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Winner of the TikTok Shop Book of the Year 2024, Sunday Times and USA Today bestseller.
A spicy small-town romance and TikTok phenomenon, perfect for fans of Hannah Grace and Stephanie Archer.
When Jeanie’s aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job.
Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor’s gossip at all costs. But Jeanie’s arrival disrupts Logan’s routine and he wants nothing to do with the irritatingly upbeat new girl, except that he finds himself inexplicably drawn to her.
Will Jeanie’s happy-go-lucky attitude win over the grumpy-but-gorgeous Logan, or has this city girl found the one person in town who won’t fall for her charm, or her pumpkin spice lattes
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Katabasis
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R. F. Kuang
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Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the
underworld.
Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the
brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.
But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and –
inconveniently – in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter
Murdoch, is going after him.
But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down,
and if she’s going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have
to work together.
That’s if they can agree on anything.
Will they triumph, or kill each other trying?
Love evens the score between two tennis players in this stunning debut
romance.
Recently-turned-pro tennis player Austin Hardy has been out since high
school and it’s never been a big deal. That is, until he becomes the
first openly gay man to compete in a Grand Slam tournament. Suddenly,
being gay is a huge deal, with headlines to prove it.
Unprepared for this new spotlight, Austin’s anxiety disorder hits a
breaking point, and he trips and falls at practice. Right next to the
very attractive, very talented, and probably straight Diego Cruz,
ranked second in the world.
The two professional rivals start a friendship off the court. But
between their flirty banter, mixed signals, and looming showdown,
Austin is thrown further off his game by Diego.
With the eyes of the world on Austin, the weight of history on his
shoulders, and Diego across the net, he must decide whether love means
nothing or if it means everything as he battles for the trophy during
an electric two weeks at the US Open.
Een middag terwyl Carmi Molenaar, ’n eerstejaarstudent op
Potchefstroom, diep ingedagte op haar fiets ry, kruis haar pad met dié
van Herman Hattingh. Al het hierdie senior regstudent al die eienskappe
van ’n droomman, laat Carmi se verantwoordelikhede min tyd of
ruimte vir romanse.
Die lewe deel egter links en regs klappe uit, en Herman is elke keer
dáár om te help wanneer Carmi hom nodig het. Maar sal hulle kan leer om
mekaar te vertrou?
Set over one sizzling
summer, HAPPY PLACE
is the new chemistry-filled 'second chance love' romcom from Tiktok
sensation, New York and Sunday Times bestselling author of Beach Read
and Book Lovers
Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread
and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year,
they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with
their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying
through their teeth, because Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago.
And they still haven't told anyone.
But the cottage is for sale so this is the last time they'll all be
here together. They can't bear to break their best friends' hearts so
they'll fake it for one more week.
But how can you pretend to be in love - and get away with it - in front
of the people who know you best?
To find their soulmates, all they need is four dates, a kiss and a
breakup . . .
Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over
the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the
second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same
problem, they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break
up. Their curses will cancel each other's out, and they'll both go on
to find the love of their lives. It's a bonkers idea . . . and it just
might work.
Emma hadn't planned that her next assignment as a traveling nurse would
be in Minnesota, but she and her best friend agree that dating Justin
is too good of an opportunity to pass up, especially when they get to
rent an adorable cottage on a private island on Lake Minnetonka.
It's supposed to be a quick fling, just for the summer. But when Emma's
toxic mother shows up and Justin has to assume guardianship of his
three siblings, they're suddenly navigating a lot more than they
expected - including catching real feelings for each other. What if
this time Fate has actually brought the perfect pair together?
A sharp and scintillating summer novel that will make readers laugh out
loud and cry happy tears from the New York Times bestselling author of
Yours Truly.
