Don't miss the first trip to Moose Falls, Alaska where a down-on-his-luck football player and a sassy restaurant owner find themselves going from enemies to lovers in this small-town romance — perfect for fans of Brenda Novak and Annie Rains!

A small-town restaurateur and a big city former football player go head-to-head in this heartfelt enemies-to-lovers romance . . .
 
As the oldest of three brothers, former pro-football player Xavier Stone is no stranger to making tough calls. Like returning to his small hometown of Moose Falls, Alaska to help run his grandmother’s hard cider company and gastro pub. He agrees to keep an open mind, but between working with his estranged father and confronting heavy childhood memories with his brothers, Xavier’s ready to rush back to civilization. Even the stunning woman who runs his grandmother’s restaurant seems to instantly dislike him . . .

True Everett knows better than to let a ridiculously handsome man distract her, especially when it’s the same guy who stands between her and owning Northern Exposure, the tavern she manages. She didn’t pour her soul into the restaurant just for Xavier to swoop in and snatch away her dreams. But amid all the barbs—and, fine . . . all the sparks—flying, True glimpses the man beneath the swagger. That version of Xavier, the real one, might just steal True’s heart.

An office worker who has no one to eat lunch with enrolls in a course that builds confidence about eating alone. A man with a pathological fear of bedbugs offers up his body to save his building from infestation. A time capsule in Seoul is dug up hundreds of years before it was intended to be unearthed. A vending machine repairman finds himself trapped in a shrinking motel during a never-ending snowstorm. In these and other indelible short stories, contemporary South Korean author Yun Ko-eun conjures up slightly off-kilter worlds tucked away in the corners of everyday life. Her fiction is bursting with images that toe the line between realism and the fantastic. Throughout Table for One, comedy and an element of the surreal are interwoven with the hopelessness and loneliness that pervades the protagonists’ decidedly mundane lives. Yun’s stories focus on solitary city dwellers, and her eccentric, often dreamlike humor highlights their sense of isolation. Mixing quirky and melancholy commentary on densely packed urban life, she calls attention to the toll of rapid industrialization and the displacement of traditional culture. Acquainting the English-speaking audience with one of South Korea’s breakout young writers, Table for One presents a parade of misfortunes that speak to all readers in their unconventional universality.

Paula Swart het baie empatie met die pasiënte by die kliniek waar sy ’n arbeidsterapeut is. Vir haar kollega se vriend Derick het sy egter nie ooghare nie, al het sy hom nog nie eens ontmoet nie. In haar oë is hy ’n swakkeling en vir sy soort het sy nie tyd nie.

Toe Derick Boland toe trek en tydelik blyplek nodig het, beland hy in Paula se huis. Hy daag egter nie alleen op nie. In sy arms is ’n vuil, verwaarloosde brakkie wat hy langs die pad opgetel het en summier Paultjie gedoop het.

Teen wil en dank moet Paula leer om Derick én Paultjie te verdra. Kan verdraagsaamheid die eerste tree na liefde wees?

Tien jaar gelede het hy haar hart verniel. En hier, sonder waarskuwing, stap hy weer in haar lewe in – met daardie ontstellend sexy stoppelbaard ...

Destyds was hy Ruan Smit, nou is hy die bekende Christelike sanger Jacques van die groep Storms en Stilte. Sy is egter steeds Amy, dieselfde Amy wie se hart hy destyds gebreek het. Sy kan hom nie toelaat om haar weer te misbruik nie, maar hoe weerstaan sy die aantrekkingskrag tussen hulle?

Intussen soek hy huis saam met die liefdevolle Stella aan sy sy. Maar toe sy nuutste treffer vrygestel word, het dit almal aan die gis: Vir wie het hy dit geskryf en hoekom is dit ’n liefdeslied? Kan Amy haarself toelaat om te glo dit is vir haar? Of stel sy haarself opnuut bloot om weer seer te kry?

A contemporary re-imagining of the classic Oscar Wilde novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," Gray, Vol. 2 is the conclusion of the supernatural revenge thriller about an alluring but violent woman, Dorian Gray, who seeks vengeance on a cabal of powerful men who wronged her years ago; and of the straight-laced African American detective with a past of his own, who is tasked with stopping her. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's only novel and one of the classics of gothic literature, is the tale of the most beautiful man of his age, who sells his soul and his conscience in exchange for eternal youth, beauty and power - and who spends his life murdering, raping and corrupting. All the time in his attic, his picture degrades and rots. GRAY takes that basic idea but flips its moral framework and gender archetypes: our DORIAN GRAY is a Millennial social media princess who drifts through the coolest cliques of NYC, breaking hearts and turning heads wherever she goes. But Dorian has secrets. For one thing, she's a violent criminal. For another, she's an immortal creature of magic, who commits violent burglaries and assaults some of New York's most powerful men. 30 years ago, whilst an innocent student, Dorian was sexually assaulted by these men. In that moment that she became something both more and less than human. 30 years later, but not a day older, she's ready for her revenge. Then Dorian meets Detective HANK WUTAN, the African-American NYPD detective assigned to stop these crimes, struggling with his own loyalties as a Black cop in the era of Defund the Police. Despite the fact that Dorian is his suspect number one, and he is effectively working for her abusers, they fall for each other, hard. GRAY takes Wilde's classic novel and reinvents it as a tale of cathartic revenge for the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter era, a violent fantasy about how powerful, super-rich white men don't always win, how the powerless can find justice, and about how a murderous demon and a law-abiding detective can be soul mates.

Vandat Emily kan onthou, droom sy oor haar troudag: die ring, die rok, die onthaal, die blomme. Sy het ook ’n lysie met die presiese vereistes vir haar trouman gemaak. En Ryno Henning, hoe knieëknakkend sexy hy ook al mag wees, voldoen nie aan ’n enkele een van hierdie vereistes nie. Die stomende drome wat sy snags oor hom droom, sal dus net by drome bly.

Ryno het ’n oog vir ’n mooi vrou en Emily is een van die mooistes wat hy nog gesien het, maar hy weet hy kan nie vir haar gee wat sy wil hê nie. Trou en kinders kry is nie deel van sy toekomsplanne nie.

Dan, op ’n dag, hou Emily in die gietende reën stil om ’n hond te red en kry nie haar motor weer aan die gang nie. Dis Ryno wat tot haar redding kom. Sal haar troumanlysie en sy planne in hul pad bly staan of sal die vonk tussen hulle die oorhand kry?