She's messy, emotional, and way too tempting.
But when the team's General Manager vocalizes his blatant disapproval
of my promotion to Captain, referring to me as an unapproachable lone
wolf with no work-life balance, I can't think of a better way to
convince him otherwise than pretending to date my outgoing roommate.
The only problem? Faking it feels far too natural.
Having a fake girlfriend wasn't supposed to be messy but having Indy
under my roof and in my bed is complicated, especially when she wants
all the romantic parts of life that I could never give her.
INDY
I never imagined I'd be living with my best friend's brother, NBA
superstar Ryan Shay. Even more unbelievable? He needs me to act as his
loving girlfriend who's suddenly changed him into a friendly and
approachable guy.
Because, well . . . he's not. He's controlling of his space and
untrusting of others.
Our arrangement isn't one-sided, though. I'm in a wedding coming up,
one where every one of my childhood friends, including my ex-boyfriend,
will be in attendance, and there's no better date than my ex's
celebrity hero.
Blurred lines make it almost impossible to separate real from fake.
Falling for my roommate was never part of the deal, especially when
Ryan is quick to remind me that he doesn't believe in love.
I'm a romantic and can't help fantasizing that he'll change, but soon
enough, I find myself questioning if sharing a roof with my best
friend's brother was the right move after all . . .
The Right Move is the second book in the sensational Windy City series
which has gripped over a million readers across the world. But don't
worry if you're new round here, you'll still love it as a standalone!
Get ready for another binge-worthy romance from international bestselling author and TikTok sensation Elle Kennedy.
College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he'll be forced to walk after graduation. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he's worth a second chance.
After a less than stellar freshman year, Grace is back at Briar University, older, wiser, and so over the arrogant hockey player she nearly handed her V-card to. She's not a charity case, and she's not the quiet butterfly she was when they first hooked up. If Logan expects her to roll over and beg like all his other puck bunnies, he can think again. He wants her back? He'll have to work for it. This time around, she'll be the one in the driver's seat . . . and she plans on driving him wild.
REWARD OFFERED: Apprentice to The Villain wanted for treason (light),
magical property damage (alleged), and one incident involving a
weaponized scone (accurate). Frequently seen with a grumpy frog
(crowned, judgmental). Answers to “Evie” or “Stop that.”
Evie Sage didn’t mean to become the right-hand woman to the kingdom’s
most terrifying villain. One minute, she was applying for an
entry-level position that promised “light paperwork and occasional
beheadings,” and the next, she was knee-deep in magical mayhem, murder
plots, and an entirely inappropriate crush on her brooding,
sharp-jawed, walking disaster of a boss.
Now, with a magical prophecy unraveling, assassins showing up in the
break room, and a suspicious amount of frogs wearing crowns, Evie has
to figure out how to survive her job without setting the kingdom on
fire?or her dignity, which is hanging by a very sarcastic thread.
Being evil-adjacent was never part of the five-year plan. But then
again…neither was falling for The Villain.
As owner of her beloved Gingerbread Bakery, Annie Andrews should have a
love life to match her business; sugary and sweet. But instead, she’s
locked in a game of words with the irritatingly upbeat bar owner down
the street.
Mac Sullivan has everything he wants, except the girl he dreams of.
It’s easier to argue with Annie than get her to talk to him but with
Jeanie and Logan’s wedding coming up, they're about to spend a lot more
time together.
As the snowflakes fall and with romance in the air, will Annie see that
the one she loves to hate might just be her perfect match after all?
All Clara Davenport has ever wanted to do is climb the ladder at Davenport Innovation Creative. Everything was going to plan until the company was accused of stealing a doll design from an independent toy maker. With a promotion dangled in front of her, Clara is tasked with charming the locals of the small town of Fraser Falls and solving the PR nightmare by any means necessary. Jack Kelly would happily never hear the name Davenport ever again. So, when Clara, with her long legs and dazzling smile, prances into town hoping to convince them that her company is not the enemy, Jack is determined not to be fooled by Davenport twice. Clara's plan to win over the community should have been easy, but she didn't account for Jack getting in her way, and under her skin, at every turn. And when the tension between them starts to boil over, she realises that beneath his frosty demeanour lies the key to the town's heart - and maybe her own.
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Pillow Talk
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Nivashni Nair Sukdhev
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Shona Shah’s life is chaotic. She is shackled to a family obligation,
has a casual relationship with a childhood friend, Senthil Aiyer,
unfulfilled dreams and a heap of clothing at the bottom of her cupboard
that she doesn’t have time to hang up.
In a bold move, Shona walks out of her family’s tailor business to
forge her own path. But the beautiful, twenty-something bridal designer
soon realises that to move forward, she has to look at her family’s
past.
Shona’s journey of self-discovery is a whirlwind of humour and
heartache as she learns to accept that her ‘no pillow talk’ rule with
Senthil can be broken. Sen discovers that sometimes the greatest love
stories can unfold right in the middle of the ‘chaos’ that he has
always tried to avoid.
This is a modern story about love and friendship, following your
passion and embracing the unpredictable journey of life.
Pillow Talk is the first of a series set in the fictional town of Rally
in KwaZulu-Natal from the new queen of South African romance.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily McIntire comes an angsty, best friend's brother, second chance romance and the second interconnected standalone in the Sugarlake series.
Elliot Carson left Sugarlake and has never looked back. Revered as the next big thing in basketball, Eli's a star until an injury ends his career, sending him spiraling with no direction. But he won't go home. He can't. Instead, he accepts a coaching gig at Florida Coast University, determined to leave his past behind. But fate has other plans when Becca, his sister's best friend, shows up as a student and, even worse, becomes the new team manager.
Rebecca Sanger is the preacher's daughter and the town's disappointment. When she ignores her family's demands to come home, she's cut off and needs a job so she can stay enrolled at FCU. She thought she had everything figured out, until Eli Carson―the person she hates more than anything in the world―ends up being her new boss. Forced together, Becca and Eli's hatred turns to heat, and they start an affair. But disaster quickly strikes, ripping them apart.
Years pass, and Becca's back home, under her parent's thumb, and living a mundane life. When Eli shows up out of the blue with a fiancée in tow, Becca is tasked with planning their wedding. There's only one problem. Becca still loves Eli. And he hates her.
For the second time in their lives, they're forced together, and they'll find out just how thin the line is between hate... and a love that lasts a lifetime.
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The Legacy
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