Journey to the dusty plains of Central Australia in The Pearl
Sister, the fourth book in the number one bestselling Seven Sisters
series by Lucinda Riley. A spellbinding story of love and loss,
inspired by the mythology of the famous star constellation. CeCe
D'Apliese has never felt she fitted in anywhere. Following the
death of her father, the elusive billionaire Pa Salt - so-called by
the six daughters he adopted from around the globe and named after
the Seven Sisters star cluster - she finds herself at breaking
point. Dropping out of art college, CeCe watches as Star, her
beloved sister, distances herself to follow her new love, leaving
her completely alone. In desperation, she decides to flee England
and discover her past; the only clues she has are a black-and-white
photograph and the name of a woman pioneer who lived in Australia
over one hundred years ago. En-route to Sydney, CeCe heads to the
one place she has ever felt close to being herself: the stunning
beaches of Krabi, Thailand. There amongst the backpackers, she
meets the mysterious Ace, a man as lonely as she is and whom she
subsequently realizes has a secret to hide . . . A hundred years
earlier, Kitty McBride, daughter of an Edinburgh clergyman, is
given the opportunity to travel to Australia as the companion of
the wealthy Mrs McCrombie. In Adelaide, her fate becomes entwined
with Mrs McCrombie's family, including the identical, yet very
different, twin brothers: impetuous Drummond, and ambitious Andrew,
the heir to a pearling fortune. When CeCe finally reaches the
searing heat of the Red Centre of Australia, she begins the search
for her past. As something deep within her responds to the energy
of the area and the ancient culture of the Aboriginal people, her
creativity reawakens once more. With help from those she meets on
her journey, CeCe begins to believe that this wild, vast continent
could offer her something she never thought possible: a sense of
belonging, and a home . . . The epic multi-million selling series
continues with The Moon Sister. 'Delicious reading' - Daily Mail
Shelley Jacobsen is in her 40s and feels trapped. The coffee and décor shop that she opened with her bestie is proving to be a gilded cage. Meanwhile, her husband is consumed with Jewish guilt since having their twins, which reminds Shelley that she will always be a Shiksa to his family. Then she hires Wayde Smith, a sexy 22-year-old surfer who smells like a Pina Colada Coconut Vanilla Dessert, as a barista. He makes her feel young and Shelley just wants some fun. But will it stay harmless?
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Night Road
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Kristin Hannah
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From the number one bestselling author of The Women, in Kristin
Hannah’s Night Road, the consequence of one terrible night changes a
group of young people’s lives forever.
Lexi and Mia are inseparable from the moment they start high school.
Though different in so many ways – Lexi is an orphan and lives with her
aunt on a trailer park, while Mia is a golden girl blessed with a
loving family and a beautiful home – they nonetheless recognize
something in each other, and Mia comes to rely heavily on Lexi’s
steadfast friendship.
The summer they graduate is a time they’ll never forget; a summer of
love, best friends and shared confidences. But then one night changes
them forever. As hearts are broken, loyalties challenged and hopes
dashed, the time has come to leave childhood behind and learn to face a
new future . . .
Seventeen-year-old June Scott has always dreamt of becoming a novelist.
To write the greatest love story ever told. One that would fill hearts
and souls with happiness and joy.
However, June has never been in love and when she receives some
devastating news, there doesn’t feel as if there’s much time left for
her own beautiful love story.
That’s until she meets Jesse Taylor who treats every day as if it could
be his last. Which could be true. For them both.
Together their worlds light up and a love so strong grows between them.
With days slipping away like sand in an hourglass June begins to write
their love story. June is determined to give the boy she loves the
story of them. And the world a reminder of who they might have been if
their stars were written differently.
Because even when your heartbeat stops, a true love story never dies.
The Seven Sisters is a sweeping epic tale of love and loss by the
international number one bestseller Lucinda Riley.
Maia D’Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood
home – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake
Geneva – having been told that their beloved adoptive father, the
elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died.
Each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their true heritage – a
clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de
Janeiro in Brazil . . .
Eighty years earlier, in the Belle Époque of Rio, 1927, Izabela
Bonifacio’s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into
aristocracy. But Izabela longs for adventure, and convinces him to
allow her to accompany the family of a renowned architect on a trip to
Paris. In the heady, vibrant streets of Montparnasse, she meets
ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her
life will never be the same again.
The Seven Sisters is the first book in the spellbinding Seven Sisters
series, inspired by the mythology of the famous star constellation. It
is followed by The Storm Sister.
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.
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Hooked
(Paperback)
Emily Mcintire
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R292
R267
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From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious
fractured fairy tale reimagining of Peter Pan. He wants revenge,
but he wants her more... James has always had one agenda: destroy
his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter's twenty-year-old daughter
Wendy shows up in James's bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl
and use her for his revenge. It's the perfect plan, until things in
James's organization begin to crumble. Suddenly, he has to find the
traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as
James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game.
Wendy has been cloistered away most of her life by her wealthy cold
father, but a spontaneous night out with friends turns into an
intense and addictive love affair with the dark and brooding James.
As much as she knows James is dangerous, Wendy can't seem to shake
her desire for him. But as their relationship grows more heated and
she learns more about the world he moves in, she finds herself
unsure if she's falling for the man known as James or the monster
known as Hook.
"He's fire and brimstone. I'm shattered ice. I'll gladly burn beneath him until the world comes crumbling down."
As an assassin for the rebellion, Raeve’s job is to complete orders and never get caught. When a rival bounty hunter shatters her world, Raeve finds herself captured by the Guild of Nobles – a group of powerful fae.
Crushed by the loss of his great love, dragon rider Kaan Vaegor took the head of a king and donned his melted crown. Now on a tireless quest to quell the never-ebbing ache in his chest, a clue lures him into the capital’s high-security prison where he stumbles upon the imprisoned Raeve …
Together, they seek truths that threaten to unravel everything they knew about their world – and each other.
Bestselling sensation When the Moon Hatched will transport you into a world filled with magic, dragons and a love that blazes through the ages…
Draairivier, Engela Ovies se debuutroman, is ’n deernisvolle verhaal oor familie, vriendskap, liefde en vergifnis.
Chemistry sizzles in this workplace rom-com set in the world of high school basketball as the author of Love & Other Disasters delivers a sapphic romance full of humor and heart.
When a smart-mouthed junior joins East Nashville High’s basketball team, Coach Julie Parker’s ready for the challenge. What she’s not prepared for is the teen’s new foster parent, a super-hot ex-WNBA baller and star of Julie’s fantasies. Julie knows the cool and confident Elle Cochrane is way out of her league. But despite being completely tongue-tied around her, somehow Julie persuades Elle to step in as her assistant coach.
Elle has not been on a court since her career-ending injury, but she can’t seem to resist Julie, who is just as adorable as her nervous babbling. Maybe because being around her makes Elle feel sparks for the first time in long while—which is why she offers to help when Julie reveals her lifelong insecurity about dating and how she wishes she could practice at it…like sports. As Elle helps Julie navigate dating life, lines grow increasingly blurred, and the two must decide whether they’ll stay on the sidelines—or finally take their shot.
Perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Ali Hazelwood, this “sweet
and funny” (Kerry Winfrey, author of Waiting for Tom Hanks) teen
rom-com is hopelessly romantic with enemies to lovers and grumpy x
sunshine energy!
*Get your limited edition purple copy now, to match the September
release of Nothing Like the Movies, available to pre-order now!*
Liz hates her annoyingly attractive neighbour but he’s the only in with
her long-term crush …
Perpetual daydreamer and hopeless romantic Liz Buxbaum gave her heart
to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never
really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz
will do whatever it takes to get on his radar—and maybe snag him as a
prom date—even befriend Wes Bennet.
The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbour might seem like a prime
candidate for romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain
in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and
decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet,
somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz’s
in.
But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have
her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she likes being
around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must re-examine
everything she thought she knew about love—and rethink her own ideas of
what Happily Ever After should look like.
Better Than the Movies features quotes from the best-loved rom-coms of
cinema and takes you on a rollercoaster of romance that isn’t
movie-perfect but jaw-dropping and heart-stopping in unexpected ways.
Don't miss out on The Do-Over and Betting On You from Lynn Painter!
Sadie Shaw and Jonah Fisher have been academic rivals since they first
crossed paths as undergraduates in the literature department thirteen
years ago. Now that a highly coveted teaching opportunity has come up,
their rivalry hits epic proportions. Jonah needs the job to move closer
to his recently divorced sister and her children, while Sadie needs the
financial security and freedom of a full-time teaching position.
When Sadie notices that the job offers partner hire, however, she
hatches a plot to get them both the job. All they must do is get
legally married. It’s a simple win-win solution but when sparks begin
to fly, it becomes clear that despite their education, these two may
not have thought this whole thing through.
Perfect for fans of Ali Hazelwood and Abby Jimenez, An Academic Affair
pairs Jodi McAlister’s “smart, scorching, and emotionally resonant”
(Freya Marske, author of A Restless Truth) writing and academic
background to prove that she’s one of the smartest rom-com writers
working today.
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Love, Zola
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Zibu Sithole
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Love, Zola is the captivating continuation of Zola’s vibrant,
heart-stirring story. From career pressures to unexpected confessions,
Zola and Mbali’s journey tests their understanding of commitment and
what a happy ending truly looks like.
Okuhle’s return to Joburg brings unfinished business — not just with
her relationship but also with Zola, whose successes only serve as
painful reminders of what she’s lost. Meanwhile, Zozo’s
happily-ever-after in Durban is shaken as old feelings resurface.
Filled with tension, passion, and poignant revelations, Love, Zola is a
story of self-discovery, second chances, and the challenges of modern
relationships. Can love survive when the past refuses to let go?
When a wedding forces them to return home, two childhood friends must
face the secrets and heated longing between them in this New Adult
romance debut by Cameron Capello (BookTok's @ChamberofSecretBooks).
Remember why you left. Remember who you left.
Once so close to her big family, Magdalen Savoy is now paralyzed with
anxiety every time she's tempted to leave her safe haven at Oxford and
return to their sleepy Italian village. But when Magdalen receives an
invitation to her sister’s upcoming wedding, she has no choice but to
pack her bag for what is sure to be a long summer.
After seven years, Theo finds himself back in Chivasso, where nothing
changes. It's as if time has stopped here. But upon seeing his sister's
best friend after all these years, it's obvious that the sweet little
Maggie from his childhood is long gone. In her place is a young woman
with long legs, thick hair, and walls built around the innocent heart
he once knew.
Now too close for comfort during the preparations for a wedding that
will join their two families, they must confront the long-buried
secrets of their past and the burning tension slowly pulling them
together. But their old secrets threaten to tear their worlds apart—and
could possibly separate them forever. . .
The rules were simple: keep his hands off his agent's daughter and stay out of trouble. But now he's stuck with her. There's only one bed. And well, rules are made to be broken.
Rhett Eaton is the face of professional bull riding. The golden boy. Or at least he was until it all blew up in his face after a public brawl. Now his agent says he has to clean up his image, and sticks Rhett with his ball-busting daughter for the rest of the season as "full-time supervision." But Rhett doesn't need a goddamn babysitter―especially one with skin-tight jeans, a sexy smirk, and a mouth she can't stop running. A mouth he can't stop thinking about.
And he quickly learns that Summer Hamilton isn't just another conquest. She sees the man behind the mask, and she doesn't run―she pulls him closer, even when she shouldn't.
She says this means nothing. Rhett says this means everything. She says there are boundaries they shouldn't cross. That Rhett's reputation can't take any more hits…and neither can her damaged heart.
Rhett says he's going to steal it anyway.
Kayo is a young Tokyo housewife and mother. Outwardly, she is no
different from other young mothers, but her secret sets her apart.
She belongs to a kind of club, which involves luxury, beautiful
clothes and accessories. The club makes it possible for Kayo to
escape her tedious life, to become someone else and to embrace a
dazzling new world. But it quickly becomes an obsession, a drug,
the way to both paradise and hell. Can she find her way out of the
dark underworld of debt, lies and prostitution? Or is she doomed to
exchange one form of loneliness for another? A deeply absorbing
novel about the "holes" that suddenly appear in women's lives, My
Beautiful Shadow is a powerful cautionary tale about consumerism
gone mad.
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